May 24, 2005
Nuclear Weapons Effects Calculator. Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists wrote in the most recent edition of Secrecy News:
The heat and blast effects of a nuclear explosive detonated in a major American city can be readily estimated using a new online tool from the Federation of American Scientists. ...
The Nuclear Weapons Effects Calculator, devised by FAS staff member Blake Purnell, is based on data from Glasstone's canonical Effects of Nuclear Weapons. The Java-based calculator allows the user to vary the size of the modeled blast (in kilotons) as well as the height of detonation over one of 25 American cities.
"This is just a very graphic way to let anyone see what the effect of a bomb on his city would be," said Ivan Oelrich, FAS strategic security project director, as quoted in Science magazine (May 13, 2005, p. 933).
Madison, WI and Denver, CO are on the list of 'hypothetical targets' but no cities in Texas made the list.
Maybe this data can be combined with recent work by cockeyed.com to determine how many terrorists can dance on the head of a pin are in the US right now, and how they might attack!
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Of course not, Bush is from here! Just kidding, but at the least they decommissioned Bergstrom Air Force Base which is good news for Austinites in the event of ICMBs. Although some people haven't noticed.
posted by natedogg at 04:04PM CST on May 24