Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.

The maps, created by Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian at the Stevens ... fatalities and 620,740 injuries. The light blast damage radius would extend over thirteen miles in the distance ...

Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.

NUKEMAP, created by Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian, allows people to explore the blast radius of a nuclear bomb anywhere in the world. Users can select the tiniest bomb ever designed ...

It must be the two hundred and twenty-three times I’ve watched War Games, but I love this Google Maps “mapplet” that allows you to nuke cities with different atomic weapons, and even a ...

Its companion app, Nukemap, lets users pick their target and see how the target zone would be affected by a nuclear blast, including the fireball radius, radiation radius, air blast radius ...

Among the reasons the world is thought to be at risk include the possibility, however slim it might be, of nuclear war ... zone is the ‘moderate blast damage radius/ An area of 134Km2, this ...

Israel’s military chief has vowed to respond, with the United Nations nuclear watchdog ... living within 0.88 km of the blast, who would be in the ‘fireball radius’. The map explains ...

Nuke Map, created by Alex Wellerstein ... B-83 Currently the largest nuclear weapon in the US' arsenal, the B-83's blast radius is substantially larger than those that have already been applied ...