Nuclear war begins with a blip on the radar screen. It’s 4:03 a.m. and in a field 20 miles from North Korea’s capital Pyongyang, a huge cloud of fire explodes just meters from the ground as the country’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), known as the Monster, is launched.
Thus begins a detailed description of the events that humanity would face if North Korea used nuclear weapons. Edition Mail Online citing recently declassified documents, told what a real Armageddon would look like.
1-5 seconds after launch
The rocket is not pointed into space, as it would be for a satellite launch, or towards the Sea of Japan, as is usually the case during testing. Is this a provocative test or a nuclear strike? The vast worldwide network of American intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets is beginning to produce information.
In Colorado, combat pilots run toward fighter jets waiting on the tarmac, ready to take off.
15 seconds after launch
The missile traveled far enough that satellite sensors could more accurately determine its trajectory. The prospects are disastrous: the “Monster” is heading towards the continental United States.
2 minutes after launch
Below the Pentagon, in the nuclear command bunker, are the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
When ground-based radars provide secondary confirmation that a missile is heading toward the East Coast of the United States, a dangerous nuclear war strategy comes to the fore: launch on warning.
At the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense works in the nuclear command bunker / photo REUTERS
This means that once its early warning systems signal an impending attack, the US will not wait to physically absorb a nuclear attack before launching a counterattack.
3 minutes after launch
We need to inform the president. He is in the White House dining room reading his briefing documents. The national security adviser runs into the room with a phone in his hands. From a bunker beneath the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense reports that the North Korean President has launched an attack missile at the United States.
Little does the President know that once he is informed of what is happening, he will have only six minutes to decide which nuclear weapon to launch in response. Civilization could disappear within a few hours.
9 minutes after launch
At Clear Space Force in Alaska, long-range radar detects the rocket for the first time as it rises above the horizon. The Air Force soldier picks up the red phone in front of her and says, “Confirmed, the launch report is correct. The number of objects is one.”
Now begins the interception attempt – a feat “like shooting a bullet into a bullet.” But nine out of 20 interceptor tests were unsuccessful. This means there is only a 55 percent chance that the Monster will be shot down before it reaches its target. Of course, the interception fails.
10 minutes after launch
The US President was moved to a bunker under the East Wing of the White House, which was built to hide President Roosevelt during World War II. He asks the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff what he should do. He is urged to consult with China and Russia.
The Defense Secretary urges caution in expressing what everyone fears, but no one else dares to say: “Starting now almost guarantees a wider war.”
The US President is evacuated from the White House.
16 minutes after launch
Satellite sensors detected exhaust from a submarine’s ballistic missile as it breached the surface of the Pacific Ocean 350 miles off the California coast. It can hit a target on US soil even faster than an ICBM. No one can say who owns this missile or the submarine from which it was launched, but everyone assumes it is North Korea.
During the second launch – this time from a submarine – no one knows who it is, but it is assumed that the DPRK / photo REUTERS
In a moment of profound realization, officers at control centers across the country recognize this situation: this is the beginning of the end of the world. Containment failed. A nuclear war is happening.
21 minutes after launch
A missile from a submarine races toward the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, a 750-acre facility 85 feet above the Pacific Ocean. Diablo is the only nuclear power plant in California that remains active. When a nuclear weapon explodes in mid-air, the radiation released into the atmosphere dissipates over time.
Attacking a nuclear reactor with a nuclear-armed missile is something else entirely. This almost guarantees a meltdown of the reactor core, leading to a nuclear disaster that will last for thousands of years.
This violates the Geneva Conventions and rules that define what can be done during war. But as the world will soon learn, there are no rules in nuclear war.
Known to insiders as the “Devil’s Scenario”—the worst of the worst scenarios—has come to fruition.
23 minutes after launch
As the Marine One helicopter carrying the US President takes off, he is informed that a nuclear bomb has exploded in California. He takes the code card out of his wallet and prepares to authorize a counterstrike on North Korea—one strike with 82 nuclear warheads. It almost guarantees the death of millions of people – perhaps even tens of millions of people, and that’s just on the Korean Peninsula.
