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Very brief view of the rolamite accelerometer shown at 19:25 for anyone interested.

imagine this kind of commitment invested in more benign pursuits...

the failures before the succes...the people involve in this study until it perfected is just🤯..the dedication of everyone envolved that new generation of youth should have...

What documentaries like this teach and confirm is that I had every right to be terrified as a teenager. I was born in 1971 and was totally unaware until I saw the TV movie The Day After. From that point forward, until a fateful day in late 1991, I lived in utter fear wondering when nuclear annihilation was coming. My teenage years always in the shadow of wonder and "why bother?" Pure luck, some decent engineering, and literally the Grace of God kept most of us safe from the pure stupidity of the politicians of both sides, and the incompetence of others. There is no such thing as a limited strike.

Interesting that it took them so long to spot the danger from carbonised circuit insulation. A very interesting documentary.

So who can explain me what does Always Never mean? I still don't get it somehow. Is it simply that the bomb use will be authorized by the president and nobody else? How can we give so much power to one person? Could someone please explain what is it that Im not understanding?

It's fascinating just how intelligent and reasonable the designers are. I remember reading that when the cores were reshaped rather than compressed (using flying air lenses), the complexity of the maths went up by an order of magnitude. I bet working out the maths for the prolate W88 warhead. Lest we forget, Ted Taylor had sketched out an atomic weapon that would fit into a 105mm shell. I know it was inefficient because there was no space for the beryllium reflectors (although possibly the alloy making up the casing could be made with a boron-containing alloy (25, M25 AND 165) but I feel that the backpack nukes we have seen are not the smallest. I don't know how long these shells would be but it strikes me that they represent the sought after suitcase nuke. I mean, it would still be possible to add deuterium & tritium within the hollow U233/U235/Pu239 primary. That said - nobody wants tactical nuclear weapons. It would be too easy for a local commander to institute a flobal thermonuclear war.

I was with Pershing 1A in Germany 1980-82 . Glad they were nb ever Used .

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I guess I grew up differently. I assume everything will fail and that none of my assumptions regarding function are actually correct. That is what made me a very good tester. But I can understand that times were different in those days and certain truths were taken as pretty well being absolute and immutable. Excellent presentation.

Interesting that the B61 (albeit in mod-12 form) is still in service today. Really was a good design.

Thirty incidents where the safety switches were operated incorrectly? Clearly a serious training shortcoming! It doesn't matter how well the company producing them knows their product - in the end, it comes down to young men and women of the military knowing how to keep everybody safe.

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I love the background music!

Frequent flashes of true inspiration. I am going to take much from this into my civilian field FMEA work. Thanks.

@12:26 'Didn't matter what we made, they wanted it. They were very good customers' ...for a non-profit organization...

didnt know bird person was doing narration work

What's that contraption at 20:02? It looks like a set of telephoto lenses and cameras, but I wonder if it has a name.

Is that a Pan-Am Clipper at 21:58?

B-54, d-w?

How this was declassified??

Excellent series shame about the music

Lol, 'Woodeness', not like a piece of Pine, but more like 'Up & Ready'... If this had been a more recent video, it could of been described as 'Viagrated'

"Exceedingly rare events happen all the time."

What’s with these highly intelligent people referring to “Nu-clear” as “Nu-cu-lar?

Just like the cell phone.... every body just had to have one ....the what ..my iPhone is big an better then your android..a um who's fishing pole is bigger kinda thing....👍👍👍👌👌

We could have PALs on every nuclear weapon we have. Instead, we have PALs on virtually NO weapons we have. There is always a budget limit on safety, even when you're talking about the safety of millions of human lives and oh by the way an expensive piece of military kit...

Let's just hope that the other nuclear powers, take the same measures.

we have just convention weapons that will do the same as nucs

Sandia: please remove the distracting soundtrack.

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The future is nucular

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We can rest assured that as long as the US maintains a first nuclear strike posture, even against non-nuclear states American freedom of action through out the world will be protected safely.

"Nucular. It's pronounced nucular." -Homer Simpson (Nuclear safety inspector)

Ugh, that one guy keeps saying, "Nuc-ular" lol It's exceedingly annoying. 🤣

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If only 1 percent of what countries spend on war there would be no 3rd world poverty and famine

Just think what we chould do with all that money? In 75 years nothing has changed. The defence industry employs so many people that it will never change. I'm glad I'm closer to the end than the beginning. Nothing but fools. I chould write a book.

Thank God we dropped them to end the war because we where about to lose 500plus thousand men

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safe nuclear weapons? - an oxymoron.

Why did the US take so long to ensure the safety of its own civilians? Gung ho GOP generals getting kickbacks?

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