As pointed out in email: who nukes whom?

[james_davis_nicoll]

I am going to put a cut in because I am not sure how large that image is.

From February 3 through May 1, 843,860 unique visitors logged 4,328,729 "detonations" on NUKEMAP (the average of five "nukes" per visitor has stayed strong throughout the entire period). Given how the link circulated (and the fact that at the moment NUKEMAP is written only in English), it is not surprising that the top two countries are the United States (363,000 visits) and the United Kingdom (65,400).[4] After that, though, come Canada, China, Russia, France, Germany (between 44,800 to 56,000 visits each), Sweden (33,400), Spain (20,500) and Switzerland, Australia, and Finland (between 13,800 to 14,100 each). From there, all visits are less than 10,000 per country, though people from nearly ever country in the world have visited. Notably, from a nuclear perspective, Brazil had 8,300 visits, Israel 3,600 visits, India 2,900 visits, South Korea 2,000 visits, Japan 1,600 visits, Pakistan 276 visits, and Iran 44 visits.[5] (North Korea does not appear on the list, but its web traffic is reportedly routed through China.)

As for countries targeted by the "detonations," the numbers are only slightly different.[7] Some 41 percent of all "detonations" (1.8 million) were within the boundaries of the United States. This roughly equals the fact that 39 percent of all visits were from American IP addresses, and perhaps supports the conclusion that quite a lot of people were "nuking their own backyard," as a number of commentators put it. The percentage of "detonations" of the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Russia, France, and Germany (between three to eight percent of the total) compares very closely with the percentage of total users from those countries as well (between six to seven percent of the total).

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

why are there so many detonations mid-atlantic, mid-indian, and mid-pacific oceans? Somebody planing for Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria rising?

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

oh hey, a new geographical location I've never noticed before: what's that big elongated island north of russia?

[captaincrowbar.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Now I'm wondering how many of those spots east of New Zealand represent people trying to nuke R'lyeh.

[refugee50s.livejournal.com]

When I played with this some months ago, I pretty much only nuked likely targets around my location and other places I've lived, just to see my risk. I didn't bomb any place I consider to be hostile.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

We used to use the lat/long of the piers in Charleston (since we had them in a manual for other reasons) for making up training target packages for our missiles...

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

As I pointed out, one nukes one's self, of course.