Who Had The Most Devastating Weapons Of The Cold War? | Combat Machines

Who Had The Most Devastating Weapons Of The Cold War? | Combat Machines | War Stories

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The Cold War. East and West developed weapons that could destroy the world. Examine the origins of the Arms Race and the first use of nuclear weapons that ended World War II, featuring, amongst others, the Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and the Corona spy satellite.
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@jayjohn9680 Жыл бұрын

Truman gets in the office ready to sit in the chair… then someone tells him he needs to inform him of a powerful new bomb that … Before even finishing the senetence and before Truman even gets in his chair Truman: “DROP IT!”

@thesaints-7-andrew. Жыл бұрын

Best comment here.

@jimmypcordova10 Жыл бұрын

Man instant rice cookers sure have come along way

@markwheeler202 Жыл бұрын

15:35 Ivy Mike was not a bomb, it was a test device weighing 82 tons. The Americans did not "drop" it.

@jonyemm Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it still meets the definition of a bomb.

@markwheeler202 Жыл бұрын

@@jonyemm "Bomb", "thermonuclear test device", whatever. It was a building constructed on an island in the Enewetak Atoll to test the Teller-Ulam design. It certainly wasn't "dropped", as the video narrator stated. Its detonation left a crater over a mile wide where the island had once been.

@jonyemm Жыл бұрын

@@markwheeler202 I don't disagree that it wasn't dropped. All I meant is what I said which is that I'm pretty sure it still meets the definition of a bomb. I'm pretty familiar with the tests out on the atolls. I find the subject interesting overall and incredible that they managed to take an island off the map with one detonation.

@MakerInMotion Жыл бұрын

So it was meant as a proof of concept only because a bomb you can't move is useless.

@jjayyoung7335 Жыл бұрын

these weapons were, are sheer madness. Nothing but total and absolute madness.

@garyplewa9277 Жыл бұрын

"Silverplate" was a code word for special authorization used by the Manhattan Project. It was NOT the name of a B29 model. Get your facts straight.

@regularstan6212 Жыл бұрын

Well said

@cartersmith9975 Жыл бұрын

It's actually used for both! Get your facts straight silly goose

@benjaminrush4443 Жыл бұрын

Great Series. Thanks.

@tooroptube4980 Жыл бұрын

War is horrendous. The horrors of war cannot be fully captured with mere words. The aftermath extends for centuries and beyond. Humanity still can shine through even the most horrific of war stories. 🇺🇸🇺🇳 🇺🇦🇵🇱

@mcnallica8 Жыл бұрын

another fantastic video, well done

@Ganiscol Жыл бұрын

Have you learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?

@bobhealy3519 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@DefiantSix Жыл бұрын

My grandfather graduated jump school and reported out to the 101st Airborne Division just in time to be dumped in the deep end of preparations for the invasion of Japan. As such, my grandfather almost certainly wouldn't have survived to start his family and as a consequence I wouldn't be here had the bomb not been dropped. Yeah, I love the bomb.

@yesm2302 Жыл бұрын

Historically it’s still so significant that the upstart United States and not the established Great Britain built the first bomb.

@lovecrafted3398 Жыл бұрын

I need a Doctor Strangelove

@Ganiscol Жыл бұрын

@@DefiantSix Today, outside the US, its controversially debated whether or not nuking Japan caused them to surrender. Its highly probable that the declaration of war by the Soviet Union actually triggered that surrender. They heard what the Soviets did in Germany, being occupied by the US would be the better deal - and that turned out to be true for both Germanys and Japan, didnt it?

@thesaints-7-andrew. Жыл бұрын

Watching from Greece.hi everybody. Great documentary.

@danielficke131 Жыл бұрын

I actually work at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska. The museum serves to preserve the history of the Strategic Air Command.

@thelegion3682 Жыл бұрын

Its a great story.. the way you told it makes me feel just like I was there 🙄

@jgcalc 23 сағат бұрын

A few years ago I was there one evening, with my son's boy scout troop. They were having a paper airplane flying contest. I made a paper plane and launched it like a football from very far back behind them. Anyways, it went the entire length of the runway they had flagged out and to the other side of the hangar. Lol. It's a great museum as well.

