H Bomb: The Cold War Weapon That Could Wipe Out All Life | M.A.D World | Timeline

The Cold War: When nuclear weapons kept the entire world on the edge of M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction. As Russia, China and the USA flex their military muscles on the global stage today, ‘M.A.D. World’ takes a close look at the last time we were threatened by the might of world superpowers: The Cold War.
In this episode:
- The USSR holds Berlin to ransom by blocking all land routes into the city. Berlin is
saved by a continuous stream of aircraft flying in from the West bringing food, fuel and
other supplies.
- The small countries of Western Europe form a military alliance with the USA to protect
themselves from the enormous military might of the Soviet Union. The NATO agreement
states that if one member is attacked, then all signatories will defend that nation.
- The West is terrified to learn that the Russians have successfully tested their first
atomic bomb. Both sides now have the most terrifying weapons ever created; but no-one
wants to use them. The nuclear stalemate begins.
- South Korea is invaded by the communist North starting a 3 year war that will kill 10%
of the Korean people. United Nations forces are used in action for the first time to
defend South Korea and President Truman makes preparations to use atomic bombs if necessary to win the war.
- An atomic bomb a thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima creates horror and awe
when it is tested in the Pacific. The world now has a weapon that can wipe out almost
all life on the planet.
- As the frostiness of the Cold War sets in, both east and west are scared of losing military and government secrets to the other. A network of spies and defectors develops and
causes paranoia on both sides leading to show trials, imprisonment and assassinations.
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[@robertsontirado4478]

The scariest thing the world just came out of WWII and everyone has no problem starting WWIII. Mankind is very dangerous.

[@ritemolawbks8012]

You can't stop war by trying to appease a dictator that only understands strength.

[@billy6pack887]

@@ritemolawbks8012 Neither can you by trying to play world cop forever. There are no good guys this time.

[@killer0095]

@@billy6pack887 So, who started the war in Korea?

[@rickyrickardo3445]

@@killer0095 the victors are to blame as well as the Japanese.

[@killer0095]

@Ricky Rickardo so the North Koreans are off the hook? I get what you're saying, but this "America bad" take is very tiresome and it sometimes lets worse systems and governments get away with murder.

[@saltee_crcker2363]

I can't imagine witnessing one of those test detonations and not thinking 'my God, what have we done?'

[@johnoleary8948]

I think it's inevitable that we shall destroy ourselves one day and I have to say that I fear that day is not too far away. However,, may God forbid it to happen

[@petroleumalley]

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once in the sky, that would be the splendour of the mighty One”. Arjuna was terrified, and asks : ” Tell me, who are you ?”. Lord Krishna replies: “I am Death, the destroyer of worlds”. Oppenheimer studied Sanskrit and read the Mahabharata. He remembered those verses during the 1st test of an atomic bomb.

[@jasonwhite5125]

Ya might get to see one go off in your lifetime, the way things are shaping up😬😖🤷‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@techtinkerin]

Robert Oppenheimer a creator of the first nuclear device witnessed the first detonation on July 16, 1945, a piece of Hindu scripture ran through his mind: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”.

[@billyhack9673]

I did witness and that’s exactly what I thought: My God what have we wrought.

[@hollymartins6913]

My late uncle served in Korea and when he went overseas, he was twenty with black hair. When he returned to the states after his tour in combat, his hair had turned snow white. For the rest of his life, he had never displayed any other signs of PTSD, emotional or behavioral disorders. He was a remarkably easygoing and cheerful man, but I was always struck by that one stark reminder that my wonderful, kind, dependable uncle had witnessed horrific things that deeply affected him.

[@firstlast7090]

widens america

[@firstlast7090]

widens america

[@hollymartins6913]

@@firstlast7090 ?

[@jessielatta8244]

God Bless your Uncle X

[@wpankey57]

My daughter's two exes did that to me.

[@gooner72]

To give you all an idea of how powerful this 50 Megaton Tsar Bombe was........ the shock wave from the detonation actually travelled round the whole planet 3 times........... which is unbelievable!!!!

[@EShirako]

And at that, they only loaded it half-way. They thought that the full 100MT detonation would make too much of a fallout-mess even for them to show off with.

[@ymatT601]

I heard it was 7-8 times.

[@danielemasoli8268]

Non c'è limite nella bomba H

[@patrickvanrinsvelt4466]

My parents were friends with Edward Teller and I got the chance as a 17 year old teenager to have dinner with him when he stayed with us at our house. The conversation was simply staggering and a lot of questions I asked he made me help to answer them by asking further questions of me. He was a true educator.

[@JINNKARO]

Do you have proof to back it up. like a selfie?

[@patrickvanrinsvelt4466]

@@JINNKARO No. Mobiles weren't around at that time. Over 40 years ago.

[@violetzitola8385]

@@JINNKARO This can't possibly be a serious question.

[@someoneelse.2252]

He didn't happen to mention my name, did he?. I taught him arithmetic when he was a kid.

