Doomsday data reveals most dangerous places to be in the US if nuclear World War 3 happened

A map detailing how a nuclear blast may impact different locations has revealed which US states would likely be in most danger in the event of an attack.

The US is one of nine countries that are currently known to have nuclear weapons in their arsenal, with the other nations including Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea.

In 2017, a United Nations conference sought to negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons, including the prohibition of the deployment of nuclear weapons on national territory.

However, as World War Three fears mount, speculation about what exactly a nuclear blast could look like continues to circulate.

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, and most dangerous, places to live in the event of an attack on missile silos in the US heartland.

The heartland includes Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota (Getty Stock Photos)

The map is based on average radiation exposure risk, which has been calculated for each latitude and longitude point, using a scale which measures the estimated cumulative radiation dose after four days.

The scale uses the unit of grays (Gy); a unit of ionizing radiation dose.

With these estimations, the map reveals that the states in most danger would be:

• Montana
• Wyoming
• Colorado
• Nebraska
• South Dakota
• North Dakota
• Iowa
• Minnesota

In comparison, the safest states include Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

The reason these states are among the safest is because grays exposure is estimated to range from 0.001 Gy to 0.5 Gy.

Employees who work with radiation currently have an annual limit of 0.05 Gy, and after 0.5 Gy symptoms such as nausea and vomiting can set in.

Nine countries have nuclear weapons (Getty Stock Photo)

In comparison, the states in most danger are estimated to have exposure measuring 1 Gy to 84 Gy. For reference, scientists consider anything more than 8 Gy as lethal.

The impacts of an attack would be affected by factors such as wind direction, as well as the amount of nuclear warheads detonated.

However, experts have made it clear that nowhere would be completely safe if there were to be a nuclear attack.

John Erath, the Senior Policy Director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told Newsweek: "While those who live near military facilities, ICBM silos in the Midwest or submarine bases along the coasts might bear the most immediate and severe consequences of a nuclear attack, there's no question: ANY nuclear war or weapons detonation would be bad for everyone.

"Nowhere is truly 'safe' from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure."