British Couple Reacts to How would the United States Fight a Nuclear War?
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The show you’re thinking of is The 100 😅
Yeeessss Thats the one! Loved it! But butchered the name ahah!
Love that show.
When Millie was talking about living on the water, I kept thinking don't tell the poor girl about radiation and how wind patterns work
If you went to Africa, South America, or somewhere down there, you could possibly survive.
Would dissipate/dilute very quickly in water though.
@@shag139 In the water the yes, you are very correct, however I was speaking about the air over water which would needed to be breathed. And if you lived at sea you cannot drink seawater, you would have to be exposed to the air that has already been sent by the winds from the clouds that would rain radiated rain. That is why even the top nuclear physicists say that if a nuclear war across the world ever happened, you better pray that you die in the blast. There will be no food left to eat, it will all be irradiated. The more food you eat the more you kill yourself even fishes from the sea. Unless for some small percentage you managed to throw a LEAD tarp over everything. Including yourself and food/water supply for months. However that's impossible because people need to eat more than once a week and must drink water/liquids compriser of water at least two times a day. That said there are only a few houses left with a nuclear bunker lead lined bunkers underground in the United States. I'm not sure if there's any left in Britain. And lead is the same material that can kill human, but also the only one known that can stop Radiation, The BIGGEST threat of Nuclear Fallout. Harness the Power of the Sun, get burnt basically. Sometimes Knowledge and Technology is not such a great thing. Going back to the biting of the fruit in modern Western theology. The fruit was not the sin, it was the attainment of taking from the Tree of forbidden knowledge...
Mankind always wants to seek more knowledge. Inevitably mankind will seek the knowledge to destroy itself again. The best move is not to play. But we are a temperamental mammalian species. Whom seems to not learn from the Warnings given, or are We? Lets hope the Latter.
Very few of the warheads would be programmed to detonate at ground (or sea) level. Mostly they would be detonated at a pretty high altitude like the Japanese warheads were detonated at 10,000 ft to maximize the area of the spherical explosion impacting the ground or sea.
Your boat will be capsized from the tsunamis that are
made by bombs before radiation hits 🌊
It should be said that the U.S has a much larger population than Russia with almost 332 million people, while Russia has roughly 143 million people.
Yesss, hopefully they see this comment!
@@jacobrisner2883...why, when all it would take them is a 10 second google search...
😂 Millies face when she hears England is in if the US is in 😂 (3:55) Sorry for the bad news Millie!! ❤
Also the UK and France have there own nukes so they would still be a target
UK. England is only part of it.
My partner and I were driving down a road in Inverness, IL, at around 3am on Christmas morning when we heard an odd sound near us... Looking up from the car there was a huge triangular shadow with a few lights on it (red, green, and white), and it was following us as we drove. My partner was yelling, "it's a UFO!" - but I worked at an Air Force station before, and a Naval Air Base; I knew exactly what it was - a B2 Bomber! I figured they were probably landing at of O'Hare Airport (since we were close to it), and were just getting in some training following a car at night...
12:18 Nukes are exploded in the air, above a target as that is the most efficient, so over land or water doesn't matter
The white dots is the blast radius 10:27 (for the most part). What they do not talk about is the nuclear fallout the radio active dust could that can/will drift the hundreds or thousands of miles. You will be ok for the most part in Jersey. But that all just depends on the wind patterns
They talk about it in part 2
they move the missles around so the enemy doesn't know where they are. I used to live in Montana and the airforce moved them around all the time.
Radiation is what will get you
We need to see part 2
I am older than you , 52 and grew up near an Air base in the USA that had b-52s with nuclear weapons. We grew up thinking the USSR would attack us at any time. We did drills that seem so silly now where we would go under our desks at school. You should look for the movie The Day After. We saw this often as well as Emergency Broadcast Tests on TV for us to prepare for nuclear war.
Crazy times.... I am so sad they appear to be here again.
Same. I learned how to use a Geiger Counter, when I was 16 - 17.