[@SuperAmin1950]

​@D D Day esq That was funny, but I'm sure the act was more like "Ulam & Teller - Fun and Fusion"¡☆! 🙃

[@marcothorsen950]

Mankind will never learn. It will all be gone sooner than you think it will. 🌍 💥

[@christophermeeks329]

My grandfather was in the Korean War, I just know he was in the navy and his nickname was "the kid". Sadly we just recently lost him, wish I could have talked to him about it.

[@theclown2393]

Sorry for your lost dude. My grandfather was a Navy's corpseman attached to the US Marines at the battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean war he passed away in 1997.

[@timcobos8954]

My uncle was in the Battle of the Bludge. I drilled him for all he knew. Once they are gone, it too late.

[@DizzyDrew987]

I literally have the same story

[@samanthabarry5817]

Sorry for your loss prayers sent

[@weiner1961]

Lost my Dad, who served in Korea 1950-51, 13 years ago this week, but I still remember our last conversation, about his time in the war and his leaves spent in Seoul...I was so lucky we had that chance to talk for over an hour, just before he was taken from us....

[@joelspaulding5964]

This was far more about the geopolitical machinations that occurred post-WWII-Vietnam than the H-bomb- but it was an excellent documentary nonetheless.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Thanks! Korea was the first time the US went over the UN when McArthur tried to conquer the whole peninsula. To be fair, it was his decision and Truman fired him. MacArthur was responsible for most of the 53K dead in that war.

[@DS-nw4eq]

Ahh… the machinations. A word people who don’t know what their talking about use to sound smart. Machinations… yes, of course.

[@grahamreid7017]

H Bomb: The Cold War Weapon That Could Wipe Out All Life | M.A.D World | Timeline. From the title I thought this would be about politics. It was. If it was titled "How does the H-bomb work and what are the consequences?" then you would have a point.

[@joelspaulding5964]

@DS-nw4eq It is indeed an SAT word. Thus, why you likely do not recognize it as legitimate and I and others are capable of properly employing it, some 40 years after that silly test; one that is so horribly skewed against the mentally feeble.

[@boobacockaa]

Don’t judge these “documentaries” too harshly, they can only splice together what they can steal from real shows. They probably recorded 5-min of original, amateur dialog, and then copied lots and lots of free footage .

[@malectric]

to me, scientists giving this kind of power to politicians to play with is totally irresponsible.

[@bryanrankin83]

If it can be made, someone will make it. If someone will make it, it had better be us. They’re terrible weapons and I wish they didn’t exist but they do.

[@IntellectOnly]

​@@bryanrankin83many have it. So mutual destruction which is good. Cause if just one had it either usa or soviets or Chinese, rest assured they will use it against the other. After all the USA was planning to nuke many sites in the ussr before they obtained it

[@IEdjumacate]

It’s a cautionary tale. The modern day version of the H bomb is AI. A technology with limits that we do not fully understand until it is unleashed on the world by those who have little regard for the consequences.

[@lmhmanninghotmail]

True, but so naive of you. It was inevitable. Sad but true

[@malectric]

@@lmhmanninghotmail Oh I know the inevitability of this. I am not being naive at all. Rather I'm stating my disappointment that it is so. Of course the American government funded the Manhattan Project so they called the shots so to speak. It was they who were naive in thinking that developing that technology would immunize the Western world from future threats. Naive too were those in government agencies who couldn't see the secrets being stolen from right under their noses.

[@Crashed131963]

TNT was the detonator for the A-Bomb. The A-Bomb was the detonator for the H-Bomb.

[@joeymurdazalotmore6355]

That's beyond insane to think of these physicists looking thru there gadgets making calculations n inventing these things, appreciate that gift to humanity from that generation there

[@huluqi3972]

It's time to make Bombs

[@tessierashpoolmg7776]

Gross oversimplification. Look up Ulam-Teller device.

[@joelspaulding5964]

@xtrmst_012 Just shows equal idiocy of a technology that relies on a dozen other technologies that had yet- and many have yet to be invented.

[@stevehicks8944]

TNT was not used in nuclear weapons because it wasn’t stable enough for long term storage; it degrades into fuller’s earth and nitroglycerin. HDX and MDX were developed as the “mirrors” in implosion type nuclear weapons because both explosives are stable enough to be machined to precise angles.

[@martiemc8398]

As a child in Newark, New Jersey, we had a local public school that had signs on it… “Fallout shelter“… Every Saturday morning at noon time there was a practice siren. I asked my mom what was that terrible scary sound. She gently told me that if we ever heard that sound to any other time that we were to rush to that public school a block or so away. She waited until I grow up to tell me more.😮

[@ChairmanMeow1]

Its an absolute miracle we made it through the cold war

[@Lengsel7]

Who said we made it? The world's far more dangerous than it ever was.

[@brucedillinger9448]

Dont kid yourself. The cold War still exists.

