Пример заказного материала по оправданию охоты дронов ВСУ на мирных жителей в приграничных областях России.
Как говориться – с точностью до наоборот.
При этом никакого уважения к своей аудитории англосаксы не испытывают.
Например, одна из памяток ВСУ для жителей Херсона, сразу переведена на английский язык.
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'Human safari': Shocking footage shows Russians hunting Ukrainian civilians with drone bombs... including one blown up as excited dog came to welcome him home
Vladimir Putin's troops have been hunting down Ukrainian civilians with drones and dropping bombs on them in what has sickeningly been dubbed a 'human safari.'
Horrifying footage shared on pro-Russian Telegram channels show the drones chasing civilian cars down before dropping bombs on them, leaving those inside deeply injured.
One particularly shocking video showed a drone stalking a blue car through dense suburbs in the Kherson region. A bomb was seen dangling from the drone as it chased the car, whose owner was greeted by a pair of excited dogs.
As the car comes to a halt at a gate, the car door opens and one pup goes to welcome its owner home. At that moment, the drone drops its lethal package, sending the animal flying and another dog scrambling away.
Another video showed a series of drones flinging bombs at moving cars, causing them to swerve and crash. One clip showed a person staggering out of the car while bleeding heavily, before collapsing on the floor.
One particularly shocking video showed a drone stalking a blue car through dense suburbs in the Kherson region
One clip showed a car crashing after it was hit by a bomb
Horrifying footage shared on pro-Russian Telegram channels show the drones chasing civilian cars down before dropping bombs on them, leaving those inside deeply injured
Ukrainian officials have shared this advice in light of the increasingly common drone attacks on civilians
This was shared by Z-Bloggers with the caption: 'This is good practice for young drone operators to upgrade their skills and prepare for real combat operations.'
Drones are a real pain for Kherson. Everyone is a target,' Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration told the Kyiv Independent.
'Under attack are people walking, driving, bicycling, going to work or standing by grocery stores.'
He told the outlet that while Russians were striking targets around 100 times a day in July and August, the numbers have dramatically risen over autumn.
Another resident, an aid worker named Anastasia, told The Telegraph that people were unable to leave home.
'More and more residents of the city cannot leave the house, even for food, because there is a great possibility that they will not return home,' she told the British publication.
'It was so lucky my aunt came home unharmed.'
Her colleague Natalyathe said drones were taking a psychological toll, telling the newspaper that she struggles to sleep at night fearing the next attack.
'The same question spins in your head; "when will this nightmare end?"' she said.
Ukraine's TSN news program reported that a record high of 330 drone strikes and 224 explosive drops hit the region on September 9 alone.
The drone strikes have had a severe effect on those living in Ukraine as the invasion reached its 31st month.
A mother-of-two - also named Anastasia - told the Kyiv Independent she was cycling home as a drone chased her and dropped a grenade, sending titanium shards flying towards her and leaving her severely injured.
Seen in a wheelchair with bandages around her neck, she said in a video clip shared online: 'I heard a sound - a drone got up in the air from a house.
'I turned my head left... and see it is flying straight.
Drones are a real pain for Kherson. Everyone is a target,' Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration said
While Russians were striking targets around 100 times a day in July and August, the numbers have dramatically risen over autumn
Ukraine's TSN news program reported that a record high of 330 drone strikes and 224 explosive drops hit the region on September 9 alone
A poster warning people of the dangers of enemy drones and what to do if they see one
🚨Anastasia, a mother of two, was cycling home when a Russian drone chased her, dropped a grenade with titanium shrapnel, injuring her—and filmed it. The video was posted on Russian SM with a winky emoji.
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— Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) October 3, 2024
'I turn my wheel right, it follows. I turn my wheel left, it still follows. It comes close and starts filming me. It realises that I have a ditch to my right and that I need to turn the wheel to the left so it drops the explosives and it falls down my side.
'It brushes my body, the grenade rolled down my body and it exploded right where I was pedalling.
'I curled up as much as I could and that's why I stayed alive. If I didn't pull my head in, I'd be dead.'
The Kyiv Post reported that from July 1 to September 9, nearly half of the 547 reported casualties were attributed to drone strikes. In September, there were over 3,000 drone attacks on civilians.
There have been many reports of Russian drones targeting kindergartens, shopping centres and supermarkets.
