Broken Arrows : The Lost Bombs of the Cold War | FULL DOCUMENTARY

[@jokodihaynes419]

I don't know which is scary losing nuclear weapons or it happens so offen there's a term for it

[@Frankthetank-zr5mc]

This quote always makes it into broken arrow vids

[@audimetallica]

Hollywood movie “Broken Arrow” quote ;) from 1996.

[@damianhoratiu2287]

How often? How many cases in how many years/days/hours?

[@jayfro8340]

The term is newer. Broken arrow used to be an emergency call for all air support in the area.

[@alistairwalley4299]

​@@damianhoratiu2287 32 cases in total

[@johnwatson3948]

45:05 Goldsboro doesn’t mention it was later realized they only found the smashed-off face of the arming switch, not the actual switch (which was destroyed). That it read “armed” was as accurate as telling the time from a smashed-off clock dial.

[@auzonedave5403]

I get the distinct impression the Curtis LeMay treated atomic weapons like the cigars he sucked on - lose one, get two more, just keep it a secret.

[@NUTTER8291]

The scary thought is IF the Americans had THIS many accidents...... HOW MANY DID THE RUSSIAN HAVE AND NOT TELL ANYBODY !!

[@jsgraham67]

I'm sure there were. The Soviet Union was built on secrecy and lies. That's the very heart of communism. The Soviets wanted to, and tried to cover up Chernobyl. But they realized the magnitude of the damage, and couldn't ignore the outside press. Especially since the fallout cloud reached as far as Sweden and Norway. I was living in Germany at the time, and we had a white powder that fell over everything. Command told us that the radiation levels were negligible. But still, I worried about it.

[@djpalindrome]

The B-36 pusher prop design resulted in carburetor icing and innumerable engine fires

[@christopherhowe464]

Introduction was well-paced. Painted a good narrative. Interesting facts that at first seemed too broad for the specific incident, but by the end, I realized that the tone you were going for was fear and dread. Nailed it. Good story-telling and information selection.

[@johnwatson3948]

15:30 - a bold and untrue statement: “if it wasn’t for John Clearwater, history’s very first broken arrow would never have gone public.” Details were public knowledge since the 1970’s along with dozens of published articles. The crash site was rediscovered in 1997 but Clearwater didn’t visit until 2003 - added nothing new to the story.

[@boristhebarbarian]

Making bold claims generates publicity for their documentary. In the modern news age who does actually ever tell the truth anymore?

[@Grimpy970]

The cratering capacity of nuclear weapons, even ground-detonated is NOT large enough to create a 'bay' where an entire US state used to be. That's James Bond- levels of overexaggeration

[@paulgaskins7713]

2:11 😱 a bomber made to carry nukes was being prepared to….drop nukes?!?! The horror, the unconscionable horror of it, I can’t stand it 😱😱

[@davidwhite7767]

I've always wondered exactly how many the Soviets Lost

[@mattwestuk1]

This is not the first time Capt. Barry had to land a B36 with only 3 engines. He also was forced to do so the year before at Carswell AFB where one engine burnt off, severing the controls of the other two. For his achievement he received the Air Medal (number 12 I believe). Also, he was a Captain, not wing commander. The B-36 shown in the beginning is a B36-D as they were the first to have the jet pods mounted. The aircraft involved in this incident was a B36-B. I've been researching Capt. Barry for four years for a book. That he survived so much only to be killed in a training accident a year after this (one of our P51s flew into his cockpit) is truly a tragic tale.

[@TigerDominic-uh1dv]

Thanks for the History Unbelievable this Happened

[@JesseTrites]

My favorite movie, & One of the best entrances into a movie scene. The movie Broken Arrow. :D

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

I've always wondered what the detonation of a nuclear weapon sounds like I've never had the opportunity to experience that thankfully.

[@bluesky6361]

Google "sound of a nuclear explosion" or something similar. There is a DVD that I used to have (Sorry. Can't remember the name. The entire DVD was terrifying so I got rid of it.) that has the recorded sound of a nuclear blast. You need a good sound system with a powerful subwoofer to hear it properly.

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

I've seen small explosions and listen to him I've watched shock waves rip across the ground we're able to see it hear it and then yeah very interesting on how quick light travels compared to sound. So does the shock wave travel at the speed of sound. Where does the shock wave travel just ahead of the sound is it always kind of wondered about that because it always seemed like you get hit by the pressure wave just before you hear the sound but it might be a delay the processing of the situation in the human brain and body

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

I wouldn't say that was a demonstration of mastery of the atom but demonstration of the ability to lose the atom upon our enemy.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an incredible documentary about atomic guards operations by B-36 & B-52 strategic bombers...majority of those operations failed on US territory itself . It seems to me several broken arrows 🏹 not one .