[@carlosgomez6687]

I’m surprised we survived Trump Can give that kinda power to an idiot

[@alanstrong55]

Glad it was not used on anyone. The radiation damage is too gruesome to even think about.

[@billyhack9673]

But thermonuclear weapons have been used twice. Radiation damage is not the half of it. Ever heard of fallout or nuclear winter? Or the Bikini atoll that still isn’t habitable?

[@johnsrous1616]

Radiation is one of those invisible things that you have no clue as to how deadly they can be if you breathe them in. When the Atomic Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan to end WW II the surrounding areas were still toxic in the 1980's. At LEAST! WW II ended in 1945.

[@brothercaleb]

“Glad it was not used on anyone…” Hiroshima… Nagasaki..🤷🏾‍♂️

[@IEdjumacate]

@@brothercaleb that was the atomic bomb. Highly devastating. Hydrogen bombs even more so. Those have not been used outside of tests.

[@brothercaleb]

@@IEdjumacate oh I see what you mean. Thanks

[@dodoubleg2356]

CORRECTION...The largest H bomb detonated was the 'Tsar Bomba.' HOWEVER, it wasn't 100 mega tons. Russia chose to scale it back by roughly half due to their belief in its destructive properties. The USSR grossly miscalculated its destructive radiation. Either that, or they just didn't care. That said, radiation spread far beyond their initial estimate. Very much enjoyed the vid though. 😉✌️

[@Roger-fs5yo]

Long live Chancellor Putin🙏

[@mad_cat_1st]

Our Castle Bravo was far dirtier. Our physicists screwed up and they STILL called the test a success.

[@shopsshire9282]

Thank you for pointing this out. It's like Americans conveniently forget Castle bravo wasn't the biggest h bomb ever detonated

[@martinsliepins6225]

From what ive heard it actually was one of the cleanest nukes ever detonated because its power meant that very little material ended up not reacting with hydrogen

[@gooner72]

Correction.........Andrei Sakharov and his team didn't go the max because they were concerned about the amount of fallout. To scale it back to the 50-ish Megatons, they used lead as the 3rd stage instead of the uranium-238 fission tamper....... a good idea if you ask me!!!!!

[@OmniGuy]

Who remembers doing the duck and cover drills in 1960s grade school?

[@LOTUG98]

They did that all the way up until 1980

[@thomasmyers9128]

We had them in the early 70’s also…. Then they started calling them “ tornado drill “

[@lorrycamill6502]

And again they did it in the Biden administration in New York duck and cover 🤣🤣🤣

[@lyncressler2608]

Me .. I grew up on Air Force bases. We had them often.

[@seeknord]

There was not such drills in the USSR and all my life (almost 70 years) I've never known where nearest shelter is.

[@mattbriody7575]

Thank you! please keep posting these!

[@RepentfollowJesus]

I had a friend who was in the Korean War. He was my old fishing buddy named Bill. He passed over 20years ago. Was close to someone who was in the Vietnam War but was stationed in Okinawa doing communications. No battle. Thank you to all military for their service.

[@ClintEastwoodenDoors]

Cool story Bro

[@billywild5440]

And also, thanks for the sacrifices they endured.

[@SpartacusErectusJR]

Cool story boomer

[@richard8242]

@@SpartacusErectusJR ok Squirt

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

​@@richard8242AHAHA!! These rascally kids today!!

[@arbaz79]

Excellent Documentary 👍. I really enjoyed watching it.I wish you could go in detail regarding the Tsar-Bomba since this documentary is regarding H-Bombs.Tsar Bomba(Hydrogen Bomb) is the most powerful nuke tested ever in the history of mankind so it deserved more coverage in this documentary.Nonethless I really enjoy watching your cold war documentaries.Keep it up 👍.

[@garrettbowman7213]

Then go find a doc on Tsar, there's plenty of them

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

​@@garrettbowman7213Tyvm

[@MoobDeep-jy9ch]

Царь бомба

[@colinstewart1432]

OK listen in. Tsar Bomba was originally designed to be a 100 megaton 3 stage weapon. As a Fission-Fusion-Fission device. Later, it's designers wisely decided to replace the 3rd stage with Lead pb. Exploded over Novaya Zemlya in Northern Russia, total yield of attenuated device was calculated at 58 megatons. Delivery was by Tupolev -95 Bear. The shockwave travelled round the earth several times and was still measurabl on it's 3rd circuit. That's all I know.

[@woutertje026]

46:00 what is he talking about? If he is mentioning the most powerful bomb, the tsar bomba, it’s not 100Mt but 56Mt. Thats 10x more powerful than all combined munitions used in WW2. I’m wondering where he got that information from.

[@501sqn3]

50 mgt.

[@iitzfizz]

Nice, I'd just about watched every other atomic bomb documentary.

