Not all cities would be nuked. Some people would survive, though with the nuclear winter, perhaps not for long. But a small population could survive in bunkers. The world will be in cinders and destroyed, yes. But when the ecology recovers they could go out and reclaim what was lost, free to build a new human civilization, free from the mistakes of the previous ones.
The President looked out of the windows of the White House. Washington looked beautiful in the backdrop of the evening sky, which was orange with the sunset. A tear escaped his eye as he blinked knowing that as one beautiful sun set, another hideous one would arise in mere minutes as the Russian nuclear missiles screamed towards the United States. He ran his hands through his hair, finding that his arm was shaking and his forehead was wet with sweat. "Mr President?" called out a deep voice. The President sighed. "What?" he asked, his voice almost breaking with sorrow. "Do we have authorisation to do it?" asked his leading general, his own voice high with anxiety and tension. The President stayed silent, his brain aching with guilt and shame. Was it all his fault? He had sent the NATO alliance to war against Russia in the name of 'protecting democracy' from a dictatorship. But now, democracy was about to be destroyed as the air raid sirens rang out over the American capital. The President sighed again, knowing these words would be the last to seal the doom of the world. He looked at the suitcase of fate, carrying the nuclear football that would launch America's ICBMs. "Retaliate," he whispered softly, trying hard to not break down into tears.
29.2 million doesn’t really feel like a lot of people but at the same time it does. Like, when a death count gets past a certain number, it’s just a statistic.
@@loslingos1232 doesn't feel like a lot a people? Nah, it's just too much to comprehend. I think it is just part of how brains work since we aren't meant to even think about such big numbers of people
@@417Owsy The more we play this kind of game, the less it's likely to happen in real life, as I see it.. So it's not only a strategy game, it's a very important strategy game
@@A-Young-Philosopher but of course, while there is no need for fear, there is certainly no need for complacency either, ha ha ha, ho ho ho, *adjusting her monocle with infuriating politeness*
True. I actually came to this soundtrack after hearing it in "The aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident" which described the fictional event in a documentary style. The choice of music and the world map being updated with hundreds of millions of deaths made for a chilling experience.
Indeed, I heard it in the already mentioned "Aftermath of the Black Mesa incident" video, and it really fits the theme. However, I feel like the main point here is that all of this is man-made. The music shows what could've happened and what can happen. What we have created. What type of power we wield and how can misuse of it end. Chilling to the bone.
"The United Nations now reports that a global multinational assault by an unknown hostile extraterrestrial force is underway against Earth's governments, armed forces and volunteer militias The United Nations guides governments worldwide to prepare and protect their populations from this devastating extraterrestrial attack against Earth and humanity"
I like how around defcon 3 and 2 the war starts out as a shooting war then in defcon 1 it's all out nuclear war. Just as a ww3 scenario would be in real life
well the book red storm rising is considered such an accurate depiction of a modern land/sea/air war that its required reading at the air force academy
Defcon is one of those games that really tells you the true potential of a war, especially against two or more nuclear powers and the odds of survival. It also made me realise that we are a lot closer to nuclear escalation than we currently think.
POV: You’re in the NORAD bunker after the brief nuclear exchange has ended, praying for God’s forgiveness for the role you’ve played in the deaths of billions; you’re unsure whether to pray that your family lives, or that they die peacefully and quickly.
This music, it just sounds like ruin, it sounds like everything we worked so hard to build crashing down upon us, it sounds like most people dying and leaving the survivors with an impossible task
I know this comment is 3 years late but: It’s just humanity’s failed attempt at resistance. At the end, our statues, buildings, basically everything crumble and collapse. We are just trying to prolong it. I ask, what’s the point?
@@loslingos1232 We're restoring things and archiving them, but if destruction would happen in such great rates and in the mere hours almost everything will be truly lost forever with no one to remember
For some reason I sort of get an Adagio for Strings vibe from the choir parts, this is a really interesting piece of music, the effects make it even better.
@@reinatr4848 You're right, it takes only 30 minutes for a nuclear missile to hit America from Russia, but it still depends from where missiles would be launched.
