Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy the video have any suggestions for a future video??
@mrdelaney44405 жыл бұрын
Nikolai puchkov and his home made submarine
@lupus67remus75 жыл бұрын
No idea!!! This is why I like your videos: they teach me something i've never heard about before EVERY TIME! (Yes, I only left cryosleep recently!)
@hakology5 жыл бұрын
didnt the yanks nuke the moon a few years ago (like recently within the last 8 years?)
@numberstation5 жыл бұрын
Stay behind organisations. Several of their arms caches have been accidentally discovered by the public and explained away as belonging to terrorist groups. Also, as my username suggests, Numbers Stations.
@EoineyMTX1255 жыл бұрын
Love your channel and videos can you please do the Goiania incident?
@karlt82335 жыл бұрын
Blackadder: "Who's watching the bomb" Private Baldrick: "Chickens Sir, the chickens are watching the bomb"
@JazzyJoeJohnson5 жыл бұрын
Scientists in the 1950s were just bored
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Tell me about it any chance to use a nuke!
@brucebaxter69235 жыл бұрын
Engineers, not scientists. This annoys me.
@Thatoneguy-e2f5 жыл бұрын
*inspired
@cooliobob12745 жыл бұрын
Scientists and engineers in the 50s were mostly ex-Nazis and had a wealth of information due to unrestricted expirement parameters... other than funding.
@KCDash4400cw5 жыл бұрын
@@PlainlyDifficult you use a nuke when a girl say your PINGAS is small
@insanejughead5 жыл бұрын
That one time the Brits wanted to redesign the Schrödinger's cat paradox...
@petlahk41195 жыл бұрын
The chickens are both alive and dead until they are observed. The chickens have died of either radiation or starvation until they are observed. And, if observed you and the chickens will be done in 10 seconds.
@xiro64 жыл бұрын
@@petlahk4119 ....until they are observed,then,chickens and researchers became from solid to gaseous state.some kind of interdisciplinary study.
@MrZhiBMe5 жыл бұрын
Do more videos about places seen from the window of a Honda Civic
@tin20015 жыл бұрын
Definitely the best part of the video 😂
@51WCDodge5 жыл бұрын
Would make you very unpoular, belive me.
@SimplyTakuma4 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@BillBrasky77184 жыл бұрын
You rock!!!!
@107134123 жыл бұрын
"As seen from a Honda Civic"
@HAMlLTON5 жыл бұрын
The 50s was the best time for scientists to do whatever the heck they wanted to do
@51WCDodge5 жыл бұрын
A lot of things you now take for granted were developed at The Fort. If you have an airbag in your car, the bang was Made In Kent.
@DynamicSeq4 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling that they now are working on climate change..
@LekkerNootje4 жыл бұрын
I would die (not by radiation though please) to see a nuclear explosion
@intrepidhero5 жыл бұрын
I'm a little worried what these bazaar nuclear weapons say about their country of origin. Tzar Bomba - Russia: likes them big; I guess there's nothing too wrong with that. Davy Crockett - US: ok with putting that kind of world ending fire power into the palm your hand; Really needs to get over that gun obsession. The Blue Peacock - Britain: lets combine the apocalyptic power of the atom bomb with the human rights nightmare that is landmines... lets throw on a dash of animal cruelty, perfect; Are you feeling ok there Britain?
@jimtaylor2944 жыл бұрын
Ironically the subject of Nuclear Landmines is often mentioned with the USA as the implied country that had it in mind, but then again nuclear mania was mostly their thing at the time. As for "animal cruelty"... technically being instantaneously vaporized by an A Bomb... one of the least worst ends a Chicken could face.
@paulelephant95215 жыл бұрын
Seriously, chickens!? There was no way of incorporating some sort of oil heater or electrical device? I just can't imagine that stuffing a few chickens and some grain into an atomic device is the optimal solution! British eccentricity worked wonders with things like Bletchley Park and the bouncing bomb, but sometimes I think they took it too far!
@oatlord5 жыл бұрын
@deathbypowerpoint lol yeah, chickens are definitely the go to in terms of reliability.
@paulelephant95215 жыл бұрын
@deathbypowerpoint well chickens maybe reliable when healthy, but where exactly are the British military going to get a bunch of healthy live chickens in the middle of a nuclear war!? It's not like you can easily store them or even transport the feathery batteries simply, I can't help thinking a standard battery operated heater would be a more workable ( if boring) solution.
