The war in Ukraine, generated by the invasion of Russia, has raised fears of a nuclear war for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Only in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in 1945, atomic bombs were used for strictly war purposes; since then they have been experimental.
In any case, with the world on edge, a video posted on social networks shows what it would be like to witness a nuclear explosion… through virtual reality.
The video comes from the Twitter account The Unexplained, with 1.3 million followers, and has 12.2 million views. He released it in April this year, just two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
You can see how a nuclear bomb is exploded on a beach, and in first person you can see the formation of the smoke fungus, as well as the expansion of energy in the form of fire.
The strategic nuclear bomb, similar in size to those used by the United States in military tests according to IFLSciencestrikes offshore, devastating the beach and surrounding vegetation from a distance.
The nuclear bomb and its devastating effects
An atomic bomb, also known as a nuclear bomb, it is a device that obtains a huge amount of explosive energy through nuclear reactions. In this way, all its power is unleashed in a few seconds.
The virtual reality video is completely and utterly chilling, taking us back to images of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at the end of World War II in Japan.
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At the time, The United States sought the surrender of the Japanese Empire, an aggressor since the end of the 1930s in Asia, and which in 1941 attacked the North American Naval Base in Pearl Harbor.
The Americans dropped two atomic bombs on August 6 and 9, 1945, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. leaving between 129 thousand and 246 thousand dead, without taking into account the wounded and the material destruction. Quite a tragedy that unleashed fear in the world of more similar bombings.