What to do if you are angry about someone
We all have days when we get really mad at some co-worker or clients (though I never get mad at clients, I promise). So, what is one supposed to do in these cases? Scream at them? Punch them in the face? These are options that come with some unwanted side effects like losing one’s job or being sued and thus are not recommendable.
I would like to suggest an alternative way of dealing with this kind of frustration: nuke the hell out of them! Nukemap is a website run by Alex Wellerstein , a historian of nuclear weapons at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Using publicly available data about all kinds of atomic bombs from the Hiroshima bomb to the largest H-bomb of all times (the Russian Tsar Bomba) this website lets you explore the impact these bombs would have if you dropped them anywhere on earth. Just look up the location of your office or the office of your client on the website, choose the size of the bomb you want to drop on their heads and watch the carnage unfold.
Our chart shows the impact of the Hiroshima bomb if it were dropped on our offices in London. In this case the explosion would create a crater that is 50m wide and 20m deep and the nuclear fireball would wipe out everything within a radius of 180m. This means that the offices of our neighbours, JP Morgan Asset Management, would be completely destroyed (sorry colleagues). The blast of the bomb would destroy every building within a radius of 0.7km (there’s St. Paul’s gone) and between 50% and 90% of all the people within a radius of 1.34km would die of radiation sickness within weeks. The total estimated number of casualties are close to 100,000 people dead and close to 350,000 people injured.
Of course, this is not a laughing matter and the reason why this webpage was set up to begin with. Since the end of the cold war, the public has become increasingly ignorant about the threat of nuclear weapons. There are still enough nuclear weapons on this planet to destroy the earth several times over and even a simple nuclear weapon built by terrorists and detonated in a major city could inflict extreme amounts of damage and take many thousands of lives. We cannot afford to go soft on our efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, yet over the last two years we seem to have increasingly gone backwards. Russia has pulled out of the INF treaty in March while US administration approved secret authorisations to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia. This alone makes me so mad I want to punch someone in the face. But wait, there might be a better solution…
Impact of the Hiroshima bomb if dropped on central London
Source: Nukemap.