@dawidj.vanhuffel8217 Back during the mid 50s through the 70s, maybe later, we would practice duck and cover drills. The desk was supposed to protect from falling debris caused by the damage to structure from nuclear blast. Check out references to Civil Defense protocols. Those were interesting times. Take care.
A very true picture of a Nuclear detonation. I am a nuclear veteran from the late1950's and your description of a nuclear burst brings back memories of the intensity of the light, I had my hands covering my eyes and could see the bones in my hands for a few seconds and then feel heat on my back from the initial burst, we were told it was safe to stand up and look at the detonation which by then was a giant cauldron of water and earth creating a column stretching skywards. A visible black line rushed towards us and lifted us of our feet, that was the sound of the detonation. Something that I will remember forever.
Amen. I live 10 mi from an airport, a primary target. Too close to the edge for me. If there's a warning, I'm getting in my car and heading to the airport.
Some (nuclear armed) presidents would even laugh at her.... that´s the place where we, as civilization, have secluded ourselves... of utter indifference and madness. That would be unthinkable even for Reagan... or Nixon, or Kruschev, Andropov etc. But it seems its not unthinkable anymore.
Yeah I think they know. Unfortunately, RU-vid doesn't allow me to talk about possibly more realistic approaches to prevent that scenario from happening. What a surprise...
@@justlookin4450 No, politicians are just MINIONS doing the dirty work of the Western Globalist Elite Psychopathic Banksters that truly run the Planet .... Apparently, Russia and China want none of it.....
I joined the British Army during the cold war and was stationed in Germany as a combat engineer. We trained relentlessly to possibly fight a war in an NBC ( Nuclear,Biological and chemical ) environment, doing extended exercises and living and sleeping in NBC suits and respirators. The drills you have to go through to decontaminate yourself for urinating/defecating and the procedures just to drink water and eat and is a very taxing, even in training. Main points we learnt. The war would basically be survival and to continue fighting is unrealistic for most If you are a casualty in such an environment, you are pretty much dead....the treatment and evacuation of a casualty is hard to basically impossible If it was not for the fact that we would be fighting to protect our families, the consensus was that the best place to be would be directly under the mushroom cloud and get it over with Survival for the vast majority of people, military and civilian would not be possible. Once every infrastructure collapsed, people would die from lack of clean water/food/sanitation/medications/minor and major wounds/elderly without care/bandrity, let alone long term medical issues.....its not a good outcome it puts things into perspective when you have the personal dosimeters explained.....every soldier is issued a unique wristwatch type dosimeter, returned after every exposure to be read for radiation accumulation back at central medical HQ. The result is kept secret from the soldier.....but if the soldier has received fatal doses of radiation, they will be sent out repeatably until they die instead of another soldier who has received possibly a lighter dose and will be returned to the rear to hopefully live.
And then here we have folks thinking it's all a hoax. Well, sorry to say, to all of those non believers, when someone actually says, " put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye", that will be the reality of it. The one main thing is if it ever came to 60% of the population within let's say 1 year, 50% of any remaining would be wishing they had perished. So long as there is one idiot in this world with a finger on that button, the world will never be a place to feel safe. We are way too primitive, take away all nuclear capabilities and we still have conventional. We won't be happy at any time so long as someone wants what someone else has or visa versa. Our primitive state may never evolve, get used to it. Plain and simply, we may never become intelligent in the next thousand years to escape our demise as a species. Not that many won't try to out think it but remember, there are too many weak links in this civilization and we all know that theory.
I remember asking my father back in the 1980's if there was a nuclear war, where would he run. I was shocked when he said, I would run towards the flash as fast as I can. I was looking confused by his answer then he said if there were to be a nuclear war, the hardest days are the days after the food and gasoline run out and that's when people will start stealing anything they can to trade for food and if you don't have anything worth trading, they will take your food even if they need to kill you to get it. Life would be a living Hell, he said! I never forgot those words to this day.
@@shannonking3201 you got any better examples of what a 💯 megaton bomb would do to a city? The only thing it missed was the fact that the last thing you saw before the flash burned your eyes out is you would be able to see everyone’s skeleton through their body.
If you were very close it would literally do that with a 9Mt thermonuclear device. The only difference is that if that close, when the kinetic shockwave hit everything would be molten slag and dust. The fence, bodies, buildings. All of it.💀
It was set in my home town here in the North of England ,some of my friends got parts as extras, what made it more real was that i know the locations very well.