[@BastardX13]

5-7 perhaps. How many close calls, anyone's guess

[@DoctorBillTheRadioMan]

This film has convinced me that the people running our military are not sane.

[@damianhoratiu2287]

They are the most sane and ballanced people on Earth.

[@jayfro8340]

​@@damianhoratiu2287 I hope that was sarcasm

[@damianhoratiu2287]

@@jayfro8340 Absolutely not.

[@jayfro8340]

@@damianhoratiu2287 poor gullible sheep

[@BruceChamberlin-y4r]

I was six years old when they launched Sputnik. One night you could see it ( actually it was the booster ). On the night you could see it, we were on the front lawn watching this moving star. I looked up and down the street and everyone was out on their lawns watching it. The whole street, every family, watching what could be an atomic bomb flying right over us. It scared the hell out of everyone. I will never forget that night when the world changed, and we never felt safe since.

[@hypercomms2001]

" Operation Dropshot was the United States Department of Defense code name for a contingency plan for a possible nuclear and conventional war with the Soviet Union and its allies in order to counter the anticipated Soviet takeover of Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia expected to begin about 1957. The plan was prepared in 1949 during the early stages of the Cold War and declassified during 1977. Although the scenario included the use of nuclear weapons, they were not expected to play a decisive role. At the time, the US nuclear arsenal was limited in size, based mostly in the United States, and depended on bombers for delivery. Dropshot included mission profiles that would have used 300 nuclear bombs and 29,000 high-explosive bombs on 200 targets in 100 cities and towns to wipe out 85 percent of the Soviet Union's industrial potential in a single stroke. Between 75 and 100 of the 300 nuclear weapons were targeted to destroy Soviet combat aircraft on the ground. The scenario was devised prior to the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and included the note that the plan would be invalidated if rocketry became a cheap and effective means of delivering nuclear weapons. The documents were later declassified and published as Dropshot: The American Plan for World War III Against the Soviet Union in 1957.[1] Never approved, Dropshot was withdrawn in February 1951 and superseded by Reaper, a plan that anticipated a war in 1954...." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dropshot

[@CondeNastCruiser]

13:42.. Accept ur fate old timer and just shave ur head. This looks silly.

[@sforza209]

Lmao 😂 super duper comb over.

[@JonDC70]

Says all evidence of the crash is completely gone and then proceeds to flip through all the documents that exist regarding it. An interview a half a dozen people that were present. 39:59

[@mikeemerson4284]

There's no play the second bomb in Goldsboro was going to speed of sound it didn't drop from a far enough distance it may have been going 120 miles an hour

[@dandared6395]

The guy who almost fell out through the bomb-bay doors after accidently releasing the nuke seconds earlier just left me with the image of Peter Sellers riding the nuke in the film (Dr. Strangelove) lol

[@auzonedave5403]

This excellent documentary could easily be titled "The Rise of the US Military Industrial Complex and Complete Indifference to Handling Nuclear Weapons".

[@frankbridges2171]

What gets me is how lemay and other general's were so eager the start a nuclear war knowing it would destroy the world but what did they care they would be under a rock

[@DominicSeanMcCann]

I've noticed there's quite a few podcasts & news segments ( in britain at least), trying to sell the idea that it's inevitable. That book promoting schill, Annie Jacobsen is one doing the rounds. No 'this is insane', just get the plebs used to the idea.....

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

This should have been a sobering indication of future events to come

[@Peter-jv3vg]

Lemay was paranoid as hell.

[@Retroscoop]

My guess is that was a "general" attitude. General here as in "widespread" (too)

[@Oldguy-k3t]

What's the term for a lost nuc that detonates???

[@DroneBeeStrike]

Broken arrow refers to an "accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components that does not create a risk of nuclear war" not just lost weapons.

[@williamhilbert8324]

I'm sitting in Goldsboro watching this lol

[@Rock-Bottem1982]

I'm sitting on planet Earth watching this

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

12:56 I would imagine that the atomic energy commission would have realized the mission and had wondered about what the fuk happened with the what happened this was a mission that had some of our equipment on board what I mean how come we didn't get a report on what's going on here

[@mikeemerson4284]

They had a broken arrow about 10 minutes from my house the bomb is still down there in the ground they couldn't dig it out of the swamp

[@starfish370]

The B36 'Peacemaker '...the only US bomber that dropped the bombs at home than its enemy 🙄❗️😄‼️

[@jasonstinson1767]

*more* bombs at home than it's enemies? It's bombs at home instead of on its enemies?

