How Would the United States Fight a Nuclear War?

Today we’re going explore the unthinkable: How would the United States respond during a Nuclear conflict?

When we first came up with this concept, we aimed to cover the America's Nuclear Triad and it's Russian Nuclear War Plan in one concise video, but one video turned into three. So here's full version of "How Would the United States Fight a Nuclear War?" as it was originally intended. Enjoy!

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US Russian Counterforce Target List:

[DoNotTredOnMe]

“A strange game”
“The only winning move is not to play.”

[zachhoward]

The fact that humanity could literally undo millennia of progress in less time then it would take you to eat dinner at a sit down restaurant is chilling

[myeternalsin]

What’s kind of scary is this is just what’s public knowledge, who knows what else they have created over the years in secret.

[dcred]

Winning a nuclear war is just as terrible as losing it.

[robertmaybeth]

40 years ago I was a US Air Force pneumatic/hydraulic technician on the Titan II ICBM in the Wichita Kansas area. Our shop not only repaired hydraulic functions on the missile but also the pop-up antenna (that automatically raised after a nuclear attack), plus the locking lugs on the blast doors (these were the huge doors made of ferro-reinforced concrete in between the silo and the launch crew area to protect the crew long enough to turn the keys and launch the missile).

Since our job was only to make sure the "bird" would actually work if the nuclear apocalypse happened, the Air Force taught us absolutely nothing about surviving a nuclear war, probably since it was pointless, and that was fine by me. Because one thing I realized on my own right away about surviving a nuclear war, is that I have no interest in surviving a nuclear war.

[tnitty]

That siren noise is the most erie noise ever. That shit is legit scary. Gives me chills

[BlackstoneMalone]

I don't think people realize the amount of time and skill it probably took just to make and edit the visual and graphic part of this edit. Well done!

[JoannaHammond]

The first rule of nuclear war, nobody wins a nuclear war.

[dropatacoshell]

"...in terms of disadvantages: there simply are none"

[Chris-rbox]

It's nice that we live in a time where this hasn't happened. Let's keep it that way.

[untouchablex]

Not nuclear missiles. It's "special military projectiles."

[granttyler]

The scariest part of it all is that every leader in charge of the warheads knows they will have a safe place to go indefinitely if nuclear war breaks out.

[ashessynths]

I keep remembering a line from a movie: "It's NU-CLEAR!"

This is a very well done explanation. Good job, and thank you.

[skorzalonsdale]

To paraphrase an already dubious quote - “I don’t know how long world war 4 will last, but world war 3 will take about 90 minutes…..maybe 2 hours at a push”

[iseceed]

Plans look good on paper. Then, the sneaky Chinese drop an anvil on you from a party balloon.

[manzell]

The operators will never get cold feet. They execute the launch procedure every day - always with incorrect codes, so the missiles never fire. It's a daily drill. When the time comes, they'll never know that it's different than any other procedure until it's too late.

[ImSkittzle]

I love how we actually think the government lets us know how many missiles we have

[DEATH-THE-GOAT]

Literally, Oppenheimer's quote comes to life

_"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”_

[AngelToca-qulh]

47:24 : average human disagreement:

51:15 average human disagreement p2

[Litepaw]

"Ending millions of lives with the push of a button is typically frowned upon"
Yeah i would say so.