Saturday, July 05, 2025

Has a Nuke Gone Off?

Not so very long ago - in the days before America became great again -  Has a Nuke Gone Off would have made a nice Friday Fun post. Now it doesn't seem quite so funny. 

Has a Nuke Gone Off is a simple website that does just thing - it monitors a home-built nuclear blast detector to tell you whether a nuclear bomb has exploded. I am happy to report that as of '2025-07-05 05:47:53' no nuclear blast has been detected.

Has a Nuke Gone Off even includes instructions on how to build your own Bhangmeter V2 nuclear blast detector from a Raspberry Pi.

Via: webcurios

If you want to depress yourself further then you can use NUKEMAP to explore the effect that a nuclear bomb might have if dropped on your home. 

For reference - if Iran were to build a nuclear weapon and deploy it on a ballistic missile, the likely warhead yield would be in the range of 10 to 25 kilotons. The image above shows the result of dropping a  25 kilotons bomb on San Francisco. Just enter your own address into the map to simulate the demise of your own neighborhood.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What if Israel doesn't need us no more, and decided to go rouge and please the Russians by bombing us?! How many Nukes do they own?! And How big a hole will THAT make in the US?!