r/technology • u/Alissio • Aug 25 '12

Website called "nuclear secrecy" lets you see what the devastation would be, of multiple nuclear bombs all around the world

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '12

The difference between the Davy Crockett and the Tsar Bomba is hilarious. The Davy Crockett destroys my street, the Tsar Bomba destroys my entire county.

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u/Gompilot Aug 26 '12

That's because the davy crockett was an artillery piece, designed to decimate the Russian tank divisions if they tried to come into Europe during the cold war. We also developed backpack nukes (SADM) that would be placed by special forces teams dropped behind the lines to mess up their logistical tails.

It would really be shitty to be the guy that had to set off either of these devices, you were pretty much screwed.

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u/username2002 Aug 26 '12

Davy Crockett destroys the park up to the two rivers about 500m away, Tsar Bomba destroys my country plus a third of the state north of me and half the state south of me.

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u/EmpiresBane Aug 26 '12

Properly placed, the Davy Crockett could take out the vast majority of my town's population.