Beantown Bombshell

Ever wonder what you're neighborhood or city would look like if it got knocked by a 1-megaton fission bomb? Now you can find out. Thanks to the brainiacs at PBS, Joe and Jane Average can gauge the local impact of pressure damage and fallout using the Blast Mapper. Having just seen Damnation Alley this weekend, I was keen on seeing what would happen to the neighborhood I grew up in, my current apartment, and my office building. It wasn't pretty.