@ChoppedSteak5 жыл бұрын
@@paulelephant9521 chickens were once extremely common to be seen in every town or city or village, espicially during war when shops would be closed or gone. Not only that, but governments typically ship thousands of live chickens to supply their lines
@Gunzee5 жыл бұрын
Chickens are also very patriotic. You think they wouldn't hesitate to set of the bomb upon hearing the March of red boots?
@ChoppedSteak5 жыл бұрын
@@Gunzee cluck cluck, god save the queen
@GalileoAV5 жыл бұрын
It never ceases to amaze me how bad the nuke fever was. Some problems just don't need a nuclear solution, and scientists spent more time wondering about what they could do rather then what they should do.
@apoplecticwrenchmonkey2 жыл бұрын
That is the scientist mentality for you.
@syahmikadira68325 жыл бұрын
Don't you hate it when you & your chaps were drinking tea near the Rhineland when suddenly a chicken-manned atomic mine blew up?
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
It would be a downer for the day :D
@jimtaylor2944 жыл бұрын
@@PlainlyDifficult Yup. All sorts of things raining down for miles ;) .
@steve1978ger5 жыл бұрын
It appears to me that everybody in the 1950ies was either drunk, or insane, or both.
@Recon1355 жыл бұрын
Please keep in mind that was a time when the West really feared a Soviet invasion. We had no capability of stopping them with conventional forces, or so we thought.
@uegvdczuVF5 жыл бұрын
@@Recon135 So we use chicken powered nuclear land mines? :) What could go wrong?
@jimtaylor2944 жыл бұрын
Or it was just that us Brit's wanted the ability to blow up large parts of Germany, and the Reds under the bed gave us the perfect cover story ;) .
@burnerheinz3 жыл бұрын
One half of the scientists were insane and the other half invented LSD to consume during research.
@ryanpayne91195 жыл бұрын
So, floods, earthquakes, and simple corrosion could have caused a nuclear detonation? This seems like a brilliant idea. /sarcasm
@Qxir5 жыл бұрын
Plans to nuke the moon? I wish someone made a video about that!
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Might make a good Qxir video mate?
@Qxir5 жыл бұрын
@@PlainlyDifficult Qxir make a video? Good one
@hey_bale41153 жыл бұрын
Kurtzgezat or however u spell it, did a vid on what would happen if u did
@tugatomskanimation63703 жыл бұрын
The premise of the Space 1999 series suddenly came to mind.
@HappyBeezerStudios3 жыл бұрын
"Let's nuke the moon!" "But why?" "Because we can!"
@KRDecade20094 жыл бұрын
“Atomic anti-tank mines.” Sounds like something that was made on Krieg in 40k
@Rober51765 жыл бұрын
You’re one of my favorite history channels on KZbin! Keep up the good work!!
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@florix78895 жыл бұрын
DO A VIDEO ON NUKING HURRICANES AND THE MOON!!! this is the most 'Murica thing I've ever heard X)
@MachineMan-mj4gj4 жыл бұрын
Also Operation Plowshare; using nukes to dig lakes. Russians tried that,the lake is still radioactive to this day. People still swim in it because Russia.
@jaydentownsend54025 жыл бұрын
One of my chickens died today. Thank you for the upload ;c R.I.P Blackie
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
:'(
@LetsTalkAboutPrepping4 жыл бұрын
Five Star General: "Just how important are the anti-tampering devices on these things?" Scientist, checking report from a very expensive and destructive test survey: *Pretty Much Important*
@lee62835 жыл бұрын
I've never been this early before. Your channel fills my void
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ProlificInvention5 жыл бұрын
*Plainly Difficult* One of the most interesting channels on KZbin, love your content!
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Cemi_Mhikku5 жыл бұрын
It's lovely how you make crazy/terrifying shit actually comical.
@TheKlabim5 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed the paint-grafics
@DamoBloggs5 жыл бұрын
Yay! More absurd atomics! You bring the best stuff chap :)
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@TheObsidianX5 жыл бұрын
I think I remember suggesting this a long time ago so thanks for talking about it.
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the suggestion!
