I Simulated a Realistic World War 3, Day 1 to Day 200

What if World War 3 started by mistake? A realistic day-by-day simulation, Day 1 to Day 200: one false missile alert, then another, and nobody can take it back. At 2:22 a.m. every phone in North Dakota says a ballistic missile is coming. At 2:51 a second alert says it was a mistake. At 3:04 a third one says it isn't. And a family six miles from a missile field watched what happened in between. 200 days, told only through the people living it: a farm family in the Minot missile field, a daughter 60 feet underground with a launch key, a grandfather in the cellar he dug in 1962, a sister in New Zealand, a small-town radio host who kept talking, and radio voices from Gdańsk, Yakutsk, Delhi and the bottom of the world. Built on the real world of late 2026, and on every real false alarm that came before: 1960, 1979, 1983, 1995, Hawaii 2018. Who fired first? Nobody knows, until someone tells it on the air. ⚠️ Fictional scenario. All characters, stations, companies, leaders and events are invented; real countries and places are used only as settings, and no side is blamed. Character voices are AI-generated. No AI-generated images or video: maps, scenes and effects are human created; the nuclear test footage is real U.S. government film (public domain); photos and clips are credited below. Numbers on screen come from a model based on published studies, not a forecast! Chapters 0:00 3 alerts 0:38 Day −14: Talks collapse 1:32 Day −9: The Baltic 1:55 Day −7: Thanksgiving 2:47 Day −1: An aurora rocket 3:30 Day 1, midnight: Alert one 4:08 2:11 a.m.: 240 tracks 5:43 2:33 a.m.: "That's ours" 6:12 False alarm 8:48 Not a drill 9:44 Signal lost 12:25 The cellar 15:12 Day 6: The smoke 17:37 Day 14: The hatch 18:12 Day 18: "Was it you?" 18:40 Day 23: Christmas on the radio 19:16 The dark spring 21:27 Day 52: The grain bin 24:13 Day 120: The morning 25:19 The longest day 26:18 Day 170: On the air 28:48 Day 190: Snow in June 29:21 Day 200: Who's still on the air 30:21 Life after Sources and credits Night Earth: NASA Black Marble. Nuclear test footage: U.S. Department of Energy / Department of Defense films (Operation Castle 1954, Operation Ivy 1952), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Stock: Alexandre Henry Alves, Ali Alcántara, Andrew Kota, Arlind D, ArtHouse Studio, Bonus Studio, Bryan Smith, Cihan Çimen, Claudio AFC, David Kanigan, David Pickup, dumitru bumbu, Enes Albayrak, FD Visualzz, Giannis Brakopoulos, Görkem Cetinkaya, In Old News LLC, Ivan S, Ivan St, Jesus Rivera, Joolsmagools ®️, Joseph Eulo, Judith Knight, Julien Goettelmann, K, Mehmed Ali Bekman, Monstera Production, Nastya Gorskaya, Nathan Cain, Nico Becker, Owen.outdoors, Peggy Johnson Philip Waikoloa, Pixabay, Rafael Minguet Delgado, Ron Lach, Salva F. Ayala, Scott Precious, Spencer Gurley Films, The Instagrapher, Tom Fisk, Tuğba, Utkarsh Malviya, Vincuk Konan, Yaroslav Shuraev, yavuz selim korku, Yusuf Çelik, Ömer Derinyar, Алексей Виноградов. Science: Xia et al., Nature Food 2022 (soot and crop losses); Robock et al. 2007 (cooling); FEMA and Kearny on fallout (the 7–10 rule). Sound effects: Freesound CC0, ElevenLabs sound effects. Music generated for the channel with Suno. #ww3 #simulation #nuclearwar #worldwar3