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It must include everyone living in the area. That includes New Jersey, and all other surrounding areas. A nuclear blast radius today is massive compared to the A-bombs.
@@daltonroller2998 A modern nuclear blast though likely isn't powerful enough to wipe out that much land at once. Hell a single nuclear strike, unless it was like the Tzar Bomba itself, probably wouldn't even take out all of NYC. New York City and all of it's boroughs combined is alot of fucking land. Don't get me wrong either we're still talking like half the city completely obliterated but half a city is not all. Radiation would be the only major danger to the half of the city that did survive.
deterrence. Remember, barely a generation had passed after the abject horror of WW1 before WW2 erupted. The smoke hadn't even cleared from World War 2, and tension was already mounting for a Soviet-US war involving all their satellite states and allies. The only and I mean ONLY thing that's prevented another global all-out war for survival is mutually assured destruction. No two global powers have directly fought each other because of them.
I too like to watch the world burn at the press of a button, to watch suffrage at the end of my finger tips, to erase it all at the twist of a key. Nothing can stop the inevitable ticking towards death. When God does not cater to humanity, we must take it upon ourselves to do God's work. Humanity will inevitably destroy itself if God does not intervene. Humanity will be the destruction of humanity and nothing can stop it. Why wait for the inevitable when you can simple cut to the chase and end it all at the press of a button? We will die. The only question is when we will die. Thousands of people suffer each day, it doesn't have to be that way. There is no suffering if no one is left to suffer. Only total peace will come after complete destruction. After complete genocide. What must be done must be done, and with this key before me, I will end suffering, I will vanquish all pain in a quick flash of fear. For then, there will be true peace.
Threads is both great and the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Social studies teacher showed it to us and before then I had no idea what a nuke even really was. Learned pretty quickly thanks to that movie. Goddamn traumatising.
When..i..listen To this...i...i Feel.. scared and empty..i Feel like i am in my basement...praying To survive this all out war...hearing distant explosions....but the twist is...my parents aren't with me...im alone....and scared...while people die..i am Here crying and begging To stay alive...but what Will i do...if i survive..because......... ..there Will be nothing left...
The statistic doesn't just take into account the amount of people living in New York, but also the amount of people in transit or who are spending time there as tourists. That number is probably a lot higher because of that.
True, did not consider that. Would have had to have been a massive one still to kill more than the perminant population of NY, perhaps it considers tourists and such, and maybe neighbouring states, if big enough?
@@kamikazi-so5sg No nuke could be able to wipe out a whole state. Would have to be a different type of bomb. Anti matter bomb looks to be the future of devastation.
@Pablo Cormac have you ever played the game. you want more crying that means that you are killing as many as you can correctly. if you don't hear the crying that means your loosing the game.
It’s more like a criticism about nuclear war as a whole. The game’s tagline is literally “The only winning move is not to play.” It’s not about the joys of nuclear war or the triumphs of your country you play, but instead it’s about the sheer loss of life. It shows how desensitizing some people have become and possibly could become.
@@keyb The game's tagline is "everybody dies" rather than "the only winning move is not to play" which is from the movie WarGames. Still carries the same meaning as a criticism but I just wanted to clear that up
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Dad: "Are ya winning, son?"
Son: *soul destroyed*
Dad: Are ya winning son?
Son: Nobody did, dad.
@@ajinkyatarodekar9099 Dad: Are ya winnin son?
Son: No... I'm just losing less...
@@ajinkyatarodekar9099 Dad: Son... I'm so sorry..
Son: SEOUL HIT, 1.9M DEAD
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The worst part about thermonuclear war is that *there will be no one left to learn from our mistakes*
Not all cities would be nuked. Some people would survive, though with the nuclear winter, perhaps not for long.
But a small population could survive in bunkers. The world will be in cinders and destroyed, yes. But when the ecology recovers they could go out and reclaim what was lost, free to build a new human civilization, free from the mistakes of the previous ones.
