Detailed Scenario: Journalists assumed what would happen if Putin drops a nuclear bomb on London

But Daily Mail journalists met with a nuclear war ghost and tried to understand what a nuclear blow to London would look like. They assumed that it would be January 2025. And hourly the actions of the heads of state, military and ordinary inhabitants, most of whom would die. The script can be applied to any big city in the world. 7. 30 in the morning: Vladimir Putin orders from his nuclear bunker in the depths of the Kremlin, or in any other bunker.

For 1000 km north of Moscow, engineers operating on the site 16 - Nuclear object of the Spacemoder Plesetsk, come into operation. They will take exactly 30 minutes from the moment of receiving the order before the launch of a nuclear warhead. 7. 40 in the morning: NATO satellites capture a spike in Plesetsk. Member States are brought to a state of increased readiness. 7.

50 in the morning: Armed Forces and the UK Ministry of Defense are urgently trying to contact their Russian colleagues - but their calls remain unanswered. Something goes wrong. 8am: Intercontinental ballistic missile (IBB) is launched, equipped with a nuclear warhead, with a flight range of 12,000 km, which flies into the sky. Bill navigation system - up to a meter - is set up on the Trafalgar Square in London. Hypersonic weapons fly at a speed of more than 14,000 km per hour. It cannot be stopped.

8. 01 in the morning: In London, the metro wagons are crowded and the roads are clogged in peak hour. None of the passengers suspects that in just five minutes, most of the UK capital will be destroyed. 8. 02 AM: NATO early notification systems located in the Baltic States reveal the presence of an unknown flying object flying towards the United Kingdom. Satellite phones through a protected line, reserved for this scenario, governments warn of an impending attack. 8.

03: NATO increases the threat of the UK to "probable", and the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom restricts access to "basic receiving and transmission stations" without allowing local mobile phones to send a message. 8. 04: The Ministry of Internal Affairs sends a signal to all SIM card devices in the United Kingdom, warning about the threat that is impending: "The threat of ballistic missiles. Look for asylum. " The Sky Sabre air defense system is powerless to protect London.

Its "Common Anti-Air Modular Missils" will fly at a speed of 3700 km per hour, but are effective only against fighters, drones and some laser rockets. It is believed that even the world's most effective missile defense system, the American "terrestrial defense system in the middle plot of the trajectory", even more than a decade will not be able to ensure true reliability before the IBR. 8. 05 am: The city covers confusion.

Londoners think where the rocket flies and whether they should - whether they can run away. Some are sure the message is a mistake. The Prime Minister, together with his closest advisers and the closest family, is evacuated from his personal office in the house No. 10 and delivered to a nuclear storage under Whitehol, known as Pindar. Built during the Cold War, the bunker got its name from a single house that remained whole when Alexander Macedonian destroyed the city ofbes 335 BC. 8.

06 in the morning: All radio and TV shows stop, and the stations instead transfer a recorded warning about the need to hide. Confusion is changed by panic. Tens of thousands of Londons are in a hurry to hide at the subway stations. The first deaths occur when children and elderly are crushed in crushing. Others stand in the open space, looking at the bright point that appeared in the sky in the east. 8. 08 am: blow. The warhead explodes on Trafalgar Square.

Its capacity is 800 kilotonic, which is equivalent to 800,000 tons of TNT and more than 50 times higher than the capacity of the baby bomb, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. A huge white flash, brighter than the sun, explodes over the West End. It can be seen hundreds of kilometers, north to Edinburgh and south to Paris. Anyone who is within M25 feels short -term blindness. For many, it will only take a few hours. Others will be blinded for life because the "atomic flash" has burned their retina.

Those who wear glasses experience incredible pain as the lenses exacerbate the outbreak. In less than two seconds, the second outbreak occurs when the light that enters the shock wave of the explosion breaks out. Within ten seconds, a fiery ball with a mile diameter flies in all directions. At a temperature of several thousand degrees Celsius - higher than the surface of the sun - it evaporates everything in its path. Nelson's column, four lions at its base and St.

Martin's church disappeared for millisecond. In their place, a crater of 180 meters in diameter and 45 meters deep, like a gate in hell, extends between the place where the National Gallery and Arch of Admiralty once stood. Parliament building, London Eye and half of the Maifer simply cease to exist - they turn into dust and smog. People disappear tens of thousands.

The shock wave, the unrestrained ram of compressed air moving at a speed of almost 1200 km per hour, rather than the speed of sound - it swept through London. Anyone within 11 km who was not immediately killed will burst the eardrum. 8. 09 in the morning: A minute after a stroke of the "strong explosion radius" extends 2 km from Ground Zero. 100 percent was killed in this radius. Even reinforced concrete buildings are destroyed.

The so -called "moderate explosion radius" extends 5 km from Trafalgar Square to Kensington, Kemden and Whitechepel. Most residential buildings collapsed in this area; Thousands of fires flash at the remaining ones. The "light explosion" radius extends 12 km to Wimbledon. The windows crashed, piercing some of those who looked out to see a mysterious bright flash. 8. 10 in the morning: fires are raging all over the capital. Half a million of Londoners were killed. 8.

11 in the morning: In the state of shock the Prime Minister reflects on Pindar, whether it is worth a blow to Russia, knowing that a blow will mean a sure death for countless millions, but it would not be a failure to do so. Washington communication lines break off. The Minister of Defense opens a bottle of single -malt whiskey stored in the hopper. 8. 12 in the morning: In the North Atlantic, one of the four British nuclear submarines Trident is halfway to nine -month patrol.

