[HN Gopher] Interactive MissileMap
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Interactive MissileMap
Author : Bender
Score : 16 points
Date : 2025-06-04 15:27 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (nuclearsecrecy.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (nuclearsecrecy.com)
| credit_guy wrote:
| This is awesome.
|
| I just modeled the plot of the "Nuclear War: A Scenario" [1]. The
| idea of the book is that North Korea launches an ICBM at
| Washington, DC. Here's the trajectory [2]. Supposedly the US
| launches lots of its own ICBMs because of a "use them or lose
| them" fear. Here's their trajectory [3]. If you compare these 2
| trajectories, you will find that the first one doesn't come
| within a thousand miles to the US ICBMs, so that part of the plot
| is flawed. The second part of the plot is that the returning US
| ICBMs fly over parts of Russia, and this triggers an all out
| Russian response. But again, if you look at those 2 maps you will
| find that the original NK missile travels for many thousands of
| miles over Russian territory, while the US missiles travel over
| much less.
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War:_A_Scenario
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| [2]
| https://nuclearsecrecy.com/missilemap/?&s=41.202%2C126.69100...
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| [3]
| https://nuclearsecrecy.com/missilemap/?&s=48.416%2C-101.339&...
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| Important to note that jacobson is kind of a crank. A fairly
| good writer and decent researcher, but the string of crank
| topics she's written on makes it hard to take anything
| seriously.
| alkh wrote:
| It's great that you can choose a launch preset as well; it is
| much more realistic
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