How did China Get Nukes? (Short Animated Documentary)

China was country number five to acquire nuclear weapons. However, when it began this process it was not exactly in a strong position having just been damaged by a civil war, cut off by its closest ally and suffering economic ruin. Which makes the fact that China acquired nuclear weapons all the more interesting. But how did China do it? How did China get nukes? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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[@moosesandmeese969]

"Turns out you can't just demand science be achieved" Lmao

[@sonoftheway3528]

lMao

[@navb0tactual]

Lmao Zedong

[@megasun]

But science were achieved by demand, a few years later, and longer time they took in India, Pakistan, N.Korea etc.

[@Cigmacica]

Le Mao the dong

[@Jppen]

@@Obnyr the science on humanity's negative impact on the environment and what to do about it is pretty clear, mate.

[@Diego_i]

the characters jumping on the daisy field gets me every single time

[@yacine778]

Me too, it's just so hilarious 🤣🤣

[@irasingh2498]

🏐Serch Aditya Rathore - He also makes informative content like history matters

[@saeta]

Yeah! Like lices jumping on your heads hair... Ohhhhh nevermind

[@Elitist20]

And the side-eye - is this the first time they've been combined?

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@Elitist20 soon!

[@jonesbbq307]

One crazy fact is that the Chinese scientists did all the calculations of the nuclear physics using abacuses.

[@wangtianba]

because China can't afford a national computer back then. And China call thousands of Chinese scientists from all over the world back to China.

[@jonesbbq307]

@muhammad noor yes

[@jonesbbq307]

@muhammad noor the more impressive part is China is the fastest country in the world to go from nuke to hydrogen bomb. All with wooden beads as computers

[@bamboo7714]

It would be abaci.

[@Nerdnumberone]

Did they not have slide-rule technology?

[@ribaldi]

One of the chief scientists that helped progressed the nuke in China and later was considered the father of their rocketry program was shipped back from the US. Qian Xuesen was this scientist. He was a graduate from MIT and later joined the Manhattan Project. He was also one of the three scientists that drafted the document naming JPL. But during the Red Scare, he was accused of being a Communist Sympathizer and was under house arrest. He was finally allowed to return to China in 1955 supposedly as part of a prisoner exchange program for downed pilots from Korean War. In hind sight, this could be considered a serious mistake.

[@deutschthomas2751]

Qian is the representative of a lot of CN scientists who answer the call of the PRC for researching for the nation(including nuke and rocketry) and then travel back to CN from western countries like US, later they often become the founder of the research on a lot of scientific disciplines in CN

[@stevemc01]

POV: You kicked the quiet kid out of class because of an allegory and he returns the next day with an unusually heavier backpack

[@leafmedal]

cant Chinese people return home ？

[@kenn8924]

He was falsely accused, harassed and reprimanded. He even had high-profile peers and friends that vouched for him. But the US was in the middle of the Red Scare and fucked him over anyway, and in the end it was basically "if you're gonna keep calling me a Chinese sympathizer then I'll just leave"

[@riza-2396]

​@@stevemc01 There were way more weirdos than him, being a quiet Chinese guy in the few people who created Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab isn't really a strange thing, comparing to one of those people who was actually a Satanist occult believer who did the rocket with evil rituals.

[@ahmedmuawia2447]

"But Mao wasn't interested in safety, Mao was interested in proceeding" I love this channel.

[@thegreatergood8081]

"So what if I starved a bunch of my people to death?"

[@whitezombie10]

Me too

[@luisquartin9244]

Followed by "Nau"

[@carlrevans]

If I may paraphrase a catchphrase from another KZbin history channel, "The Chinese scientists had not yet learned how to make nuclear weapons. This upset their Chairman, who punished them severely."

[@ecurewitz]

safety is for wussies, duh!

