PLAN A

Our team developed a simulation for a plausible escalating war between the United States and Russia using realistic nuclear force postures, targets and fatality estimates. It is estimated that there would be more than 90 million people dead and injured within the first few hours of the conflict.

[OrianGrao]

Three years later we revisit this video with considerable dread.

[stbagn]

2019: Nuclear armageddon begins with a war in eastern Europe? Pshhh no way...

2022: oh...

[grapy]

What I can't stop thinking about nuclear wars is the fact that only "WE" have to die, and not those who decide to wage wars and atrocities. They would mostly be safe in their special bunkers and locations.

[HDInstrumental]

Whoever made that music is a genius. Perfectly fitting for the madness of the situation.

[Brad]

Strange game, seems the only winning move is not to play.

[feridunyunus]

What a great time to be an Argentinian

[erufailon]

"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

[mikeiswhite]

Isn't it just so comforting to know that 2 people could start this at any moment?

[desmond-hawkins]

Watching this in March 2022 for no particular reason.

[LoganSeacrest]

Glad to see researchers at Princeton finally discovered the game DEFCON.

[TheMedicMatthew]

I don’t know what’s scarier, the warheads or this music

[samuelvamos]

The total casualties is incomprehensibly underestimated...

[van]

at least I won't have to pay my student loans

[alexeymalyshev]

And the survivors would envy the dead...

[jsmith]

People in the whole Southern Hemisphere: "Honey, Did you hear something?"

[hashylarry]

At this moment, this is closer than it has been in a longtime to coming to fruition.

[sjh]

"In retrospect, it seems completely logical that once a weapon is invented it will be used. But we forget the blindness and obsfucation of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, when the most destructive weapons were regarded as walls of protection, and when the horror of Armageddon was seen as a deterrent no sane society would risk. But the nations were not sane - rational, composed, aware, but not sane...the Death, when it came, was completely earnest and open. Every weapon was used as it had been designed to be used."
-Greg Bear, _Eon_

[INMATE]

4 minute long answer to the Fermi Paradox

[hubbletrubble]

It's horrifying to see simulations with these on modern maps. It's a reminder that this is still possible, not a relic of the cold war.

[royshaft]

China , Pakistan, India, N.Korea ?
This plan is 40 years out of date .