[@lafeeshmeister]

@@jasonstinson1767 WHO GRAMMAR NEEDS?

[@costine-yn6zc]

@@lafeeshmeisterfr

[@NorthwoodsShooter]

The more I hear about Gen. LeMay, the more I see him as a nut.

[@mdunn16]

I don’t know if there’s any other way to characterize a dude who was like, “Well hey, since nuclear war is inevitable, let’s be sure to strike first.” Saner heads prevailed, thank goodness, as JFK and Khrushchev answered the call of history.

[@abasvee]

29:20 "once again, fortunately, bomb had no nuclear charge..." And why did they measure radioactivity? Somethings smells here...bad

[@simonm1447]

Some bombs had the core removed as a safety function, there was still Uranium in the bomb but without the core it could not explode. This was even done at the Hiroshima bomb (but this bomb was only built one time)

[@jsgraham67]

If anyone thinks that we were in peace time from 1946 on, they're just fooling themselves. I served in Germany in 1986-1988. I had cavalry buddies who patrolled that fence that separates West Germany from the East. I served on a remote tactical site 40 miles from the East German and Czech borders. We had MiG-21s fly over our site all the time. The pilots were confirming our missile compliment and state of readiness. We were not allowed to do anything about the flyovers because the Army was afraid of creating an international incident. Sadly, their planes were pretty shabby at the time. This was a year after the Chernobyl disaster. Unbeknownst to us, the Soviet Union was wheezing it's last breath. Chernobyl was the USSR's financial ruin. Years later, after perestroika, and East and West Germany were reunified, authorities found abandoned hidden caches filled with Soviet signage, currency and propaganda. If the call came down from the Kremlin, the Soviets would invade and change everything over to communist rule as they invaded. But, that didn't happen because they were literally bankrupt. So that chapter of the Cold War ended with a fizzle.

[@chadro_g1145]

Stalin, president? Uh, you may want to do a lot more research there.

[@acb9896]

8:42 Old Buddy's hair hat is just breaking all the rules. That's the comb over your mother warned you about

[@cuddlepaws4423]

And he gets caught in a strong wind, and it turns into a sail. In the UK, we call it a wrap over or a Shredded Wheat because it looks like the breakfast cereal of the same name.

[@NovaRoboticsJ6]

People would be happier if they always got to choose between Skippy and Jif.

[@douglasfahlbusch7092]

two passenger jets said "fuck ya'll" what a waiste

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

Not Russians, Soviets! Absolute arrogance and paranoia of Americans. Khrushchev said, “we will bury you”, but he didn’t mention that physically he talked about the competition between two different systems

[@kaalisurfer600]

right lol

[@jorgenfrohlich6954]

B36 Biggest bomber ever made ? Is the B52 not bigger?

[@johnwatson3948]

B-36 had bigger wingspan

[@joeypinterrockandroll3961]

there are no wing commanders in the USAF.

[@patrikez1]

Whats with the creepy smiling "expert" ??.

[@Retroscoop]

He wants to scare away creepy commentators, or at least irritate them. He's doing a good job at that.

[@storm_shadow78]

Why would you knowingly overload a plane especially with nuclear Ordnance!?!?

[@caseykunz7800]

"Pease is our profession" say the sign....HaHa

[@Retroscoop]

No it sayS: PeaCe is our profession. Haha.

[@lawrencehansen8731]

It was overweight at 5 tons?

[@lightningmcqueen181]

LeMay was a mad man

[@shadow404atl]

34:03 HAHAHA, so the Russians launched Sputnik with a V2??? Hehe, I love when these documentaries have these errors. Leaves room for historians to spot the mistakes. Btw, it was an early model of the R-7 which achieved orbit.

[@patdenney7046]

And we were taught crawl under are desk at school. We practiced all the time good old desk!

[@patdenney7046]

Your desk is built like a tank literally!

[@lovegod1steverythingelse2n47]

Question does anyone think if America was still the only country with Nukes how would this theoretic world look and anyone think we could of prevented any non-allied countries from getting or obtaining nuclear weapons if we (America) had tried and for how long we could have??