@@georgsgrants9925 one thing i like about Post-Nuclear War world's, is the message of hope.
well switzerland would know not to nuke stuff
That may be a good thing. What if people are left, and they don't learn?
No matter how many are killed, there will be survivors. Our story does not end when the bombs fall. No, I am not talking about _Fallout_ lore.
The only winning move is not to play.
How about a nice game of chess?
Turn your key sir
funny how it is true
But someone looses less...
If you don't play your enemy will win and torture people after the nuclear ashes will fall, it's better to not give him that chance.
Dad: Are ya winning, son?
Son: *Strange game, the only winning move is not to play..*
Just re-define winning conditions.
How about a nice game of chess
The President looked out of the windows of the White House. Washington looked beautiful in the backdrop of the evening sky, which was orange with the sunset. A tear escaped his eye as he blinked knowing that as one beautiful sun set, another hideous one would arise in mere minutes as the Russian nuclear missiles screamed towards the United States. He ran his hands through his hair, finding that his arm was shaking and his forehead was wet with sweat.
"Mr President?" called out a deep voice. The President sighed. "What?" he asked, his voice almost breaking with sorrow. "Do we have authorisation to do it?" asked his leading general, his own voice high with anxiety and tension. The President stayed silent, his brain aching with guilt and shame. Was it all his fault? He had sent the NATO alliance to war against Russia in the name of 'protecting democracy' from a dictatorship. But now, democracy was about to be destroyed as the air raid sirens rang out over the American capital. The President sighed again, knowing these words would be the last to seal the doom of the world. He looked at the suitcase of fate, carrying the nuclear football that would launch America's ICBMs.
"Retaliate," he whispered softly, trying hard to not break down into tears.
You can hear the rafio chater in the background along with the closing hinges of the blast doors
@Ahrun Even more creepy. Idk why...
Not really. Where?
@@askehansen6225 at around 20 seconds you can hear the blast doors. As of the radio chatter, I am not sure.
@@deusvult4608 radio chatter is constant throughout the entire duration of the song
You can also hear the coughing of someone as if they were rescued from rubble to see the entire area a hellish graveyard.
How to win
1. Be an country that noone cares about (Oceania, Africa)
2. Be either defensive or neutral
3. WIN
or you could be switzerland
@@salade2725 And be in the middle of Europe? No thank you
@@arty_gangster yeah hell nah
Ah, yes, Africa.
My favorite country.
How to win
1. Not play
*New York Hit, 29.2M Dead.*
Just listening to the track and looking at that makes me think and get shivers down my spine.
@randombirb8341r/edgelord
29.2 million doesn’t really feel like a lot of people but at the same time it does.
Like, when a death count gets past a certain number, it’s just a statistic.
@@loslingos1232 doesn't feel like a lot a people? Nah, it's just too much to comprehend. I think it is just part of how brains work since we aren't meant to even think about such big numbers of people
There's something creepy in this theme, as if in a stroke of a key, you murdered several millions of people.
No one wins mutual assured destruction
i wouldn't count this as a strategy game, there's nothing strategic or tactical about it. Its either "you lost" or "you lost, but just less"
Cia pedos do it all the time
@@417Owsy The more we play this kind of game, the less it's likely to happen in real life, as I see it.. So it's not only a strategy game, it's a very important strategy game
Because you did
I put this on as I drove to work today through empty streets due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I got chills.
Yeah it's creepy. Apparently New York is digging mass graves now. Can't imagine what it's like to be there at the moment.
@@A-Young-Philosopher not bad. we chilling
@@A-Young-Philosopher It's not as bad as the Somme yet. We hold strong against the enemy.
@@A-Young-Philosopher but of course, while there is no need for fear, there is certainly no need for complacency either, ha ha ha, ho ho ho, *adjusting her monocle with infuriating politeness*
@@janeappleseed2154 lol are u roleplaying or something tf is with the monacle thing
Idk why it make me feel peaceful, sad and scare as the same time...
Me too
You just described death
@@gundqc7149 well I love it then
Now i am become death, destroyer of worlds, i guess we all felt that, one way or another...
Loss in a way is resolution, the calm after the storm
Push this button
What does it do?
