If Your City Were Nuked

By Queuebot in Weapons & War on Feb 25, 2009 at 1:38 pm

CarlosLabs, a design firm based in Sydney, created a Google Maps mashup of cities around the world and what they would look like if hit by various nuclear devices.  You can choose your city and then a weapon (Fat Man, Little Boy, Tsar Bomba, Asteroid) and press "Nuke it!" and then see the extent of thermal damage. 

The concentric circles of different colors mean different physical effects.  The center of the circle is conflagration, where most people would die within 24 hours.  The purple circle means 3rd degree burns, requiring medical care.  The pink circle means 2nd degree burns, like burns from boiling water.  And the yellow outermost circle means 1st degree burns, like a sunburn.

The map here shows the extent of damage if a nuclear device was dropped on Los Angeles.



Link – via carloslabs

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.


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  1. Cori
    Feb 25th, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    It’s neat. I really don’t like how it explains 1st degree burns as “sun-burn like discomfort”… You can have any degree burn from the sun. I have the scars to prove third degree burns from the sun are possible.

  2. Yo
    Feb 25th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    This was always one of my favorite sites, regarding similar material.

    http://www.radmeters4u.com/list.htm

  3. Kalel
    Feb 25th, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    I love Neatorama. I really do.

  4. Shurik
    Feb 25th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    If your city WAS* nuked.

  5. Marilyn Terrell
    Feb 25th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    @Shurik: no, it’s “were” nuked because it didn’t actually happen, or hasn’t happened at present. It’s the subjunctive mood: http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000031.htm

    I could say “If I were queen of the world, I would give everyone a puppy” because I am not queen of the world. Yet.

  6. Chandrielle
    Feb 26th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    Next time, a little to the left. You missed Beverly Hills.

  7. ted
    Feb 26th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    So the link wasn`t the actual site where you could do this, but turned out to be just preachy about how bad nuclear bombs are.

    Bad nuclear bombs! Bad!

  8. Scooter
    Feb 26th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    The real question is; if a nuclear war were to break out how likely is my city to be hit and where is the bomb most likely to fall? Cus, little town KS might not be the best target.

  9. moovingcow4u
    Feb 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    same hometown as the writer! Actually reading this article kind of makes me want to move to a more distant town

  10. delicious
    Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:34 am

    hmmm… designed in sydney, but when they show it abroad they show the US getting nuked. guess we kno how they really feel about us.


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