Once you’re done customizing the Nukemap, a detonation button will be ready for you. But if you decide to customize your bomb, you will be able to choose its physical blast force, customize ionizing radiation rings, change the amount of thermal energy the bomb produces and much more. Some of the basic options allow you to show casualties and radioactive fallout. The rules are simple: Choose any location on Google Maps, scrutinize the list of notorious nuclear bombs, define some extra parameters and watch what would happen if a nuke went off. By creating this map mashup, Alex wanted to show people what a nuke could do to our cities and towns.īut simply nuking a location of choice wouldn’t be that fun if Alex hadn’t created a real game out of it. Although these bombs are common things in movies, sometimes we do forget that nuclear bombs are a real thing.

Nukemap was actually created to raise awareness about nuclear bombs. The result is a map game which allows you to nuke any location on Earth.

While this might sound terrifying at first, it is actually quite a fun project which combines Google Maps technology with some other web technologies you might or might not be familiar with. In 2012, a historian of nuclear weapons, Alex Wellerstein, decided it’s time for nuking Google Maps.

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