Call me paranoid, but I spend nearly every waking moment contemplating whether or not I’d survive a massive nuclear strike. I mean, weirder stuff has happened, guys! Luckily we can now pinpoint our chances with the precision of Google Maps.
Would I Survive a Nuke is an aptly named site, giving you exactly the answer to that question with simple graphics and an abundance of apocalyptic options. In my scenario, with a one megaton Minuteman missile kicked right into the center of New York City, my outer-borough abode is pretty much screwed: even in Brooklyn, I’m covered in 3rd degree burns and dead within days. Ugh. If only I could handle a longer commute, I might have gotten away with mere radiation sickness.
For a fun Sunday activity, try cranking up the ordnance to a higher megatonnage, and expand the nuclear holocaust to as many cities as you’d like! Golly. Pair this site up with the radioactive materials map and have yourself a nice nervous breakdown. [Would I Survive a Nuke via TNW]
Note: I have a feeling WISaN is a better executed ripoff and/or “implementation” of CarlosLabs’ nifty Ground Zero map. So props to them too!













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It depends on your target – yes, you can set for population – in which case I’d die, living an hour from Northampton, but there’s little of any tactical value *in* Northampton, in case you count Starbucks, so why’d it ever be nuked?
Very worse case, I go to the Isle of Barra – nearest target is Belfast, but there’s nothing funny about that.
heheh.
Living in central Manchester, one of the biggest metropolitan areas around…
Yup, there won’t even be ashes remaining to scatter in my case, whatever way you look at it!
Well according to this. i’ll have time to update my facebook and skim through Giz articles for a week. That would be giz US i’ll be reading i guess.
i would survive anything but a dinosaur meteor
thank god the nearest place anyone would nuke is glasgow.
I live across the road from an RAF base, 3 miles from another one and about 7 miles from yet another one. I’m boned.