I love this Channel! It reminds me of the good old days when the history channel actually had... History.

In this time of rhetoric you have the ability to report on history straight up. No politicized propaganda just factual history. Nothing could be more valuable! Sorry but I'm only allowed to give one like.

My father, who vividly recalls the Duck & Cover drill, always called it "An organized way to find the bodies"

A couple of viewers had questions regarding the map that rolls by at 7:50. The map is a map of border changes following the end of the Cold War. The red in the first map does not represent the borders of the Soviet Union. I mention “Trident III” missiles. Several viewers have pointed out that the US SLBM is, instead, the Trident II.

I already knew this story but your presentation of it was excellent. I knew the players, the settings and the plot, but DAMN if your narration didn't have me on the edge of my seat. Well done, sir.

Shi_t happens. As the guy who shot Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 reportedly said, "I didn't expect everyone to get this upset!"

Eye opening glimpses of history that deserves to be remembered. Someday soon I hope you can provide your perspective on the current history that we are living through, assuming we're going to be allowed to look back and see it clearly. Thanks, Rick

I was stunned after watching your piece on 1983. Now, I'm double stunned. If the soviet sub had lauched a nuclear torpedo in 1962, I really believe the situation would have been contained. The 1983 and 1995 situations, as you describe, seem much more close to real disaster than the 1962 event. Only time will tell if 2023 is added to the list. BTW, sounding rockets are also great at messing up beatiful atomic blast photos.

Another great video. I’ve heard of the black brant rocket before. It was an Estes model rocket I built back in the early 70’s when I was a kid.

Amazing! My father became a nuclear submariner after his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1954. He served in that arm of the nuclear triad for over 26 years, serving on and commanding both fast attack and ballistic missile submarines. More than a few harrowing incidents occurred between the Soviet and US naval submarines while on patrol. My father loved his role in the cold war and was away from us at home for nearly eleven of his 26 years of service.

I love how every time I open youtube there is yet another random bit of history that deserves to be remembered. May it never end.

Unbealievable!!! What a story. We were two minutes away from being blown to bits and nobody knew. Thank you for telling us all these very interesting stories

Growing up, we had one of the chemists of that Canadian research group as a neighbor; It was pronounced CARDY, not card.

I never knew this. Please keep up the excellent work!

Scary stuff! Wasn't it JFK that said "There's always some SOB who doesn't get the word."

Great research and delivery. Glad you decided to keep rocking the bow tie.

I am one of his first subscribers. It was saddening to see so less viewers and subscribers for such a good content. I almost lost hope but he din't. He came up with more and more good contents with regularity and consistency. Now I feel good to see his videos becoming quite popular.

I remember the fall out of this. The military ops tempo kinda increased for a while until the giant heads realized that it was like remembering to roll up your car window a day after the storm. It shocked me how little was said at the time. Speaking of storms, My thoughts prayers are with all the folks effected effected by Florence.

Wow. Thank you. I've no idea how you ferret out these snippets, but this proves how important and compelling they are. I am breathless.

Greetings Professor Falken. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

Thank you history guy amazing how informative your segments are. I particularly like the context that you build into each of the stories. Once again thank you so much.

This channel is starting to grow on me. Keep up the good work!

I absolutely love these types of videos. Keep up the amazing work!

My oldest son was born in 1995 and graduated from college today....which makes this previously unknown (to me) incident all the more relevant. Your channel has become my go-to for excellent historic journalism anytime I have at least 15 minutes to spare. Thank you for your excellence!

Thanks for another wonderful history lesson. This episode was especially wonderful. Keep up the good work! ❤️

Yet another excellent video!

This is excellent. I wasn't even aware of this incident and it's a great example of how the simplest things can go wrong in a (almost) catastrophic way. Love this channel.