[@CYMotorsport]

42:25 not sure what John means by “we”. He of course was not involved. Not even sir Oliphant on the fusion side as much as the fission side. His work on fusion pushed along the work of Teller. Which matters bc it was portrayed here as people involved who regretted their decision yet Oliphant had a much more direct hand in the atomic bombs in WWII. This was his POV as someone who developed the understanding for the fusion that would later be weaponized

[@jeffhack6839]

'WE' means 'them'! It is a 'big' club and we are not in it!!! Cheers.

[@killingmasheen]

The thing about Edward Teller is that fusion bombs had been an obsession of his going back to the Manhattan Project. He spent so much time working on the concept, he cut himself off from the rest of the Los Alamos team and contributed nothing to the development of the atomic bomb. All of Teller's ideas for a hydrogen bomb were primitive and unworkable until 1951 when Stanislaw Ulam handed him the solution and then went about claiming all the credit for himself.

[@CYMotorsport]

@@killingmasheen it’s probably safe to assume that NONE of the ideas for these weapons were their original creations haha we hired wernher von braun for gods sake. Buying and or stealing secrets was clearly copacetic

[@SPAZZYok]

"If there's two Americans left and one Russian, we still won" - General Curtis LeMay

[@Bearkiller72]

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[@SPAZZYok]

@@Bearkiller72 Some say he wanted to bait the Soviets into launching a nuclear strike. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWLanXaulrZggMU

[@brandonellisFLman]

I like that, I'm surprised I've never heard it. Also if there's 2 America's and 1 Russia, we still won 😉

[@Bearkiller72]

@@brandonellisFLman In the end it wouldn't matter. Poland will win. There's European Poles and the North & South Poles. Clear victory for Poland. 😁

[@andrewsingh7860]

It was General Thomas S. Power USAF who said that. In reply Professor William Kaufmann (RAND Corporation) said, "well, you'd better make sure they're a man and a woman."

[@topiyliharsila913]

I fear we are not that far from disaster in summer

[@ritemolawbks8012]

It's not anywhere close to happening. Nuclear weapons in war are only effective when only one nation has a monopoly.

[@rajveerkanojiya2985]

@@ritemolawbks8012 🤣

[@user-wz5ud4mn4y]

@@ritemolawbks8012 😂🤣😂🤡

[@ritemolawbks8012]

@@user-wz5ud4mn4y You're an incel troll with no communication skills. Slow down with the random tagging.

[@ritemolawbks8012]

@@user-wz5ud4mn4y I've got to use the KZbin mute feature for waisting server space. Finish the conversation with my online ghost.

[@missthang4982]

What a wicked, wicked world this truly is.💔

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Missy, it's that 1% high-functioning psychopaths we keep giving birth to!! They cause ALL OUR PROBLEMS!!!

[@stanzanossi]

I always wonder if women were in charge of the world, would the world be a more peaceful place, or just as bad? Or maybe even worse?! Could I please get some opinions here!!!😮

[@siggyretburns7523]

As Man expands in population, so does his faults. If it wasn't for his faults, the expansion would be greater. So, we can either take it as a plus or a minus.

[@siggyretburns7523]

@@stanzanossi I imagine everything would be sweet as sugar...until day 28 and there's a shortage on Mydol.

[@tkskagen]

Next to our "battle" in Vietnam, North Korea was the most "Unnecessary" loss of human life...😿

[@wayfaerer320]

I'd argue World War I was the most unnecessary loss of life in history...the most pointless war of all modern wars...Vietnam and Korea don't even come close.

[@corey2232]

Tell that to the South Koreans who were invaded with intent of being conquered... Thankfully, that was prevented, and South Korea has gone on to become a prosperous nation that has contributed greatly to the world. Meanwhile, the Kim regime still in power in North Korea, has slowly run the country into the ground. The only thing that kept them afloat was USSR funds, but after their collapse, they had invested nothing in their own sustainability.

[@brcarter1111]

What is it that governs human behaviour? Is it reason? Morality? Beliefs and attitudes? No. Fear is what keeps our behaviour in check. Sadly, I believe that MAD and organizations like NATO are the only thing that prevent us from ripping eachother to pieces.

[@bryancoats5328]

George Blake was one of the most damaging double agents during the Cold War.

[@tkuzek]

40 minutes, give or take, about a Korean war and then we have few minutes about the actual H bombs. misleading title to say the least.

[@RatCrapper2]

these weapons can wipe out all life on earth if used properly

[@skrynnskrylla3897]

I don't even think they have to use them properly at this point!!

[@thedivinemissm7795]

There flat out is no proper use of these, ever!

[@ricklayeux5688]

If not for nuclear weapons WW3 would have already happened. But the pressure is mounting.

[@spankflaps1365]

(Obligatory bad take) - The Hydrogen bomb. An elegant weapon, for a more civilised age.

[@kazkk2321]

It is an elegant weapon indeed. I would not mind dying in its own ale rather than living in its aftermath

[@lorrycamill6502]

Better die then live and suffer

[@maddmattakadrockbokdragon970]

Ahhh yes. The international poker game where everyone is cheating.