Ukrainian officials warned: 'All objects in the air should be perceived as hostile If you hear the sound of a drone or see a copter in the distance and high up, immediately run to shelter. Use basements, basement floors of buildings.
The Kyiv Post reported that from July 1 to September 9, nearly half of the 547 reported casualties were attributed to drone strikes
In September alone, there were over 3,000 drone attacks on civilians
A kindergarten was hit by a Russian drone
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Stay away from administrative buildings, strategic and military facilities, gas stations.'
Though Russia has been making inroads in Ukraine, Kyiv said on Monday its forces had struck a large oil terminal overnight on the occupied Crimean peninsula.
Kyiv has ramped up strikes targeting Russia's energy sector in recent months aiming to dent revenues used by Moscow to fund its invasion, now grinding through its third year.
'At night, a successful strike was carried out on the enemy's offshore oil terminal in temporarily occupied Feodosia, Crimea,' the Ukrainian military said in a post on social media.
Russian-installed authorities in Crimea said a fire had broken out at an oil facility in the Black Sea port town of some 70,000 people and that there were no casualties.
The defence ministry said that 12 Ukrainian attack drones had been downed over the peninsula overnight, of a total of 21 deployed by Kyiv against Russian targets.
'The Feodosia terminal is the largest in Crimea in terms of transshipment of oil products, which were used, among other things, to meet the needs of the Russian occupation army,' the Ukrainian military said, vowing to continue such attacks.
Ukraine insists the strikes are fair retaliation for Russian attacks on its own energy infrastructure that have plunged millions into darkness.
А вот статьи «проплаченные» нашим МО встречать не приходилось давным-давно.
Причём не только в англосаксонской прессе, но и вообще.
P.S.
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Квадробер покусал наехавшего на него самокатчика
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Казалось, и квадробер, и самокатчик – разведчики.
Им обоим Образ Жизни и Формы Поведения Пассажиров и Водителей не указ.
Чего им делить, то?
А вот то и делить, что прислали их соперничающие меж собой начала Дорожного Движения:
• самокатчик разведчик Всадников на дорогах Водителей и Пассажиров;
• квадробер, разведчик Пешеходов на дорогах Пассажиров и вскорости Водителей.
И поэтому меж ними может возникнуть конфликт, хотя теоретически, они должны меж собой сотрудничать, по тому, что задача у них одна – вывести из равновесия, напугать, спровоцировать ответную агрессию Водителя и/или Пассажира, а если особо повезёт добиться вмешательства в Процесс дорожного движения самого Возничего.
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В прежние времена, на Руси, людей подражающих в поведении своем братьям меньшим, числили бесноватыми и лечили при монастырях кнутом, постом, да послушанием.
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Что бы понять суть проблемы обратимся к недавней отраслевой истории…
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Музыкальная дорога в Нидерландах стала настоящим кошмаром для местных жителей
Власти Нидерландов закрыли «поющую» дорогу в одной из провинций после жалоб местных жителей. По задумке авторов, дорога должна была проигрывать национальный гимн Фрисландии каждый раз, когда автомобили проезжали по ней со скоростью 60 км/ч. Однако авторы необычного проекта не учли несколько нюансов. Во-первых, местным жителям пришлось чуть ли не круглосуточно слушать «пение» дороги. Во-вторых, многие из водителей проезжали участок гораздо быстрее, из-за чего мелодия искажалась. В итоге под давлением местных жителей власти приняли решение демонтировать «музыкальный» участок дороги. Отметим, что это произошло спустя всего сутки после официального открытия поющего полотна.
Где «Автодор», где Нидерланды, кому в России интересно мнение Водителей и Пассажиров?
Тем более, в России полгода зима и дело не в том, что чистят, а в том, что стирают, что делает этот вид контроля скорости движения чрезвычайно уязвимым.
Кроме того, поющую дорогу слышно не только в машине, в качестве «мелодии», но и по обочинам, в виде возросшего шума движения транспорта.
Отдельная тема, качество исполнения, точнее записи самой сигнальной рекламной мелодии. В этой связи полезно вспомнить один отраслевой материал шестнадцатилетней давности:
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Honda Needs a Tune-Up
This is the story of how Honda engineers screwed up a big expensive project with a simple arithmetic mistake, tried to fudge their result with sound editing software, and congratulated themselves for being totally awesome.