@phil49863 жыл бұрын
"This was the ultimate in burning your bridges because once used it rendered the surrounding area COMPLETELY USELESS." LOL. Perfectly said.
@johndeerekid1673 жыл бұрын
"who needs enemies when you have allies like this" XD
@OmegablueWolf4 жыл бұрын
'and this is what it looks like from the window of a honda civic' okay as much as i love the historical content the joke there just broke me, i had to jump back and make sure i actually heard that.
@Evan64m4 жыл бұрын
Everybody gangsta till the chicken powered nuclear bomb
@josiahmycousin4 жыл бұрын
The moon: but why? People: uh, because we can.
@Legotruck825 жыл бұрын
Regarding animals, ever read up on Anti Tank Dogs?
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Yes it was the soviets if i recall?
@Legotruck825 жыл бұрын
@@PlainlyDifficult as far as I'm aware. IIRC the results weren't good as they were using their own tanks to train the dogs. Quite sad really
@Cemi_Mhikku5 жыл бұрын
The issue came in because the tanks smelled different. They kept going after the friendly diesel tanks instead of the enemy gas-powered ones. No enemy casualties, three friendly tanks destroyed and most of the dogs just didn't do much. Serious waste of effort and puppers. Especially the puppers... ;.;
@pencil6775 жыл бұрын
@@Cemi_Mhikku thicc
@pencil6775 жыл бұрын
@@Cemi_Mhikku The German panzers also looked different to the T70, T34 and the various KV series of tanks due to shape and colour.
@blakestormcrow62754 жыл бұрын
This design redefines the statement "are you chicken?"
@DatRandomDJ5 жыл бұрын
As of this moment - 187 likes and 0 dislikes, very impressive for a budding channel. Keep up the excellent work :D
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@DatRandomDJ5 жыл бұрын
@@PlainlyDifficult You know what might be a cool video idea? (although I know you must get suggestions all time), the whole Project Genetrix and Luna 3 thing, how the CIA accidentally helped the soviets be the first to take pictures of the far side of the moon. That'd be a cool story to see here done in your style :)
@theGoogol3 жыл бұрын
Subbed. I don't like the attempts of humor using bad graphics but the content is undeniable.
@jimtaylor2944 жыл бұрын
I think we Brits were really either: A. Trying to one-up our chums in the US as to how outlandish a >insert nuke into existing concept here< we could think of. B. Determined that - after fighting two expensive wars with them in close proximity - that we could vaporise large parts of Germany on short notice, should they misbehave again ;) .
@joeapo55845 жыл бұрын
Make a vid about that whole nuking the moon idea. Sounds super interesting
@RCAvhstape4 жыл бұрын
When Monty Python designs a nuclear weapon.
@seanworkman4313 жыл бұрын
Mad scientists at it again
@deltasword19945 жыл бұрын
This has got to be the most complicated way to roast some chicken anyone has ever thought of.
@simonpeter50325 жыл бұрын
You should rename your channel “Plainly Nuclear “
@xzytqweo35382 жыл бұрын
I am glad too!
@kl0wnkiller9129 ай бұрын
I was in southern Germany in the US Army in the mid-1980s. When I arrived, the first meeting I had was an introduction to USAFE (US Armed Forces Europe) where I was informed that our only real purpose here was to try and slow down the Russians should they invade, to buy the USA enough time to gear up for full-scale war, a reassuring thought. Having said that, I had some of the best experiences of my life during my time there. Beautiful country and great people, food and beer!
@piritskenyer5 жыл бұрын
Great video, the Blue Peacock is always funny :D (What's the opening music?)
@craigdouglas98064 жыл бұрын
TSAR bomba was one CRAAAAZY detonation!
@bryancaughey75075 жыл бұрын
Great videos. Can you do one on either project Pluto (nuclear ramjet cruise missle) or project Orion (pushing a space ship with nuclear bombs).
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the suggestions!
@anameofsomesort9595 жыл бұрын
I remember one of my favorite professors talking about these nuclear landmines being put down incase of a potential invasion of West Germany, but luckily Stalin died and Khrushchev was all bark and no bite.
@LordAlacorn5 жыл бұрын
No bite? He was begged not to test Tsar Bomb at full yield in UN and after half yield test - that we know these days as the biggest ever, begged again not to test anything like that again. Anyway we should be thankful for No Bite on both sides or we would not be here to make our comments.