[@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858]

As my old professor once said when you see two sunsets that's the time to worry

[@johnsrous1616]

Pink Floyd added a song to that: "Two Suns In The Sunset", the last track on their album The Final Cut. Check out the song if you're a fan of PF.

[@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858]

@@johnsrous1616 I will thanks

[@JG-mg3if]

Love History, this documentaries are very informative and sad at the same time. Humanity is doomed, all this wars. From the past to the current and future ones. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@northerniltree]

If we discovered sticks, the Russians soon found stones. Escalation until oblivion is a natural course amongst us higher evolved beings.

[@Jumpingjackflash123]

Arms race.

[@dannylance5212]

History is violent..

[@johnchester7476]

Gee,this is a subject that Hollywood could make a bunch of heartwarming movies about !!!🌋⚡🌠

[@ShiyoneKenyo]

I just love the jet engine sound effects....

[@tomernst8595]

good program but the title is completely misleading-52 minute show and less than 10 pertaining to H bomb. C’mon, Timeline.

[@JCMills55]

I as a tech in the USAF on the nuclear Minuteman ICBM's. Amazing what they were doing with 60's technology.

[@Crashed131963]

ICBMs still the king of the mountain today. And they were always hypersonic.

[@aemrt5745]

@@Crashed131963 I would argue Boomer Subs are the King of the Hill. Unlike ICBM silos, they are almost impossible to target, and would survive a surprise first strike.

[@Crashed131963]

@@aemrt5745 B But it is the Trident 2 ICBM that makes the Boomer sub dangerous.

[@aemrt5745]

@@Crashed131963 Ah! Good point and my mistake. I only considering land based from your post.

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

As a documentary they should try to be as accurate as possible. Nuclear launches can not occur with the push of a single button- that’s a very rhetorical statement. Any use of that weaponry (from every state power that has nukes, afaik) requires a chain of command. safeguards and separate launch authorizations are required along each step. No single push of a button will do it.

[@johnshields6852]

In 1966 my first day of school in Boston we'd pledge allegiance to the USA then have drills for incoming Russian nukes, they told us since we were east coast city we'd be one of the first hit. Welcome to the world children.

[@ldub288]

yep, i remember that in elemetary school as a kid, crouched under my desk with my hands over my head

[@hblance238]

Great documentary but change the title. It's misleading. This isn't about the H-Bomb, it's about the Cold War. The H-Bomb isn't even mentioned until 42 minutes in.

[@richardring272]

For some reason I find it difficult to wrap my head around the H bomb. It looks like special effects on TV. I have trouble believing that something like this exists.

[@johnanderson591]

😢 Live under a rock ?

[@damioncollins6097]

Mankind built nuclear weapons, but no mouse would build a mousetrap -Albert Einstein

[@michaelblankenau6598]

That's because mice don't have opposable thumbs .

[@adamfrazer5150]

Sidebar : John Higginbotham would clean up doing Scott Glenn voice overs 👍

[@GG-sr5ty]

All this energy and time to build more and more deadly bombs but reasonable time and energy was placed into ways to counteract or cancel them. Very weird and sad world we live in.

[@geraldfahey2681]

You got THAT right!

[@six159]

Nah its not weird at all once you understand the goals of zionism.

[@geraldfahey2681]

@@six159 DY NO MITE!

[@kingofthesolarsystem]

“We must’ve screwed up somewhere” -metcalf relative. 48:48 I should be getting paid for this

[@alcaldealer8515]

What chemical did mikes add to get rid of the natural freezing you feel when something’s cold?

[@christophergreen3809]

"Military secrets are the most fleeting of all..." Spock, Star Trek: The Enterprise Incident.

[@jasc4364]

Are there documentaries about the technical intricacies of nuclear bombs? You know things like hohlraum, initiators, tamper plug, pusher, lithium deuteride, radiation case, ablation … Just curious. There are more than enough documentaries about the cold war history, Hiroshima horror …

[@michaellehman1549]

For a history of the technical aspects of the Manhattan Project, there is a thorough, excellent one authored by Lillian Hoddeson and her colleagues, "Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Richard Rhodes also authored a couple of excellent wider histories of the development of fission and fusion weapons that are more widely focused, but also cover much of the technical history.

[@Shadow__133]

And this is how you join a watchlist! 😂

[@kevinvideos7020]

The worst thing I did as a kid in the 80's was to learn about nuclear weapons as an 8 year old. Oh the nightmares. When the Berlin wall and then the Soviet Union fell it was a huge relief for my teenage sleep.

[@stanzanossi]

Yes, Kevin, but both the Russians and the Americans still have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out the whole planet ten times over! Knowing this, you are about to start having those nightmares again!!!😮

[@kevinvideos7020]

@@stanzanossi No, because I'm not a child now. Why would I have nightmares over the possibility of nuclear war as an adult? Concerns, of course, but not the nightmares of a child. Besides, I'm cynical and jaded enough at this point I'd almost consider it a relief. Figuring how close I live to a primary target in an opening attack I've already decided that should we get a warning of an impending strike I'll try to get as close as I can to the target so I don't have to worry about a post apocalyptic world.

