Governments don't actually want nuclear war, They want the citizens to be afraid of nuclear war... The best way to control others is with the use of fear!!
People really don’t like to believe nuclear war is possible. It’s too disturbing to our souls. I for one commend this women for her work in bringing our attention to the dangers. We need to have this drummed into us.
Welcome to my World. Fifty years ago, at the age of 14, my Father took me to his workplace. He was a civilian engineer for subs. It was an open house for sailors and civilian workers involved in maintenance. Standing next to the compartments that held the ICBMs changed my life. About a year after that I decided not to have kids. Then I joined the military and worked in the weapon field for years. Your conversation at the strategic level wasn't anything new to me. You have no idea what the day to day life was like. Just as disturbing. Being next to B-52s with more TNT equivalent than was dropped in WW2 was enlightening. Standing next to one weapon with the TNT equivalent of 18 Billion pounds was scary. I have lived with this stuff in my head for decades. Never goes away.
Thank you for the information. But I am trying to love life. I find myself wondering. I'm 74. Will my life end naturally or will I witness this insane human blunder? It just seems that if you have it you use it, eventually. That's human nature. Hope I'm wrong. I made the same decision about children. Too bad. They'd be grown up with kids of their own. Very sad.☹️
@@LucindaBerry-r7i Very sad for you. By not having kids you have removed yourself from humanity's gene pool. It is Bye Bye, no Hasta La Vista for you. A cop out, a Should've Could've Would've but couldn't be Fucking Bothered. What a waste of destiny, smh. 😠
Russia will be forced by NATO. America has been poking this bear for far too long. America is the antagonists in every war. There was no reason for America to push NATO into independent countries. But they wanted this war with Russia. So Putin warned them. And he has never bluffed yet. So when Putin warms it will nuke Ukraine or Britain, it would be stupid not to take it seriously. But that's exactly what America is doing.
Yeah this woman is full of shit, but not in the sense that any of it is made up. I just feel like if you have enough experience working in defense or in the military that all of this is known or can be found. It’s not like she’s revealing state secrets. Half of this published prior.
@@heatherwatts8791What do you mean "every day you live with this"? LIVE YOUR DAMN LIFE. You only have one chance. Catastrophising will only make you sad, lonely and ill.
Folks, this is the reality. The risk is so high right now, every hour is a gift. You can't take the next one for granted. I just pity the 10 Billion animals we are going to take out with us.
That's just it, you can A. Live in all encompassing and crippling fear of it or you can B. Go about your life and simply accept what is. At the end of the day the planet will still be here but perhaps us humans got a little ahead of ourselves and we won't but living in fear absolutely will not affect that outcome one way or another.
Yea for sure we don’t need to fear because if it’s meant to be it will surely be so why live everyday in fear, nuclear war is not a matter of “ if it is going to happen “ the question is “ when will it happen “ . I think more wise and reasonable people need to have more power in the decisions that our leaders make, sometimes I wonder if our leaders are doing these intentionally or just been childish or if they don’t really know what they are doing, these leaders will hide in their underground bunkers when nuclear war breaks out, we need to stop this madness or innocent people will suffer and die for what they don’t even know about, these governments have nuclear weapons that can destroy a whole country in just 6 hours killing billions of people, like why do you even have such destructive weapon in the first place? Why ? For all we know if a nuclear war breaks out, then that’s the end of humanity cos just the radioactive dust and fallout will spread to every fucking corner of the globe. No wonder they wanna go to mars😂 they wanna go to mars so they can destroy earth, all the energy u gon put in going to mars why don’t you put half of that energy to earth, and make it a better place for every one.
Most people already know' what happens to people during a nuclear war . Therefore everybody is already terrified of it but the ordinary man in the street can't do anything about it .
I've read all of Annie's books. All of them. I've read some of those books twice. This book "Nuclear War" is her best work yet. Story wise, and factually wise. I'm proud of her. This book made me grateful to be alive. Because it just goes to show how quickly it all could end, very abruptly. Nuclear proliferation, is something we all as the Human race should work towards. Sooner than later.
