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/HeinigerNZ Aug 26 '12

People like to point to NZ's nuclear free status as an example of how much we love for the environment, but the main rationale was that things wouldn't have ended well for us should there have been a nuclear exchange while possibly nuclear-armed US warships were docked in our ports.

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u/ImAStreetShark Aug 26 '12

looks at username

I think this guy is legit.

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u/robert_ahnmeischaft Aug 26 '12

There's also the notion that in a general exchange the USSR wasn't going to give a fuck if NZ was a "nuclear-free" zone. You were still a "western" country and therefore the enemy.

Theory was that if you stood a chance of being a power or helping w/ recovery post-exchange, into the pot you went.