removes all nukes WW3 starts surprised pikachu face :O

Its time the clock hit 0. When the intellectuals refuse to recognize any of the good and can only regurgitate "orange man bad," I have zero faith that you are capable of solving this incredibly serious and complex issue of nuclear armament. This is not and will never be a left/right issue and will always be an issue of a lack of interest in the people.

Thank you Kyle. Great video

Kyle, I liked you before, but I respect you even more for speaking up. Thank you greatly

Great video, hopefully a positive influence on part of the collective consciousness on this important topic. You tackled it well

Ironically, education is also what's needed to dispel this popular myth that nuclear war could lead to human extinction. Of course, having extreme emotional thoughts about such a destructive weapon is very human. But it is not rational.

@@zolikoff It has been scientifically proven that a large scale nuclear war would lead to the extenction of the human race. So education actually dispells your myth that nuclear war would not lead to extenction.

@@zolikoff if enough go off over a large enough area you could make acid rain falling on the whole surface of the planet. That's how many nukes we got. Most of them make Nagasaki look like a Kindergarden project.

@@zolikoff The known number of nuclear weapons in the world ( i am very confident in saying its a much bigger number then that ) is more then enough bombs to destroy this world over 600 times in a row.

It’s been mathematically proven that there are enough nuclear warheads not only kill mankind it would be the next mass extinction event that would send us back millions if not billions of years . This is literally unprecedented in all of known history it’s not even close man and the fact that you don’t understand that after watching this video urks me to the core

Damn bears and their vodkas

Russian spy bear

Plot twist: it was both.

I've seen Gentle Ben, I know what a bear can do

ah yes, the vodka drinking addidas clad bear

Same with my dad, he told me stories about going out and drink with his Kameraden. "If the russians are coming, they got nothing to take"

Same with my dad, except that he never served and our country never had nuclear weapons. Oops...😅

Very frighteningly well, as of November.

I can agree, as of December

We are screwed, as of February

@@vaxjoyer wait what happened?

@@iamboringvideos6832 War --"may"-- extend to larger areas

Foolish; he'd be the only guy turning the key and foolish because if yr own is gone there's no point destroying someone else's And foolish to assume someone else would. This is a race to the bottom, this is a race there's no point winning nor trying to win

@@mb106429 It's exactly as you said. If it was a real attack, then you're already dead and there's no point in killing the other half of the world. And if it was a false alarm, then you sentenced you, your people, and the other half of the world to death for nothing.

​@@mb106429 What's foolish is not to be prepared to launch. That's what keeps the other guy from launching.

@@morefiction3264 The other guy has no way of knowing if you would launch or not. So he will expect the worst either way. Actually launching would make zero sense actually. You recieve your orders to launch, there's a chance that the attack is real but it can also be a false alarm. If it's real, you are already done for anyways and there's nothing you can do, so why launch? But if it's a false alarm then you'd be responsible for ending the world. What's the point of even taking that chance?

@@tabushka292 if your response to a nuclear launch is to accept death then you have lost.

@@larrymunn5279 they had us in the first round, not gonna lie

Thank the lord for no comic relief...

On a related note, if you fart in space you would propel yourself

Tilde. Isn't that only if you had nothing on your backside?

Idk about that. I literally cackled with the self propelling fart joke at the end.

A foolish thing. We can't afford to use them

We had a 1sq called away on my boat during Sunburned Chicken. Didn’t hear the obligatory “this is the captain this is an exercise” for roughly ten seconds. I don’t know why he neglected or forgot to say it, but during those ten seconds everyone in maneuvering looked at each other with increasing anxiety and horror. A flood of immense relief arrived when he finally rushed through saying it over the 1MC. He apologized to the crew after we did our drills. I was on the HMJ. Glad to be out, grateful to be unfazed by long hours and corporate red tape in my career. Hope you are doing well, I enjoyed working on the Nevada at 51 on the pier. Always a good crew.

Are you talking about the EAMs that you can hear on shortwave?

@madmax2069 EA team is short for Emergency Action team, so yes those.

@bluestoneamps4716 I'm not sure how far back you served, but if building 730 wasn't tied to the pier, then a hot minute (haha, that shot across the bow was in good fun). They started to be called celestial chickens lol.

Would that scenario entails retaliation by false detection?

That happend/happens a lot. It's terrifying that the people who control the fate of the entire world aren't even elected officials, they're just rano military personnel.