The commander receives a message that warns his team of strike on London. They try to contact Down Street on Reserved Radio Frequency. There is no answer. 8. 13 in the morning: electromagnetic pulses (AMI) produced by the explosion cause voltage jumps, destroying components in electrical devices. While alive are trying to contact loved ones, mobile phones are switched off.

In the USSR, the locomotives were stored in the event that the nuclear attack would turn off the electricity on the railway network. In the UK, there is no such protection, which means that all rail transportation to London and London has stopped. The roads are clogged. Electric vehicles in a radius of 15 miles are not planted: the electromagnetic pulse has made them in vain. 8. 15 in the morning: London's main hospitals were destroyed.

The nearest working hospitals in Tanbridge, Cakeli and Luton are put into a state of increased readiness and begin to prepare for the influx of patients. 8. 20 in the morning: radioactive debris begins to fall on the capital. Rainfall, consisting of displaced land, building materials and even human flesh, is deadly radioactive and pose a serious biological danger. They will fall at least 24 hours.

Anyone who goes outside will involuntarily inhale the microscopic plutonium that melts the body from the inside. Thirty minutes after exposure to the Londoners in Richmond and Wembley, vomiting begins, which is followed by explosive diarrhea and loss of consciousness. Painful death occurs in a few hours. 8. 30 in the morning: a cloud of radioactive rainfall moves northeast in the wind; It will reach Norja before all that remains, will settle in the North Sea.

Anyone who finds itself outside in Eastern England will breathe precipitation. Over the following months, they will suffer from weight loss, internal bleeding and hair loss. Many will develop deadly types of cancer. 8. 35 in the morning: London is a death zone. All who still alive on the surface within a radius of 3 km from the site of impact, received painful burns of the third degree of skin. Radiation poisoning is likely to kill them for several hours. Chaos began in the underground network.

Most of the entrances are littered with falling fragments and rubble. 8. 45 in the morning: The light is gone, and panic begins in the dark. The temperature rises among tightly whipped bodies, and without water, some older people begin to fainted, joining those who have already been trampled on the floor and train platforms or fell on the rails. 8.

50 in the morning: The Prime Minister orders the Army to block all ways of entry and exit from the capital, turning M25 into perimetral fence to prevent the spread of radioactive people and materials. Servicemen are given masks P2 and iodine tablets. The Prime Minister orders to "shoot on the defeat" by anyone who tries to cross the perimeter. 9am: an hour after the explosion.

The BBC Wood Norton nuclear bunker in the earcherschir, which has access to ultra -frequency satellites, begins the transmission. The message is simple all over the United Kingdom: "Come in. Stay. Set up. " 9. 15: Since Crisis Management is already in force, the Prime Minister initiates the second part of the government "Catastrophic Emergency" Emergency Response Protocol to Emergency Response: Managing Consequences.

Reservists and police begin to coordinate rescue work for those who are trapped in the city. The first step will be the installation of tents, where the Londoners will be able to clean themselves from radioactive particles before evacuation. 9. 30 in the morning: from the bunker Wood-Norton BBC broadcasts old records, including faith Lynn, trying to raise the morale. The broadcasts are interrupted every 30 seconds by the command: "Sign. Stay. Set up. " 10am: two hours after the explosion.

Three quarters of a million British were killed. More than two million have been seriously injured. The vast majority will never receive the urgent help they need. Government priority is to prevent the spread of radioactive rainfall. London is a mausoleum. 10. 15 in the morning: After more than two hours of attempts to contact the Prime Minister, Trident has not received the answer. The commander calmly approaches the closed console in the corner of the command post and enters the code.

He picks up the "letter of the last resort" and opens it. Inside is a simple handwritten message. "If Britain is attacked and the Prime Minister will not be able to detect this submarine of Trident, I am able to hit. " The prime minister is signed under it. The submarines are called for combat posts. Many believe that this is another workout. But being on the spot, 132 people from the team realize that it is serious. The commander takes an orange trigger, modeled on the handle of the Colt pistol.

He nods his team, closes his eyes and presses on the trigger. 11 AM: A connection with Washington is established by a satellite phone. The Prime Minister, knowing that he will receive the consent of the US President, applies Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. America begins its own attack on Russia from the South China Sea, causing strategic goals and places of launching nuclear missiles. Russia does not correspond to further nuclear strokes. 8.

00 in the morning: It has been exactly two weeks since the nuclear bomb hit London. The capital has dead silence in the capital, with the exception of careful steps of hundreds of soldiers in protective suits, three days have passed since army staff first entered the capital to find survivors. During this time, no person within a mile from Gwow Zero was found alive. The vast majority evaporated during the impact. Hundreds of thousands were killed on the day of the explosion from radiation poisoning.

08. 15: In one of the 50 Nightingale hospitals created in the districts to accommodate survivors, doctors continue to treat patients with horrific burns and injuries who have changed their lives. The radius of the bomb radiation has been up to two million people, and many of them will develop deadly cancer. Scientists differ in when London becomes suitable for life again - if it becomes at all.

But one thing can be said for sure: it is once a large city founded by the Romans two millennia ago, now is nothing more than a terrible monument of the darkest day in human history. We will remind, earlier Focus wrote that scientists calculated how many nuclear bombs were undermined over 80 years during the trials. The first test of a nuclear bomb, conducted in 1945, marked the beginning of the international arms race. The absolute record for nuclear explosions was set in 1962.