What Happens If There’s A Nuclear Attack
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2022
- Nearly 70% of Americans surveyed by the American Psychological Association said they worry the invasion of Ukraine could potentially lead to nuclear war and they fear that we could be at the beginning stages of World War III.
Researchers estimate there are about 12,700 nuclear weapons spread between nine countries, with the United States and Russia holding the majority, but experts consider an attack to be unlikely. Watch the video above to learn how a nuclear attack could play out.
The world watched uneasily on Feb. 24 when Russian troops, under the orders of President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine.
“The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said March 14.
Nearly 70% of Americans surveyed by the American Psychological Association said they “are worried the invasion of Ukraine is going to lead to nuclear war, and that they fear that we are at the beginning stages of World War III.”
Researchers estimate there are approximately 12,700 nuclear weapons spread between nine countries, with the United States and Russia holding the majority.
Researchers and government officials stress that a nuclear attack is very unlikely.
“We are assessing President Putin’s directive and, at this time, we see no reason to change our own alert levels,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Feb. 28.
“As long as these weapons are around, the possibility will always be there that they will actually be used,” said Alejandra Munoz, a project officer at the Dutch peace organization PAX.
Researchers, academics and advocacy groups for risk reduction and nuclear disarmament have written reports detailing what a hypothetical attack could look like and the long-term impact it could have on the planet and society.
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What Happens If There’s A Nuclear Attack
Everyone should be aware that they’re going to continue to say that it’s “very unlikely” right up until it actually happens. Which is a shame, because people should be asking for better public nuclear preparedness initiatives from the US government.
@Grim Graven Cemetery the USA and Saudi Arabia have been committing war crimes in Yemen for almost 8 years now. it's the nature of the beast called WAR.
@Grim Graven Cemetery Russia can use nuclear weapon at anytime. Who can stop it? No one. UN and NATO anly say "no escalation, no act, bla bla bla... "
@Grim Graven Cemetery yeah…
Kind of like what they did with covid. I'd feel better if they said nothing than trying to "play it down." I'm convinced this will digress to a limited nuclear conflict anyway. This did nothing to ease that...
Absolutely right! It was like Zelenzky’ denial on the possibility of attack on Ukraine. But i feel behind their statement that it unlikely, they are actually preparing for it. What I’m hoping for is kremlin to be attacked first to eliminate putin.
“While a Nuclear War is very unlikely…”
You know, I thought Russia invading Ukraine was very unlikely… until it happened.
US trying not to start a war and a conflict between countries are also unlikely.
I think there doing everything possible to cause a nuclear war and at some point someone will eventually use nuclear weapons that’s why it’s very dangerous to have them!
It was planned since at least 2019
@@aloysiustan1765 The U.S. didn’t start this war. Putin’s paranoia over NATO being too close to him did. Lithuania and Latvia border Russia 🇷🇺 and they belong to NATO.
@@cindiheaton6469 To a certain extend US did not start the war physically. But they sure did instigated a conflict between Ukraine and Russia like all other wars and conflicts. They continue to expend NATO after the fall of USSR. Imagine your neighbour joining your biggest enemy allowing them to put military bases and nuclear weapons next door of your country because of a pact. Your country security will be vulnerable. Not to the west but to the Russians national security. If the US doesn’t like what happened during the Cuba Missile Crisis. They of all countries should know what it’s like to have your biggest enemy being too close to your neighbour. US could’ve ask Ukraine to stay Neutral but instead giving false hope of joining NATO causing Russia and Ukraine conflict. Russia is to blamed for the war but the US is to be blamed for the being the instigator. Every country the US goes to “defend” the country will be left in ruins.
I'm reminded of a quote, "Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it." Nuclear war is a war that No one can win.
The U.S. won WWII.
But needs to happen in the end...
I'm 68 and I've had this threat hanging over my head for my entire life. I'll never know how life could have been without this constant threat. To be able to look up at the sky and not have to think that maybe this is the day nuclear bombs will fall on my head.
Yeah, people get so consumed with life and never really learn to live. We could go any day. A nuke could drop at any given time…I know you had it rough in your days OG.
Nuclear weapons aren't like Hollywood portrays lol. It's a scare tactic.
Why fear you d be dead in instant no more pain anxiety or stress
Maybe there is something wrong with me but that sounds good to me
@@extraordinarytenno6716 Only if you're in a city/area of strategic importance. Most people who live in parts of the world that aren't bombed will be the ones to truly suffer, not only from famine but the inevitable collapse of society. The few (in comparison to the world's total population) to die instantly in the initial strikes would be the lucky ones.
More people in USA than Russia, so maybe more US casualties. But just the same - all will die.
I got this feeling that Putin has an “if I have to die, everyone has to die“ attitude.
I seriously doubt he's really planning on using nukes just his way of getting everybody going to respond
the whole if i die i will take everyone out is what the world is dealing with right now
Well yeah but it's simple don't invade Russia.
Well, he is on record for saying "If there is no Russia, then there is no need for the rest of the planet". The ignorance and narrow mindedness of that man. The arrogance. He is willing to wipe out thousands of years of culture, love, passion, progression, all for his own want.
@@garethjohnstone8662 he said that in the case where Russia was at risk of being destroyed which it isn't right now.
Wise man once said, ''mankind will ultimately destroy himself''.
That wise man has never been correct lmao
only the dead have seen the end of war- plato
@@Wildboy789789 Mankind actually almost did...during the cold war
we are about to all go down be ready
And that's true
I wasn’t worried about nuclear war until the president said I shouldn’t be worried about nuclear war
Scary part is most people think this is a joke. Enough countries launching them would make a significant part uninhabitable.
And this would lead to mad Max calapse
Animal extinction end of the world there is nothing to come out to done
Most of earth I think.
What's scary now is that it's literally right around the corner. Interesting times we live in.
Our greatest failure as a species is that we have not figured out how to create lasting world peace.
Is there truly a way to do that?
@@almighty3946, unfortunately not, it seems. We can't change human nature.
