How would the United States Fight a Nuclear War?[video]

youtube ^ | Jun 27, 2022 | Modern Muscle

[daniel1212]

it's been over 80 years since a major conflict has broken out in europe the

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conflict has broken out in europe the

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result has left many with a deep sense

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of uncertainty nearly 70 percent of

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americans surveyed by the american

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psychological association feared that we

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are at the beginning stages of world war

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iii the prospect of nuclear conflict

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once unthinkable is now a very real

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possibility today we're going to explore

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the unthinkable how would the united

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states respond during a nuclear conflict

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what's america's nuclear war plan how

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many nuclear weapons are readily

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available to the president where are

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they what are their targets how many

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missiles would be launched how many

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casualties could we expect after

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american bombs reach their destinations

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what would the world look like going

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forward and most importantly could the

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united states win a global nuclear war

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the united states operates under a

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nuclear triad consisting of land-based

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intercontinental ballistic missiles or

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icbms sea-based submarines armed with

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submarine launch ballistic missiles or

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slbms and air-based strategic bombers

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carrying gravity bombs and air-launched

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nuclear cruise missiles now let's take a

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look at each part of america's triad and

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its weapon delivery systems the first

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and most well-known part of america's

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nuclear trad is its land-based

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intercontinental ballistic missiles or

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icbms the us has 400 lgm 30 minute man 3

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icbms that are launched via silos

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these 400 missiles have a range of over

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6 000 miles and have near pinpoint

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accuracy when launched the three strays

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miniman 3 travels at speeds of over 15

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000 miles per hour reaching its target

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in under 30 minutes each minute man 3

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missile carries one warhead 200 minute

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man 3 missiles are armed with a 335

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kiloton w87 mark 21a warhead while the

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other half are armed with a 300 kiloton

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w78 mark 12 warhead each warhead has

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around 40 times the destructive power of

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the bombs dropped on japan in 1945.

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america's miniman 3 silos are based in

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three rural areas the 90th missile wing

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at fe warren air base in colorado

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nebraska and wyoming the 91st missile

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wing at minot air force base in north

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dakota in the 341st missile wing in

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maelstrom air force base in montana each

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wing has three squadrons and each

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squadron has 50 minute man 3 silos

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they're collectively controlled by five

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heart and underground control launch

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centers each operated with two military

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officers around the clock at all times

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in the event that launch command centers

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are destroyed in a surprise attack or

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the military officers inhabiting the

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launch command control centers get cold

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feet these missiles can and will be

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remotely launched from an airborne

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command center carrying out orders from

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the president as with all things there

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are advantages and disadvantages of the

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silo based minuteman 3. its primary

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advantage is that these 400 missiles

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make the most responsive leg of the

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nuclear triad america's land-based icbm

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force has remained on continuous

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around-the-clock 24 7 alert since 1959

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they could be quickly launched in less

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than five minutes america's silo based

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a strategic advantage as well due to the

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remote launch capability an effective

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nuclear attack against america's

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minutemen 3 silos will require at least

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400 warheads a one bomb aimed at each

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silo forcing the enemy to use and

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deplete a considerable amount of the

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nuclear arsenal but this strategic

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advantage also highlights the minimum

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3's disadvantages america's land-based

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miniman 3s are inherently vulnerable as

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their location is commonly known and

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therefore silos can and will be easily

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targeted as a result in the event of a

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large-scale attack the president would

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be put in a sticky situation he or she

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would have to either use these 400

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missiles or lose them forcing a large

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scale of retaliatory attack in response

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to perceived incoming warheads targeting

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american silos with enemy missiles

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already in flight the leader of the free

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world would only have 15 minutes to

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decide and once a missile is launched

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there is no churning back

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the second arm of america's nuclear

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triad is its air-based strategic bombers

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the u.s air force currently operates a

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fleet of 66 strategic bombers america's

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strategic bombers are organized into

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nine bomb squadrons and five bomb wings

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at three bases minute air force base in

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north dakota barksdale air force base in

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louisiana and whitman air force base in

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missouri there are 300 nuclear weapons

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currently deployed at strategic bomber

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bases in the u.s an additional 100

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tactical nuclear bombs are to plant at

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nato air bases in europe america's

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bomber fleet consists of 46 b-52 strata

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fortress bombers and 20 b-2 stealth

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bombers the b-2 stealth bomber can carry

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up to 16 1200 kiloton nuclear gravity

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bombs each gravity bomb contains a

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massive payload of 150 times the

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destructive power of the bomb drop to

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hiroshima the b-52 strata fortress

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bomber is a long-range heavy bomber with

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the ability to travel up to 9000 miles

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without refueling the b-52 carries up to

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20 agm-86 subsonic air launch cruise

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missiles when launched the agm-86

