These books, movies, and pieces of pop culture are a guide to the atomic era Oppenheimer unleashed.
, a film that aired on ABC in 1983, nuclear war between the USSR and the United States happens partway through the narrative, and the rest of the film is left to depict what life is like for a handful of survivors in Kansas City. The film is unsparing in its depictions of nuclear destruction, radiation sickness, and social breakdown. It is likely as close to a documentary as possible of what a nuclear war would look like.
, “It’s very effective and left me greatly depressed … My own reaction was one of our having to do all we can to have a deterrent & to see there is never a nuclear war.”Want to know what a nuclear explosion would do to your home, or downtown Manhattan, or anywhere in the world? , put in the city of your choice, then select a yield from the handy drop-down menu. To line up with the detonation in, pick Gadget , Little Boy , or Fat Man , and then hit the big red “detonate” button. Even without toggling on the “fallout” and “casualties” options, the phrase “fireball radius” is evocative enough. Nukemap is the work of technology historian Alex Wellerstein, and it remains the cleanest way to picture the scale of devastation from a single warhead.
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