This illustration is so naive, it breaks my heart. In an actual nuclear exchange, nothing in the bounds of this illustration would be recognizable. No buildings would be left, and in all likelihood, not even the shapes of the island and surrounding boroughs would remain.
Chesley Bonestell's imagination of a post-nuclear New York, Collier's Magazine, August 1950.pic.twitter.com/lV2iCFMI5s
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It should be kept in mind that it was an estimate for *1950*. Which means fission weapons in limited quantity. One can use my NUKEMAP, if one desires, to compare what a 1950-sized weapon would to do to NYC (e.g. 50 kt) versus a bomb from 5 years later (e.g. 5 Mt).pic.twitter.com/E1M47OQUOw
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With an air burst, maybe.... Pretty optimistic for an impact fused warhead.
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Standard targeting assumption is that cities would be likely targeted with airbursts (it maximizes the blast damage at mid-range levels, encourages distant fires, etc.), for what it is worth...
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looks pretty optimistic to me.
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I bet rent prices remain high even then.
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The only way I'll ever afford real estate in Manhattan
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Terrifying
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Unless I am mistaken,
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(I'm not saying its windows aren't broken.)
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From one of the greatest albums by Australian political band Midnight Oil (they're anti-nuclear, anti-US imperialism, anti-whatyougot), here's an imagined scene of Sydney, post-nuclear attack. Yasutaka Kato – cover design Tsunehisa Kimura – cover art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sails_in_the_Sunset_(album)#Art_work …pic.twitter.com/CyUpPOjIZi
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Beds are Burning..
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"Beds are burning" is a great song. Midnight Oil have loads of great songs from various albums. Their "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1" has multiple great songs, like "Power and the passion", "US forces", "Read about it" & "Short memory". Love "Sleep" from pic ^https://twitter.com/KIKITHEKILLER1/status/938224083287887872 …
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Ah, heaven.
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Looks like modern day Detroit
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The damage depicted in this photo represents something around 2% of what the actual scene would look like. Still, pretty fascinating.
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Not so far from another alien world for him.
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