the slightest idea**

"Sorry, That's all you get"

The littlest idea***

the incidentalest thoughtform****

the absolute minute conceptually perceptible amount*

Lmao

😂🤣😅

Yeah, that’s how I thought the story would go. That the SCP would find out the USSR no longer existed and would interpret that as the right conditions to launch the missiles.

Nah - its literally 2022, mate.

@@Fanny-Fanny 🤓

Jor Jorwell

@@copyrightstrike4666 ich bin in nerd

@Ghoool, I see what you did there.

And now the children are begging the principal to take care of their mess.

"get in the box now" - MTF 5

mobile force task

@@sampfrost microwave task force

Haha, unless...?

@@StoutShako beat me to it

​@@StoutShako Unless what?

A Cold War fueled, reality re-structuring eigenweapon.

Write some.

Project Pluto surely counts as insane if not anomalous.

Write it then.

@@markfergerson2145 I got curious and read some about it. Very interesting history. Btw if you check the last paragraph of the Wikipedia article on one of Project Pluto's reactor, it says that "in 1998, an unidentified organization used it for a classified project". It made me chuckle :)

A Biggoron Sword will make short work if it.

Lmao I had the same thought

Zelda?

Just ring Saraneth and Kibeth together in a figure-8 pattern. Usually takes care of things.

Cold war scp's are some of my favorites. I only wish there were more defensive ones.

There's a hypothesis that some scps contain true to life events, written with pseudonyms and such, as a way for people to blow a whistle and prepare the general public for the idea of the threat

not you again

Euclid are some of the most interesting scps because they aren't actively trying to kill anything, they are just random and have no reason to exist.

@@left4twenty that's a hypothesis as old as fiction itself that has probably been proposed about every story with even a bit of realism

Not being rude, but I think you may mean 'dessicated' like 'dried out' in this case

Because this SCP focuses a very real threat in a believable fashion, but with just enough sensationalism to remind you that it's fiction.

@@Afferodolor No, not rude at all, I think you’re right.

@@Afferodolor there's an argument for it being both.

@@Its_Pronounced_Heezee Yet the implications of this one still feel real considering how close to annihilation the world was at the time

Pretty sure that's every put bull. 😂 Sensitive babies ❤

aww what a little princess!

They could somehow bring back "Lightning Boy" to the lore.

This SCP definitely feels like a more messed-up version of Peace Walker. Both of them represent the theory of deterrence and how most humans with a moral fibre could never muster the courage to retaliate, and so something inhuman would be needed to ensure that MAD is followed through.

@@d00gz_ You'd be amazed what a man driven by rage, pride and retribution is willing to do in order to achieve his goals. People underestimate the capabilities of others but make no mistake: When a man has lost everything, the limit of "acceptable loss" only reaches so far. Humanity is its own worst enemy. We really aren't grateful for what has been achieved, it's only a matter of time before all of that is lost to human incompetence.

@@denver376 didn’t he become the Man on Fire and eventually die to Venom Snake

girls frontline would also be a good fit

LITERALLY 1984

Wow, much knowledge very literature.

Jor jorwell

Damn bro that's deep

Yep, that’s the reference

trick is to make them want to stay or not having a reason to leave.

@@lukasperuzovic1429 or making them believe they are contained

@@GODOFAWSOMENESS1 Yep, even if that containment is paper thin

@@lukasperuzovic1429 I can see it now an scp that believes that only paper can stop it so they have a room covered in layers of paper.

containment doesnt need to be by force. its an equally valid strategy, assuming its effective, to give it a reason to stay out, or ask nicely

Thus they got sergeant chernikov, an unthinking man possessed of inhuman cruelty as the base subject.

Thank you for the explainer!

@@HeronSight Oh no, he's thinking. He just doesn't give a shit.

It’s basically “what if humans were able to stop AM from ‘I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream’ before it nuked the world?”

