US Plan for East Coast Nuclear Attack
US Plan for East Coast Nuclear Attack
The world knows the devastating capabilities of nuclear bombs due to the explosive ending of World War 2. The United States was responsible for dropping the bombs, but what would happen if a nuke was dropped on the US? Check out today’s epic new video to find out how the US would respond to a nuclear explosion on American soil.
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0.12 -> Ms. Adams stares out at the confused looks the
high schoolers in her classroom have on their
4.68 -> faces. She lets out a sigh of exasperation.
“Let me explain this one more time,” she says,
9.54 -> turning to the map on the wall and
pointing to eastern Europe. “Ukraine
12.96 -> gained independence—” before she can
finish her thought, a strange sound
16.68 -> fills the classroom. It’s the sound of a
siren. The shrill noise is dull at first,
21.06 -> but as the dust from decades of neglect works its
way out of the system, the siren becomes louder.
26.16 -> “What is that?” the students say, looking around
the room. Ms. Adams looks out the window; all is
31.8 -> quiet. She walks over to the door and opens it.
There is no one in the hallway. Slowly other doors
36.78 -> start to open, and her colleagues peer their heads
out. The teacher in the room next door shrugs.
41.52 -> Ms. Adams walks back into the classroom and shuts
the door behind her. She looks at her class. They
46.2 -> shift in their seats. “Is it a fire alarm?”
someone asks. But that doesn’t seem right.
50.58 -> There are no flashing lights, and a fire drill
wasn’t in the plan for today. “Everything is
54.84 -> fine,” she tells the kids, but everything doesn’t
seem fine. Ms. Adams walks over to the window once
59.94 -> again. She squints her eyes. In the distance,
she can see the skyline of New York City.
64.2 -> She turns around and walks towards the phone
on the wall to call down to the office. As she
68.46 -> walks away from the window, there is a bright
flash. Screams erupt from the classroom full of
72.96 -> children. They dive under their desks as
the room begins to shake. Moments later,
77.04 -> the windows explode inward; shards
of glass go flying across the room.
80.94 -> Ms. Adams falls to the floor. A piece of
glass as sharp as a knife whizzes over
85.02 -> her head and slams against the wall, breaking
into hundreds of little pieces. The students
89.4 -> are protected from the mayhem as they hunker
down under their desks. The siren continues to
94.2 -> blare. Ms. Adams shakes her head to clear her
foggy vision. Her ears are ringing. She slowly
99.36 -> stands up and looks around. The students
are scared, but they look to be unharmed.
103.26 -> Ms. Adams turns toward the window. Her jaw
drops. The New York City skyline is gone.
108.6 -> She slowly approaches the opening; warm air blows
into the classroom. “Stay under your desks,” she
113.82 -> says to the students. Ms. Adams stares out
the window. Where New York City once stood,
117.72 -> a giant mushroom cloud now rises from the Earth.
The surrounding area is aglow with radioactive
123.42 -> fires. A tear falls down her cheek. A nuclear bomb
has just hit the east coast of the United States.
128.94 -> At the same time Ms. Adams’
history class was interrupted,
132 -> an intelligence officer named Corporal Greyson
was working out of an air force base in Trenton,
136.86 -> New Jersey. Greyson had just gotten settled at
his station when he spotted something strange.
141 -> Satellite feeds indicated there had been a
missile launch from the Russian-Ukrainian
144.84 -> border. This had become a relatively common
occurrence over the last several months,
148.14 -> so Greyson chalked it up to the Russian’s
brutal tactics in their war against Ukraine.
152.7 -> However, as Corporal Greyson moved from satellite
to satellite to try and identify the impact site,
157.68 -> he became increasingly worried. The missile
had not yet detonated, which meant it was
162.6 -> either a misfire or Ukrainian forces weren’t
the intended target. Greyson zoomed out his
167.94 -> search radius. The missile hadn’t exploded
anywhere in Europe. “What is going on?” he
172.38 -> said out loud. Then he picked something
up. It was his worst fears come to life.
176.52 -> Greyson pushed his chair away from his workstation
and darted for the red phone on the wall. “This is
181.5 -> General Rodd,” the voice on the other line said.
“Sir, we have a problem. You need to get to the
185.7 -> control room right away,” Greyson whispered
into the phone. Moments later, an entourage
189.78 -> of highly decorated officers barged into the
communications room. Greyson was furiously typing
194.52 -> on his keyboard. “I think the Russians launched a
long-range missile,” he yelled over his shoulders.
