That one website that shows what a nuclear bomb would do to your city: NUKEMAP

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NUKEMAP

Maps a nuclear blast's effects on any place

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Why it's the pick

Drop a pin anywhere, pick a real weapon or set your own yield, and it draws the fireball, blast, heat and radiation rings, the fallout plume and rough casualty numbers. Made by nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein in 2012 and still kept up; sobering, free and no account.

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