Talk of nuclear war has also increased since US President Joe Biden’s recognition of Ukraine firing American-made weapons at Russia.
If Vladimir Putin to track its threats, the map below shows the countries at risk nuclear attack.
The Midwest would be particularly attractive because it hosts intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers and removing them early would be an advantage for any foreign adversary.
With this as their starting point, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst created a map of how the wind would fall each day along with the amount of radiation reaching the entire US.
The researchers based their results on 450 target audience members ballistic missiles because detonating just two would have an explosion equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT.
They found it people living on the shores of the East Sea would be at a lower risk of being hit due to the distance between the bomb and the nuclear drop sites.
A safe place to come from Maine to Florida and covering several mainland countries including Indiana, Michigan and Alabama.
Those living on the West Coast will not be affected by nuclear fallout including Washington, D.C. Utah, California and parts of the south Texas.
However, the map only looked at the first scenario and estimated a possible nuclear winter would kill about one billion Americans.
The map predicts that Americans living on the east and west coasts will not be affected if another country launches a nuclear attack on the US.
Residents of states such as Florida, southern Georgia and California may only be exposed to .001 of the annual limit of radiation for humans.
Experts have said that ‘nowhere is safe’ if such an attack were to occur, adding that a nuclear attack would blow up one or two of America’s ballistic missiles.
Christian Appy, director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Newsweek that as soon as he attacked, ‘even ‘small’ nuclear war it would cause a nuclear winter famine that would kill at least one billion people (worldwide).’
Exposure to toxic chemicals puts another 300 million Americans at risk of dying in the four days following a nuclear attack.
Even a small amount of poison can cause nausea, fatigue, vomiting, diarrhea, skin damage, fainting or unconsciousness.
Landlocked states like Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri could be devastated by the eruption.
Meanwhile coastal areas such as Oregon, Washington, Florida and New York may have at least four days before radiation poisoning spreads to those areas.
The initial exposure would have put the three million people living around the silos at risk of receiving eight gigas (Gy) of radiation over the next four days, resulting in some deaths – one Gy is enough to cause radiation sickness.
However, due to the remoteness of the outbreak, residents of certain areas of the East Coast such as Florida and southern Georgia may be hit with .001 Gy’s of radiation.
The second map predicts what will happen after a nuclear strike on 450 ICBM silos in the western United States. This level of radiation would kill 300 million people
Talks of a nuclear war have also increased since US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to detonate American-made weapons in Russia.
The annual limit for the general public is .001, while .05 is the annual limit for radiation workers.
This is enough to cause health problems and possible death, but low levels of radiation would put people living in these areas at very low risk.
At high enough levels of radiation, these symptoms can begin within minutes and can be fatal.
This map showed that anyone living in the Midwest could be killed instantly, and MontanaNorth and South Dakota, Nebraska and parts of ColoradoWyoming is Kansas being a hard hit.
Although the population density of the states is low compared to other neighboring states, the wind can carry radioactive materials throughout the US.
Appy told Newsweek that ‘it is morally reprehensible to think of a safe place to survive a nuclear war’ because ‘a major nuclear war will throw soot and debris into the stratosphere so that it will produce a nuclear winter that will kill all or most of the population. all who survived the blast, the storm, and the heat of the battle.’
Using a weather forecast up to the year 2021, scientists modeled the effects of an 800-kiloton warhead hitting 450 silos at once to destroy the US military.
A Scientific American report said: ‘Thus they increased the force of the moving wind on the radioactive explosion across the continent.’
The warning comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a document last month that changed the country’s policy on the use of nuclear weapons.
Revised doctrine confirms that Russia ‘has the right’ to use nuclear weapons not only in response to nuclear war from another country, but also in response to a ‘serious threat’ to its ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity.’
The Kremlin initiated a revision of the doctrine after the President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use long-range weapons provided by the US as the war between the two countries hit 1,000 days.
The United States Department of Defense told DailyMail.com it could not comment on nuclear security or the possibility of a Russian attack on US soil.
