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Shocking simulation shows what would happen if Russia carried out nuclear attack on Britain as planned targets for UK ‘leaked’

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Updated 11:51 19 May 2025 GMT+1Published 11:36 19 May 2025 GMT+1

Shocking simulation shows what would happen if Russia carried out nuclear attack on Britain as planned targets for UK ‘leaked’

Putin reportedly has a list of targets drawn up

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

After Russia’s planned targets for the UK were ‘leaked’, a shocking simulation shows just what would happen if the nation launched a nuclear attack on us.

In what sounds like something from a nightmare or an easy plot for a dystopian film, it seems Vladimir Putin had a list drawn up of spots in Britain to aim for if a war with NATO was to kick off.

It was previously reported that the president of Russia had 32 areas across Europe that had essentially become a bullseye with three locations in the north of the UK included.

And as the nation’s war with Ukraine continues, the discussions around a full on nuclear World War seem to get louder and louder.

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I mean, it doesn’t help that Donald Trump has thrown ‘World War III’ into conversations and now this simulation might provide a bit of a visual for public fear.

It shows explosions across the UK. (YouTube / Visualiser 3D)
It shows explosions across the UK. (YouTube / Visualiser 3D)

As reported by the Financial Times, Cumbria, Hull and Rosyth are all included as potential targets for a Russian nuclear attack.

Taking aim at the UK as a whole, the simulation shows explosions going off all over our nation.

Shared by Visualiser 3D on YouTube, it explains that in the first stage, ‘initiation’, Putin’s military would launch ‘about five dozen tactical nuclear warheads’ in order to destroy our military power.

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It’s previously been estimated that if Russia did launch an attack, it would take anywhere between 15 and 20 minutes before we are impacted. But we wouldn’t have much warning sadly.

Radiation would soon spread. (YouTube / Visualiser 3D)
Radiation would soon spread. (YouTube / Visualiser 3D)

The simulation says that across both the UK and Russia, there would be ‘about one million’ casualties in less than two hours of attack.

Nuclear war would then start in ‘stage two’ as Russia attacks the targets ‘that will cause more casualties’ like London and ‘major industrial economic centres’, killing about 50 million people.

The aim is apparently to target places that are most likely to prevent a responding nuclear strike.

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Nuclear fallout would then follow as the simulation’s ‘stage three’ with radiation spreading far and wide.

The simulation shows this as a green mist, spreading across countries and the ocean as people would experience ‘radiation sickness’, killing more humans, animals and wrecking the environment.

The global effects would quickly come into play as the simulation says the world ‘would lose two pillars on which the stability of prosperity was built’.

“And it would cause mass starvation, crises, wars and revolutions,” it adds.

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“All this would lead to additional losses,” as the tally of fatalities reaches sky-high figures of up to half a billion.

While there currently doesn’t seem to be any definitive suggestion we are actually going to be victim to a nuclear attack, when the British military simulated one, it wasn’t ‘pretty’.

Following Russia’s initial attack on Ukraine in 2022, Air Commodore Blythe Crawford (who recently retired as the Commandant of the UK’s Air and Space Warfare Centre) said that the military used ‘synthetic environment’ to model the possible aerial assault.

He said of the simulation: “As you can imagine it was not a pretty picture.”

Featured Image Credit: YouTube / Visualiser 3D

Topics: Russia, Vladimir Putin, UK News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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