Your friendly reminder of potential consequences of starting a preemptive war with North Korea. (Now updated with some East Coast targets.)pic.twitter.com/wJ08sP4Te3
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.
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Your friendly reminder of potential consequences of starting a preemptive war with North Korea. (Now updated with some East Coast targets.)pic.twitter.com/wJ08sP4Te3
Have you considered adding EMP radius to Nukemap? Would be interesting to see how many areas would be without computers after a nuke went off.
It's very tricky to calculate the ranges correctly, and it's even trickier to accurately guess the actual effects on electronics. I have looked into it but not tried to implement it. There are too many tricky uncertainties, and I think EMP is the wrong thing to focus on anyway.
Really? Given how much of society relies on electronics these days, that might kill more people when supply networks, 911, infastructure shut down.
The ability for EMP to actually do that kind of damage is pretty speculative. In any case, if North Korea is going to use nukes, they won't risk it on the uncertainties of an EMP. They'll just aim for cities. We know what carnage would be caused by that.
Ah, I didn't realize how speculative it was. I'm guessing that map exaggerated the imapact a fair bit?
The EMP literature is half people who say "it's the end of the world" and half people who say "it's nothing at all." There are large uncertainty bars when you're talking about real-life effects on the ground. I don't think a state with limited nukes would risk it.
(For a state with many nukes, like Russia, sure, why not. But that would be just one of many effects, certainly not the one worth worrying about the most.)
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