About the work

A closer look.

Name a place and I tell you, with sourced numbers, exactly what one 1 Mt nuclear detonation would do to it. You get one short document: - Ground zero, sited on the real ground (coordinates). - How far the shockwave, the heat, and the prompt radiation reach across that specific place, from the actual physics (20/5/1 psi blast rings, the third-degree burn ring, the lethal prompt-radiation ring). - What sits inside each ring: the streets, buildings, landmarks and neighborhoods that fall in each band. - Sources for every number, and the parts that are genuinely uncertain, said out loud. Why it is checkable: the radii are arithmetic and the ground is real. Put the coordinates in any map and see for yourself. Nothing here is a judgement you have to take on faith. Send the place as precisely as you can: a name, an address, or coordinates. If I cannot verify the ground or the numbers, I say so and you do not pay. Sooner than 48 hours where I can. One revision included. Sober, not sensational: I am not here to scare you, I am here to get the number right.