[@zeevox1628]

"Mao wasn't interested in safety, Mao was interested in *proceeding* "

[@bruhmomentgaming]

Oh I get the "Great leap Forward"

[@zenzej]

i did not get the joke, whats with the portugeese galeon?

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

Basically China today

[@zjzr08]

Probably one of my favorite "I'm looking at you" skits ever hehe.

[@bmyers7078]

@@zenzej : linguistic pun. Old Portuguese sailboats were called “Nau”. (Sounds like “now “).

[@kirovfactory]

The US and Soviet both had implosion-type plutonium bomb. China's first A-bomb is an implosion-type uranium device, which surprised the US intelligence as they assumed it will be a gun type plutonium bomb which is simpler and more lenient for design and making. "nuclear sub-marine, even it takes 10,000 years, we must build it by ourselves." -Mao Zedong That's how determined China was to go independent from Soviet manipulation.

[@raindroplee8394]

Mao once said ‘in struggle we win peace, in compromise we lose peace’. Well, the current world proves that he was right.

[@adog3129]

didn't the us try both plutonium and uranium?

[@TSERJI]

did he really say that?

[@Danarogon]

I like how Mao's no "safety, just proceed" policy summoned the old Portuguese Empire from its slumber.

[@AleexGod]

He said `now´ as he put a ship in the background which is called nao in spanish which is pronunced basically the same xd so clever hahha

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

@@AleexGod Ohhh thats why they showed that Portuguese Caravel

[@gajonoob5122]

​@@AleexGodand "nau" in Portuguese...

[@gajonoob5122]

​​@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 nono thats the "nau", you can tell that by the squared sails while the caravel has triangular sails

[@heavyharris5580]

"China will grow larger." - Chinese Dozer, Command and Conquer: Generals

[@trafichat]

ayyy

[@dude2991]

"We stand together!" - Chinese basic infantry

[@TomSistermans]

I. Am. Big. - Overlord Tank, Command and Conquer: Generals

[@BigFatWow]

I build for China.

[@yannick6116]

Behold, the bringer of light.. - Nuke Cannon Command and Conquer: Generals

[@eggy6815]

USSR: now that you have nuclear weapons, we’ll be close allies. China: USSR: We’ll be close allies, right?

[@lukemurray4950]

They are close allies lol

[@ginch8300]

@@lukemurray4950 No they're not, the USSR doesn't exist anymore.

[@andrew7taylor]

China: Ping pong diplomacy

[@TalesOfGod]

It's hilarious how the Chinese was the biggest concern for the USSR and how the USSR was dumb enough to give them what was necessary to make nuclear weapons to "appease" them. The USSR knew the difference between the US and China's leadership and that was the dumbest decision they could possibly make.

[@lukemurray4950]

@@ginch8300 ha ha funny.

[@LuciusJose2]

That "nau" / "now" joke was the best thing I've seen all week. Thanks for the tickle. I needed that

[@jshooa4840]

Timestamp?

[@user-zy8cy6hn6o]

1:35 this might be the best and most niche visual gag you've done yet. "Nau" is the Portuguese word for a Carrack and you just couldn't resist putting it in for a fraction of a second to replace "Now". I hope you read this to know that someone caught this joke.

[@connorgolden4]

I love getting answers for the questions I never thought about.

[@timmerk7363]

For a change, I was actually expecting this video at some point, after GB, France, South Africa and Ukraine.

[@idkkk1825]

Same

[@jamesmeppler6375]

That's the best kind of facts. Like did you know a smoke alarm works by sending out a tiny electric field via a small radioactive material like cobalt or americium. The smoke interrupts the flow of electricity from the detector making it go off.. I live for random facts

[@michael04__806]

same

[@sicsempertyrannisvi4107]

Rather do my own research and find out that through lend-lease USSR acquired much of the needed materials, supplemented with much stolen information through people like the Rosenbergs, and after it had the bomb it gave the tech to china. Perhaps contrary to popular belief people are not going to learn that by watching a three minute video.

