The Ultimate Guide to Nuclear Weapons

[@hypohystericalhistory8133]

Guys this is a re-upload. After nearly 2 years and 2 million views KZbin's algorithm decided that showing a hand igniting a pile of gunpower was displaying a dangerous act, like making an explosive, and so they killed the video. I tried to appeal it but a human agreed with the AI. I hate uploading old stuff but this was some of my most popular work, so I didn't want to waste it. My apologies if you lost a comment or an interesting thread but there was literally nothing I could do about it. Rest assured I'm working on some new content at the moment!

[@FOXHOUNDProductions91]

THANK YOU FOR THE REUPLOAD!!! LONG LIVE HISTORY!!!

[@AquaAdventuresTTV]

I appreciate the re-upload. This is one of your most compelling and informative pieces of content and I know I've recommended it to many people. It's certainly not your fault you've had to re-upload "old stuff" and I, along with many others, wont judge you negatively for it. Thank you for creating this documentary in the first place.

[@alloy299]

Much appreciated!

[@smokenotes7655]

Yeah Styropyro was on a panel recently where they mentioned how ridiculous that is, like making a laser that could literally fry your eyes out or a gas that's deadly with a single breath is fine, but fire and explosives are instantly nuked off the site, no pun intended. I was missing this video as it's one of my favourites, thank you for the re-up!

[@oopsiesh]

so glad. One of the best videos on the topic.

[@FOXHOUNDProductions91]

I'm so glad this has been reuploaded. Thank you for the history.

[@thelvadam2884]

do you know why the original has been taken down ?

[@FOXHOUNDProductions91]

@@thelvadam2884 No, but I was sad when it was taken down because I used to watch it often. It was the first video I ever watched from this channel, and in my opinion, his best video.

[@thelvadam2884]

@@FOXHOUNDProductions91 ohh okay i see. Same here i found him aswell via that and its still my fav ! and i am lowkey obsessed with nukes so it was a dream come true finding this!

[@LukeBunyip]

@@thelvadam2884 "...KZbin's algorithm decided that showing a hand igniting a pile of gunpower was displaying a dangerous act, like making an explosive, and so they killed the video. "

[@DogmaticAtheist]

Whenever something is removed your safe in assuming it was youtube policy. Free speech and thought is consistently under attack. There is a case currently in the Supreme court regarding gov't (biden's) censorship on social media. I have conflicting notions. On one hand free speech should be protected as the highest priority under a liberal democracy. On the other hand people are stupid and misinformation abounds. There is one primary and unassailable issue with the gov't censorship side. The gov't are only people, too. People shouldn't be able to control what other people say and think. That is the definition of authoritarianism. Classic liberalism is consistently under attack as well. Even by people who call themselves 'liberals'. Which makes zero sense. Changing and shifting the definition of words is a slick, underhanded, and covert way of confusing and programming a populace. The revolution having previously failed on its own merits uses covert, underhanded, and insidious means of furthering its goals. Demoralized and radicalized, you shall be.

[@MBBurchette]

The original is how I found this channel. Definitely worth another viewing!

[@yaki_ebiko]

17:44 I was told any nuclear program NEEDS constant maintainence and refurbishment but no one ever answered WHY. You are my hero.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Additionally tritium has around a decade of half-life, much like night sights lose brightness over the years, you lose the tritium in a thermonuclear device. Normal corrosion itself also affects the core. Plutonium is a metal and it oxidizes.

[@Combatant5]

​@@ChucksSEADnDEADcorrosion is less of an issue. The pits are nickel-plated.

[@edwardharshberger1]

Me giving my expired nukes the sniff check

[@dickwellington8578]

@@edwardharshberger1if you shake it and it starts getting warm you’re good to go

[@NorbertKasko]

​@@Combatant5They are gold plated now. It's better against corrosion. (Just a very thin layer of gold)

[@snappycattimesten]

I clicked just to get back on the watch list.

[@pinnitt]

Now we know that’s real due to the latest subpoena. Thanks a lot FBI

[@MDE_never_dies]

Same

[@colinstewart1432]

Makes going through customs so much more interesting...🤔🤣

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

Japanese subways and Australian tool sheds. The accessible stuff is the scary stuff.

[@a.randomjack6661]

Ah... I see why the algorithm recommended me this (excellent) video 👍 we're ll on a list, each list is called a cohorte and we can be in more than 1 cohorte

[@Indrid__Cold]

This video could be the basis of a graduate level course on the topic. I have been studying the history and science of nuclear weapons for about fifty years (ever since I came across an NSF report titled "The Long Term Effects of Multiple Nuclear Weapon detonations) This is by far the most thoroughly researched, scientifically accurate presentation on this topic. My sincerest compliments!

