'Nuke map' reveals fatalities and danger zone if Russian bomb dropped on Glasgow
23.02.2022 - 00:49
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A terrifying online tool is able to estimate fatalities and damage that would be caused by some of the world's most dangerous bombs.
Including estimations based on nuclear weapons currently in Russian arsenal, NUKEMAP provides an insight to the mass destruction the world would face if a bomb was dropped.
The site allows you to enter a specific destination to find out exactly how and where things would be impacted.
Information including estimated fatalities, injuries such as third degree radiation burns, and building damage is explained using shaded area zones.
Expert Professor Alex Wellerstein came up with the idea using declassified nuclear weapons effects data.
Launching in 2012, the site has now has now carried out over 220million virtual detonations.
Here is what the site estimates if Glasgow fell victim...
NukeMap estimates the fatalities and injuries caused if Topol (SS-25) - a nuclear bomb currently in Russian arsenal - was to be dropped on Glasgow.
This bomb is an 800-kiloton device (800 kt).
The map states that a terrifying 326,000 people would be killed by the bomb with an additional 526,660 being injured by the blast.
Moderate blast damage - which would result in buildings collapsing, fire and widespread fatalities - reaches ground 6.53km (a huge 134km²) from the centre where the bomb is dropped.
With a fireball radius or 0.88km (2.45km²), the bomb is estimated to create a thermal radiation radius of 11.1km. Thermal radiation causes third degree burns, meaning anyone within the 11.1km of the dropped bomb would likely be severely injured.
If a Topol was dropped on the centre of Glasgow, people are far away as Paisley, Barrhead, East Kilbride, Uddingston and Moodiesburn would fall within the thermal radiation zone