It also features an extensive FAQ that explains the origins of the models, qualifies their accuracy, and in general attempts to set a high bar for technical transparency. NUKEMAP is not the first such website to have been created, but its ease and quickness of use, extensive information, and deeply-developed effects model have led it to become the “gold standard” in such websites. A printout from NUKEMAP was used (with permission) by Irwin Redlener (of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness) in his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2017. NUKEMAP made an appearance on the Daily Show with John Stewart in 2013. It gives information about the ranges of prompt effects (blast, heat, acute ionizing radiation), delayed effects (fallout contamination), and calculates estimates as to the numbers of possible casualties based on an underlying database of global ambient population density. It allows a user to simulate a nuclear detonation (with several possible parameters, including explosive yield and height of burst) anywhere on the world. Dolan’s The Effects of Nuclear Weapons(1977) and online map programs (initially Google Maps, but now MapBox). NUKEMAP is essentially a “mash-up” of Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. The fallout plume is visible, and the fatalities and injuries are calculated in the many millions. A screenshot from NUKEMAP, showing the effects of the first hydrogen bomb ever tested, had it been detonated on the island of Manhattan.
“The scariest site on the Internet isn’t lurking on the dark web, but hiding in plain sight at ,” says The Washington Post.
It has been used by over 20 million people globally, and has been featured in both academic and general-audience publications and television shows for depicting nuclear weapons effects. Since then it has had many updates to its effects model and capabilities. I created it in 2012 (and did all programming, design, and research on it). NUKEMAP is a web-based nuclear weapons effects simulator.
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