[@grahamfisher5436]

Google- The flowers nuclear report

[@Martingray7875]

If you've been "studying" this topic and found this video to be the most comprehensive explanation you've come across, then you're not really studying it.

[@Indrid__Cold]

@@Martingray7875 Alternatives?

[@miamijules2149]

Lol You think this is good….? Go check out his Cruise Missile video.; It can easily be a course taught at a military academy anywhere on Earth.

[@-danR]

@@Martingray7875 Five minutes in and seeing one error after another, some of them elementary: 4:46 "This process converts all of the solid to a gas." No it doesn't, and the previously shown chemical equation itself shows that it doesn't, and any kid who ever made black powder knows that it doesn't. This is the sort of video I give up on, and it's a pity. With the increase of TTS robot narrators and AI-gathering of stills, video-clips, and text-generation, it's refreshing to hear actual people. I just want them to know their stuff.

[@Michael974100]

Great to see this video back. How can one of the best researched and informative videos be taken down by YT considering the absolute other crap that populates much of the YT universe. Keep it up mate. Your vids are absolutely top class.

[@slooob23]

I'll tell you why, because he produced this excellent documentary independent of the big players and on his own dime. The 'system' doesn't reward people that play outside of it.

[@Acehalo2]

Thank you for reuploading this! This is the finest documentary made on the topic of nuclear weapons I have ever seen in my entire life. Densely packed with highly researched information and yet still explaining in layman's terms. This video is the gold standard that all others should be judged against.

[@miamijules2149]

Times are tough but damn all that…. this is a work of art. Thanks.

[@isaiahmitchell3311]

Dude thank you for re-uploading this! I've been wishing I could rewatch it for months and months now, and had no idea why it disappeared from your channel!

[@SporkOfDestruction]

This channel's lack of subscribers is bordering on criminal, in my opinion. Excellent work, watched it again!

[@danpatterson8009]

Excellent presentation. My father attended the A-bomb tests in Operation Crossroads in 1946. The Able test, an air burst, resulted in little radioactive contamination of the test vessels in the lagoon. The underwater Baker test constrained fission products in water droplets that fell back into the lagoon, resulting in far more contamination of the test vessels and the waters of the lagoon itself. Hulls and seawater systems of vessels that entered the lagoon following the test also became contaminated. This at a time when safety precautions and radiation monitoring procedures were not well established, and some servicemen entering the lagoon following Baker were quite unaware of the risks.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Many kids died after playing in a New Mexico river during many of the tests.

[@FullerPeter]

You haven’t released a video I haven’t gleefully watched at least twice. Your Amazing attention to historical/technical detail and clear, unbiased delivery is appreciated and needed

[@rapman5791]

There are support groups for that.

[@firstlast9504]

YT is promoting this video again, conrats. The pictures in this report are amazing.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

It’s a reupload bud

[@toejam7606]

Let it simmer... may want to buy a shelter with biden

[@nudgeunit]

Hey it's back! My favorite video of yours.

[@Andrew-27]

Thanks for re-uploading this, I thought it was gone for good.

[@elziegirtman3697]

Thanks!

[@12HedmanLane]

I've listened to this at night while sleeping so many times I'm now definitely on a watch list.

[@Rangeofranges]

I’m so happy this is back. By far my favorite video you’ve ever made and the one that got me into your content. Incredibly well made and deserving of all the views it had

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

I watched it the first time... I'll watch it again!

[@florinivan6907]

The thing about a fizzle is that it can still be devastating. If the expected yield was 500 kt but it only achieved 80 kt that's still more than enough to devastate a good sized portion of a major city. If say the target was an airbase just outside city limits that city is gonna have a bad day regardless. Fizzles matter from a military pov but from a societal pov any nuke that goes above 1 kt in heavily populated areas and above 100 kts in sparsely populated ones is gonna leave a large bodycount. If your goal in a nuke war is societal destruction fizzles aren't that big of a problem.

[@sir_vix]

Would there also be an increased spread of radioactive un-reacted (?) material?

