Very brief view of the rolamite accelerometer shown at 19:25 for anyone interested.
@2006gtobob3 жыл бұрын
What documentaries like this teach and confirm is that I had every right to be terrified as a teenager. I was born in 1971 and was totally unaware until I saw the TV movie The Day After. From that point forward, until a fateful day in late 1991, I lived in utter fear wondering when nuclear annihilation was coming. My teenage years always in the shadow of wonder and "why bother?" Pure luck, some decent engineering, and literally the Grace of God kept most of us safe from the pure stupidity of the politicians of both sides, and the incompetence of others. There is no such thing as a limited strike.
@iitzfizz2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching Threads in English clash and though I wasn't born till 90 that fear was always still there.
@bedeckt Жыл бұрын
born in 2000. its there.
@VesproDBA Жыл бұрын
what happened in 1991?
@colinstewart1432 Жыл бұрын
Yeah but it gave life an edge...🤣
@cyberGEK6 ай бұрын
@@VesproDBAUSSR goes bye-bye!
@timmotel58044 ай бұрын
8/2024: Good Day. Excellent Video. I was born in 1952, and I have lived with this all my life. I don't remember ever being scared. I think that we just lived with it, but the monthly air raid siren tests. There was a siren one block from my house in Arlington Virginia. It rotated and when it faced my house, that was loud & frightening. If it actually happened, no bomb shelter would save anyone. Not anyone that lived that close to Washington DC. Thank You. Very interesting and educational. Peace & Best Regards
@kyndjal3118 Жыл бұрын
imagine this kind of commitment invested in more benign pursuits...
@codebasher110 ай бұрын
Like the Apollo program.... :D
@kyndjal311810 ай бұрын
@@codebasher1 Apollo was shutdown.glaring lack of commitment there. Unless they continued in secret,so public opinion and oversight would't interfere with the project if something questionable happened and/or was executed...Which,given the history of the US,wouldn't surprise me at all...
@RobertCraft-re5sf2 ай бұрын
Truly, but many technologies like small computers came from these pursuits. There's a great video about the MX Minuteman missile basically being the first PC. They were given to universities
@nickpn233 жыл бұрын
Interesting that it took them so long to spot the danger from carbonised circuit insulation. A very interesting documentary.
@anotherone3666 Жыл бұрын
So who can explain me what does Always Never mean? I still don't get it somehow. Is it simply that the bomb use will be authorized by the president and nobody else? How can we give so much power to one person? Could someone please explain what is it that Im not understanding?
@colinstewart1432 Жыл бұрын
Simply this principle means that the weapons will ALWAYS work when needed, but NEVER when unintended.
@anotherone3666 Жыл бұрын
@@colinstewart1432 thanks for your answer
@LaLaLand.GermanyАй бұрын
18:13 Whoa. I´m quite shure I own such a meter. The picture isn´t the best but the look and size, the ceramic insulated jack in the top right corner- quite close. Extra for that meter I bought the original issued probe leads, I found a set in the US (where else) but it was nos, I even kept the box. Yeah, shure: that meter was used all over the services… But it tickles me that it could be from a nuke facility. Is there any way to get the model number or type issued? Is it weird to be interested in this nuke stuff? I mean- we´re lucky to be alive. Germany would have become Nukemany and my parents house wasn´t even near a major target so the chance becoming plasma was rather slim. The last thing I want to cope with is radiation damage.
@scarakus6 жыл бұрын
@12:26 'Didn't matter what we made, they wanted it. They were very good customers' ...for a non-profit organization...
@thomass44716 жыл бұрын
It was sarcasm the military was their ONLY customer. It was a government agency working for another government agency
@numnut15165 жыл бұрын
That joke didn’t let you in on it did it?
@allandavis82015 жыл бұрын
Num nut, no, not knowing who or what those “agencies” are/were meant it was a sarcastic comment that only an American or someone in “the know” would get straight away, and I don’t fall into either of those “pigeonholes”, but now it’s been explained it still isn’t amusing sarcasm.
@allandavis82015 жыл бұрын
Thomas S nope, didn’t get it, I am not American or in the know about those agencies, so how would I get it? Please remember that it’s not just Americans or nuclear weapons experts watching this documentary.
@martiro72 жыл бұрын
Thirty incidents where the safety switches were operated incorrectly? Clearly a serious training shortcoming! It doesn't matter how well the company producing them knows their product - in the end, it comes down to young men and women of the military knowing how to keep everybody safe.
@rickevans39592 жыл бұрын
We decided we can't live without these highways to he'll so eventually we will run off the rails right next to gotterdammerung. The Ukraine is close.