198.72 -> The officers immediately dispersed to the
different stations around the room. They
202.62 -> looked at the data and determine the President
needed to be informed of the threat right away.
206.34 -> Fighter jets were scrambled. They took off
towards New York. “I’ve got it!” Greyson
210.9 -> yelled. The officers rushed over to his
station and looked at the data coming
214.44 -> in. A blurry image started to come into focus.
“Mother of God,” one of the generals said. “Is
219.84 -> that the Russian hypersonic missile
we were briefed on a while back?”
222.78 -> “Yes, sir,” Greyson confirmed. “And it’s
headed straight towards New York City.”
226.38 -> The day that the nuke detonated over the
East Coast of the United States was the
230.34 -> day that World War III started. The blast was
immense as the bomb had a 1-megaton payload. Time
236.16 -> Square and most of Manhattan were vaporized in
the initial blast. In an instant, over a million
241.38 -> people died. As the shockwave and radiation
spread outwards, millions more would perish.
245.88 -> The explosion heated up the surrounding area to
thousands of degrees, incinerating buildings,
250.74 -> cars, and roads. The superheating of the air
also caused a massive change in pressure,
254.88 -> which resulted in a shockwave with winds
blowing hundreds of miles per hour,
258.96 -> strong enough to blow people off their
feet and cause trees to topple. This
263.28 -> shockwave extended for three miles
in all directions. But it was the
266.58 -> radiation from the explosion that
would end up killing the most people.
269.46 -> As the mushroom cloud rose into the air,
it carried radioactive particles with it.
273.84 -> The wind pushed these particles northeast. The
fallout covered parts of Brooklyn and Queens,
278.52 -> but the Bronx was the borough
that received the largest dose
281.28 -> of radiation. The fallout continued to
travel with the wind, which carried it
285.36 -> up the East Coast of the United States,
reaching as far north as New Hampshire.
288.54 -> Hours after the blast, Corporal Greyson has a
moment to breathe. He has been relieved by another
293.22 -> officer so he can contact his wife, who is a
school teacher in New Jersey. She teaches history,
297.78 -> and he knows that she has an excellent view of
the New York City skyline from her classroom,
302.22 -> or at least she did until it was
wiped off the face of the Earth.
305.52 -> Greyson dials his cell phone. The phone
rings, and rings, and rings. “Come on,
309.78 -> pick up. Please pick up,” he preys.
There is a pause in the ringing,
312.78 -> then a familiar voice answers. “Thank God you’re
okay,” Greyson says into the receiver. Ms. Adams
317.52 -> is still at the school. It has become a shelter
for families needing food or water. Many in the
322.02 -> community commuted into the city for work,
and even though the town was spared from the
325.62 -> blast and initial fallout, at least half
of its residents were lost in the attack.
329.58 -> Corporal Greyson explains what is happening to
his wife. A nuke was fired using a long-range
334.5 -> hypersonic missile. The United States
believed Russia was still decades away
338.04 -> from making the weapon operational, but as
Putin became more and more frustrated with
342 -> his shortcomings in the war with Ukraine, he
took drastic measures. It was more luck than
346.38 -> anything else that the hypersonic missile
actually worked, but now the East Coast
349.98 -> of the United States is consumed in flames
and radiation. Putin couldn’t be happier.
354.36 -> After the bomb detonated, the United States
immediately went into lockdown. All flights
359.04 -> were grounded. The borders closed up. No one
was allowed in or out. The armed forces were
363.9 -> instantly mobilized, and since it
was clear where the nuke came from,
366.84 -> soldiers were ordered to report to
their bases for immediate deployment.
369.9 -> New York City is in ruins, and much of the
North East coast will be covered in fallout.
374.28 -> The military sends doctors and medics to the
surrounding areas to help the hospitals deal
378.54 -> with the millions of people with burns,
radiation sickness, and wounds caused by
382.92 -> blunt force trauma. The death toll will continue
to rise, and over the next several years, anyone
387.84 -> who received even a small dose of the initial
radiation will need to be examined for cancer.
392.1 -> The nuke will have long-lasting effects
on the East Coast of the United States,
395.76 -> but none of that might matter as NATO
is about to go to war with Russia.
