ATOMIC BOMBSHELL
Horror simulation reveals nuclear war between US and Russia ‘killing 34million immediately’
A GRIM simulation reveals the horrifying mayhem that would ensue from a war between the US and Russia.
The ominous video shows how atomic bombs would rain down on Earth during the conflict, killing an estimated 34million people in under five hours. Most would die within a 45-minute period.
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A further 60million would be injured by the blasts, say experts at Princeton University in New Jersey.
They added that the number of fatalities would later skyrocket due to nuclear fallout and other long-term effects.
"This project is motivated by the need to highlight the potentially catastrophic consequences of current U.S. and Russian nuclear war plans," according to an .
"The risk of nuclear war has increased dramatically in the past two years as the United States and Russia have abandoned long-standing nuclear arms control treaties."
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The four-minute simulation, titled "Plan A", depicts how a conflict between the United States and Russia could escalate from conventional war to an all-out nuclear conflict.
It's based on independent assessments of current U.S. and Russian force numbers, nuclear weapon targets, and fatality estimates.
War begins when Russia launches a nuclear warning shot from a base near the city of Kaliningrad in an attempt to halt a US-Nato advance across western Europe.
Fighting quickly escalates to a tactical nuclear war in Europe, with Russia and Nato forces exchanging 480 warheads via aircraft in an apocalyptic battle of the skies.
Casualties (meaning both deaths and injuries) hit 2.6million within three hours.
With Europe destroyed, Nato fires 600 warheads from US land and submarine bases aimed at Russian nuclear forces.
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Russia retaliates with missiles launched from silos and submarines. This exchange causes 3.4million casualties within the next 45 minutes.
With the aim of blocking the other side's recovery, Russia and Nato each obliterate one another's 30 most populated cities using five to ten warheads on each town.
This leads to over 85.3million casualties within the following 45 minutes.
"[The simulation] uses extensive data sets of the nuclear weapons currently deployed, weapon yields, and possible targets for particular weapons," reads the blog post.
It leads to around 91.5million causalties across the entire conflict.
That includes 31.4million fatalities, and 57.4million injuries.
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"It shows the evolution of the nuclear conflict from tactical, to strategic to city-targeting phase."
While it may all sound a little far-fetched, the world is closer to nuclear war now than at any time since World War 2, according to one UN arms chief.
Renata Dwan, director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, warned in May that all states with nuclear weapons are modernising them, increasing the threat of apocalypse.
She said it’s important “to recognise that the risks of nuclear war are particularly high now, and the risks of the use of nuclear weapons, are higher now than at any time since World War Two”.
Terrifying space weapons of the future
Here are three of the scariest...
Rods from God
- A strange but utterly terrifying weapon has been dubbed "rods from the God" and is based on the concept of creating man-made meteorites that can be guided towards the enemy.
- Instead of using rocks rods the size of telephone poles are deployed.
- These would be made out of tungsten — a rare metal that can stand the intense heat generated by entering Earth's atmosphere.
- One satellite fires the rods towards the Earth's atmosphere while the other steers them to a target on the ground.
- Reaching speeds of 7000mph they hit the ground with the force of a small nuclear weapon — but crucially creating no radiation fall out.
- As bizarre as it sounds, a US Congressional report recently revealed the military has been pushing ahead with the kinetic space weapons.
Molten metal cannons
- This intriguing idea is being developed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
- It is called the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition or MAHEM.
- This game changing rail-gun can fire a jet of molten metal, hurled through space at several hundred miles per second by the most powerful electromagnets ever built.
- The molten metal can then morph into an aerodynamic slug during flight and pierce through another spacecraft or satellite and a munition explodes inside.
Space force ships
- Already the United States is powering head with its spacecraft, although China is busy developing one of their own.
- The top secret American XS-1 under development by DARPA.
- It can travel ten times the speed of sound and launch missiles.
- Meanwhile an unmanned craft is currently being developed in the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre in Mianyang, Sichuan province, which is also known as Base 29.
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A Nasa simulation recently revealed that New York City would be flattened by an asteroid if Earth's space defences failed.
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