Same here in age - it's unfortunate that we have a pres that may actually cause this.
Older than all of you at 67. I lived from the relative beginning to the present. Many, if not most, were quite certain that nuclear annihilation was probable, the number of home underground nuclear shelters in the '60s were innumerable.
I am 50 & live an hour away (that's Minnesotan for 55 miles) from Duluth - which has an Air National Guard base & the Twin Ports are the farthest inland port in the world & the biggest port in the Great Lakes, so it's generally considered a target when something like 9/11 happens & on high alert. I don't remember any nuclear drills, just tornado in the 1970s & 1980s, but my aunt has told me about doing them.
I'm 71 so . . . I win I win. LOL!! The strategy of MAD has served well with a few scary exceptions. With a change of thinking on how to attack to get what you want, and maybe nuclear attack is acceptable, it probably is time to start thinking differently. Strangely we owe a great deal of gratitude to 2 Russians in 1962 & 1983 who kept calmer heads & not pushing the button.
Millie is not going to sleep well tonight lmao
To answer your questions. When a country fires nuclear weapons in a war scenario, it's done in waves. The 1st wave targets military assets like silos and military bases. 2nd wave targets civilian and military infrastructure. Then, the final wave targets civilian cities. After all the missiles have reached their target, now you have to watch for radiation and fallout. Which can be just as damaging as the missile itself. The UK would be absolutely destroyed in the 1st wave, and fallout would go all over the UK, including where you guys live. Radiation sickness can unfortunately be a long, painful death depending upon the amount you have. You can survive in a Bunker depending upon its rating and preparedness. Hopefully, this helped answer some questions.
That's why it's called Mutually Assured Destruction Millie. We hope all sides have the same reaction as you do.
Or M.A.D. For short.🇺🇸🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇴🇻🇬🇬🇧
I feel like it’s important for people of your generation to research this subject matter further. In the 60s, 70s, and even the 80s people learned a lot more about this when they were young. I feel like since then people have become rather complacent about it.
I watch a video recently showing the amount of nuclear bombs ever detonated. It’s in the thousands. Normally you just think about the 2 over Japan and the dozens that you’ve heard of in testing. But it is over a thousand.
Yup, I have seen videos about England's tests where they had military ships nearby & the sailors were just sitting on the top deck with their hands over their eyes. They didn't really have complete knowledge of the fallout & affects on the human body when all of the countries were developing the technology. I saw on the news thr other day that there was a nuclear reactor melting down in Canada in the 1950s & the US government sent in our sailors because we had nuclear subs & our engineers knew what to do & Canadians didn't know what to do. President Jimmy Carter was in charge of a large group who were only able to stay inside for 90 seconds as the maximum (back then) "safe" time. Jimmy Carter was one of the sailors who went in to disassemble the reactor.
Last I read, Russia had about 6300 nukes, with about 1600 ready. US 5500 nukes, with 1700 ready. It wouldn't take that many to make sure EVERYONE had a bad day.
Well of course they have to test their weapons, otherwise you can't really put your trust in them can you.
It would have to be a lead-lined boat, with lots of food and purified water already on board. You would be better off underground with huge storage capacity.
The innocence of youth on Millie's face and in James' voice are very apparent. The likelihood of any of this happening is still low but for the first time in generations (Cuban missile crisis 1962) nations are taking it seriously. I could pretty much guarantee you that in Russia, China, or North Korea (all are both authoritarian and autocratic) some general or other defense official would assassinate, or otherwise remove that leader from power rather than letting them destroy the world. I also believe that even if an American president threatened to be the first to launch weapons that he could be prevented from doing so. Because once the first country starts launching those weapons a chain reaction will occur to kill or be killed. I hope young people like James and Millie get to live and full and secure life and never have to feel that these madmen, so beyond their control, could rob them of their future., ♥
My brother was in the Navy. He told me that there are generals in between who could cancel out the president's orders if they believed it was foolish to start anything.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine commander was ordered to fire off a nuclear torpedo. He refused, believing the provocation cited, was actually NOT an American attack. This man, Vasily Arkhipov, basically saved the world with that inaction!