I actually thought that was the story he was going to tell.

True, EmpLemon's video on the topic is the best video essay I've seen

Vasily Arkhipov is another to be of massive credit

this man is a hero. Its insane that i could accidentally freak out and commence the end of the world

Can't believe you left out watching War Games.

Stanislav Petrov should be remembered more. The guy literally saved civilization from extinction. Without him, now we would be living in a Mad Max world.

Thanks

@@zakazany1945 dude should have a global holiday

Everyone forgets about Vasili Arkhipov, too. Look him up.. A soviet submarine required the senior officers to agree in order to launch a nuclear weapon, and Arkhipov was the only one of three to say "no." If it wasn't for him, an American aircraft carrier would have been nuked during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"The living will envy the dead".

Yeah we are going to hack into the enemies nuclear stockpile - Russians, 2020

"Only you can prevent forest fires" As for nuclear fires, that's another thing entirely.

Hilarious and also true...... LoL

@@warbrain1053 Well, double edged sword of the positively antique state of America's launch equipment is that since it's so old, it can't connect to the internet, and so can't be hacked.

It's a good ad for glasses and contacts tho.

Yup yup. I noticed that.

No music, no jokes, no A.R.I.A. You know how grave and dangerous the situation is, when an otherwise lighthearted science-guy cuts all the fun and fancy.

For some reason, I just heard _Land Of Confusion_ in my head...

Just the wind across the plains to trumpet the end.

Advocating for a good armageddon playlist!

True, but going into every situation with a drawn gun is a recipe for a violent end. And when violence does break out, fewer guns means fewer corpses. More importantly, nuclear weapons are totally different in scale and precision than mere firearms.

Lame

​@@corvuscallosum5079 doesn't need to be drawn. Just the presence of it in the holster can keep the other guy from taking advantage of you not having one.

These aren't guns, a better analogy is hand grenades in a prison cell

@@BeigeYeti12345 This is the whole idea behind Mutually Assured Destruction, which is, well, madness in itself. It's sad that average 'muricans really believe in peace through stalemate like this. Nuclear war is truly inevitable.

If the no one talked about covid, no one would have noticed anything different.

ha ha yes. trigger some new anxieties. lol

COVID: prepare for trouble! Nuclear munitions: and make it double!

@@iPhoneeditor Nuclear munitions : to destroy the world beyond devastation! COVID : to unite all people from our vaccination!

@@glitchocity COVID: to infect the world without vaccination Nukes: to terrify people within all nations COVID: to denounce touching like handshakes and gestures of love Nukes: to extend our lunch capabilities to the stars above!

Damn.......that is freaking terrifying. Though I think "casualties" in military use includes wounded? So the numbers would be different, with so many wounded on 9/11 and surviving. Nitpicking aside, the point still stands.

9/11 was a terrible event, but most people don't understand that the devastation pales in comparison to other atrocities we've committed.

@@RocketDragons if you are specifically saying that it pales in comparison to what atrocities America has committed, you must remember basically every country has committed mass atrocities at some point in history, the most recent of which I could think of is the Turkish Genocide Of the Kurds

@@TheGibusDemo what's your point?

@@tomwithey711 I believe he read "we've" in the previous comment as "Americans" and was elaborating that we, as the human species, have done many many atrocities, not just the U.S. Which is true, but I can see why he would read "we've" as "Americans" instead of "we've" as "humanity". I hope this makes a little sense.

There was a short story I vaguely remember studying for English class at primary school ~30 years ago. It briefly followed three generations of a family during and after a nuclear war - the first generation as a girl and her family trying to survive the initial fallout, the second her children trying to deal with the long term health issues from the radiation exposure, and the third with the original girl as an old woman and one of the last 'true humans' in their little mutant tribe, trying to describe what life was like when she was a young girl. While a lot of the effects are things that wouldn't actually happen in a real nuclear exchange, it is still rather chilling to realise how fragile modern society is.

Even more relevant with the war going and Taiwan and China, seems the humanity inches closer by the day to utter annihilation

Call me crazy, but isn't everything he says here super super obvious and everyone has been talking about this since literally the beginning of the Cold war? Am I missing something?

You're actually conflating two different close calls, which occurred a mere two months apart (!) - the Stanislav Petrov incident occurred in September, while Able Archer 83 was in November. The world nearly ended twice in the same season.

