Countdown to attack: inside a simulation that mimics nuclear conflict
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, count down to a new clear attack, |
| 0:12.8 | a terrifying simulation of an increasingly possible reality. |
| 0:26.4 | If you're ready, we could get started. |
| 0:28.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.1 | Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. |
| 0:33.2 | I do solemnly swear. |
| 0:35.0 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute. |
| 0:39.0 | That I will faithfully execute. |
| 0:41.7 | The office of President of the United States. |
| 0:44.4 | The office of President of the United States. |
| 0:47.3 | And will to the best of my ability. |
| 0:49.3 | Julian Borgia, I know you mainly as the Guardian's world affairs editor, |
| 0:53.2 | but congratulations on the promotion to leader of the free world. |
| 0:56.8 | How are you finding the job? |
| 0:58.4 | I'm a bit fraught, I have to say, |
| 1:00.5 | because of first 15 minutes on the job. |
| 1:03.2 | It's a bad day because I was given the choice of killing between five and 45 million people. |
| 1:09.6 | So as first days go, it was quite a hard pressure. |
| 1:16.1 | That's one of the worst first days that I've heard of in a long while. |
| 1:20.4 | Okay. And now what's really going on? |
| 1:23.0 | This is a VR virtual reality simulation that's been put together by a group of universities. |
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