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@sir_vix I think that would all be situation dependent

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@sir_vixthats more dependent on how close to the ground it is upon detonation

[@LibertyMonk]

There's a huge difference between "everyone in the city is dead within a week" and "half the city will die within a year or two, but thousands will die much sooner." There's also the idea that you could have made three (or more) times as many weapons with the same material instead of overbuilding a design that will likely fizzle, why destroy one city when you could instead destroy three, or destroy one and still hold the threat of destroying two more. Yes, a fizzle is still a nuclear explosion which is bad, but it's also enormously wasteful even compared to efficient nuclear weapons.

[@listek981]

​@@sir_vixnah, nukes still leave lots of unreacted material.

[@JohnDoe-dg6vb]

So glad it's back. Probably one of the best videos on the subject out there.

[@3.2213]

Yes indeed!

[@kayayay9791]

Yes! Im so happy for the re-upload, this is one of my favorite videos on the whole net! Thank you!!

[@SigmaEOD]

Thank you so much for the re-upload. This video is one of my favorites, and I had been missing re-watching it. Keep up the great work!

[@ShahjahanMasood]

I have downloaded this video and will Inshallah download the other videos later as well. You make excellent, excellent EXCELLENT content. No one has managed to deliver on topics with such professionalism and ease. It is a shame why certain videos get taken down.

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2

[@bsadewitz]

And how could this knowledge possibly be a bad thing? There is absolutely no gratuitously violent, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate content in this video, and the subject is relevant to everyone on earth.

[@ShahjahanMasood]

@bsadewitz KZbin is just fucking weird man. What can I say? They hate actual educational content.

[@taxirob2248]

I thought this was going to be a how-to video, now I have to send all this stuff back to Amazon...

[@Holocaustica]

I just love the first moments of this video. Apparently before the first test, the nuclear device almost fell to its own destruction but ‘disaster was averted’.

[@HECalcium]

I have absolutely no idea why this video appeared on my homepage, and I have absolutely no idea why I clicked in, but I will enjoy it.

[@RotundRat115]

This is great, you had me hooked with the title and the length of the video. Thank you for going in depth. Take care my dude

[@demon_lover6669]

Welcome back, I've watched a few other good guides as well, its taking a while to really understand.

[@graemev6799]

A brilliantly researched and narrated documentary on the evolution of nuclear weapons.

[@inoculateinoculate9486]

It's back!!! I've never been so excited to see a history lesson about nuclear weapons, one which I have already watched at least 6 times. I am waiting for your final Iraq War installment like it's Christmas, btw.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

I can not tell you how many times ive watched this video. The amount of research that went into this is incredible.

[@katiebarber407]

by far one of the best and most detailed videos on this topic ive ever seen. subscribed, and great job

[@jasoncooper1593]

Thanks for re-uploading, man. Your content is awesome and well-deserving of another comment and a like. Screw those guys.

[@jj-eg5up]

Crazy. Such a good video. It sucks that there is a war on content that doesnt rot your brain

[@WilliamNeacy]

Great video. No political agenda, just facts. The world desperately needs more channels like this.

[@mikejames4648]

Well worth a watch, it makes a good technical companion to the famous "Trinity and Beyond, the Nuclear Movie" video.

[@SpaceThieff]

I want to take a moment to express my admiration for your scientific videos, which have a calming, informative effect on me. I am particularly fond of your previous dissections of the atomic theory, which I find highly engaging and informative. I strongly appreciate your voice; that Aussie narration in the video creates a sort of exotic intimacy, which adds to my enjoyment of the content. Additionally, I am grateful for your videos on the Pacific military operations, which were fascinating. I think your style is outstanding with the quality of the videos, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to watch them for free. Thank you for making these videos while naturally making the very most informative pieces about these amazing underlying subjects.

[@Chirsstimson]

WHAT A SAPP ! THIS SITE IS RUN BY WOKE COMMIES ! FUCK HEADS . GO X !!!!

[@aussie_mantis3507]

MY MAN RETURNED- albeit with an older video, but HE RETURNED!

[@rimlogger7697]

I missed this video. Loved the script and presentation. Glad it's back.

[@lukebowers536]

Fantastic to see this back, it is without equal & one of the best most well researched video's on this topic out there & is esential viewing for those into all things nuclear.

[@wtflks]

This is the best vídeo on nuclear weapons I've ever seen! Congratulations,it's a wonderful documentary!

[@jhonbus]

This is a really good video. I don't think I'd seen it before the reupload. You've done a fantastic job of covering pretty much every single point that it's important for an ordinary person to understand about nuclear weapons, to just the level of depth required in each case. If I ever have to recommend one single video to someone who wants to have a working understanding of the entirety of the subject, it'll be this one.