@@rightlyso8507 Yes I heard about this man. We all owe that man a debt of gratitude for exercising great judgment. I just can't imagine that one crazed maniac could be allowed to light the fuse that blows up the world.
@@a00141799 Yes! I remember one other similar case during the Cold War. I forgot a lot of the details ... it was also Russians/Americans in the 1960s. What appeared to be a missile, was spotted on a soviet radar screen. The Russians were set to launch their own in response. Then, a commander figured if the Americans were going to attack, it would not be using only one single missile - it would be an entire arsenal flying towards them. Cooler heads prevailed and the 'missile' turned out to be a glitch in the mechanics of that radar system, or whatever it was called at the time. On both occasions, that and the sub, it would've only taken one finger and "ka-boom".
@@rightlyso8507 Not to mention there were a couple times in the '80s where Russia believed the U.S. had launched a nuclear attack, but they quickly figured out it was a malfunction in their equipment. Luckily the humans don't actually want to end the world and will try to avoid pushing that button at all cost - that was the basis for the movie War Games.
Jersey’s real problem would be the aftermath. Unless you are self-sustaining, you’d be cut off from the rest of the world while it dealt with bigger issues. It might be a slow, miserable way to go.
Millie,
you don't wanna watch the complete interview from survivors of Hiroshima, the lucky ones were the ones vaporised at ground zero, and their shadows burned into concrete.
Millie asked "how would she Die"? You would go from ambient temperature to 10,000 degrees in a millisecond 😂
The atomic explosion over Nagasaki affected an over-all area of approximately 42.9 square miles of which about 8.5 square miles were water and only about 9.8 square miles were built up, the remainder being partially settled. Approximately 36% of the built up areas were seriously damaged.
I like Millie’s reactions. She’s so innocent which is refreshing. Thanks to you both!
ikr, the UK does not have nukes if I recall
Your biggest concern on Jersey would be electricity down, internet, phone and possible lack of running water. Then lack of food and medicine when the shops are empty. Then nuclear fallout and radiation poisoning. If you survive all that then probably death from cancer earlier than normal.
However, with the prevailing winds being off the Atlantic, and the Gulf Stream carrying radiation from European explosions to the west and north, Jersey will probably be minorly affected. Even that peninsular French target indicated, the one James was concerned with, was to Jersey's west and the prevailing winds would carry radiation away. The white circles are too large for the actual blast zone (which should be considered not just the incineration zone, but also the shock wave zone within which buildings are damaged). However, supply ships would be very limited for some years - learn to grow your own and catch fish, if you are actually worried.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 depends on if the wind comes down from Cornwall and Devon or the Atlantic and English channel. Either way those who have stocked up on food and keep it protected will do better. Outside relief may take a long time.
0:31 " Mr. President, we cannot allow Mine shaft gap!" - Doctor Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
I love how we named our Nukes, Minutemen. 😂
Most Nukes are Air bursts. 1-2000 feet above ground or even miles above for EMP to knock of electrical systems.
Definitely keep watching.
She's understanding the complexity of nuclear weapons. Launch or dont launch? Just dont launch seems so simple where there's ppl out there who don't care.