@badpharma4613 жыл бұрын
It's fascinating just how intelligent and reasonable the designers are. I remember reading that when the cores were reshaped rather than compressed (using flying air lenses), the complexity of the maths went up by an order of magnitude. I bet working out the maths for the prolate W88 warhead. Lest we forget, Ted Taylor had sketched out an atomic weapon that would fit into a 105mm shell. I know it was inefficient because there was no space for the beryllium reflectors (although possibly the alloy making up the casing could be made with a boron-containing alloy (25, M25 AND 165) but I feel that the backpack nukes we have seen are not the smallest. I don't know how long these shells would be but it strikes me that they represent the sought after suitcase nuke. I mean, it would still be possible to add deuterium & tritium within the hollow U233/U235/Pu239 primary. That said - nobody wants tactical nuclear weapons. It would be too easy for a local commander to institute a flobal thermonuclear war.
@Z0DI4C9 жыл бұрын
What's that contraption at 20:02? It looks like a set of telephoto lenses and cameras, but I wonder if it has a name.
@Tadesan6 жыл бұрын
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@allandavis82015 жыл бұрын
Ross K, if you ever see this, Thanks, I often wondered what those things were called, learnt something new today, 2019. 👍🇬🇧🏴
@genebohannon88204 жыл бұрын
The device you.guess are discussing pre dates.The Kineto. It was made by an astronomer on a WWII quad fifty mount and the called it Bright-eyes
@Laotzu.Goldbug3 жыл бұрын
Interesting that the B61 (albeit in mod-12 form) is still in service today. Really was a good design.
@MaxVerslappin482 жыл бұрын
Silver bullet, great aerodynamic, supersonic profile, small packaging and decent yield. PAL enabled so good for keeping in other countries
@victorbloom82862 жыл бұрын
I was with Pershing 1A in Germany 1980-82 . Glad they were nb ever Used .
@MRWIRUPONGSUKARUJI2 жыл бұрын
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@D-yan19922 жыл бұрын
the failures before the succes...the people involve in this study until it perfected is just🤯..the dedication of everyone envolved that new generation of youth should have...
@andrewvida38293 жыл бұрын
I guess I grew up differently. I assume everything will fail and that none of my assumptions regarding function are actually correct. That is what made me a very good tester. But I can understand that times were different in those days and certain truths were taken as pretty well being absolute and immutable. Excellent presentation.
@rockydubois24182 жыл бұрын
The dealer ALWAYS has 21
@TarmanTheChampion2 жыл бұрын
I love the background music!
@brianbelton36054 жыл бұрын
Is that a Pan-Am Clipper at 21:58?
@genebohannon88204 жыл бұрын
Looks like a guppy B29 with a huge fuselage
@robinwells88794 жыл бұрын
Frequent flashes of true inspiration. I am going to take much from this into my civilian field FMEA work. Thanks.
@mrjones72224 жыл бұрын
Thank u
@mwbright2 жыл бұрын
Hand made, with love.
@elianaallbuquerque51894 жыл бұрын
B-54, d-w?
@ztyy81854 жыл бұрын
How this was declassified??
@californiaslastgasp68473 жыл бұрын
It never was classified. Because safety isn’t secret. The USA actually offered to share PAL with Pakistan.
@MrSpasticdancer3 жыл бұрын
didnt know bird person was doing narration work
@matthewrowe11924 жыл бұрын
Excellent series shame about the music
@pgm34 жыл бұрын
"Exceedingly rare events happen all the time."
@cask14 жыл бұрын
Tf...
@F15CEAGLE Жыл бұрын
Claude Shannon
@pgm3 Жыл бұрын
Of Bell Labs. Recommend: An Introduction to Information Theory, Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books ), J.R. Pierce. A much more entertaining book than one might think!
@CLAelev13 жыл бұрын
What’s with these highly intelligent people referring to “Nu-clear” as “Nu-cu-lar?
@californiaslastgasp68473 жыл бұрын
Who?
@dannyisham90713 жыл бұрын
@Zane Blaire Yep.
@acb98962 жыл бұрын
Bob Peurifoy says it every time he speaks. Cringy isn't it?
@F15CEAGLE Жыл бұрын
Not cringy at all-semantically identical.
@imodern5 жыл бұрын
Sandia: please remove the distracting soundtrack.
@allandavis82015 жыл бұрын
Chris Halliwell if they remove the soundtrack it would be a silent movie, I think you mean background music, that is totally unnecessary and brings nothing to the information that the experts are trying to impart, why do film/documentary makers insist on adding such superfluous music, ok for movies and tv fictional programmes, but documentaries, NO, not needed or wanted.