There was also during the cuban missile event where the us fired depth charges at soviet submarines .... which were armed with nuclear missiles. Because that's an act of war the crew mistakenly believed that war just broke out and they should fire their missile and because of some guy they did not

I thought the petrov one was he knew the tech was unreliable and dismissed it as a false warning

Yes

Now the fear of ukraine war because ukraine war causing a nuclear war.

Yeah and far as i remember He got pushed down by russian autorities and lived in poverty and was Not even mentioned to be called a Hero but instead a unwilling commrad that Just disobeyed Orders. "Funny" stuff If you think about it... Saving the world and being treated Like Shit...

@@-Shinoray- Yup! That's exactly it. But in my missile defense classes we learned all about him, why the anomaly happened in the first place, etc. Fun stuff

@@dirigibles4997 Let's not forget the time when USA's Early Warning System mistook the rising moon for an armada of incoming Soviet nuclear missiles. That one was a pretty close call too. Luckily the technicians realised the error just in the nick of time.

BertyFromDK that must have been a very old system!

@@dirigibles4997 Some US nuclear silos have computers that work with floppy disks ... the big flappy old floppy disks.

I grew up during the tail end of the cold war i have the same sentiment as you. Im hoping the new Oppenheimer movie will reawaken the same feeling in younger generations.

Classic.

Now I have to go back and watch that movie.

❤ I have found my people.

Oh. You mean like how the onky countries in fallout 4 thatw were safe from nuclear devestation were the ones without NUKES

Yes! Thanks for reminding me of this.

Glad to see your acting like yourself again

He got nothing to say but Hey yohr WELCOME😎😎😎👌🏾

Become like the manatees from south park it makes life better

Your anxiety was asleep in 2020? What black magic did you use to accomplish that?

A little bit of existential dread is good for people i think. Keeps you on your feet

And we are only alive today because there were people present who said "no, let's triple check that first" or "I know it's against protocol, but let's call the higher-ups for instructions - just to be safe".

This comment makes me wonder just as much as the video if USA and Russia are the right superpowers to have so many nukes, but at the same time if not them two other countries would. It's just sad to think about it and it's more sad that there are countries that don't even declare how many nuclear weapons they have right now...

I believe a flock of geese was once mistaken for an incoming bomber. From what I've read the effects of a nuclear winter are often overstated. Not good, terrible in fact, but overstated. Personally I think that humanity, as a species, would be really hard to kill off; there are almost eight billion of us now, and we have access to technologies such as canned food storage and indoor hydroponics which largely ensure that at least some people will be able to survive. Anything short of a runaway greenhouse effect or new snowball Earth will leave some survivors.

@@ronnycook3569 the nuclear winter isn't the main issue. Radiation, and the initial attack are also major issues.

@@Hacker-pt3wm For radiation - not as bad as most people think it is. The radioactivity of any substance is more or less inversely proportional to its half-life; and nuclear fallout resulting from air bursts - as would result from a city strike - is relatively small. Ground strikes are primarily used for anti-force strategies, which as hardened targets also require high accuracy, and are typically based out in the country. Humans can tolerate low levels of radiation fairly easily; we just avoid it as the risks of cancer are relatively high. But by "high" we usually mean odds of one in a thousand, not one in two. Even if you pick the largest two thousand cities on the map of the USA, there are still quite a large number of sizeable towns left. You're also left with all the countries which are not nuclear targets; I doubt that anybody will be quick to nuke New Zealand, or Thailand, or Chad, or Ecuador. There's no doubt that a nuclear war would effectively destroy the major nuclear target countries but there is a lot of the world outside of those countries. The land area of the Earth is a bit over 500 million square kilometres. There are about 4000 warheads on Earth right now. That's roughly one every hundred thousand square kilometres. The nuclear winter and, yes, the radiation, would be terrible and the global population would be cut drastically. However, Homo Sapiens as a species once survived with around 3000--10000 individuals. To get that low again, we would need to kill 999999 out of every million humans on Earth. The Hiroshima bombing (admittedly a small warhead) killed less than half of the city's population. There would be major famine; crops all over the world would be drastically reduced, for a time. To do so badly enough to destroy humanity completely, I do not believe. We can store food; we can raise crops indoors, given the available energy. We have access to forms of energy (geothermal, wind, tidal) which would likely survive a war. We're really hard to stamp out. I can't see a nuclear war of the scale permitted by current weapon reserves doing it. A nuclear war in conjunction with bio-engineered plagues might manage it. I may be speaking unreasonably optimistically here, but I'm speaking from what I know of the science and the facts.

