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Drag the marker to wherever you'd like to target.
Or you can select a preset... Or type in the name of a city: |
| 2. |
Choose a warhead yield:
[?] kilotons [?] Or you can select a preset... |
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Basic options:
Height of burst: Airburst Surface Other effects: Casualties Radioactive fallout 
Advanced options: Airburst settings: [?] Maximize airburst radii for all effects [?] Optimize for overpressure: [?] psi Burst height: [?] ft [?] mm [?] km Show overpressure rings for: 3,000 psi (destroys missile bunkers) 200 psi (extreme damage) 20 psi (heavy damage) 5 psi (medium damage) 1 psi (light damage) Other: [?] psi [+] Show ionizing radiation rings for: 100 rem (sickness, increased lifetime cancer risk) 500 rem (50-90% mortality without medical care) 600 rem (80% mortality with medical care) 1,000 rem (95% mortality with medical care) 5,000 rem (100% mortality) Other: [?] rem [+] Show thermal radiation rings for: Third degree burns (100% probability) Third degree burns (50% probability) Second degree burns (50% probability) First degree burns (50% probability) Minimum radius for 100% probability of no burn Dry wood usually burns (35 cal/cm²) Other: [?] cal/cm² [+] Other effects: Fireball Crater Humanitarian impact (plot locations) Fallout ↳ wind speed: [?] mph, origin [?]° Lookup ↳ fission fraction: [?]% Show Circular Error Probable: [?] ft[?] mm[?] km Mushroom cloud dimensions Export to Google Earth (KMZ) Collapse options on "detonate" |
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Click the "" button below.
Note: that you can drag the target marker after you have detonated the nuke.
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