Don't forget the movie entitled, The Day After. All out nuclear war would probably be far worse than the movie, although after 40 years I still feel that I never want to see that movie ever again. I believe that was a 1984 movie.
Why be scared, there is absolutely nothing we can do about it!! What's the damn point! Why are you telling people to live in fear! Enjoy, and live life!!!
Worst than nuclear war is eternal hell fire. People need to get right with God and repent of sin and receive Jesus Christ into their💙's. Then we'll know true happiness being with Him.
Highly recommend her book on this topic. Just finished the audiobook and it's really jaw dropping how much the US has invested in nuclear war, and how screwed civilization is
@@Randy2747 I'm right. They may use low yield energy weapons to simulate a nuke like they did in Beirut. I'd say by the end of the yr the 2nx ammendment in US will be gone too.
For me , the scariest thing about this book and all it’s revelations, is that it’s a revelation to everyone! I grew up in the 80’s and I can assure you that all this information was available back then , from the triad to EMP to launch on warning to MIRVs to Nuclear Winter , some of this stuff was known back in the early 60’s !!! It scares me how quickly people and nations forget this danger. Every one should have to watch the following three films from the 80’s The Day After 1983 Threads 1984 When The Wind Blows 1986 Then makes sure your leaders have seen them too. The only revelation I had not considered is that land based US ICBMs would have to cross Russian air space to reach North Korea.. though I’m sure a ship launched cruise missile or ballistic submarine might solve that problem. If we can’t get on as a species and we let this happen, the world will be scorched and diminished for about a thousand years then it will adapt and go on with your the human race. We could have gone to the stars but instead we did this to ourselves! I wonder why we never find signals from advanced civilisations in our galaxy ?
Let’s talk about the decline of our society. I wonder what generation will launch nuclear bombs simply because they have no idea of their immense power?
Annie has done her homework. She tells us how a nuclear war would begin and civilization ends. This is a scary book that could be very feasible. Man kind pretty much ends in about 72 minutes.
Well done Annie Jacobson, what an excellent read, written at a level that all will have an understanding, this book should be produced in every language and distributed to every country in the world to make all people aware where the world is currently at with the prospect of a Nuclear War and the final outcome. Who starts it is neither here or there, it is the shocking outcome that should have everyone in the world asking why are we at this stage, again well done Annie
It's not just the Octogenarians who remember the Cold War. I'm 60 and was 27 when it ended and spent my first 10 years in East Anglia (1963-73) surrounded with continuous RAF and USAF activity, recon and patrols into the North Sea, and a feeling of perpetual readiness. I was in CND in the 1980's because I was all too aware of where all this could lead. I remember the relief when it ended and felt our Generation was old enough to remember and experience it but young enough to try and improve things so it didn't happen again. You can imagine how aghast I am at seeing where we are now.
We are the foundation of a proven Democracy and the last vestiges for true freedom in a world infested with greed for control of the freedom we take for granted. Along with being able to control Of our freedom of self-expression or would you want world of totalleretism.😂
They were not targeted at cities. I believe that a low number 2,000,000,000 people dead. I believed 4-5 billion people dead(blast, radiation, starvation and diseases). We are talking about survival of nuclear war instead of preventing war.
You seriously think that? There's a big difference between one Bomb going off and there being months or years between another detonation and over 3000 going off all at once. Plus, tests weren't conducted on full scale cities with millions of people in - there were no ensuing firestorms that grew and spread and linked up with adjacent cities also being incinerated that and sending the ashes into the stratosphere. There weren't millions of square miles on fire during tests.
Not all at once. But the tests were bad enough, one of which exposed ALL the film at the Kodak plant in Rochester NY because of the fallout. To do that means exposure to dangerous if not fatal doses of radiation.
Let’s face it, an aggressor nuclear power will look to benefit themselves and not explode radioactive dust around the world. This woman’s assumptions are way out of date. It’s very likely that an aggressor would detonate nuclear bombs 300 miles above another country to destroy its computers and electrical apparatus. After that a more conventional invasion to destroy the population by means of forces including humans and robots.
