Nuclear War: A Scenario

Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash.

A nuclear crisis is not a worst-case scenario, it is the worst-case scenario.

Albert Einstein was asked what he thought about nuclear war, to which he is said to have responded, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be.

With time, after a nuclear war, all present-day knowledge will be gone. Including the knowledge that the enemy was not North Korea, Russia, America, China, Iran, or anyone else vilified as a nation or a group. It was the nuclear weapons that were the enemy of us all. All along.

It is the astonishing speed with which ballistic missile submarines can launch nuclear weapons, and hit multiple targets nearly simultaneously, that makes them the handmaidens of the apocalypse.

An immediate consequence of a nuclear strike [would be] that democracy would be completely gone and military rule would take place.” Perry believes that if military rule is ever imposed on today’s America, “it would be almost impossible to undo military rule” in the United States.

When a nuclear bomb hits Washington, D.C., chaos will grip the nation. Without a functioning government, there will be no rule of law. Democracy will be replaced by anarchy. Moral constructs will disappear. Murder, mayhem, and madness will prevail. In the words of Nikita Khrushchev, “The survivors will envy the dead.

Paranoia is a psychological phenomenon, same as deterrence.

Perry believes that if military rule is ever imposed on today’s America, “it would be almost impossible to undo military rule” in the United States.

If it’s a Bolt out of the Blue attack,” says Fugate, “population protection planning is a different animal. With a Bolt out of the Blue attack, population protection planning won’t happen because everyone will be dead.

The U.S. president—as odd as this may seem—has sole authority to launch America’s nuclear weapons. The president asks permission of no one.

The power to hurt is bargaining power,”76 Schelling famously wrote in his book Arms and Influence. “To exploit it is diplomacy—vicious diplomacy, but diplomacy.

And when the U.S. wants regime change, history shows the U.S. will lie.

Nikita Khrushchev, “The survivors will envy the dead.

Those who somehow manage to escape death by the initial blast

So here we are now. Teetering at the edge—perhaps even closer than ever before.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, U.S. forces were placed at DEFCON 2,119 meaning war involving nuclear weapons was presumed to be imminent. Okay

Launch on Warning policy is why—and how—America keeps a majority of its deployed nuclear arsenal on ready-for-launch status, also known as Hair-Trigger Alert.

The Missile Warning Center, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Colorado The National Military Command Center, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

It was decades later that Rubel confessed that this U.S. plan for nuclear war he participated in reminded him of the Nazis’ plans for genocide.

Why stockpile 1,000 or 18,000 or 31,255 nuclear bombs when a single one of them the size of Ivy Mike, dropped on New York City or Moscow, could leave some 10 million people dead?

By 1957, there were 5,543 bombs in the U.S. stockpile.

An atomic bomb will kill tens of thousands of people, as did the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A thermonuclear bomb, if detonated on a city like New York or Seoul, will kill millions of people in a superheated flash.

U.S. began making new and bigger plans, to use scores of atomic weapons in the next world war. A war that could be expected to kill, at minimum, 600 million people, one-fifth of the entire world’s population.

Jeffrey R. Yago: engineer; advisor to Electromagnetic Pulse Task Force of National and Homeland Security

A story where 12,000 years of civilization in the making gets reduced to rubble in mere minutes and hours. This is the reality of nuclear war. For as long as nuclear war exists as a possibility, it threatens mankind with Apocalypse.

The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard.

Thousands of commercial airplanes using fly-by-wire technology systems lose wing and tail controls, lose cabin pressure and landing gear, lose instrument landing systems as they head violently toward the ground. One class of passenger aircraft is mercifully spared, namely the older model 747s, used by the Defense Department for its Doomsday Planes. “747 pilots still use a foot pedal and a yoke, mechanically linked to the control surfaces,” Yago tells us. “There’s no fly-by-wire technology there.