We should litterly celebrate that guys holiday every year...

cdonovan2511 i agree

If a sub "launched" a bomb, they'd be seriously borked, sorry it made me think of flying submarines. Anyhoo, the Ohio class SSBN carries around 24 Trident II SLBM. Around 40 - 50% are MIRV capable meaning a single SLBM can strike 4 targets. Ohio class submarines are slowly being phased out into SSGN's. They will never be totally phased out, but it is a step in the right direction. Though China is the problem now and you thought Russians didn't care about their own citizens, China gives 0.000001 borks.

False. He retired, and was given a demerit for failing to accurately document his actions.

​@@faisalaldan3420 Nah that wasn't from a radar malfunction, it was because the US was dropping practice depth charges, and the submarine thought they were real and that the war had already started. They're talking about a different thing.

Fun Fact: You don't know that, DEFCON levels have never been publicly announced

@@anixtro6837 most likely at least

@@anixtro6837 that's information for them, not us.... We just work and pay for the nightmare to be constructed

Do you make it a habit to outright lie all the time?

Hell, Debt of Honor foresaw the events of 9/11. Flight 93 was supposed to target the US Capitol Building, and that’s what happens in Debt of Honor.

@@DJTinyTim13 yuuuuuup

My boy Clancy figured it all out.

@@talismanstryke6692 yup. I wasn't surprised reading that part. His writing is so technical that it would've b3ensuper reckless for him to write that story. Haha

Damn, stuff like this is why I like superman.

.....

Nuclear Powered Bears would be a good band name.

yeah you cant cry because of this. what the fuck

@River Piscean its like rounding up everyone in every building in every country and putting a bullet in every third person's head. In under 10 seconds. And then the rest die from illness

That line made me think of an action plan. And live in a family of five. Pretty scary indeed

So like the black plague, only faster.

*anxiety intensifies

Virginia Brat I would like to point out that the nuclear winter described in the video? That’s only after 100 nuclear weapons are detonated at once. As mentioned, over 13,000 nuclear weapons exist in the world. If any major country gets involved in a nuclear war, you can bet that they have a lot more than the minimum 100 bombs. The only chance you’d have at only having 100 weapons launching is if two small countries decide to wipe each other out of existence, and no other countries interfere. Even then, it’s possible that those countries could have more than 100 weapons combined. A nuclear winter where 1 in every 3 die is practically the best case scenario if a nuclear war starts up, anywhere in the world.

Entertainingly enough, the Yogi Bear show had started the year before.

@Christopher Romero Wait really? I didn't know that, Bears just always make me think of Yogi Bear.

Yogi: Hey, Boo Boo, let's go get some pic-a-nic baskets! Boo Boo: But what about Ranger Smith, Yogi? Yogi: Fuck Ranger Smith. Let him get his own pic-a-nic baskets!

The only aircraft scrambled were interceptors. They were armed with nuclear air to air weapons designed so one interceptor can take out entire formations of incoming bombers. You know what happens when interceptors don't find enemy bombers? Absolutely nothing. The interceptors return to base, the crews change their underwear and they carry on their businesses. Even if bombers had been launched there would have been plenty of time to recall them.

Hey Booboo! I'm gonna end humanity today!

Ring-a-ding baby!

The Mojave, eyy? Lemme tell ya, the heat almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

My neighbor

Let’s be honest he probably has the Platinum Chip

More like caps

I Love your Country 😜

Welp, one year later, your looking to join NATO………..

@@equarg Nobody wins a nuclear war, whether they're allied with others or not.

Very true. The fact that there will be no winners just doesn't seem to really sink in for the people in charge. That is why the weapons should never have been created in the first place. It disgusts me and it was my idiot country who built them and used them first. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Morality and a sense of preservation of humanity and all life on Earth should have been more highly valued. We inherited a legacy we never wanted. Many people at the time didn't want it. Those who actually understood how awful it was. Many of the people that worked on it's creation regretted it. As they should! They ought to have thought it out and considered long term beyond them and WWII. The bombs were not even necessary to end the war which makes it so much worse. They try to tell you they were needed but they were not. Many military people and politicians at the time knew they were not necessary and said so but President Truman and whoever else wanted to use them. American arrogance at it's finest. Nothing to be proud of.

Neutral no longer

Amazing comment.

Russian Bear, failed badly.

