Type your city into the box below, and see what the “Fat Man” or “Little Boy” bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 would have done to your neighborhood:

This is a Google Mapplet created by CarlosLabs that’ll display the blast radius of several different sizes of nuclear weapon. It’s an eye-opening look at man’s self-destructive potential. For an even more shocking look, check what the Soviet 50 megaton “Tsar Bomba” would have done to your town. Where I live, a 50MT blast like that would completely immolate all of south Pinellas county. Even the modern B61 bomb (of which approximately 2,000 warheads still exist in the US alone) would be utterly devastating.

Such a short, intense research project, studying microscoping atomic reactions resulted in creations that instantly changed the world forever. That a tiny chain reaction set off above New York City could instantly undo hundreds of years of development, architecture, creativity, and infrastructure, as well as render its surroundings uninhabitable for further centuries, is absolutely mind-boggling.

Read this book for a fascinating look inside the creation of nuclear weaponry.

Deep Water is a documentary detailing the true story of Donald Crowhurst, a businessman who’s company was falling apart during the 1960s. With his company going under, he became desperate for money, driving him to enter the London Times Golden Globe sailing tournament. As an amateur in an around-the-world sailing race, it would end in tragedy with his supposed suicide and his boat adrift in the mid-Atlantic. His abandoned boat would be found after 263 days at sea.

Crowhurst’s story sounds as interesting as it does tragic. As a huge sailing aficionado and a lover of all types of sea stories, I think this one’s a must-see for me. I thoroughly enjoyed both Joshua Slocum’s “Sailing Alone Around The World” and Harry Pidgeon’s “Around the World Single-Handed,” both first-person narratives of their voyages around the globe. There’s just something awesome about having the balls to attempt this type of journey, especially alone. Of course, both of those authors were experienced sailors, whereas Crowhurst was not. Throughout the documentary are Crowhurst’s audio recordings, which chronicled his downward spiral all alone at sea. During his voyage he also reported back to shore false locations, so that his creditors and the media would think he was winning the race when really he was falling far behind. He maintained two separate logbooks, one with false locations, and one correct.

What actually happened on the Teignmouth Electron out there in the Atlantic? Deep Water aims to find out.