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How safe are you against a nuclear bomb?

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Lets just hope that NK don't perfect MIRVs, because even with low yield weapons they can pretty much saturate an area to simulate the same effects as one Tsar.

The site used to simulate a detonation is actually old thinking in this regard. If there's every an exchange between major nuclear superpowers, you can bet they are going to use mirvs. If you live in a big city, then imagine 6-10 100kt warheads going off around you in like a honeycomb pattern... wouldn't be much suffering at least.
 
I live about 20 miles from Edwards Air Force Base, so I'd be screwed by the blast/fallout of pretty much everything on that list other than NK's dinky little thangs.
 
Thankfully I live far enough in the outskirts of Houston to receive the first blow. But if they hit anywhere near NASA I am going to be fucking pissed. You can taunt war and whatnot, but leave space exploration out of it.
 
I don't think bombs would be going off in Fort McMurray, so I placed the largest in Edmonton and it seems I'd come out alive.

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However, the korean 2013 test bombs would wipe out the whole downtown area of the city if they did strike here.
 
I live in a small unimportant town in Newfoundland Canada plus whatever NORAD does. So I guess I'm pretty safe. Fallout would definitely be a problem though. Especially if someone hits the east coast of the US.
 
McNamara claims the US did develop a 100MT Bomb but never did anything with it.

What people aren't taking into consideration besides fallout is the firestorms that would be created especially in dry areas and cities. You would literally have walls of fire going all over the place.

I have to imagine the guys at The Castle Bravo test shit themselves. Was supposed to be only a 5MT bomb but due to elements in the chamber it went crazy and yielded a 15mt blast instead.
 
If we're talking about Russians (and Chinese?) nuking the US, a lot of supposedly "safe and rural" areas may actually be the places where a hundred or so nukes are targeted because of silos or airbases!
 
I remember in high school physics the teacher had a blast radius map where our school was. It's right between 2 major cities. I would be obliterated.
 
Population Density is a huge factor in effectiveness of the smaller bombs. Not to downplay its impact but the Hiroshima bomb is pretty tiny an impact zone at least for immediate results. You would need probably 20 or more of them just to wipe out the phoenix metropolitan area.

Would be curious to see how we would react if North Korea were to use a 10-16kt nuke and provoke a retaliation. Our weakest Nukes in service are still around 10x the power of that. Would we deliberately load a missile with only 1 WH to stay at 100kt or would we unleash a big one.
 
lol, the Tsar bomb would pretty much wipe out all of the Netherlands it seems.

EDIT: oh, also, the map uses the mercator projection. It might not be all that accurate a representation when you zoom out into country-level.
 
Well, I'm safe.

Far enough out of any major cities to avoid immediate death from NK's nukes.

Hooray for 40 minute commutes, I guess?
 
So what could you do if you were prepared for something like this ie you know the missile is heading for x city and is already over your country?
 
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Tsar Bomba seems to be the popular choice so I chose it. Live on the outskirts of Houston and within the Thermal Radiation Radius. Hopefully I'd live with most of my skin intact, near the very edge of the zone.

If one did nuke the US though I doubt they'd use Tsar sized bombs so I imagine I'd be safe. Scary to think about though.
 
Thread, and the Threads documentary posted reminded me of playing Introversion's DEFCON.

Its an amazing game, probably the only one that has chilled me to the bone.

I was shocked when I caught myself callously calculating enemy deaths and my own casualties and deeming it acceptable and being pleased with myself. Deaths in the millions. Megadeaths.

You really have to take a step back from that game and see what the fuck you are doing. And when you do that you realize the people with the finger on the trigger, safe in an underground bunker just like you are in front of a computer screen in a comfy chair. If the time comes they will make the same calculations and send the world to shit as long as they have a bigger piece of the wreckage left behind.

Also no coincidence my fave movie is Dr. Strangelove.

The tsar bomba would flatten my hometown of 10 million as well the nearest medium sized city (what a bargain), as well as the nearest towns over the border nearby.
 
ricochetguro said:
Tsar Bomba seems to be the popular choice so I chose it. Live on the outskirts of Houston and within the Thermal Radiation Radius. Hopefully I'd live with minor injuries, near the very edge of the zone.

If one did nuke the US though I doubt they'd use Tsar sized bombs so I imagine I'd be safe. Scary to think about though.
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So basically the entire "donut" of Houston is screwed. There would probably be survivors out in the Woodlands where I live!

(unless all of these trees caught on fire)
 
If we're being realistic and not a Fallout type scenario if you don't live in the top metro areas of the world you're probably fine. That aftermath is going to be a bitch though.
 
wienke said:
So basically the entire "donut" of Houston is screwed. There would probably be survivors out in the Woodlands where I live!

(unless all of these trees caught on fire)
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One imagines they will have cut down most of the trees by the time we get nuked given the way things have been going :P
 
I'll be dead or sick. Anchorage has a decent sized army base and is kinda close to Russia/China/NK/ect. And there are only two roads out of town, traffic leaving would be terrible.
 
I'm a solid 80 miles, roughly, south of the outer most radius listed if the Tsar Bomba were to hit Chicago, so it looks like I'd be fine (ignoring fallout).
 
Probably not very safe. I'm about 50 miles from ORNL and Y-12. It would probably be a pretty major target for a nuclear attack. The blast itself wouldn't get to me, but the fallout probably would.
 
Soka said:
I'm a solid 80 miles, roughly, south of the outer most radius listed if the Tsar Bomba were to hit Chicago, so it looks like I'd be fine (ignoring fallout).
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You would likely fall under the severe radiation poisoning and eventual cancer death 40 years from now category
 
I live far enough away from a major city that it would take either a direct hit on my little town, or a hell of a lot bigger bomb than NK is capable of throwing at us.
 
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