The plot to destroy humanity, bear world domination...

and not on twitter

and not actively driving the world as a whole into the ground

Or threatening to nuke other countries

Maybe he's referring to a future President whose actually objectively awesome like Abraham Lincoln type guy? (Well I'm sure the South hated him but whatever) Then again that's probably hard to find someone who wouldn't abuse that kind of power, you can afford to drop your morals if you hold an entire Country in your hands and all these nukes that can end the entire Human Race all at your word. At that point much like the Mafia/Mob/Bratva you're so untouchable you can probably get away with doing anything as long as no one can prove it.

aderhol is a hellav a drug

Robert Oppenheimer got it right

a quote from Hinduism

I chose to dislike because of how terrifying that single statement is

@Virtual Sky Tate Original quote was right. Yours is an adaptation.

@Virtual Sky Tate yeah, it sounds really weird. It is oddly correct though. Just an archaic usage of the words. I guess that's what happens when you quote translated scripture.

Seriously - that was your motivation in choosing where you live? You must be fun at a party.

@Kyaru Momochi idk probably cause its total horseshit. No person but the most fear-addled doomer would even give that more than a passing thought when choosing where to live, let alone making it one of their main requirements.

@Kyaru Momochi lmao what should it matter, again considering that in the daily course of your life is worthless. Just live dummy

@Kyaru Momochi your point makes no sense either. What should it matter? In the end concerning yourself with it is a waste of time.

This is why I won't live in a city or near a big city, so I can survive even though it might suck afterwards, but hey I won't go out like a bitch!!

I'm not sure what age has to do with this. If anything, the younger generations seem far more aware of the very real dangers this presents. All the people elected in office doing nothing about these policies are older...

@@cccreaturefeature Yes, the older people who are elected to office . BUT not so those of us who lived through it, If nukes are made light of, then sure, its ok to use them, so indicates those who ignore the devastation they create They pretend to have forgotten the horror of nuclear bombs. But my generation remembers them clearly and we saw them blow up the Nevada desert, the Bikini Atol, and Japan was fresh in our minds. I wish they would drive thru St George Utah, read the warning signs that are still up aling the highway Warning drivers not to leave their car or drink any water in the area because of potential radiation poisoning. In St. George itself, which became almost a ghost town after the tests due to radiation poisoning, deaths, cancer and every kind of illness you can imagine, at least until 1989, the stores, restaurants, and hotels had their walls lined with news articles about the extreme damage done to St. George. Like i said, those old cronies know the truth, but now, there are enough underground bunkers to keep them safe, fed and entertained for years while avoiding the inevitable fallout. Bless you. Im glad you see through their BS.

Trump wanted to nuke a hurricane and he’s like 80

Rest in peace, Mr Petrov

wasnt that the captain of the russian nuclear uboat that refrained to retaliate on what turned out to be a false alarm?

He understood that id be needless death, he was a wise man.

Redundancy, mate. The more you have the more can be destroyed while still having a working stockpile the survivors can launch.

@@mikesimms5750 This is Insanity, though.

Meh I’d be more worried about bio warfare. Why destroy everything in your enemies space when you could destroy the enemy alone and keep the spoils?

@@UNKNOWNPERSON-kk9kd except the USA doesn't, russia does, not that it really matters though

The planet won't be destroyed by humans. It has endured a lot worse. Mankind might destroy itself, the earth will be fine.

Damn... I cant believe Voldemort really said that

Arthur C. Clarke?

The nuclear bomb did not create a knew problem, it necessitated a solution to a much older one.

Michael J. Fox??

Was it Barney?

So admittedly I had to use Google but according to the math a teragram is technically more than a megaton. Teragram = 1,000,000,000,000 grams Megaton = 1,000,000 tons Ton = 907184.74 grams 1,000 Megaton = 907,184,740,000 grams which is almost 93 million grams or over 100,000 tons less than a teragram Hope this doesn't come across as snobby or a know-it-all, I definitely used Google for help, just was curious and bored enough at home to want to look it up lol

@@KingTen91 That would be the imperial ton and mega is an SI-prefix, you dont use that in front of imperial units. The metric ton is exactly 1000kg or 1.000.000 gramms.

@@rtg5881 ohhh, lol I didn't think of that 😅. This is good example of why you don't act like you know what you're talking about if you know you don't, especially on the internet, someone else might actually know and you're left looking foolish haha. Thanks for correcting me tho, now I know 🤙

@@KingTen91 There's like, 3 types of tons. Thanks, America.