[@stanzanossi]

​@@kevinvideos7020 I just received your comment 22 minutes ago, regarding the comment I made about your original comment! I think we could agree, Kevin, that most people as adults, including myself, become more jaded and cynical as we grow older! However, I am not so certain that if I somehow found out a nuclear missile was heading for the city of Toronto, Canada, where I live, and would completely wipe out the city, together with myself, that I would not have the absolute worst nightmare I ever had tonight!!! I do not know what country you are from, but what an irony to be writing about big explosions! At this very moment, people here are celebrating Canada Day, the equivalent of July 4 in the U.S.A.. I can hear loud explosions from fireworks and firecrackers being set off!😮

[@kevinvideos7020]

@@stanzanossi Happy Canada Day! I'm listening to fireworks from people getting started on Independence Day celebrations here in the United States. I'm not sure when you sent your comment but I got a notification about it the same day I replied. Anyways, enjoy the holiday.

[@stanzanossi]

​@@kevinvideos7020 I received your latest message to me about 30 minutes ago! I also wish you a Happy Independence Day! Most of my father's relatives live in Boston! You Americans put on a much better show on July 4, than we Canadians do on our national day!!! Here we just have pathetic fireworks shows, and our prime minister gives a public speech in our capital city of Ottawa! Talk about being " jaded" about something! When I was a little kid, the first fireworks I saw absolutely enthralled me! Over the years as I saw more and more fireworks, they were no longer so exciting for me! Are you getting our wonderful forest fire smoke where you live? A few days ago, the smoke from these forest fires reached as far as New York City!!! Speaking of nuclear weapons again, I would not be surprised if President Biden made the decision to nuke Canada as revenge! We also send you the cold in the winter, because those cold winds come mainly from our Arctic regions! If you Americans do not want to be a little more compassionate with us, and do not want to blast us with hydrogen bombs, what you could do instead is to just invade us with convential military forces! Let me see, all you would probably need is about 3 tanks, a few jeeps carrying 9 or 10 U.S. marines, and maybe a howitzer or two! You would probably defeat Canada in one afternoon, because we are still using horse cavalry here, biplanes from World War One, and muskets from the War of 1812! That is why Canada is always spoken of as a peaceful country, we have hardly any good weapons with which to get violent! ( Oh, I forgot! I could donate my old slingshot I still have from my boyhood days, and just maybe we could keep fighting you for at least a whole day!😊😅😂

[@tkskagen]

Why isn't there a PNTO (Pacific Nations Treaty Organization)? Or would a "Global Organization) be still be considered to be U.N.?

[@sabishiihito]

5:11 just to interject a bit of levity to such a dour topic, doesn't that guy look like MCU Steve Rodgers before the syrum??

[@robertboyle2573]

This is a documentary about the cold war, not the hydrogen bomb.

[@lorrycamill6502]

And this is why USA 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺 must respect each other for safety of all people All Lives Matters ☮️

[@bogusmogus9551]

Not according to BLM. Remember, all animals are equal, but some animals are MORE equal than others.

[@paulgram3967]

Weapons of Mass Extinction coming to a Nightmare near you, mankind has always used the weapons it has created.

[@DmoCommercialDevelopment]

imagine witnessing one of those test detonations

[@stevenmartin6473]

Innaccurate as the first thermonucler explosion was 1952 not 54

[@shawnydAB]

Not 1949 is ussr?

[@stevenmartin6473]

@@shawnydAB eh?

[@ritemolawbks8012]

@@shawnydAB That was an atomic bomb in 1949.

[@clamsoup]

People are scary.

[@calebshuler1789]

The man who invented the h bomb, wanted vengeance for his family

[@user-tc5sl6bu8l]

Great series

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

The first time I was in the presence of a nuclear weapon I stood with my hand on it, thinking. After a minute my guide said “everyone does that”.

[@luisvelez5695]

There were people living on those Islands . it was not far away from people , far away from white people is what he meant

[@bogusmogus9551]

yeah, they were 'moved' to nearby islands. They were also told they could go back in a couple of weeks. Almost 70 years later no-one can live there because of the radiation. They can visit for a few hours, that's all.

[@CMario73]

8:34 when Truman says about something "that is absolutely untrue", you can be sure that it is actually absolutely true. And for all the others US presidents after him is just the same.

[@ShikataGaNai100]

Excellent video, except for one thing...the common misconception that someone presses a button. There are no buttons. What you do is turn a key with your partner in the Minuteman launch control capsule, which casts a vote with two other clusters which only then initiates the launch. Like I said, there is NO BUTTON, just keys.

