A child watches a mushroom cloud. (This one’s actually the eruption of the Guagua Pichincha volcano near Quito, Ecuador, back in 1999.) Image: Getty.

one day, we will all end up dead. if that happens in our own hands it will not surprise me…great article on digg about the power of a nuclear attack…

For years, one of the more perversely interesting things on the internet has been Alex Wellerstein’s NUKEMAP, which — true to its name — shows you the estimated damage if you dropped a nuclear weapon anywhere in the world. Now the Outrider Foundation has released its own, rather more elegant version, and we’re back to blowing up our backyards

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it goes on too show the proliferation of these things and a great website you can play around on to create your own doomsday count right at your home..