Pro-Putin TV channel simulates devastating nuclear strike on London | World News
Russian television has shown a simulation of a nuclear strike on central London with more than 850,000 deaths.
The startling four minute video was aired in an apparent effort to prevent Britain from giving permission to Ukraine to allow Storm Shadow missiles to hit targets inside Russia.
The Putin entourage has repeatedly warned that he could use nuclear weapons, but now a simulation video has taken things to the next level.
The video shown on Tsargrad’s Telegram channel begins by threatening: ‘Imagine for a moment that the unimaginable happens. A nuclear weapon explodes over London. In this documentary, we explore the devastating consequences of this catastrophe.’
The simulation shows what would happen if a warhead with 750 kilotons detonated, expanding a fireball as hot as the sun with a radius of 950 metres.
The video explained: ‘Anything trapped inside this fireball is instantly vaporised. In our simulation, the epicentre of the explosion is at Westminster.
‘People within that radius won’t even feel anything because the nerve impulse transmission speed is slower. Within 5 km [3 miles] of the epicentre the blast radius city of London, Camden Town, Kensington, Brixton these areas will receive the most destruction.’
The video estimated the initial death toll could exceed 250,000 people, with 600,000 injured within a radius of six miles.
They added: ‘Within that radius anything that can burn will catch fire. Petrol stations, automobiles, power substations, gas infrastructure.
‘Explosive facilities will explode and amplify the effect of the devastation over a huge area, including areas from Camden to Greenwich and Islington to Wandsworth.’
The video claims that ‘according to various estimates, a further 450,000 people will die from burns, debris, injuries or radiation sickness, and over a million will be traumatised.’
The video was initially published around three months ago, but was now highlighted by Tsargrad, a pro-Putin propaganda channel.
The shockwave would reach Hounslow, Edgware and Enfield, the video claims, with damage even reaching to Essex or Surrey.
They added: ‘If the explosion were to occur on the ground rather than in the air, the fallout map would be greatly expanded and the radioactive fallout could even reach Manchester, infecting people, land and animals.
‘The problem with a nuclear explosion in London is also that London is essentially not designed to survive such a disaster. Eleven of London’s twenty hospitals would be within the blast.’
The video then warned that ‘nuclear weapons are a great threat to our future’.
In 2018, Putin said that in the event of nuclear war, ‘We [Russians] will go to heaven as martyrs, and they [in the West] will simply die, because they will not even have time to repent.’