What If A Nuclear Bomb Hits New York Tomorrow 

After a nuclear war the few remaining survivors would emerge and immediately start arguing about who owns all the holes in the ground.

It's amazing how one person can piss off another yet a bunch of innocent people are the ones who have to pay for it.

I grew up during the height of the cold war next to a major air force base. As a kid I voiced concerns to my mother. Her response... we're lucky. WE'LL be dead instantly

And my landlord would still expect rent

"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves" -- The Terminator

"You're still coming into work, right?"

Honestly the scariest thing about this video is that these bunkers exist - that those with the capability to launch these weapons may think themselves immune from their repercussions

We are closer to this in 2024 than we have ever been. People seem to not care or even understand it is happening.

The worst prospect of nuclear war is not death...it's survival.

"I do not know what WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - B.Russell

“Maybe I SHOULD have gotten that extended warranty”

" A Nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing in a room a washed in gasoline, one has 5000 matches and the other has 7000 matches " ....Carl Sagan

What really frightens me about this nightmare scenario is the the fact that the oligarchs around the world really believe that they can survive this madness.

The best strategy is...not to play.👍

It feels like the more often politicians are asked not to escalate the conflict, the louder they scream at each other “look, it’s all their fault.” Is that human nature?

It's disgusting how the people calling the shots will be the ones that are affected the least.

That definitely sucks. The exact same people who get to decide whether we have a nuclear war are those that are most protected from its effects.

I live in NYC and that's great. Myself and almost everyone I know won't have to worry about food and survival

I'm sure glad I watched this before going to bed.

Like Einstein once said, " I do not know what weapons would be used in WW3, but the next war after that one would be fought with sticks and stones."

If I knew a nuclear war was coming, I wouldn't want to survive it. If I knew where the nearest warhead was targeted in my home city, I'd drive out to it, grab a deck chair, open a can of Bourbon and coke and watch the sky show. When the BBC broadcast the movie "Threads," they pulled no punches about the realities of the aftermath of a nuclear war. Apparently it was also dubbed into Russian. It did more for nuclear disarmament in one night than years of negotiations

Where do people gets those guts to name that destructor satan😢

Isn't it a shame that the bunkers are built for those who would cause the war!

At least New York will finally be nice and clean.

Imagine surviving in a bunker, living the last 1-12 months of your life underground, knowing the world is dying. This is psychologically devastating.

Jesus, can’t we all just kiss and make up, I need a hug after watching this 😂

Wow that shadow thing is frightening

I've never been this concerned about nuclear war since I was a 10-year-old boy living 25 miles from N.Y.C. in 1962. During that time in October 1962, I would constantly look out of my back-yard window towards N.Y.C. waiting for the great flash of light of a 9-megaton hydrogen bomb. My ten-year-old brain told me that if I could see the bright flash of light, I would have enough time to gather my little brother and mom and dad and direct them down into our basement cellar where we could duck and cover. Little did I know what the power of a nuke could do. I have never felt this close to a nuclear war, not even when President Ronald Reagan left the summit table and walked out of peace talks in the 1980s. Today, I'm concerned more about the future of my adult kids and grandchild than for my own life. I pray to God every day that we don't have war. Even an accidental launch toward NYC or Washington D.C. will mean the end of civilization as we know it. JMHO as a boy who grew up during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

If there is ever a nuclear war, all I hope is that I'm in the middle of one of the blast radius.

Despite the deeply unsettling theme of this video, I managed to find your voice quite soothing... along with the refreshingly accurate pronunciation of the word nuclear.

Clive Oppenheimer ?! You’re having a laugh 😱😂

please force all the politicians to watch this 22 times.

the most scary part is all the knowledge from a thousand years will also gone.

..instead of creating, creating, building.. // but creating a 'life in fear' is absolute posturing!

Just relaxing on a Sunday morning , cruising you tube.

Sad and probably the scariest thing about this is that we will probably never know what just happened in time to even tell our families that we love them. In other words, our own country will not even tell us about the launches. Politicians will simply scurry their coward little asses off to their little bunkers and let the rest of us perish. And remember that we as voters seem to insist on letting politicians be voted into office instead of true American patriots that care about all the people here in the states over their paychecks.

The most tragic part of a nuclear war would be surviving it

Not a bad scenario for the rest of us, we would move on quickly and the country would be better off as a result.

I don't like watching videos like this, but I do belive this subject deserves more attention. I also want to note the high quality of explanation in this video

After the world is reduced to a wasteland, Detroit will be like: "We are no longer alone".

We are now closer to this then the world has ever been and nobody really seems to care or understand what’s happening.

The saddest part is that the longest it takes for a nuclear war to happen, the worst that it will be.

One positive, the literacy rate would go up without New York to pull it down.

As a young kid i always hoped to be in the impact zone ...Cause surviving would be Brutal ..

Well that was a cheerful video.

I'm afraid the question isn't "if" but "when" a nuke will be used, either accidently or otherwise.

Anyone who missed 70's and 80's those days are back.

Nice presentation!!

All peoples of America need to see this.

Living in a bunker for a few months will not save anyone, you'll need to stay underground for at least a decade.

It is senseless that Russia and the U.S. have over 5,000 nukes each. It would probably take less than 100 missiles apiece for East-West to obliterate each other. Of course, it's obscene that these nightmare weapons exist in any number. A very few people have the power of life or death for billions. It is surreal. Great production. cheers!

The raddi of destruction shown on the maps of midtown Manhattan are almost certainly too small according to the stated distances. They should be about twice as large.