@S_M_360 Жыл бұрын

Teens should watch this!

@bobhealy3519 Жыл бұрын

We outnumbered by far ussr and didn't know it.

@Iamthestig42069 Жыл бұрын

Pima Air and Space is an amazing place! Their collection is insane and they allow dogs

@sethmaki1333 Жыл бұрын

Ivy Mike wasn't dropped. Mike was a four story building.

@sgtpepr6260 Жыл бұрын

Humanity is not responsible for its existence nor will it be responsible for its extinction

@nateday2010 Жыл бұрын

And this is what the younger generation doesn’t understand that this is what had to be done for them and us to exist today.

@cedarpoplar Жыл бұрын

Wow, man, history is dangerously crazy nuts. And it's about to get worse. I hope I get old and die peacefully in my bed before anything else happens. 🤞

@johnhopkins6260 Жыл бұрын

Hiroshima pales in comparison with the firebombing of Tokyo.

@borutoblack2273 Жыл бұрын

I don't believe leaders detonate each other's nuclear, because "love the world and fear death" is just a threat, when dare nuclear war?

@jaybministros7980 Жыл бұрын

Titan II = End of the world.

@jerrymcdaniel4539 Жыл бұрын

Stalin was so short

@MakerInMotion Жыл бұрын

And he would have had you sent to the gulag just for saying it. Very insecure guy.

@deejayimm Жыл бұрын

The one take away that most people ignore from the Cuban Missile Crisis, is probably the most important. The United States is very much a nation of "do as I say and not as I do". Brought the entire world to the brink of nuclear Holocaust because Russia did the same damn thing to them, they had already done to Russia. Here in the US we are always taught that America is the good guy, and it's always someone else who's the bad guy, usually Russia or China. When you really start to do some digging, you find out that usually the United States is directly or indirectly responsible for whatever retaliation is touted as a primary action by the "bad guy".

@regularstan6212 Жыл бұрын

Usa has always had the best andnmost dangerous weapons of mass destruction

@DefiantSix Жыл бұрын

Two words, my friend: Tsara Bomba. 😉

@xtexasxfightx Жыл бұрын

@@DefiantSix not a practical device, but point stands.

@pieterveenders9793 Жыл бұрын

@@xtexasxfightx It was literally air dropped by a bomber, can't get more practical than that. Unless by practical you mean that it was just massive overkill and rather inefficient, with a handful much smaller nukes having a much more devastating effect?

@derekbaker777 Жыл бұрын

Armageddon is gonna make all the nuclear weapons on earth look like firecrackers.

@briandstephmoore4910 Жыл бұрын

Yo that ish on your lip has some ish on its lip😂

@zillsburyy1 Жыл бұрын

USA!!!!!!

@Indrid__Cold Жыл бұрын

Ironic that the USSR had "only" 45 ICBMS. Had even 1/4 of those weapons hit the US, America, as we have come to know it, would cease to exist.

@zachammond Жыл бұрын

You mad wrong buddy lol

@mobidick6064 Жыл бұрын

Who were the real losers

@justmee8793 Жыл бұрын

how this channel is pro USA

@JimBeam69er 3 ай бұрын

Lmfao the difference in the b17 and b24 wasn't 3mph 🤡🤡🤡 b24 had a longer range and bigger payload and was faster. The 17 was the first bomber we had more guns and more reliable airframe but that was it. The b29 set the standard for strategic bombers through the end of WW2 til today.

@RyanCoomer Жыл бұрын

I'm starting my own circus here in Chicago it's called Ryan's Animal Cage and will feature many animals from across the world. Girrafe, zebra, monkey, baboon, koahla, hippo, birds, and one baby elephant. To save space the cages are small so the animal can't even move but it's easier to travel town to town. Yall need to visit my circus when I'm in your town because otherwise I won't have any money for the animals foods