Or around 1745.2 buttloads

the only thing that reliably protects you from nuclear weapons is the awareness of the guy with the trigger that 10 minutes after he pushed the trigger he will die because the other side did the same in retaliation... as long as a single nuclear missile exists having your own will be the only valid way of protecting yourself from it. MAYBE if some alien race suddenly gifts the entire planet a 100% reliable system that can counter nuclear ICBMs we might get rid of them because they wouldnt pose a threat to anyone anymore. but you know when a sentence starts with "if an alien race gifts" then its not very likely... at least we got to the point where they only stockpile enough for one total destruction of the enemy instead of the arms race of who can destroy the entire world more often...

Its stupid, all of it is idiotic. We should never retaliate with nuclear weapons, but the threat still needs to stand. Let it be a empty threat, let one family die so that at least human history goes on. We sadly, and regrettably cannot sooth the fears of the other, but if we die, let them grow, live and thrive. Let our death not be in vain.

A possible way to solve this is to create a culture of peace. The EU did that. The key goal was to intertwine economies of its member countries in a way that would make a war impossible, with the goal of slowly becoming a federal super state. The former arch enemies France and Germany have put and still put a lot of effort into coming to terms with the atrocities commited during the wars, and became the closest allies in the process. In such a situation, neither side feels the need of having nuclear weapons pointed at the other, or even even having a military at all.

@@faultier1158 i think germany and france are a bad example for this, because they share a border with each other... but guess what: nuclear fallout gives a shit about borders. so nuclear weapons are only an option for nations which are far enough apart that their own bombs wont cause massive problems in their own countries. canada and mexico dont have to be afraid of the american nuclear arsenal, because any bombs dropped in one of these countries would lead to massive problems in the USA. and in europe distances are far smaller than in north america.... germans dropping a nuclear bomb on france would be like lighting your neighbors house on fire when your house shares a wall with your neighbors.

@@TheScarvig Germany doesn't even have nuclear weapons, so that wasn't the point anyway. My point was about how a culture of peace leads to demilitarization, which also affects nuclear weapons.

Well that’s depressing

Carbon dating is still a thing I hope

@@starmorpheus It is, but not with things found on the surface. Dig just a little bit and the slightly heightened background radiation no longer has a meaningful impact.

@@starmorpheus nah that dont work

I didn't see a single one

Nobody in the US is, or has called for that, other than probably some tinfoil hat guy living in his mom's basement.

With how long 2020 has felt, we're at plan AJ

@@Crocogator: See, by my count, it's up to Plan Upsilon-Omicron-7.2.b♭\₹.

@@sdfkjgh 2020 is infinity and we're all here together

@@sdfkjgh Upsilon dies backwards

@@adgarbault: I have no idea what that means or is supposed to mean, I just know it sounds funny. Have an updoot. P.s. Is it a reference to John Dies at the End?

Safe enough for her to grow old and die without seeing ww3.

​@@kolinmartzexactly. I believe ww3 talk is fear mongering. Plausible? Sure. Likely? Probably not. Dare I say I believe Putins and Kim Jung uns antics are merely smoke and mirrors and politicaly driven.

It would not be safe whether they were dropped or not. The knowledge and technology is there. If you were a teen at the end of WW2, your live would have been under threat soon enough.

So the government in the UK thought hiding behind a door would be safe from a nuclear attack? Sounds about right. Here in the US, it used to be duck tape and plastic to put around the windows, then hide under a table.

@@Blueknight1960 If you're far enough from the center of the blast that the shockwave won't instantly collapse the building you're in, the next biggest concern is flying glass shards from all of the windows getting blown inward, so hiding behind sturdy furniture is not an unreasonable suggestion. If you're closer to the blast than that, it doesn't really matter what you do.

As an aging GenXer, I recall how in Los Angeles in the 1970s we used to have monthly siren tests and bomb drills where we ducked and covered around the perimeter of the class room. (We ducked under our desks for the earthquakes!) We were also sent home with a booklet about how to avoid fallout and radiation poisoning like described in the UK. After learning what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I figured the best thing to do if the sirens went off was to be outside and be vaporized instantly. Cheerful childhood Cold War memories!