Surviving a nuclear war actually isn’t hard its surviving the nuclear winter that follows is hard most of the deaths will come from the nuclear winter that would follow
depends on where you live, major city = you are fucked. same ges to high value target locations. I live a couple km's from a nuclear power plant that which I know is a target, I know my ass is dust
@@Gantzz321 cities are the lowest priority targets for nuclear weapons yes cities will get hit but 95% of the weapons will be used get higher priority targets like ballistic missile fields
@@freedomefighterbrony9053 that's bullsh*t they use normal bombs for that, tactical nukes are to punch holes in frontlines but in WW3 they use them to destroy cities why you think? Well it's bc the bigger cities are the heart and brain of the country so it's basically the point to destroy the country not disarm
@@freedomefighterbrony9053 next time don't spread BS
Good thing Oakley makes thermonuclear protective sunglasses 🕶️😎
You should find a video on being a prepper. On second thought, don't tell Millie about peppers. 😉
Yes part 2 is up and you should check it out
Growing up in Detroit (major nuclear target) in the 60s "duck & cover" was a weekly drill in all schools! Children got use to a more than likely attack 😩
Lol, for some reason this video was suggested to me again. This was the video where Millie said, "couldn't the UK just keep our mouths shut and look the other way while the US is being attacked with nukes?" I had forgotten about this video. I think what struck me as funny was that she asked that question literally 60 seconds after saying, "I'm glad we're friends." Man, that's priceless! That's what you call a one-way friendship right there. Don't ask what I can do for you, ask what you can do for me. Yeah we're cousins, right? Right up until things get a little inconvenient. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Attacks in cities would almost certainly be air burst as you have more blast effect on city below. Ground burst are more for going after underground places like command centers or missile silos.
Millie just found out what a cold war feels like.
What...a cliff hanger. Noooo. Do the 2nd part.
I just looked at the point in Normandy at Cap de la Hague and it looks like the La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France, with the Manche storage centre bordering on it. La Hague has nearly half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity.[1] It has been in operation since 1976, and has a capacity of about 1,700 tonnes per year. It extracts plutonium which is then recycled into MOX fuel at the Marcoule site. It looks like that would be a target in nuclear war. It seems you are probably 42 clicks from there as the crow flies. You would see the light on the horizon and then need to worry about fallout but you will survive the war.
The doctrine is called MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction). The US stance was (and still is) "If we detect as little as ONE a credible launch from you (Soviet/Russia), we will respond with EVERYTHING WE GOT against you". Russia has the same doctrine as well. This is because both sides cannot guarantee that there will be anything left after the first round strikes with which to respond. Both sides have pledged no first strike use. This doctrine has kept the peace all throughout the cold war, albeit a tense one.
Russia knows that if it strikes the US, NATO will respond. Therefore, Russia will always attack the US and NATO simultaneously. Both the US and NATO will respond. China, seeing that Russia may lose and will have to face the US alone will also strike the US. The US will then also strike China. Israel seeing that big brother (US) may not be around to protect them will strike Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran if they have gone nuclear will respond by striking Israel and Sunni Saudi Arabia. North Korea seeing big brother China may not be around to protect them will strike the US, South Korea and maybe Japan. India and Pakistan will probably use the chaos to launch opportunistic strikes at each other. In short, once it starts, it will be a whole big mess
Yes, please. If available I'd like to see the next part.
Have y'all watched the movie War Games? Like Tic-Tac-Toe, nobody wins
War Games is such an underrated movie. I believe it is Matthew Broderick's first movie.
The UK uses "The Letters of Last Resort" in case of nuclear attack on the homeland.
You guys should react to the 80s movie, War Games
Videos like this make me think of DBZ: Abridged when the sayians arrived. They all think the first sayian was so strong, then...
"You see, Raditz (nuke used in WWII) was so weak, we use him as a unit of measurement."
the original blast is quite small but the fallout depends on where you are to the blast and to the wind. Where I live a blast would be at least 500 miles away and the normal jet stream would take it either north or south of me depending on time of year.
Depends on airburst or ground burst, as well. One of the two( can't remember which) doesn't really produce much fallout at all, the other decimates entire regions.
Same. I'm not bragging, but I'd be alive and well after the nuclear war is over. What I'd probably end up dying from would be starvation after the total collapse of infrastructure.
There’s an old saying… “not sure what weapons will be used in WW3 but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.”
The best place to be in a global nuclear war is ground zero. Surviving to experience the fall out isn't desirable.
Nukes explode above the surface so your surface location is not really the point.
Norad is a bunker Colorado , they would launch from there. We have nucs on planes, subs and land.
Yes watch part 2
First of all. All those ships have to get past 11 aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines, and hundreds if not thousands of attack boats.