People have wicked, evil hearts. Not my opinion. That's scripture. And with few exceptions, I've not seen an exception. Maybe Mother Teresa. She's literally the only person other than Jesus that may not have had an evil heart. However hard we try. We're just not right...
Yep, peace is inhuman.
We're pretty sucky species destroying and sharing the mother earth with other animals and living things.
The fact that we even have weapons like this is insane. As if regular missiles weren’t enough. Nuclear weapons is like entering cheat codes in Grand Theft Auto. Straight annihilation.
One theory why we haven't picked up alien radio signals is that they haven't passed one of the Great Filters,the one that we are facing-not starting a nuclear war.
You playing to much games. Wake up...real world does not have hollywood. Marvel heros...
@@cxbmtx7120 please just be quiet if you can’t understand what I was saying. Using nukes is like cheating. They need to get rid of those and the chemical weapons. We shouldn’t even be having wars. Nothing but destruction. For what? Materials and oil? Power? Gtfoh
Tell that to the soldiers who didn't have to die invading Japan. It's called war for a reason. Death
@@cxbmtx7120 ?? What are your even saying
Sadly it's not looking as unlikely as some people might think. The question isn't if, it's when, and who will be the first to launch.
That's what I was afraid of. Take your pic of lousy situations nowadays, and it's beginning to be a tossup of "would I rather die to a nuclear war?" to "would I rather die of clogged lungs and breathlessness due to ocean pollution?"
Wrong.
launches ate near simultaneous
As of right now, March 30, 2023, it is VERY likely.
@kreek22 yeah, tell me that now...
As a teenager, I remember sitting with friends discussing what we would do in the few minutes between the announcement that a missile was on it's way, and the impact. Interestingly, several of that group, myself included, have not had children. In my own case, I think that I was traumatised to the extent that the thought of my own children living with this threat hanging over them was too much.
Later, I became a teacher of History, and had to deal with the bombing of Hiroshima. I never tried to "soften" the facts just because my pupils were 14 years old. By then I had realised that people should know the facts. To make the maximum impact, I'd make it personal, describing how the same bomb would have affected our city. Parents would tell me later how frightened their children were, but not one ever complained, and some thanked me for being honest.
Unfortunately, the world seems to be divided into one group who do not know what the impact would be, or don't care, and a second group who do understand. The latter is the smaller group. Living in a democracy, we are more likely to be in that latter group, though many do not want to know, closing their eyes and their minds. Those living in dictatorial states have little option but to believe their leaders, and to think that a nuclear attack will be something that affects THEM (the perceived bad guys) and not US (the perceived good guys). They do not understand, and they certainly don't care what happens to THEM.
I hate nuclear weapons, but cannot see that a nuclear free world is possible. Pandora opened the box, it's too late to close it now. Someone, somewhere would create new weapons even if the currently existing weapons were destroyed. I cannot imagine a world where only a Putin or a Kim had weapons. The nuclear deterrent has worked for decades, and we have to hope that, mad as some appear to be, dictatorial leaders are not mad enough to forget what the consequences of nuclear war are.
I am in my last decades, I have no children, I hope nothing happens, though being from the UK my chances of being a target are high. However, it breaks my heart, sometimes, when I see the small children going to the local school (I live almost opposite one of the gates, so see many), and I fear that they will one day have memories like mine, memories of discussing my imminent death because of the behaviour of some distant lunatic.
Have you seen the movie "Threads"?
Same this war is Truly terrifying to me. Stay Strong. I pray for Putin to forgive us and Zelensky and Putin to find Agreements.
I love nuclear weapons
Nicely put. I sincerely hope Trump comes back to power and COUNTER bullies Putin BACK in his place! Trump ABSOLUTELY did have a conversation with Putin BEFORE he Invaded Ukraine! Donny ABSOLUTELY told him when he was in power "If Russia invades ANYBODY, we'll BOMB Moscow."
Jesus what a autobiography
I prefer being cremated by the 3000 degrees Celsius nuclear blast, instead of surviving with radiation burns/acute radiation sickness
That's good to know. Not!
Or we can prevent it from happening by vote Biden out, starting this November 2022.
@@seikocitizenwatches nah bot iam good down with putin.
And surviving in the state of humanity that would come after....
Bruh it aint that bad. Call of duty has nukes all the time you just respawn
*"Mankind created atomic bombs, but no mouse would create a mousetrap"*
-Albert Einstein
Yes they would if they could. If they had the mental capacity to do that, they may likely end up feeling the need to protect themselves and their families from invaders.
didn’t albert einstein help create the atom bomb ?
😂😂😂. Even if he didn't really say it, it's a GREAT line. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just hedging my comment
They’re not smart enough.
What's Disneyland? A people trap operated by a mouse!
What scares me the most about all this is that it sounds like they are trying to make nuclear war a viable option. It's almost as if they have deescalated to the point where both sides are now saying, "well, it would just end life as we know it, not all life forever." As if somehow that is a reasonable outcome to a conflict.
Exactly !
Everyone dies. Any further questions? No? Ok, goodnight.
War is inevitable. The outcome depends on the odds of what’s in the line, but soon we will be fighting because we’re going to be competing for recourses against other countries.
The people in charge, who start the war have the best bunkers so... they'll inherit the earth.
@@tkelong3569 The quicker and less painful, the BETTER
There is no way that we,the human beings can not be escaped from this catastrophe .
“Ww3 will be fought with nukes ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones”
Is always a quote that stuck with me
Sticks and stones? Sweet, if I survive nuclear war I will craft a bow and become god over earth.
Also that quote has been used about 100 billion times.
And ww5 with our minds
Underground cities in USA and EU took decades to create will be destroyed - 100% deaths as "pressure wave" created by nuclear missile will vaporise humans!. Pointless?. Even in Dr Strangelove scenario US Neo Cons will die declaring that that defeated Russia!.
@@kakap0788 and begin the next era of power and control?
