Since WWIII seems to be in the wings, here is a nuclear detonation simulator.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Pick a location, select a warhead yeild, air or ground burst. Then press detonate.
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I need to move closer to something important. I want to be vaporized quickly.
If you try the simulator, you’re going to be really disappointed. You really need to be at ground zero to get that effect. Tv over dramatizes the effect.
Additionally, this simulator likely assumes that the warheads will explode with the designed yield. There is a surprising amount of work to rebuild and maintain a nuclear warhead on a regular basis for it to work as designed. If Russia hasn't maintained their warheads, then they might only give fission yields (like Hiroshima), not H bomb yields. At worst, it may not even be fissile and just end up being a dirty bomb.
I'm betting China is doing a better job of maintaining their warheads.
Wow, someone who actually knows what they are talking about. I'm impressed.
There is a huge amount of difference between making a device go boom, and delivering a device to the target in a functional state. Vibrations, heat stress, it's an ugly nasty ride on top an ICBM.
Shithole country. Can’t even manage to vaporize the masses effectively. Ugh…
Yeah no I already came to terms with the fact that I'll evaporate before I find out that the nukes were launched. It's somewhat soothing actually.
I used to live somewhere that would have been well in the range of a first strike. School had us drill for a nuclear strike situation and we had to learn all about iodine pills and the like, but it wouldn't have done anything to save us unless maybe if we were in the same building as a fallout shelter already.
Definitely a macabre sort of comfort. No suffering, would probably just have been a burned in shadow.
Unfortunately, that's only the case if you are close enough to a target and sufficiently unprotected.
Depending on the nature of the nuclear strike, there are plenty of targets, though. Counter force strikes aim at military infrastructure. Any large and/or strategically important military installation is a target in that case. Depending on the kind of weapons used, hardened underground military targets might be subjected to significant overkill, old school nuclear "bunker busters" from before they figured out how to make nukes robust enough to survive being delivered in a ground penetrating bomb, for example, worked by soft-landing a ridiculously oversized thermonuclear warhead (in the high single too low two digit megaton range, to see the effects of something like that, select a W53 warhead on nukemap and set the burst height to "Surface") on top of the bunker to be attacked via parachute, so the small portion of its energy that gets transmitted into the ground when it detonates on the surface would still be enough to destroy the bunker underneath. Counter value strikes aim at really any important infrastructure. Targets can be things like major transportation hubs and industries, which you will find plentiful in any larger city.
Indoors, in sturdy buildings, especially underground, you have relatively good chances of surviving the initial blast at surprisingly small distances, as the human body is quite robust. So without knowing the target(s) and having no advance warning of an attack, and a general idea of the type of weapons and delivery method to expect, unfortunately, you have good chances of at least temporarily ending up as one of the living who will envy the dead.