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I'm not worried. I bought five desks from the high school I went to in the 70's. My family is prepared.

A very true picture of a Nuclear detonation. I am a nuclear veteran from the late1950's and your description of a nuclear burst brings back memories of the intensity of the light, I had my hands covering my eyes and could see the bones in my hands for a few seconds and then feel heat on my back from the initial burst, we were told it was safe to stand up and look at the detonation which by then was a giant cauldron of water and earth creating a column stretching skywards. A visible black line rushed towards us and lifted us of our feet, that was the sound of the detonation. Something that I will remember forever.

It is very true that the ones that go first will be the luckiest.

Can this woman have a personal meeting with every single president of the world? That would be game changing.

Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil... Live your life as things are outside your control

Leaders of the world now seem hellbent on giving nuclear war a shot.

Good video to watch before bed

I remember asking my father back in the 1980's if there was a nuclear war, where would he run. I was shocked when he said, I would run towards the flash as fast as I can. I was looking confused by his answer then he said if there were to be a nuclear war, the hardest days are the days after the food and gasoline run out and that's when people will start stealing anything they can to trade for food and if you don't have anything worth trading, they will take your food even if they need to kill you to get it. Life would be a living Hell, he said! I never forgot those words to this day.

I joined the British Army during the cold war and was stationed in Germany as a combat engineer. We trained relentlessly to possibly fight a war in an NBC ( Nuclear,Biological and chemical ) environment, doing extended exercises and living and sleeping in NBC suits and respirators. The drills you have to go through to decontaminate yourself for urinating/defecating and the procedures just to drink water and eat and is a very taxing, even in training. Main points we learnt. The war would basically be survival and to continue fighting is unrealistic for most If you are a casualty in such an environment, you are pretty much dead....the treatment and evacuation of a casualty is hard to basically impossible If it was not for the fact that we would be fighting to protect our families, the consensus was that the best place to be would be directly under the mushroom cloud and get it over with Survival for the vast majority of people, military and civilian would not be possible. Once every infrastructure collapsed, people would die from lack of clean water/food/sanitation/medications/minor and major wounds/elderly without care/bandrity, let alone long term medical issues.....its not a good outcome it puts things into perspective when you have the personal dosimeters explained.....every soldier is issued a unique wristwatch type dosimeter, returned after every exposure to be read for radiation accumulation back at central medical HQ. The result is kept secret from the soldier.....but if the soldier has received fatal doses of radiation, they will be sent out repeatably until they die instead of another soldier who has received possibly a lighter dose and will be returned to the rear to hopefully live.

We have lived with this reality our entire lives. It just shows how mad humanity is.

The British movie from 1984 - Threads is even more horrifying than The Day After and probably closer to reality.

Most accurate portrayal of a nuclear bomb going off in slow motion is probably Sara Connor’s nightmare in T2..

Threads shown in the UK was a terrifying film aired in the 80's, this Lady speaks words of wisdom, that should be heard by our elites. Thank you so much for posting

As a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, we were trained for N.B.C.W. Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Warfare. The scenarios we were shown still upset me to this very day.

This issue is virtually ignored today. I'm the same age as the author in this piece, and when we were in high school it was the height of the Cold War. It was terrifying. We lived knowing at any moment we could be incinerated. The U.S. and Soviet Union were mortal enemies and had been for 40 years. Then in 1991 it was suddenly over. The U.S.S.R. was dissolved and Russia was not our enemy. The chances of a nuclear holocaust were reduced to practically nil. It was glorious. However, all those too young at the time and all those born later lived in a world where no one talked about nuclear weapons. Two generations lived without the threat, without any knowledge of what these weapons arsenals could do. Now we are suddenly thrust back into a time of nuclear peril, but 1/2 the world's population is massively under informed or knows nothing of this renewed threat to humanity and the bulk of life on our little world. A great and necessary video. Thanks for making it and helping to inform the masses.

