Site of the Day: NUKEMAP

What makes this one so great? Check out these features:

» Easily draggable target marker (which has an adorable little atom on it)!

» Bright, stomach-churning colors indicating major negative effects of atomic detonations!

» Effects described include zones of 500 rem exposure, major overpressures, and fire! Plus, the legend breaks these down into easy-to-understand descriptions of what they mean for your average person caught inside of them.

» Lots of pre-sets for both places to drop them (I didn’t want to discriminate) and yields of historical weapons! It has never been easier to put a 50Mt H-bomb on the Eiffel Tower.

» Automatically tries to drop the bomb on wherever Google thinks you are accessing the Internet from (based on your IP address)!

» You can link to specific detonations and send them to your friends to enjoy forever!

» Automatic zooming to make sure that all of a given nuke’s effects fit within the view window! (This can be disabled.)

» More historically contextualized than your average web app!

Check it out here