Nuclear Blast Damage
Obviously, if a thermonuclear bomb exploded close to your home, you'd have little hope of surviving the blast. But what if one exploded 5 miles away, or 20 miles away? And what about radioactive fallout?
Learn about a nuclear weapon's "zones of destruction" -- choose between a relatively small detonation at earth's surface, which will produce substantial fallout, and an especially destructive large detonation at high altitude.
Choose a Weapon...
1 Megaton Surface Blast: Pressure Damage
1 Megaton Surface Blast: Fallout
25 Megaton Air Blast: Pressure Damage
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