Smart map of "nuclear explosion" is popular worldwide

One of the oldest and most reliable imagined means of nuclear explosions has seen a "tsunami" of traffic in recent months, which is perhaps not surprising given the constant flow of news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

According to the Galaxy Brain Newsletter, citing an interview with Alex Wellstein, the creator of Nukemap, this map designed to calculate the effectiveness of a nuclear explosion "near you" has become so popular that the map's website predicts peak times.

The Nukemap calculates the radius of the explosion, the number of human deaths and other effects of a nuclear bomb at a given location.

This means that people can estimate what would happen in their hometown if a bomb went off at some distance from their location.

"The traffic graph looks less like a tsunami, like a giant peak wave," Willerstein said.

Typically, he explains, “basic traffic on a normal day without a crisis can range up to 20,000 people per day.

On a very slow Sunday when the weather is nice, about 10,000 people check out the map.

Right now, though, we're reaching over 150,000 people each day, and that's probably the level a server can handle.

Now that I've improved it, he may now be able to handle more."

He adds that there are so many visits to the site that it crashes regularly, and the map founder of course responds to the rise in nuclear anxiety, as a result of the war now underway between Russia and Ukraine, "so it makes sense that people would want to assess the worst-case scenario."

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