how many people would a nuclear war between the united states and russia kill?

how many people would a nuclear war between the united states and russia kill? So I come back to you with a very dark answer and a very large number, and that number is five billion people. You go second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour, what would happen if a nuclear war started? So there are many angles I'd like to talk to you about this from. In the beginning, how would death happen in the short and long term? So to begin with, the reason I wrote the book is so that readers like you could see in horrific detail just how horrible nuclear war would be. And as you said, second by second, minute by minute, the book covers nuclear launch to nuclear winter. I'm deliberately not going into the politics that led to it or the national security maneuvers or the posturing or any of that. I just want people to know that nuclear war is madness. And every source I interviewed for this book from the Secretary of Defense, all retired, to the commander of nuclear submarines, to the commander of STRATCOM, to the director of FEMA, on and on, to nuclear weapons engineers, they all shared with me the common denominator that nuclear war crazy . First millions will die, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions of people. In the first 72 minutes of nuclear war. And then comes the nuclear winter where billions are starving. And so the shock force of it all is meant to make each of us say, wait, what? It actually exists behind the veil of national security. And I don't know, most people don't think about nuclear war on a daily basis. And yet, hundreds of thousands of people in nuclear command and control are ready in case it happens. But it doesn't take too many people to get started. According to Richard Garwin, who was the nuclear weapons engineer who drew up the plans for the Ivy Mike thermonuclear bomb, the first thermonuclear bomb ever exploded in 1952. Garwin shared with me his opinion that all it takes is one nihilistic madman with an arsenal of nuclear weapons to the start of a nuclear war. And so I begin the script. In what ways can it start? Like literally who pushed the button? And what do you need to press the button? So it starts in space, which means the US Department of Defense has an early warning system. And the system in space is called SIBRS. It's a constellation of satellites that watches all of America's enemies so that the moment an ICBM is launched, a satellite in space, and I'm talking about one-tenth of the way to the moon, that's how powerful these satellites are in geosynchronization They see the hot exhaust of the missile on the ICBM in a split second after launch, a split second. And so begins this terrifying policy called launch after warning, right? And it's an American counterattack, which means that the reason the United States is so keenly watching a nuclear launch somewhere around the world is so that the US nuclear command and control system can spring into action and launch an immediate counterattack. Because we have that policy, launch on warning, which is exactly what it says. This means that the United States will not wait to absorb a nuclear attack. In response, they will launch a nuclear weapon before the bomb actually hits #nuclearwar#civilisationwarusa#worldwar3