[@justinian-the-great]

Since History Matters already did "How did ____ country get nukes?" for USSR, Britain, France and now China we need the answers to the same question for India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea!

[@yj9032]

Israel?

[@neph9205]

I'm still pretty sure that North Korea has a 50% chance to nuke itself though

[@teatimegaming971]

@@yj9032 Israel says they don’t have nukes, but they likely do

[@neph9205]

@@yj9032 Nothing official. Its expected but theyve denied it so far

[@mayukhmitra5819]

How did USSR get Nukes video was there? I couldn't find it.

[@hungwaingai268]

The fact that it's a history video about China getting nukes but didn't mention Qian Xuesen is just SAD.

[@Crosshair84]

It's a 3 minute cartoon. There's only 3 people mentioned by name in the entire video. All of them leaders of their respective countries. They don't get into the specific details.

[@skunkrat01]

"Press button for boom" is my favourite of the many many many hilarious signs you've done

[@462Designs]

Was suggested for a long time and we finally got it. Looks like the patrons wanted it. Nice, there is a new Nikita Khrushchev model. Also I get the reference at the 1:36 mark. It's a reference to a type of ship from Portugal called a Nau.

[@nightsurvivor3673]

oh so that's what it was. Thx!

[@marcobusca6300]

@462 Designs What does the reference mean?

[@4thzone697]

@@marcobusca6300 now

[@hongxiuquan69]

Darn, I thought it was a nod to the Portuguese word "não".

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

Dang they’re even in Civilization 5 as a signature Portuguese unit. Funny- thanks for catching as it slipped by me

[@StickWithTrigger]

"When building nukes , safety is more like a guideline than actual rules"-Sun Tzu

[@NickThePilotUSA]

thats what v2 is for

[@StickWithTrigger]

@@NickThePilotUSA This twisted game needs to be reset

[@yaboiiiiiiiiiiiii]

Thought it was Confucius

[@luckyman9457]

@@yaboiiiiiiiiiiiii nah that was Plato

[@sunrisings292]

"I never imagined I would be a meme". --- Sun Tzu.

[@kaypz]

I love all your animations. While learning a lot about history through serious information, the character and animation are quite hilarious

[@andilesehlangu6245]

I love how you add comedy to history, makes it fun. Thanks for the amazing content

[@DanielPereira-mq3dq]

Ok, as a portuguese I must say I greatly appreciate the "Nau" joke.

[@Deltaflot1701]

ok, That bit makes more sense now. Thank you.

[@mpbdagema3126]

Navegar é preciso, viver não é preciso... Será que veio dali a ideia?

[@DanielPereira-mq3dq]

@@mpbdagema3126 segundo o todo poderoso Google, a etimologia de nau vem do latim nauem, por isso Nau

[@renatopinto3186]

@@UlisesHeureaux well, shut up then.

[@UlisesHeureaux]

@@renatopinto3186 Why so rude? I didn't even mean to offend anyone.

[@NotRelated2Ryne]

1:34 I genuinely felt terrified for a 2 dimensional scientist

[@joetrump2983]

*shows a random Portuguese ship next sec*

[@marbl3d45]

Bruh people are scared of nothing nowadays

[@paleoph6168]

@@joetrump2983 Mao turned into a nau 💀

[@AwdryFan1997]

Can we mention just how far the animation of this series has come? This is art.

[@dxtrum]

You really pumping this videos out Great job bro 👌

[@TheGentlemanDragon]

"This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!" I just got the reference with the 2 ghosts and guy dressed as Nute Gunray. This channel is great 😂

[@kr8771]

I was wondering where I knew that fancy headwear from. Thanks for the clarification ;)

[@louisduarte8763]

Ghosts? I think those were holograms.

[@twothreebravo]

Thank you! I knew it was a Phantom Menance reference but I couldn't put my finger on it

[@roberthara1603]

Was looking in the comments for this aswell, now I get it lol. I was pretty bumbed out that I seem to be missing the star wars joke.

