Emergency Alert System - New Years Bombing 2000

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This is a fictional depiction of a terrorist bombing of New York City on New Years Eve 1999.
At 12:00 AM EST, a 15KT nuclear device is detonated in Times Square in New York City, killing an estimated 45,000 instantly and injuring up to 120,000. Response teams are immediately called to the scene to assess the situation and rescue any potential survivors.
Residents within a mile of the explosion are given a shelter-in-place order until the early morning.
Despite initial reports that the attack was confined to the Times Square area, geiger-counters registered radioactive material, confirming a nuclear attack, and producing fallout that would spread up to 2 miles outward. While most nearest to the blast sheltered in place, many residents attempted to evacuate to the outer regions surrounding the city, resulting in total gridlock along all of Manhattan Island's major and minor bridges.
The National Guard was deployed forty minutes after the attack in an attempt to keep order, which was met with riots and desperate residents attempting to escape. Two people are killed on the Brooklyn Bridge after inadvertently rushing a small group of National Guardsmen, an event that was heavily condemned by President Clinton despite the situation.
In the morning hours of January 1 2000, fallout had covered most of the inner Manhattan region, coating nearby Central Park in two inches of radioactive dust, and rendering most of the city uninhabitable. Many residents within these areas, if they hadn't taken the necessary precautions, would be dead in the next several days due to radiation sickness.
Despite all available resources delivered by the US Government, and a recovery budget of more than $40 Billion, 85% of upper and mid-level Manhattan was declared a hazard zone and would likely not be safe for re-population until 2025, due to a mix of radioactive material and structural damage in and around the ruins of Times Square.
Those behind the attack are never found, despite frequent investigations by the FBI into numerous terror cells throughout the Middle East. Despite numerous threats in the years leading up to the attack, Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden denied responsibility for the attack, as have other recognized terrorist organizations.
An estimated 129,000 people died in the New Years Bombing, and up to 640,000 injured or suffering lifelong complications as a result of the immediate attack or its aftermath.

[@funguswungus2918]

Hello from /r/AlternateHistory lmao

[@themysterysith9087]

Fr lmao

[@thebeastofamericaa6720]

Me too

[@Krmelj1308]

Hello

[@Actible]

From a reply the creator left on a comment: The 1/1 Bombing of New York is basically meant to be this universe's 9/11, and it results in a much more extreme timeline, with a Second Depression that trumps the Great Depression a thousand fold, an invasion of FR Yugoslavia in 2002, several cities in the US becoming victims of dirty bomb attacks in 2004, Al Gore losing that same year, and America becoming a Theocratic Republic until the mid 2020s.

[@nowhereman6019]

Way to start off the new millennium with a bang.

[@aaronchavez5546]

This is fucking amazing! But the one thing i found that was wrong, was that no EMP disabled all electronics but im no expert with nuclear warheads, But still this was fucking amazing! Also hello, From R/Alternate History!

[@jaythezerosix]

"I TOLD YOU Y2K WOULD BE BAD!!!"

[@geoffspacemarine3595]

This is fucking amazing. Instant subscribe. Also /r/AlternateHistory squad represent

[@TheDudeWithTheHatN2]

this is really good

[@awesomeconservative]

That was really good!

[@barsnacker]

The paranoia amongst some people skyrocketed.

[@rubenbadalian29]

So In this alternative history 9/11 never happened and all of New York City gets destroyed by a nuclear bombing on the Y2K scare of 2000

[@malcolmmorin]

I haven't worked on this timeline in a few months, but it's mainly anywhere within a mile of Times Square that was destroyed in the bombing. All of Manhattan Island south of that was evacuated, along with large swaths of North Brooklyn and Southwest Queens.
The 1/1 Bombing of New York is basically meant to be this universe's 9/11, and it results in a much more extreme timeline, with a Second Depression that trumps the Great Depression a thousand fold, an invasion of FR Yugoslavia in 2002, several cities in the US becoming victims of dirty bomb attacks in 2004, Al Gore losing that same year, and America becoming a Theocratic Republic until the mid 2020s.

[@rubenbadalian29]

@@malcolmmorinI was born 1 year after the Y2K scare of 2000 so I don’t know what it was like during the Y2K scare or what happened during 9/11

[@t-mobileuser]

Happy new year of 2000

[@ryanwatterson801]

This is very good

[@socialistrepublicofslavist9853]

Hello from /r/AlternateHistory

[@VictorYong36]

How did you managed to do this deepfake?

[@malcolmmorin]

It was a basic edit. I took a half second of footage and just bumped up the exposure to max, then took a screenshot of that and added a bunch of different filters to it to give it that flicker effect.
I'm glad it looks convincing enough, though now knowing that the flash would never be caught on the camera, I'd definitely like to go back and modify it sometime!

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

@@malcolmmorin make a timeline on this

[@malcolmmorin]

@@AbrahamLincoln4 Working on it. Can't guarantee something solid for a while, but I'll try my best!

[@heroicpower3479]

​@@malcolmmorindude, what's your reddit username?

[@spousescluboflewis-mcchord1705]

I fell ilke im gonna cry beasuce bombing in happy 2000

[@KingDragonBoyTV1998]

IT’S THE VICIOUS SIX!!!!!

[@KingDragonBoyTV1998]

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[@essssssss1093]

It's an deleted scene

[@ThatRobloxTrainGuy]

schlatt was right

[@michaelm5264]

This is a fake one

[@malcolmmorin]

I mean... yeah.