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Export to Google Earth (KMZ) Collapse options on "detonate". 4. Clickthe "Detonate" button below. Detonate. Clear all effectsAdd new detonation. Center ground zeroInspect location. Notethat you can drag the target marker after you have detonated the nuke. Created by Alex Wellerstein, 2012-2024.
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We built our bomb blast in close collaboration with Alex and modeled its functionality on his online nuclear weapon effects simulator, the NUKEMAP. In its first month, more than 1.4 million people viewed the bomb blast, and it was featured in major media outlets worldwide, including coverage by The Verge, Fast Company, Motherboard, and IFL Science.
NUKEMAP. NUKEMAP is a web-based nuclear weapons effects simulator. I created it in 2012 (and did all programming, design, and research on it). Since then it has had many updates to its effects model and capabilities. It has been used by over 20 million people globally, and has been featured in both academic and general-audience publications and ...
Jul 16, 2023 · Incredible colourized footage of the very first atomic bomb detonation on July 16, 1945. The test was part of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret U.S. resear...
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Aug 11, 2017 · Nuclear physicists are using film scanners and computer analysis on old bomb test footage to uncover the weapons' secrets.Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED o...
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Dec 15, 2017 · The official count of 1,054 tests includes 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 - with cameras capturing every one. This week, a team at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has released 62 of these atmospheric nuclear test videos on YouTube. An estimated 10,000 of these videos have languished for decades ...
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On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., a light "brighter than a thousand suns," filled the valley. As the now familiar mushroom cloud rose in to the sky, Oppenheimer quoted from Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-gita, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The world had entered the nuclear age. Immediately after the test a Sherman M-4 tank ...
