31 January 2022

A map of nuclear weapons targets


Map generated in 2017 to depict 500-weapon and 2000-weapon delivery scenarios.  Some relevant comments in the Reddit thread, including the thought that immediate incineration might be preferable to living in a postapocalyptic world.

2 comments:

  1. Can we just get rid of nuclear weapons? Just stop the nonsense and get rid of them.

    "But but but, " is the reply. Your mom already taught you that there is no justification for doing the same stupid stuff others do. And even less when you have done it yourself. The US is the only nation that has ever used nuclear weapons in a crime against humanity and wiping two cities of the map.

    So, let's just stop doing stupid stuff and stop playing testosterone fueled war games. We've got a pandemic to deal with.

    This weekend, we saw how a bunch of Irish fishers scared the Russian war fleet out of their water. That's how you do diplomacy. You talk softly and go fishing.

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  2. My high school, in New York City, was located at what we were told was the geographic center of the city. We were also told that the incoming missiles were not aimed at Manhattan, the commercial center of the city, but, for maximum destructive effect, at the geographic center of the city.

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