It's easy to view tools like Nuclear War Simulator (or others that came before it, like NukeMap) as a sort of game — especially when there are player controls that allow you to build up arsenals ...

Nuclear War Simulator Creator Says Public Must Know Potential Destruction. Published Oct 19, 2022 at 10:44 AM EDT Updated Oct 19, 2022 at 11:41 AM EDT. By .

To describe a nuclear war honestly is to argue for the abolition of nuclear weapons. At least, that’s part of the goal of the Nuclear War Simulator, developed by Ivan Stepanov and released for ...

Ivan Stepanov/Nuclear War Simulator Today, there are an estimated 13,000 nuclear weapons, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, around 90 percent of which are in the ...

Inspired by rising tensions with North Korea, I have taken to blowing myself up with a nuclear war simulator.. Yes, you read that right. “Nukemap,” the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a ...

More than 91 million people would be killed or injured in the initial phase of a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, according to a simulation video released by Princeton University’s Sc… ...

The United States played a chilling war game in 1983, which simulated how a nuclear World War would unfold - and the results ...

I also like to point out that in an actual nuclear war, you don’t know the targets and what the exact weapons will be. Nukemap is a tidy way of looking at this, but the reality wouldn’t be tidy.

Key point: It is not possible to control escalation once the nuclear threshold is crossed. A “small” nuclear war would kill or injure more than 90 million people within just a few hours.

A few years ago, I directed Harvard Extension School’s “Crisis Game,” in which students had to play out a hypothetical Cold War crisis involving nuclear weapons. The realization that a ...