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- "Not down, just under considerable strain. Not much I can do about that at the moment."

https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1497984272887599105

- "I guess it's something of a career highlight to have an article written about why my website is hard to access at the moment:"

https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1498490040468615176

- "If you are having trouble connecting to NUKEMAP right now (it is overwhelmed with traffic a lot of the time), you can use this authorized mirror of it:"

https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1498324403112882179

Man. Sign of the times.

Is the source code available so that others can host?

All the equations used to calculate blast, radiation and heat are public domain and can be found in the AEC/DOE publication "Effects of Nuclear Weapons". The effects, thanks to the glory of physics, are mostly simple polynomials with kilotonnage and distance (math.h pow()). It could easily be implemented by a high school programmer (at least of my era). The graphics is probably the hardest part.

Nukemap Is Down