What Would a Nuke do to Your City?

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Enjoy! Or actually please don't!

The simulation doesn't specify, so this is just me guessing:
  • The inner red circle represents what would be completely vaporized by the nuke.
  • The second red circle represents what would be burnt to crisps by the fireball.
  • The outer orange circle represents what would be mostly destroyed by the shock-wave.
I don't think this simulation takes into account how far the radiation would spread, or how far the air-soot would spread. If anybody could find a better simulation, put it here.
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I just checked Tampa FL which I am near and found I am outside all circles.
Tampa would be a target because of MacDill Air Force Base there.
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Do not be so sure of your safety. . !

You can adjust how powerful the nuke is in the top left corner of the simulation.
Did you test to see what an 8,000 kiloton Nuke would do. . ?
Even then, there are nuclear weapons in excess of 8,000 kilotons ( look up "Tsar Bomba 1961" ).

US nukes are generally more modern compared to Russian ones.
To compensate, Russia has a few hundred more nukes compared to the US.
Estimates from across the internet place Russia's stockpile at just under 6,000.

Due to this nuclear surplus, if the attacker was Russia, the Tampa area would probably be hit at least twice by a nuclear strike.

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Looking at the possible military targets and major population centers nearby, I’m remarkably safe.

Do they get larger than 8,000 kilos?
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Rats, the outer orange circle hits my area.
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I dont live in USA, Russia, China, France, UK, EU, Korea, Japan, India...ect. I dont need to worry.
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I'm glad that I'm as old as Trump.
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Unless you live in someplace very far south like South Africa or Australia, you would die regardless.

In a full scale nuclear war between the US and Russia, the soot released into the atmosphere would block-out most sunlight in the northern hemisphere; all land based crops there would fail.
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Unless you live in someplace very far south like South Africa or Australia, you would die regardless
There are some countries out there who wont get nuked, because there is no any point in nuking them. I am far away from USA and Russia, and I do have food supplies. I dont mind if Sun is blocked for a few days.

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First off, where do you live. . ? Because I thought only an American could be that much of an ass.

Secondly, nuclear winter would last for more than "a few days". . !
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First off, where do you live. . ? Because I thought only an American could be that much of an ass.
I am not American. Sure, I am an ass, but assuming that I am an American is kinda insulting.


Secondly, nuclear winter would last for more than "a few days". . !
So would my food supplies. Besides, who says that I am not under some special protection of Goddess?
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I'm glad you live near Trump.
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so you live in dallas?
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Do I live in Dallas? No, and thank goodness no.
Once you get past the city, it's suburbs as far as the eye can see.
When you are commuting in Dallas, you must choose between highways stacked five high, and highways of five lanes.
Honestly, Russia should do all Dallas commuters a favor by obliterating the entire city.
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Rats, the outer orange circle hits my area.
Have you calculated the survival rate of a nuke attack?
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Mutually Assured Destruction, at least gives us some hope.

Though someone or something somewhere will survive and rise from the ashes...So we can also rest easier with that thought, as we slip from this mortal coil.

Or perhaps an AI with a heart, will work out how to switch everything off.


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Mutually Assured Destruction, at least gives us some hope.

Though someone or something somewhere will survive and rise from the ashes...So we can also rest easier with that thought, as we slip from this mortal coil.

Or perhaps an AI with a heart, will work out how to switch everything off.
All three are bad options.
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All three are bad options.
Dying of old age isn't?
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I'm guessing that option 3, will soon not be an option.

Though option 4, might be AI deciding to play global thermo-nuclear war games.

FLRW and I are banking on option 5...Death before destruction.
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I'm guessing that option 3, will soon not be an option.

Though option 4, might be AI deciding to play global thermo-nuclear war games.

FLRW and I are banking on option 5...Death before destruction.
That’s better than dying of old age.
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Zed and me ARE talking about dying of old age.
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Zed and me ARE talking about dying of old age.
It’s called sharing goals.
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OMG, are you under 21?
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Please remember, the topic of this thread is nuclear war, not whatever else you people are yapping about.

Here are some events that might spark more on-topic discussion:
  • The Doomsday Clock was last moved on January 28, 2025, when it was set to 89 seconds to midnight.
    • The scientists in charge of updating the Doomsday Clock cited Russian nuclear threats as the primary reason.
  • The most recent (confirmed) nuclear test was conducted in September 2017 by North Korea.
    • Big Kim is also obsessed with spy satellites, of which he has exactly one of, in orbit.
  • South Africa began nuclear disarmament in 1989, making it one of the first nations to do so.
    • The US was not aware of South Africa's nuclear program prior to this.

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Hmmmmmmmmm.

Apologies for yapping.

But

If you actually read my reply to you.

1. I implied that MAD was still still our biggest defence against a tin-pot dictators ideological bluster.

2. In terms of survival after the total breakdown of human society, someone or something will probably survive and eventually re-proliferate.

3. We are entering a new era of technological dominance, wherein an alternative decision maker might recognise the error of our ways.


Though that restated.

I don't see that the three events you draw attention to, actually address your opening enquiry.


Nonetheless, I'm guessing that a "Nuke" would make a right mess of my city.

And here I would cite the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...(And their subsequent recovery).

And also the fact that the US is the only Nation to have used "Nukes" in anger.

And that currently the US is also headed by a tin-pot dictator. 


Notwithstanding that I live 50 miles to the  south west of the nearest City.

So hopefully prevailing south westerlies will be blowing at the time.



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Sorry Zed. I did read both of your comments. But after the first line of your second comment, it became too cryptic for me (as many of your comments are), and I assumed that it was off topic. I appreciate the clarification, however, you still have not explained what a "tin pot dictator" is, and how the head of our current administration resembles one.
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OMG, are you under 21?
How did you guess that?
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Sorry Shila, 7000 says I can't comment.