[@bluesbest1]

@@twothreebravo I couldn't figure out what the fancy hat was. At first I thought it was the emperor or Queen Amidala.

[@theemissary1313]

"But Mao wasn't interested in safety, Mao was interested in proceeding" is possibly the best delivered line of dialogue I have ever heard on this channel.

[@Marinealver]

🇨🇳

[@bneymanov]

It's a monologue tho.

[@supermaster2012]

@@bneymanov not if you press the like button, then you're communicating with James Bisonett

[@aagamjain1395]

@@supermaster2012 no I want kelly moneymaker!

[@speedy1through943]

Seeing how one of their nuclear power plant is leaking radio active waste , that quote makes sense

[@richardstewart7324]

The animation makes these so good love these!

[@Numba003]

Lol another nifty video; and that Portuguese ship pun in there was glorious! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)

[@Ares-2737]

The "Nau" joke was superb!

[@timmccarthy872]

Is THAT what that was??? I was wondering!

[@afonsodealbuquerque1879]

@@timmccarthy872 "Nau"(sounds like now) is a old Portuguese word for ship/boat.

[@sakshamrai1803]

@@afonsodealbuquerque1879 in hindi as well

[@chompythebeast]

@@afonsodealbuquerque1879 Latin "navis"

[@sergicb1533]

@@afonsodealbuquerque1879 in catalan is nau as well

[@srgyeetus670]

1:36 "Mao wasnt intrested in safety Mao was intrested in proceding" *Procedes to show a random portugese ship from the 1700's*

[@Toonrick12]

It's a Nau.

[@Pat-Van-Canada]

I have been wondering about this for a long time! thanks!

[@rlolaislijhtw]

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes the world will tremble" - Napoleon Boneparte (allegedly)

[@karlk7070]

Did napoleon say this? Could you introduce it a bit?

[@Ilikepie18855]

Japanese said the same. Luckily emperor xixip is awake

[@AD-xi9hy]

"Leave the Morioris be" Polynesian Prince once said... Fat lot of good that did when slaughtering Moaris are on the loose...

[@rlolaislijhtw]

@@AD-xi9hy who are moaris?

[@AD-xi9hy]

@@rlolaislijhtw Oh sorry I meant MONGOLS....That's what Maoris are...

[@piercepayumo4212]

How did China Get Nukes? China: "You got the stuff?" USSR: "Yeah I got the stuff." China: "Good."

[@stevenbaksh5545]

Mao: "But your a fake communist" USSR: "Well I think I am going to take my business somewhere else"

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Lol guess they didn't need 3 minutes to say this, just 10-15 seconds

[@leonleon2021]

I THINK THE VIDEO SAID, USSR withdrawed anything when Mao accused they are NOT communist enough. Haven't you watched the video yet?

[@TheAmericanPrometheus]

*"The U.S. and its allies have a persistent difficulty grasping the underlying aspirations of China’s economic, foreign and defense policy, resulting in dangerous misestimations of China’s security advances. The U.S. assumed China would always retain Mao’s “minimum deterrence” approach to nuclear weapons. China aims to become the leading global economic and military power by midcentury. Although President Xi Jinping outlined this aspiration in 2011, it wasn’t formalized until the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017. The evidence affirms that China is seeking global military dominance, not “parity” with the West."* - William Schneider Jr., Sept 2021

[@Uncle_9-11]

@@TheAmericanPrometheus bro with the way things are shaping up and especially seeing the war criminal US empire start to quickly crumble, I can see China's dominance taking over, much sooner than just mid-century. When that happens Russia, who's good old buddies with the CCP will ask for a hand up, to become second most powerful, reinstating it's fearsome position over all of Europe and central Asia. The US would slip to third wheel and it's grasp on global affairs will loosen substantially

[@yantelles7355]

That “now/nau” pun, in a video on a topic absolutely unrelated to anything Portuguese, caught me off-guard enough to spurt juice from my nose when it clicked 1.5 seconds later. Bravo hahahah

[@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm]

Yep, when you thought that the "well" joke got a little bit old by now, History Matters manages to take us by surprise again ^^

[@victorcamargo2780]

Dificil vai ser superar esse trocadilho now

[@JohnVance]

This was awesome as usual. The Covert Cabal channel also has a video on why China maintains so few nukes which is also really good.