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missile can travel over 1500 miles at

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speeds exceeding 555 miles per hour

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using its independent guidance system to

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deliver a w80 150 kiloton warhead to its

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target in less than 90 seconds each

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warhead contains around 20 times the

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destructive power of the bomb dropped on

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hiroshima the primary advantage of using

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air-based strategic bombers is that they

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can be called back if necessary

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furthermore subsonic air launched

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nuclear cruise missiles are a lot harder

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to defend against when launched an enemy

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force would have to counter-attack each

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missile individually making defense

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costly and complicated the small size

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also makes them difficult to detect on

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radar

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the primary disadvantage of strategic

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bombers is their response time they take

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a lot longer to get in the air and if

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air bases aren't on high alert or if

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planes aren't already in flight there's

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a high probability of them being

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destroyed in an initial surprise attack

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this is particularly true for bomber

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bases located in europe

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the last and most important part of

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america's nuclear triad are its

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nuclear-powered ballistic missile

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submarines the u.s navy operates a fleet

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of 14 ohio-class ballistic missile

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submarines each submarine carries 20

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trident ii submarine-launched ballistic

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missiles the trident ii sobm is the most

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destructive weapon in america's nuclear

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arsenal each missile is armed with

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either four or five 475 kiloton w88

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warheads in theory each sub can launch

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his entire 20 missile payload virtually

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undetected in under seven minutes

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when launched the three-stage trident ii

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travels at speeds of over 18 000 miles

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per hour has a range of over 7 500 miles

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and typically reaches its target or

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targets in around 15 minutes each

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warhead is guided by a multiple

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independently targetable re-entry

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vehicle or mirv allowing a single

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trident ii missile to deliver up to five

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warheads to five separate targets just

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one trident two missile alone armed with

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five warheads has 154 times the

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destructive power of the bomb dropped on

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hiroshima overall the us has around 70

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percent of all of its warheads on

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submarines and with good reason

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there are numerous advantages of the

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ballistic missile submarine for starters

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they make up the most survivable leg of

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the nuclear triad ballistic missile

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submarines are virtually undetectable at

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sea their stealth design makes finding

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one an almost impossible task giving

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paws to potential adversaries with at

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least 10 submarines on constant patrol

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at all times ballistic missile

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submarines assure that the us can strike

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at any time anywhere even after a

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surprise attack with each sub carrying

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an average of 100 warheads each they

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have enough firepower to make just one

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submarine the sixth most powerful

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nuclear power in the world in terms of

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disadvantages there simply are none

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when people imagine a nuclear war the

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first thing that comes to mind is large

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cities like los angeles and moscow being

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incinerated in a blaze of nuclear

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hellfire while this would definitely be

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a likely outcome the reality is that

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around 70 of the 1800 nuclear warheads

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currently deployed by the united states

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aren't aimed at large cities but instead

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added enemy countries nuclear forces to

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better understand this we first need to

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take a look at america's current

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strategic nuclear war plan also known as

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a single integrated operational plan or

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psyop first drawing up in 1950 the saya

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focused primarily on the soviet union

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while today most of the weapons in the

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war plan still target russia other

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countries such as china north korea

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india and pakistan are included as well

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in this video we'll take a look at a

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nuclear exchange with the only nuclear

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power comparable to the united states

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the russian federation this portion of

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america's nuclear war plan is called

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major attack option 1. major attack

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option 1 is the most demanding attack

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option available to the president should

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the commander-in-chief order major

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attack option 1 the resulting attack

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would consist of over 1 000 warheads

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targeting russian nuclear forces

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including icbm silos road mobile icbms

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submarine bases primary airfields

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nuclear storage facilities design and

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production complexes critical command

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and control facilities and civilian

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population centers now let's take a look

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at a major attack option 1 its russian

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targets the american nuclear weapons

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used and the overall outcome of an

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american thermonuclear attack on russia

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

LOL! I would not doubt for a second Biden or Kamala would mention that in a speech “Today Russia launched a nuclear missile....we are going to respond in a gender inclusive way with race base equity..”

[RedMonqey]

“We cannot allow a mineshaft gap, Mr President!”

[Vermont Lt]

It’s automated transcription from You Tube. Most folks eliminate the time stamps.

[Bonemaker]

For decades nuclear war was universally unthinkable. The Cold War was a “Mexican Standoff” as it were. Now however, it is totally thinkable given the historically inept, ignorant, corrupt and profoundly anti-American federal government we suffer.

[dpetty121263]

I got one, why don’t you?

[dpetty121263]

These are the people a good old fashioned nuclear war would get rid of and the nation would the better for it! Thin out the herd!

[Organic Panic]

What we DO know is people of color and trannies will be hardest hit.

