Even though the facility testing the new Intel CPU was submerged kilometres underwater, the blinding flash and mushroom cloud from the core meltdown was visible

Even though the facility testing the new Intel CPU was submerged kilometres underwater, the blinding flash and mushroom cloud from the core meltdown was visible from orbit. In an instant hundreds of cubic kilometres of ocean boiled off. In the hours and days that followed, the mega tsunamis and earthquakes reduced most cities to scrambled ruins, the lands poisoned with radioactive salt rain.