"Middle of the Pacific" is a really big area to lose one bomb's worth of uranium. Like, impolitely big.
@alrun18363 ай бұрын
Non military versions of lost/found radioactive material are called orphan sources it generally comes from medical equipment that gets inappropriately dumped. Kyle Hill has some interesting videos on some of these incidents where people unknowingly give themselves radiation poisoning. The Goiania incident is what you’re describing in the video and Nuclear bonfire are two good videos on this. Also US Navy practice torpedoes (no explosives) are bright orange and positively buoyant if you find one in the ocean there is a phone number painted on the side that you can call and you’ll get a reward.
@Director_Orson_Krennic3 ай бұрын
There is one caveat with Kyle Hill, he's asked that people reacting to his videos need degrees or actual practical experience in the nuclear fields to be the ones to react to his videos, to help limit misinformation spreading via react videos
@redactedredacted40803 ай бұрын
17:35 to make it worse, the soldiers commanding those units were E4. Sergeants, at that time it would’ve been about 23. Those were secondly tenants who were anywhere from 18 to 19 years old. Fun fact you don’t have to be an adult to join the military and parental consent. Which means in theory you could have a 17 year-old second lieutenant commanding a platoon of about 3 to 4 of these washers per section and 3 to 4 warheads per launcher
@Tomas-qk5fy2 ай бұрын
Theirs also a Mustard video Mustard spoke about us losing 11 nukes in further detail
@Tomas-qk5fy2 ай бұрын
How The US Accidentally Dropped Nukes On Itself and It's Allies is the title of the video
@vianneyb.87763 ай бұрын
10:00 : "The parachute of one of them deploys, preventing detonation" This is misleading. The parachute is actually part of the detonation process (the plane needs time to fly away from the blast zone), so it being activated is REALLY bad. The only thing which prevented the explosion was that the arming switch was off. All other switches were activated. The description for the other bomb is also misleading, because a nuclear bomb is actually rather stable. It needs an explosive charge to cause a chain reaction and this explosive charge did not detonate. The bomb slammed into the ground at almost the speed of sound, its body got buried six meter deep, and the nuclear core, being denser, got even deeper (55 meters according to estimates). The excavation team accidentally opened a ground water reservoir and was forced to give up the search for the core. What is really frightening here is that the bomb had accidentally been armed. Only one of the activation switches, which programs the altitude at which the bomb should blow up, wasn't active because it was just an exercise. So in short: one bomb was armed but got destroyed before it could blow up, and the other bomb could have blown up but hadn't been armed because of one switch.
@haxxormcbunny7456Ай бұрын
4:09 yeah but from what I remember it’s kinda deliberate to help prevent hacking and stuff I think
@woodchuck94og3 ай бұрын
We demand more Lazerpig videos
@BucketOfFail3 ай бұрын
Brandon Herrera did a video on the North Carolina incident and they did remove the core.
@hyperrustynail3 ай бұрын
Meanwhile a few days ago a Russian ICBM (the rocket part not the warhead) detonated inside its silo during a test.
@yokai12353 ай бұрын
it's quite common one in 10 icbm do malfunction after a while those things are not made to be stored for a long time
@aiurzealot17103 ай бұрын
"Da, but we know where it is!" -Some Russian dude.
@philgoad55873 ай бұрын
Brandon Herrera has a whole video about the North Carolina incident.
@redactedredacted40803 ай бұрын
10:53 Brennan Herrera actually does a video on this.