When I was a child , I remember my Dad saying , "i would rather be dead than red!"......and I thought to myself, i would rather be red. I love my one red dress...
Today you could say 'better dead than rad", rad being an ancient measure of radioactivity absorbed per kilogram of living tissue. As a matter of fact, you're better off dying at the epicenter of the blast than a week later full of gamma radiation from the fall out.
I@@westwardHo- I could never be enough shocked by special abilities of American culture to bullying.... I know children can be cruel everywhere, but seriously the US is a leader, they treat it as a form of art or sport....and it's seen macro politics as well, under veil of something noble, just wow
You prefer blind ignorance and allowing our evil corrupt politicians to drive us to extinction. Smart. Real smart. No, with any luck this message spreads and these idiots in charge dial back the wars, like what happened in the 1980s with the greater public awareness.
After listing to annies, most of my life , have moved on long ago, to ignore these types of people . What sucks, is that the people who live though a nuclear wipe out, will be anti science . so dooming the human race to live out ,our time on earth as cattle and pigs do. Waiting for the next large rock to strike earth and finish us off !
In a nuclear exchange, all power plants will immediately trip off-line including nuclear power plants meaning no more grid. Now the nuclear power plants must rely on their emergency diesel generators to maintain cooling of the reactor cores. Do the nuclear plants have enough diesel fuel for the many days it takes to safely cool down their reactor cores?....If not and a meltdown occurs, the radioactivity released such as what happened at Fukushima or the explosion at Chernobyl, is many 1000s the amount that a weapon would release. Another concern is the radioactive substances released from a meltdown are dangerous for a much longer time than that from a weapon detonation.
diesels are slow and hard to start and in cold weather those old diesel generators are lucky to start at all. Add all the used fuel sitting in cooling ponds on site because there's no safe storage for used nuclear fuel (nor safe transport to get it to a non existent safe storage) and you've got a major problem at every nuclear plant. Look what happened at Fukushima. Four reactors with containment vessels cracked from LOCA hydrogen exposions. And leaking continuously into the environment.
@@jrhamilton4448 For the survivors fortunate to have a shelter, the radioactivity from the weapons' fallout will be largely diminished after 14 days. If the radioactivity was just from this, it would be safe to venture outside....However, as you have stated, much of the radioactivity from a reactor meltdown will persist for millennia and will make those areas uninhabitable. The survivors in those areas will have to relocate.
We only have a democracy in name only. Two parties engage in a political theater that they are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. That isn't the net effect on policy. Then you see only cosmetic differences. They serve the system and it's underlying dogma. That effects military decisions and use of nuclear weapons. Those decisions have little to do with political dogma. There are legal requirements the president has to follow.
The movie "Testament" is the most horrifying, tear jerking movie ever made, imo, about what happens to an average middle class suburban American neighborhood - & one family in particular - after the blast. Watching a mother trying to stay positive for her young distraught children is bad enough but then to watch her have to bury them one by one in the frontyard as they get sick and slowly die from the fallout is downright traumatizing. You'll never be the same after watching it.
What really struck me about the movie is that there was no damage to the town. They were struck down by the invisible enemy radiation, with which they were coated in. While all the while, across the other side of the mountains and hills, a city lay burning in a pile of wreckage.
*everyone is missing the point. food comes oil. Powered tractors, farm equipment, trucks and processing equipment. If a madman dropped a nuke on the three largest oil fields more than 4 billion people stave to death first year. How do you think we went from 500M people to 7 billion people in only the last 230 years??? OIL OIL OIL!!!! Oil IS how all FOOD gets to our tables with such ease!!!!*
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." Revelation 13:11- 13 King James Version (KJV).
Now imagine a Kinzahl being launched from off the east coast heading to 300 miles up above the US. you dont have 30m till impact, you have 7 mins till lights out.
