Insane Nuclear Weapons Incidents That You've Never Heard Of

[@lexinexi-hj7zo]

The chiget in the US is called "the football". When I got to go up to airforce one past security (mother worked for his campaign) to shake his hand there was a secret service agent with a thick black briefcase that they loaded into his limo and he had an Uzi with one of those supper long clips like in the die hard movie. This has happened way too many times and think of all the russian ones we dont know about.

[@railgap]

Those aren't nukes being loaded into that aircraft @ 18:44, those are cluster bombs - ie Rockeye or similar. You just threw this together, didn't you?

[@104thDIVTimberwolf]

No A-4 ever carried a device larger than about 25 kilotons, nowhere close to a megaton. The Skyhawk could carry more than its own weight, but that's not enough to carry a weapon that big.

[@schr75]

The A-4 carried the B43, B57 and B61 bombs. The B43 had a maximum yield of about 1 megaton, so yes it did.

[@deandeann1541]

It is fascinating but sad how many people, who are not in a position to know, will make a comment on the internet expressing an opinion but will write the opinion as if it were a sure fact that they know with absolute certainty. A vile habit. Intellectual dishonesty. It is also fascinating that so many of these people seem to think that their government would not be capable of keeping something secret from them.

[@charlesachurch7265]

Excellent presentation. Thankyou xxx. I will subscribe with pleasure..

[@henryrohr7030]

Black Btant 7.... looks more like Black Brant 12.

[@moiraatkinson]

One of the best channels on all things nuclear to be found. Didn’t want the video to end 😊.

[@xy9394]

Are you showing an African American Russian radar operator?

[@luissousa5123]

Yuor video is the acident i never hear

[@auttakitchatrabhuti3151]

You refer to the US government at 22:56, however the image displayed King Bhumibol of Thailand's address during his visit to the US, which obviously had nothing to do with nuclear weapons.

[@jokernabastard2828]

Thanks!

[@railgap]

Why the filler about how bombs work? That seemed like a weird interjection when the topic is nuke incidents. Oof! Yeah, you should have left out the "instructional" segment on how bombs work, because it's full of errors. Like, really a lot of mistakes. Narrator's matery or understanding of technical / jargon terms is poor, as is their grammar. When you are speaking on technical subjects, your language must be correct otherwise you end up sounding pretentious, not smart.

[@ryu3180]

Because it's AI

[@AndyBonesSynthPro]

Wow a lot of inaccuracies... Too many to list. Uploading this type of content might be outside your ability. As soon as I heard you say the USSR collapsed in 1995 I knew this was going to be bad 😂

[@25rsti15]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@wuodanstrasse5631]

How is it that anyone can possibly be so profoundly careless about a subject that is so incredibly important?

[@puncheex2]

15:07 - Critical mass ... was reached by firing the material together, and this critical mass depends on the density of the material." No. This critical mass depends on making the mass of the material higher by building a bigger mass, n9t by increasing its density. The increase in density happens with the implosion (Fat Man) mechanism, which you don't cover until after you discuss some fusion at15:45.. 15:42 - "In fact, it [fusion] can be thousands of times greater [than fission]..." No, hundreds perhaps, boosting 20 kilotons to 2 megatons, and the reason is not from the fusion itself but rather because it generates high energy neutrons that cause fast fission in a uranium tamper. 15:50 - You discuss the neutron initiator as part of an implosion device, even though it is also used in the gun-type fission bomb. 16:20 - "Fusion is a much better bomb type than fission due to its efficiency..." No, it's due to its ability to generate high-energy neutrons that can fission normally inert depleted uranium. Fusion weapons use both a fissile "spark plug" and the tamper to make the best use of fusion's abilities. Both the primary and the secondary use a uranium tamper to boost their yields. 16:22 - your diagram is backward. The fission primary is in the top of the cone, the secondary in the base allowing more LiD to be contained, as in the drawing at 17:58. 16:57 - "An injected gas consisting of deuterium and tritium..." No, only tritium. The object there is not to explode the hydrogen isotopes, but to squeeze out a quantity of those neutrons to increase the generational fission in the primary. 18:07 "far more radiation for equal yield." No, TANSTAAFL. The yield is reduced by eliminating that U-238 tamper on the secondary. It floods the neutrons instead into the environment, but the yield is lowered by the loss of that final fission stage. But it is still a themonuke, with what that implies for the exposed environment. "without actually having to blow anything up." Only half a thermonuke. 21;08 - 'blowing up a nuclear bomb on the moon posed no risk to humans..." Uhh, unless the missile failed before crossing into the moon's gravity well. Further, there would be no control over where it would land and what the bomb would do when it got there.

[@HE-pu3nt]

1:05. "XII" represents 12 in roman numerals, not 7.

[@lukustreloar7243]

Unreal❤❤❤❤the content😊😊😊😊

[@marksalot5035]

I hate to be that guy but at exactly 106 xii isnt 7 its 12 but i digress love your videos

[@railgap]

I can assure you that foam isn't "polystyrene"! 🤣 Where'd you get those diagrams??

[@mikejosef2470]

You mean at 17:21? Yes, it is polystyrene, most likely with the hollow cells filled with methane. It forms a low Z plasma upon detonation of the primary to smoothly channel X rays to the secondary such that the compression they create is as uniform as possible. As for where the diagram came from, I have never seen a diagram of a thermonuclear device that does not have polystyrene foam in that place.

[@25rsti15]

Yeah.. that is polystyrene.. when the fission bomb is detonated the polystyrene turns to plasma causing immense pressure starting the chain reaction to fusion.

[@adriannpacheco9953]

Great video. This deserves 1M views

[@3rdFloorblog]

Dr. Evil had his minions steal those missing warheads from the commie sub....

[@railgap]

The video loses its way and forgets what its subject was supposed to be. IT is obviously edited together from other videos, as there are slip-ups revealing subjects from other videos not covered in this one.

[@SamuelSmith-hf1rh]

Try understanding what your talking about before making a post cause many people xho understand nuclear weapon theory will find your mish mash explanation to be pure rubish thumbs down all the way

[@user-vg5rv5xf4u]

Why are you talking like that?

[@waynechirnside1831]

AI

[@joshuarisker5525]

Computer voice 😢 nobody likes to actually talk anymore why do that when a computer can read it for you

[@Swede_4_TRMP]

This is not AI. If it was, the narrator would not pause differently and also not pronounce the same word a little bit different depending on underscores or not.

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

Piles.....

[@nebelwerfer9596]

Hahaha...the BS footage of the "Minuteman missle" is a Saturn V rocket of the Apollo space program.

[@stevenwhitener5623]

June 8 1967 Israel attacked the USS Liberty and nukes were headed for Cairo before the ship refuses to sink. If you don't cover this incident your history is incomplete

[@Davidbirdman101]

I just thought I'd come to the comment section and see how people were reacting to the video. Typical complaints, annoying voice, inaccurate information, music sux, yada yada yada. Meanwhile in reality land: the world continues to spiral out of control and is teetering on the edge of total annihilation. As denizens of the fantasy role playing community burrow even deeper into their mother's basement, screaming profanities at imaginary persecutors while hoarding their ding dong snack cakes and mountain dew. All is well.

[@GregoryHawkins-d2p]

Stop calling people by their last names. Call them by their first names.

[@ConcerningReality]

Pretty common practice in journalism

[@mikejosef2470]

Last name referral is nearly universal in this type of presentation... if he said "Robert", would you know who he meant? That's why it's always "Oppenheimer".