Would make global warming a non issue
Hey everyone. I am Russian and I live in Russia. For the last month I have been living in such surreal and depressing presence that had fallen upon all of us that it is almost impossible to keep all these things in mind clear and take everything seriously. Things just turned the way they are so drastically and showed us it's new reality that it makes no wonder with anything upcoming. I don''t want any of you to hate me or each other because there is too much hatred in this world already and I hope that you just as I can clearly see that all this negative impact that we share with each other has been leading us to only one possible way out which is surely negative. I can't remember a time when I ever was on the side of the government of my country and I have no willingness that anyone including me or any Ukrainian or any American to suffer from our common consequences. I wish you and I could be living in a better world where the cost of a human life was primarily and undiscussed
The world doesn't hate Russians the world hates the leader
Nicely written.
Let me just say. I pray for Russian people as well. This thing that Putin has started is between putin and putin alone. I don't blame the people of Russia. Everywhere there is bad people who drag their citizens into bs. It's sad. This world is our only world. It eludes me why there isn't peace and sharing. More farms for food...self sufficiency...I am sorry everyone is panicked by his actions. Every country is holding their breath. It doesn't just affect the target it effects everyone...sad truly sad. God or whomever you believe in. Protection and comfort for all.
I hope that the situation gets better in both countries because I know both countries are suffering.
Very dangerous mo e if futin use his nukes he out his people in danger. US and NaTO have a nuclear weapon aswell.
I had a nightmare before where I saw where the nuclear bomb dropped, and it was like only a thousand miles away, and yet it still got to me, even when I tried to run.
I guess when it happens, there's not much we can do, even if your human instincts kick in to run away. We try to find safety, but I think from that point, only luck could save anyone
as long as you are not in the blast zone you have a chance to survive
I did too...me and my family were on the back of trucks with the kids and guns. And we saw nuclear explosions in the distance around us. The sky was brown and burnt orange.....it was smoke in the entire sky....u couldn't see the sunlight.... everything around us was destroyed. There was no green life in sight. And I woke up
A city near me has a Jupiter Missile in a museum exhibit. As a youngster I asked if there was any chance the Russians would think it was a nuke. We were told that a list of such items got provided to the Russians. We were told they were allowed to check it out if they wanted.
To summarize...
This would be very bad for the economy.
And everything else
The stick market would collapse
Buddy the economy won’t matter at that point lol we’re talking mass deaths and starvation
@@vyros.3234 stones could be in short supply also.
If we got into a shooting war with Russia, a lot of people would panic and flee the cities. Our freeway system would quickly become logjammed with fleeing refugees. Just the panic alone could be enough to ruin our civilization, even if there wasn't much of a nuclear exchange.
@@tomcollins5112 and it's not like we could anticipate a WMD attack either. The conflict could go ballistic at any stage leaving us without any time to escape.
That woman is naive if she thinks Russia and USA are giving all intelligence of Nuclear weapons to each other
They did at one time as well as all other technology. What do you think we were doing in the space station
I wonder what the hell she was saying,
You sanction a country like Russia which has a lot of nukes and you want to cooperation with them while you are starving them to death 💀
Listen it’s gonna happen.
Your naive thinking they wouldnt.
They are apart of it
So glad yal are reporting this. Knowing it came from msnbc you know it will never happen. Thanks
Bring it on!!
“If you're in a rubber dinghy in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and you don’t get along with the person
sitting on the opposite side of you, you certainly don't poke a hole at his end of the dinghy to fix him” -
Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Madness
@HQ Blues Mike Legare A SANE person would not poke a hole. Putin is not sane, and he has a HUGE ego.
No. Just bash his head in and survive on the meat until rescue arrives. Ha ha ha🤣
Right, you just poke him
Except for our pollies! Only they are stupidly qualified enough to do it !
Trump supporters would disagree with that logic.
Praying me and my family are in ground zero when this happens 🙏 The only thing worse than dying in a nuclear explosion would be surviving it.
That's why NATO should be dissolve
You think bad ass
@@hahdakdahkdhalsla wow, says the Russian paid stooge!
@@hahdakdahkdhalsla and let putin do whatever he wants to
I agree. If it gets to this point, what is the purpose of fighting to mentally and physically suffer? Get it over with.
That thing about the hypothetical explosion in the Netherlands is wrong….a ground burst produces the most amount of fallout because of how much dirt and debris gets thrown into the air
And just one madman at the helm holds billions of lives in his hands.
Imagine how weird the remaining life forms on Earth are going to look hundreds of years from now.
History 🙆
Be like fallout the game. Ghouls, giant crab's and stuff
Now is a good time to watch an 80's movie called The Day After.. I used to think a nuclear war would never happen after watching this movie again in 2022 I would not be saying that now! 🤔
Agreed! I rewatched the “Olympus Has Fallen” 2013 movie over on Netflix the other day and I was like whoaaaaa! They definitely need to take any threat serious!
Threads is way bleaker
That movie scared me than the following year a movie called Threads was even worst, & I agree I thought the same back then that this will never happen, now today I can't say that anymore, there is an increasing fear that the unthinkable is actually becoming a possibility.
Watch
On the beach
@@visalakshimahadevan6726 That is an old classic....cheers from NZ👍🇳🇿
What I want to know is, what will the alert be like? Will I get an emergency buzz on my phone? Some klaxons in the distance? Will there even be an alert since there's really nowhere to go? Will I, at the very least, be given some minutes to make my peace? The idea of suddenly going lights-out, not aware of how I went, is somehow worse to me than knowing it's from nuclear fire. I want to see it coming.
By the time a alert comes it'll be too late. The missiles are already in flight and don't take long to arrive. Even shorter if launched from a sub. In the U.S. I doubt our military will announce to the public the armed forces is at Defcon 1. Nothing will even be said at Defcon 2. You start seeing our hearing Defcon 3, might be time to kiss your ass goodbye. Honestly, nowhere to run. In the end, sooner or later, we're all dead.
Back in 1983, there was a made-for-TV movie called "The Day After" on ABC which was watched by something like 100 million people. Fast-forward 40 years and we are now revisiting this horror as a possible scenario vis-a-vis Russia attacking Ukraine.
