On top of the wind’s bulldozing effect, which causes all the buildings to collapse, on top of more fires starting more fires, and on top of the radiation poisoning people within minutes, hours, days,
And weeks if they are lucky enough to survive, each of these fires creates a mega-fire that is 100 square miles or more. “In the scenario, a thousand Russian nuclear warheads strike.
The United States at minute 72, and everything simply turns into a firestorm. It’s just fire. Fires are raging in areas between 100 and 200 square miles.
“I assumed I would ‘die instantly’ in the event of a nuclear war,” Bartlett said, questioning if the typical person would even have time to realize what was occurring.
“I think you would want to die instantly,” Jacobsen said of him. According to a remark from former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, “The survivors would envy the dead after nuclear war.”
“Because there is this sense of…if you survived, there is no more law and order, there is no more rule of law, there is no government.” According to her, even those who were able to avoid.