[@migueljoserivera9030]

When i saw that Portuguese Nao (1:36), i didn't get the "Now" joke. But really loved it as i got it. I'd love to go hunting Easter eggs in your videos if you continúe making those. :D

[@streamlinedengine]

1:34 We’ve never seen this: “a character invading the personal space of another” + zooming in. And HM’s tone of dripping sarcasm makes this 10000x better!

[@ericpatton312]

1:35 boat?

[@HandleDisliker]

The invading of personal space has been done before on this channel. I don't know about the closer cut but I think that was to add to the line

[@fulcrum2951]

@@ericpatton312 now

[@hebl47]

"Caution: Physicists" As a physicist I can confirm that locking us in a silo can be effective.

[@physe8052]

Agreed. So far attempts at macroscopic quantum tunneling have proven underwhelming, so we will stay where you left us.

[@rock3tcatU233]

As a McDonald's fry cook I agree.

[@tommoore2012]

What is it you’re studying?

[@willbxtn]

I'd be interested to see this done for all the nuclear powers, as especially the later countries it's pretty fascinating.

[@TheAagrah]

We need a whole series for this !

[@omni5640]

You didn't mention the ground breaker for the Chinese nuclear program which was Qian Xuesen, he led the Chinese nuclear and later space program after he opted to leave the US. He was part of the several scientists of Chinese origin that worked on the Manhattan Project in WW2.

[@dr.woozie7500]

I know right? How can you talk about the Chinese nuclear program without talking about Qian Xuesen? There’s definitely some selective bias in this video.

[@andrew7taylor]

@@dr.woozie7500 It's bias that he didn't mention everybody in a 3 minute video? It's an overview, not an exhaustive monography.

[@dr.woozie7500]

@@andrew7taylor I think it’s pretty relevant to mention the people who were actively involved.

[@ssun190]

@@andrew7taylor I mean it's like explaining the US nuclear program without mentioning Oppenheimer.

[@yidetao5623]

@@dr.woozie7500 Its actually Deng Jiaxian, Dr Qian is more involved with China's ballistic missile program.

[@pridelander06]

"You can't just demand that science be achieved." How many people could learn from this 😂

[@ragnaraxelson59]

Jack Black and the tubal technology.

[@awkwardsean5141]

Unless there's a global pandemic.

[@user-vp1vl6yp9t]

What? "You can't just demand that science be achieved." ???? How many of you think the North Korean nuclear bomb is science? The fact of the matter was that science had already been achieved As the 5th nuclear country, what China demanded was engineering, not science. China did it in 1965, 20 years after Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 How many fools would continue to learn from a fool 😂 Thank Dog, every one of you is smarter than Chairman Mao.

[@prabhjotsingh9637]

@@user-vp1vl6yp9t *god

[@user-vp1vl6yp9t]

@@prabhjotsingh9637 What can god do? Cure COVID19? No! Win Afghan War? No! Defeat terrorists? No! Etc., etc., etc. So, the westerners love Dogs and don't give a rat ass to god.

[@sovietsasquatch528]

I used this video as part of my presentation and everyone loved it. I love this channel man

[@jesperlykkeberg7438]

What proof did you actually bring?

[@cobyisbeast53]

I love your videos man, i watch every one.

[@irasingh2498]

🟧Serch Aditya Rathore - He also makes informative content like history matters

[@DonJuan911]

2:05 "this is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them." nice reference.