[@LethalJizzle]

Never saw the original, thanks for the reupload. This is gonna be fascinating.

[@nonenowherebye]

Minor correction, the little boy bomb contained more than 2 critical masses of U235. The target was sub 1 mass, while the hollow "bullet" was actually closer to 1.5 masses or so, but due to its physical shape (a stack of Uranium rings) it couldn't actually sustain a chain reaction.

[@breakingbolts8871]

excellent production and narrative. well done sir

[@symungous]

The best explained and most comprehensive compilation of Nuclear Weapons history on the platform.. period. Thank you for re-uploading ❤

[@tosoledo]

After making an ultimate guide to nuclear weapons and for chemical weapons, you should make an ultimate guide to biological weapons. Thank for you great work.

[@jonathankleefield5520]

I just watched this amazing documentary last night. Despite having read many books about nuclear weapons development, allied historical material, and having worked in the field of radiation physics, without doubt this is one of the finest lectures on the subject I have viewed. The author provides the most coherent, logical and comprehensive description for the reasons nuclear energy is far more potent than conventional chemical explosives, and then moves on to an even more exhaustive, but engaging history of weapons development, focusing on miniaturization, with the pros and cons of “tactical” versus “strategic” devices made quite clear. At the end, he explains why “mutually assured destruction” actually made the world safer for a time. My only comment is that MAD works when adversaries feel they have something to lose. That rationale may not apply to terrorists, whose bestial acts have dominated the 21st century. I urge anyone who wishes to gain greater understanding of this complex subject to watch this video. While I enjoyed the recent movie “Oppenheimer,” I felt it was the treatment of the science behind nuclear weaponry that could have used a bit of “beefing up,” and a video such as this one would have provided a superb resource for such material. Bravo to this content maker!

[@bosox2318]

Superb work. Pls take this as an enthusiastic vote for an ultimate guide to the history & development of the torpedo.

[@jimbolimbobimbo369]

This was the video YT recommended to me that ended upnserving as a gateway to the rest of your channel. Rewatching and commenting for the algo. Keep doing your thing

[@ebr8]

Listening to this (again) while cooking. Thanks for the re-upload.

[@veryloudbrick]

ferb i know what we are doing today

[@hughjanis7418]

One of my favorite documentaries ❤ glad to have it back

[@jimc.goodfellas]

I thought I had seen this before... excellent work

[@davegoud]

Thank you for uploading this again....a few months ago I was trying to find it and couldn't believe it disappeared. IMHO this is the best nuclear documentary out there....and I have seen most of them....from Trinity...and beyond...pun intended :)

[@randomm9683]

Great to see the re upload i was looking for this a while back and was thinkig i was crazy

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

It's amazing the power that's inside an atom something so small we can't even see it man's discovery of this subatomic particle is brilliant

[@m.streicher8286]

This makes me immensely happy. Lots of people missed this video.

[@brugelxencerf]

Error at37:24. Castle Bravo was March 1, 1954, not 1951

[@JohnDoeWasntTaken]

One of your best videos, thank you so much for the reupload. It's so hard to find info like this anywhere else.

[@MrDoysh121]

Your channel is amazing. And I am going to watch this again.

[@SpiritOfMontgomery]

It’s back!

[@pyrace]

This was brilliantly done, Mate. I learned a lot and some of the photos and footage was fantastic. Cheers.

[@noahswanigan9350]

Didnt know this was a reupload because 2 years ago idt Id found your channel at all yet, but ever since I did, top notch stuff through and through. If Im not awake watching it, nice long form vids like these also make for excellent night lights 🙂

[@stokedfool]

Absolutely crucial knowledge; watched the 1h42m video straight through. Excellent content.

[@Mrdrcaptaintroy]

This was the video that got me watching the rest of your videos. So glad it's back.

[@IrishCaesar]

Thank God this is back. I've been desperate for it for months

[@kylereiley4447]

Thank you for reuploading. Best video on the subject I have ever seen and i know a thing or two about a thing or two

[@skivvy3565]

I remember when this had millions of views and many, many more likes. 8k? KZbin really fucked you hard mate. This video took off

[@thelvadam2884]

ohh finally ! its back ! my favorite Video !

[@hanfrånnorr1986]

This is by FAR the best and deepest vide about nuclear weapons on KZbin! I am verry Happy i found you, and i will share your amacing content with my friends!

[@dxs_nightwolff]

So detailed and on-point!