[@gordonspond8223]

00:30 Oh yes... The model of the Atomium in Brussels is really relevant in this context. Might as well show the Eiffel tower... 🤪

[@nirv]

Haha

[@tulpfiction9522]

Thought this was a video on h bomb?😊

[@bogusmogus9551]

I thought it was about how to build one. From various household items

[@kevindarrell3500]

I apologize for my previous comment. It was meant for a totally different channel. I absolutely love this channel and please disregard my previous comment. Again, my true apologies.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Informative documentary coverage about political, military, and technology capabilities of USA 🇺🇸 & and its competitive USSR) circumstances of H bomb designed...I spotted 1- Real name of UN from binging was ( united of world states).2- ( UN) was domesticated by US for USA 🇺🇸 partials politically & militarily. 3- NATO was united of capitalized ( democracy) states not (free nations).4- When USSR designed its first atomic bombs prototype at 1949 .. USA 🇺🇸 delivered its ready-made atomic bombs to Japan, Hawaii, Turkey, and Italy at 1950 ... So the USA 🇺🇸 was an aggressive side & and USSR, a weaker side selected non atomic weapons wars around the world 🌎 failed to approached its goals ..British intelligences exploited communism parties against Nazism invaders in western European countries during WW2. While USA 🇺🇸 intelligences made capitalize states in Western European countries from latecomered Nazism & fascism organizational individuals after WW2..& named them (Free nations)..

[@JhonnySerna]

Given the admittedly sad existence of nuclear weapons, it is actually a good course of action that multiple countries posses these weapons. It assures that the possessors will think twice before using them.

[@popeyedoyle6360]

rrrright

[@brucedillinger9448]

The more there are the higher the chances are that some country/leader, who is willing to use them, will obtain one or more. And them what?

[@stanzanossi]

Yes, Johnny, but we could have an accidental nuclear war!!! This almost happened several times!!!😮

[@IEdjumacate]

@@brucedillinger9448 mutually assured destruction. It’s the title of the video.

[@kirstyc2176]

@@IEdjumacate what if the leader is suicidal? then it doesn't work does it?

[@Aranjuez44]

So, where do I see the following up episode????

[@andrewbetrosian2784]

Damn shame, I've had to worry about this for 61 years and getting sick of it.

[@steelballrunner636]

I think it's inaccurate to say it could wipe out "all life". Humanity and civilization may die out (even then some of us could survive in places like South America), but surely life in general would live on, especially simplistic organisms such as bacteria. Radiation generally affects more complex creatures more and since we are so much more complex than most of life on earth, we are more drastically affected by radiation.

[@Crashed131963]

The unlucky humans will survive WW3. Watch the movie "The Road", It maybe like that.

[@mehmetdenek5830]

A nuclear bomb is a hoax. The bombs used in Japan were "carpet bombs". They burned cardboard houses made of rice husk. Reinforced concrete buildings and temples, and bridges remained standing, and the people in them survived. (You can look at the photos taken at that time with an image search) Since these have emerged, it seems that "so-called documentaries" have started to be made again with the aim of "frightening".

[@Crashed131963]

@@mehmetdenek5830 And the world is flat and man never went to the moon blah blah . we get it already.

[@sexynelson100]

I think when they say that they are referring to all global nuclear stockpiles put together

[@1pcfred]

No the radioactive fallout will kill everything. Ionizing radiation destroys life on a cellular level.

[@ronniekelly6654]

Churchill and Roosevelt were aware how dangerous Stalin's USSR was but unfortunately Roosevelt died before the end of the war and his replacement Truman didn't understand the threat Stalin posed. Truman went behind Churchill's back and thought he could get the better of the other man. He was so wrong, USSR were so adept at spying that when Truman announced that USA had split the atom and had nuclear power and the weapons they were shocked by the lack of surprise, what Truman didn't know was how this secret program was totally infiltrated by Soviet spies. Truman should have listened to Churchill he knew what a threat USSR was.

[@benjackson1077]

Please post the next episode soon

[@SAUBER_KH7]

Heads up @TimelineChannel, you posted this episode twice already. Here's the other one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH_Xe3l4mquMh9E

[@lilblackduc7312]

It appears they're attempting to earn 'Double-Dip' clicks!

[@SAUBER_KH7]

@@lilblackduc7312 lol

[@BlackWhiteEagle]

😮USSR and Russia are not the same thing. People who lived in USSR were called Soviets, not Russians.

[@aemrt5745]

Agree. The Soviet Union had many nonRussian populations. But, during the Cold War, it was common parlance in the West to use Soviet and Russian interchangeably.

[@SubvertTheState]

@@aemrt5745 During the 2020s, it's also common to say "Russians" when referring to Soviet Union geopolitical action as well as atrocities the Soviet Union had committed. The subconcious formation of views and perspectives, driving of fear and hatred, continues even now. Even more now as the corporate state is in everyone's pocket, it has the people's attention constantly. All that you need in that case is to deny or ignore the West's crimes while amplifying and repeating alleged crimes by the ENEMIES of NATO and the west. I save propoganda from right before and during wars, it looks absurd now. Yet we keep falling for the same BS. Year after year, "It's different this time, THEY really are evil and a threat to Democracy"

[@royrice8021]

Comfort in numbers: Dying with 8 billion other people……? 😳😳😳

[@shanesillen9150]

Ivy Mike the first detonation of a thermonuclear device was in 1952 not 1954.

