Monday, 2 April 2018

Why this online simulator lets you nuke your backyard

<em>What would happen if a bomb went off here?</em>

If a nuclear bomb went off on San Francisco, almost the entire tip of the peninsula would disappear under the fireball, shockwave, radiation, and catastrophic heat spreading from the blast. More than 100,000 people would die, and nearly 230,000 people would be injured. That’s according to a new online interactive simulator that lets you drop a virtual nuke anywhere in the world.

Created by a Wisconsin-based educational nonprofit called the Outrider Foundation, the blast simulator is an effort to teach the public about the dangers of nuclear weapons. It’s surprisingly beautiful for an educational tool about destruction — “almost too beautiful for its own good,” writes Matt Novak at Gizmodo. But the Outrider simulator is more than just a...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/2/17182132/nuclear-bomb-blast-simulator-outrider-nuke-map-war-imagery

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/04/why-this-online-simulator-lets-you-nuke.html

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