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.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:43 AM

    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?!

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  2. Anonymous1:28 PM

    Since the inception of the internet, the previous post has to be the most moronic ever written.

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