399.9 -> After the nuke struck Manhattan, the U.S.
immediately reached out to its allies and
404.16 -> informed them of what was going on. They
needed to take care of things at home,
407.34 -> but Russia had declared war on the free world,
and now the nations of NATO needed to make them
412.38 -> pay. The U.K. and France arm their own nukes and
await orders from high command. Even though the
417.6 -> United States had been attacked, military leaders
know the consequences of retaliating with nukes.
422.16 -> If World War III becomes a nuclear war,
the entire planet will be at risk. There
426.54 -> are no winners in a war where NATO and Russia
continuously fire nukes at one another. However,
431.16 -> this does not mean they will not be going
to war. After the nuke hit the East Coast,
435.06 -> all negotiations were off the table. The U.S. will
be invading Russia, and Vladamir Putin will pay.
440.88 -> A nuke hitting New York City
is a worst-case scenario,
443.58 -> and the enemy knew this. There is no doubt
that wherever a nuclear bomb detonates,
447.3 -> there will be mass destruction and countless lives
lost. However, New York City is the most densely
452.4 -> populated urban center in the U.S. By firing
a nuke here, it ensures that it will cause the
457.5 -> most amount of casualties. Another side effect
of nuking New York City is much more widespread.
462.24 -> If a nuke hits the East Coast of the United
States, economies around the world will crash.
467.1 -> This may not be the most immediate concern,
but if New York City is wiped off the face
471.3 -> of the planet, the world economy could
collapse. All-out war will likely occur,
475.74 -> so nations around the world will start gearing
up. The private sector will pool its resources
480.3 -> to start building more weapons and machinery
to help in the war effort. The U.S. dollar and
485.04 -> economy will probably tank as investors
pull their money from the stock market.
488.7 -> But what if another nuke detonated somewhere else
on the East Coast of the United States? Regardless
493.62 -> of the exact target, the results would likely
be the same. The U.S. military would mobilize
498.24 -> and immediately strike whoever was responsible
for the atrocious act. All NATO countries would
502.98 -> send aid to the United States and help in any way
they could. The nuclear arsenals of NATO would be
507.78 -> put on high alert, and at any given moment,
the world could be plunged into nuclear war.
512.1 -> A nuke going off in New York City
would most definitely cause the most
515.4 -> casualties as far as targets on the
east coast of the United States go,
519.06 -> but there is another key location that an
enemy could strike. If someone wanted to
522.96 -> hit the heart of America, they would
detonate a nuke in Washington, D.C.
526.38 -> Moments before the nuke strikes New York City,
the President of the United States sits in the
530.82 -> oval office sipping coffee. It had been a long
night; decisions needed to be made about further
535.32 -> sanctions being placed on the countries aiding
Russia in the war against Ukraine. Suddenly,
539.82 -> a squad of secret service agents bursts
through the doors. The President startles,
543.54 -> spilling his coffee across the desk. “Sir, we need
to get you out of here!” the lead agent yells.
547.92 -> The president grabs his jacket from the
back of his chair and is escorted out of
551.4 -> the room. “What is going on?” he asks.
There is no time to talk; the agents
554.7 -> rush him toward Marine One. The helicopter's
propellers are already spinning. The agents
559.14 -> desperately try to get the President on
board. “Where is my family?” he asks.
562.44 -> “They will be right behind you, sir!” the
agent yells over the chopper’s blades cutting
566.1 -> through the air. The President stops dead in his
tracks. “I’m not leaving without them,” he says,
570.48 -> but it doesn’t matter. Before anyone can
protest, there is a bright flash. A nuke
574.68 -> explodes in downtown D.C. The dome of the Capitol
Building instantly melts. The Washington Monument
580.02 -> goes up in flames like a torch. The White House
is obliterated. In a millisecond, the executive,
585.18 -> legislative, and judicial branches of
the U.S. government are all wiped out.
588.66 -> Luckily, the Vice President was visiting family on
the other side of the country. She is immediately
593.64 -> informed of the incident in the capital and is
rushed to a secure location where she starts
597.96 -> making decisions about rescue efforts in D.C. and
New York City and how best to help the people in
602.82 -> those areas that need medical attention.
She contacts one of her closest advisors,
606.6 -> a general working out of an airbase in
New Jersey, to become her new Secretary
610.62 -> of Defense. The National Guard is deployed to the
surrounding regions. These soldiers are provided
615.3 -> with radiation suits and iodine tablets
to give them an extra layer of protection.
