Great WW3 resource website
 

A nuke map with kill radius. I wouldn't worry too much about any nuke over 50mt. The USA only has a few and probably russia as well. After 50mt, you get "diminished return". Nobody has a 100mt nuke.

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

Great news, eh? I'll add that to Covid, inflation, and politicians.

What are the nearest likely targets to the Villages?

Is there anyway we could shield Chick Filet and Costco?

We aren't the center of The Universe...

You would think Orlando would be a target but then again Disney is a huge contributor to feeblemindedness and degeneracy in the USA so it would probably be spared. The Villages would be safe regardless according to the map. Figure on a 5mt airburst tactical nuke for Orlando. You don't want to waste precious nukes.

No...Sorry...Costco is toast, comrade.

Spanish Springs!:icon_wink:

Dr strangelove
 

since there is a strategic nuclear submarine base merely 175 miles away home to our atlantic fleet, i wouldn't count on escaping the inevitable

I guess you're forgetting about the fallout of nuclear radiation that travels hundreds of miles and falls to earth. This problem also occurs when nuclear reactors break down and release radiation. The recent occurrence in Japan caused radiation to spill over to the coast of California.

The largest current nuke in the US arsenal is a bit over 1 mt. Russia did assemble and test a 50 mt three stage device in the early 60s but that was a one-off. The US did have an operational 25 mt three stage device in the 60s. The warheads on Minuteman and D-5 missiles are under 1 mt.

The US is estimated to have about 5,000 nukes and Russia about 15,000 still. While many of the Russian rockets and planes may not get off the ground even if you have 10% hitting the US or even just one I wouldn't want to be living afterwards as the retaliation will wipe out the other country and result in enough radiation that we all get sick and die probably within the year. I don't have a gun but I will certainly want to ask my neighbors to shoot us if that was the case as they would be no food within 3 months and no clean water. As it is often been said mutually assured destruction is the only sane theory to have concerning war.

The Russian certainly could have used a tactical nuke on the steel plant in Ukraine and that would have definitely brought retaliation by other nuclear powers. So even they understand mad

Covid proved that all you need to survive an apocalypse is toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Oh yeah, and a paper or cloth mask. .

Thousands of A & H-Bombs Already Exploded
 

This time-lapse video shows all of the thousands of nuclear bomb explosions that have occurred since 1945. I never realized so many have occurred.

https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY

So long Mom,
I’m off to drop The Bomb
So don’t wait up for me.
Just think while you swelter
Down there in your shelter,
You can see me on your TV…

Ash
 

If you survive the many blasts, then you’ll eventually starve to death from the ash clouds circling the globe and plants not getting enough sunlight to survive. With both super powers have nukes, we would be sending many to Russia and them many to the USA. End of the planet as we know it because of the sun being diminished for years.

Have a fun day
 

Your born, you live, you die.
Worrying about when and how is a waste of time.

Soon true!

We're safe, we have the bubble over us.

All military facilities.

Governments has plan and facilities in place for the VIPs to survive for 50 minimum years. All us peon’s are expendable.

The Greens What About the Greens?
 

Post Nuke Greens... I weep for the future!

Communication’s will be the first to go.

Primary vs. Secondary Targets
 

The nearest targets would probably be Kings Bay, GA sub base & CenCom headquarters in the Tampa area. I don’t think that the sub base would be a primary target as the subs would all be out to sea. CenCom probably would be primary as it’s Command & Control. Most likely subject to an airburst that would vaporize a 2km area, but generate minimal fallout.
The majority of fallout would be generated by ground busters hitting missile silos & hardened Command & Control centers in the upper Midwest & Western states. Airbursts are more effective on non hardened targets & generate minimal fallout.

Crazy
 

Just watched the whole video - dumbstruck - literally a few thousand people took us to this point…

Really informative; put in the areas where we have lived.