Absolutely, aye. Being presented in that semi-documentary 'BBC' style really makes it hit hard. It is credited with having an impact on changing policy because it showed so well that *no one* wins a nuclear exchange.
Yeah , I've always wondered why the US banned it and not The Day After . I've often thought perhaps there's something in it they ( government) doesn't want us to know or see. Both movies are horrible. Governments are moronically inferior to most of its constituents . And with that said , all militaries should be dismantled and all nukes should be turned into sources of power instead of weapons. Just my opinion, and I'm entitled to them .
As a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, we were trained for N.B.C.W. Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Warfare. The scenarios we were shown still upset me to this very day.
It's going to happened before December. Prophecy is being fulfilled EXACTLY like the Bible Prophecy. The only escape to this horrible death, is by excepting Jesus christ as your Lord and Savior. This is the plan of salvation if you all change your mind. If you belive Lord Jesus died (shed his blood),was buried and on the 3rd day God the father rose him from the dead, you will be saved. Time is running out⏳️🕙...
Lawrence, Kansas...the location of the filming of The Day After. I was there. The staging of the downtown to replicate a nuclear disaster was as horrifying as you could imagine it would be. Unforgettable.
Lawrence, Kansas would not be the place a nuke lands. It would be thirty miles up into the stratosphere. It would take out the power grid instead. Read the EMP Taskforce Report free online. Or listen to the three book series One Second After.
This issue is virtually ignored today. I'm the same age as the author in this piece, and when we were in high school it was the height of the Cold War. It was terrifying. We lived knowing at any moment we could be incinerated. The U.S. and Soviet Union were mortal enemies and had been for 40 years. Then in 1991 it was suddenly over. The U.S.S.R. was dissolved and Russia was not our enemy. The chances of a nuclear holocaust were reduced to practically nil. It was glorious. However, all those too young at the time and all those born later lived in a world where no one talked about nuclear weapons. Two generations lived without the threat, without any knowledge of what these weapons arsenals could do. Now we are suddenly thrust back into a time of nuclear peril, but 1/2 the world's population is massively under informed or knows nothing of this renewed threat to humanity and the bulk of life on our little world. A great and necessary video. Thanks for making it and helping to inform the masses.
Threads shown in the UK was a terrifying film aired in the 80's, this Lady speaks words of wisdom, that should be heard by our elites. Thank you so much for posting
@clytle374 how? Diesel use compression of like 20 to 1 while petrol gasoline use 11 to 1 so how does a diesel generator run gasoline petrol without premature detonation pinking ?
She doesn't know the difference. It leads me to question the other "scientific" points she is trying to make. I don't think it is a typo. She thinks she is educated and has convinced others she is, but I think she is bluffing.
@@mrquattro180 I don't completely understand, but I read it in manual. They are diesels rated for multi fuel, gas will run in all diesels, it just usually blows them up. Diesel can't have preignition, fuels not in the cylinder pre
I grew up in the Cold War and a common belief of everyone of around my age (the much aligned Boomers) is that NONE of us expected still to be here. I took comfort at the time from the fact that, on the leaked targeting lists of the Soviets, I had a ground-burst that was going to hit a listening station 400yds from my house - I wouldn't have know a thing about it. And, as noted in the comments elsewhere, our young, wealthy, host needs to watch Threads to get an idea of how bleak a fate such a war is.
President Reagan also watched the BBC drama called Threads which depicted the scenario of a nuclear bomb dropped on the city of Sheffield and the aftermath.
That was the one we watched at school Making kids feel there is no point to life some maniacs can end it any moment Just like the war on terror Wovid etc We’re doomed. Then a culture that promotes decadence and living for today sitting on the existential threats shoulders. If you don’t realise what they are doing wise up.
Annie Jacobsen mentioned the 1984 movie The Day After. There was also a British made movie called Threads released the same year which is far grittier and more realistic and involves a nuclear attack on the UK - specifically from the perspective of bombs falling on the city of Sheffield. The movie was done as a kind of part drama and part documentary and is enough to put anyone off the idea that nuclear war can be won or have any benefits to those who "push the button". Not a nice movie to watch but a "must watch".
When Russia fell from Superpower status and realized they were vulnerable to NATO's conventional forces, they changed their doctrine to first use of tactical nukes. I think that was the first step down the path to nuclear war.
