"They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation."Ĭlicking the "radioactive fallout" option didn't produce any exposure zones for this hypothetical explosion. "Third-degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves," Nukemap says. Thermal radiation (6.54 miles wide): This region is flooded with skin-scorching ultraviolet light, burning anyone within view of the blast."Injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread," Nukemap says. Air blast (4.64 miles wide): This shows a blast area of 5 pounds per square inch, which is powerful enough to collapse most residential buildings and rupture eardrums.Radiation (1.24 miles wide): A nuclear bomb's gamma and other radiation are so intense in this zone that 50% or more of people die within "several hours to several weeks," according to Nukemap.Fireball (0.56 miles wide): In the area closest to the bomb's detonation site, flames incinerate most buildings, objects, and people.The main effects of the nuclear blast display as four colored zones: Nukemap 2.5/Alex Wellerstein Google Maps Business Insider We decided to test Nukemap 2.5 using its preset for the North Korean government's underground test blast on September 3. " nuclear detonation wouldn't be the end of everything, but we should strive to avoid it at practically all costs." Picking a bomb and a target "A more grounded, sober, calibrated view of these weapons, in my experience, leads people to take more sober approaches to them," he added in his email. "I hope that people will come to understand what a nuclear weapon would do to places they are familiar with, and how the different sizes of nuclear weapons change the results," Wellerstein wrote on his site. The updated tool also lets you export your scenarios, load them into mapping software like Google Earth, and explore them in 3D. Fallout refers to the dirt and debris that get sucked up by a nuclear blast, irradiated to dangerous levels, pushed into the atmosphere, and sprinkled over great distances. Nukemap 2.5's new features let you see where a cloud of radioactive fallout might drift based on local weather conditions. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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