Ballistic missile launches are not uncommon. Nuclear-armed nations inform one another of ballistic missile tests, via diplomatic back channels, as no one wants to start a nuclear war by accident.
Click here . It is based on facts sourced from exclusive interviews with presidential advisers, cabinet members, nuclear weapons engineers and countless experts and newly declassified documents .Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen. It is 4.03am and in a seemingly barren field 20 miles outside the North Korea n capital of Pyongyang, a massive cloud of fire erupts just feet off the ground as the country's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile is launched.
A vast, world-wide network of U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets begins churning out information.15 seconds after launch The president now faces an inexorably small decision-making window of time. What must happen next has been rehearsed by everyone in attendance on satellite comms, except, most likely, the president himself. Like almost all U.S. Presidents since John F. Kennedy, he is entirely underinformed about how to wage nuclear war when it happens.
The national security adviser is working to get a North Korean official on the phone when he is knocked aside by the special agent in charge of protecting the president. Of all the people in the room prepared for crisis response, the Secret Service agents are among the best rehearsed. This facility in Alaska is one of six early-warning ground radar facilities which have kept watch for nuclear attack since the Cold War. Others are in California, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Greenland, and at RAF Fylingdales on the North Yorkshire Moors.
The chairman tells the president that he, as chairman, is part of the 'chain of communication', not the 'chain of command' for authorising a nuclear launch.The secretary of defence urges the him to consult his counterparts in Russia and China. Others around him are more focused on getting him to launch the counterattack, to 'retaliate to decapitate'.
The bunker's doors fly open. Ten Counter Assault Team members armed with SR-16 gas-operated, air-cooled carbines and AR-15 assault rifles burst into the room. They rush to the president and grab him by the armpits, his feet no longer touching the ground.The president is taken to Marine One helicopter, an aircraft hardened against the electromagnetic pulse that accompanies a nuclear flash.
Back on the White House lawn, Marine One readies for take-off. Many of the president's advisers have stayed behind in the Emergency Operations Centre. The missile launched from the submarine explodes in Diablo Canyon. The nuclear power plant is consumed in a flash of nuclear light. There is a massive fireball. A facility-destroying blast. A nuclear mushroom cloud and a nuclear core meltdown.23 minutes after launch
His video connects to the internet via a communications satellite passing overhead and begins making its way around the world.The bomb destroys the 750-acre facility. Unlike when a city is targeted, an attack against a nuclear power plant means radioactive pieces of spent fuel rods get seeded into the debris and are dispersed far and wide, as fallout. Diablo Canyon will never recover.The secretary of defence remains focused on getting the Russian President on the line.
Not since a mountain-sized asteroid smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago has so much global devastation been set in motion in a single strike.
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