When I was a kid, my family used to drive up to The Pinery in Ontario, a beautiful park by Lake Huron. Very scenic. My favorite part, though, was a stretch of road a half-hour outside of the park. To discourage reckless Canadians from barreling past the houses and barns, the local government carved five sets of grooves in the road before every stop sign. Drive over them, and the car would vibrate: “vbvbvbvb... vbvbvbvb... vbvbvbvb... vbvbvbvb... vbvbvbvb.” The faster you drive, the higher the pitch.
My Dad is a musicologist, with a particular interest in tuning. So there was no way he was going to pass up the chance to experiment with this instrument. Every time we approached some grooves, he'd start fast over the first set, and try to slow down by the last set, to play a descending scale: G-F-E-D-C. If there was no oncoming traffic after the stop sign, he'd swing over to the other side of the road and play an ascending scale as we sped up.
Ratios of speeds correspond to ratios of vibration frequencies, which correspond to intervals between notes. To play an ascending scale C-D-E-F-G, you need to drive at these ratios to your starting speed: 1 - 9/8 - 5/4 - 4/3 - 3/2 (for example, 24 - 27 - 30 - 32 - 36 mph). 1
Playing a scale with a '95 Toyota Previa is not easy. The notes tend to come out a little wonky — we'd get the half-step between E and F too wide, and with not enough space between F and G. It usually sounded kinda modal... but still awesome.
Professionals?
So imagine my delight when I heard about this musical road [CNET] that Honda built in Lancaster, CA.. A team of engineers carved some grooves into a highway that were carefully spaced to play the William Tell Overture as you drive over them at a constant speed. Awesome, right? The problem is, it's spectacularly out of tune.
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Honda Civic Commercial: Grooves
The Honda version isn't simply out of tune... the notes are just wrong. The original starts with a rising 4th, F-B♭,2 and eventually reaches an octave above the starting note before descending to the tonic F-E♭-D-B♭.3 But Honda's version starts with a rising major 3rd, and its top note is a major 6th above the starting note. Some might have noticed that the last few notes in Honda's commercial sound OK. That's because they edited over them! I can prove it.
Basic melody in the William Tell Overture (schematic)
The CNET article above speculates that Honda designed the road specifically for the Honda civic driving at the speed limit, and other cars might need to drive at a different speed to make it sound better. But if you're going at a constant speed, all that matters is the spacing between grooves. Speeding up or slowing down just transposes everything. It would be theoretically possible to "correct" the melody by driving at different speeds (like on the road to the Pinery). But the notes on the musical road are too closely spaced for all but consummate musician Mario Andretti.
It also doesn't matter what car you drive.4 The vibration frequency is f = v/d, where v is the car's speed, and d is the distance over which the road pattern repeats. There's no place in the equation for wheel spacing, tire size, side-impact airbags, etc. All of these things affect the quality of the sound, but not the pitch.
So why is the musical road so unmusical?
The Error
Honda posted a series of 5 ridiculous videos: [Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 4][Part 5], in which they talk about all the hard work they did and congratulate themselves for being so awesome. There are lots of complicated sounding numbers, there's a "Mathematician/Musician," and plenty of experts. I'm sure some people behind the project understood what was going on. But I think they failed to anticipate a basic misunderstanding on the part of the groove-designers.
In the fourth "making of" video, they mention that the initial note, a low F, has a spacing of 4 inches (4in) between grooves (1:47):
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The Civic Project: Musical Road 4
From the video, it looks like the grooves themselves are about 1in wide. Now, suppose you want to make the B♭ a 4th above F. A perfect 4th is a fequency ratio of 4/3, so you should multiply the width by a factor of 3/4... But the width of what?
Based on the Civic's 106.3 inch wheelbase, we can see from this picture that s+g is about 5 inches. Honda says the lowest note has a 4 inch spacing, so that's consistent with 1 inch grooves.
