H-Bomb: How The Most Powerful Weapon Of All Time Was Created | M.A.D World | Progress

The Cold War, a period when the threat of nuclear weapons pushed the world to the brink of mutually assured destruction.
In this episode:
The USSR holds Berlin hostage by barricading all land routes, triggering a lifeline of continuous aircraft from the West delivering essential supplies.
Small Western European nations unite with the USA in a military alliance to shield themselves from the formidable Soviet military. The NATO pact asserts that an attack on one member prompts collective defense from all signatories.
The West faces terror as news breaks of the successful Soviet atomic bomb test, initiating a perilous standoff with the most terrifying weapons ever created.
Communist North Korea invades South Korea, unleashing a 3-year war claiming 10% of Korean lives. United Nations forces intervene, with President Truman contemplating atomic bomb use if needed to secure victory.
A Pacific test unveils a hydrogen bomb a thousand times more potent than nuke dropped on Hiroshima, marking a perilous leap in destructive capability.
As the Cold War chill deepens, both East and West grapple with the fear of losing military and government secrets. A network of spies and defectors emerges, fueling paranoia on both sides and leading to show trials, imprisonment, and assassinations.
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[@jimwalshonline9346]

Richard Rhodes's "Dark Sun" is the definitive "bio" of the Bomb.

[@danielmorris4676]

I agree. This video is a tiny spark in comparison to Richard Rhodes' "Dark Sun", the definitive story of how the thermonuclear bomb was developed, how they functioned, and how the Soviet Union stole about every US secret necessary for them to build their own. This video is clickbait. Thumbs down!

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Bob Jungk's "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" is also excellent.

[@jimwalshonline9346]

@@TheDavidlloydjones Thank you, I will check it out.

[@Mrbfgray]

Nothing about how H-bomb was created, but otherwise worthwhile.

[@siypic]

Exactly what i was thinking...........I

[@cheiatianbriem2078]

I knew something was missing

[@Davelakful]

@@siypic - click bait. KZbin blocks me for putting a really strong negative comment, however allows so many BS clickbait videos.

[@powerhousepaperairplanesrogers]

Cant have a Hydrogen Bomb. Without an Atomic Bomb

[@Davelakful]

Clickbait. It's a video on the Coldwar. Don't waste your time watching

[@georgehoffman7846]

Don't quit then

[@Davelakful]

@@georgehoffman7846 - intelligent response. TY

[@PaperStreetHandyman]

Thank you

[@whirledpeas3477]

General Turgleson, I have heard quite enough from you!

[@iitzfizz]

You can't fight in here, this is the war room!

[@Madds5150]

it's General Turgidson, and here is why Turgid 1. : excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic, pompous. turgid prose. 2. : being in a state of distension : swollen, tumid. The president was Merkin Muffley Merkin was a pubic wig worn by prostitutes back in the day 😂

[@JanRademan]

Weirdly, the key ingredient was polystyrene.

[@terrydouglas2777]

I was born in the 60s and I still remember at school having to duck and cover under our desks like that was going to save us. Then even after we seen how houses built of brick could not stay together from a hit miles away, it was only dust left. If one hits here in the usa today, hope you are upwind and it landed hundreds of miles away from you more east so wind blows it away from you.

[@bad71hd]

My 2 @ school learning ' duck & cover's! How mental! As far as NATO? It should have ended in 1960, 1870 at the latest and truly no one wants it now! We darn sure don't need or want it now! They never do a decent thing! We pay for everything on Earth 🌎 un fairly! Why should our massive taxes have to pay for All of Earths security from places, nations and people who are citizens of nations who hate us, or who never give support of any kind!

[@charlesthompson8013]

In the mid to late 70s? My town still has tunnels that go underground from the school to downtown to a fallout shelter the tunnel is also accessible by all the shops on the main street downtown. Back in thr day the school housed grades k-12 . But it was pretty interesting fo sho 😊

[@kevinsmith9502]

Creating a weapon that will destroy the world.Now that's progress.

