265.26 -> In the next few minutes and hours, thousands more will die because of these injuries.
272.14 -> Countless people are trapped in collapsed buildings like in earthquakes or blinded by the flash,
276.92 -> deaf from the blast wave and unable to flee through streets impassable with rubble and debris.
282.88 -> They're terrified, confused, and don't know what's happened to them or why.
287.86 -> Most likely, many hospitals have been leveled along with all the other buildings
291.76 -> and most medical professionals are either dead or injured,
294.6 -> along with everyone else.
296.72 -> The survivors lucky enough to have been in metro tunnels or standing in the right place to be unburned and unhurt
302.06 -> won't have truly escaped harm yet.
304.44 -> Depending on the type of weapon, where it explodes and even the weather,
308.18 -> an awful black rain can begin,
310.38 -> with radioactive ash and dust descending on the city, covering everything and everyone.
316.18 -> The invisible, malicious, silent horror of
radiation takes its turn.
321.28 -> Every breath carries poison to the lungs of the survivors.
324.96 -> Over the coming days, the people who receive the highest doses of radiation exposure will die.
330.56 -> There will be no help, not for hours or maybe even days.
335 -> Civilisation doesn't operate when
there is a total breakdown of infrastructure.
338.98 -> Roads are blocked, train tracks warped, runways cluttered with rubble.
343.74 -> No water, no electricity,
345.57 -> no communication, no stores to replenish supplies from.
349.74 -> Help from surrounding cities will have a hard time entering the disaster zone
353.78 -> and even if they can, the radioactive contamination will make it risky to get too close.
359.16 -> After a nuclear attack, you're on your own.
363 -> So, bit by bit, people emerge from the rubble on foot,
367.16 -> contaminated with radioactive fallout, carrying what little they may have left.
371.58 -> They are slow, in pain, traumatized, and they all need food, water and medical treatment fast.
378.48 -> And the damage done by a nuclear weapon doesn't end when the fires burn out and the smoke clears.
384.2 -> The hospitals in the neighboring cities are under-equipped for a disaster of this scale
388.54 -> and overwhelmed with tens or hundreds of thousands of patients with serious injuries.
394.1 -> In the weeks, months and years to come,
396.18 -> many of those who survived will succumb to cancers like leukemia.
400.68 -> The reason no government wants you to think about all this is because there is no serious humanitarian response possible to a nuclear explosion.
408.76 -> There's no way to really help the immediate victims of a nuclear attack.
412.68 -> This is not a hurricane, wildfire or earthquake or nuclear accident.
417.4 -> It is all of these things at once, but worse.
421.38 -> No nation on earth is prepared to deal with it.
424.7 -> The world has changed in the past few years, with world leaders again
428.82 -> explicitly and publicly threatening each other with nuclear weapons.
433.14 -> Many experts think the danger of a nuclear strike is higher than it has been in decades.
438.92 -> Governments tell their citizens that it's good that we have nuclear weapons,
442.34 -> but it's bad when anyone else gets them.
445.5 -> That it's somehow necessary to threaten others with mass destruction to keep us safe.
451 -> But does this make you feel safe?
453.26 -> It only takes a small group of people with power to go crazy or rogue, a small misstep or a simple misunderstanding
459.8 -> to unleash a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.
464.06 -> Exploding stuff in videos is fun.
466.72 -> Exploding things in real life, not so much.
470.54 -> There is a solution though!
472.86 -> Eliminating all nuclear weapons
and vowing never to build them again.
477.5 -> In 2017, almost 2/3 of all the world's countries,
481.38 -> supported by hundreds of civil society organizations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement
486.76 -> agreed to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
490.34 -> It's not about who has nuclear weapons and who doesn't. The weapons themselves are the problem.
496.02 -> They are deeply immoral and an existential threat to all of us.
501.14 -> No matter what country you come from, no matter what political side you find yourself on,
506.32 -> we need to demand that they disappear forever.
509.58 -> This will not happen without pressure.
511.94 -> If you want to be part of this pressure, there are things you personally can do too:
516.8 -> Visit notonukes.org to learn more about nuclear weapons and what you can do about them.
525.26 -> *Kurzgesagt Outro Music*
[In space, nobody can hear you-
