The Daily Mail parses a newly declassified report and tells us what it would be like in Washington, D.C., after a one-megaton nuclear bomb strikes the pentagon “out of the blue.” Hint: the ones killed instantly are the lucky ones as even those riding the subway deep underground are killed.
Some of those who are ten or 12 miles outside ground zero may survive, at least initially:
“There is no electricity. No phone service. No 911. The electromagnetic pulse of the bomb obliterates all radio, internet and TV.
Cars with electric ignition systems cannot restart. Water stations can’t pump water.
Saturated with lethal levels of radiation, the entire area is a no-go zone. Not for days will the rare survivors realise that help is not coming.
Those who somehow manage to escape death from the blast, shockwave and firestorm, suddenly realise an insidious truth about nuclear war – that they are entirely on their own.”
The article doesn’t address what it is like for those 50 or 100 miles away from a strike and the “mega-fires” it spawns, other than stating survivors “only hope for survival is to figure out how to ‘self-survive,'” which includes fighting for food and water.
Published April 7, 2024. Read the full article.
