A Nuclear Missile EAS Scenario: Live and Uncut 

The sirens you hear at 0:55 are actually the All Clear signal. (One long, steady tone rather than the wavy up and down tone.)Guess everything must be okay. Let's go outside. Oh...what's that bright light--------?

The most chilling part is the silence between broadcast

when I was listening to this, my lights flickered and I swear I just froze in fear

Holy shit... at the end of the video one of the loudest fireworks i have ever heard went off only about 100 meters away.. i jumped straight out of my chair and almost through the floor

I guess I should subscribe to at least one fucking terrifying channel.

"If we persevere, we will emerge victorious." Uh, no. If it comes to nuclear war, *everybody* loses.

This video changed my perspective and made me realize that if a man made or natural disaster would happen I wasn't prepared for it. Now I'm building supplies in case an emergency does happen.

I sure hope this is the closest we ever get to the real thing.

Given that the EAS is supposed to override cable TV and radio programming, it makes me wonder if cordcutters are screwed.

That was President Steven Hawking speaking in case anyone was unclear :)

obama, your voice has changed

Dude. This is by far your BEST simulation. Stick with the LIVE stuff. It is really realistic. Try adding other sound effects like you did hear. Maybe make mock newscasts, etc.

3:29 Do not use Nutella-phone. Nutella-phone line should be...

Do you know why this instills fear? It's due to classical conditioning a psychological reaction with our brains. It's like hearing your alarm clock on Saturday when you don't have to go to class or hearing someone else's ringtone the same as yours gives you the urge to answer your phone. So you have been conditioned at a young age to know when that sound appears a sense of fear is present. The sound has classically conditioned your brains to be afraid or alert with fear when the sound goes off.

The EAS should also have released additional instructions, like these: 1. If your selected city is targeted for a imminent nuclear attack and you see the preliminary signs of a bright flash from the first nuclear explosions, do not look directly at the blasts. Looking directly at the blasts can cause instantaneous melting of the retinas which can cause temporary or even permanent blindness. You can look indirectly at the blasts to see where exactly the blasts will be from. 2. When you notice the flashes, immediately cover your ears because likely you will hear a very thunderous acoustic shock from the nuclear blasts, no matter what the distance the nuclear impacting points are. 3. The blast waves from nuclear bombs will be something similar to the damaging high winds from tornadoes, so the rules are the same...go to the lowest floor available and go under heavy furniture and cover your head with your arms.

This is the best time in your life to get on your knees, and ask the Lord to forgive you of your sins. You may not have another opportunity. Even if you don't believe in God, what do you have to lose ?

I noticed the clock in the corner and it's implying that the nukes hit at roughly 11.08 PM. Wouldn't it be ironic if the nukes instead hit at exactly 12 midnight as an inadvertent nod to the infamous Doomsday Clock?

They should make an EAS that just says: 'There's a nuclear bomb coming, everyone's gonna die.' and that's it

Having taken place in my hometown, this made it a lot scarier.

I'm not prepared for anything, shit I don't even have a band aid for when I scrape my knee.

The use of static, pitch & silence puts this at it's own level. It's really remarkable how superior this is to other vids done in this style.

I know he said "all-clear signal," but it almost sounded like "all-killed signal," which would be more realistic for this situation.

The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start. *nuked*

OK, these things terrify me more than any horror movie. I demand my mother at once!

Holy crap, why am I watching this at 1 in the morning with the lights off?

Try watching this at midnight and your entire family is asleep. *Shudder*

I've heard that emergency notice dial-tone sound my entire life, mostly to my annoyance at interrupting my tv show, but every time I hear it pop up in a disaster or horror movie or videogame, it sends chills down my spine. Hard chills. Ass-clenching chills.

11:23 I love how he says "Chicagooo" so joyfully!

I literally have goosebumps. Holy. Fucking. Shit. This is scary.

"Do not use elevators" Boring... "Do not use elevators as they may stop functioning at any time and will put you in immediate danger" That's better.

the fact that we don't have civil defense anymore blows my fucking mind. 90% of people would have no clue what the fuck to do or how serious this actually would be.

This literally made me sick to my stomach to listen to.

