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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 12:55 PM
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Ground Zero II *
Virtually "nuke" your city or town, or one that you might "dislike" using a Googlemaps mashup and your choice of nuclear device, from a suitcase-sized "dirty" bomb up to the equivalent force of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that allegedly caused the mass-extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago:

*now with fallout (adjustable wind direction) and pressure zones included in the aftermath graphics.

http://www.carloslabs.com/node/20
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 01:33 PM
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1. These blast radii always assume open terrain
Edited on Tue Sep-21-10 01:33 PM by wuushew
really any such event would be much less catastrophic than is indicated. Several thousand immediate deaths out a surrounding population of hundreds of thousands or millions isn't that bad.


Here is a National Planning Estimate for a a 10 kiloton nuking of D.C.

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-dhs-national-planning-scenarios-2006.pdf
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 01:36 PM
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2. remarkable
thanks for posting.
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 01:43 PM
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3. Dang!
Scary stuff...
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 01:49 PM
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4. I like Pandemic 2.
http://andyslife.org/games/game.php?file=pandemic2.swf

Wipe out the human race before they can cure your disease.:evilgrin:

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