619.26 -> They have to wait several days for the fires to
die out before they can search for survivors in
623.94 -> downtown D.C. During this time, anyone who
was exposed to the fallout is brought to
628.38 -> the closest hospital where they are treated for
burns and radiation sickness. The initial blast
632.58 -> killed half a million people in D.C. and wiped out
most members of the U.S. government. As the wind
637.92 -> swept through the capital, it carried radioactive
particles north, covering Maryland, Philadelphia,
642.24 -> and parts of New Jersey. The fallout reaches as
far as Connecticut, where it isn’t as deadly but
647.28 -> can still cause complications, especially for
anyone who ingests contaminated food or water.
651.84 -> If Washington D.C. was destroyed, there
could be a slight delay in action as a
656.16 -> new chain of command would need to
be put in place. But as soon as the
659.16 -> Vice President or whoever was next in
line to become President was sworn in,
662.82 -> the full might of the U.S. military would be
unleashed on whoever committed this atrocity.
667.44 -> B-2 bombers carrying massive payloads or their
own nuclear bombs would take off and unleash a
672.42 -> firestorm upon enemy military bases and key
strategic locations. Nuclear submarines and
678.06 -> aircraft carriers would be re-positioned to areas
where they could launch counter-offensives and
682.08 -> fire high-powered conventional missiles
at the enemy. Next, there would be boots
685.68 -> on the ground and tanks rolling toward the enemy
capital to remove the current regime from power.
690.3 -> NATO would mobilize to aid in the war
effort, but one thing is absolutely
694.38 -> sure to happen. If the East Coast of the
U.S. was attacked by nuclear weapons,
698.7 -> there would be retaliation on a scale that the
world has never seen before. Time would be of
703.56 -> the essence as the longer the enemy remained in
control and had access to their weapons arsenal,
707.94 -> the more likely it would be that another
nuke would hit the United States.
710.94 -> Perhaps the next nuke would be fired
at the southeastern coast of the U.S.
714.54 -> Marcus sits on his fishing boat with the line in
the water. He hasn’t caught much today and decides
719.4 -> maybe it’s time to head in and cut his losses.
He begins reeling in the line when suddenly it
723.84 -> gets stuck. Marcus pulls and pulls but whatever
is on the hook is gigantic. He smiles. Perhaps
729.24 -> this will make up for not catching anything else
that day. He hopes it’s a tuna or a swordfish;
733.68 -> at this point, he thinks it could be a tiger shark
as whatever he’s caught won’t let him real it in.
738.54 -> Suddenly the water all around him starts to
bubble. The boat whips back and forth. Marcus
743.64 -> lets go of the rod and grabs onto the side of
the boat for dear life. Out of the depths of
747.78 -> the ocean, a metal hull appears. On the side is
a five-pointed red star. It’s a Russian submarine
753.42 -> rising to the surface. Marcus shouts in terror as
his boat capsizes and he is thrown into the water.
758.4 -> A few moments later, Marcus surfaces. The Russian
sub sits on the water like a giant metal whale
763.68 -> coming up from air. He watches in horror as a
hatch opens on the top of the sub. There is a
768.18 -> rumbling sound and a missile launches from its
tube. It rises up into the air, arcing towards
772.8 -> downtown Miami. For a moment, Marcus can’t
breathe. He watches as the nuclear warhead
777.42 -> falls from the sky. It disappears for a second
before a bright flash of light fills the sky.
782.4 -> Marcus goes blind for a moment. He thrashes
in the water, trying to catch his breath and
787.2 -> reorient himself. He blinks hard, just in
time to see the Russian sub sink back below
791.94 -> the water and disappear. He looks around
for his boat, hoping that he can climb onto
795.9 -> it and wait to be rescued. Surly, the coast
guard will come to aid the people of Miami.
799.92 -> Marcus spots his capsized boat and starts
swimming toward it. Before he can reach the side,
804.66 -> he feels a wind against the back of his head.
Marcus slowly turns around and treads water. He
809.4 -> closes his eyes and shakes his head. A tidal
wave created by the nuclear blast is rushing
814.38 -> toward him at hundreds of miles per hour. In
that moment, he thinks about his family. He
819.06 -> wonders if there is any way his wife, who works
in the local fish shop, could have survived the
823.2 -> blast. He then thinks of his twin brother, who is
on the President’s detail in the Secret Service.