24 minutes after launch
Four miles northwest of the Diablo Canyon power plant, a cattle owner is tending his herd when he is knocked unconscious by a nuclear missile. He is alive – the earth and stone muffled part of the deadly thermal radiation of the bomb.
Noticing his smartphone in the mud, he begins to film what is happening. He is aware of the lethal levels of radiation he is receiving, but he uploads a video of the mushroom cloud to Facebook.
His video begins to spread around the world. The hashtags #NuclearWar, #Armageddon and #EndOfTheWorld are flooding the internet.
32 minutes after launch
The US Secretary of Defense remains focused on reaching the Russian President. US intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from a missile field in Wyoming must fly directly over Russia to reach North Korea.
At one stage, the United States is trying to warn Russia that nuclear missiles will fly over its territory / photo ua.depositphotos.com
A large number of US ICBMs flying through Russian airspace will almost certainly be interpreted as an attack, so Russia must be warned.
33 minutes after launch
On its way to the Pentagon, the North Korean ICBM enters its final phase – the last 100 seconds before it explodes. Subsequently, there was nothing left there. Never in human history have so many people died so quickly.
Ten seconds pass. The fireball rises three miles into the air. Those who survive the first explosion a few miles from zero are trapped on the roads and burned alive.
38 minutes after launch
Everything within a 15 mile (24 km) radius around the Pentagon is pure hell. There is no electricity, telephones do not work. In nuclear command bunkers across the country, contact with the president has been lost.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Defense and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, desperate to contact their Russian counterparts, reach their goal. They tell the Russians that they have lost contact with the president.
As the debate continues, they finally contact the Russian General Staff and report that the United States is under nuclear attack, noting that it is imperative for Russia to refrain from any military action until both sides can call their presidents. But the Russian officer sees everything differently.
42 minutes after launch
No one had heard of the US President because when the nuclear bomb hit the Pentagon, Marine One experienced a system failure due to an electromagnetic pulse. He started to fall. The agent and the President of the United States jump from the plane; only the head of state survives, but he is wounded.
43 minutes after launch
The Russian president is furious. The US President has not yet addressed him. Prone to paranoia, the Russian president now believes that Russia will be attacked and decides to launch a nuclear attack on the United States.
49 minutes 30 seconds after launch
The Minister of Defense takes the oath of office as Commander-in-Chief. Satellite early warning systems show a Russian missile attack. Now the acting president is expressing a discussion about a crisis of conscience.
Just because hundreds of millions of innocent Americans are about to die, perhaps the other half of humanity doesn’t need to die? But his proposal was rejected. In a nuclear war there is no such thing as surrender.
55 minutes after launch
Three hundred miles above the United States, North Korea detonates a Super-EMP weapon. The electromagnetic pulse does not harm people, animals or plants, but it does destroy major parts of all three of America’s electrical grids. Everything breaks down – subway trains, freight trains and passenger trains, planes crash.
Almost an hour after the strike, another weapon is detonated, an electromagnetic pulse destroys all electrical networks in America / photo UNIAN, Nikolay Tis
There will be no more fresh water or sewerage. No phone calls, no electricity, no fuel, no working hospital equipment.
57 minutes after launch
Russian nuclear warheads begin to rain down on the United States, with targets across Europe being hit simultaneously. Air bases across the continent have been destroyed and capital cities, including London, have been hit by nuclear warheads. Millions of people die, and dozens of masterpieces of civilization, from Stonehenge to the Colosseum, Notre Dame and the Parthenon, are destroyed.
72 minutes after launch
In the United States, Europe and the Korean Peninsula, hundreds of millions of people are dying, and hundreds of military aircraft are flying aimlessly until they run out of fuel. The last nuclear submarines put to sea quietly, patrolling in circles until the crews run out of food.
On land, those who survive hide in bunkers until they dare to go outside or until the air runs out. The few survivors who eventually emerge from these bunkers will face what Cold War Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev predicted: “Those who survive will be the envy of the dead.”
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