Jersey would probably be OK. You'd get some fallout depending on wind direction, but you're not going to be ground zero, and you're far enough from major cities. After a couple of days 97% of the radioactivity is gone, and after two weeks 99%, so in theory life would be about as normal as it could be in Jersey with cities like London and Paris gone after just a few weeks. If you want to see what it looks like when those ICBMs are launched, just watch the first 5-10 minutes of the movie War Games as they have a pretty realistic scene of what it's like to work in those missile silos. Movies like The Day After and First Strike also have some realistic and scary scenes about nuclear war. It was a common theme in the '70s and '80s.
Potassium Iodide pills are something you can keep in your medicine cabinet. I have some. Prevents the thyroid from uptake of radioactive iodine, which concentrates there and causes cancer. I'd get it to neighbor kids, as soon as I could. I'm already 60, so better to try to save the youngsters. Plastic and duct tape for the windows. Stay inside minimum of 3 days. Need as much material/walls/floors/dirt between you and the outside. A basement is best. Decontamination is important. There's a lot to know, and it's not pretty.
James accepting the nuke fate 😂😂
This is something you may find interesting. It's Tom Clancy's famous 1991 book and 2002 movie "The Sum Of All Fears", and one of my favorites. Somewhere in the mid east a nuclear bomb is lost off a plane (these events are called a "broken arrow" by the military) and falls to the desert and is buried fairly shallow in the sand. It does not explode of course, because being an accident it was not armed. A few years later a Bedouin finds it but doesn't know what it is, but it feels strangely warm. He alerts his favorite terrorist group about it and they come to see it and know exactly what it is. After thanking him and telling him he did the right thing by telling them they take it away. Through their network they are able to recruit several nuclear scientists to dismantle it and rework it into a working weapon. They decide that what they have wanted to do for many years is strike the US but can't do it by plane so they load it into a gutted soft drink dispenser machine and put it on a ship to sail it to New York harbor. From there it's moved by truck to the Denver football stadium for the upcoming Superbowl, where disguised "workers" installed it inside the stadium which of course will be packed full of people in a few days. No one pays any attention to it, figuring it's just out of order. In the link below Tom takes many pages to describe in incredible detail what happens step by step the steps that are needed to start a nuclear explosion and what happens as the shock and heat wave, x-rays and gamma rays radiate outward. He take many pages to describe what takes just a few billionths of a second. Start at Chapters 35 & 36 and page 487 by scrolling down in the full book link below. The first casualties that are the closest never feel a thing. They are just vapor and dust and everything gets worse from there readerslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Sum-of-all-Fears.pdf
A good representation of nuclear war was in the movie " The Morning After " . It might be available on UA-cam or on DVD on Amazon and eBay
it's estimated roughly 70,000 to 135,000 people died in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 people died in Nagasaki, both from acute exposure to the blasts and from long-term side effects of radiation
Check out the early 80s movie, The Day After. It ran one time on American network television and scared every one to death.
For reference US dropped two bombs on Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There have been hundreds of above ground tests most by US and CCCP (Soviet Union) with Britain, China, and India doing a few. Hundred more below ground tests were done to test war head designs.
Hey guys, love watching your channel. Thought you’d be interested to know that these bombs don’t actually hi the ground! They explode around 1500 ft above the earth.
Remember Millie, Ignorance is BLISS !
Its funny that shes just sipping on a bug juice this whole video 😂😂
They have large bunkers for the government.
Yo, there is a part two for this video. Highly recommended
Born and raised in New Jersey. lol
Now relaxing on Florida's west coast.😎
Back during the Cold War there was always an an airborne command post in the air 24/7. NEACP (knee-cap). National Emergency Airborne Command Post. Plus what used to be called SAC (Strategic Air Command) would have large numbers of bombers fueled, armed, and ready take off within minutes of an alert. Alert crews would be a few hundred yards away from their planes. Again 24/7/365
If Millie can handle it, I'm interested in part 2.
Maybe keep her away from the Chernobyl series though.
There was a movie about a nuclear war from the 1980s called The Day After.