[@sailorgibbens3301]

Thank you for the re upload. I love this and fall asleep regularly to it. I searched and search for this video and thought I was crazy, Or that it was lost forever.

[@hello-rq8kf]

fantastic vid ❤ and thank you for not putting background music, i put these vids on while studying and practicing guitar so it helped a lot

[@sabram24]

I watched this first time. This is great stuff.

[@hypercomms2001]

thank you for this, as it contains the detailed physical and engineering aspects of these weapons that typically are glossed over by others. Clearly you have put a lot of effort into this.

[@DuaneDiddley]

Definitely worth the rewatch mate! Thanks for all the work.

[@kanzeon7729]

Third time I'm watching this now and it only gets better

[@TheWishPretzel]

Hell yeah, the first video that got me into this excellent channel has been reuploaded! Let's gooo

[@Vinzmannn]

Dear KZbin algorithm AI god, this video is very cool. Thanks.

[@Pinkfongfan24]

All hail KZbin Algorithm! 😂🎉

[@droidnick]

Sweet video! Thanks!!

[@MalachiWhite-tw7hl]

Aptly named video. This is the best on the subject I've yet seen.

[@trencher4570]

heres some free engagement, thank you for the reupload

[@bmobert]

Soviet tanks used high-hydrogen polymers, like polyester, to shield the crew from neutron bombs. This shielding was tested and deemed successful at protecting a large enough percentage of the tanks to expect a mass tank attack to succeed regardless.

[@item6931]

This is legit pro content. I'm sorry you had to re-upload, but without that it might not have appeared in my suggestions, and now you have a new sub. Hi from Brisbane.

[@TheMagus54]

Guy your narration is straight up golden! Thank you for the great line up of Australian perspective WW2 historical Australian transcripts within the videos! 🇦🇺

[@ellefanaten]

Simply brilliant youtube-workmanship- 1000 thanks!!! Info in poetry style, man.

[@TGMaker]

Thanks for reuploading. It would have been a shame if this was lost ❤

[@RepChris]

16:50 *technically* they dont have the same mass. Since energy has been emitted during the decay (in the form of an energetic electron), there has been a loss of mass, even more than just the weight of the electron. The respective masses of U,Np,Pu 239 (in Da) are respectively: 239.0542920 239.0529390 239.0521634 The difference is almost 4 times that of an electron! And entirely unnoticeable in an element that weights more than 400 million electrons

[@HappyBear376]

I got very interested in radiochemistry at uni' this is a cracking video thank you.

[@abdullio1000]

A Legend, I watched this immediatly after seeing oppenheimer and then it got wiped off youtube. thank you for reuploading💪🏾

[@invertFNU]

Nice to see this back ❤ this got my intrest to deepdive into this subject alooooot. Thank you and keep up the good work 🙂

[@hitzfeld12]

I was looking for this for months! Thank you

[@indeedbridge8954]

❤❤ hooray! Its a belated birthday gift, thank you for re uploading.

[@robertrishel3685]

Nice to see this again, although I was initially very excited, thinking it was a new video😉.

[@llahneb10]

Excellent video, quality is top-notch!

[@leoa4c]

1:11:55 "Not a single injury was sustained in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from nuclear fallout"? I strongly advise you to research the accounts of those who experienced it. People dying of thirst had no other option but to drink rain drops. Radioactive black rain drops heavy enough to hurt the skin when they fell. Those who drank the "black rain", as it became known, most definetly sustained injuries. In fact, a large number died as a result. You get a lot right in this video, but this was a massive blunder. There were numerous deaths due to fallout! There are countless, not only written, but audiovisual accounts of it!

[@thomaslove6494]

😅😅... Rain drops heavy enough to hurt the skin when they fell.... You have no idea what you're talking about...

[@leoa4c]

​@@thomaslove6494 Ok. Since I have no idea about what I'm talking about, why don't you enlighten us all with your vast knowledge?

[@thomaslove6494]

​@@leoa4c why were people dying of thirst? Raindrops heavy enough to hurt the skin? Your claims are completely unsubstantiated..... Asking to enlighten you is the same as being asked by a flat earther to do the same. None of your reasoning is backed up by physics... It doesn't make sense from the start. Which is why it is common knowledge that nuclear fallout caused no fatalities. You read propaganda which you found appealing. That is all. You seem very naive. You probably hold many many falsehoods as truths.... It's a common condition though... So have solace in knowing you are not alone....

[@callsignsparty6503]

Just gonna leave this on loop for the next 13 weeks to help get the view count back