Downwinders were individuals and communities in the intermountain area between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents.[1][2]

More generally, the term can also include those communities and individuals who are exposed to ionizing radiation and other emissions due to the regular production and maintenance of coal ash, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, nuclear waste and geothermal energy.[3] In regions near U.S. nuclear sites, downwinders may be exposed to releases of radioactive materials into the environment that contaminate their groundwater systems, food chains, and the air they breathe. Some downwinders may have suffered acute exposure due to their involvement in uranium mining and nuclear experimentation.[4]

Several severe adverse health effects, such as an increased incidence of cancers, thyroid diseases, CNS neoplasms, and possibly female reproductive cancers that could lead to congenital malformations have been observed in Hanford "downwind" communities exposed to nuclear fallout and radioactive contamination.[5] The impact of nuclear contamination on an individual is generally estimated as the result of the dose of radiation received and the duration of exposure, using the linear no-threshold model (LNT). Sex, age, race, culture, occupation, class, location, and simultaneous exposure to additional environmental toxins are also significant, but often overlooked, factors that contribute to the health effects on a particular "downwind" community.[6]
Source: wiki

FYI: A John Wayne movie set in Nevada, downwind, had cast and crew 30 years later with High incidence of cancers and deaths feom cancer.

YES!!! When we purchased back in the day. We were told about the HUGE BUBBLE that comes down and protects the villages from hurricanes and any tornado that might come this way. I hope it goes for nukes.

Working so far...
:pray::pray:

Yes...That's why Putin would not nuke DC...Or Brussels...Or Ottawa. They are his allies.

Pfftt...We will hardly feel a breeze :)

Pffttt...These babies are hydrogen fusion. Maybe 8 miles downwind.
The radiation did not even leave Japan. 20kt.

Delusional illusions
 

you need to see a classic movie titled on the beach with gregory peck. The mirved warheads and overkill is called " bouncing the rubble"
there are no winners or survivors in a world aflame

Dream, dream, dream
 

btw
nuclear fusion does not yet exist

Thermonuclear Weapons
 

You are wrong! That’s exactly what Thermonuclear Weapons are. They use a Nuclear explosive to trigger a nuclear fusion explosion.

MIRV Warheads
 

That scenario is only true if the enemy decides to go all in for Mutual Assured Destruction. Then, yes. It will be “bouncing the rubble”.

Fallout Myth
 

Fallout will only occur with ground penetrating weapons. Those are only targeted for hardened targets such as ICBM silos and underground command and control targets such as Cheyenne Mountain.
Airburst weapons are the preferred weapon against non-hardened targets. They produce minimal fallout.

E= mc²
 

no you are wrong. Nuclear fusion has not been developed on earth yet. Nuclear fission is the splitting of a radioactive element u235.
Nuclear fusion is the forcible joining of hydrogen atoms to create unlimited energy.
This is still being developed. There are no fusion bombs, yet.

It doesn't really matter what the nearest likely target is. If it starts, there would be many strikes. The exodus from the targets would seek refuge in any safe non target area. And you can be sure that they would be asking if there is any room at the Inn.

No power, no water, no fuel, no food, no phone, no medicines. All we have left is free golf (on Executive courses) using hand pulled carts. Getting a tee time might be difficult due to lack of computer systems and phone. Bring your own drinks and don't plan on a clean toilet and toilet paper. When you get back home, you may find it has new residents.

Have a happy day!

Thermonuclear Weapons
 

You’re thinking of a sustained fusion reaction. As in a Fusion Reactor.
Thermonuclear Weapons create a nearly instantaneous fusion reaction resulting in a fusion reactive explosion. Fission reactions are nuclear. Thermonuclear reactions are fusion.
thermonuclear bomb | History, Principle, Diagram, Yield, Effects, & Facts | Britannica.

Ummm, no, you are wrong. Virtually all nuclear weapons today are two-stage fusion devices. The first stage is a uranium-based implosion fission reaction used to generate x-rays to trigger the second stage - the fusion of lithium-deuteride. As part of the second-stage, additional uranium is also fissioned to create additional yield. What has not been created yet is a controllable fusion reaction for the purposes of generating usable energy. This has been an elusive goal that may very well take many additional decades to reach.