The City nearest to you has just been nuked.
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I live about 2 miles from the potential ground zero, and uphill at that. It would survive a blast from the fat boy, but it would be utterly devastated by a 1 mt ICBM. Thankfully where I live would not be a priority nuking target. A city farther south would, though. It is out of range of the tsar bomba should it hit that city, but well in range of the fallout.
closest city-- Manchester, me--Wigan. so aslong as its not stronger then the fat man i have a chance of suviving the initial blast, but the nuclear fallout would screw me over
City of 100,000 15 minutes down the road. I'm now dead if anything larger than 5 megatons hits it.
Thanks to this guys graphs.Da Orky Man said:
Since closest city from me is pretty much nothing but a large suburb to the one I live in, the radiation will kill me.
If we're using the New Jersey definition of the City (i.e. Manhattan), I should be far enough away to survive initially (take that Hoboken).
The worst part going to be driving to Pennsylvania to find civilization. How backwards is that. Amiright? Well, that or radiation sickness. It's pretty close.
The worst part going to be driving to Pennsylvania to find civilization. How backwards is that. Amiright? Well, that or radiation sickness. It's pretty close.
Well it seems that according to the handy dandy nuke simulator posted previously I wouldn't die instantly (based on a B61 bomb which seems to be a common nuclear bomb), and I'd be safe from the blast directly, but I'd probably get some Fallout coming my way. The fallout seems to head west despite the prevailing wind is generally west-east. So I might be ok. Considering Newcastle would be a smoking crater. Now where am I supposed to get my Halloween costume?
Well I live in it. So I'm just plain old dead. Won't even get the luck to be killed by radiation.
Thank my corneas I live to the west.Josh12345 said:
(Westerly prevailing wind).
Honestly I'd try not to freak out, unless you lie along the narrow fallout path or drink from contaminated water then you'll be totally fine.
"I live 15 miles from a city"
Nukes aren't THAT powerful! At that distance with a Hiroshima bomb (15 kiloton Little-Boy) a few of your windows may be shattered but that's it. You could be sunbathing at the time and survive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions
Unless it's a hydrogen-bomb / thermonuclear bomb detonated at high altitude, then you might be at risk at 15 miles, but even then only the richest and most powerful countries in the world could afford to make a couple of these multi-megaton weapons and they were deserved for a few "hard targets" like major bunker complexes like Mount Cheyenne.
the only plausible nuclear detonation is of a small stolen nuclear bomb or a one manufactured from scratch, either way it's 25 kilotons tops and it is unlikely to be an airburst of optimum altitude, most of the energy will be absorbed by the ground like pressing a torch flat against a wall, it illuminates less of the wall than if held at a distance.
Wow, then I'm pretty much dead too. I live just on the outskirts of a city called Brighton. It's pretty small in comparison to some places in the world and I'd end up being caught in the blast... And if I happened to be out of town (I head up to London quite often), that's still within range of the fallout, so I'd die of radiation poisoning if nothing else.
A hiroshima stylie bomb? Not too much trouble for outlying towns. It's effects are basically un felt like 20 miles out.
But Bristol is now gone, and nothing bad has come of this, in fact, only good has come from it, as there will no longer be any shitting ads telling me to shop there...
But Bristol is now gone, and nothing bad has come of this, in fact, only good has come from it, as there will no longer be any shitting ads telling me to shop there...