If I was a fly on the wall, not that there would be a wall left, what would I, and I was looking at America or the UK after it had been struck by these nuclear bombs by thousands of Russian or North Korean nuclear weapons, what would I see? What would the visuals be in those

minutes after the strike? I describe the first bomb in the scenario that strikes the Pentagon. It's a

one megaton thermonuclear bomb in painstaking horrific detail, all sourced from Defense Department

documents, defense scientists who have worked for decades to describe precisely what happens,

to things and to humans.

And it's horrifying.

But on top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light,

which is 180 million degrees,

which catches everything on fire in a nine-mile diameter radius,

on top of the bulldozing effect of the wind and all the buildings coming down and more fires, igniting more fires, on top of the radiation,

poisoning people to death in minutes and hours and days and weeks, if they happen to have

survived, on top of all of that, each one of these fires creates a megafire

that is a hundred or more square miles. And so essentially, in essence, what do you see?

Well, in the scenario at minute 72, a thousand Russian nuclear weapons land on the United States.

And so it just becomes a conflagration of fire.

It's just fire, fires burning,

fires 100, 200 square mile fires burning.

And then we move into nuclear winter.

And that's sort of the denouement of the book, where I tell you

about nuclear winter from the point of view of one of the original scientists who wrote that

original nuclear winter paper with Carl Sagan back in 1983. And his name is Professor

Brian June. And he spent the decades since

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