[SuperLuminal]

All of our enemies have been defeating us without declaring any kind of war over the past 4 decades...

Russia, China, Iran, Muslims, Mexico, the EU, and Pakistan have all waged and won either economic or political influence against the Disunited States quite easily...

Migration alone has doomed America as a world power and solidified the slide into communism...

They are all hanging around like vultures waiting for the last little twitch...

[frnewsjunkie]

We dropped to bombs on Japan. The devastation was further than ground zero and longer the war. Nuclear would signal end of our World as we know it.

[atc23]

Washington, New York, Groton, CT. San Fran, San Diego and L.A. - gone in a strategic strike. Houston - gone. Gulf Coast, gone.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I like the “fight racism” signs. It perfectly explains how these idiots are completely controlled by the leftist propaganda media. There is not a shred nor has there ever been the slightest shred of evidence Trump is racist. Meanwhile we have endless examples of Biden being racist and they say NOTHING.

[dpetty121263]

Nuclear war is survivable, granted some places would not fair well like East and West Coast Cities, certain areas in the upper Central Mid-West Minuteman ICBM fields and downwind areas would be hot for some time..But a good percentage of the Nation would survive...things would be dangerous for a while till Law and Order was regained...

[dpetty121263]

Fully owned and paid for!

[know.your.why]

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein.

Just one Hiroshima size nuke detonation over a city like Chicago would create more burn victims than all of the burn centers in the country combined could handle.

A follow on thought....in 1990 the US Army did a study on the minimum amount of nukes it would take to destroy Americas ability to function as a country. Their answer was 10 Megatons...which works out to 33 stragegic city buster nukes at 330KT each placed at various sensitive sites...ports, infrastructure, DC, bases, etc. You can figure in 6 tactical nukes at 50KT each and remove one strategic nuke for smaller targets. *Remember 50KT is more than 4X Hiroshima.

Now...they (US Army) also estimated (again in 1990) that there were a total of 5000Megatons of nuclear weapons combined between all nuclear capable countries of that time. If you use Hiroshima as the metric (15KT kills 100K people) then 5000Megatons works out to 34 Billion people dead. That is FIVE Times the number of humans on this planet. The death, disease, starvation, birth defects, nuclear winter, black market economies, bandits....the existence of the worlds civilizations would be set to a horrifying reality that is beyond imagination for many many years easy and decades probably. Uninhabitable Chernobyl-like 'exclusion zones' would span millions of square miles not just 1000sqr mi with water and food contaminated for decades.

So....sticks and stones dude. Sticks and stones....

[353FMG]

Can’t we hide in NYC subway? On 2nd thought it will probably be safer outside than inside because of the crime rate.

[know.your.why]

Sure. Great plan. You’ll have exactly as much chance to run and hide as the ppl in Hiroshima/Nagasaki. You may want to just move in there now.

[daniel1212]

"I give up, which book in the Bible is this from?" I know of no place, nor for WW1 or WW2, or even for America with any clarity, but the Bible does speak of "sudden destruction:"

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:28-30)

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. (Luke 21:34-35)

How this takes place in the context of the Great Tribulation I am not sure not, but the closest description of a nuclear blast is that of which likely comes at the coming revelation of Christ:

In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zechariah 12:8-10)

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. (Zechariah 14:2-3)

And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. (Zechariah 14:12)

[dpetty121263]

You seem to miss the point that much of the former Soviet nuclear fleet is aging rapidly with substandard to no maintenance or replacement parts to boot as many ICBM’s are not flight ready. I saw an article that detailed the point that the process the Soviets and now Russians use to process their nuclear material causes many nukes to degrade much quicker than the US and may not even explode or if they do greatly reduced yield..Also add this that Officers in the Russian Strategic forces CIC command may not follow Putin’s orders..happened during the Cuban Missile crisis as Putin is not well liked. There was a report before Iran got some nukes they bought some on the Black Market that were “supposed” to the latest and greatest Soviet models and it was found them to be junk and useless. My main concern would be Chemical and Bio warfare as the Soviets searched the World for the most dangerous and deadly diseases and weaponized them. It was said that when the Soviets pulled out of the Ukraine they left entire bio labs intact with every manner of disease imaginable including weaponized Small Pox..You do not need any advanced weapons system to spread terror with that..just a few infected people and commerical airlines..

[Gaffer]

Watched it. A Pollyanna-ish view of how things would work out. I remember the NTB out in Colorado east of Colorado Springs. That’s all they did was wargame BS like this on massive computer simulations. And I don’t recall seeing anything about how China might position itself real-time during this play.

[know.your.why]

Yup. Much better way to die, huh? Guess its good to stay positive. IF nuclear war happens....I just hope that I dont feel the one that gets me and I hope I’m very near ground zero.