Off-topic, but imagine waking up to some voices on the radio, not understanding what they mean.. a few minutes and you're fully conscious, the last words you can make out are - "To those who did not evacuate in time, good luck and may God have mercy on your souls." The radio station you were tuned to was locally-based.

I thought this video would ACTUALLY be from your perspective, Like what you see during this attack.

"Leave the telephone lines open for emergency use." If there was a nuclear blast, I'm not sure anyone, let alone emergency services would be using their phone.

Gonna need to get a Random dog from a gas station now :/ Darn China

Lol it will be Fallout 3/New Vegas. People will unite against each other, and surviving is key! I'm going to play that game now....

The first one is where my ex lives, To bad this is fake :( XD

And North Korea just completed it's 5th nuke test...

Listened to this at midnight alone with the lights out. Big mistake.

Leaning back in my chair with Hands behind head. Hears Dallas in list of targeted cities. Heart stops

Just to think that this could happen any day now. We could just be minding our own business when sirens start blaring.

Lol. Only 4 missiles? With a mean-time-to-impact of 15 mins? NORAD would literally have to be drunk to fail to intercept all 4. We keep 2 to 3 hundred interceptors on standby at all times across the country.

We will stay on the air as long as we c-

So I'm watching this, in my room, lights off, my laptop is the only thing on. Though I know nothing's actually happening right now, I'm frozen with fear. I can't imagine if this shit actually happened.

My version of CONELRAD :D *Static* *Silence* *Static* *Silence* *Attention signal* BULLSHIT ASS FUCKIN' DAMNIT *Boom*

Coming back to this every now and then, I think this is one of the few EAS mocks that legitimately gives me chills, Because this is something that may very well happen if we are not careful. If I woke up in the middle of the night and heard this, I would feel like the depths of hell had split open on earth and we are not going to survive. I've been also thinking about this video a lot recently in the current events with Russia and Ukraine. I pray to God that a nuclear war does not happen in our lifetimes, no, EVER. Because if that happened, its game over. Brilliantly made video, Hope this kind of scenario stays in the realms of fiction.

Vsauce brought me here. And scared the shit out of me. Thankfully, I'm not from USA. But I will live there soon. :S

My life is so horribly dull, that I would actually be excited to see something like this show up on TV.

How very interesting that this ends with silence instead of an ear-shattering explosion sound. You've ended this with the majority of us at the edges of our seats with tension. And now we have to wait for the adrenaline to bleed off gradually and naturally. No climactic moment, no resolution. Very eloquent. If you think about it, it's almost poetic.

The siren makes my spine tingle, anyone else know how I feel?

This is brilliant nonetheless.. It put me there.. Chilling to say the least.

"In case of a REAL emergency, you will not be informed. Your first indication of an impending attack will be the flash of detonation."

I should think that any speech would be pointless in such a situation. No amount of patriotic fluff could insulate you from nuclear fire.

The thought of a nuclear attack happening late at night while listening to the situation develop live over the grainy audio of a radio in a basement is straight-up terrifying.

I'm telling everyone right now... if World War 3 doesn't start within the next 10 Years I will be really really surprised

This could be real now.

Was laying in bed a few weeks ago and a horrible thunder storm come through. The Tornado sires went off at one in the morning and jolted me awake and I have chills even as I am typing this thinking to that night. The idea that I could wake up to THIS scenario playing out in front of me as sirens go off all around me chills me to my very core. I pray that this is as close as we get to a nuclear war.

watching this at 4:00 am in a dark room in the state of kansas is a bad idea or a good one for a prank :3

I was born on 9/11, does that means my horoscope sign is a plane?

I first saw this back in 2013. Now, it is the standard introductory for people doing EAS alerts. You got my interest in alerts with this video. Excellent work!

holy fuck these things are scary

When I was in elementary school my friends and I wandered back into the back of the school and found a dark metal staircase leading down about 5 feet. We were in 5th grade so that was scary enough. We turned the corner and found a giant metal blast door. We saw a faded metal sign with an orange biohazard sign that said nuclear fallout shelter. The school was built back in the 50s and to this day anytime i see that door it freaks me out... no teachers in the school will talk about it...

Fuck it. Take a Xanax or three, make a strong drink, and sit out on the porch. Better than panicking and running around before the bomb hits. Certainly better than climbing out into the rubble a few weeks later assuming you survive.