@uegvdczuVF5 жыл бұрын
@@LordAlacorn Yea, that bomb was supposed to be twice the yield 100Mt. The chief designer argued that it would be pointless since the fireball would be so big that most of the energy would simply vent in to the space. In reality he didn't want to do it because he was perfectly aware how much radioactive fallout it would produce and spread around the globe....
@nezhaprime61955 жыл бұрын
found my new binge watching channel
@xj97795 жыл бұрын
What the what? This is the first time I heard that. Those military officials were and are to careless with human life in general. Greetings from Germany still a nice country without nuclear landmines. Btw I love your videos please do more of this.
@gyromurphy5 жыл бұрын
Now That's the way to start a video..with the words: nuclear weapons.
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
XD
@psychopeda234 жыл бұрын
1:18 that Honda Civic Perspective changes my point of view entirely
@charlesbehlen62255 жыл бұрын
Would love to watch a Plainly Difficult video about Castle Bravo.
@goldenpun55924 жыл бұрын
"any project they could think of" Project Chariot Glad they decided against that one.
@spef73965 жыл бұрын
Live your videos keep it up
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@chrisbova96865 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking, we need more ideas like this.
@51WCDodge5 жыл бұрын
The main road at the Fort is called Penny Way after William Penny. At one stage the place was a Boy Scout camp.
@Folsomdsf25 жыл бұрын
fyi, there are far more than 'nuclear minitions' that were installed in germany. There were teams of US engineers from the engineer corps that maintained even conventional explosives much larger than this that would be used by a retreating army. It's pretty much like that at every major stronghold point all the way back to france throughout europe. These nuclear landmines would have been a drop in the bucket compared to what the US put there and.. a lot of it is still there.
@mryoran15 жыл бұрын
Great that use meters end feet !! Ty
@sarjim43815 жыл бұрын
There were already atomic artillery rounds and tactical nuclear missiles available or in the late stage of development. They could be used to actually target enemy concentrations without having to hope the enemy would congregate around your nuclear bomb/chicken coop. This seems like the kind of thing developed in some defense establishment where the employees had no idea what was already available or on the drawing board for the army.
@phorzer324 жыл бұрын
Verry nice. But was do the Chicken do?
@Allegheny5008 ай бұрын
Given that the bombs were to be buried underground, did they provide a snorkel so the chickens could breathe? Or did they figure there was enough air in there for the time required? Gives new meaning when ordering "Atomic wings".
@Dsdcain5 жыл бұрын
I like the Cyka Blyat speech bubbles from the tanks. Nice touch. *:)*
@BartBe4 жыл бұрын
In my humble opinion: the pretence of 1950's engineers is only outclassed by their batshit insanity...
@StupidEarthlings2 жыл бұрын
Need MORE Plainly Difficult Vids Please!!! Got dang imposters are killing me..ffs. do whatever u have to hire people, rob a bank, just narrate something, anything for us!!!
@ronnielenroberts61365 жыл бұрын
Couldn't they used the uranium itself to keep it warm?
@GalileoAV5 жыл бұрын
It would seem not. It either didn't let off enough heat, or was too deep within the device to keep the instruments at the casing warm enough.
@sushimamba42815 жыл бұрын
No... that just wouldn't be quirky and weird enough for the Brits.
@the_retag5 жыл бұрын
@@GalileoAVu235 is barely radioactive and therefore practically doesnt create heat
@eyespliced5 жыл бұрын
Wait, wait. The opening music. What was it? It sounds like the into to one of my all time favorite games; Escape Velocity: Nova.
@1906Farnsworth5 жыл бұрын
I have long thought that we should set off nukes on the Moon in the pattern of a peace symbol. A good opportunity to perform tests, and a spectacular display.
@hazold85415 жыл бұрын
Grats on 40k subs! Really enjoying the content! I know of a few good stories here in Aus, like the first shot of the first world war was fired from fort Nepean in Melbourne
@pencil6775 жыл бұрын
SUB BOT
@hazold85415 жыл бұрын
@@pencil677 eh wot?
@trevormillar1576 Жыл бұрын
How about doing a film on Project Magnificat, a plan to establish a nuclear bomb testing range in....SCOTLAND?