People worry today about aliens - they shouldn’t, because as a race we haven’t even achieved being able to live together peacefully. Aliens wouldn’t want us (maybe just what’s left of minerals, that’s all). People of Earth need to learn how to live together peacefully soon. Our planet cannot continue to provide for 8 billion people ecologically. Even 5 billion would be very difficult. We don’t have eons left if we don’t make a significant change.
@@ggaggagga4 No they didn't. Where the f**k did you get that from? Russian nuclear doctrine hasn't changed. They will only fire if they sense an imminent credible threat to Russia's existence as a nation. The problem is NATO countries really like doing things that could be seen as a credible threat to Russia's existence as a nation.
English speakers always over look S America. Shh, don't tell! Just move there quietly yourself. The South end end of Africa is a possibility, but they will have racial warfare on their hands.
I think NZ and Australia are good candidates because of their isolation. Imagine the migration of sick and injured people from the USA and Central America all headed south - it could overrun the southern countries and the infrastructure could collapse. Nobody could get to New Zealand in big numbers after a war - it's too remote for 99% boats and the agriculture could easily feed the people still there. New Zealand has no neighbours and is in the middle of nowhere...
YES - my bet is on Uruguay, which is basically a neutral nation. It is mainly agricultural and ranching, so food is abundant. It borders the large Rio de La Plata river, supplying fresh water and fish. Prevailing winds and jet streams will keep most of the heavy radiation in the Northern Hemisphere, which will be a "dead zone" for 100 years.
You want to know what life after a major nuclear strike is like? Watch the terrifying, genuinely harrowing, and brilliant 1980s British film: 'Threads'.
NewZeland and Australia might escape the worst of it but if the ozone layer is so damaged that people can't venture out in the daytime, agriculture will get fried as well. Yes Even in the South of the Equator destinations.
No one will escape. Even if not directly targeted there would be a worldwide nuclear winter, most people would slowly starve to death or die of radiation carried in the atmosphere around the world.
@@martinj2843 yep. cause if Russia or the CCP launch at the USA then they will also launch at the military allies of the USA as well. So Australia will be a target
The Day After… I was in 6th grade. Scared the ever living crap out me. And just think, that movie still didn’t capture the full reality of the horrors a nuclear war would bring.
The most common strategic nuke sizes are 186kt, 320kt, and 2.2Mt. In addition there are far less stronger ones for tactical use and ones up to 120Mt for special use cases like the posidon torpedo tsunami/anticarrier device.😮 They have made lots of improvements on nuclear wespons, mostly trading brute force power for efficiency and accuracy. They also have improved the safety and security of them so an accidental nuclear explosion will not happen. I hooe they are never used though.
Watching "The Day After" in 1983 had a profound effect on me as well. I was 9. I recall my brother who was 25 saying he would run outside and pray that he would die immediately if a nuclear war was underway. Those words always stuck with me. We lived (and still live) just outside of Washington, D.C.
The world is now so interconnected that all countries would be eventually and quickly devastated by the thermonuclear war. No fuel, no food, no fresh water, no medicines. The list goes on. All of civilisation would collapse eventually. It would be worse than going back to even pre-stoneage times. I think the lucky ones would perish literally in a flash.
I remember watching a movie a long time ago where a comment was made, “once the first bomb is launched the war is already over.” I’ve forgotten now what movie but I’ve never forgotten that comment.
Read the book many years ago. In the book, unfortunately, Australia/New Zealand just managed to last out longer than elsewhere but the radiation got swept towards there as well (or Ozone depletion in the new knowledge gained since the 1950s).
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." 2 Peter <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="190">3:10</a>
Revelation chapters 17 & 18 describes the destruction of "Mystery Babylon" (USA) by FIRE in a SINGLE HOUR. Her allies and trading partners bewail her fate, but NONE come to her aid. Jesus warns us: "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE..." (Rev.18:4-5). This warning is akin to that given to Lot and his family, when they fled from Sodom & Gomorrah. Your choice - stay & burn, or LEAVE & LIVE.
Back in the 70's when I was in high school we studied the USSR's capabilities of hitting Louisville Ky the city I grew up in. The DoD had stated that the USSR had no fewer than 11 warheads aimed at the City and surrounding area because of all the chemical plants along the Ohio River and Fort Knox being 30 miles from downtown. Not to mention 3 power plants on the river and a damn. All these targets are still here for the most part. Part of this was the USSR lacked accuracy and opted for saturation of a region instead. I wonder how many they have pointed at the area still.
New Zealand, southern Australia sounds like a blast, but having read the novel On The Beach by Neville Shute perhaps not. Waiting to die could be worse than instantly.