@@Blueknight1960 "duck and cover. Flip a picnic over and use the blanket, that'll save you" -The US government apparently

@@Blueknight1960 It actually wasn't for protection, it was so when everything cleared up they'd be able to find bodies more easily. It's the same reason at one stage the UK advised their people to put on potato sacks: it wasn't for protection, it was so your body was pre-packaged for removal and disposal if and when the powers that be came through and cleaned up. There really *was* no way to protect against a nuclear strike, so... may as well give some people some hope and a little practicality in the event it wasn't the end of the world, right?

I already have one hehe

Einstein before his death called his letter to the president, urging the US to make the atomic bomb before Germany could, his greatest mistake. He said had he known the nazi's would fail to create the weapon, he would have done nothing. Meaning he would've died before mentioning the possibility to anyone. Einstein called the cold war arms race before the end of WWII, he knew the weapons would be stockpiled if invented by every country on the world.

@@larrymunn5279 "All involved were" Edward Teller and many others would probably disagree.

Yea but its definitely true.

Incoming wave of dipshits swooping in and bein' like "He understands everything more than you, BRO. Donny-T's playing 4-D chess, BRO. You're just to dumb to see it wearin' those ineffective masks, BR-cough... cough cough.... huh. I got somethin' in my throat. it's probably nothing."

Oreagle Oh don’t get me wrong, I completely agreed with what he said. I’m just saying that I’m sure people will hear that and get butt hurt.

I see I am not the only one that caught that comment.. Think South Park had it correct, our options where Turd Sandwich or Major Douche.

I dont think many of them whatshing sience shows

Flock of birds, wasn't it?

@@warped_rider No I can't remember the name It was on TV here on channel 4 They just did the countdown on the most likely ways the world could end If I find it I'll put the name here Also think Today I Found Out did a video about it

The reason he thought it qas a glitch was because it was only a small number of missiles. If a war between Russian and the US would start, they would probably send dozens at the same time. Glad he was right and not just a pawn in an elaborate mind game.

Stanislav Petrov was his name. He had pressure from the kremlin itself but he refused to listen the orders. A true global hero

@@rafaelfermin4619 Vasiliy Arkhipov is another person we can thank for saving the world. During the Cuban missile crisis his sub was nearly hit by depth charges dropped by an American ship tying to signal them to surface and they thought all hell had broken out on the surface and that they were under attack. Their orders were to respond to any attack with nuclear torpedoes. The captain and political officer wanted to launch the nukes. Arkhipov thought they should surface and see what was going on before potentially inciting WW3.

One of the best cases of: Fuck around and Find out

@@mikemathis2220worst cases. We killed millions of civilians

@@royisabau5i’m sure that when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they also didn’t care about killing innocent civilians. It doesn’t make it right what either side did, but really, did they expect the U.S. to just take a hit like that and walk away scot-free? And they (the Japanese) had no intent on stopping (the fighting) either, so the U.S. made a decision to stop for them.

He never actually said that. That was just a little bit of Hollywood spice to stoke American pride in the film Tora! Tora! Tora!

@@silver7215 What civilians? They attacked a military base, not a fully populated city.

What song was it?

​@@janetharguello7195 "The Outlaw Torn", by Metallica - pretty sure it was during the solo~

It's called Impending Doom. A lot of hospice patients go through it in the months/weeks/days/hours before they Pass. There's nothing that can be said that takes away the fear or morbid fascination/fixation. If it happens, it happens. Nothing can change it once it's been done. We just have to trust our Leaders not to do something impossibly stupid. Trouble is, I don't. Not at all. Either side. America has the better missile defense system but that won't matter with the ones that have 20 warheads inside 80 decoys. What 'got me over' my Absolute Fear was a dream where a single Alien aircraft invaded & went from fighting 3 AF pilots to hundreds in less then 5 minutes & then one of the Fighters used a nuke (or was destroyed by the UFO, doesn't matter for what comes next) so 1 became 3 & then the world exploded in a wall of pure white fire while I watched & despaired. I heard that we are 130 seconds to Midnight Defcon 1. Be happy we're here today. Hug your family & enjoy your dog walks. Nothing in life is guaranteed. Thyroid cancer & Parkinsons Putin going insane/senile doesn't help in the slightest. B@stard is a joke but he has 1 of 3 buttons that can start WW3.

a gamma ray burst could hit the earth and wipe out all complex life instantly, and we would have no way of detecting that it was coming. It would reset earth back to the precambrian. have fun with that information.

