A terrifying new simulation has shown the catastrophic consequences of a potential Russian nuclear strike on the UK.
Leaked reports recently indicated that Russia had marked out 32 potential targets across Europe for a nuclear attack.
With three key locations being in northern Britain: Cumbria, Hull, and Rosyth, the revelation has added fresh urgency to the UK’s strategic defence planning.
A simulation, shared by Visualiser 3D on YouTube, imagines a nightmare scenario in which Russia launches a nuclear assault.
Watch the simulation below:
It opens with ‘stage one,’ titled “initiation,” in which the Russian military fires “about five dozen tactical nuclear warheads” to obliterate the UK’s military capabilities.
Estimated to reach British soil in just 15 to 20 minutes, the attack would offer little to no warning.
Within two hours, “about one million” people across the UK and Russia would be dead.
In “stage two,” the simulation shows Putin’s forces shifting focus to inflict maximum civilian casualties, targeting major population centres like London and critical industrial hubs.
An estimated 50 million lives would be lost in this phase alone. The stated objective: to prevent any effective nuclear retaliation.
The final phase, “stage three,” envisions the aftermath, nuclear fallout.
Visualized as a spreading green mist, radiation engulfs large swathes of land and sea, causing widespread “radiation sickness” and mass death among humans and animals while devastating the environment.
The video warns that such a conflict would destroy “two pillars on which the stability of prosperity was built,” plunging the world into chaos.
“And it would cause mass starvation, crises, wars, and revolutions,” the simulation continues, with overall fatalities potentially reaching up to half a billion.
While there’s currently no concrete evidence of an imminent strike, British defence experts have certainly not dismissed the risk.
Air Commodore Blythe Crawford, who has since retired as Commandant of the UK’s Air and Space Warfare Centre, revealed that after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the UK military ran its own simulation using a “synthetic environment," per The Sun.
"As you can imagine, it was not a pretty picture," he said. “It reinforced the fact that we really need to get after this.”
In light of growing threats, Britain has taken unprecedented steps to bolster its nuclear deterrence.
For the first time since the Cold War, the UK is considering arming jets with nuclear weapons.
Let's just hope that they never have to use them.