Dystopian World — Nuclear War Simulator

Dystopian World is a free interactive nuclear war simulator. It models how one nuclear strike escalates through military alliances into global catastrophe. Pick a nuclear power, choose a target, and watch retaliation cascade across a 3D globe — missile trajectories, alliance chains, mutually assured destruction, the Dead Hand automated-response protocol, and nuclear-winter famine estimates based on Robock et al. (2007, J. Geophys. Res.).

Scenarios you can simulate

Russia vs United States — what a nuclear war would actually look like
Iran vs Israel — how an escalation would unfold
India vs Pakistan — a regional nuclear exchange
North Korea vs United States
China vs Taiwan

Browse all simulated nuclear war scenarios →

This simulator requires JavaScript and WebGL. Please enable JavaScript to run the interactive globe.

REAL CONFLICTS

This is not a simulation. Every recorded site of organized violence on Earth, and its death toll.

Heavy violence Clashes Tensions

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Data: UCDP GED (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), CC BY 4.0. Published monthly — this is not real-time. Only precisely-located events are mapped; some conflicts, Ukraine above all, are partly coded as country-level aggregates that cannot be placed on a map, and are therefore under-represented.

1 COUNTRY

2 TARGET

3 STRIKE

SCENARIO

01 SELECT COUNTRY

Click a country on the map, or search for it.

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