Music: may I recommend Stand or Fall by the Fixx (a British band)!
10:17 it would be pretty painful for a second. There would be a radioactive gust of wind that reaches 1,000 km/h. (Close to the speed of sound.) not sure if the heat would reach Jersey. But if it did, it would be bad… When the bombs dropped in 1945, mostly everything and everyone in Nagasaki and Hiroshima disintegrated. But those bombs in 1945 were 20x less powerful than the least powerful nuclear bombs the United States possesses today….
Yes, please finish the series.
Yes part 2 is out and you should react to it
I'm a 63-year-old American born and raised during the Cold War. I remember the emergency drills during the 1960's at school, in case of storm or nuclear war. Every town and city had a Civil Defence marshal co-ordinating where people would go for shelter, and providing necessary items (food, water, first aid, etc.). At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union together had over 30,000 thermonuclear warheads deployed. Today, the 9 known (USA, Russia, China, UK, France, India, Pakistan & North Korea) or suspected (Israel) nuclear powers have less than one-third that number deployed.
Watch the UK movie "Threads" which covers a nuke war in the UK
Y’all need to react to the video “what if we nuke a city” it breaks down what would actually happen in a city being nuked, because no you won’t necessarily just be dead instantly depending on how close you are to the nuke and a few other factors, the only people who are dead instantly are the people right near the explosion, those farther out may survive, although many of them not for long, but it’s a ridiculous idea that most people believe that everyone would just be immediately dead from a nuke, it’s a little more complicated than that lol
if, and only if, the world were somehow destroyed by nukes, the planet itself would be fine, but yes most of humanity would cease to exist. the planet would gradually heal and rebuild itself
I remember a study from the 90s, I think, that said that if all the world's nukes were used for maximum destruction and death, still over one third of humanity would survive. That's still around 3 billion people. A lot of cleaning up and rebuilding to do, but far from being an existential threat.
“There’s no reason to worry about it. There’s nothing you can do.” 😂😂😂
Russia's Population is about 144 million where the United States is about 340 million
Didn't realise Russia was that low!
If they keep fucking around, then there gonna find out what living with a population of 1,000 feels like.
@@TheBeesleys99 Keep in mind that Russia has a lot in common with Canada. Most of their territory is so far north that it is hard to live there (or grow food). Also, Siberia is a relatively recent part of Russia (and thus more lightly settled).
next part is out
As long as you're not killed in the initial explosions (or the radiation burns from being in proximity to the blast area) you could absolutely survive a nuclear war. The radiation will be largely gone in about 30 days (though radiation levels will remain elevated for many years to come resulting in higher cancer rates and birth defects for a generation).
Even then, air burst detonations don't kick as much radioactive dust into the air as ground burst ones do. Bigger blast area with less radioactive fallout.
China is most populated. A lot of Russia is in Siberia. Very cold less population there. Mutual destruction is the whole idea behind nuclear war because there is no winner. It’s sucks but know one has gone nuts yet and started a nuclear war.
Yeah, russia has about half the US population and both India and China have about 1 billion more people than us.
And yes, that little red spot in Europe is part of russia, it's called Kaliningrad I think
This was so interesting to see how your generation views this issue and the misconceptions let Millie watch some stuff about world war 2 and the atom bombs and then the cubanmissile crisis and then the Reagan years with the Russian Cold War and the nuclear testing etc. it is very interesting and clears up a lot of misinformation.
sould react to old nulcear testing videos
You couldn't get on your boat fast enough lol
Yes, you are correct, James. China and India have much more of a population than the United States. We have about 350 million people here, and China and India have over a billion. Millie was also right about Russia. They are the biggest country in the world, yet a lot of their land is uninhabited.
Russia has a lot of the same problems as Canada does. So much of their territory just isn't suitable for farming.
Unfortunately water has atoms also. Those atoms split and reach temperatures like the sun in the blast zones.
Well 58 yrs of sleeping at night was enough I guess.
