“Survivor” is a phrase that really should include as part of its definition the fact that the one who makes it through a do-or-die situation is the one who is most prepared for such an eventuality, which includes training the mindset that you’ll do whatever you need to do in order to push through an emergency situation and help your family do the same.
And that means daydreaming about horrific scenarios in order to come up with a potential plan of action should the proverbial crap hit the fan. If you have actual crap hitting the fan, well, that’s a problem you won’t find a solution to in this particular article, may God bless your soul.
Anyhow, according to the Daily Mail, a set of newly-declassified documents has revealed some very spooky, spine-tingling details of what would go down in our nation’s capitol should a surprise nuclear assault target the Pentagon. I know, this is dark stuff, but not every day can be sunshine and rainbows. That’s for the LGBTQ folks.
Right off the bat, all 27,000 employees who work inside the Pentagon would meet a horrific, albeit, instant death. When a one megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation kicks off with a huge flash of light and releases a burst of heat so hot the human mind can’t even fathom it. I have heat intolerance, so this really sounds like something I’d like to avoid. Definitely not a party I want an invitation to.
Also, say goodbye to the Lincoln Memorial as it would burst from the heat rolling off the Pentagon blast.
So too would the nearby Jefferson Memorial, whose famed white marble pillars would crumble to dust. This strike on DC initiates the beginning of an Armageddon-like nuclear war that will almost certainly follow. ‘There is no such thing as a small nuclear war,’ is an oft repeated phrase in Washington.
A nuclear strike on the Pentagon is just the beginning of a scenario the finality of which will be the end of civilisation as we know it.
This is the reality of the world in which we live. The nuclear war scenario proposed in this book could happen tomorrow. Or later today. ‘The world could end in the next couple of hours,’ warns General Robert Kehler, the former commander of the United States Strategic Command.
Well, if you didn’t have insomnia before you read this article, you will be the time you’re done. This is the kind of nightmarish scenario that, once lodged in your brain, not even counting sheep will take you off to dream land.
DC’s subway, known as the Metro, would become a furnace a few seconds after the blast – with all oxygen sucked out of its tunnels – and passengers who avoided burning to death suffocating instead.
In the first fraction of a milli-second after the bomb strikes the Pentagon outside Washington DC, there is light. Soft X-ray light with a very short wavelength. The light superheats the surrounding air to millions of degrees, creating a massive fireball that expands at millions of miles per hour.
In a matter of seconds, the fireball has grown to be a bit bigger than a mile in diameter, with heat burning with such a high intensity sidewalks will explode, metal will melt or in some cases evaporate. What’s worse is what will happen to human beings. People will become combusting carbon. Anything that is inside the fireball will cease to be.
The heat radiating from the explosion will move at the speed of light and everything that is within several miles of it in all directions will catch fire.
Curtains, paper, books, wood fences, clothing and dry leaves explode into flames and become kindling for a great firestorm that begins to consume a 100 or more square mile area that, prior to this flash of light, was the beating heart of American governance and home to six million people.
The declassified documents also predict a horrific death for 35,000 people watching a game at Nationals Park, with their clothes set to burn to their bodies and their top layer of skin singed off, leaving only bloody dermis exposed.
Several hundred feet north-west of the Pentagon, all 639 acres of Arlington national cemetery –including the 400,000 sets of bones and gravestones honouring the war dead, the 3,800 buried African-American freed people, the visitors paying respects on this late winter afternoon, the groundskeepers mowing lawns, the arborists tending trees, the tour guides touring, the white-gloved members of the Old Guard keeping watch over the Tomb of the Unknowns – they are all instantly transformed into charred human figurines. Into soot.
The ones who were incinerated are actually the lucky ones in this scenario. The real horror happens to the one or two million people who are seriously injured, but are still alive.
Many of our national monuments, such as the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials are superheated and soon bust apart before disintegrating altogether.
The Daily Mail continues the grim description of the event, saying, “To the south, across Interstate 395, the spacious glass-walled Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, with its abundance of stores filled with high-end clothing brands, household goods, restaurants and offices, food courts and the adjacent Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City hotel, are all obliterated. Ceiling joists, two-by-fours, escalators, chandeliers, rugs, furniture, mannequins, dogs, squirrels, people – all burst into flames. It has been three seconds since the initial blast.”
