Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

What would one big nuke do to Israel? This …

Iran has called Israel a “one bomb state,” meaning one nuclear bomb could effectively end the existence of the tiny, New Jersey-sized nation. Israel has a population of 7.8 million people. Some 42 percent of the population live in the Tel Aviv metro area. Over at io9, there was a story about a website called Nukemap, which, using Google Maps, allows you to see what would happen if different-sized nuclear weapons exploded over a particular city. This is what would happen if a 45 kiloton nuke, roughly the size of the kind of weapon Pakistan has, exploded in Tel Aviv :

Terrifying.

3 thoughts on “What would one big nuke do to Israel? This …

  1. 45 kt is a small nuke. See what a megaton (or several) would do. Don’t forget that the #1 target of al Qaeda is lower Manhattan.

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