Not self-destruct, but per the USSR and its nuclear arsenal...my late uncle had a friend who was a KGB Colonel in charge of a nuclear missile base in Moldova or Belorussia or somewhere similar. One day, out of the clear blue sky, he got the no-shit, we're-not-fooling, launch-all-your-missiles signal from the Kremlin. Nobody had heard anything about tension with the US, nothing of the level of imminent nuclear war especially. This guy had maybe 2 minutes to decide what to do. His missile base was obviously a key part of their nuclear response and if he failed to fire in the event of a real war he could, just conceivably, be part of the reason the Soviets would "lose" the war. If it was a real thing and he failed, then, he might be condemning the USSR to destruction at the USA's hands. In addition, he and his family would have been toast for treason, dereliction of duty, whatever. But if the signal was wrong and he launches, well, that's WW3 for no reason and bye bye, human race. He hedges, calls the Kremlin, and asks somebody what had happened that would cause the "FIRE EVERYTHING!!!" signal to be sent and apparently told my Uncle that he could "hear every officer in that room simultaneously shit themselves dead white." Turned out to be a computer glitch. Anyway, I'm not sure if this is the same guy who famously had this happen or if this was another such event, but I do know this guy was my late uncle's friend for a good 20 years after they met while my uncle was in the USSR selling them lasers his company made.

@@MrBrachiatingApe I can 100% see this happening. Computers are finicky at best, and at the Height of the Cold War, they were worse. But even today something like that could happen, because computers are not infallible.

@@MrBrachiatingApe good shit on that guy for calling it in before launching everything

@@ShadowReignhart like the Hawai incident lol

@@MrBrachiatingApe There are I believe to be over a dozen instances of what I call "One Man moments" where due to circumstances caused the fate of the world to fall on a single man. One of them was prevented by an officer having a flat tire driving to work, others just simply didn't have the stomach to put their key in, some accepted the fate of their country dying and not making it worse. Nearly all of them were computer glitches or miscommunications. I'm not religious, but it does seem insanely improbable that nuclear war did not happen, and that God or a higher being made sure it did not result. Or maybe that there are millions of parallel worlds where that one officer did not have a flat tire that resulted in the death of our species, but we happen to be in the one that it doesn't happen. Either way, we should all be thankful the men on both sides that kept their humanity when faced with the unimaginable weight and threat of immediate nuclear war. Despite the odds, we exist.

"Would be". Are you aware that the 'Dead Hand' or, as it's known today, the PERIMETER system is a real life system used by the Russian Federation to automatically launch its nuclear missiles if the computer thinks Russia has suffered a first strike? It uses seismographs, geiger counters, and other classified parameters to determine whether or not Russia has been hit by a nuclear strike. So, it *is* a terrifying concept. Not would be.

Exactly! This absolutely intrigued me most! No amount of human nature, pathology, or nurture/trauma could induce the scp to cooperate. Such unexpected hope for humanity. It was terrifying to think of what they did for “success.”

I read the last part of the document as the Soviet Union deciding to psychologically torture someone into being more than willing to launch a second strike, then killing them so they could be used to create SCP-1984

I don't know. The end goal was something that would initiate a second strike no matter what. It's treated as a necessary outcome, regardless of what happened to trigger activation. It's easy for someone to sign the death warrants of far too many if the pen was never in their hand, but that doesn't make them any less complicit nor does it do anything to remove their signature from the end result.

The most unbelievable part of the story tbh, there would definitely be people capable of pressing the bottom but regardless, interesting.

@@connorm7915 I read it in a similar way, but that the spirit or soul or whatever of the corpse is kept in torment perpetually, so that when released by media saying nukes are flying or whatever, they'd fire off all the nuclear missiles to end the world just so they would be at peace.

And that’s why SCP writers stopped using telekill alloy lmao 😂 still, I gotta say that’s not a bad idea, maybe slap a couple’a Scranton Reality Anchors on top while we’re at it.

Fuck yeah dude

I love both those references my dude, it is rare to see fear talked about but I gladly got some old school games on steam to bring me back to my childhood - fear and the darkness

'Animals would be bred and *slaughtered*. . .'

"We'll, meet again, don't know where, don't know when"

Makes me think of the stranded Japanese soldiers on islands around the Pacific being found years after WW2 ended but were still trying to set traps for American soldiers.

Aaannd-- (intelligible) cut

If indeed there is such a book, this is definitely what it would be like.

1984 is more of a social commentary book.

Animal Farm?

1969?

The Man with the Golden Gunk?

They probably still have those intermediate range nukes in reserve anyway, cause I highly doubt they are all phased out completely. And the automated dead hand system is probably still a thing being developed, they're just keeping new information from getting out.

Not even close. The only particular similarity is that both contain subtextual criticisms of the Russian government.

Yes, it did. It wasn't intended to be broadcast and was just intended to be a joke while the cameras were off, except they weren't.

@@talideon Thank you! I thought as much. Kinda tasteless now in hindsight but oh well

Gimmie 5 min - my refractory time ain't what it used to be

Replace the nuclear warheads with a dud, and full it with sand so the weight is the same.