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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI spent a couple days obsessed with this shortly after moving to Seattle (from small town Midwest) a few months ago. Wouldn't mind having something similar for impending mega-earthquakes and tsunamis. Wait, why did I move here? Oh, I guess I got sold on the rain and the high cost of living. :)
I was actually surprised how "small" a lot of the bombs we've used are. Combining SF w/ the largest Nuke designed in the USSR is maddening though - the entire bay area essentially gets flattened - hard to imagine that.
- "Not down, just under considerable strain. Not much I can do about that at the moment." https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1497984272887599105 - "I guess it's something of a career highlight to have an article written about why my website is hard to access at the moment:" https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1498490040468615176 - "If you are having trouble connecting to NUKEMAP right now (it is overwhelmed with traffic a lot of the time), you can use this authorized mirror of it:"…
Heard a radio interview last evening with the author of this site. He has a new book coming out that broke news about Truman and the bomb. Truman didn't know anything about the nuclear bomb until FDR died and he received a briefing. The military wanted to make Kyoto the first target. But an aide who had visited Kyoto as a young man fought the decision and escalated it up to Truman. Leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities after Hiroshima…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 401
- Total comments
- 167
100+ points or 50+ comments
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