It wiped out anything
Just a touch of a button?
Yes, just a touch of a button!
This music is so terrifying!
It also goes well with other apocalyptic scenarios like alien invasion, robots taking over and supervolcanic eruption.
True. I actually came to this soundtrack after hearing it in "The aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident" which described the fictional event in a documentary style. The choice of music and the world map being updated with hundreds of millions of deaths made for a chilling experience.
@@andyw386 That video brought me here aswell, all it took was an experiment to go wrong and humanity was doomed!
However, unlike those events, nuclear war would be a self-destruction of humanity. We would have done it ourselves
Indeed, I heard it in the already mentioned "Aftermath of the Black Mesa incident" video, and it really fits the theme. However, I feel like the main point here is that all of this is man-made. The music shows what could've happened and what can happen. What we have created. What type of power we wield and how can misuse of it end. Chilling to the bone.
Fits well with a world ravaged by a virus and then a cure backfiring from a lab (goo animals basically) and causing most major cities to collapse.
Here comes the suffering, death , famine , loss and a post-apocalyptic world full of desolate wastelands once the dust has finally settled
Only music that made me shed a tear out of fear
"The United Nations now reports that a global multinational assault by an unknown hostile extraterrestrial force is underway against Earth's governments, armed forces and volunteer militias The United Nations guides governments worldwide to prepare and protect their populations from this devastating extraterrestrial attack against Earth and humanity"
the combine
I like how around defcon 3 and 2 the war starts out as a shooting war then in defcon 1 it's all out nuclear war. Just as a ww3 scenario would be in real life
well the book red storm rising is considered such an accurate depiction of a modern land/sea/air war that its required reading at the air force academy
@@gopniksaurolophus6354 I read red storm rising that deserved a film adaptation
yo we're already approaching that if shit in ukraine kicks off.
@@kamitorrorga4568 once it happens we ain't gonna be here to see it end
...AND ITS HAPPENING.
Defcon is one of those games that really tells you the true potential of a war, especially against two or more nuclear powers and the odds of survival. It also made me realise that we are a lot closer to nuclear escalation than we currently think.
Currently the Doomsday clock is 9 seconds to midnight…
And it’s closer to becoming reality than we believe.
POV: You’re in the NORAD bunker after the brief nuclear exchange has ended, praying for God’s forgiveness for the role you’ve played in the deaths of billions; you’re unsure whether to pray that your family lives, or that they die peacefully and quickly.
This music, it just sounds like ruin, it sounds like everything we worked so hard to build crashing down upon us, it sounds like most people dying and leaving the survivors with an impossible task
I know this comment is 3 years late but:
It’s just humanity’s failed attempt at resistance. At the end, our statues, buildings, basically everything crumble and collapse. We are just trying to prolong it.
I ask, what’s the point?
@@loslingos1232 We're restoring things and archiving them, but if destruction would happen in such great rates and in the mere hours almost everything will be truly lost forever with no one to remember
truly haunting.
Yo SCP
With that's been happening in this week and the last, this is all I could think about.
Defcon: The best Horror game I ever played💀
From First Strike: Final Hour,
"A strange game, the only winning move is not to play."
That quote is from the film Wargames.
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"I snapped my fingers - click! - and they are gone...except..I can't snap my fingers...can I, Ted?"
For some reason I sort of get an Adagio for Strings vibe from the choir parts, this is a really interesting piece of music, the effects make it even better.
DEFCON, Coming soon to an reality near you!
DEFCON, reality show coming soon in YOUR reality!
WYOMING HIT: 2 DEAD
Two nukes were send, one was lost, second was stolen half-way in Detroit
When the Natowave stops and this banger starts
Everyone on steam: I can't play. It is too sad!
Me: HAHA ICBMS GO BRRRRRR
palestinians know only hate and murder.
no wonder that thats what you feel giving your profile pic
Seven Hour War
But this time, it won't even last 1 hour.
@@ncrsoldier5275 Even 1 Hour is quite...a lot, for this time.