I remember that film really well. It was shocking. I also remember another television movie titled “We Interrupt This Program” or something like that, that took the form of a live breaking news event involving a nuclear weapon on a ship in Boston. My boyfriend was busy doing laundry, walking back and forth, carrying a clothes hamper. Every so often hed glance at the television and walk by. After perhaps 3 trips he looked at the television, looked at me, and then asked “What the hell is going on?!”. It was that realistic. I’m not 100% sure of the title, but it was very frightening as well.
If I'm correct, the setting wasn't Boston, it was the then-still-in-use naval base at Charleston. SC. That base was later decommissioned during the Peace Savings base closures in the 1990's or early 2000's.
Or... maybe your memory is not the best. People who see the same car crash often describe it differently, not to mention memories over time will have subtle changes, even false memories. (BTW 1969 here) and I know our environment and belief systems do affect our perception of things. I am not saying you are wrong, nor would i say she is, for that matter maybe i saw it all differently... There is no truth, only perception. "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
A lot of things to disagree with here. 1Mt is overkill for pentagon. Thermonuclear weapons achieve temperatures in excess of 180 million F. 9mi diameter for ignition is generous. US cities don't have the fuel loading to lead to a firestorm. Nuclear winter has lost a great deal of credibility. The same guy who postulated said that same would happen with the Kuwaiti oil fires. It didn't. No Russian weapon today is capable of producing a fireball a mile in diameter. Most would be less than a quarter of a mile. The ozone would be fine. The mode average strategic weapon yield is 0.1Mt. Many are higher, even into the megaton range, but let's generously assume an average of 0.5Mt. A generous but reasonable estimate of the number of weapons used in a global exchange is around 5000. So that's 2500Mt. Each Mt produces around 4900 tons of nitric oxide from chemical reactions of atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen in the fireball, so we'd expect 12.25 million tons of NO. One mole of NO can react with one mole of Ozone to produce nitrogen dioxide and diatomic oxygen. The molar masses of NO and O3 are 30 and 48 g respectively. Thus about 19.6 million tons of ozone would be destroyed. There is about 3 billion tons of ozone in the atmosphere, so only about 0.65% of it would be destroyed. UV intensity on the ground wouldn't be affected in any meaningful way. The K-T event is no comparison to nuclear war. One is over 5 orders of magnitude more energetic, and releases an equally greater mass of atmospheric particulates.
One reason why the US doesn't have the fuel loading you refer to is that most typical wood-frame and brick (or siding-clad) houses are located in distant suburbs where they would be well away from ground zero and the limit of the severe destruction and fire radius. American cities are also quite spread out, which adds a further measure of protection. Radioactive fallout may not even be all that much of an issue in many places, because city-busting nukes will be detonated high in the sky to maximize destruction, but airbursts such as these produce little or no fallout. If you live near a military base, or anyplace where hardened government bunkers exist, groundbursts will be employed to destroy these facilities, and then fallout becomes a major hazard.
@@stevestruthers6180 Yep, though civilian airports will also likely be hit with ground bursts, and these are often on the peripheries of large population centres.
@@Evan_Bell Yes, absolutely correct. However, in the city where I live, there is a General Dynamics plant that sits about two miles west of the airport, which lies about seven miles away from the west end of town, which is where I live. The plant currently manufactures wheeled light armoured vehicles (think something along the lines of the LAV-25). I suspect the plant is capable of being converted to producing tanks or major subsystems for same. Just one nuke landing on the airport would put the plant within the 5psi or moderate damage blast zone. So we'd probably get hit with one or two groundbursts. According to Nukemap, if an 800kT nuke was detonated at ground level at the airport, the apartment building where I live would sit just a few hundred metres outside the 1psi blast radius. Up the yield to one megaton, and I'd be sitting just inside the outer edge of the radius. But I'd still be well away from any thermal effects and fallout would land well east of the city. In short, my city would be rendered more or less non-functional. In a full-on countervalue strike using airbursts, it would cease to exist.
@@stevestruthers6180 I find myself in a very similar situation. I live in the UK, about 7 miles from an international airport that handles a significant proportion of the country's air freight. I also live about 2 miles away from a major national military industrial plant. In my own conjectured Russian attack plan against NATO, I have the plant hit with a 200kt Kh-55 airburst and the airport hit with a 1Mt R-29 ground burst. The former demolishes my house and place of work, and the latter may or may not dump fallout on both.
