# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/41 "2011-11-15T22:21:02Z")
If a Dinosaur Killer shows up, I’m scrod, but even the nearest “plausible” target for a Tsar Bomba sees me outside the glowing glass saucer, although if they tossed it at Lakenheath instead I would have more to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/42 "2011-11-15T22:42:41Z")
> [@website result](#): > > Alive! but do you want to be? > > You live in the middle of no where or are lucky. The planet isnt looking good though. Get ready for some great skiing in the incoming nuclear winter! There’s no mountains, so the skiing migh kinda suck. ---
**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 16, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/43 "2011-11-16T00:09:33Z")
Oh, btw…I would be alive for any nuke event…cause I’m in orbit. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/44 "2011-11-16T03:30:41Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > 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. Hear, hear. (And this is from someone in a hilly canyon, northwest from all the major military and civilian targets, right next to the Pacific. I’ll be scavenging over ALL of you guys’ bones! 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![printscreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@printscreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/printscreen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/45 "2011-11-16T06:38:21Z")
Im glad all of you enjoy my site 😃 I built the site as a gag for my co workers in 4 nights. I wanted to learn how to use the Google Maps API and Postgis (a spatially aware database extension) and this was a fun project to learn with. The site wasnt meant to be extremely and scientifically accurate. I know a few people have mentioned why i didnt include military targets. Well for two reasons. First, i cant exactly google “What is the lat and lon of every US and UK military installment”. Second, even if i did have that data, i still wouldnt post it. Why needlessly endanger our troops by exposing what would have been a little known base of operations for a gag website. If you guys find any bugs or have any neat suggestions, id love to hear them. Email them to [wouldisurviveanuke@gmail.com](mailto:wouldisurviveanuke@gmail.com) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/46 "2011-11-16T08:45:19Z")
> [@printscreen](#): > > Im glad all of you enjoy my site 😃 We do, naturally. 😃 I wouldn’t worry too much on an ethical level about including military installations—the information’s [freely available,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases)already. And anyone who has or could get a nuke (god forbid) would use more precise tools anyway. Of course, to be fair, that might not stop OTHER wackos from citing your site—namely, ignorant alarmists in the media (“Nuclear attack planner online for the world!!” [Cue graphic of “dino killer” blast effect superimposed on Area 51]), or by hippies. Ach! Such is life. If you ever consider making a 2.0 “Would I Survive a Nuke,” you could always include FOREIGN military nuclear targets, too—[Mt. Yamantau](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Yamantau) would be a start—just to ease your conscience. 😃 Anyway, for everyone’s entertainment, here’s the [Hydesim nuclear effects calculator](http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html), which is more precise (lat, long; plus user-imputable yield). I could probably dig out my collection of other blast calculator links, some of which are even MORE ghoulish, if anyone likes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/47 "2011-11-16T13:08:31Z")
Pfft. Even with the worst-case-non-dino-killing scenario, I’m still not even close to being hurt. It’s good to be in the middle of nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/48 "2011-11-16T14:10:56Z")
> [@printscreen](#): > > Im glad all of you enjoy my site 😃 > > I built the site as a gag for my co workers in 4 nights. I wanted to learn how to use the Google Maps API and Postgis (a spatially aware database extension) and this was a fun project to learn with. The site wasnt meant to be extremely and scientifically accurate. I know a few people have mentioned why i didnt include military targets. Well for two reasons. First, i cant exactly google “What is the lat and lon of every US and UK military installment”. Second, even if i did have that data, i still wouldnt post it. Why needlessly endanger our troops by exposing what would have been a little known base of operations for a gag website. If you guys find any bugs or have any neat suggestions, id love to hear them. Email them to [wouldisurviveanuke@gmail.com](mailto:wouldisurviveanuke@gmail.com) Alll maps should have legends. what do the colored rings mean? Also, Ground Zero should be clearly labeled. For close distances to ground zero it’s not immediately obvious how you have annotated the map. ---
**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 16, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/49 "2011-11-16T15:04:37Z")
> [@printscreen](#): > > Im glad all of you enjoy my site 😃 Doesn’t work in Opera, barely works in Firefox. You need to use more standardized web coding. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/50 "2011-11-16T17:56:54Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Doesn’t work in Opera, barely works in Firefox. You need to use more standardized web coding. I had no trouble in Firefox, for what it is worth =) ---
**Author:** ![printscreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@printscreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/printscreen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/51 "2011-11-16T18:13:19Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Doesn’t work in Opera, barely works in Firefox. You need to use more standardized web coding. What version of Firefox and whats the bug? I havnt had any bugs reported for firefox yet. When it comes to Opera, i know there are bugs, but i just dont care. I have 6 requests per 200,000k that are with a UserAgent of Opera. The sad thing is, there were 80 per 200k with IE6 and 4 request with IE5 ( I didnt even think that was possible to use IE5 still). So whats that say about Opera if as many people using it is the same as IE5. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/52 "2011-11-16T18:37:37Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > I picked the peacekeeper 350 kt canned sunshine, and supposedly I survive as they have Toronto as the prime target. Supposedly, I’d survive, but not for long, if someone targeted Toronto with a dinosaur-killer asteroid. Would anyone target Toronto with any kind of nuke, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/53 "2011-11-16T23:25:42Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > Oh, btw…I would be alive for any nuke event…cause I’m in orbit. …Wait, what? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/54 "2011-11-17T01:07:26Z")
I’m good up to 1 megaton, if it happens when I’m home. If it happens during a workday, I am right at ground zero. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945/55 "2011-11-17T13:40:05Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > I like, I like! Lessie…so far, I’ve got: •[Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculator](http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html) The old standby, good for most purposes. •[Impact Calculator](http://simulator.down2earth.eu/index.html#) Asteroid impact calculator. •[Nuclear weapon effects against armor calculator](http://www.5596.org/cgi-bin/nuke.php) A bit on the technical side •[Earth Impact Effects Program](http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/) Another asteroid impact calculator—slightly more in-depth, allowing custom projectile density and depth-of-water for target inputs. •[Big Book of Warfare Nuclear Weapons Effects Calculator](http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/ABC_Weapons/Nuke_Effects_Calculator.htm) More in-depth nuclear effects calculator—more detail numbers from blast effects, and IIRC much smaller warhead inputs possible. •[Kinetic Energy Calculator](http://www.csgnetwork.com/kineticenergycalc.html) •[Blast Intensity Calculator](http://web.archive.org/web/20100412144954/http://www.babtech-onthe.net/calculators/blast_intensity_calculator1.htm) Designed to measure energy absorbed by spacecraft by a nuclear blast. •[Antimatter Calculator](http://www.edwardmuller.com/right17.htm) For easily determining explosive force of a mass of antimatter. •[Build Your Own Bomb Effects Computer](http://www.fourmilab.ch/bombcalc/brico.html) Printable forms for building your own version of an analog nuclear effects computer (similar to a slide rule) from the government published “_The Effects of Nuclear Weapons._” •[Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer](http://www.fourmilab.ch/bombcalc/) Online version of same—literally, it presents a graphic version of the “computer” with all the wheels slid into place. I never did get around to figuring out how to read it… You like? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-i-survive-a-nuke/602945.md?page=2)