The big issue with EMP is the millions of miles of transmission lines strung across the continet, all interconnected acting as massive antennas. The Electromagnetic radiation will induce huge currents in the cables, overloading transformers and switchgear, literally burning up transmission lines etc. The currents will flow through anything connected to the grid. Depending on the strength of the field in your area, your cellphone or laptop may survive provided it was not plugged in, however there would be no infrastructure left for them to be useful. The EMP will also excite the ionosphere and knock out long range HF radio communications for some time after the event, just like in a solar storm. Keep couple two way radios handy, they will likely be usefull after the atmospheric diaturbances have calmed down.
Just before you said chernobyl, my mind went back to that very scene: his skin was so thin- both the epidermal and dermal layers were compromised. Blood smeared over the pillows. So sad. What can we do? You sur, mentioned a means by which we could at least minimize the effects of this potential catastrophe.
This is what I heard from some media channels: ~500 Million people will be left alive and the remaining ~7.5 Billion people will die (I hope my relatives will be among that ~7.5 billion group)
"The Death, when it came, was completely earnest and open. Every weapon was used as it had been designed to be used. There seemed to be no compunctions about consequences" -Eon, Greg Bear (1987)
Don’t it seem such a stupid thing , to throw away… all Civilization.. returned to the dark ages … just seems completely mad ( mutually assured destruction)
@@PatriciaLucious-ll2vmsure it will in out lying areas. And people who are prepared. The question is how long will they survive. Especially if there's a nuclear winter.
Give me one day without my reflux medications and I will WISH I was dead. And the amount of persons using life-dependent medications is staggeringly high. No one ever makes mention of this fact in post-apocalypse scenarios -- as if we are all going to rush out to the pharmacy before the warheads detonate.
I could listen to Annie all day, and you did the best of any of these youtube interviews that I'm seeing! Terrifying topic, but tremendously engaging conversation!
If you wrap small electronic Items, with 4 layers of Thick silver cooking foil. It could block an EMP? You can put your Mobile in the Microwave, it acts like a Faraday cage. (in seconds) Tell your family to do the same. If your left alone, it might work? As you get an Emergency Warning - take it out after the nukes Stop? You can fill the Bath with Water, before the water pipes fracture. To drink. Or you could jump into the Bath to avoid fire? You really need to be 5 miles from the Blast Wave. It just increases your chance of Survival. If I can just save a few lives - with water to drink from your bath. I can't say nothing. I hope this helps people. But you would need it, until the Nuke EMP
This is semantic nonsense. There's no country on earth that's a pure democracy, and a republic is a form of democracy. One thing is a subset of another and it's SO commonly used that the distinction doesn't even need to be made and adds nothing.
She said 5 billion last time. Never EVER understate the true scale of such a war. It gives people a false sense of security that anywhere is safe which couldn't be more wrong. This is not Fallout... This is extinction
Tell me something I don't know about this subject; it's been rehashed and talked about for a long time. OPPENHEIMER! John Hersey, ad Infante item. No one is going to stop countries from reducing let alone stopping their nuclear programs. People realize nuclear war is possible, however, like obesity, no one stops eating.
So US citizens can prepare their bunkers. It's more likely that the US president will fire first. The crazy leaders are in the west. They're paranoid bullies.
@@oysterman962 I wouldn't even want to survive a Nuclear War. You would have to live underground for the rest of your life and eventually you would run out of food. No thanks!
@@Peekaboo-Kitty That's why there won't be a nuclear war until the corrupt governments work out how to inhabit space. Then they'll escape and blow up the planet. People are naive who think all the money going towards space exploration is for travel and new thrills. Everything mankind has developed is for war!
No one talks about the over pressure that happens what it does too the human body 👁️ lungs burst heads liquid in the skull expansion thats enough i studied this while at electric 🚢 general dynamics build nuke subs😢
We could be? We have been for many decades. The only thing that has kept it from happening is that the people who control those weapons, like controlling those weapons more than they do the prospect of having them used against them. People in power like to stay there, and nuclear war is a really bad way of accomplishing it. As for being scared about it. To what end?
Nah. The closet 3 times we came to nuclear war were all technological flukes. One time came in the 90’s when we’re were buddies with the Ruskies. It’ll come by mistake
This time is very different. i recommend you read the article "The French road to nuclear war". Macron is not behaving like a rational person he's behaving like a gambling addict at the casino..