199X... The world was devastated by nuclear war... 北斗の拳 (Fist of the North Star)

0:23 *in Minuteman launch control center, reading The Hunt for Red October* *flips page* *sharp tone* EMERGENCY ACTION MESSAGE INCOMING. Stand by to copy the message. *authentication process* Let's do it. Insert keys. *the DXCCC inserts her launch key. I insert mine.* On my mark. 3, 2, 1, mark! *we turn our keys to "set". Lids open to reveal ten Minuteman missiles in their silos.* On my mark. Three, two, one, rotate! *we turn our keys simultaneously* I sigh and hope we didn't fire first.

Holy fuck I got an amber alert while this was playing and scared the shit outta me even more

🔵 @ 11:22 The 'Emergency-Voice' telling which cities are going to be hit sounds so HAPPY when it says "CHICAGO!", the way he says it makes it sound like Chicago won an AWARD or somethin'!

6:52 that static is more fucking scary than anything else.

A hacker on ROBLOX played this in a server I was on. Yes I do play ROBLOX. People actually believed it was real and told their parents. XD

watching this alone at 12 am is probably a good way to assure you won't get any sleep tonight.

This was the very first mock EAS nuclear attack video I ever saw. It spooked me so badly that I couldn't sleep that night, and lead to much internet research on both how to survive radiation/fallout emergencies as well as how the EAS works (plus the old EBS and even CONELRAD). Very, very well done.

Its pretty much what you WOULD here, should such a thing actually happen . . . only the information given out, was quite LACKING . . . I wouldn't even call it "Basic" . . . with what WOULD be, what would be given out, as the information TO be given out, has been around for "Many" years.( Its all "Per-Recorded", an ready . . . they just "Plug it In".. )

I live in PA. Welp, it was nice knowing everyone

That guitar solo in the beginning \m/

An idea: An "Emergency Action Notification" is activated because of a nuclear missile attack from Russia or whatever. A few minutes into the message, another alert is activated, only it is an "EAS Termination" message (I don't know what they're called), but it is hackers from the country that launched the attack who overrode the system, unknowing to the viewers. Yet, this termination message is relayed on only a few channels, while the "Emergency Action Notification" is also playing. So, the viewers witnessing this event are unsure of what is real or something. You could call it "Smoke and Mirrors," or if you have a better name for it, you could use that...

Out of the 10 years that I have watched this, the President's message was always creepy. I thought he said "America will *now* be broken" and just realized that he is saying "American will *not* be broken.

y'no, im pretty sure this was used in EmpLemons video "there may Never Ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov" EmpLemon is a man of culture as well, it seems.

If you are on the road, and this is very important, Get out of your vehicle and FIND A SHELTER NOW!

"All-clear signal" Will that be in 50,000 years?

Kansas city would be a priority target as its a huge communication center. More than likely any attack would be preceded by emp strike. Take out our electric grid, you wouldn't be listening to this broadcast as emp would fry your elec6ronics

I think we would intercept any missiles being launched at us

That alarm goes off and you ignore it!!! Balls. Of. Steel.

I wouldn't want to know I was about to be evaporated. I'd rather die in peace.

Epic use of "see you on the other side"

FUCK!!! I live 20 miles from Saint Louis!!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!

So fucking real I had a anxiety attack and I started crying and threw up.For a sicker twist, you should have added a nuclear siren in the background!

Well said Mr. President!

The question is, who fired the missiles? China 🇨🇳, Russia 🇷🇺, or North Korea 🇰🇵 🤔🤔