[@KUSHxKiNG]

47:08 😂😂 if some one was to try what those two kids did pulling those play guns out they would end up shot and imprisoned😂😂

[@MrGrace]

Hell yeah lol

[@oilsmokejones3452]

MAD has worked for almost 80 years..how bad is that??

[@rogersmith8480]

👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍!!!!

[@dyonisis7681]

change title to korean war , united nations/NATO. blah blah blah

[@danielmartens156]

We've all heard it before.

[@Cheka__]

I'm going to invent the Helium bomb. Double the atomic number, double the power.

[@garyk1334]

I used a bath bomb the other day the bubbles almost got me

[@hobbelundahl6249]

I did what we allways do. I asked God to help me and he did. He showed me the way to the store and told me to buy Donald Duck... Not to that much help. But as Garyk told, it was a marvelous thing to have in the bath. Atleast I didn't die alone. :p

[@doenermitallem]

Fusion of Helium atoms doesn't release as much energy as fusing hydrogen does. The higher the atomic number the less energy is released. Btw... that's the reason for supernovae. Stars fusing heavier and heavier elements until there's no energy released anymore (iron). At this point gravity takes over and it goes BOOOOM!

[@pikachu6031]

You can’t. Because it wouldn’t work. They would have done it already! Helium probably wouldn’t react with anything to produce another element. So if that can’t happen, no Energy will be released and you will only get the Detonation of the “Primary” Atomic Bomb. You won’t get a Thermonuclear Burn, so no thermonuclear component, the second stage won’t react. In other words, it won’t work!

[@georgebowen3925]

The music in this video is much too loud. It detracts from the story 😡

[@charlesthompson8013]

Why didn't they talk about the time our government (America) launch 200 of the nukes at the firmament trying to get rid of it 🤔

[@phillanassa759]

Why are there sections of this video that go blurry? This isn't the only video from WWII, WWI, Korea, And Vietnam that do this. I don't know about the gulf wars,.. I don't watch them ; I was there....

[@garybulwinkle82]

Did you take any videos or pictures? My ex-brother-in-law took a bunch of pictures. He was in command of two Howitzers. The pictures were gruesome; dead all over the place. Guys hanging out of burning, blown up tanks. I said, "boy they don't show this stuff on TV!" He had a stack about an inch and a half high. He's an ex because while he was risking his life in a war my sister was doing a librarian in Germany, and got knocked up! Figures!!

[@vnmsnak4686]

43:48 “fusion where atoms are split and fused. Together ? Wtf?

[@tml721]

IF you like your bomb you can keep your bomb !! My bomb is bigger than your bomb !

[@user-ik3mk5vi8m]

But thats just it collin Barnard you were born in thw 1960s ,so you we're born into the nuclear race, you actually only relized the implications in the middle seventys, and could only grasp by the middle 1980s by that time the USSR was aready economically weak and was failing, if you were born in an era were the atomic bomb was new, and the impact was really unknown, ww2 had just ended then you would understand

[@benquinneyiii7941]

Countries

[@AWGragg007]

Not a whole lot about the H-bomb, smh. 🤷‍♂️ This video should be titled about the Cold and Korean wars. I feel like the Korean War isn't really spoken about very much these days. And my Grandfather actually fought in it, I still have his Purple Heart kept in my safe.

[@calebpalmer9317]

The world is now closer to the brink than at any point in history. The good news is at least we don't have mean Tweets

[@MakeMoneyOnlineWithEmma]

It's a good thing we have such a sharp minded Biden at the helm right now.

[@RyokoRHM]

The Cuban Missile Crisis would like to have a word.

[@annaoaulinovna]

its all about material shape and size.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

John Higginbotham is a half-wit: he means "advantage," not "comparative advantage," which is a different thing entirely.