The width that really matters is the total width of the spacing plus groove (s+g). That's the distance over which the road pattern repeats, so that's the distance over which the car completes one vibration.5 Suppose you didn't know this, and only changed the spacing, from s = 4in to s' = 3/4 × 4in = 3in. Then the frequency ratio is (s+g)/(s'+g) = (4+1)/(3+1) = 5/4, a major 3rd, not a perfect 4th. What about the octave above the starting note? An octave is a frequency ratio of 2/1, but if you only changed the spacing to s' = 1/2 × 4in = 2in, you'd get an actual ratio of (s+g)/(s'+g) = (4+1)/(2+1) = 5/3, a major 6th, not an octave.
Oops.
making an octave, incorrectly
There are two ways you could correct this problem:
1. Adjust the groove width g as well as the spacing s. For instance, to make an octave, use a spacing s' = 2in and a groove g' = .5in, giving a fequency ratio (s+g)/(s'+g') = 5/2.5 = 2/1. This is probably hard with typical cutting tools. Also, the engineers may have found that they need to make the grooves bigger than some minimum width to get a good sound. So on to method 2...
2. Over-adjust the groove spacing so that the total g+s is correct. For instance, to make an octave, adjust the groove spacing to s' = 1.5in, so you get a frequency ratio of (s+g)/(s'+g) = 5/2.5 = 2/1.
making an octave, correctly
The Coverup
Armed with this theory for why the musical road sounds so bad, I crunched some numbers in Mathematica, and was able to reproduce Honda's result, sort of...
What happened to the ending? It's all funky again. Go back and listen to the Mathematica version that mimics Honda's mistake. Same funky ending.7 Whoever put together the Honda commercial must have edited over the ending, assuming that as long as the last few notes were correct, no one would notice anything wrong.8
Aftermath
I learned something else kind of ridiculous from this analysis: if Honda didn't doctor the overall pitch of the melody in their commercial, then they were speeding. The opening frequency is about 238Hz, which corresponds to a speed of about 67mph if the road pattern repeats over 5in. But they mention in one of the videos that the speed limit is 55! Crap.
In fact, in this youtube video, where they explicitly state they're going 55mph, the melody starts a minor third below the Honda commercial. A minor third is a frequency ratio of 6/5, so this is consistent with Honda's driver doing 6/5 × 55mph = more than 10mph over the speed limit...
Another funny point is that some of the intervals you get from Honda's miscalculation are pretty bizarre. The D, a major 6th above the starting F, should have a frequency ratio of 5/3 above the starting frequency. Instead, it has a ratio 5/(4 × 3/5+1) = 25/17. This isn't really in the western scale. It's about 2/3rds of the way between an augmented 4th and a pure 5th. Microtonal composers like Easley Blackwood might have found a use for it, but I don't think it's what Honda was after.
If I were them, I'd seriously consider paving over the road. In fact, it seems like some local residents might do it for them. There is another option, though. If they bring in the bulldozers, and shuffle around a few chunks of asphalt at the end of the road, they might get a decent rendition of "When The Saints Go Marching In."
Update [5/2/11]: I am both sorry and delighted to hear that they rebuilt the musical road (see, e.g., here), and they fixed nothing. Here it is on April 28, 2011:
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Lancaster Musical Road (The new one that is out of tune)
Just... wow.
Update [4/15/18]: This post was recently featured on Tom Scott's Youtube Channel "Amazing Places." As of today, the video currently has about 5 million views. It was also mentioned in The New York Times.
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1. If anyone's wondering what happened to the 1/12th powers of 2 in this whole tuning discussion, I'm using what's called Just Intonation, which is an (often better-sounding) approximation to the Equal Temperament system most people know. Actually, it's really the other way around: the reason we use 12 equal semitones is that it lets us approximate nice integer ratios like 3/2, 4/3, 5/4, etc.. This is a long story that I'm not going to get into here.
2. Actually, the starting note in the recording is around a B♭. I'm going to pretend like everything is in the key of B♭ (so the starting note is F), since that's the key they talk about in the making-of videos.
a picture of Honda's score
1. Sorry to the perfect-pitch people.
2. The original melody actually has a run down to the B♭: F-E♭-D-C-B♭. Honda apparently decided this was too complicated and used a simplified version. That's what I'll stick to here.
3. With one exception that can't fix the tuning. See my comment, below.
4. More precisely, once you know the force driving the vibrations is periodic with period T=d/v, it follows that the vibrations themselves have that periodicity, so the Fourier transform of any resultant sound is only nonzero at integer multiples of f=1/T. For more explanation, see the second comment, below.