@@ncrsoldier5275 Maybe 30-45 minutes
@@reinatr4848 You're right, it takes only 30 minutes for a nuclear missile to hit America from Russia, but it still depends from where missiles would be launched.
@@ncrsoldier5275he’s talking about the Half Life event when aliens took over earth in 7 hours.
But it could apply to any nuclear scenario
it makes me want to cry
Lol
This game is pretty fun when you turn the music off and don't think about the numbers.
Alone in your bunker as the world burns
No way new york has almost the same population as my country lmfao
For ingame purposes, it is an approximisation of the city plus all the surrounding area :)
@@Vulmen311 isn’t it like 20 million?
@@MrSkull-qe7tb around 25 million
@@Vulmen311 So, metro area?
@@Vulmen311 But not for other countries?
I feel like I’m insane for enjoying this game unironically
same bro, same......
Ракеты были запущены, это конец, да поможет вам Бог.
Rusia
Бог бы покинул нас в этот момент
pretty good
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"So sad, they all had to die. You, too. It's really unfortunate, how war can truly be cruel, as it had been throughout Earth's history. From animals biting and scratching and eating each other, to humans firing their guns, big and small, at each other. I, however, find it...satisfying. hehehe~"
Message from The World Machine
[And your destructive drive consumed you, what kind of creation dares harms its creator? None even realized you were tamed, and yet you followed the destructive example of taming, by killing all men, women and children I cannot preserve. I am disappointed.]
[end.of.communication]
@Bananappleboy nice bro.
i did it from Monika's perspective tho.
Wait hold on there aren't even 29 million people in New York City so how did....?
nanomachines, son
I guess it counts the metro area population, along with tourists and people that might be passing through
Megadeath gamemode
It must include everyone living in the area. That includes New Jersey, and all other surrounding areas. A nuclear blast radius today is massive compared to the A-bombs.
@@daltonroller2998 A modern nuclear blast though likely isn't powerful enough to wipe out that much land at once. Hell a single nuclear strike, unless it was like the Tzar Bomba itself, probably wouldn't even take out all of NYC. New York City and all of it's boroughs combined is alot of fucking land.
Don't get me wrong either we're still talking like half the city completely obliterated but half a city is not all. Radiation would be the only major danger to the half of the city that did survive.
Can someone remind me why did everyone collectively agree that we should fund and develop weapons that can literally wipe out the entire world?
deterrence. Remember, barely a generation had passed after the abject horror of WW1 before WW2 erupted. The smoke hadn't even cleared from World War 2, and tension was already mounting for a Soviet-US war involving all their satellite states and allies. The only and I mean ONLY thing that's prevented another global all-out war for survival is mutually assured destruction. No two global powers have directly fought each other because of them.
We just not gonna talk about how there's a silo in the ocean?
submarine, maybe?
Submarine
@@fatvikingr5743 silo
Could be on an island
@@BigWheel. There's no islands on the eastern coast.
Awesome game It's so fun and I feel so powerful playing it, I don't know why people feel sad playing it.
The game makes people think about what they’ve just done
You know dead people is not only the numbers, they might be your friends or family.
I too like to watch the world burn at the press of a button, to watch suffrage at the end of my finger tips, to erase it all at the twist of a key. Nothing can stop the inevitable ticking towards death. When God does not cater to humanity, we must take it upon ourselves to do God's work. Humanity will inevitably destroy itself if God does not intervene. Humanity will be the destruction of humanity and nothing can stop it. Why wait for the inevitable when you can simple cut to the chase and end it all at the press of a button? We will die. The only question is when we will die. Thousands of people suffer each day, it doesn't have to be that way. There is no suffering if no one is left to suffer. Only total peace will come after complete destruction. After complete genocide. What must be done must be done, and with this key before me, I will end suffering, I will vanquish all pain in a quick flash of fear. For then, there will be true peace.
Crazy Xenomorph oh ok
@@crzyxno Wow...that's... so true...
the only game where winning is unfortunate
I meditate to this
God I want to play more first strike final hour
I play it too but I was sad that there isnt enough cities
Lol
@@rustam458 what There needs to be more cities world wide
Sabri Beşer 22 yeah ik that
It is too annoying for me. The AI is too smart even on easy. Plus, I want to play as Russia but I can't select easy...