[@calebpalmer9317]

Tis but a firecracker. We now have an arsenal of antimatter bombs. Sleep well

[@Deshbhakt-hx9du]

❤😂🎉🎉🎉😂😂❤😂🎉🎉😂❤😂

[@tanchenghuat2056]

Park you

[@dyonisis7681]

what a horrible video. doesn't talk about how the h bomb was created or why. Just rambled through a chapter of history. To add insult to injury, in this day and age with digital enhancement, why are we watching a pivotal point in history on 80 year old original film? don't watch this vid. No dissection from a scientific point on "HOW" weapon developed...

[@ajc389]

More stupid KZbin censorship.

[@georgehoffman7846]

Crackers and cheese for you boy

[@bad71hd]

The " PILL UH PEE NOSE" even the oldest ones, fought against n.korea? I didn't know that part!? *"Pill Ahh pee nose

[@edfleming9600]

Klickbait

[@ajc389]

The USSR may have had a bomb but they did not have a delivery system.

[@cheiatianbriem2078]

i have my own problems

[@colinbarnard6512]

The narrator of this piece, or at least the scriptwriter, would have the viewer believe that there was a 'different mindset' during the Cold War, one of fear and paranoia. Absolute nonsense: today's era is one of paranoia, whether it be climate, Iran getting The Bomb, DPRK using their bombs, or the successors of Islamic State (ISIS) getting any sort of NBC weapon (NOT Jimmy Fallon). There's been no change in the level of fear and paranoia from the Cold War. I was born into it in 1960. It's the same. Stop selling history as entertainment. Your attempts to overly dramatize it distorts history. As we are talking about the fear of use of nuclear weapons, distorting the Public's already-too-superificial understanding of that history may be a little dangerous.

[@Trees301]

I'm 26 born in 97 and I believe just because the Soviet Union collapsed doesn't mean the Cold War ended and it is sad that the world today is Hotter than it was Cold when the Soviet Union collapsed...

[@martinalladin8981]

I was born in 1973 and for the most part I agree. The one thing t😮hat drove me nuts about this documentary is blurring out all the images I assume of people that are dead. Those things need to be seen, that's one of the problems Ukraine is having it's not the sexy War anymore it's not interesting enough cause while I'm sitting on my ass in my secure, bomb free environment, I'm suffering from Ukraine fatigue, time to turn the page . You don't get to to suffer from fatigue until you've picked up a weapon and defended your Homeland. People need to understand the horrors of War. We infantilize the population too much and that's one of the huge problems with today's society, you got a guy, a black guy, he probably gets all kinds of racial slurs thrown at him when he's in America fighting in Korea, fighting against dictatorial rule, to preserve democracy, in a calm voice he says,"the first shot took my left arm off at the elbow, and then the guy got out of the tank and shot me three times in the back in the chest area and one of them went all the way through",then he shows his bullet wound, standing there speaking to the camera matter of factly. Then you have people of today, who believe everything in the world should be microwave oven fast, with zero patience, who has as panic attack when their internet is down and has to find a safe place cuz words hurt!! This world needs an enema

[@jonnytightlips513]

Although I agree with your sentiment, it is not entirely accurate on the context of the Cold War. The paranoia that exsosts today is not the same as it was back then. These weapons systems were not only new, they were under continual development in their delivery systems and counter measures, the arms race is no where near what it was 60 years ago. The treat from the USSR was far greater than the threat from Russia today if we are talking about the possibility of all out nuclear war. Altbough we have had a conintued state of instability in the middle east this is not the same as the Proxy wars fought over containment and the spread of communism. With modern detection systems, satalite and cyber reconnaissance and counter threat the ability of a pre-emptive attack is all but impossible. This has only secured the mind set of MAD. Yes there is but has always been the possibility of terrorism but then we are talking about limited use of nuclear weapons not all out total war...

[@treypeters1087]

Write a book about it

[@GeneralSulla]

I was born in 1957. You are correct.