827.52 -> He hopes he is okay, even though deep down, he
knows no one is safe. Marcus grabs onto the side
832.5 -> of his boat and grips it tightly. The sea was
his entire life, and now it will claim him.
837.54 -> Approximately 200,000 people die instantly in
Miami as a result of the nuclear blast. The
843.12 -> fallout would likely drift out into the Atlantic,
with some radiation reaching the Bahamas.
847.2 -> It is the thought of this horrifying scenario
that would lead the United States and NATO to
851.34 -> take immediate action and destroy any enemy
nuclear launch site or housing facilities
855.84 -> as quickly as possible. That being said, if
U.S. and NATO forces invaded a country with
860.4 -> nuclear capabilities like Russia, there is a
good chance that they would deploy everything
864.06 -> they had in their arsenals. Cities across the
world would be targeted by nuclear weapons,
868.5 -> and millions of people would be vaporized or
succumb to the horrors of radiation poisoning.
873.06 -> Regardless of who fired the nuke or why, there
is a very real possibility that if the East
877.92 -> Coast of the United States was bombed,
the world would come to a terrible end.
881.34 -> The last thing the United States or most
countries want is nuclear war. However,
885.72 -> if a nation like Russia was the one who
detonated the nuke and the U.S. tried
889.62 -> to fight back, Russia would likely unleash
their entire arsenal, which contains enough
893.94 -> nukes to cover most of the European and North
American continents in radioactive fallout.
898.26 -> There are several cities that are likely to
be major targets on the east coast if a nuke
902.82 -> was ever launched at the United States. New
York City and Washington D.C. are definitely
906.9 -> the two most likely areas to get hit for
the reasons mentioned earlier. However,
910.86 -> cities like Boston, Atlanta, and Annapolis,
could also be targets. The problem with being
915.9 -> on either coast when it comes to war is that
submarines equipped with nuclear warheads could
920.58 -> theoretically find their way to an area
where they could hit several key targets.
924.24 -> Take Washington, D.C., for instance.
If an enemy sub loaded with several
927.78 -> nukes found itself off the coast of Delaware and
Maryland, or even worse, in the Chesapeake Bay,
932.58 -> it could hit several major east coast
cities all at once. Baltimore, Richmond,
936.54 -> Philadelphia, Annapolis, and D.C. would be
within firing range. The terrifying part
941.46 -> is that once the nukes were deployed, it would
be impossible to stop them before they reached
945.9 -> their targets. This would give residents in
these cities little time to seek shelter and
950.28 -> hide from the oncoming apocalypse. That
is if they received any warning at all.
954.3 -> The last time serious nuclear drills were
carried out in the United States was during
958.26 -> the Cold War. The sirens and fallout shelters of
that era have fallen into disuse, and it’s highly
963.84 -> unlikely the average U.S. citizen knows where
the closest fallout shelter is. Even if there
968.28 -> was time to warn a population of an incoming
nuclear strike, it’s doubtful people would
972.42 -> know what to do. There would be mass hysteria up
until the nuke reached its target and detonated.
977.22 -> Make no mistake. If a nuke hit the east coast of
the United States, it would almost certainly be
981.6 -> the end of the world. The only way that World War
III wouldn’t start would be if whoever detonated
986.52 -> the device had no political ties or worked
for a terrorist group. In these circumstances,
991.44 -> the world might rally around the attack and
decide that nukes are much too dangerous to
995.7 -> be used in conventional warfare. Perhaps if
this happened, all countries that possess
999.54 -> these doomsday devices would decommission them and
lock them away so they could never be used again.
1004.34 -> This is wishful thinking, however. It’s much
more likely that if nukes ever did go off on
1009.38 -> the East Coast of the U.S., the world
would be put on a path to nuclear war,
1012.68 -> and missiles would start flying across the planet
in a desperate attempt to wipe out the enemy
1017.54 -> before they themselves are wiped out. In this
scenario, Ms. Adams, Corporal Greyson, the Vice
1022.22 -> President, Marcus, and every other human on the
planet, including you, likely wouldn’t survive.
1027.02 -> Now watch “What if Russia Launched a Nuclear Bomb
1029.6 -> (Minute by Minute).” Or check out “This Is
How You Actually Survive a Nuclear Attack.”
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