Sarah Connor is back from the future to warn us 😮

Annie is a highly intelligent woman with a voice to die for. 🇦🇺 😊

Watch the British movie “Threads” - it makes the other US made-for-TV movie, “the day after,” look like a Disney flick

Lawrence, Kansas...the location of the filming of The Day After. I was there. The staging of the downtown to replicate a nuclear disaster was as horrifying as you could imagine it would be. Unforgettable.

Her calm and assuring voice is the perfect contrast to what she's talking about

WELL, that's my uplifting video for the day.

President Reagan also watched the BBC drama called Threads which depicted the scenario of a nuclear bomb dropped on the city of Sheffield and the aftermath.

Gasoline to run the diesel generators? Good luck with that.

I grew up in the Cold War and a common belief of everyone of around my age (the much aligned Boomers) is that NONE of us expected still to be here. I took comfort at the time from the fact that, on the leaked targeting lists of the Soviets, I had a ground-burst that was going to hit a listening station 400yds from my house - I wouldn't have know a thing about it. And, as noted in the comments elsewhere, our young, wealthy, host needs to watch Threads to get an idea of how bleak a fate such a war is.

the survivors will envy the dead its so true

Annie Jacobsen mentioned the 1984 movie The Day After. There was also a British made movie called Threads released the same year which is far grittier and more realistic and involves a nuclear attack on the UK - specifically from the perspective of bombs falling on the city of Sheffield. The movie was done as a kind of part drama and part documentary and is enough to put anyone off the idea that nuclear war can be won or have any benefits to those who "push the button". Not a nice movie to watch but a "must watch".

Watching "The Day After" in 1983 had a profound effect on me as well. I was 9. I recall my brother who was 25 saying he would run outside and pray that he would die immediately if a nuclear war was underway. Those words always stuck with me. We lived (and still live) just outside of Washington, D.C.

She forgot South-America. Not just Australia and New Zealand.

War, war never changes

That was Gorbachev and Reagan. But now look where we our, and what our lunatic species is doing.

So glad to know that Team Shower Daddy has us on a fast train to this destination.

You want to know what life after a major nuclear strike is like? Watch the terrifying, genuinely harrowing, and brilliant 1980s British film: 'Threads'.

Whilst I agree with the intention, please get the facts right. SDI was never about putting nuclear weapons in space. It was about intercepting ICBMs

Scary to think normal people getting on with their lives are living under this threat held by such few men in the world

NewZeland and Australia might escape the worst of it but if the ozone layer is so damaged that people can't venture out in the daytime, agriculture will get fried as well. Yes Even in the South of the Equator destinations.

Well that escalated quickly

Well this was uplifting on a Wednesday afternoon.

The Day After… I was in 6th grade. Scared the ever living crap out me. And just think, that movie still didn’t capture the full reality of the horrors a nuclear war would bring.

Reading between the lines, nuclear explosions should be avoided.

If she thinks no and Australia won't be fighting for food she's got rock in her head

"On the Beach" by Nevil Shute. This book describes everything they are discussing from an Australian point of view.

New Zealand, southern Australia sounds like a blast, but having read the novel On The Beach by Neville Shute perhaps not. Waiting to die could be worse than instantly.

The most common strategic nuke sizes are 186kt, 320kt, and 2.2Mt. In addition there are far less stronger ones for tactical use and ones up to 120Mt for special use cases like the posidon torpedo tsunami/anticarrier device.😮 They have made lots of improvements on nuclear wespons, mostly trading brute force power for efficiency and accuracy. They also have improved the safety and security of them so an accidental nuclear explosion will not happen. I hooe they are never used though.

So to summarise, it would be the end of human civilization then..

The 1st 20 mts be like when your mom fell off the bed that one time in Nagasaki back in the day

Tom Clancy does a great awesome job describing the first micro second of a nuclear explosion, in one of his books. Sum of All Fears maybe...

