Hi Susan,

My thinking for the nuke-alert was something along the lines of..

Gee that's a pretty shiny bobble!

and...

If I was unable to receive local radio (happens frequently where I am out of all civilization/cell/phone/am/fm/etc) I would not know if a bomb had gone off (unless my melting retina indicated it.)

The nukealert would allow me to scan for radioactive regions in my wanderings around the post apocalyptic word of the future (Which, I imagine is similar to the Fallout world).

I say this laugh to myself. You are correct that it is mostly useless as I doubt that scenario would happen. Any other suggestions for toys?