Navy nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The reality is somewhere in between: nuclear weapons can cause immense destruction and huge losses of life, but the effects are still comprehendible on a human scale." "Some people think they destroy everything in the world all that once, some people think they are not very different from conventional bombs. "We live in a world where nuclear weapons issues are on the front pages of our newspapers on a regular basis, yet most people still have a very bad sense of what an exploding nuclear weapon can actually do," Wellerstein said in a statement on the simulator website. In the simulator description, Wellerstein said the aim of the educational tool was to help people visualize the impact of nuclear weapons in simple terms in order to help them gain an understanding of the scale of these blasts. The simulation estimates the potential number of deaths and injuries resulting from any given blast, as well as a rough model of where any nuclear fallout will spread and the dimensions of the mushroom cloud. NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein / Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox A screenshot of the NUKEMAP tool created by Alex Wellerstein showing the impacts of a hypothetical nuclear detonation of the "Tsar Bomba" weapon on New York City and the surrounding areas.
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