This has set me up for a great day

I own and read that book called "The Path Where No Man Thought" By Carl Sagan and Richard Turko.

Why would you want to survive it? Imagine what's left of your life would be like.. Nah fuck that!

I remember watching a movie a long time ago where a comment was made, “once the first bomb is launched the war is already over.” I’ve forgotten now what movie but I’ve never forgotten that comment.

Back in the 70's when I was in high school we studied the USSR's capabilities of hitting Louisville Ky the city I grew up in. The DoD had stated that the USSR had no fewer than 11 warheads aimed at the City and surrounding area because of all the chemical plants along the Ohio River and Fort Knox being 30 miles from downtown. Not to mention 3 power plants on the river and a damn. All these targets are still here for the most part. Part of this was the USSR lacked accuracy and opted for saturation of a region instead. I wonder how many they have pointed at the area still.

Nevermind The Day After - watch the UK equivalent Threads, - 10 times bleaker and worse if your in Britain, there isn't anywhere to escape

the movie 'the day after' was tame compared to the british movie, Threads.

You were correct in saying “striked” as opposed to “struck”.

A thermonuclear detonation is LITERALLY a man-made star upon the earth.

"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." 2 Peter 3:10

Seen a lot of this recently. Little disconcerting.

every major city in the CONUS,, within 3 minutes, is gone ...east coast, west cosst, gulf coast, plains, mountains, gone. every used-to-be military place, gone. As a kid from The Cuban Missile Crisis, if you see a bright light, just stand and wait...

I remember that film really well. It was shocking. I also remember another television movie titled “We Interrupt This Program” or something like that, that took the form of a live breaking news event involving a nuclear weapon on a ship in Boston. My boyfriend was busy doing laundry, walking back and forth, carrying a clothes hamper. Every so often hed glance at the television and walk by. After perhaps 3 trips he looked at the television, looked at me, and then asked “What the hell is going on?!”. It was that realistic. I’m not 100% sure of the title, but it was very frightening as well.

I was born in 1963, and lived through all the events she's talking about. Suffice it to say, her memory is not the best.

What a beautiful voice she has 🫣😍

" A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival." - Stephen Falken, WarGames

Threads 1984 is the most terrifying movie of all time because it perfectly demonstrates how life would be if nuclear war broke out.

this why i live on a yacht with my dog. i live in the moment. people live your truth and have experiences before this could happen

pls don't put gasoline in the diesel generators..they were our last hope 3:03

As a child in the late 70s and early 80s, I remember seeing the B-52s scramble from Dyess AFB during alerts. We would sit outside and watch those giant planes lumber into the sky, and it looked so cool to us kids. Little did we know that when those bombers took off, the world was so close to ending as we knew it. After seeing The Day After, Threads, and Testament, we were terrified whenever we saw the planes take off.

This really opens ur eyes, thank u for the information

If electricity and infrastructure are destroyed . We not go 20.000 years back but some middle age and between 200 years back becauce do not forget horses and steam powered maschines . Even biccels can build at cart. Mechanics left too differend rope, axel system can be build at trees / wood .

As an Australian with a preparedness mind set and survival skills to match , it brings me alot of peace of mind knowing that I live in a country that may have a greatly reduced chance of having to deal with a global ww3 scenario ( if I was to survive after such a devastating global event ) , here,s hoping that the worst case scenario never ever happens and the human race will forever live in peace .

She describes catastrophe with such a soothing voice 🤔

This is a great show.....👍

A 9 mile diameter radius? Righto

The diesel generators run on diesel, not gasoline lady!

8:56 - The Day After was nothing compared to the horror of Threads. I was 15 years old when I watched Threads on my local PBS station. I had nightmares for at least 2-3 days after watching that movie. Back then, I was a degenerate for horror movies. After watching Threads, Jason and Freddy Krueger didn't do it for me anymore.

Check out the movie “Threads.” That’s what it would be like.