I remember that in school, once a month, we participated in these drills. Most of us thought the drills were fun. After a few years, these drills became "fire drills". The signal was a warning siren, and up hearing that, we had to line up in an orderly fashion in our classrooms, then march to the gym. After another few years, no more drills, but the warning sirens still sounded off, just to make sure the sirens still worked. We were expected to look to the sky and act appropriately. After a few more years, sirens no longer sounded off. Many years passed, and it had become a joke about getting under our desks to survive a nuclear bomb. We had become aware somewhere along the way that no one survives a direct hit from a nuclear bomb. Thanks again, History Guy, for the most interesting episodes.

Thanks for the video! Always like your stuff!

These are my regular viewing. I understand the world a little better each time. I clearly remember, as a young boy, the tension in our London house in 1962. One late evening, watching the news, a powerful low flying jet passed over and I saw the look exchanged between my mother and father and, understanding no facts, I was frightened.

As a meteorologist, I wholeheartedly applaud you, sir! I am impressed with your presentation of the science side of this multifaceted story. Thanks a bunch..

It never ceases to amaze me how close we have come, on so many instances, to extinguishing ourselves.

My uncle worked at the Rocket base on Andenes, Andøya at the time this incident unfolded. He told me the rocket did not launch in a correct angel , and the Russians were informed that the launch would be done at Andenes, but since the rocket was not in a correct trajectory as planed, the Russians thought this was a sneak attack. This is what I’m been told by my uncle who was working at the base as a countdown engineer at the time.

Thank you for your wonderful videos. They are such a great comfort and help to pass the time as I recover from an injury and lying in bed. I’m sure there are many others who would agree with me. Also loved the video (mourn 79) about the plane crashes in and around Mt Spokane. My family has lived at the base of the mountain since 1978.

Excellent video. Your ability to bring historical events "to life" is remarkable. Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us.

Just found your channel a couple of weeks ago. I can't get enough. THANK YOU!

Wow thanks. I was a freshman in college during this incident and I'm 42 years old now. I generally consider myself a person that knows at least a little bit about all significant events in modern history. I had never heard of this incident. Thank you.

Life is ever so fragile... That was close :/

I love how you built up all the different back stories. Great video, very rich in information and entertaining at the same time

This remarkable channel is giving me an education I didn't know I craved before I latched on to it.

Thanks HG. Delighted you posted today as I'm another who has exhausted your back-catalogue. 92k woohoo.

Is this history that deserves to be remembered again? Love your channel!

History can be very dry and boring at times, thank you for finding the interesting sides of history that were untold to most.

Thank you for providing this AWESOME historical experience! It’s been 41 years since I darkened the door of a school, and it’s nice to have the resources available today! I wonder if I would have made better decisions about where to head after graduating from high school in 1976, if these types of resources had been available. Guess I’ll never know.

You Sir are VERY good at this. You should have a TV or streaming show. This is very good stuff.

There's a Scandinavian word for this: Hoppsan!

All I can say is WOW! Thanks for telling this story. It is an important one and something that the world should be aware of. I must also say that you are perhaps the most articulate presenter on KZfaq. I enjoy you very much!

I vaguely knew about this incident, but it's still scary to hear it again in all the terrifying detail. Thanks.

Awesome! Love these vids!

Another great episode. I find your cold war episodes very interesting. The subject matter is history, but recent history, but somewhat forgotten history. Many of its veterans, I would imagine, would appreciate the likes of this episode , and the other cold war episodes that you've made.

Its incredible when I expect to learn what the title has to offer but you throw in so much more knowledge on different things that ties everything in by the end of the video. Well edited and superb dialogue

Boy is that amazing. I had never heard of that. It gives me the willies just thinking of how close a call that was. Great episode.

The History Guy himself deserves to be remembered. Remembered more so even than Bill Nye, imo. I can't see History Guy going all flaky on us or someone that will later deemed of having inappropriate behaviour. If I was in charge of HBO, 60 minutes or similar type Media, I would be jumping all over this content.