5. I've actually transposed it up to be in approximately the same key as the other recordings in this article. By the way, there are hundreds of such videos on Youtube.
6. Aside from a single passing note. If I change the closing notes from F-E♭-D-B♭-D-B♭ to F-E♮-D-B♭-D-B♭, and apply the Honda miscalculation, it sounds almost exactly like the undoctored recording of the musical road. So it appears that there are two errors at work here: the groove spacing miscalculation, and replacing an E♭ with an E♮.
7. It seems like Honda fixed up some of the other notes, too, to get a more pleasant sound. Some might object that it's easy to make the notes sound bad by speeding up or slowing down as you drive down the road. However, I don't hear anything like that in the random person's recording. The melody returns to previous notes with reasonable accuracy, which it wouldn't do if the speed were varying.
Мелодия ЕСО>ИСО это конечно хорошо, но в ИСО>ЕСО музыка гораздо менее актуальна, чем слово, тем более слово крепкое, сказанное к месту, по поводу и в тему.
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Только а.п. сдаётся, что озвучить нарушение скоростного режима уместным терпким выражением «Автодор» никогда не согласится.
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What if Putin DID push the button and nuke London? A terrifying minute-by-minute portrait of the apocalyptic horrors of a 9,000mph missile smashing into Trafalgar Square
On Tuesday, Russia conducted a training exercise for a massive nuclear strike against the West, with ballistic and cruise missiles deployed from land and sea.
In a video message to his generals, Vladimir Putin claimed his country’s nuclear arsenal – the largest in the world – would be used only as an ‘extremely exceptional measure’.
Yet since his invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the despot has consistently threatened to deploy this fearsome weaponry, and as the long and bloody war grinds into a stalemate, the spectre of a nuclear holocaust has never felt closer. So what might happen if Putin pushed the button – and dropped a nuclear bomb on London?
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launched in Oblast by Russia this week
7.30am
: From his nuclear bunker deep inside the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin gives the order.
Six hundred miles north of Moscow, engineers working at Site 16 – the nuclear facility within the Plesetsk Cosmodrome – leap into action. It will take them exactly 30 minutes from receiving the order to launching a nuclear warhead.
7.40am:
Nato satellites detect a flurry of activity at the Plesetsk base. Member states are placed on high alert.
7.50am
: The Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence urgently try to contact their Russian counterparts – but their calls go unanswered. Something is seriously wrong.
8am: A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with a nuclear warhead – with a range of 7,500 miles – is launched, soaring into the sky.
The onboard navigation system – accurate to within a yard – is set to Trafalgar Square, London. The hypersonic weapon is travelling at over 9,000 mph. It cannot be stopped.
8.01am
: In London, Tube carriages are packed and the roads are busy in rush hour. None of the commuters has the faintest suspicion that in just five minutes, much of the capital will be obliterated.
8.02am
: Nato early-warning systems stationed across the Baltic States detect the presence of an unidentified flying object hurtling towards the UK. On satellite phones via a secure line reserved for this scenario, governments are warned of an impending attack.
8.03am
: Nato raises the threat level to the UK from ‘credible’ to ‘likely’ and Britain’s Ministry of Defence restricts access to ‘base transceiver stations’, preventing domestic mobile phones from sending messages.
8.04am
: The Home Office sends a signal to every device with a SIM card in the UK warning of the imminent threat: ‘BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK SHELTER.’
The UK’s air defence system, Sky Sabre, is powerless to protect London. Its ‘Common Anti-Air Modular Missiles’ travel at 2,300 mph but are effective only against fighter jets, drones and certain laser-guided missiles.
Even the world’s most effective anti-ballistic-missile system, the US’s ‘Ground-Based Midcourse Defense’, is thought to be over a decade away from true reliability in the face of an ICBM.
8.05am:
Confusion seizes the city. Londoners wonder where the missile is headed and if they should – or can – flee. Some are sure the message is a mistake.
The Prime Minister, along with his closest advisers and immediate family, is evacuated from his private office in No 10 and taken to a nuclear shelter beneath Whitehall known as Pindar. Built during the Cold War, the bunker takes its name from the only house left standing when Alexander the Great razed the city of Thebes in 335 BC.
