# Would I Survive A Nuke **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/21 "2011-11-15T03:51:47Z")
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress style bombardment would be fun to plug in to this. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/22 "2011-11-15T04:15:10Z")
Living in the boondocks has its advantages. In the case of nuclear annihilation it will be the lovely few out in the hinterlands who get to choose the next world government. My town would survive anything short of the Dino Killer Meteor. If the facebook posts of my friends are any indication of how things will go, I’m afraid you’re in for a lot of bluegrass and deer meat in the government of the future. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/23 "2011-11-15T05:22:58Z")
Somebody’s targeting matrix is Fracked. They want to glassify the state capital to the west, but are willing to ignore the navy base to the south–not that I would object to the glassification… ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/24 "2011-11-15T05:33:06Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > 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. If there was a full on nuclear exchange between the US and what’s left of the Soviet arsenal, the nuclear winter would get you. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/25 "2011-11-15T06:56:10Z")
For most realistic scenarios, I’d be “alive . . . but not for long.” . . . which is pretty much my current status anyway. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/26 "2011-11-15T10:59:50Z")
Alright, what am I missing? I change all the fields and … that’s it. No “calculate” button or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/27 "2011-11-15T11:41:25Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > I live in central London. Boom! We’re gone! Funnily enough it says I live in “the middle of nowhere”. I’m, what, ten miles from you? Even one megaton won’t fry us, although it’ll be pretty unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/28 "2011-11-15T12:37:53Z")
Yay! Milton Keynes survives! But why does Reading get whacked? Go to population \> 100k and MK is toast, apparently. Somehow I doubt that MK is a target, unless some country’s military has a particular hatred of roundabouts? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/29 "2011-11-15T12:50:09Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > Yay! Milton Keynes survives! > > But why does Reading get whacked? > > Go to population \> 100k and MK is toast, apparently. Somehow I doubt that MK is a target, unless some country’s military has a particular hatred of roundabouts? Vladimir Putin’s sister was once raped by a concrete cow. You’re doomed. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/30 "2011-11-15T14:03:06Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Me thinks someones target planning sucks. The targetting is very basic, it simply goes for the nearest population centres to your location. You can alter the number of cities it targets and the population threshold. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/31 "2011-11-15T14:57:56Z")
I’m bummed they have dinosaur ending meteor, but not Yellowstone super eruption. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/32 "2011-11-15T15:22:20Z")
I live three blocks from the Kiryah, the Israeli version of the Pentagon. Not only will I die instantly, there’s a good chance the actual bomb will land on my house (yes, I know these things are airburst. Nevertheless). ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/33 "2011-11-15T16:37:19Z")
Apparently I’m okay if they nuke Boise. I too am surprised they didn’t include Yellowstone – if that goes, I’m toast. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/34 "2011-11-15T17:49:37Z")
This is a very badly done site. What (if anything) is between you and the blast is important. At Hiroshima, some [people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Post-attack_casualties) practically at ground zero survived because they were in solid concrete buildings. In cases further away, a person at a window might die while the person next to them away from the window lives. The site has me getting horribly burned from a Castle Bravo blast. But I would have to be standing outside in a pretty favorable position. (I live in a “hole” so I’m sheltered from a fairly far off air blast.) The real issue for most people is not the immediate blast, but the everything else. Radiation, fires, chaos. All the post-apocalyptic fun stuff. It’s sites like that that reinforce the “make fun of duck and cover” mentality. Even the most elementary protection, such as getting under a desk or ducking down low can help a lot of people survive the initial blast. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/35 "2011-11-15T17:52:58Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Alright, what am I missing? I change all the fields and … that’s it. No “calculate” button or anything. That’s what happened for me in Firefox. Switched to IE (gag) and it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/36 "2011-11-15T18:40:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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? Simple…insufferable Bills fans. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/37 "2011-11-15T20:00:32Z")
I hopefully would be ok, no major cities near me, and I’m normally downwind of the 2 nearest. Biggest thing I’d have to worry with is the stream of survivors. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/38 "2011-11-15T20:13:26Z")
This thread makes me want to break out my [Jericho DVDs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805663/) BTW, site says if I’m at work I’m toast, it I’m at home, I’m “okay for now”. Even more reason to telecommute.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/39 "2011-11-15T20:43:56Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > Simple…insufferable Bills fans. No, we’d nuke Foxborough. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/40 "2011-11-15T22:01:40Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No, we’d nuke Foxborough. No…the rest of the league wants to nuke you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945.md?page=3)