There was also this site to simulate area affected :
https://www.nukethis.com/
Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
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#32The screenshots are very confusing to me... it appears to be a Windows (95?) application, with variable width fonts, graphs, mouse support [0], but then certain elements, like the menu [1], look like a class DOS apps, with fixed width fonts and ANSI line drawing characters. Some screens, like data tables [2], look like they're completely DOS-based, while others have a weird combination of DOS and Windows elements [3]…
Screenshot 1 looks interesting. A mixture of a text- and graphical mode. Was that possible natively? Is what looks like text mode also graphical?
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#33The website looks like it hasn’t been updated in decades, but did they add the bit about the epidemic recently or should we be worried that these folks just about predicted the present?
Looking at the wayback machine, it seems the Epidemic text is there as early as 2001. But you shouldn't be worried, as the prediction has been made earlier than that and it's just simple mathematics (Population*Time=Pathogen Evolution)
That doesn't take into account zoonotic crossovers like covid and the handful of avian flu cases in recent the
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#34The website looks like it hasn’t been updated in decades, but did they add the bit about the epidemic recently or should we be worried that these folks just about predicted the present?
from 1995, i present La Grippe, by the Squirrel Nut Zippers...
Specifically this part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O8iOBW6JBM&t=31s
So either this random ska band was prophetic, or there was already a notion that this sort of thing could happen (and did in the mid 2000s iirc and nearly did again in 2013?)
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#35If you want less Excel and more Wargames in your nuclear simulations, DEFCON is fun to spend a few hours in once in a while. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/
I prefer the rather inscrutable Bravo Romeo Delta https://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=143 https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2014/11/choreographing-armageddon...
fascinating! and playable on the internet archive in-browser
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bravo_Romeo_Delta_1993
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#36If you want less Excel and more Wargames in your nuclear simulations, DEFCON is fun to spend a few hours in once in a while. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/
Given that the slogan of DEFCON is "Everybody Dies" and the slogan of Nukefix is "The Challenge Is To Develop a Safer World", I think they have somewhat different victory conditions... As a resident of one of the nine countries possessing nuclear weapons, I'd prefer that people gave the latter slogan more attention than the former!
Safer nukes are the most dangerous thing. It only works if everybody is MAD.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that the slogan of DEFCON is "Everybody Dies" and the slogan of Nukefix is "The Challenge Is To Develop a Safer World", I think they have somewhat different victory conditions... As a resident of one of the nine countries possessing nuclear weapons, I'd prefer that people gave the latter slogan more attention than the former!
Safer nukes are the most dangerous thing. It only works if everybody is MAD.
Unfortunately we enter into new era where MAD is no longer applicable to Russia. Their sarmat has 100% effective target couple woth superb AD while current ICBMs operations tested in America and UK are absymal with equivalent ineffective THAAD and Patriots. It is interesting to see how this asymetrical MAD will play out in coming years.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Safer nukes are the most dangerous thing. It only works if everybody is MAD.
Unfortunately we enter into new era where MAD is no longer applicable to Russia. Their sarmat has 100% effective target couple woth superb AD while current ICBMs operations tested in America and UK are absymal with equivalent ineffective THAAD and Patriots. It is interesting to see how this asymetrical MAD will play out in coming years.
Russian air defense is abysmal; Ukraine is now regularly slipping dronified Cesenas through it. Rest assured that American Ohio class SSBNs and SSGNs will be able to ruin Russia if they try anything stupid.
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#39If you want less Excel and more Wargames in your nuclear simulations, DEFCON is fun to spend a few hours in once in a while. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/
Given that the slogan of DEFCON is "Everybody Dies" and the slogan of Nukefix is "The Challenge Is To Develop a Safer World", I think they have somewhat different victory conditions... As a resident of one of the nine countries possessing nuclear weapons, I'd prefer that people gave the latter slogan more attention than the former!
> I think they have somewhat different victory conditions...
DEFCON theme is more that everyone has already lost, now they're only competing for who loses the least.
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#40This looks pretty neat to play around with, too bad the download link appears dead.
You can send $10 for a floppy disk version! http://www.nukefix.org/purchase.html
Might be worth a shot. The original developer still seems to be alive and doing stuff at https://fixdst.com/