Radiation sickness can be a real bastard, and it's not just post-apocalyptic fiction. Find out what could happen to you in a real-world fallout situation.
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Due to the varying size of nuclear bombs, the amount it would take to wipe out New Zealand is hard to calculate. It would take over 7,000 United States W-78 missiles at a 335-kiloton yield, or just less than 100 Tsar Bombas at 100 megatons. New Zealand is a small-ass country, and nuclear weapons create […]
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Russia's awesome (in the 'big scary' sense) Satan 2 nuclear missile is capable of destruction that could wipe NZ from the face of the Earth.
Read more The nuclear apocalypse. It’s a chilling concept that we haven’t really had to consider since the Cold War (hah, chilling, Cold War…). But however dramatic the concept may be, the simple fact that nuclear warheads exist means there will always be people like me writing about the horrors of the post-nuclear apocalypse. Modern society couldn’t […]
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“…kill…me…” It is the siren cry of stereotypical ‘I-shouldn’t-exist’ mutants the world over. Writers of surreal apocalyptic fiction love this crazy stuff and mutants are widely considered to be the norm of the post-nuclear world, but is it possible that these creatures could ever come to be? In the nuclear Wasteland setting of the Crumble […]
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As a person fascinated by online post-apocalyptic fiction, I fantasise about life after the end of all things a fair amount. As I wander down the street, I sometimes catch myself thinking, ‘What would I be doing if this was all ruined?’ To be fair, I’m the type of narcissistic arsehole who believes he’d survive such […]
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