@oimate35 жыл бұрын
I dont mind the music but it is too loud at most times. They just need to lower it
@gruntopolouski59193 жыл бұрын
I think “soundtrack” meaning the music was clear enough… go buy a CD that’s the soundtrack to a movie and you wouldn’t expect to hear lines from the movie, would you? That said, there’s no need for the BGM (back ground music) to be as loud as the spoken words! Toooo loouuud!
@jacobholmes53922 жыл бұрын
Oh shut up.
@georgefrancois45832 жыл бұрын
@@allandavis8201 p. . Elie Francois call. ..
@scarakus6 жыл бұрын
Lol, 'Woodeness', not like a piece of Pine, but more like 'Up & Ready'... If this had been a more recent video, it could of been described as 'Viagrated'
@joshjones34088 ай бұрын
Just like the cell phone.... every body just had to have one ....the what ..my iPhone is big an better then your android..a um who's fishing pole is bigger kinda thing....👍👍👍👌👌
I have given up correcting people. Life if to short, dstss!
@F15CEAGLE Жыл бұрын
A trifle.
@youngblood22 жыл бұрын
Let's just hope that the other nuclear powers, take the same measures.
@acb98962 жыл бұрын
Sure, Mildred...hope away. See where that takes you.
@colinstewart1432 Жыл бұрын
Assume they like being alive as much as we do seems logical.
@theschmedaparadox1018 Жыл бұрын
The future is nucular
@whirledpeas3477 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. And the fossil fuel mega zillionairs know it
@mikebalasis79333 жыл бұрын
we have just convention weapons that will do the same as nucs
@jacobmccoury78912 жыл бұрын
If only 1 percent of what countries spend on war there would be no 3rd world poverty and famine
@thetombaxter4 жыл бұрын
We can rest assured that as long as the US maintains a first nuclear strike posture, even against non-nuclear states American freedom of action through out the world will be protected safely.
@californiaslastgasp68473 жыл бұрын
How does the USA maintain a “first strike nuclear posture”
@joeymurdazalotmore63553 жыл бұрын
1st strike? Who?
@peterphilstacey46983 жыл бұрын
Americas way or no way, culturally America is a complete joke to the normal world, cant stand the yanks
@terrypbug4 жыл бұрын
Thank God we dropped them to end the war because we where about to lose 500plus thousand men
@bobg89732 жыл бұрын
Aliens
@railgap Жыл бұрын
We could have PALs on every nuclear weapon we have. Instead, we have PALs on virtually NO weapons we have. There is always a budget limit on safety, even when you're talking about the safety of millions of human lives and oh by the way an expensive piece of military kit...
@colinstewart1432 Жыл бұрын
True, but that's because most are ICBMS
@GlenCooper-sj4lh3 ай бұрын
What makes you think some devices don't have PALs?
@peternorthrup62744 жыл бұрын
Just think what we chould do with all that money? In 75 years nothing has changed. The defence industry employs so many people that it will never change. I'm glad I'm closer to the end than the beginning. Nothing but fools. I chould write a book.
@jgurtz4 жыл бұрын
Based on a Quora answer, it appears operation Chrome Dome cost about 3.3 billion per year in 2020 dollars. And, how much did cost to run Hanford, Oak Ridge, Rocky Flats, Savanah River, Los Alamos, and all the other sites involved in nuclear weapons production? Trillions of today's dollars I'm sure. And how many rubles? Such a monumental waste.
@oceanhome20234 жыл бұрын
I think this Patton quote is appropriate “Next to War all other human endeavors pale in comparison. !”
@cask14 жыл бұрын
That is all
@blurglide4 жыл бұрын
We would've become Soviet
@jgurtz4 жыл бұрын
Bernard de Fontaines that is true throughout the military history, not just the nuclear portion. The thing is: at what cost? And, could those civilian technologies have been developed via alternative contexts? These are philosophical questions that can be debated ad infinitum.
@asmaangel10883 жыл бұрын
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@twstf89053 жыл бұрын
Ugh, that one guy keeps saying, "Nuc-ular" lol It's exceedingly annoying. 🤣
@F15CEAGLE Жыл бұрын
Why? You still know exactly what he means.
@amughayeps57572 жыл бұрын
Typ qp
@lloydkennedy80233 жыл бұрын
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@Bobby-fj8mk4 жыл бұрын
safe nuclear weapons? - an oxymoron.
@blurglide4 жыл бұрын
No, Unsafe means they go off when you don't want them to
@billpugh583 жыл бұрын
Why did the US take so long to ensure the safety of its own civilians? Gung ho GOP generals getting kickbacks?