Any way you slice it, a nuclear attack on *any* country would change the game. Aside from panic, hysteria and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people (or more), global markets would fail as well. Needless to say, it is an unimagineable nightmare scenario that will hopefully never occur.
We watched that in chemistry class and honestly it was one of the most terrifying things I've seen.
Yes, The Day After and The Day After Tomorrow are happening.
Let's put it this way. Within one hour of a news report that said a nuclear bomb had been detonated anywhere in the world and it wasn't a test, grocery stores everywhere would be cleaned out. The mass panic would be something to behold.
Threads is a better movie !!! Goes 10 years into the future .
@@bikotheanimator6169 the day after tomorrow is a fantasy joke . Man made climate hangs is just a religion . Who chanted the climate in the Cretaceous/ Jurassic / Triassic period. Nature !!! Nature corrects itself regularly
Typical CNBC type comment !!!
This felt like a well-edited college assignment. Very little depth. Didn't even harp on yield or tactical weapons i.e. the idea that not all nukes are designed to level cities.
Not to mention we now have stealth planes that can deliver nukes "anonymously". We used to have stealth cruise missiles (the AGM-129A) but they say we scrapped all of them. Maybe, but you can bet we have something similar in the arsenal that replaced them, kept out of sight as a top secret asset.
Just how I like my media; hot takes and broad brushes. I want my brain as flat as a pancake and as smooth as a baby's bottom.
And what do you have to stop though and to help the surrounding area then all of them be destroyed or detonated without any casualties
Well most tactical nukes would still wreck a big part of a city. I mean 50 kt is considered small these days. That's still hell of a blast. Most of them are dial a yield anyway. Russia did kinda go nuts on tactical nukes... suitcases, 5 inch shells, torpedoes, mines, grenades etc... and on strategic ones too. They completely ignored the strategy of making them solid fueled and easy to launch and went all out on giant space launch capable rockets with 25 Mt of warheads.
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five
I had a dream years ago that still haunts me, and this war is bringing this nightmare back. It starts with me waking up in the middle of the night, the television in my room turns on by itself, and the emergency alert system is blaring, describing an imminent nuclear threat. Outside of my window, the skies are glowing a dark, crimson red, and I get up and look outside and see fires on the hills. For context, I live near LA, on the other side of some large hills separating my city from LA. I get dressed and gather with my family, we grab all our valuables, pack our stuff in our cars as quickly as possible, and start driving east, but traffic is backed up because of the panic. Everyone is on the road. As soon as I get just far away enough from my city, the sky lights up again, and there is a massive blast that shakes my vehicle and shatters the windows. Everything behind me is destroyed. It is a long drive east, and every city that I pass in this vast desert is nothing but rubble. Bridges are collapsed, there are car crashes happening left and right, the conditions are extremely hazardous. I drive for hours with my family, and eventually, we are far out in the middle of nowhere, and I run out of gas. I get in the car with my mother, then my brother, then my father, as we all continue and run out of gas in the desert. We are eventually forced to walk the rest of the way, hundreds of miles in this hostile environment, completely unprepared. The sky glows red and orange the entire way, and at one point, I become so exhausted that I can't carry on any further, and I fall to the ground, stare at the sky, it is disturbing and beautiful, and then everything fades to black, and I become another casualty, part of a statistic, a corpse in the dirt, then I wake up.
Do you think it’s a premonition?? Asking for a friend.
@@bro6568 i hope not. If there's no nuclear armageddon by spring then it was just a nightmare.
The car would stop working from the EMP blast
ah, you understand the global state of affairs
5:12 he said I think that would be a war crime. No really I thought nukes were an act of peace.
🤣🤣🤣
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Nothing will happen. The nuclear 'deterant hoax' was not he nuclear war deterant, but jjst a partly sucdesfull war deterant. Real A-Bombs or H-boms or Netron bombs never haver still don't and never will exist. Why? Course it was just a well prepped hoax,..and. Be course the nucler atom split chainreaction (Atomb bomb) is against / violating the Universal Laws Of Physics. Einstein, Oppenheimer etc were actors coached by natural scientists, 'holywood / Disney studeo's, etc. The Manhattan project was bluff. Heavy water factory raid In Norway intended to let AXIS believe the allies were close to developkng an in Science fiction books known wapln called Atomic bomb or Pulse or Ray weapon. Raids on tokio nagasaki and hiroshima are just fire bomb and normal blast bomb raids. The japanesse surrender partly and 'play along' with the allies that the destruction was caused by just one Atom Bomb dropped on several cities by only one bomber (plane) at the time! All so called nuclear tests are one and the same prepped for months or years even kilotons of ordenace and other explosives and combustables blown up in one moment as if it was caused by one little ATOM bomb device. Above and unserground. To make it look real preferable heave radiactive material was added ih the blown up stock pile of 'explosives' to make it look to be an Atom bomb. Chain reaction with radioactive 'fall out'? These above ground always fake just convedtional explotions, sold as life nuke tests , caused cancer radioactive polution etc and were banned almost unanimus by 99,99 % of the countries ih the world. Exept china and warchaupact? Why? Cause most test were not even large explotion but ver early extreemly advance trucked montages small scale films. The H- bomb for instance the most famous one tdst were the remains of axis fleet was blown up. Is just a slow mo movie witadded back grojnd and explotion is a rising sun above the ocean. The ships are models! In nowaday USD dollars that ' movie' production would have cost almost have cost 700 million USD!
China and russia were unable to make thdse trucked SF a fake A or H bomb tests. So they persisted in large stock pile prepped for years often big explotions above ground the only showed to there own audience in blank and white and never in colour. The tzar bomb movie from the early 50's is only in the in the 1990's first shown in later added colour!
Nukes are and and never were real!
but no one thinks it was a war crime for the U.S.
Lol 😆😀
Lol the dude that says “we did that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I believe Putin dropping a bomb would be a war crime”
The United States didn’t attack Russia unprovoked like Japan did to the United States in 1941.
I peeped that too lol
Daa
War is war everyone is war criminals
is she accusing the USA of war crimes? no way...
it wouldn't be the first time, it's like every day they have war crimes going on in one form or another, they just plea the 5th.
