WATCH: What would happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped on Portsmouth?

AN INTERACTIVE map reveals what would happen if nuclear bombs were dropped on any location across the globe.
By The Newsroom
Published 6th Apr 2018, 15:48 GMT
Updated 6th Apr 2018, 15:56 GMT
This is what would happen if the largest bomb ever detonated, the USSRs 50,000 KT Tsar Bomba, was dropped on Portsdown Hill Road. From the inside outwards the rings denote the extent of fireball, radiation, shock wave and heat. Picture: outrider.orgThis is what would happen if the largest bomb ever detonated, the USSRs 50,000 KT Tsar Bomba, was dropped on Portsdown Hill Road. From the inside outwards the rings denote the extent of fireball, radiation, shock wave and heat. Picture: outrider.org
This is what would happen if the largest bomb ever detonated, the USSRs 50,000 KT Tsar Bomba, was dropped on Portsdown Hill Road. From the inside outwards the rings denote the extent of fireball, radiation, shock wave and heat. Picture: outrider.org

The tool, which can be accessed here, allows people to enter specific cities and choose between four types of bombs – including the USSR’s 50,000 KT Tsar Bomba.

The map simulates the bomb dropping on the area and shows the extent of fireball, shock wave, radiation, and heat.

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It also tells users the number of fatalities and injuries that would occur as a result.

This is what would happen if the largest bomb ever detonated, the USSRs 50,000 KT Tsar Bomba, was dropped on Portsdown Hill Road. From the inside outwards the rings denote the extent of fireball, radiation, shock wave and heat. Picture: outrider.orgThis is what would happen if the largest bomb ever detonated, the USSRs 50,000 KT Tsar Bomba, was dropped on Portsdown Hill Road. From the inside outwards the rings denote the extent of fireball, radiation, shock wave and heat. Picture: outrider.org
This is what would happen if the largest bomb ever detonated, the USSRs 50,000 KT Tsar Bomba, was dropped on Portsdown Hill Road. From the inside outwards the rings denote the extent of fireball, radiation, shock wave and heat. Picture: outrider.org

If the first bomb used in war – a Little Boy bomb – was dropped on Fratton Park, there would be 24,712 fatalities and 39,571 injuries.

Heat from the bomb would travel 3.4 miles outwards and to the south would reach Southsea Common, and to the north Buckland and Copnor.

But if the Tsar Bomba, the largest USSR bomb detonated, was dropped on Portsdown Hill Road, there would be more than half-a-million deaths and a further half-a-million injuries.

The heat from the bomb would travel north as far as Basingstoke, and south, past the bottom of the Isle of Wight.

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