[@thomasmcqueeney6877]

That Tsar Bomba was to big and heavy. The Soviets never could have used it .it damaged the plane that dropped it, nearly wrecked it

[@Peekabye]

Even the soviets back then wasn’t that maniacal compared to every political leader now with their nukes!

[@aemrt5745]

From what I remember hearing (I am not a Nuclear Physicist) there is theoretically no limit to the size of an H-Bomb. The Tzar Bomb was impractical, but was meant to be a show of force and technical prowess.

[@bogusmogus9551]

Yeah, the pilot never flew again. They reduced the yield from the original 100 MT to 56MT because they were worried about it going out of control, like the US Castle Bravo test

[@April-tm7uv]

Please drop one now to end all this chaos

[@xia0b0iix]

Drop in your country please

[@Jhayzer021]

Drop 5 Tsar Bomba without the limited on China, that would be a blast.

[@danielknudsen7871]

03:40 i now understand Borat’s Living standards

[@adrianh332]

Inspite of its unfortunate acronym mutually assured destruction has kept the peace for 75+ years.

[@labrat2069]

Once upon a time in a galaxy far away six US cargo planes on a top secret mission flew over the artic with nuclear bomb technology and hardware to the Soviet Union for the purpose of jump starting their nuclear weapon program. . 😮

[@timcobos8954]

Two Navajos saw the 1st Atomic blast plume in the distance and one said to the other, "I wish I had said that!" If you don't understand the humor, keep trying.

[@mwhitelaw8569]

Not funny But it's funny Ya know ya know

[@lilblackduc7312]

..🤣 😂

[@bettyboop-xg6jo]

🤣

[@lilblackduc7312]

@@redcloudshaman2509 There was a tribe from Atlanta named, "Slap-a-Hoe". 😳

[@MatthewBookof2]

Took the smoke right out of his blanket…

[@Marcel.VanStaden-sm5cp]

Thanks!

[@ioanbota9397]

OMG its so powerful I cant believe

[@andrewvanorden2336]

It's not an "unthinkable decision" he already did it twice in Japan bruh

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Yup, it is about time to remind our dimwitted leaders....

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Tried History Hit, why do you not put this content there. Honestly, there’s more HH content on KZbin than there is there, it’s like 75% podcasts. Won’t renew it, little value, do better.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

43;19 imprinted rupter point of pressure tear

[@Thunderhead357]

The clock is ticking. 90 seconds to midnight at this point closer than it's ever been. If or when the clock ticks down to 10 seconds before midnight would it be too late for any peaceful resolve? We look to the sky. Our very existence will be in Gods hands 🙏

[@HyBr1dRaNg3r]

While McCarthy may have gone a bit too far, it doesn’t change the fact that he was right…

[@kaleidoset2569]

No he wasn't because the process he was backing pretty much just made us the same as what we were developed to not be and at that point you might as well just be exactly like the people that you're trying to accuse them of being if that makes any sense. There comes a point where you're no better than the next guy if you can just proclaim to be the only genius that knows exactly the answers and put anybody in jail who even remotely ever thought about looking at the other side that is as anti American As It Gets

[@stevenlarratt3638]

The ussr has the largest military in the world... as long as they drive around the block a few times

[@abdelmalekmetidji]

They literally hade 3,8M soldiers 20k tank and 100k artillery pieces from all types , what are you talking about ??

[@huberticusrex]

@@abdelmalekmetidji yeah how'd that work out?

[@stevenlarratt3638]

@@abdelmalekmetidji if you know you know...

[@bogusmogus9551]

@@abdelmalekmetidji Red square parade

[@stephenhardy312]

Your film omits to mention that the UK acquired nuclear weapons in the 1950's (fission in 1952 and fusion in 1957). France acquired them in 1960.

[@stanzanossi]

Pakistan and India and Israel and North Korea have them now too!!! 😮

[@johnnls94]

Something beautiful about nukes

[@AmericaIsEvil]

I don't know the against whom nature will fight ww5 but it's probably gonna be against those who survived ww4 with their sticks and stones...lol

[@Hunter_Nebid]

🤦🏼‍♂️

[@DrDoke]

WW6 was fought with ninja stars and whips.

[@g_y.rtz420]

And we'd have developed gundams for ww7

[@benharris8790]

You stole that from Einstein

[@brucegoodall3794]

Getting a little ahead of yourself there son; we're still waiting for WW 3. If that happens you won't have to worry about WW 4. It'll never happen.

[@firbolg1581]

my granddad is in this vid. he got to push the button. he said in the railroad, we pray to jesus before meals and dynamite, and during the cold war, they blew an island off the map.

[@Cheka__]

We should put every nuclear weapon in the world into a big net and fling them into the sun.