@2:46 - A ground burst MAXIMIZES fallout but minimizes blast effects.
The radiation can also be carried by jet streams and affect areas that aren't even near the detonation site..this is also one huge reason testing is done underground..
Underground Nuclear Testing produces RADON-GAS in the subgterrain, leaking radiation into basenments of homes and buildings.
True!
@@johnbrandon6630 Now, but not in the past
2:34…. An air burst would actually generate less fallout because you’re not tilling up the ground level soil and then heaving it up into the atmosphere. Ground bursts would actually produce more fallout because fallout is literally ground material falling back down to the ground.
I dreamed years ago it would happen after a virus. Back in 2014. And, it was really bad. In the dream, we used missiles of all sizes. To try to defend ourselves. We had survived some virus, and then this war happened. They, the enemy, used aircraft, bombs, some kind of wierd chemical agent, and attacked our air and water. But this was years ago. I had three dreams about it. But everyone I told didn't seem to take it seriously. In fact, I feel like no one does take Russia (or China) seriously and that's crazy.
Right, she doesn't know what she is talking about. Ground bursts are worse. In a all out nuclear war we'd have hundreds of ground bursts taking place in Nebraska, Colorado, the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana. It's been speculated that those blasts would kick up so much debris that it would Block out the sunlight for months, causing a nuclear winter.
Right? This program and she lost all credibility at that moment!
With what's going on right now everyone should worry all I have to say is I lived a full life and just hope the kids get to see the future
I live 6 miles from a major Air Force base. If a nuke hit, I’d never know it.
Same
I'm not worried, I have a very sturdy desk to duck under when the SHTF. 👍
LMAO! 🤣😂🤣
Some thoughts on this piece. They talked about how damaging the blast and radiation would be with some specific numbers, but didn't specify the yield of the bomb. The lady who said ground burst has less fallout is off her rocker. Also there are definitely nukes out there meant to destroy soldiers and military units not just cities. Those are tactical nukes.
It doesn’t matter. Once it starts it’s not going to stop. One side isn’t going to just accept catastrophic damage or major loss. It will continue in rounds.
@@Lord_Shadowz I think it does matter. If your reporting on something, report on it accurately. The target doesn’t have to be normal everyday citizens, it can be a military strike.
I also would like to add this: their was a survey done on if America was attacked, would you fight, and a a large minority said no and yes many who said no leaned progressive. All China or Russia has to do is a couple of surgical attacks and people would easily give up. You have many people here who thinks America deserves it and would not retaliate.
Not even trying to be political. These are facts.
@justSTUMBLEDupon That's a very pie in the sky mentality, its easy to say "we won't fight", until you're attacked.
@@justSTUMBLEDupon fight against rockets and nukes? I’m saying no too
@@justSTUMBLEDupon i read where the bone spurs group would not fight.
When there is a global thermonuclear exchange, how will it impact the bond market?
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov; Fifty-nine years ago, a senior Russian submarine officer, Vasili, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier and likely prevented a third world war and nuclear destruction. 1962 Cuban missile crisis!
Yes let us hope that those receiving the orders are more intelligent than those giving them.
1946 USa fired nuclear at Japanese civilians, 146 k people died. No other countries has used nuclear including Russia and Iran.
will not happen this time because putin can start the nuclear weapons directly from home
@@reinermost6269 he can send the orders but at least two generals must comply.
@@marktwain368
that's how it is in the usa. In Russia we don't know how it works. Even the USA does not know how Russia will use nuclear weapons
Surviving a nuclear war will definitely bring a apocalyptic world. When we have to defend ourselves from other's. So we don't die from starvation!!!
People wouldnt even know what to do if they survived. For one their "smart phones" would be no use and then they would feel lost. Put it this way imagine if the Kardashians were able to survive and they then realize they have nothing to survive with.
Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!
The "END" is nearer than most think.
We might not even see 2031. This shih is getting crazier and crazier
I feel like unlike fallout, the government won’t just disappear
“We know how to work together when we need to”. No we don’t.
The Metal Gear Solid series discussing nuclear issues has regained relevancy. So wild to write that.
Insane bro
I'm hoping living in Maine will will be a bit of an advantage if this happens
0:36 Well of course the Government is going to say they're assessing the situation.
It'd ruin the country on every level. EMP alone would put us back in the middle ages. The woman saying ground burst would not be very radioactive is wrong. Air burst would minimize radiation.
I think it's pretty interesting that nobody mentioned the US policy of continuity of government.
What Happens If There’s A Nuclear Attack?
Those who survive, will see the hell in real life.
Just tell me where the blastsite will be please. I want a front row seat for that last milasecond.
Its devastating, to say the least. We are literally our own destroyers of our planet
Good luck trying to compromise with the monsters in power
In every way
@D7HH no ur wrong, humans go along with politicians and decided to join in on a game called war
There's still hope when Putins orders to blast the nuclears the people around him if they love their family and SAY NO
"We" is a very small number of madmen who gamble with the lives of billions of people.
2:46 WHAT?! According to NukeMap if you air-burst a W-88, it will be "too high to produce significant local fallout." A surface detonation produces much more fallout.
A nuclear weapon detonated near the surface irradiates a large amount of dirt and dust, which compounds the dangers of the fallout. Additionally, fallout produced in midair by the weapon itself often is carried high into the atmosphere and might not fall to Earth for months, likely nowhere near the bomb site. This lowers the acute risk of radiation
Right
But to maximize blast damage there is a fixed height for each yield of nuke. There may be less radiation damage but up to two times the blast damage. That's why each of the nukes for Japan were set as air-burst weapons with radar altimeters in the fuzes to detect the ideal heights for detonations.
@@TankDerek There isn't any fall out when a nuke is detonated up in the air.
This is the most dangerous moment in human history. If this crisis passes, I think it'll be a miracle. The Cuban Missile Crisis brought us to the brink - in fact, closer than was even realised at the time, with one Soviet sub captain going so far as to give the order for its weapons to be launched (an order, mercifully, not followed through). This is a tighter situation than that by far. Even Khrushchev wasn't that mad.
