UKC

See the effects of dropping a nuclear device on your home.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Morbidly fascinating

In reply to Cú Chullain:

yes, Alex Wellerstein must be an interesting dinner party guest!

'40 million detonations and counting'

the good news is, that a 15kt bomb dropped on Keighley would solve the traffic problems at a stroke, and i'd not only have a good view but also surprisingly would live to tell the tale....

In reply to Cú Chullain:

A W76 surface burst would sort Blackburn out and leave me smiling, what's not to like?

In reply to Cú Chullain:

Wow, that is handy information. Turns out I can nuke the Swindon outlet village in comparative safety!

In reply to Cú Chullain:

It won't take much of an airburst over Edale to render the world's greatest winter route unclimbable for some time.

In reply to Skipinder:

I disagree. Permanent nuclear winter nick.

D

In reply to Dauphin:

But only after it's gotten rather warm!

In reply to Cú Chullain:

800kt air burst over Manchester seems to do the trick, all good in Froggatt, but a slightly longer drive to get to Llanberis till it cools down

In reply to Cú Chullain:
Years of commuting through Ormskirk has made me want to bomb it back to the stone age. Now I can

In reply to Cú Chullain:

300kt would solve the Doncaster problem rather tidily.

In reply to Cú Chullain:

I bet Guy Fawkes would have loved to have got his hands on a 'Davy Crockett' - though getting it to air burst might have proved tricky for him.

In reply to Lord of Starkness:

I'm sure a ground burst would be sufficient.

In reply to davidbeynon:

Yeah - but IIRC from my time in the ROC a ground burst produces a lot more dirty fallout.

In reply to Lord of Starkness:

It does, but that would be just the thing to confuse future archaeologists.

In reply to Lord of Starkness:


They were 'hand held' mortar type weapon to be fired by a couple of infantry men, deployed widely in Europe during the cold war with the aim of stopping a Soviet troop advance. Considering the range was about 2-4km, I would think they would be almost as lethal to the people firing them. Absolutely nuts.

In reply to no_more_scotch_eggs:

15kt bomb in Keighley and would you notice the difference??

In reply to Phil79:



Not as daft as it sounds. Plenty time in the air to get under protection. Best used with the wind at your back I would have thought.

My personal favourite was the helicopter version of the WE177 nuclear bomb.

In reply to Phil79:


Talking about hand held, a nuclear hand grenade would be an interesting weapon.

In reply to abseil:
For night time HPS navigation purposes?

In reply to Skipinder:


Precisely - I was thinking that too as I posted - that would certainly light up Cwm Idwal, wouldn't it?!

OK that's enough black humour from me for today!

In reply to abseil:

It may be navigational overkill. I doubt Ray Mears would concur with the use of stand-off tactical nuclear location devices.

In reply to Jim Fraser:

I'm assuming those were used as nuclear depth charges? Surely you couldn't drop a ground burst tactical nuke from a helicopter?!

In reply to Jim Fraser:

I'm a bit surprised about how much of Inverness would survive if you drop 'little boy' on my house, it doesn't even get the Castle, I will have to upgrade.

In reply to Cú Chullain:

Along the same vein

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nukergv.html


A microsecond by microsecond description of a nuclear explosion. Scary reading,

CB

In reply to cb294:

That was a very sobering read

In reply to cb294:

Thanks for posting, indeed, a very sobering read. Much of the early part focuses on technical and physical aspects, and I'm glad it later details the effects on people. But the best part to me is the last 2 paragraphs in italics which describe the real possibilities of nuclear strikes and war today.

If you haven't seen it folks, the movie THE DAY AFTER is, I think, while old [24 years?] worth watching. It shows the utter devastation a strike would cause on the USA and is known to be quite realistic.

In reply to rogerwebb:

Why the Castle I wonder?!

In reply to Phil79:



Principally depth charge, yes.

Ground weapon? No problem. Delay fuse. Fly over the hedge tops, drop the weapon unseen and sneak back out before it blows.

In reply to abseil:

I watched that, and Threads one evening at work. Both made for rather gloomy viewing.