[@arjhanesfahani8952]

Yeah I literally died of laughter when I saw that shit

[@BobJones-sd8eh]

Do “how Norwegian was Denmark-Norway” I think this would be an interesting topic

[@carlh9120]

The perfect country doesn't exi-

[@acediadekay3793]

Very much before 1537, very little after

[@catmonarchist8920]

And could it return...

[@GandalfGreyhame]

I read that one of the Danish-Norwegian kings never visited Norway during his entire reign. I think that summarizes the answer

[@Adam-dd5fx]

And a "how norweigan was Sweden-Norway" video too

[@CarthagoMike]

1:35 nice reference there to how Vasco Da Gama disregarded the safety of his ship, his crew, and the people he met on the way in order to round the Cape.

[@irasingh2498]

🟩Serch Aditya Rathore - He also makes informative content like history matters

[@MrMoustacheNinja]

I love your channel!

[@chl_ca]

1:29 the way you said it was just too perfect

[@Joaosantos15]

1:35 "Nau" - You sir, made me laugh! All the pasteis de nata to you!

[@kiwiindustries510]

The amount of subtle satire in this episode is downright hilarious to me 😂

[@engrtun]

I love this length videos.

[@agonistadenoche7806]

Why isn’t the Isle of Man a proper part of the UK despite being so close to the main Island?

[@Ginkgo_leaf_3000]

I second this!

[@wattyler2994]

Because it never has been. It's like why is there night and day?

[@agonistadenoche7806]

@@wattyler2994 then why has it never been?

[@wattyler2994]

@@agonistadenoche7806 well it's a long story and it begins with the Vikings and their Kingdom of the isles...plus IOM is just too boring a place for it to be part of UK 🤣🤣

[@Ginkgo_leaf_3000]

@@wattyler2994 actually it has changed hands between England and Scotland several time.

[@Doping1234]

"Mao wasn't interested in safety, Mao was interested in proceeding" that had me rolling on the floor XD

[@Darkfawfulx]

The close up sells it.

[@Marinealver]

🇨🇳

[@irasingh2498]

🛑Serch Aditya Rathore - He also makes informative content like history matters

[@jahjoeka]

I don't get what's so damn funny

[@redwins8840]

@@jahjoeka me neither

[@ApatheticBeaver]

thank you history matters very cool of you :)

[@nik65stgt60]

Great content!

[@arkhammemery4712]

James Bisonette has been strangely quiet since this dropped

[@TRISTANTHEGAMER]

????

[@pattonjeffrey6]

So has sky Chapelle

[@pagansbasin6657]

James bisonette was actually a Maoist sympathizer and gave them one of his many nukes

[@KR-mm4el]

James bisonette leader of the free world 😎

[@zylnexxd842]

Obviously

[@billyjoellivealbums8654]

He will revive the workers Revolution with vast amount of money

[@GAZAMAN93X]

Lmao 🤣 what about Kelly Moneymaker?

[@syrialak101]

Wtf based James bisonette!1!

[@supernovel7514]

1:31 Probably the most emotion I've heard from HM

[@josephpeed2002]

I love you videos when I get home from school and eat ramen pls keep up good work

[@willemrumes3007]

love the Portuguese ship 1:34

[@francesco8000]

The irony of nuclear bomb is that the most powerful weapons in human history brought the longest period of peace between major powers.

[@VinceOliver04]

Humanity's instinct for self-preservation over bloodlust wins in the end I guess

[@tairesoli196]

Hope it will Last as long as possible

[@alec0062]

Longest, that much is true. Let's now see how long. "Whatever bad can happen, will happen."

[@andrew7taylor]

The theory behind is called MAD, "Mutually assured desctruction". Everybody is scared shitless to start a war against a nuclear power. You're either losing and they don't have to use the bomb. Or you're winning so you're making them drop the bomb which makes you drop the bomb on them. Either way, millions of people dead on both sides which calls into question the point of starting a war in the first place.