This is not the most dangerous moment in history my guy.
I agree...far more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis....just on the reason alone that in 1963 we had super intelligent people like JFK and RFK who didnt trust everything the generals and CIA told them dealing with the Russians versus now having a dementia case like Biden who does everything the military industrial complex and CIA tells him to do & a Mainstream Media beating its war mongering drum hard
It's literally right around the corner..
If you are concerned about a nuclear war as I was. Try asking your congressman where the nearest fallout shelter is. I did and all I heard were crickets, nothing I mean nothing. The US Government will all let us die from radioactive fallout then try to provide shelter. In this case the lucky ones will die in the blast, while the survivors die a lingering death from fallout, and starvation.
Well now I’m a registered nurse and 34 years and I’m very familiar with the effects of nuclear war and so forth and there would be very limited amount that the medical community could do if nothing else because of lack of supplies rugs clean water sterile dressing’s we would just be overwhelmed.
As long as there are humans, there will be trouble.
as long as there are Caucasians and those others whom uphold and support their system it was always be death and destruction
This guy gets it!
Adipose BRiLLANT!!! Thank you
Yup! We humans are supposedly God's crown jewel of creation, but we, by far, are the most barbaric creatures on the planet! Not animals, the creatures we feel superior to. Humans are sinister beings!
In 1980, Luis Alvarez and his son Walter came up with the theory that an asteroid impact had wiped out the dinosaurs. Not long thereafter, many scientists began to compare the damage this asteroid did to the earth with what a full scale nuclear war would be. The conclusion of these scientists was, that while a full scale nuclear war was not as bad as the asteroid impact in terms of explosive damage, it still had enough explosive damage that when compounded with the additional effects of radiation, a full scale nuclear war was an extinction event for humans.
@@_Tangerino It is called a "Sampson event" where in the Bible Sampson, with his super strength, pulls the temple down upon himself, killing himself and every one inside. Castro admitted to McNamara (US Defense Secretary during the Cuban Missile Crisis) in 1992, that Castro would have done a Sampson event during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Khrushchev had given Castro the go ahead to use the nuclear missiles Russia had placed in Cuba if the US invaded Cuba. We were six hours from invading Cuba, and did not know nuclear missiles existed in Cuba, when Khrushchev and Kennedy agreed to put off the invasion. There were enough nuclear missiles in Cuba to have wiped out the eastern and southern US.
Excerpt from the documentary "Fog of War." Interview with McNamara.
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True thats was the thinking back in the 1980s. Now it's 40+years later, more is known, we understand physics better. We understand weather better, we understand ecology better.
The megatons delivered into the ecosphere would be orders of magnitude smaller. Even computers are a little smaller now.
@@patclark2186 We understand a lot of things better. But most computer modeling has been based on a hundred fires around the globe when there are 12,000 nukes. As you say, the fires are magnitudes smaller.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
That's fake science though. You can't listen to these exsperts,COVID should have taught everyone this. There will be a nuke standoff we won't be hit .
@@davidgmillsatty1900 boy you are way off.
What he meant was there's a Strategic Nuclear Arms Treaty in place. We no longer use large nukes. The nukes are smaller and more accurate.
Not sure why you try to use fires to compare to nukes. Lol
Fear itself is explainable
Believing in fear has no definition.
Very sad 😔 that we even disscuss this .
When it happens I'll just make sure to be close to my family. The rest is out of my control.
Chances are the nukes would of hit the ground before you even know they where launched
@@GrinReaper804 That's why I'm moving home now. The energy is too off to chance it.
2:36 My understanding is that a ground burst produces more fallout, not less.
compared to a warhead detonating in the air just off the ground
i guess living in a bunker is a good choice
Only the blast gets a bit smaller
Yeah. When that lady said otherwise I had to do a double take.
Yes and multiple ground bursts throw up tremendous amounts of dust and smoke that will end life as we know it. Extinction of most of the planets life.
I just pray for safety and wellness, these times are really scary when you think about it
Im watching this hoping we never ever get to this point. I hope we all realize the importance of life and get to the point. Where people wether they are form the north or the south from the west or the west get along and live happily without living under the daily fear or seeing humanity disappearing
8:47. "Sometimes they have as little as seven minutes to make that choice." Man - that is insanity plus!
Russia will have 3 min if Ukraine join to Nato.
cnbc needs to vet their "experts" better. there are a lot of inaccuracies in this video.
bruh
yes, and the young kids probably need a little more seasoning..
Well he is currently talking about using them at this moment
It is only when a mosquito lands on your balls that you realize there's a way to solve problems without using violence !!
One point: A ground burst or low altitude air burst produces the MOST amount of fallout for a given yield. Fallout is all of the debris that is sucked up into the fireball. The closer that detonations is to the ground, the more material that is sucked up.
A high altitude detonation produces very little fallout relative to its yield.
Second, the greatest danger with respect to nuclear escalation is the deliberate use of an accurate tactical low yield weapon against a hardened military target or a critical infrastructure. An adversary may use one if they believe that we would not respond in kind or use larger nukes. That would most likely lead to a large scale nuclear exchange.
Bingo. So much for experts. lol
I was about to chime in on that, too. A port burst would sent up an awful lot of radioactive mist, too. Not an ideal situation within 20-30 mile downwind :0
fallout 5????
Exactly. How on earth did she end up on the team?
There is not gonna be a nuclear war they cant stop the time
Stopped listening when she said a ground blast was the best case scenario in terms of radiation, shows you how little she actually knows. In an air exploding nuke, more things might be instantly hit, but most of the radiation gets launched into space, and that's what's the real killer if given enough time
I came to the comments to see if anyone else caught that lol
Hopefully you studied all your life on nuclear warfare space will erase any radiation earth won't
@@yungfrvnk1942 I mean, I've studied some basic-ish nuclear physics, definetly not enough to give a definitive veredict without making some research beforehand. I'm just informed on the topic and have some common sense
If something is chucked out of the system you're studying, you stop worrying about it, so surely the option where the most stuff gets chucked out is the better one (obvs this is oversimplified)
yep, that was the end of the video for me
I'll tell you something, my fellow humans, when this does happen, it's going to be thmost horrific event in human history. The pain and suffering after will be beyond imagination. I try not to think about it but man, we're so unstable and just seems like we really want to destroy ourselves. We created our own destruction. I sometimes wish some advanced alien civilization would come to our planet and help us get on track on how life should be and show us how to fix our worldly problems and get rid of all the corruption and greed that is holding us back.
