Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city?
Today@lemmy.world 2 months agoThat was my first thought too, but i don’t know enough about blast radius to make a good decision. Are we talking 50 miles, 500 miles, …? Will it knock out a city, a state, or the country?
teft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Depends on the yield of the bomb but if we use the current yield of chinese ICBMs and detonated it above NYC much of Long Island would be just erased and the rest would be leveled. Manhattan would probably just be a flat smoking wasteland.
nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
On your map most of Long Island is mostly unaffected. It’s only 12km moderate blast damage from the Chinese nuke. Long Island goes way off to the east.
teft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Goddamn. I was think 50-75km tops.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That map doesn’t look like it touch on the fallout at all, just the damage from the explosion.
Depending on how efficient the bomb is, and the direction of the winds, highly radioactive unspent fissile material will travel for miles. This stuff will shave decades off your life.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I checked the website out yesterday. You can either have the fallout shown or not. It also depends on whether you choose to detonate in the air or on the surface. But if you choose the option with the fallout, boy,… honestly maybe don’t because it was legit more depressing and scary than what you see in the screenshot above.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There will be many warheads targeting the NYC area since it’s an economic hub. Most everything on that map will either be glass or on fire.