In the event of a nuclear war between the United States and the Russian Federation, more than 5 billion people will die, and the planet will be enveloped in a cloud of black ash and smoke for 10 years.
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This conclusion was reached by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who designed a visualized model of nuclear strikes between the two countries, reports Time.
To create the most realistic simulation of a nuclear war, only unclassified data was used. According to scientists, if one side launches nuclear warheads, the other side will return fire even before the missiles reach their target.
As the video shows, it doesn’t matter who starts the war: when one side launches nuclear missiles, the other side detects them and opens fire before impact.
In the scientists’ diagram, ballistic missiles from American submarines west of Norway start hitting Russia in about 10 minutes, and Russian ones from northern Canada start hitting the US after a few minutes.
The first impacts set fire to electronics and power grids, creating an electromagnetic pulse of tens of thousands of volts. Attacks on command and control centers and nuclear launchers will be next. Land-based ICBMs take about half an hour to fly from launch to target.
Major cities are targeted for both military installations and to hinder the enemy’s post-war recovery.
Each collision creates a fireball, roughly as hot as the core of the Sun, followed by a radioactive mushroom cloud. These intense explosions vaporize people nearby and cause fires and blindness farther away.
The expansion of the fireball then causes an explosive wave that destroys buildings, crushing nearby ones.
The United Kingdom and France have nuclear capabilities and, in accordance with Art. 5 NATO is obligated to protect the US, so Russia is also attacking them. Firestorms engulf many cities, where storm winds fan the fire, igniting anything that can burn, melting glass and some metals, and turning asphalt into a flammable hot liquid.
Source: Racurs
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