The New York City office of emergency management released a nuclear attack prparedness video.
Completely laughable.
The last advice is moronic.
Make sure to sign up for alerts on your cellphone.
Can find the video in an article on halturnerradioshow.com.
IF a nuke were to detonate over NYC, game over, much less following that dumb advice.
And don't forget to wash behind the ears!
Then what about all the control grids they take decades to set up? Yeah no. The goal isn't to blow them up. The goal of a nuclear attack is cower and control.
You choose a few less important states like Hiroshima, Las Vegas or Portland and not central control grids like NYC or London. Las Vegas in particular gives out a doomtastic "luxury and peace is over" message to the masses while the elite does not lose much.
Not on MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction. The goal is annihilation. They cannot prevent, submarines, supersonic bombers, dead man's switches, and mobile launchers. Sure there is some cover and assumed prevention. Guidance and increasing capability. Until it's outpaced by hypersonics. Instead it's density, and infrastructure. Or ideally such a zero, there is nothing left to be in command of. A restart resetting the planet. Making it a notion of strict deterrent. Except it is becoming out the window when ding ding ding they're faster popping up everywhere and becoming adopted. Is this deterrence, or essentially MAD?
The grid is the first thing launched at, communications and satellites. Then it's the command structure, capitals, and large population centers, disabling supply lines, and obviously large military installations, and airports, and ports. But in that spread it's sooner covering density and infrastructure. Where multiple warheads are fired from the same launch vehicles. Example there are single launched nukes which can host about 25 warheads, what is that radius, 500-1000 miles? What is the radius of let's suggest it hosting 5. They break off blasting an area. It's blanket damage. Give a flying fuck. The dust has hit your presumed green zone regardless. No, there is no, first thing. But there is speculation.
In MAD which is the current deterrence doctrine. It effectively is still a zero. Despite modern tactical debates of scenarios like proxies and specifically guided at direct installations. Effectively it is debating if victory is achievable. First strike, context, and definitions. Or if their use cascades into total annihilation.
You think they're stupid to sabotage themselves like that?
What are you babbling about? It's what supposedly deters nuclear war. Complete annihilation. You're thinking of tactical nukes. Not a nuclear exchange. Where okay. A tactical nuke seeks an achievable victory. A nuclear exchange seeks to destroy an enemy. Hence the deterrence doctrine is called, again that buzzword, or adopted phrase; Mutually assured destruction. It's also why no tactical nukes have been deployed in combat yet.
But we're talking about deep bunkers and access to locations which supposedly can survive nuclear war. The problem is there's nothing left to be in command of. They'll probably just become cannibals anyway. Love, Sex, and Robots.
You don't need to see farther that a Nuclear War is incredibly inefficient and borderline suicidal.
Tactical EMP nukes. No mess to clean up. Buildings, people remain okay. Will take us all back to the stone age.
If used no radiation, or nuclear winters.
You know that they don't even need EMP right?
They have Russian and Chinese hackers.
Whole transformers can be DESTROYED in a few flickers of a keyboard.
(Also note that when they tested EMP on the island of Oahu in 1962 all it did is to shut down 300 streetlights and 1 radio transmitter. You want to burn out whole transformers/power plants and make sure they can no longer move.)
EMP tech is much stronger now than in the 60's. Both Russia and China are further advanced than the USA. Hell, we cannot even test fire a hypersonic without failure. Can't even successfully launch a new rocket for ICBM's.
Modern EMP bombs can take this whole nation down, or even select targets not yet struck. Per Vlad.
They don't need to go this complex.
Why fire a missile when all you need is a few strokes of the keyboard?