As tensions between world leaders rise and talk of World War III intensifies, a video has been created to demonstrate just how disastrous nuclear war could be.
YouTuber Zack D. Films has created a shocking simulation that details exactly what would happen if the biggest nuclear bomb ever created was dropped on New York City.
The world’s largest nuclear explosion ever took place in 1961, that of course was the Russian hydrogen bomb called the ”Tsar Bomba’, or as the western world knows it – the ‘Tsar Bomb’.
All-Russia Exhibition Centre in Moscow displaying the Tsar Bomba (TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP) (Photo by TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP via Getty Images)
But it wasn’t until almost 60 years later that footage was released of the huge blast.
Dubbed the ‘King of Bombs’, the Tsar Bomb was developed between 1956 and 1961, while the Soviet Union was in the middle of an nuclear arms race with the US.
It was said to be 3,300 times as destructive as the bomb that devastated Hiroshima, made up of a hydrogen bomb with 50 megatons – or 50 million tons – of explosives.
When it was tested in October 1961, the Tsar Bomb released a mushroom cloud that was 60km high.
Now, the popular content creator Zack and his team put together a short video to explain how it would look if the Russians wanted to drop the bomb on the US‘ most populous city. Take a look:
“If the world’s biggest nuclear bomb landed in New York City, the 50 megaton explosion would instantly vaporize everything within a two mile radius,” the video says.
“The blast wave would flatten buildings up to 20 miles away, turning skyscrapers into rubble, and a fireball over five miles wide would ignite everything in its path.
“The shock wave would shatter windows as far as New Jersey and the mushroom cloud would rise 40 miles into the air.
“Radiation would contaminate the area for decades, leaving no survivors in.”
Let’s hope Putin and Trump agree to never press the big red button! (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Let’s hope Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump don’t get into a war that leads to one of the two pressing the big red button…
But to know what New York would be up against, let’s detail a little more on the Tsar Bomb.
During the test in 1961, the Soviet Union stationed cameras on the ground and on board two Russian aircrafts which caught the moment the bomb caused a huge fireball in the sky.
“The testing of an exceptionally powerful hydrogen load … confirmed that the Soviet Union is in possession of a thermo-nuclear weapon with power of 50 megatons, 100 megatons and more,” said a narrator over footage of the test which was released in 2021.
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Man who worked in mysterious 29-story windowless skyscraper in New York City describes what it’s like inside
33 Thomas Street in New York has been embroiled in mystery for years
New York City is home to many high-rise buildings—the American city is only third behind Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, for most skyscrapers—so there are bound to be a few that no one really knows why they’re there.
Especially if it’s got ZERO windows, too – talk about unique architecture.
33 Thomas Street in New York has baffled residents and the internet for a while, leading to many speculating as to what may be going on within its four walls.
Some have even been so brave as to attempt to enter the building to discover for themselves. But to be honest, you’re not going to have a clue unless told by someone that has worked in the building who is willing to spill the beans, and indeed that has happened.
33 Thomas Street has a lot of mystery that surrounds it (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
Speaking to the Daily Mail in 2023 under the condition on anonymity, the man says that he was invited, along with his son, in the early 2000s to work as a steamfitter – which involves someone installing wiring and pipes within a building.
According to the son, they were forbidden from entering into certain rooms.
He said: “There were rooms we couldn’t get into. They specifically told us not to enter, and we couldn’t ask what’s inside or why we can’t go in.”
He claimed that him, his father and the rest of the team were ultimately forced to install wires around the room.
He further claimed that crew supposedly came across confidential papers in a cabinet in the basement – and what makes it even more interesting is the documents supposedly detailed what to do in the event of a radiation attack.
If you were to look into it further, you’ll find the official use of the building is as a telephone interchange, and it was formerly known as the AT&T Long Lines Building – so basically just a place to wire up tons of phone lines.
A man who claimed to have worked in the building has revealed all (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
According to a TikToker, the building ‘has enough gas, water and electricity to be able to continue running independently for up to two weeks and is supposed to be able to actually withstand a nuclear blast… within reason’.
However, despite this knowledge, people have come up with their own wild predictions as to the building’s use.
One theory has suggested that the building is some sort of nuclear shelter – which seems a pretty wild conclusion even for conspiracy theorists.
While another theory is that it’s a supposed listening post for the National Security Agency (NSA), called ‘Titanpointe’ – with an investigation by The Intercept claiming that parts of the building were dedicated to surveillance.
However, until anyone tells us otherwise, the simplest explanation is probably the correct one in that the building is, in fact, used for telephone interchange.
UNILAD has previously reached out to AT&T for comment.