Research what happened to the animals that were used for testing the effects of Nuclear detonations, placed in the hulls of ships at ground zero just off the islands. It might shock many at the actual survival rates past the initial detonation, and how complex the scenario has to be for everyone outside the initial blast zone to be lethally affected in the short term. Surviving may not be a walk in the park or very fun, as the many hazards start to take a toll, but there will be plenty of survivors for a myriad of reasons. To cover every area of the US with a peak overpressure of 5psi or greater (the lethal environment for those that did not instantly turn to ash from the heat) would require 99,763 warheads of 1000kt detonations each and this is if all were air burst detonations in perfect weather and conditions (according to MIT's nuclear detonation calculator). While I don't have immediate access to the list of Russia's warhead strengths, they are listed as having 1600 warheads with 920 more in warehouses. They are stated as having 1444 deployed on ICBMs, SLBMs, and in bombs deployed by Heavy Bombers.
We can look at the USA's listed stockpile to see the vast majority of warhead strengths do not exceed 400kt, with only 50 B83s that have a 1200kt yield and 384 W88s with a 455kt yield, leaving all the rest of the 1700 warheads deployed being 300kt or less. Even if Russia convinced everyone who has nukes to use them on the US, the US still survives the incident albeit severally distressed and shaken. Knowing this, where would the choice of targets end up for those attempting such a thing? Would they go with population centers and if so, which cities would need to be totally wiped out before the US loses its counterattack capability if any? Or would all the targets be military targets in hopes of getting an early-round knockout?
New York City Metro would require 281 warheads
LA Metro 804
Chicago Metro 257
Dallas Fort Worth Metro 220
Houston 224
Just to be sure every person in the top 5 US Metros by population was either killed or nearly mortally wounded would require 1786 warheads to reach the 1000kt energy yield, something the combined non-US nuclear weapons holders don't have the capability of doing. The avg strength of the US held nuclear weapons as of 2016 was less than 300kt, and at 300kt it would require double the amount to cover the same area with the most lethal immediate outcome as these numbers are based on 1000kt detonations. Again, surviving these attacks would not be an easy life, and there would be many who do not die immediately but over the course of 1-6 months do, however getting to distances greater than 7km from the detonation sites dramatically increases the odds of being a long-term survivor. If you survived the initial blast and are able to walk, you could walk out of the downwind lethal fallout zone within the first hour or two which is a shorter time than the fallout would reach lethal levels from ground zero.
If the enemy tries to nuke US Military installations/bases, this would increase the number of counterstrikes as host countries would be directly involved in not just nuclear retaliation, but also conventional warfare retaliation as well. The success rate of such initial attacks would be much lower, as defenses in both eliminating the effects of a strike and disabling the strike before detonation would be probable events, for instance, miss hitting a US aircraft carrier by more than 2km and it is unlikely to have any long term disabling results as US sailors train to minimize the damage and recover quickly beyond being at GZ of the blast. The number of missiles needed to assuredly get one of them to hit within the 2km zone becomes a major challenge, especially when you compound this to the multiple fleets, multiple bases, and multiple ships in the US military. There is no conceivable way to eliminate the US Warfighting capability using nuclear attacks by the known nuclear-powered countries and their weapons combined. There isn't even the ability to weaken the US enough to enable a successful invasion given the limitations the entire world has on expeditionary force projection over a large body of water. History shows the lethality of the American industrial might when it is applied to the production of warfighting materials, so anything less than a knockout blow is just asking for defeat that will happen in a matter of time. This is why it is ridiculous for any alliance or nation to think this would be a solution to whatever struggle they are trying to solve with such attacks. The US spends the money and resources to ensure its weapons are ready and capable, with the highest readiness rating of any nation. The US also spends the money and resources to enable defense systems to eliminate the threat while it is still in flight before warhead separation, as well as point of impact defense after warhead separation, to give the highest probability of destroying the most warheads before detonation with the ground and sea-based anti-missile systems as well as space-based anti-missile systems. The amount of defense systems the US has or has access to, is expanding every year.
