See The Result of a Nuclear Blast Centered at an Address of Your Choice


	See The Result of a Nuclear Blast Centered at an Address of Your Choice

Silkweaver

12-27-2008 12:32 PM

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google maps, neclear weapons, visualization

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This Google Maps Mashup, can be a fun game for the holidays...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/95aaffe7-9641-46c4-96fb-380b15cd296f/1D7ECF2A-9CBB-4CBE-8A85-3C3C8ACD641F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/36EB39A9-E58A-4DE0-82A0-43774F2AB4C0" alt="I5206" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html">Nuclear weapons are often measured in kilotons, but that doesn't really tell the story of a weapon's destructive power.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html">Now, a new Google Maps mashup called <A href="http://www.carloslabs.com/projects/200712B/GroundZero.html" linkindex="114" set="yes">Ground Zero </A>lets you see the radius of <A href="http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/thermal.htm" linkindex="115" set="yes">thermal damage caused by a nuclear weapons blast</A> centered at the address of your choice.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html">In the screenshot at the right, we can see that an American-made <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb" linkindex="116" set="yes">B61 bomb</A> hitting Wired HQ would knock out most of San Francisco.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/18E2678F-7864-4217-9B42-35787908E389" alt="Groundzero" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html">The visualization tool comes courtesy of Carlos Labs, an Australian coding firm. It appears that they used the same (or similar) data as <A href="http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/effects/nuclearwpneffctcalc.html" linkindex="117" set="yes">the Federation of American Scientists</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html">most buildings within the inner circle will be "completely destroyed." The next circle will be fire-filled, and the outer regions would experience major damage from the blast shockwave</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/google-maps-mas.html">If you want to understand what these colored circles mean, head over to the <A href="http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/film.aspx?ID=72" linkindex="118" set="yes">Department of Energy's Historical Test Films</A> page and take a look at some of the footage of the American military's nuclear weapons tests</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1D7ECF2A-9CBB-4CBE-8A85-3C3C8ACD641F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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