# Would I Survive A Nuke
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 14, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945 "2011-11-14T22:42:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/1 "2011-11-14T22:42:28Z")
Fun website. You can pick from Fatman 18kt (Nagasaki) up to Dinosaur ending meteor. It will tell you, base on your location, if you can survive.
> **[Would I Survive A Nuke.com](http://www.wouldisurviveanuke.com/)**
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> Find out if you would survive if a nuke was dropped near you.
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### Author:  [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/2 "2011-11-14T22:44:17Z")
BTW: Can someone tell me what the different color circles mean?
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### Author:  [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/3 "2011-11-14T22:48:10Z")
Well, the second circle is:
> [@](#):
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> **You’re alive! … but not for long.**
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> The heat from the blast has caused head to toe third degree burns. It would have been better to have been vaporized. You’ll probably die within the day.
I infer that the innermost circle is probably for those killed instantly.
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### Author:  [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/4 "2011-11-14T23:45:47Z")
Huhn… I thought for sure I lived close enough to all sorts of bases that I’d be crisped pretty quickly. Seems I’ll live a couple of weeks with second degree burns before the radiation gets me.
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/5 "2011-11-14T23:51:07Z")
In the unlikely event that they nuke Indianapolis, I’m far enough away (in Bloomington) that I would be “ok”, according to that site. Even if _all_ the major cities nearby - Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis - were nuked, I would be ok, apparently. Since nobody cares about these cities, the odds are pretty low that they’d be hit anyway. New York, DC, LA and Chicago are probably the highest risk.
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/6 "2011-11-14T23:56:54Z")
Anything 1 megaton or smaller, and I’m good.
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/7 "2011-11-15T00:02:45Z")
Just one city, anything other than “Dinosaur ending megaton”, and I’ll survive. But I like what it says… “But would you want to?”
Yes, that applies even now, as I’m in the middle of nowhere!
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/8 "2011-11-15T00:09:02Z")
Its premises are a little silly. Yes, there has been a fifty megaton bomb in existence. But why would anyone target Rochester, NY with one?
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/9 "2011-11-15T01:31:15Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Its premises are a little silly. Yes, there has been a fifty megaton bomb in existence. But why would anyone target Rochester, NY with one?
Coast Guard detatchment?
What is full of crap is they have no way of pinpointing the _bases_ they go by city targets. I put forth that while Whoopie Tech _may_ have a baby reactor, SubBase NLON Groton CT is\* a target as it is the northern East Coast sub pen and would definitely get at least one round shot at it.
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/10 "2011-11-15T01:42:14Z")
The outer circle is
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> Alive! but your lifespan suffered.
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> The heat from the blast has caused 1st degree burns. Cancer is just a matter of time for you.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/11 "2011-11-15T01:44:20Z")
Meh. I’m out in the boonies. Food delivery will be disrupted, but I can fish and farm, and there’s lots of fresh water.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/12 "2011-11-15T02:10:17Z")
I live in central London. Boom! We’re gone!
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### Author:  [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/13 "2011-11-15T02:25:42Z")
I picked the peacekeeper 350 kt canned sunshine, and supposedly I survive as they have Toronto as the prime target. I’m about 50 miles north of Toronto, but they fail to take into concideration, that twenty minutes away is CF base, and about a hundred miles or so more north, is Norad north. In a little town of North Bay.
Me thinks someones target planning sucks.
Declan
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/14 "2011-11-15T02:27:43Z")
I’m kind of wondering why it assumes that a dino-killer meteor would be targeted on the nearest major city to me.
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### Author:  [@BowlOfDucks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BowlOfDucks)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/15 "2011-11-15T02:31:31Z")
There are people alive today that were less than half a mile from the blasts in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/16 "2011-11-15T02:33:32Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#):
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> I live in central London. Boom! We’re gone!
If you wanna see how fucked London would really be in a nuclear war check out this short documentary, [A Guide To Armageddon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70P2cueuECw&feature=gv).
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/17 "2011-11-15T02:59:41Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#):
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> If you wanna see how fucked London would really be in a nuclear war check out this short documentary, [A Guide To Armageddon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70P2cueuECw&feature=gv).
That’s quite pretty.
Have you ever watched [Threads?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ) You need to watch the whole thing, but everyone I know who’s watched it all has gone “… … …”
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/18 "2011-11-15T03:08:57Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Meh. I’m out in the boonies. Food delivery will be disrupted, but I can fish and farm, and there’s lots of fresh water.
I’m in **Qadgop’s** neck of the woods, perhaps even farther into the sticks. Apparently it’ll take a K-T event to kill me.
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/19 "2011-11-15T03:19:03Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#):
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> That’s quite pretty.
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> Have you ever watched [Threads?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ) You need to watch the whole thing, but everyone I know who’s watched it all has gone “… … …”
Numerous times. I had wanted to see it for years and a friend of mine was house sitting and the owner had a VHS copy which I got a loan of. I’ve more recently watched it on google video or youtube where it’s posted in its entirety.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/20 "2011-11-15T03:39:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> I’m kind of wondering why it assumes that a dino-killer meteor would be targeted on the nearest major city to me.
Because. The aliens, man. They wield meteors like slingshots and hit all the major world cities and landmarks first.
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