@@fordprefect859 I know this well, among many other similar threats. They never did bother me much, even less so since the event I described. I appreciate the heads-up though, thanks~ :3

You are correct. that is a terrifying story. It just needed a Psycho on the button and we would all be dead. The Flip of a coin.

That story also had a sibling. The B-59 Nuclear submarine incident. Where a Soviet submarine near Cuba lost communication and US attempts at getting the submarine to surface for ID via signalling depth-charges was mistaken as an attempt at destruction. This caused the submarine to be running away in panic of war having begun and was on the brink of following through with protocol and launch its T-5 Nuclear Torpedo. The only reason it didn't go through, was a unique circumstance in the form of Vasily Arkhipov, a high ranking executive officer who was given equal power to the captain and political officer. So instead of only the latter two like normally (who voted in favour of launch). This submarine also needed Vasily's approval and he steadfast refused to authorize and managed to convince the others to wait for communication. Effectively preventing war again on a gut feeling. What made it even MORE of a insane scenario. Vasily was a deputy commander during the K-19 Accident. Where a nuclear submarine almost underwent a catastrophic meltdown if it wasn't for the crew risking (with numerous sacrificing) their lives to prevent it. It is believed his role in that was how he managed to convince the others not to fire.

Stupid movie.

Oh god no

This made me spit out my water. 🤣

Shit

oof

Let's die laughing on every and any meme

I think there is a good balance between questioning things “including the govt” and full blown conspiracy theory. Not that I think its bad to question everything, but it is not safe mentally.

Unlikely, confirmation bias will probably keep them from looking at evidence particularly when voiced by a "political opponent" (assuming your friend is something other than a liberal leaning democrat). Give it a go but don't be surprised if "agree to disagree" is the only option

Yeah if your friends are "conspiracy theorists" or in other words conservative they'll know this kid is no where near as smart as he sounds and more importantly we are in the position we are in because China wants to fight. They're actively, openly, and aggressively seeking to conquer the world. You can tell this whole thing is meant to insinuate that the world is scary right now because of orange man bad. It's not "confirmation bias" or "conspiracy theories" it's called being educated. I'll be honest I'm only a few minutes in to this video but it's just history and an underlying fear. I just listened to a true historical thing this morning that included the speech the president gave that day we dropped the first bomb. Oh also Russia isn't the enemy.

What conspiracy theory is this video related to exactly?

Tinfoilhatnutcase One Agreed

That's probably an unexpected side effect of having the base in a hill to make a pun with his last name

Oh, you think that hill is on earth?

Of course he is Kyle Hill after all.

Kyle's Hill...

he is smart enough to not film from the actual base but chaotic evil enough to have it in frame.

I dont get it

It's...pretty bad when any US military nuclear incidents get called. Like, the President is called every time one occurs. Which, in the military, is kinda like the Eye of Sauron looking *directly* at you. ...Except every look is filtered through several *additional* layers of angry Eyes, all the way down through the Chain of Command.

@@xxmegazocker9894 the ball could be viewed as an attack on the armed aircraft or retrieving the ball would look like sabotage. Reporting it first meant that security forces were asking him for the details vs a random witness who may believe that they could get promoted for snitching.

Reminds me of the days when nuclear security ran off of 8" floppy dis... What? Still?!

@@bartroberts1514 Arguably, that makes it more and more secure by the year. Good luck finding a drive this side of a junkyard. Plus, it's hard to sneaker-net stuff out when your file takes a shoebox.

My grandfather was a engineer at a submarine base and he died from Leukemia.

@@absolutezero6423 Grotten, CT?

@@jayfantastic9309 Bangor Washington. He also worked at the Naval shipyard in Bremerton. West Coast native here lol.

@@absolutezero6423 lol, my old man was from KS, but stationed in N.C. and San Diego, mostly N.C. though. Much love West coast! ✌

I can vouch for what Jay says about his dad. 6 years as a Fire Control Technician (simply put, the guy that presses the launch button) on a ballistic missile sub in the 1980s. Given the order, we'd have had all 16 ICBMs, each with 14 independently targeted 40 kiloton warheads, in the air in under 22 minutes from a cold start. We wouldn't have hesitated to launch. It's how we were trained, it's how we were drilled. Time to think come before or after, but not during. No increased deaths from it in my generation of submariners, however. Better shielding, I guess. But I did not know a single submariner that ever had a male child **while** serving on board a missile sub (I have two lovely daughter, myself).

LEMMiNO did it again! Thank god scientists know what they’re doing.