If, if, if... Nothing remains.... Know Thyself. Fear's folly destroys the human psyche. Namaste 🙏

A lot of things to disagree with here. 1Mt is overkill for pentagon. Thermonuclear weapons achieve temperatures in excess of 180 million F. 9mi diameter for ignition is generous. US cities don't have the fuel loading to lead to a firestorm. Nuclear winter has lost a great deal of credibility. The same guy who postulated said that same would happen with the Kuwaiti oil fires. It didn't. No Russian weapon today is capable of producing a fireball a mile in diameter. Most would be less than a quarter of a mile. The ozone would be fine. The mode average strategic weapon yield is 0.1Mt. Many are higher, even into the megaton range, but let's generously assume an average of 0.5Mt. A generous but reasonable estimate of the number of weapons used in a global exchange is around 5000. So that's 2500Mt. Each Mt produces around 4900 tons of nitric oxide from chemical reactions of atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen in the fireball, so we'd expect 12.25 million tons of NO. One mole of NO can react with one mole of Ozone to produce nitrogen dioxide and diatomic oxygen. The molar masses of NO and O3 are 30 and 48 g respectively. Thus about 19.6 million tons of ozone would be destroyed. There is about 3 billion tons of ozone in the atmosphere, so only about 0.65% of it would be destroyed. UV intensity on the ground wouldn't be affected in any meaningful way. The K-T event is no comparison to nuclear war. One is over 5 orders of magnitude more energetic, and releases an equally greater mass of atmospheric particulates.

What an uplifting presentation.

Just bought book on Amazon, be here tomorrow. Sounds great.

What’s a nine mile diameter radius?

The point is.. don’t let off a nuclear bomb.. yeah convenience the egotistic world leaders.. smh 🤦‍♀️

‘Last Train from Hiroshima’ has some very vivid descriptions of the two atomic bombings that ended the war. It’s been criticized for inaccuracies regarding the bombers’ crew members. It’s still very disturbing w/r what happened on the ground. Ground zero is the place to be as the radiation would kill you before your nervous system would/could recognize, let alone react to the event. The rest is pretty much horrifying. James Cameron was rumored to be planning a movie based on the book-haven’t heard anything lately.

No one really survies a nuclear war.... That movie scared me for decades 😳

Book. Book. Did I mention my BOOK?!

Just watch the movie the day after

He said he thought it wouldn’t be so bad. The government and media has been saying this recently. Are you fxcking kidding me?

The impacts will be concentrated in different sections of the USA, depending on whether nuclear strikes are directed to force objectives (taking out military bases and nuclear silos in the Mid-west) and/or value targets (major cities). The Mid-West to the Great Lakes would be severely affected by radiation fallout in any event. Russia would be devastated to a great extent due to concentration of civilian centres near nuclear launch sites. The other country that would be impacted to a catastrophic level is the United Kingdom due to its concentration of civilian centres near military bases. The best protected areas of the US are in the Lower Mississippi basin due to lack of value targets and wind directions towards the north east away from the Bay of Mexico.

Nuclear weapons should just NEVER be an option The people should just dismiss the leaders who even think using nuclear weapons.. and yet we just keep on living under those leaders hoping the best

Annie is a great woman. Her books are amazing 😊

I read that over time mutations will eventually make it impossible for people to feed nor breed.

Watch "Threads" chilling to the extreme

We can alter the trajectory of an asteroid.

"Man returning to the most violent state." More violent than nuclear apocalypse? I look forward to the reset. See you in the new world. Living with nature is where we belong.

Always run towards the Bomb never away!

Yeaa you are so smart

Flash of thermonuclear light? 180 million degrees. I think she should re quantify that as the flash of thermonuclear light from the explosion.

I’ve never caught a video so early. Hi early gang 👋🏼

Another cold war movie from 1983 was Threads. This movie is very sobering to the least.

Mans inhumanity to man knows no bounds