Inside The US Governments Secret Nuclear Terror Training

Screenshot of video obtained by Gizmodo

What if a terrorists attacked a major U.S. city with one or more nuclear devices?

Well, thankfully, it hasn’t happened yet, but at the height of the Cold War, in 1986, the U.S. government conducted a nuclear terror attack simulation exercise in Indianapolis, Indiana code-named ‘Mighty Derringer.’

And as part of that simulation, it even produced a highly realistic training video of a fake news broadcast showing how an attack might develop live on local TV news.

And until now, no one outside of the U.S. government had seen the video.

But Gizmodo has obtained the ‘Mighty Derringer‘ footage from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Read more at American Defense News

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