Recently discovered your Channel. Fabulous. Just an idea but.....the movie The Battle of Britain, at the end, gives a list of RAF pilots and their nationalities. Prior to the establishment of the RAF's Eagle Squadron, there were seven American lads who flew with RAF squadrons and, happily, I believe all seven survived the battle. Wouldn't you love to know who they were? I know I would...Secondly, the American Johnny Dodge (the inspiration for Hendley, James Garner's character in The Great Escape) - what a life story. Paul Brickhill's book is a great starting point.Greetings from England. Phil

The history guy is the best on you tube. Period.

all your shows are the best, keep them coming, thank you the Mrs, and the Crew!!!

Very interesting, I don't think I've ever heard this account before. I remember sitting in my high school class and listening to the radio news about the Sputnik and our own space launches. How we've advanced. Thanks for sharing another great video. Stan

These videos should be shown in history classes.

So happy to have found this channel...fascinating stories, well-researched and engagingly presented. Thank you very much!

Excellent analysis and presentation!

Great video! Last semester I took a Cold War class and got into a debate with my professor that we are still in a Cold War. I wonder if other people feel this way. The U.S. is still engaged in proxy wars with Russia and both sides are continuing to modernize and update their nuclear arsenal, seems like a Cold War to me.

One possibility is that the launch notification was buried rather than entangled in bureaucracy. I imagine that hawks from the old USSR were desparate for cold war to continue and possibly even turn hot.

I got chills listening to this... I'm part of the generation born when the Cold War was in danger of going 'hot' at nearly any time... Another great presentation by The History Guy!!!

The sword of Damocles still hangs over our heads today. Great episode, it was an incident that I had never heard before.

Another amazing vignette into our world's eclectic history. Kudos sir. Your videos are the creme de la creme of KZfaq. #TheHistoryGuyHistoryDeservestoBeRemembered @The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered +The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

If Nukes are launched ill just sit on my porch smoking a fat one and drinking some Hennessey

I was on the edge of my seat listening to your piece of history. Thank you. In 95’ I was just living a boring life never realizing how close we were to WW3.

I want to compliment you on your attention to detail and important content. I find it touching that you referred to the surviroros of the crash as survirors, and that you listened to history. Obvviously, keep up the great work.

In June 1980, there was something of a similar incident in the US that caused the SAC Alert Force to go up in readiness for a brief period of time. Missile crews inserted launch keys on that occassion as well. It should be stated however that there is a huge distance between inserting launch keys and actually committing sorties. The former does not imply the latter. I was assigned to missile crew duty about two years later, and so I was able to talk to some of the guys who were pulling alert that day. The Base Command Post had an open line by which it could talk to every Launch Control Center at once. As soon as the crews had finished reacting to the Readiness increase, the CP opened that comm channel and said "Do not call home. Keep the outside lines clear." You can understand why they did that. My first instinct would have been to call my wife. And that would have been exactly the wrong thing to do. Launch key switches are sealed to prevent tampering. You have to break the seal to insert keys. When normal readiness was restored, teams were immediately dispatched into the field with replacement seals. They said the guys in the field were just white and still shaking. Inserting launch keys is what you call a significant event in the life of a missile crew member.

Another great video. I find Cold War stuff very interesting.

Scary but very interesting piece of History you've illuminated to many of us - brilliant work as usual! 👍

In school and college history was the only subject that I could not wait to set in on. Thank you.

2 MINUTES TO MIIIIIIDNIGHT

Superb video, but my gosh how scary!

You proved in this particular video that you are not only the history guy but also the astro physics and geo atmosphere guy as well !

Yet another amazing snippet of History. Please keep the good work.

I believe that today it's not much better sadly, Great history lesson, Thank you.

Lesser known here is that the Russian radar systems had degraded so badly that they couldn't determine the trajectory properly leading to the confusion. After this event there is a special work station in NORAD just for a Russian officer to get access to our radar data so these sort of accidents dont evolve again.

