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Discussions around the threat of nuclear war have escalated in recent weeks, as Sweden and Finland look set to join NATO—and Russia saying it would not accept their membership.
Commentators have been divided on whether Russian presidentVladimir Putinwould ever go so far as to use these weapons, with some calling them “empty threats,” while others saying therisk is realif he feels backed into a corner.
But what would happen if a bomb detonated? What would be the immediate impact and how far would the radiation zone extend?
Alex Wellerstein, a historian of nuclear weapons, who is an associate professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey,created a nuclear bomb simulatorto show just that.
TheNUKEMAPis designed to show the effect of a nuclear detonation in any given…
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