8.06am:
All radio and TV broadcasts cease and stations instead carry a recorded warning to take shelter. Confusion changes to panic. Tens of thousands of Londoners rush to take shelter in Tube stations. The first deaths occur as children and the elderly are crushed in the stampede.
Others stand in the open, staring in awe at the bright dot that has appeared in the sky to the east. A mother with two young children collapses on the pavement, cradles her loved ones and closes her eyes.
8.08am:
Impact. The warhead detonates in Trafalgar Square. It has a yield of 800 kilotons – equivalent to 800,000 tons of TNT and more than 50 times the strength of the ‘Little Boy’ bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
A huge white flash, brighter than the Sun, explodes over the West End. It can be seen hundreds of miles away, as far north as Edinburgh and as far south as Paris.
Anyone within the M25 experiences flash blindness. For many, this will last just a few hours. Others will be blinded for life, the ‘atomic flash’ having burnt through their retinas.
Those wearing glasses suffer unimaginable pain because the lenses magnify the flash.
Less than two seconds later, a second flash as light trapped behind the blast’s shockwave escapes.
Within ten seconds, a fireball a mile across balloons in every direction. At several thousand degrees Celsius – hotter than the surface of the Sun – it vaporises everything within its path.
Nelson’s Column, the four lions at its base, and the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields are gone in a millisecond. In their place, a crater measuring 600 ft across and 150 ft deep, like the gateway to hell itself, stretches between where the National Gallery and Admiralty Arch once stood.
The Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and half of Mayfair simply cease to exist – reduced to dust and smog. People are obliterated in their tens of thousands.
The pressure wave – an unstoppable battering ram of compressed air travelling at almost 800 mph, faster than the speed of sound – roars through the capital. Anyone within seven miles who hasn’t been immediately killed will have their eardrums burst.
8.09am:
One minute after impact, the ‘Heavy Blast radius’ stretches a mile and a quarter from Ground Zero. Within this radius, fatalities are 100 per cent. Even buildings made from reinforced concrete are destroyed, stripped to their foundations, exposing ugly twisted metal.
The so-called ‘Moderate Blast radius’ reaches three miles from Trafalgar Square, as far as Kensington, Camden and Whitechapel. Within this zone, most residential buildings have collapsed; thousands of electrical fires break out in those left standing.
The ‘Light Blast radius’ stretches seven miles, as far as Brentford, Stratford, Wood Green and Wimbledon. Windows have smashed, impaling some of those who were looking out to investigate the mysterious bright flash.
In a video message to his generals, Vladimir Putin claimed his country’s nuclear arsenal would be used only as an ‘extremely exceptional measure’
It would take engineers working the nuclear facility exactly 30 minutes from receiving the order to launching a nuclear warhead
8.10am:
Fires are raging across the capital. Half a million Londoners are dead.
8.11am:
In a state of shock, the PM considers from the Pindar whether or not to retaliate against Russia, knowing that to launch a counterstrike would mean certain death for countless millions – but not to do so would be a failure of his duty. Communication lines to Washington are downed.
A bottle of single malt whisky, kept in the bunker is opened by the Defence Secretary.
8:12am:
In the North Atlantic, one of Britain’s four nuclear-armed Trident submarines is halfway through its nine-month patrol. The Commander receives a message alerting his crew to the strike on London. They attempt to contact Downing Street via a reserved radio frequency. There is no response.
8.13am:
Electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) emitted by the blast cause voltage surges, destroying components in electrical devices. As the living try to contact loved ones, mobile phones die.
Calls to 999 either fail or go unanswered.
In Soviet Russia, steam trains were kept in case a nuclear attack caused an electrical outage on the rail network. The UK has no such backstop, meaning all rail transport in and out of London has ceased. The roads are choked. Electric cars within 15 miles fail to start: the electromagnetic pulse has rendered them useless.
8.15am:
The city’s major hospitals, including St Thomas’ and Chelsea and Westminster have been destroyed. The nearest working hospitals, in Tunbridge, Crawley and Luton, are placed on high alert and begin to prepare for an influx of patients.
8.20am:
Radioactive debris begins to rain down on the capital. Composed of displaced earth, building materials, and even vaporised human flesh, the fallout is lethally radioactive and constitutes a major biohazard. It will fall for at least 24 hours.
Anyone who ventures outside will involuntarily inhale the microscopic plutonium, melting the body from the inside out.