As a child in the late 70s and early 80s, I remember seeing the B-52s scramble from Dyess AFB during alerts. We would sit outside and watch those giant planes lumber into the sky, and it looked so cool to us kids. Little did we know that when those bombers took off, the world was so close to ending as we knew it. After seeing The Day After, Threads, and Testament, we were terrified whenever we saw the planes take off.
If everyone lived in the moment (as parasites) you would not have your boat and you would eat your dog... Some peole work so that free loaders could live in the moment.
Assuming you can make it out to sea, you may have a chance of reaching some island or Southern Hemisphere nation to escape the TOTAL destruction of the Northern Hemisphere.
Live in the moment is something you can learn from your dog. I learned this from my dogs. Why worry about tomorrow, today is fine. As Keynes said: in the long run - we're all dead.
As an Australian with a preparedness mind set and survival skills to match , it brings me alot of peace of mind knowing that I live in a country that may have a greatly reduced chance of having to deal with a global ww3 scenario ( if I was to survive after such a devastating global event ) , here,s hoping that the worst case scenario never ever happens and the human race will forever live in peace .
SADLY, you Aussies have thrown your hat into the ring, backing Uncle Sam against China and her allies. Net result = you will become a target, maybe not for nukes - but perhaps invasion.
It's going to happened before December. Prophecy is being fulfilled EXACTLY like the Bible Prophecy. The only escape to this horrible death, is by excepting Jesus christ as your Lord and Savior. This is the plan of salvation if you all change your mind. If you belive Lord Jesus died (shed his blood),was buried and on the 3rd day God the father rose him from the dead, you will be saved. Time is running out⏳️🕙...
every major city in the CONUS,, within 3 minutes, is gone ...east coast, west cosst, gulf coast, plains, mountains, gone. every used-to-be military place, gone. As a kid from The Cuban Missile Crisis, if you see a bright light, just stand and wait...
If electricity and infrastructure are destroyed . We not go 20.000 years back but some middle age and between 200 years back becauce do not forget horses and steam powered maschines . Even biccels can build at cart. Mechanics left too differend rope, axel system can be build at trees / wood .
People overestimate the damage caused by EMP. Most electrical equipment nowadays is shielded. The current generated by EMP is proportional to the length of the wire exposed to the pulse. So phone lines, power lines, etc. Those are going to produce large currents. Back in the 1800's during the Carrington event there were barely any safeguards breakers, fuses, etc, so telegraph stations caught fire. We've come a long way since then. Heck we had a major geomagnetic storm around a month ago and hardly anyone noticed. Years ago that would have fried a lot of things. But length of wire is important more than anything. So the wiring in your car (which also conveniently acts as a Faraday cage) is not really long enough, neither is the wiring in your computer or phone. Sure, if you have them plugged in and safeguards don't take care of the power spike then yeah, bad news. But otherwise they would be fine.
The impacts will be concentrated in different sections of the USA, depending on whether nuclear strikes are directed to force objectives (taking out military bases and nuclear silos in the Mid-west) and/or value targets (major cities). The Mid-West to the Great Lakes would be severely affected by radiation fallout in any event. Russia would be devastated to a great extent due to concentration of civilian centres near nuclear launch sites. The other country that would be impacted to a catastrophic level is the United Kingdom due to its concentration of civilian centres near military bases. The best protected areas of the US are in the Lower Mississippi basin due to lack of value targets and wind directions towards the north east away from the Bay of Mexico.
Nuclear weapons should just NEVER be an option The people should just dismiss the leaders who even think using nuclear weapons.. and yet we just keep on living under those leaders hoping the best
It's going to happened before December. Prophecy is being fulfilled EXACTLY like the Bible Prophecy. The only escape to this horrible death, is by excepting Jesus christ as your Lord and Savior. This is the plan of salvation if you all change your mind. If you belive Lord Jesus died (shed his blood),was buried and on the 3rd day God the father rose him from the dead, you will be saved. Time is running out⏳️🕙...
@@TheSavior81 Yeah, sure. I will remember those words when December comes and nothing special happened. I already believe in Jesus, but I don't believe in the bible.
" A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival." - Stephen Falken, WarGames
I recall in Univ. Pysch textbook that it might make sense to have a living human carrying the launch codes buried close to their beating heart, so that the person making the decision to launch would then have to cut them out.
"Man returning to the most violent state." More violent than nuclear apocalypse? I look forward to the reset. See you in the new world. Living with nature is where we belong.
