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Best_man23

(5,119 posts)
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 06:59 AM Apr 2022

This website is creepy AF: Nukemap

Saw this on CBS News this morning, its a website that forecasts the impact zone and potential casualties in a nuclear strike. This tool is produced by the Stephens Institute of Technology.

It just inconceivable to me that we're even having to contemplate this happening.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

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This website is creepy AF: Nukemap (Original Post) Best_man23 Apr 2022 OP
It's interesting atreides1 Apr 2022 #1
1+ keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #2
We've been contemplating it since 1945 krispos42 Apr 2022 #3
I remember my 6th Grade teacher showing us a similar map of if a nuke went off in our city... TheRealNorth Apr 2022 #4
I'm downwind of NYC and near a bunch of defense industries krispos42 Apr 2022 #7
I think we are closer than ever to nuclear war and nothing has been said doc03 Apr 2022 #5
March 7th, the Doomsday Clock stays at 100 seconds. marie999 Apr 2022 #6

atreides1

(16,348 posts)
1. It's interesting
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 07:14 AM
Apr 2022

I've used that website before...I live outside of D.C. and was interested in the effects of a nuclear attack in my area!

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
3. We've been contemplating it since 1945
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 08:07 AM
Apr 2022

I remember I found a book in the Westport Library in the mid-90s, in the non-fiction section. It was a book about nuclear war done up as a children's book. I forget nearly all of it, but there was a drawing of a farm community with the question "which of these grain silos are really hidden missile silos?" (All of them!). And one where kids were passing around a literal hot potato... It was radioactive.

TheRealNorth

(9,629 posts)
4. I remember my 6th Grade teacher showing us a similar map of if a nuke went off in our city...
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 08:14 AM
Apr 2022

and that was in the 1980's.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
7. I'm downwind of NYC and near a bunch of defense industries
Sat Apr 30, 2022, 07:44 PM
Apr 2022

If there's a full exchange, I'm not living long. Assuming I'm not incinerated or killed by the pressure wave, I'll probably be eating a gun before the radiation poisoning kills me.

doc03

(36,600 posts)
5. I think we are closer than ever to nuclear war and nothing has been said
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 09:08 AM
Apr 2022

about what we can do to prepare. If it started today we are totally unprepared. If
Putin pushed the button there is nowhere I could go but the basement and I don't have
any food or water supplies. Maybe these doomsday prepers aren't so crazy after all.

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