Nuclear War Between U.S. and Russia (2019 Simulation)

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The United States and Russia have more than 12,000 nukes combined. Over 3,000 of those can be launched within 15 minutes’ notice. We avoided annihilation in the Cold War, but what if all-out nuclear war happened today?

Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security, along with Alex Wellerstein of the Stevens Institute of Technology, have created a new realistic nuclear war simulation for a plausible escalation between the U.S. and Russia. The war would occur in phases, quickly escalating as targets changed from tactical locations to cities.

More than 30 million people would die immediately, and twice that many would be injured. Deaths would rise as nuclear fallout settles — this occurs when residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere falls back to Earth. The long-term effects of an all-out nuclear exchange between the U.S. and Russia would be severe.

Fires from burning structures following the blast would inject 300 billion pounds of soot into the atmosphere. This would push temperatures below freezing in the summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, reducing planting season by 90%. Global average surface temperatures would fall by 9 degrees Celsius. And in the U.S., they’d drop 20 degrees C below normal in the Summer, and 35 degrees below normal in Russia.
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It's Bloody Science! LLC created the narration and editing of this video, aside from the Plan A simulation in the middle of it. That was developed by Alex Wellerstein, Tamara Patton, Moritz Kütt, and Alex Glaser with Bruce Blair, Sharon Weiner, and Zia Mian, plus sound by Jeff Snyder. All other images, sounds, music and video clips are freely available in the public domain or Creative Commons licenses, or are licensed via Powtoon software or the YouTube Audio Library.

Song no. 1: Fresno Alley, Josh Lippi & The Overtimers — freely available for use and monetization in the YouTube Audio Library.

Song no. 2: Beyond the Lows, The Whole Other — freely available for use and monetization in the YouTube Audio Library.

[Scorpionwacom]

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?”

[soanmonte]

South hemisphere be like: what's going on

[nickatnights]

Imagine the mental health of the population after a nuclear war

[lifestyledividends]

Watching this with the things going on right now.... oh it made my heart pound and giving me chills. Hope we all be safe!

[Joe]

“Thousands of souls extinguished by the push of a button, this wasn’t war, it was madness” —commander yuri

[joedume]

"The only solution is to ban nuclear weapons entirely"- Yeah right, good luck with that.

[leepinlepin]

The Cold War never ended it's just waiting for a reboot.

[Georgebushdidit]

Hey guys, how’s it going ? We all had the same idea I see.

[cinskybuhsrandy]

Oh no! The first "warning" shot at 1:25 is aimed at the city of Varnsdorf, Czech republic... There is a mini brewery (Pivovar Kocour) making delicious beer, please spare it, aim somewhere else!

[Wonkabar]

Meanwhile, Starr and Boyle are sixty feet down, sipping on some cold beer and whistling " Misty"!

[baseballguy]

You kids forgot to mention the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm. An officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces decided to wait for more evidence of an attack before alerting his command. A soviet computer error indicated a single American missile was headed towards Moscow. Had the officer reported the alert without waiting, WW3 might well have started right then and there.

[thatindianafantif]

welp boys get your pip boys and stimpacks, we goin hunting for death claws

[ProlificInvention]

Everyone forgets nuclear meltdowns from every nuclear power plant, as well as Cooling pool corium fires of "spent" fuel rods. Also the fact that many of these weapons would Target nuclear plants creating unimaginable fallout.

[huseyinmertturhan]

US and Russia: Goes to nuke war
Europe: No, don- (Europe fades away)

[Hypermoto]

Looks like it’s closer to happening then ever.

[martindormer]

There's no way the US and NATO are going to squander such a golden opportunity to level China and North Korea in the process. Plenty of nukes to go around.

[TjtheSquishyLegomanic]

Norway: launches weather balloon
USSR: And I took that personally

[romangladiator]

Australia emerges victorious. The country could do with a drop in temperature and a little snow would be lovely.

[lucara]

I think accidents and mistakes are the biggest threat here. It's hard to imagine for me, that someone is willingly staring a nuclear war, because each side knows, that this is a No Win Situation.

[MrChoppa]

I’d have thought casualties would be far higher than 91 million even before fallout.