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Mapping Catastrophe How a 20-Kiloton Nuclear Blast Would Reshape New York City and Its Future
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki was 20 kilotons. Today, that’s considered small. Such are the descriptive words of nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein, who created the generally cited NUKEMAP simulator.
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Fallout Mapping, Advanced Dispersion Models, and the Unsettling Science of Nuclear Risk Across the United States
Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged ...
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Japan's Pearl Harbor strategy revealed in rare World War II maps
On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...
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NASA sent a map to space to help aliens find Earth. Now it needs an update.
This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. A half century ago astronomers designed a map that would point to Earth from anywhere in the galaxy. Then they sent it ...