'Only two places' on Earth could survive nuclear apocalypse that kills 5 billion

Journalist Annie Jacobsen, known for her extensive study on nuclear conflict impacts , declares that safe havens would be scant should nuclear catastrophe strike. In this revealing video , she anticipates about five billion casualties within the first 72 hours of a nuclear war, with the remaining three billion survivors forced to grapple with severe hardships.

Should fires spread across multiple continents, it would trigger a mini-ice age making agriculture virtually impossible. As she clarifies: "Most of the world, certainly the mid-latitudes would be covered in sheets of ice ...places like Iowa and Ukraine would be just snow for 10 years."

In a discussion with the Diary of a CEO podcast , Annie issued a dire warning regarding the aftermath of the nuclear winter, predicting fatal consequences for many. "Agriculture would fail, and when agriculture fails people just die," she further explains, as reported by the Daily Star.

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Annie further stated: "On top of that you have the radiation poisoning because the ozone layer will be so damaged and destroyed that you couldn't be outside in the sunlight people will be forced to live underground."

According to Professor Brian Toon, an esteemed expert in climate and atmospheric science, only Australia and New Zealand could continue viable agriculture following a nuclear winter.

"Nuclear bunkers, like those being constructed by billionaires across the US, are only as good as their power supply, Professor Toon said. "The smaller ones are going to only function for as long as there's gasoline to run the diesel generators. Then those people are going to have to come out and who's left ? she added. "It's a man returning to the most primal, most violent state as people fight over the tiny resources that remain."

Alarmingly, Annie suggested that even with today's advanced detection systems, a nuclear war could still accidentally be triggered. She recounted the tale of former US Secretary of Defence Bill Perry, saying: "He was on the night watch during the Carter Administration ... he was told by the National Military Command Centre, which is the bunker beneath the Pentagon, that there were ballistic missiles on the way from Soviet Russia.

"This was confirmed by the nuclear bunker beneath Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska the STRATCOM (Strategic Command) bunker. Not only were intercontinental ballistic missiles flying at the United States but there were sub-launched ballistic missiles coming at the United States. It was a massive motherlode of warheads."

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Annie describes a tense moment when Perry was on the brink of waking the president to report an imminent nuclear threat, which thankfully turned out to be a false alarm. She recounted: "Within a matter of minutes he got word that it was a mistake how does a mistake like that happen?

Delving into the bizarre error, Perry told her: "What he told me was that there was a VHS tape of a simulated attack by the Soviet Union against the United States and the VHS tape had mistakenly been inserted into a machine in the nuclear bunker beneath the Pentagon and because it is linked to STRATCOM it was seen in both places. Perry said to me it looked real because it was meant to look real."

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