Finally, South Africa rounds out the list of potential safe havens in the event of World War Three. The country's abundant food sources, fertile land, and freshwater make survival more manageable.

The models and maps are not survival blueprints, but reminders of common dangers and the ongoing need to avoid nuclear war entirely.

The idea that there can be a winner in a nuclear exchange rests on several assumptions: that the conflict can be contained, ...

Using data from Scientific American's previous maps of a nuclear attack in the US, Newsweek has created a map which looks at radiation exposure risk from a nuclear blast, in turn revealing the safest, ...

In June 2025, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a map of potential nuclear targets in the U.S. The map, created in 2002 by the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization ...