2026-01-16
22 分钟If I was a fly on the wall, not that there would be a wall left, what would I, what would I,
and I was looking at America or the UK after it had been struck,
struck by these nuclear bombs by thousands of, you know,
Russian or North Korean nuclear weapons, what would I see?
What would the visuals be in those minutes after the strike?
I describe the first bomb.
In the scenario that strikes the Pentagon,
it's a one-megaton thermonuclear bomb in painstaking horrific detail,
all sourced from Defense Department documents,
defense scientists who have worked for decades to describe precisely what happens to things and to humans.
And it's horrifying.
But on top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light, which is 180 million degrees,
which catches everything on fire in a nine-mile diameter radius,
on top of the bulldozing effect of the wind and all the buildings coming down and more fires igniting more fires on top of the radiation poisoning people to death in minutes and hours and days and weeks
if they happen to have survived on top of all of that each one of these fires creates a mega fire that is a hundred or more square miles and so essentially in essence what do you see well in the scenario at minute 72 a thousand Russian nuclear weapons land on the United States.
And so it just becomes a conflagration of fire.
It's just fire, fires burning, fires 100, 200 square mile fires burning.
And then we move into nuclear winter.
And that's sort of the denouement of the book, where I tell you about nuclear winter.
from the point of view of one of the original scientists who wrote that original nuclear winter paper with Carl Sagan back in 1983.