Wow !! I was totraly unaware of that... thank you ... and while I am here, superb presentation and commentary.... top shelf. All power Histoty Guy.

One of your longest yet best videos. Pretty scary that key was activated for the first time ever.

I swear you read my mind. I am working on a video / animation on this exact topic. The Chegat is three briefcases delivered to the Minister of Defense (Pravel Grachev) and the Chief of the General Staff (General Mikhail Kolesnikov) however only the president had the authority to launch. The Chegat sets up a conference call between the three. Also Yeltsin made a comment to the media about the incident during an economic speech the day after the incident and a Russian paper wrongly reported that the Russians shot it down hours after the incident and they later had to redact the story. The media and locals said that it was war time propaganda and did not listen to Yeltsin or take him seriously. Pravel Grachev and General Mikhail Kolesnikov said that this was really and act of provocation by NATO to see the Russian's response time as this was the first time they saw a rocket launch of this size and multiple stages like this.

Tremendous! I remember this because I was living in Seattle and knew someone at Boeing who was in negotiations with the newly privatized Russian aerospace industry at the time. I've always been surprised how few people were ever aware that this occurred

[Five minutes and nineteen seconds of science] 5:20 - "And then, things went weird." I love the condensed context given at the beginning of each of these videos. It's so critical to understand context when studying history, because that's what makes it special. Nothing happens in a vacuum.

FANTASTIC! Every bit as interesting as always- thank you!

I remember Berlin, Cuba, an a couple of other episodes of this gender, but never knew I was that close to being a fatality of nuclear war. This episode reminded me of all the meddling the USA did in Russian block countries after collapse of the USSR. We really screwed up a golden opportunity to eliminate conditions like our current relationship with Russia...

Excellent video. Well analyzed, well concluded, not sensationalist. As a Norwegian, I approve! :)

Cannot stop watching your videos. Thank you so very much.

By far my favorite KZfaq channel! Just fascinating. It does deserve to be remembered! Keep up the great work!!

Great video! Canadians are proud of the Black Brant rockets, and we like to think they’re extra special because they’re only used for “peaceful” purposes. Even their name, Black Brant, is a peaceful name: the brant is a harmless species of goose. How ironic and tragic it would have been if the launch of a sounding rocket, launched for peaceful purposes, had led to nuclear war!

Very interesting. I am one of those “duck and cover” kids.

I will say without any doubt that your channel is my new favorite. you rock!

Great presentation of an incident most Americans are unaware of. Love all of your vlogs, but this one prompted me, finally, to subscribe. Thanks.

Great video... might I suggest a video on SAGE and Nike Missiles? in particular the "Inadvertent erection of Nike Missile" during a test outside Washington D.C.?

WOW! I had no idea and Canadian technology was part of it.

Your channel is pure gold.

Thanks, History Guy!

Canadians in Space......set phasers to Molsen light..

WoW, not only can I easily recall being a "duck n cover" kid of the late 50 n early 60s. My dad, having been a US Navy navagator and knowing much more than anyone I knew about the night sky, I easily remember him taking us outside one night during the summer between my 3rd and 4th grade schooling and our family watching the Sputnik twinkel acorss the sky. I can easily recall all that some 60 years ago. However what happened in 1995, just a little oiver 20 years ago I don't recall hearing ANYTHING about the "Norwegian Rocket Incidence". And since my maternal GrandMother was 100% Norwegian, this fact alone would nale anything about Norway to my noggin I would surely suspect. Can't believe I lived thru this and totaly missed it somehow???????? Big Thank You Mr. History Guy..... Again, Vary Interesting and Enlightening Indeed............ But, just think, we have a Vary Inpulsive person, not overly experineced in geopolitical situations with access to the football now. How Scary Indeed. And I am a Republican thinking this.....

I thoroughly enjoy each and every one of your videos thank you history.guy.

They should maybe put a breathalyzer interlock on those briefcases