@sanguiniusonvacation18035 жыл бұрын
I got one for ya. the USS Richard Montgomery. it's sunk in the Thames estuary and has hundreds of thousands of pounds of explosives still on board.
@PlainlyDifficult5 жыл бұрын
I heard about that not that long ago it’s pretty scary!
@sanguiniusonvacation18035 жыл бұрын
Plainly Difficult by some calculations , if it did go off , a 2-3' wall of water would reach London
@lornaginetteharrison71684 жыл бұрын
What I took away from this informative video: Mmmm.....Irradiated Chicken McNuggets!!!
@johnanderson55004 жыл бұрын
Oh man when you mentioned the chickens i cracked up 😂 i can't imagine that being a serious idea to keep a bomb warm to operate properly. Thank God they didn't use these!
@thomaskositzki94244 жыл бұрын
BTW, atomic mines were later deployed in Germany anyway. And nulcear-armed 'Honest John' short-range missiles operated by the German Army. And nuclear artillery ammunition to be fired from German Army artillery pieces. Range 30km. I lived 5km from such a nuclear artillery shell depot without knowing it (I was a kid, but my parents had no clue either). Fun times, that Cold War. Greetz from Germany.
@bothewolf34663 жыл бұрын
Ostriches would have kept it even warmer. Just grease 'em up to get them in the mine's outer shell. Shoe horns might help.
@rileybanks11915 жыл бұрын
*somethingsomthing*CITATION NEEDED REFERENCE
@williamchamberlain22634 жыл бұрын
Can't help thinking that a radio-thermal heater would have been more appropriate, given the amount of fissile material in there already.
@AussieWirraway5 жыл бұрын
1:17 - does this work for other car models too?
@TheSilentCartgraph3r5 жыл бұрын
Good times
@jacobfreeman54443 жыл бұрын
The thing I find funny is they couldn't have found a way to use the fact this is a nuclear device to power some form of heating element. Also a device that meant to be put in the ground that malfunctions when it gets wet...? It still explodes but what is the use of an explosive that doesn't blow up the intended target...?
@whydoyougottahavthis4 жыл бұрын
Gives new meaning to playing Chicken
@kingjames48865 жыл бұрын
CYKA! haha I remember watching something about this bird heated bomb, crazy brits...
@deatheternal7205 жыл бұрын
A brief history of Hisashi Ouchi?
@SchwaTheOriginal4 жыл бұрын
1:18 My life is complete, i can die happy.
@NoNameAtAll25 жыл бұрын
0:36 Someone stole Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia from USSR
@DrArku5 жыл бұрын
We went independent earlier this time.
@NoNameAtAll25 жыл бұрын
@@DrArku ?
@DrArku5 жыл бұрын
@@NoNameAtAll2 Yeah, we heard you were doing horrible things to chickens, so we decided to re-locate to the moon. If you go to the Baltic sea, there's actually holes matching the shapes of the Baltic states now.
@baksatibi4 жыл бұрын
Also, the western part of Hungary withdrew from the Warsaw Pact but the eastern part stayed.
@jasonhaynes29524 жыл бұрын
Military Top Brass: "A tamper-proof nuclear landmine? Great Idea!....but how are we going to ensure the cold weather doesn't set them off by accident?" Engineers: "That's taken care of sir, we're going to put chickens in the bomb" Military Top Brass: "That's wonderful. Just splendid...problem solved!"
@DaveO-te1iv3 жыл бұрын
Ok, seeing this video now, over 2 years after it was posted, and not really knowing what date it was posted on, I'll admit I needed to double check to make sure this idea wasn't an April Fools joke!
@aeb1barfo4 жыл бұрын
Nuclear mining ( around Rifle, Colorado ) and the West end of I-70 which needed a mountain removed. Operation Plowshare. Like " Rods from God" a biblical reference.
@GoldRaven-oe4by2 жыл бұрын
So.. once it was armed it would go off it it was moved, got wet or was opened so how would you disarm it if you needes to?
@tenebrisactual17385 жыл бұрын
Was this kind of a precursor to the sadm?
@loganbaileysfunwithtrains6065 жыл бұрын
Ah thanks always wonder what that place looked like from a window of a Honda Civic, all the other videos on KZbin of the place are from the windows of Toyota Corollas and Hyundai Elantras