Inside the Wargame Where Earth Faces a Killer Asteroid

A killer asteroid was barreling toward North Carolina and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.

Everyone hoped for the best but braced for the worst.

FEMA representative: "The asteroid won’t care that humans are trying to kill each other. It’s still going to keep coming, and we're going to have to respond".

North Carolinian city of Winston-Salem , population 250,000 , volunteered to be the victim of a simulated asteroid impact.

The city's director of emergency management wanted to make an important tweak to the war game.

The simulated asteroid had its simulated asteroid's bull’s-eye.

The real world contains mostly nonscientists.

A hypothetical asteroid 2022 TTX was discovered by a NASA -funded survey on February 11, 2022 , it looked almost harmless.

The asteroid had not yet been observed across enough of its solar orbit for scientists to know its trajectory with precision.

It was possible it could be 100 feet across, a small Tunguska . It could also be 1,000 feet long, a comfortable country crusher..