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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

Hoboken, NJ / NYC
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
Joined September 2011

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    1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein Jul 3
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      Thanks to those who participated! I used your results to tweak the city-choosing algorithm. It is now implemented in the live NUKEMAP.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1144970009774567425 …

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      I'm experimenting with a new approach to having NUKEMAP select a good "starting city" based on your IP address. But I'm not sure it is very accurate, and don't have a great way to test it out. Can you visit this URL to test it? https://nuclearsecrecy.com/misc/test/ 
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      If you visit NUKEMAP now, it ought to start you in a fairly large city near you, or (if it can't find one of sufficient size near you) your national capital, or just NYC if it can't figure out where else to put you.https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ 

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      The hardest part here was finding a good list of cities. I ended up taking a database of global cities and screening by population, and then doing a kind of "orbit clearing" whereby large cities edged out smaller cities near them in various ways.pic.twitter.com/fLlYbuFKyg

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      For the US it gives a plausible distribution. I'm less familiar with Europe so it's harder for me to say (but I didn't want to just pick capitals as targets), but it seems to be OK. Goal here is not to be perfect, just to start the user in a sensible place.pic.twitter.com/W7q5xdf6q4

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      I may tweak the city list as time goes by; it is just a database and is easy to change/update/etc. I opted not to choose non-city targets for the initial start point; I thought it would be confusing to people to have it be a random military base.

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    6. phuzz‏ @_phuzz_ Jul 3
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      How about towns that were likely to be targeted? I grew up near Cheltenham in the UK, which being the home of GCHQ, was certainly a target. (Probably still is.)

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      I think it would be confusing to people to start off in places that aren't obviously targets by their sheer size. I'd rather do a "possible targets" app as a separate thing (it's something I've been thinking about for a long while, even longer than NUKEMAP!).

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