If Russia launches nuclear missiles at the US, the president has just a few minutes to react. They will have to make the most consequential decision in human history as the clock winds down.
How would you deal with the situation?
The virtual reality simulation depicts what a president would go through during a nuclear crisis. The experience was developed by the Program on Science and Global Security at the University.
Nuclear Biscuit was shown off at the Munich Security Conference last year. Lawmakers and national security experts donned a headset and underwent a scenario in which they assumed the role of the US president and were tasked with deciding how to respond to a nuclear attack.
The former US negotiator for nuclear arms control with the Soviet Union said in a press release after his turn on the headset that he came out a changed person.
The experience begins at the president's desk in the Oval Office when you are told that a national emergency is underway. You are taken to a situation room below the White House, where you are told that hundreds of Russian intercontinental missiles are on their way to the western seaboard.
A Pentagon official offers three options regarding if and how you should retaliate, and you have less than 15 minutes to choose from them. Millions of people will die no matter what you do. It depends on how many millions you want to kill in your response.
Experts say the simulation sounds like a haunting experience that accurately reflects the tension and anxiety a president would feel in that scenario.
Sharon Weiner, associate professor at the School of International Service at American University and co- creator of the project, told the Guardian that people felt they were making decisions under uncertainty. There was pressure to make a decision even though they wished they knew more.
Some people pick an option because they want to die.
Lawmakers will be able to experience the simulation themselves when it is brought to Congress. The consequences of the choices that the people on Capitol Hill have made about the nuclear weapons issue should be seen by them.
If the US were to experience a nuclear attack, using virtual reality tech would give us a glimpse of what would happen. Hopefully, lawmakers learn something from it, rather than doubling down on the 21st century arms race.
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