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Here. http://www.carloslabs.com/node/20

An approximation of thermal pulse radius, overpressure, and fallout drift for several bomb yields, including Ivy Mike (10 Mt), overlaid on Google Maps.

9MT ~ 29km diameter
Try the following link, it doesn't have the 9MT though
http://www.carloslabs.com/projects/200712B/GroundZero.html

Try this... http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16

Gimme a break. When I see a hacker kill off 100,000 people, then I'll take that statement seriously.

Jesus Christ, hyperbole is becoming the norm these days.

QFT! Last time I checked a DDOS isn't capable of evaporating several hundred square miles like an ICBM with 6x600kT warheads. I think our leaders and 'thinkers' need to play around with a google maps mashup here, and see some friggin' clarity!

Actually, you'd need more than a Fat Man or Little Boy sized bomb to "wipe out" New York City. You could kill a lot of people with such a device but you could not wipe out New York City with one. If this site is to be believed you couldn't even wipe out Manhattan, though you could get a large portion of it.....

Mt St Helens isn't in a major urban area. Nor did it release a third of its energy as thermal radiation. A nuclear device will rip the center out of a major city.

http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16

I picked a B-61 in New York City for example.

100 large weapons (330kt or larger) will destroy the hearts of 100 cities.

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Ground Zero
BTW, Japan had a little help rebuilding. Also destroying a city or country doesn't require killing ever single person. Just checkout New Orleans, very few were killed and it hasn't recovered from partial infrastructure destruction in how many years?

This will give you some idea how large a nuclear blast is:

Ground Zero simulator