Here's the entire story: In June 2017, North Korea had the technology to directly attack the United States mainland with nuclear weaponry. Six missiles were launched with Kim Jong-un in attendance. They had timed the launch to occur at night, when many were asleep and unlikely to be near a television or radio, or had silenced their phones, thus maximizing casualties. Each missile's success was varied: * Atlanta: Missile was intercepted by Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) * Chicago: Missile hit at too low an altitude to cause as much damage as desired; windows blown out, but no major blast damage; fires resulting from heat destroyed Willis Tower, CNA Center, Franklin Center, and One Prudential Plaza via uncontrolled progressive collapse; collapse of Willis Tower destroys 311 South Wacker, 111 South Wacker, and Chicago Board of Trade Building, with debris causing uncontrollable fires that lead to the collapse of Kluczynski Federal Building four hours later; 700 dead due to low airburst and end of workday * Dallas: Missile hit; Dallas skyline, including Bank of America Plaza, Comerica Bank Tower, Fountain Place, and Reunion Tower destroyed; 900,000 killed, including mayor Mike Rawlings * Los Angeles: Missile was intercepted by GMD * New York: Warhead malfunctioned and planted into the ground in Central Park; warhead successfully defused by bomb squad; event later became a hit movie * St. Louis: Missile hit; Gateway Arch toppled over, causing major destruction; St. Louis skyline destroyed; approx. 200,000 dead; mayor Francis G. Slay survived, but grossly mishandled the situation and was lynched by an angry mob Final American Death Toll: 1,100,700 Fallout from the missiles that hit Chicago, Dallas, and St. Louis spread, causing a major shelter-in-place situation. The attack took the nation completely by surprise, but teams were immediately dispatched to scrub fallout surrounding affected areas. President Donald Trump was furious, and, from Mount Weather, ordered a retaliatory strike on North Korea, calling for the Ohio-class submarine USS Maine to launch six Trident missiles, as any more would be seen as overkill and genocide. Almost immediately, Russia declared war on North Korea, as did China and South Korea. North Korea responded with additional missile launches aimed at Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur. The missiles aimed for Tokyo, Seoul, and Manila failed in-flight, while Beijing, Moscow, and Kuala Lumpur were hit. The Chinese, Russian, and Malaysian governments were destroyed in the attack. Fortunately, though, Chinese nuclear forces did not launch, and the Soviet-era Dead Hand system was deactivated just before a release occurred in Russia. A joint US-South Korea-Japanese invasion of North Korea never took place, as Kim Jong-un and his officers were killed when a Trident missile hit Pyongyang, and the remaining military leaders unconditionally surrendered. For the first time since 1910, Korea was a single, unified nation. President Trump, rather than face the American people for his failure to protect, chose to flee the country with all of his wealth, only to be met by irate citizens who killed him and his entire family. Hillary Clinton assumed office as the 46th President of the United States. Chicago, Dallas, and St. Louis were still uninhabitable due to radiation, which Clinton fixed by deploying new methods of scrubbing, including a foam developed at the Los Alamos Laboratory that soaks up radiation and neutralizes it. Three days after deployment, all cities were free of radiation, and the task of recovery began. Over the next eight years, the affected cities were rebuilt and repaired, and life returned to normal. Fortunately, EMP was disproven, and electronics found near ground zero in Dallas continued operating normally. Things weren't so great overseas, though. Those still loyal to Kim Jong-un formed a rebel faction that was squashed within days, while China was divided between multiple city-states, as no continuity-of-government plan was activated in time. Their relatively-disorganized nature was all Taiwan needed, and after the dust settled, they swept through the Chinese mainland and retook control, re-establishing the Republic of China after a Taiwanese soldier rose the Nationalist flag over the ruins of Beijing. Russia also fell into civil war, which was quashed when the United States went in and annexed Russia, also giving Crimea back to Ukraine. Ten years later, the United States is the largest nation in the world, and also has the strongest economy. China is a democratic government and friendly the United States. Malaysia fell into anarchy and is still in civil war. Man, life is good.

FOR THE NEXT FIVE HOURS ALL CRIME IS LEGAL hahahaha

I've seen several of your mockups and I have a bit more than a healthy interest in the EAS system. This video was particularly good.

I threw out my caps yesterday dangit!

Uh, don't mind me, I'll just be getting my power armor and shitloads of bottle caps, thanks.

"It seems that this station is starting to lose power. We will stay on the air as long as we ca-" Creepy..

KNBC is in Los Angeles

imagine how many pranks you could do with this channel

Tap St. Louis, New York City, Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Los Angeles With 300 Mile Radius. Disclaimer, the app will automatically start in London, England. And let's say it was fired from Russia.

Can you imagine social media as this is happening? I simply can't make it out.

Oh shit, I live about 15 miles from New York City! *Loads revolver while singing Parting Glass* *Sirens go off while putting gun to head* Good night and peace be with you all *Pulls trigger*