Simulator: check the effect that a nuclear bomb from Russia could have on Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exponentially raised tension around the world and old fears of a Third World War. Fears that in recent hours have also been endorsed by some political statements such as that of the Russian Foreign Minister. Sergei Lavrov, has mentioned three words for the first time that have set off alarm bells. “Third World war”. Lavrov has done it conditionally, as a possibility that it could happen, something that according to the Russian politician would involve “nuclear weapons” and “would be destructive.”

The Russian journalist Dmitri Muratov, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureatehas today called for “an unconditional ceasefire and a truce” and affirms that “there is a real threat of a nuclear war”.

The journalist recalls that, in the Russian Federal Assembly, which brings together the lower and upper chambers, “an interesting video was recently presented on how missiles were launched against the United States.” “Now, considering the possibility of nuclear war is becoming very common. It is talked about on the radio stations, on the television channels. And this seems extremely worrying to me,” she says.

Thus, the question is on the table. What would happen if a nuclear bomb was detonated? What would be its consequences? The answer is not simple, since many factors intervene, such as the power of the bomb itself, whether it detonates on the ground or in the air, and the specific area in which it explodes.

However, there is already a simulator in which the effects of a nuclear bomb can be verified in a very realistic way. In the case of the Ukrainian capital, for example, if a nuclear bomb with a power of 300 kilotons were detonated on the surface in Kiev, the consequences would be devastating. The image below these lines shows it. And here you can check the effects in the free web simulator.

But not only the effects of a nuclear bomb can be seen in Ukraine. the simulator allows you to mark any point on the globe. It also allows you to choose, as if it were a macabre game, the type of bomb and the place where it detonates, on the surface or in the air.

If we select the capital of Spain, we see how the fireball, the emitted heat, the shock wave and the radiation would affect Madrid. In short: hundreds of thousands of deaths and a fictitious situation that hopefully never comes to pass.

Beyond the fear and morbidity that this simulator can arouse, its own creators defend showing the devastating effects of nuclear weapons and the risk that the entire planet faces so as not to repeat situations of the past and that these simulations remain just that: a fiction.