“There is a baseball game going on two-and-a-half miles due west at Nationals Park. The clothes on the majority of the 35,000 people watching the game catch fire. Those who don’t quickly burn to death suffer intense, third-degree burns. Their bodies are stripped of the outer layer of skin, exposing bloody dermis underneath,” the report goes on to add.
A person suffering from a third-degree burn usually requires immediate specialized care, often in the form of limb removal, in order to prevent someone from death. Those who were visiting parks stand a small chance of surviving if they happened to be inside somewhere eating food or using a bathroom. However, they are suffering from severe burns and require immediate medical attention.
Unfortunately, only 10 specialized burn beds exist in all of the Washington metropolitan area. These are located at the MedStar Washington Hospital Burn Centre. But these are no help to anyone because they likely no longer exist due to being five miles north-east of the Pentagon.
Within just a few seconds of the blast, thermal radiation has burned the skin on almost a million people. And 90 percent of those victims will die.
If World War III breaks out and nuclear weapons are used, at a minimum, you can count on two billion people dying from it. When the bombs go off, those who are in the area won’t make it but a few steps before death.
At Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, a 1,000-acre military facility across the Potomac to the south-east, there are another 17,000 victims, including almost everyone working at the Defense Intelligence Agency headquarters, the White House Communications Agency headquarters, the US Coast Guard Station Washington, the Marine One helicopter hangar and scores of other heavily guarded federal facilities that cater to the nation’s security. At the National Defense University, a majority of the 4,000 students are dead or dying.
Humans created the nuclear weapon in the 20th Century to save the world from evil, and now, in the 21st Century, the nuclear weapon is about to destroy it. The science behind the bomb is profound. Embedded in the thermonuclear flash of light are two pulses of thermal radiation. The first pulse lasts a fraction of a second, after which comes the second pulse, which lasts several seconds and causes human skin to ignite and burn.
The light pulses are totally silent, making no sound at all. However, what soon follows is a massive roar that rips through the area.
About 35 seconds after the whole thing goes off, you get the mushroom cloud that everybody recognizes. Then there’s the reverse suction of the explosion that pulls objects including cars, people, light poles, parking meters, etc., back into the center of the inferno where it is all consumed by fire.
A full minute passes.
At this point the mushroom cloud cap and stem have rising up to ten miles from ground zero. It eventually hits the troposphere, which is higher than the height at which commercial flights fly. Bunches of radioactive particles then come raining back down as fallout to the earth below.
More than a million people are dead or dying and fewer than two minutes have passed since detonation. Now the inferno begins.
This is different than the initial fireball. It is a mega-fire beyond measure. Gas lines explode one after the next, acting like giant flamethrowers spewing steady streams of fire. Tanks containing flammable materials burst open. Chemical factories explode. Pilot lights on water heaters and furnaces act like torch lighters, setting anything not already burning alight. Collapsed buildings become giant ovens.
Open gaps in floors and roofs behave like chimneys. Carbon dioxide from the firestorm sinks down and settles into the metro’s subway tunnels, asphyxiating passengers in their seats. People seeking shelter in basements and other spaces below ground vomit, convulse, become comatose and die. Anyone above ground who is looking directly at the blast – in some cases as far as 13 miles away – is blinded.
Imagine all of the electricity knocked out. No way to reach emergency services. No internet, television, no radio. Nothing. Electric cars won’t start. Water stations cannot provide water. According to the scenario, it will take days before the few survivors in the area grasp that no help is coming.
Craig Fugate, former director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency then revealed the ugly truth: those who imagine to avoid dying in the initial wave of horror from the bomb detonation are on their own. They must figure out how to “self-survive,” and that leads to what Fugate said would be a “fight for food, water…”
These individuals know this is how the horror show unfolds because ever since the end of the Second World War, the U.S. government has been preparing and rehearsing plans for a General Nuclear War. Sounds awful, right? Because it is.
Pray we never see this actually happen.
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