War, war never changes.

Rest in peace everyone in advance 😭💔🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for this uplifting content 😄

The Book Of Eli comes to mind

The crime rate would immediately fall by half.

Following the Great War of 1914-18, Winston Churchill said, “War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”

Me: *having a pretty good day* This video: let’s put an end to that shall we?

When looking into the abyss, the abyss looks back

"Sir ma'am, we're calling about our new exciting rates on health insurance, do you have a few moments"?

If anyone wants to know what a post-nuclear war world looks like, watch the movie "Threads". It's terrifying, the ones who are killed instantly would truly be the fortunate ones.

2:01 The detonation of the Tsar Bomba on Novaya Zemlya was so powerful that the shock wave broke windows as far away as Finland and Northern Norway. They couldn't have the yield to 100 Megatons, because the pilot wouldn't have been able to get away in time. The airplane really struggled with "only" 50 Megatons.

if you want a movie that depicts the immediate aftermath of a nuke in NYC for survivors of one apartment building, check out The Divide

did I miss the tiny portion of this video that covers what is in the title (what if a nuclear bomb hits New York tomorrow)??

What I find incredible is simply that about eight people in the world have the ability to destroy the world and murder 8 billion people. No one has that right. No one. How did something so precious and unique as humanity come to this?

It's scary how true this is, and even scarier how close the world is to this scenario at the moment.

"Hey, what happened to Bill? " "Oh, Bill, yeah, he stepped on a nuclear landmine."

Damn i hope my work place won't be that messy i don't want to over time to clean it

Imagine surviving. Man that would suck worse than dying.

Thank you for not sugarcoating it. The only people to survive (for a while) will be the ones that start it.

Well that was uplifting

My boss: “Can you come in tomorrow?”

I feel like this is the problem with so many of the last (mine included) generations of Americans. Sure, we've had foreign wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, and I have tremendous respect for the men & women whom fought in those conflicts because they fully understand what its like when war rolls through villages & towns selling death & destruction. However the vast majority of us have known nothing but peace at home and have been EXTREMELY spoiled. We have never starved or seen our friends and family dying around us as a result of bombs shelling our cities or bullets flying through our windows & walls. It saddens me to say it, but unfortunately this is what it will take before America (if ever) returns to the country it can be. We're spoiled. We've known nothing but excess and surplus.

The one important factor not covered here is flight time , most would never make it to their bunkers due to the speed these missiles can fly , a sub sitting off our coast firing a missile would hit it's target in literally a few minutes

New York had lost all the 'Glamour "

The sewer bubbles and disappears. Is there a down side? Disappearing manure piles are usually a good thing.

I ask myself, HOW did we as a human race actually ever end up with something that could destroy our planet!?! Wtf.

Thanks for making people aware of the disasters of a nuclear war.

I was having a really bad day, then this came up in my recommendations. So I watched it and feel much better now 🤭

'What If A Nuclear Bomb Hits New York Tomorrow' You'd be a shadow.

I have always believed that the world is run by psychopaths, but no one has the fortitude to eliminate them.

It would be as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Totally sucks for the New York citizens. Everyone i met from NY were cool guys that i had a priveledge to serve alongside. Even was impressed by a LT. from NYC. Squad leader, brothers all through my enlistment, innocent civilians paying the price for horrible government.

If it wasn't for the fact that it would effect ALL life I would say "screw it, push the button". Humanity seems determined to wipe itself out anyway.

The world leaders should see this. They bet for their own survival in the bunkers not knowing its just a prolonged death.

When the world leaders eventually come out of their bunkers after 6 months and realize that they have “won” nothing, and that they now must live in a radioactive polluted and destroyed world

In the summer of 2005 I just came out from being homeless and I had a dream that I was in midtown and it was hit by a nuke. I didn’t even know what a nuke was back then, I just heard a loud explosion from inside a office building and we all rushed downstairs like we were in the twin towers, and when we got outside we saw a large black cloud from a distance and ran the other way but it caught up to us in no time and crushed us with heat debris, and pain. I shot up out of my sleep and couldn’t go back to sleep for the rest of the night at 3am. It left an impression on my mind for the rest of the week.

It is truly astonishing as well as disheartening to know where our enigmatic species has put so much of its resources.

A nuclear exchange between the US and Russia would be so horrific that it's beyond imagination, it would be our Extinction Level Event.

He is actually making it out to be better than it really would be. If a 1 MT airburst at 1500 feet goes off within 20 miles of you, you are likely going to have a very bad day unless you are behind a substantial structure.

No one mentions that the shock wave and the heat and the rest moves about one meter above the ground so if you are at least half way away lie on the ground with your stomach and head towards the Atomic Bomb explosion, you will be amazed how you survived, but as I wrote the shock wave moves from about 1 meter upwards.

you do know that manhattan isn't all of new york right? you only showed manhattan and not the other boroughs

Awesome, well narrated. Good job Destiny 👍

Here I was worrying about disappointing my parents. Thank you, RU-vid content creator! You've showed me that my meaningless problems are soon to have far less meaning.

Could you speed that up to today?😂

What about my social security check, will it still come ?

What's really frightening is that it's not a matter of "if" but "when".

I was born in 1971 so I was in my early teens when the cold war and fear of Nuclear war was prevalent in the early 80s and I remember watching Threads and the Day after and became obsessed with it all. The fear has stayed with me and with all the close calls, near accidents, Chernobyl and belligerent nations like Russia and China flexing their political muscles more and more with each passing year, i'm utterly amazed we have made it to 2022.