How Would the United States Fight a Nuclear War?

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Published 2023-07-16
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Today we’re going explore the unthinkable: How would the United States respond during a Nuclear conflict?

When we first came up with this concept, we aimed to cover the America's Nuclear Triad and it's Russian Nuclear War Plan in one concise video, but one video turned into three. So here's full version of "How Would the United States Fight a Nuclear War?" as it was originally intended. Enjoy!

Sources:

Probable Nuclear Targets in United Kingdom, 1972: robedwards.typepad.com/files/probable-nuclear-targ…

Probable Nuclear Targets in France: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/…

Soviet Union Central European Target List, 1979: brilliantmaps.com/ww3-europe/

United States Target List, 1956: nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nucle…

Probable United States Counterforce Targets: dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/139236/Mont…

US Russian Counterforce Target List:
www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/us-nuclear-war-pl…

All Comments (21)
  • @dcred123
    Winning a nuclear war is just as terrible as losing it.
  • @user-is6ec7ee5d
    Plans look good on paper. Then, the sneaky Chinese drop an anvil on you from a party balloon.
  • @DoNotTredOnMe
    “A strange game” “The only winning move is not to play.”
  • @myeternalsin
    What’s kind of scary is this is just what’s public knowledge, who knows what else they have created over the years in secret.
  • @zachhoward9099
    The fact that humanity could literally undo millennia of progress in less time then it would take you to eat dinner at a sit down restaurant is chilling
  • 40 years ago I was a US Air Force pneumatic/hydraulic technician on the Titan II ICBM in the Wichita Kansas area. Our shop not only repaired hydraulic functions on the missile but also the pop-up antenna (that automatically raised after a nuclear attack), plus the locking lugs on the blast doors (these were the huge doors made of ferro-reinforced concrete in between the silo and the launch crew area to protect the crew long enough to turn the keys and launch the missile). Since our job was only to make sure the "bird" would actually work if the nuclear apocalypse happened, the Air Force taught us absolutely nothing about surviving a nuclear war, probably since it was pointless, and that was fine by me. Because one thing I realized on my own right away about surviving a nuclear war, is that I have no interest in surviving a nuclear war.
  • @tnitty9317
    That siren noise is the most erie noise ever. That shit is legit scary. Gives me chills
  • @painting1989
    This is absolutely insane to even imagine, I pray this never happens
  • @JoannaHammond
    The first rule of nuclear war, nobody wins a nuclear war.
  • @untouchable360x
    Not nuclear missiles. It's "special military projectiles."
  • @StephenBoothUK
    Interesting to note that when you look at the Russian bases they are mostly very close to borders with other countries, mostly China. Any attack on them would look very much like an attack on the adjoining country.
  • @supiferous9739
    I like the way he says “nookala” Makes a subject like this much more digestible
  • @granttyler7746
    The scariest part of it all is that every leader in charge of the warheads knows they will have a safe place to go indefinitely if nuclear war breaks out.
  • @chrisfox7393
    “I know not what weapons ww3 will be fought with, but ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones” - Albert Einstein
  • @ItzCosmix.
    "A strange game, the only winning move is not to play" -first strike
  • @joecraw9292
    Would love to see more videos like this.. Thanks!
  • I don't think people realize the amount of time and skill it probably took just to make and edit the visual and graphic part of this edit. Well done!
  • @ImSkittzle
    I love how we actually think the government lets us know how many missiles we have