10:00. We love England & Jersey! You will safe! Or will you?....Muahaha!.....
Hey guys check out the most powerful nuclear explosions. From the 1940s thru the 1960s above ground testing showed the power of the nuclear bombs we gave today. Most were many times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s humbling to the Tsar Bombas. Also frightening.
Yes I know that isn't the full title of the movie! SO RELAX
Millie, I don't think the Queen or King are in charge of the nukes.
The UK keeps all its nukes on missiles in submarines. Same type of missiles the US uses.
For the UK, it would only take two missles.
I think the big guns would be more of a target , that's you guys .
Unfortunately we are close now!! A.lot of Americans don't want it, no one wins!!!
Nuclear Radiation loses it strength over the ocean the saltwater decreases the radiation
Everyone else has explained the further horrors of such an attack. I don't need to depress you further. What I would say is a hopeful answer to your question asking what happens to the earth after. First, I think there will be some people left. People who live in the southern hemisphere, perhaps. If they can figure out how to produce enough food and keep a society going, may be some would survive. But, if not, much of the world would be uninhabitable, yet, I believe that various life forms would continue. It has been speculated that what will survive us are bugs and other insects. If so, the earth would likely enter the age of the insects. Sounds grim, I know, and like Millie, I am always trying to think of how I might survive, but the earth will likely survive, and I think that much of the land will see plant life reclaiming the land, including cities. I hope so anyway. It is too horrible to think that, as a species, we might just be stupid enough to end ourselves. On that cheery note. Peace
Don't think for a minute that you are hearing what is really happening. Military strategist don't let the internet know what is going on. Would you?
I think you may be in a very safe place if nuclear war breaks out. The closest military target to Jersey that I can think of is the harbor at Le Havre, and that's what? About 150 km to the East/Northeast? A 5mt explosion there would only go roughly half that distance, at best. And with prevailing winds generally blowing west to east, you should be free of most of the European fallout, and the North American fallout will almost certainly fallen into the Atlantic before it could get there. You'd have to deal with global climate effects, of course, but sheltering indoors for a couple of weeks should easily see you through.
The bad news is that with Russian or Chinese "aim," Jersey would probably get a direct hit from a strike intended for London or Paris.
I don’t think we can afford to be too dismissive about China’s capabilities at this point. Russia clearly isn’t the near peer we thought they were but that doesn’t mean we can write off China just yet, and complacency is destructive.
@@mobiusflammel9372 I don’t think China wants war, especially not with the U.S. which is there biggest customer
Russia's problems with its conventional forces are apparently due to an unwillingness to pay for new equipment and training since the fall of the USSR and a whole lot of corruption. We know they are proficient and accurate when it comes to rocketry through their space program. We also know they have been systematically upgrading their nuclear arsenal. I wouldn't want to bet against Russia's nukes reaching their targets. As far as China, they are very good at copying everyone else's technology including ours.
@@austin3873 Within the next decade, China is going to be facing a demographic collapse (due to their long one child policy). They are rapidly reaching the point where there won't be enough young people to take care of those too old to work.
China has an incentive to retake Taiwan, and enforce their control over the South China Sea, before this demographic collapse destroys their economy and drastically reduces their supply of fighting-age men. They are facing their last chance at attaining their territorial ambitions.
Another reason that the CCP might have for war is as a distraction from the severe internal societal collapse that will likely come along with the demographic collapse. China would likely be facing revolution, or at least civil war, if the CCP can't redirect their population's anger towards an outside target (something that their propaganda services have been working towards for quite some time now).
@3:30 even the largest bomb ever made hitting Cherbourg wouldn't hurt you guys in Jersey and that bomb is over 20 times as powerful as the largest the US currently uses. Depending on the wind there may be some radiation but not enough to worry about.
You would definitely see and hear it but unless one of you had a heart attack your biggest problem would be learning to fish and farm since chances are no more food is coming in for the foreseeable future.
Edit: @10:00 that is Cherbourg you pointed at.
Millie needs a bunker under the house