@@killman369547 Dumb article with a clear Russian bias. France didn’t launch an illegal war after stripping a sovereign nation of their nukes. Russia sends its troops all over North Africa and the Middle East. Even in theaters Western military operates
part of the human condition is that all human beings know we will surely die someday/somehow. But to die knowing everything is burning down and that few surviviors will live on in a hellish nightmare... and all the beauty of civilization will be destroyed .....that is what is so sad and terrifying....how can we tolerate living this way?
Can you tell if an earthquake is an actual earthquake or is it an underground nuclear attack? Think which countries have had massive earthquakes lately hay ?
It's a completely different signature and vibration. All the earthquake sensors would know the difference. Also the depth. An underground nuclear detonation is going to be extremely shallow compared to most earthquakes.
My sister had a headhunting agency in Newport Beach near South Coast Plaza mall. She talked about this 40 years ago. My uncles corroborated it. One was an engineer for Bell labs. Morning He said one day your lights are going to dim and then you'll know in World War III
The inventor of the G Hydrdrogen bommb (Teller) said he dreaned of a final battle where nukes would be the weapons... the two opposing armies were in ww1 style trenches ...the generals were to fire when a Trumpet sounded, When the Trumpet sounded, the generals stood up and shot themselves in the head, The point was- there would be no need to fire on the other, as, if one side fired, both sides would die The dream illustrated the MAD concept: Mutual Assured Destruction
What the heck am I supposed to do with this information? The citizen is in the hands of the oligarchs and the oligarchs are in the hands of the Politicians.
I'm 58. Now I know this guy is young, so you can let him slide. This lady is no spring chicken. She's cashing in on the world situation. I suppose, in a way, she is right. Today's society is dumb-downed. By the time I was in junior high, in 78' I was already well informed about everything they are talking about. She's more than old enough to know about nuclear war. It's definitely a book for the times. There is a huge portion of this country, particularly the under 40 crowd, who don't know anything about war, let alone nukes. Hey, the nuke football; remember back in the eighties, the group Genesis had a video about confusion. There were puppets in it. One was Reagan. Remember he woke up in a sweat. His bed was full of it. He accidentally pushed the nuke button. It was pushing his age, ie confusion. Actually, Reagan was on his game early on. The world respected him. Now, look at the current US President. He is literally ill with dementia. I sure hope he would lateral off to Obama!
The most we can hope for if we live in a country where we are a target, is that we're right near the point where it lands, so its quick, because i wouldn't survive a nuclear apocalypse because of all the medication im on.. 🤷♂️ we used to have a really active CND with constant action, and always on the news, they need to start getting active again..
Globally the nuclear genie is out of the bottle. No matter how much restraint the US has some other nation can let them fly if they deem it nesscesarry.
While Annie did make note of decoy warheads, I’m a little surprised that she did not address ICBM’s carrying MIRV warheads Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Behicles are middles carrying anywhere from 4 to10 nuclear warheads, each of which can be programmed to hit a different site. To me this seems to negate any “iron dome” shield or ability to intercept o incoming nuclear .weaponry.
Pathetic that those brilliant brainiacs of inhumanity had that mind of inventive evil existing within, then have the audacity to label their destructive creations as peacekeepers.Todays desensitized video gamers spend countless hours killing people and blowing things to kingdumb come inside their virtual cyber realities. Being a cold war & duck and cover kid of the 1950's on through my formative years in the 60's then it seemed so many people went blank to this horrific possibility in reality. Live, love & be kind to all life.
I find it strange that not even one nuke has been used by some terrorists or rogue nation by now. I am guessing it is very difficult to make and maintain these nukes. Did not many go missing when the USSR split?
Democracy, What democracy ? We don't live under a democracy, we live under the two party system that's not a democracy.two parties with similar policies and both stand beholden to the multinational corporations who financed their election campaign.
Perhaps this is our fate and we need to just accept that we got ourselves into this so now we have to deal with the fact that there's no getting out of it. If it goes down we're all going to cook together 😊