Ironic how it makes you think of Steven kings movie THE STAND.
Have faith in Jesus christ for we are in revelations and as an nde survivor I can tell you that heaven is where the party will be. God promises us eternal life but you will go to heaven or hell for eternity. Your final judgment before jesus christ will happen when you die and thats when you will know whether you go to hell or heaven. So we all must try to live a better life and help your fellow man. God is with each of us at all times so know you are blessed by God. Faith and love go a long ways even as tough as times are now.
" Now I am become death the destroyer of worlds" Oppenheimer (Father of the bomb) Quoting Vishnu from the Bhagavad-Gita
And it's "I am become death..."
Nothing will happen. The nuclear 'deterant hoax' was not he nuclear war deterant, but jjst a partly sucdesfull war deterant. Real A-Bombs or H-boms or Netron bombs never haver still don't and never will exist. Why? Course it was just a well prepped hoax,..and. Be course the nucler atom split chainreaction (Atomb bomb) is against / violating the Universal Laws Of Physics. Einstein, Oppenheimer etc were actors coached by natural scientists, 'holywood / Disney studeo's, etc. The Manhattan project was bluff. Heavy water factory raid In Norway intended to let AXIS believe the allies were close to developkig an 'in Science fiction books known weapon called Atomic bomb or Pulse or Ray weapon. Raids on tokio nagasaki and hiroshima are just fire bomb and normal blast bomb raids. The japanesse surrender partly and 'play along' with the allies that the destruction was caused by just one Atom Bomb dropped on several cities by only one bomber (plane) at the time! All so called nuclear tests are one and the same prepped for months or years even kilotons of ordenace and other explosives and combustables blown up in one moment as if it was caused by one little ATOM bomb device. Above and unserground. To make it look real preferable heave radiactive material was added ih the blown up stock pile of 'explosives' to make it look to be an Atom bomb. Chain reaction with radioactive 'fall out'? These above ground always fake just convedtional explotions, sold as life nuke tests , caused cancer radioactive polution etc and were banned almost unanimus by 99,99 % of the countries ih the world. Exept china and warchaupact? Why? Cause most test were not even large explotion but ver early extreemly advance trucked montages small scale films. The H- bomb for instance the most famous one tdst were the remains of axis fleet was blown up. Is just a slow mo movie witadded back grojnd and explotion is a rising sun above the ocean. The ships are models! In nowaday USD dollars that ' movie' production would have cost almost have cost 700 million USD!
China and russia were unable to make thdse trucked SF a fake A or H bomb tests. So they persisted in large stock pile prepped for years often big explotions above ground the only showed to there own audience in blank and white and never in colour. The tzar bomb movie from the early 50's is only in the in the 1990's first shown in later added colour!
Nukes are and and never were real!
Hindus believe that Mahabharata happened 1 million years ago and Nuclear weapons were used to annihilate one another.
Only 5 Pandavas survived the war protected by Lord Krishna ( God in Hinduism ).
Lord Krishna is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. This quote is from bhagwad Geeta
Brahmastra can boil off oceans and PASHUPATA ASTRA can destroy the universe.
@@visalakshimahadevan6726 A million year old nuclear reactor was found in Africa, so I could see that all myth is based upon some truth.
I worked with a woman who was a elementary school stude t in 1962 at the heart of the Cuba missile crisis. She recalls teachers going to the main office to watch latest updates, returning to class telling students to go home, be with your family, remember how much you love one another and to wait and prepare to die. I kid you not. She said she balled her eyes out as every kid did and cried with her mother all huddled in their living room waiting to die waiting until dad finally made it home stuck in traffic as everyone was sent home. To die. 5th grade. I dont think people understand what every Boomer remembers & the trauma that causes on children. To go home and prepare to die. This was SW washington state where she lived. Over 3,000 miles from Cuba & sent home to die by all the teachers. You can just see everybody sitting by their tv’s, radios, waiting to hear what Kennedy or Khrushchev would do? Will we live or will we die? The entire concept of duck & cover was abandoned in schools after that as people quickly realized death is by far a better choice than surviving a nuclear war. But because things are so censored from school children these days, we have raised 2 generations of Americans who were sheltered by not showing them bodies of Jews burning in ovens, or of Japanese survivors without any clothing, hair, lips, or genitalia because it was all burned off from the blast. But they survived and I know this from the documentaries. Documentaries some idiot declared too graphic for a child so they could grow up thinking such a war can be won. Just read some of the comments from people above or below me… these idiots are saying the govt should be handing out information on how to survive. It’s like what part of stupid university did they come to the conclusion we can survive?
1) The 1963 film Ladybug Ladybug shows a situation similar to your story. Children are sent home for a "go home" drill, but word spreads that it's not a drill, that they are going home to die in a nuclear attack. (Their reactions are heartbreaking! Especially little Jo Ann.) There is some extraordinary acting in that film, but it's a product of its time, so there are a few sappy bits. I think it's one of the best Cold War films. 2) We will not all survive a nuclear war. Most of us will die, if not right away, then in the decade that follows. The important word is MOST. Some of us will live. Even if it's just 1% of the world's population, that's 80 million people. What kind of world do we want to leave them? Should we leave food, medical, agricultural, and industrial supplies for them to make a new start? I think it's irresponsible to write them off. I think we need to consider that question and come up with a rational plan before it's too late. The US government has this continuity of government plan to make sure the people who are in power now remain in power after a nuclear war. (You can see the importance of keeping the people in power who got us into the war, right?) I think the people of all nations deserve a similar plan. The people, not those in power. Plan for the survival of the people, some of them anyway.