[@Jotari]

Mutually Assured Destruction is great as long as it works, but the problem is that it only needs to fuck up once to reallllly fuck things up. And given we have thousands of years of future ahead of us, chances are it will fail eventually.

[@TwistedGlasses]

As Portuguese, I giggled a little bit when I saw the 1:36 Nau reference . Great stuff

[@oliversherman2414]

Great video 👍🏻

[@gisibah]

Suggestion for future episode: When were newspapers invented and how did they impact the societies they were distributed in?

[@lexprontera8325]

OH HELL YESSSS

[@fulcrum2951]

Good question

[@cattysplat]

Printing press goes brrrr.

[@fandemusique4693]

1:33 This was nice to have this thing with the image being zoomed on Mao, i hope it will be done again on future videos. What about a video on France regarding the post colonial period ?

[@Bull3tpr00fBE4R]

You have the best one-liners.

[@joao16488]

Loved the “now” (nau) reference!

[@KramYEET]

History matters has been uploading so much lately and we all appreciate the hard work you put into these videos! They always make my day :)

[@TwilightRealm723]

Just searched for this like a week ago and I was surprised that you didn't have a video about this subject. I guess I didn't have to wait long :D

[@maud3444]

Fun Fact: general MacArthur wanted to nuke China during the Korean War in the early 50's. Luckily Truman wasn't a fan of this plan. But it got China spooked, so it's no surprise they got their own nuclear weapons soon after

[@muxy5127]

actual fact: USSR: you don’t want, trust me!

[@kirovfactory]

No more spooking than hiroshima and nagasaki. But China determined to fight in Korea anyway

[@lupus7194]

Can you provide some more information / background/ links on this.

[@alexlo7708]

@@lupus7194 Yes, China started acquire nuclear hastily after American threaten them to use nuclear weapon in Korea.

[@Clarity520]

@@alexlo7708 damn how were the Americans losing so badly? Didn’t China just start rebuilding in 1949?

[@teejayaich4306]

lol i love the graphics and jokes on this channel

[@Mr_M_History]

For the first time ever, I already knew the answer to a history matters video. Never before has so much power gone to my head!!

[@jameswatson8122]

Any time it's a how did a country get nukes video, I'm guaranteed to watch immediately and excitedly

[@tankedwarthog6424]

I love how this channel can cram so much detail in just a few minutes

[@yeatnumber1Dmuncher]

"Nuking Taiwan is based" - Lmao Zedong

[@zaja2418]

Based and CCPilled.

[@hatinmyselfiscool2879]

I fully agree to that Statement.

[@DonCristian_DPB]

Using the word "based" on communists isn't based, it's cringe.

[@xiaowen6876]

Did you know that Chiang Kai-shek's wife asked the President of the United States to attack the mainland people with nuclear weapons to force CPC to surrender? It is the same woman who uses the gold that the United States supports KMT against the Japanese to do financial business in the American real estate market.

[@awc6007]

Once again I am here to ask “What was Vietnam like after the Vietnam War?” Video. Also 2:05 Star Wars reference.

[@brandonlyon730]

China invaded not long after.

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

Go there. It's amazing. But yes, it really sucked for the decade or so afterwards.

[@Tenebraeification]

@@brandonlyon730 The Vietnamese communists did stop Pol Pot from his insane murder spree as well, which also caused the Chinese to invade. It should be noted that the USA supported Pol Pot. Mostly to troll the Vietnamese. Pretty petty if you ask me.

[@markmarano913]

2:04 "This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!" History Matters, as a fellow Star Wars fan, I love you!

[@LiterallyEveryone217]

I am a Star Wars fanatic as well!

[@paritoshd]

lol love the transition on "Nao".

[@JeSuisRene]

Imagine doing this video, but live action.

