We are probaby days away from a nuclear exchange. Putin has moved his family...

Edmonton is too close to me... needs to be further away please ;)

Washington DC

Honest question though, how far away from "ground zero" of the biggest nuclear bomb known to date should we be to survive the effects (at least until time to move) ?

Quite a ways. Maybe a hundred kilometres?

What if Tsar Bomba was dropped in the middle of the ocean between Antarctica and the United States? - Quora

Check the Capitals’ scratches with undefined injuries. If Ovechkin, Orlov and Kuznetsov are on the list get worried.

One more of a million reasons to leave the Blue states ASAP.

Yes this is very true.

If nuclear weapons are used, not what you are thinking. Russia does not have the same ratio of convention ammunition to nuclear weapons as does U.S. Battlefield/Tactical nukes, maybe. E.U./N.A.T.O. can only go so far aiding Ukraine. If E.U./N.A.T.O. arm Ukraine to the point the balance of power is more than Russia can handle, who knows.

By survive, I assume you mean not just avoid being atomized, but living unharmed from radiation after the blast.

Downwind, at least 75 miles. Probably 150 miles several hours after the blast.

Upwind, ground blast, hills between you and ground zero: Maybe 8 miles.

Upwind, air blast (city buster): Not sure... 15 miles?

This is from memory when I was in the military in my disaster preparedness temporary duty if the SHTF.

I am just building a fence.

I will be save.

In the meanwhile:

If there were to be a full scale nuclear exchange between the US and Russia, pretty much all life on Earth, except the cockroaches would likely be dead in 6 months. The bunker dwellers, as soon as their supplies and clean air runs out. Not likely a world I would want to be a survivor in.

https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nuclearwar1.html

Good reading.

Yeah, because a few hockey players are on the inside in Moscow.

SMH

I'm glad I still have my mask, if it protected me from COVID, it should protect me from the Bomb:

Note that The Force was with them.

Reading that Putin is 5’ 6.5 “ tall , and his staff are all the same height . Putin wears the same size shoe as Bruno Mars .

There's an app for that

nuclearsecrecy.com

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a mapping mash-up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.

Open link

If Putin went Nuclear, he would probably nuke some US military bases in Europe and not go and nuke London, DC, NY, etc. First, Putin and his oligarchs probably own a lot of property in major Western cities. They would also want to have a limited strike in order to avoid having a cloud of radiation cause fallout all over Russia. Russia was pretty lucky that the fallout from Chernobyl did not make a b-line for Moscow. But strikes on NATO assets in Poland, Turkey, Germany, etc. could rain radioactive fallout over Russia proper if they really used some big nukes. And the Russians aren't dumb. They know about nuclear winter and don't want to end life on Earth.

If Putin is moving family around, is because he fears that Russians may try to take him out or use his family as hostages to get him to stop the war and negotiate an end to sanctions. Oligarchs and Russian businesses are starting to feel the heat and are gradually turning on Putin. Lukoil came out with a statement distancing itself from the war. That is pretty amazing considering that they are the second biggest oil company in Russia.