[@patdenney7046]

Whoops ! I accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb accidents happen nobody’s held accountable it’s government, Job security. Things haven’t changed! We are closer to nuclear war now than we have ever been. Why are we not teaching the kids to crawl under their desk? Desk must not be made like they used to. What are we teaching kids ? They used to start teaching us about nuclear war in Preschool or kindergarten . The good old. Days when nuclear war which more dangerous than your president.

[@tallkooljp]

Maybe get on with the topic, we don't need a history lesson on start of cold war

[@matthewfisher-sp5fq]

I think that they should of transported the Bombs by rail or truck. Or ship. Saver to stay on Tererferma. The Hamlet Big Daddy Road north Carolina I like that name.

[@cuddlepaws4423]

Watch the film Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater. There is a character in the film who is called in when a nuke goes missing.... stolen by Travolta. He looks dismayed as he says, 'I don't know what's worse, the fact that it happens, or that it happens so often, we even have a name for it,' McCarther was a looney who got demoted and LeMay was another looney. Trueman seemed literally, that, a TrueMan, whereas Eisenhower was ex-military and let the nukes go coasting through the skies above American. This documentary seems a catalogue of American aggression, secrecy and fuk you attitude, even on home soil where they screwed people's lives up, injured them, destroyed their land and homes, but didn't offer any compensation. And all of this was just plain willy waving with Russia. USA - United States of Arrogance.

[@gilbertspader7974]

That they admit too.

[@Retroscoop]

And by now, the USA had a new president who has told Russia they can go ahead with invading Europe, as long as the NATO partners don't pay their bills and do not reach 2% of the GDP for defense. (My guess is he also wants the increased budgets all to go to the US defense industry, and that buying exclusively European as I would suggest these countries do would be seen as an hostile action. Funny, I wonder how many folks from San Francisco knew they were several time pseudo-nuked because the town has the same hilly appearance as Leningrad...

[@timj3590]

Wow , that's not exactly the case but spin it the way you like. Pay your fair share!

[@flyingdutchmanindustries5877]

Too many commercials. Thumbs down spanking 👎

[@premajwani1290]

How much money usa waisted on these things

[@Karl-Benny]

Paranoia Typical USA

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

I don't believe that we have mastered the energy or the use of atomic energy, we are still very ignorant and in a very early stages of understanding of how to use nature's energies on the atomic scale. How do we let the power of such weapons lie in the hands of one man one woman one human being. Given the power of such weapons on the scale of our planet I think that maybe more than one person should have the authority to deploy these weapons. I do understand that there may be instances of which we need extremely quick decisive thinking and the more people we add to the decision process slows it down but given circumstances I think that we should limit it to one person only if it's a surprise attack. Given that we now have the capability to overwhelmingly devastate an enemy any place on the planet with conventional munitions with precision nuclear weapons should be a afterthought. They should be truly a last resort given the technology that we now have. I almost think that we should demonstrate our capabilities in Ukraine pragmatically asked to give no Russian no indication of our strategy or our intended implementation of such weapons in a direct conflict we should be demonstrating the devastating ability of our weapons systems against any modern adversary without the need to Sabre rattle. At least nuclear weapons work every time Russian might launch what 1 and 10 the rest of them will serve to help our side

[@OneEyedJacker]

The passageway to the bomb is pressurized, the bomb bay is not. How is it possible that he “slipped” and was at risk of falling with the bomb? I call bullshit.

[@soakupthesunman]

So, he wasn't going to do a Major Kong ride? 😂

[@simonm1447]

In which altitude? In low altitude there is no pressurization compared to the air pressure outside.

[@philippeattackman763]

MURDERERS ! !!........

[@maxx8011]

ivy mike was 800 times the hiroshima bomb, but nice try. no offence though, as this channel raw copies over documentaries from everywhere ... lol

[@patdenney7046]

And now we have Biden

[@brianwood1041]

A lot of misinformation on here

[@Lanse1984]

Omg the amount of propaganda and misinformation is astounding lol

[@joshjones3408]

Truman throught he was holding a Trump card.....ol Joseph all ready knew.... because of a weasel a rat....

[@colintraveller]

Really bad docu ..

[@tyroneflaucher3499]

Fake

[@dougshadrick9776]

My post just got banned and they're fixing to block me

[@dougshadrick9776]

See right here when they take home to new york and give him new clothes and put him on t v It is to shut them up.I bet they got a new house , a new car And all of that

[@kaalisurfer600]

americans will never learn anything about patriotisam untill they faced reality or how is to defend their country of usa

[@premajwani1290]

How much money usa waisted on these things

[@premajwani1290]

How much money usa waisted on these things