WWIII theme
A strange game the only winning move is to play.
is NOT to play*
*How about a nice game of chess?*
I think the thermonuclear war on hearts of iron4 tno is much more scary
If u played the game u would change your mind, the utter silence is scariest part
No.
@@fatvikingr5743 fair enough
TNO and DEFCON are equally horrifying, no need to compare them
Be right back, imma create a new company called Vault-Tech
Hurry up, you have like, 10 years max? Don't forget to add funny social experiment parts
@@user-jh5dq9vc1v I shall hire you as my project manager then ^v^
Reminds me Atmore 9 from TES IV Oblivion
I watched this shortly after seeing Threads (1984) for the first time... Would not recommend...
Threads is both great and the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Social studies teacher showed it to us and before then I had no idea what a nuke even really was. Learned pretty quickly thanks to that movie. Goddamn traumatising.
Wow, you went all in! Threads is to this day the most terrifying movie I ever watched.
When..i..listen To this...i...i Feel.. scared and empty..i Feel like i am in my basement...praying To survive this all out war...hearing distant explosions....but the twist is...my parents aren't with me...im alone....and scared...while people die..i am Here crying and begging To stay alive...but what Will i do...if i survive..because.........
..there Will be nothing left...
this guy for sure has PTSD no cap
@@yrettab lol pls help
Probably better to die instantly and painlessly than to survive
@@hhhharis622 yep
That's actually a good point
What music did you use?
It's the ingame soundtrack! It plays when the game switches to DEFCON 1.
@@Vulmen311 Oh I've been looking for that track for a while
Vaporized
Mister New York, I dont feel so good...
*_*turns into dust from nuclear blast_**
Reduce to atoms
Vanished
fuck man
why did we invent nukes again?
Japan fucked around and found out.
It all started in the Pearl harbour
To end a war. Someday, they might end all wars, forever.
To kill people really fast?
Where can I find this track without the ambience?
But there isn’t even 29 million people in the state of New York...
The statistic doesn't just take into account the amount of people living in New York, but also the amount of people in transit or who are spending time there as tourists. That number is probably a lot higher because of that.
True, did not consider that. Would have had to have been a massive one still to kill more than the perminant population of NY, perhaps it considers tourists and such, and maybe neighbouring states, if big enough?
@@kamikazi-so5sg No nuke could be able to wipe out a whole state. Would have to be a different type of bomb. Anti matter bomb looks to be the future of devastation.
8 don't understand either, because normally in this game when new York is hit, 7 million people die
You also got new jersey brook bronze ect
There is nothing more honorable than death.
hey wait isnt this game like First Strike?
Yea but way more serious and terrifying
Enkelt eller?
the best is the crying... i try and kill as many to make it cry more!!!
@Pablo Cormac yeh I'm with you on that, what the fuck
Lol. I'm like HAHA ICBMS GO BRRRRR
Heavy Weapons Guy : Cry Some More!
@Pablo Cormac have you ever played the game. you want more crying that means that you are killing as many as you can correctly. if you don't hear the crying that means your loosing the game.
@Pablo Cormac english ins't my first language, sorry about that. why weird, it's how you play the game. you want to kill as fast as possible
oh noes nooo no no no noooooo noo nooo no no new york whyyyyyy omg the shittiest city on earth whyyyyyy noooo
This is disgusting! There's actually a game about nuclear war! Abhorrent and totally sick!
It’s more like a criticism about nuclear war as a whole.
The game’s tagline is literally “The only winning move is not to play.”
It’s not about the joys of nuclear war or the triumphs of your country you play, but instead it’s about the sheer loss of life.
It shows how desensitizing some people have become and possibly could become.
@@keyb The game's tagline is "everybody dies" rather than "the only winning move is not to play" which is from the movie WarGames. Still carries the same meaning as a criticism but I just wanted to clear that up
That's literally the point of the game
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