As a millennial who grew up in NY, this was 9/11 for us.
I grew up in the 80s, and know what you are talking about in terms of media censorship. It’s almost as if we’re taught to ignore reality.. conditioned to not care. I was glad to be born and raised during a time in the U.S. when we could see reality for what it is, even on T.V. and not some fake “reality TV” show unrelated to anything remotely real.
Carl Sagan said it best. We have only one planet, a pale blue dot, in a rare, and seemingly fragile existence.
2:45 on the ground minimizes blast effect, but MAXIMIZES fallout. Anyway a bomb is detonated has its pros and cons.
A ground burst wouldn't minimize fallout, it would maximize it. Air burst create minimal fallout if the fireball doesn't come into contact with the ground.
An idiotic suggestion from one of the commentators that we would use nuclear weapons against military targets and not civilians. This is totally insane. Once nukes are used, the consequences will be out of our control. Please stop talking about the possibility of a limited use of nuclear weapons, for humanity's sake! Just de-escalate, please!
In either a retaliatory or first strike launch, both the US and Russia would target Silos, and then air bases, military bases without airstrips, and finally civilian infrastructure.
Tell putin think hes going to listen
It'd be like a frog in a microwave. I don't think the world leaders would be crazy enough to destroy one-third of the earth, but some psychopaths might drop a deadly virus attack
@@curtissharris8914 they are not the one dying and suffering from nuclear active radio waste, they will be in their bunker for years and years so they don't really care. We are just pawns and only the elite and filthy rich will survive
@@curtissharris8914 I hope none of them will push the red button. This is why people should've elected scientists, engineers or doctors as their leaders, instead of great debaters, lawyers, military generals and clerics
**Putin enters the chat**
@@containedhurricane mad scientist say hello
Guteres : "The risk of nuclear war is very much real"
CNBC : "That will be very bad for the economy"
Once it happens we all die, sooner, if lucky, or later, by illness or starvation.
well, this is very comforting🤔
The U.S. with all it's technology needs to build and set up a system to make nuclear weapons obsolete like former President Reagan wanted and then work toward a world without nuclear weapons.
If nuclear weapons become obsolete, something even more destructive will take their place. This is what happened after the bombings that happened during World War II. Conventional bombs with greater destructive power were invented and replaced the ones used in that war.
Yeah that would be nice but honestly nuclear weapons is what keeps World Peace believer it or not. If one country uses their nukes we all use our nukes it's called Mutual assured destruction.
getting rid of them will be a bad idea since it has been used as a weapon of "balance" and peace
This is true if US didn't have nuclear weapons Russia would rule the world with theirs.
if the US stop sending weapon to attack Ukraine it will be the best action to stop worldwide concern. Ukraine started the war just because they are sponsored.
Real life is literally following the Star Trek timeline. WW3 in 2026, lasting until the 2060s. Warp drive and first contact shortly after.
When is Picard born?
@@cyclops9125 2300 something
Why not the Simpson predict the future too.
so basically star trek is idea of a person who time travelled from the future and told the history 🤔
@@Sathish_12 Do you have doubts? Just joking, we all know that Star Wars is true because it happened in a galaxy far away and long ago.
The background tinkling noise (music?) is very annoying...
What if? That's a good question considering there's thousands of nukes on earth.and if and when yet to be used.
Never should of started making nukes. I think we know what happens if many are launched. Not everyone has a bunker to sit in for years.
IF you are ever in a city when a Nuclear Bomb goes off and you are close to the epicenter but are not melted...you might wish you had been. Death from the aftermath of a Nuclear Bomb and not in the initial blast is horrific and painful and almost otherworldly. The Radiation dose alone will start to liquify your interior organs (for some idea of what that looks like check out Chernobyl the series from HBO, while it was not a Nuclear Bomb that went off how those initial people die who are exposed is what it would look like) not to mention the burns on the skin and organs, it's just not something anyone should think is survivable, you will wish you were dead in the initial blast.
If it liquifies organs, then how safe would a piano be?
Depends of what the keys r made from. I'm getting one of those new piano Nuke insurance policies as well. But then got thinking maybe I should learn to play first lol.
@@kolobkolobkolobkolob - You guys are killing me! No - wait - it's the OTHER guys who are killing me!
I definitely agree. I'd hope I would be at ground zero
Look up a man by the name of Hisashi Ouchi.
“ interesting game, the only winning move is not to play, how about a nice game of chess”
A lot of stuff would probably get messed up
I couldn't even finish the video. I feel the wave of sadness washing over me.
I feel you. That happens when we stare at evil. Call some friends over a six-pack. I call my sons and suddenly things are not that bad.
I. Don’t know why I am watching thsi I was once scared every night because of war I couldn’t sleep I don’t want to spark my fear bck
End capitalism
Same. It’s very frightening and distracting to think about. How stupid are those in control to think that if they initiate this attack, they will survive? And actually make things better? Too much evil with too much power.
“My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos... ruined dreams... this wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max." To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time... when the world was powered by the black fuel... and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now... swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed... men like Max... the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything... and became a shell of a man... a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.”
Actually many people would survive the bombs. The biggest issues would be severe food, water and energy shortages - coupled with security. If you have a cupboard full of food it's very likely you would be attacked by your neighbour when they run out. It really would be survival of the fittest.
Yes your 100% right. The rioting with cause the city's to crumble more. They will be pushed to the country. Its gonna real with no water and food
We livin this to the day that we die, survival of the fit, only the strong survive
Probably earthquakes and volcano eruptions from the blast
even people in bunkers would eventually starve..full nuclear exchange would easily cause at least 5 years of freezing temps all over the globe.
No it would be survival of the well armed.
I wish the government would start preparing by creating a massive underground city but of course that is ridiculous for something that could never happen. Seems like a good setting to a movie though.
I love the video keep up the good work and I think nuclear war would end the world as we know it it would never go back to being the same so I hope we never use them
There people forget that if it's in the water...water evaporates, can hit the jet stream