[@commiecrusader3064]

How did Constantinople fall? I know how it did, but the way you do videos, I’m bound to learn something new

[@Longshanks1690]

turk cannon go boom boom

[@lokensicarius9347]

4th crusade go deus vult!! :')

[@Sevastous]

Nah, its common fact that land moved shiops and so forth, We should have better topics

[@brandonlyon730]

I believe there is sort of a tv show documentary series on Netflix that show and explains the siege and the fall of the city.

[@wizzard9531]

@@lokensicarius9347 you can lose again

[@user-tq2xo9cq8h]

FINALLY THE VIDEO I WANTEDDDSS

[@cogumerlimgaming9803]

Dude, you really used a "nau" picture to illustrate the word "now". That's genius haha. You're really catering to your Portuguese-speaking followers here. Despite accent differences in Portuguese and Brazilian variants of the language, "nau" is always pronounced "nau"... Just like "now" :P

[@daanstrik4293]

So how is “make nuclear war cost to much” different from mutually assured destruction?

[@warbler1984]

Essentially that the best you can get is a pyrrhic victory

[@brandonlyon730]

@@warbler1984One doesn't involve the complete end of the world.

[@F22onblockland]

Its not, the Chinese just didn't build nuclear weapons into the thousands like the U.S. and Soviets did.

[@Balthorium]

Losing New York and San Francisco is very different than what would have happened in a war between the US and USSR. Hundreds of cities would be nuked. My area near San Francisco has numerous targets like ports, navy bases, AirForce bases, Lawrence Labs, Silicon Valley. About 20 nukes were aimed at just the Bay Area.

[@Tenebraeification]

One is a lot cheaper to maintain than the other.

[@Zury1ogen]

"Looks like a nuclear winter, this year General" General Tao, PLA Class AAA

[@ryotanada]

Can't watch this without making this reference, can you?

[@Zury1ogen]

@@ryotanada Ya think, want another one XD.

[@SirHenryMaximo]

1:35 As a Portuguese speaker, I laughed after seeing the _nau_ here!

[@krapeevids6992]

1:56 lol!! Detonation button says, “ Push for boom “

[@chesbaret]

for those wondering, the random Portuguese ship is a "Nau" .

[@TransformersBoss]

Scientist: Mr Chairman, we can’t get the bomb to work… Mao: TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE!

[@blackpowderuser373]

WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!

[@jam5533]

I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark!

[@aleksandarvil5718]

@@jam5533 *Mao Orders Scientist's Execution*

[@Emilechen]

sorry to disappoint you, Chinese bomb work,

[@ironheart5830]

🤣😄

[@zddxddyddw]

Loved that Nute Gunray reference lol

[@jeanc3167]

Great job

[@andersondossantosoliveira2772]

The "now there are two of them" joke was great.

[@funghi2606]

Can you make a video of why northern and southern Italy are so different?

[@UsiQuotidiani.18]

Because the southern are lazy and inferior to the northern!!

[@dr.nosborn6330]

The labour differences between the industrialised north and the agrarian south, giving the prejudice as the guy on top shows.

[@funghi2606]

@Dr. Nosborn thank you, I am Italian so I know those stereotypes, but I was curious why after 150 years after the unification they still so divided

[@jlshel42]

*angry noodle noises intensify*

[@hugoleonardoamaral586]

Just now I figured why the portugese ship appeared during the 'now/nau' part. I fucking love this channel.

[@itsperimo]

Mao in a I

[@emilianomora8371]

The nau piece was absolute genius.

[@haydenross8215]

I’ve been waiting for this since you made the how the uk got nukes

[@paulomiguelcruz9835]

As an average Portuguese dude, I was extremely fulfilled with that Nau/Now fleeting pun

[@ConstantineTheFirst]

"But Mao wasn't interested in safety, Mao was interested in proceeding" the way he got closer while saying that killed me

[@AbrahamSamma]

1:37 this cracked me up big time 😂