Thirty minutes after exposure, Londoners in Richmond and Wembley begin vomiting, closely followed by explosive diarrhoea and a loss of consciousness. An agonising death is hours away.
8.30am:
The cloud of radioactive fallout is travelling northeast on the wind; it will reach as far as Norwich before whatever is left settles in the North Sea. Anyone caught outside in East Anglia will inhale fallout. Over the coming months, they will suffer weight loss, internal bleeding, and hair loss. Many will go on to develop deadly cancers.
8.35am:
The capital is a death zone. Anyone still alive above ground within two miles of the point of impact has suffered agonising third-degree burns to their skin. Radiation poisoning will likely kill them within hours.
In the Underground network, chaos has broken out. Most of the entrances have been choked shut by falling debris and rubble.
8.45am:
The lights have failed and panic breaks out in the dark. The temperature rises among densely packed bodies and with no water, some older people start to pass out, joining those already trampled on train floors and platforms or fallen on the tracks.
8.50am:
The Prime Minister orders the army to seal all routes in and out of the capital, turning the M25 into a perimeter fence to prevent the spread of radioactive people and materials. Army personnel are provided with P2-grade face masks and iodine tablets to stop radioactive iodine binding to the thyroid and killing them.
The Prime Minister gives the ‘shoot-to-kill’ order for anyone who tries to cross the perimeter.
9am:
An hour after the blast. The BBC’s Wood Norton nuclear bunker in Worcestershire, which has access to super high-frequency satellites, begins transmission. The message is simple across the UK: ‘Go in. Stay in. Tune in.’
9.15am:
With ‘crisis management’ already in operation, the Prime Minister initiates the second part of the government’s ‘emergency response protocol’ to a level 3 ‘Catastrophic Emergency’: Consequence Management’.
Military reservists and police officers from outside the Met begin to coordinate the rescue effort for those trapped in the city. The first step will be to set up tents where Londoners can be cleansed of radioactive particles before being evacuated.
9.30am:
From the Wood Norton bunker, the BBC broadcasts old recordings, including Vera Lynn, in an attempt to raise morale. The broadcasts are punctuated every 30 seconds by the command to: ‘Go in. Stay in. Tune in.’
10am:
Two hours after the blast. Three-quarters of a million Britons are dead. Over two million are seriously injured. The vast majority will never receive the emergency care they need. The government’s priority is to prevent the spread of radioactive fallout. London is a mausoleum.
10.15am:
After more than two hours trying to contact the Prime Minister, Trident has received no response. The Commander walks calmly over to a locked console in the corner of the command room and enters the code.
He withdraws the ‘letter of last resort’ and opens it. Inside is a simple handwritten message. ‘If Britain is attacked and the Prime Minister cannot be located by this Trident submarine, I authorise a retaliatory strike’. Beneath it is the PM’s signature.
Submariners are called to their attack stations. Many believe it to be another drill. But once in place, the 132-strong crew knows this is for real. The Commander picks up the orange trigger, modelled on the grip of a Colt handgun. He nods towards his crew, shuts his eyes and pulls the trigger.
11am:
Communications with Washington have been established by satellite phone. The Prime Minister – knowing he will have the US President’s consent – invokes Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. America launches its own attack on Russia from the South China Sea, striking at strategic targets and nuclear launch sites. Russia fails to retaliate with any further nuclear strikes.
Monday, February 3, 2025
8:00am:
It’s exactly two weeks since a nuclear bomb struck London. The capital is deathly quiet except for the careful footsteps of hundreds of soldiers dressed in hazmat suits and the rasping sounds of their respirators. It is three days since Army personnel first entered the capital to search for survivors.
In that time, not a single person within a mile of Ground Zero has been found alive. The vast majority were vaporised on impact. Hundreds of thousands more died on the day of the blast from radiation poisoning.
8:15am: At one of 50 ‘Nightingale’ Hospitals set up in the Home Counties to accommodate survivors, doctors are still treating patients for horrific burns and life-changing injuries.
Up to two million people were caught up in the radiation radius of the bomb, and many will go on to develop fatal cancers as a result.
Scientists disagree about when London will be habitable again – if ever. But one thing is for sure: this once great city, founded by the Romans two millennia ago, is now nothing more than a terrible monument to the darkest day in human history.
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