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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.
- Missilemap
MISSILEMAP is an interactive data visualization by Alex...
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An accounting of NUKEMAP traffic for the first few months of...
- Nukemap FAQ
The reality is somewhere in between: nuclear weapons can...
- Missilemap
Export to Google Earth (KMZ) Collapse options on "detonate". 4. Clickthe "Detonate" button below. Detonate. Clear all effectsLaunch multiple. Center ground zeroProbe location. Notethat you can drag the target marker after you have detonated the nuke. Created by Alex Wellerstein, 2012-2020.
NUKEMAP is essentially a “mash-up” of Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan’s The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (1977) and online map programs (initially Google Maps, but now MapBox). It allows a user to simulate a nuclear detonation (with several possible parameters, including explosive yield and height of burst) anywhere on the world.
Nukemap (stylised in all caps) is an interactive map using Mapbox API and declassified nuclear weapons effects data, created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons.
- 2012
- English
- educational
- Alex Wellerstein
Mar 4, 2022 · The site is somewhat of a cult classic, with over 220 million “detonations” logged since it came online in 2012. The results it shows are, as you can imagine, sobering—especially now.
4. Click the "Detonate" button below. Detonate. Clear all effects. Add new detonation. Center ground zero. Inspect location. Note that you can drag the target marker after you have detonated the nuke. Created by Alex Wellerstein, 2012-2024.
