The Evolution & Scale of Nuclear Weapons

[@user-cf6ld3cp6k]

The future was looking bright in the 60’s

[@User-jr7vf]

lol

[@Formosa1]

Definitely brighter than 100 suns

[@arkuis]

@@Formosa1 The future is starting to look increasingly bright again these days.

[@muwafaqmosa5303]

Funny thing is that the 60s is where world would begin to change drastically, and it led to the modern technological era.

[@Justarandomguy492]

Too bright

[@haroldfarquad6886]

Tsar Bomba wasn't limited to 50 MT because of fallout, it was limited because the flight crew couldn't escape the blast if it was 100 MT.

[@JonMartinYXD]

Both problems contributed to the decision to reduce the yield to 50 Mt. The drop plane would have certainly been destroyed (they were nearly knocked out of the sky as it was) and the projected fallout - which would have been onto Soviet territory - was unacceptable.

[@user-FUCKYOU18]

Glide ket like Fab 3000 will be a good idea for any nuclear weapons & it safer for the pilot now

[@PopCultureCat]

Both were factors as far as I get it, yes.

[@GodlikeIridium]

Both considerations, as well as the fact that at those insane blast yields, most energy just gets blasted upwards anyways, more yield doesn't really change the effect anymore.

[@notsofunny1945]

Cap

[@bojangles1208]

The uk using Australia as their testing ground lol

[@jameshailerthepostmaster4389]

We were this close to have super mutant Australian Wildlife

[@davidb8539]

Well I mean... we have nowhere to test it here where it wouldn't break half the country's windows

[@bojangles1208]

@@davidb8539 Are you really trying to justify it with that response 😂

[@jamesedwards2483]

The Most "Nuked" Place On The Planet Is Actually The Nevada Test Range, About 45 Miles Northwest Of Las Vegas!!

[@liamw7112]

What else we gonna use the vast expanse of nothingness in the middle of the country for lol. Also typical uk moment

[@tygerbyrn]

Those scale CGI models look terrifying and fascinating. Mostly terrifying.

[@kinguchiha6212]

I literally went outside and imagined my entire city as a crater lol

[@Odin31b]

​@@kinguchiha6212not much of a change really.

[@christianhoffman7407]

@@Odin31b What?

[@kenn743]

2 aliens are talking in outer space, looking down on Earth. "It seems the inhabitants of planet Earth have created nuclear technology and missiles" says one alien "are they showing signs of intelligence ? " asks the other " I dont think so. They seem to be aiming at themselves" 😲

[@seanwebb605]

They would probably give our planet a different designation than what we call it.

[@ctakitimu]

@@seanwebb605 "That planet with the violent untrustworthy hairless apes"?

[@cynic5581]

Imagine trying to explain our “imaginary lines on maps” behavior to intelligent extraterrestrials. Embarrassing to think about.

[@seanwebb605]

@@cynic5581 It has to be easier than explaining baseball to them.

[@d3admaub938]

@@seanwebb605 ight fn

[@Kazuki_Aozaki]

I am from 🇯🇵 Nagasaki Prefecture. Every child born and raised in Nagasaki learns about the nuclear tragedy that took place in Nagasaki as part of their peace education from elementary school when summer approaches. It is difficult nowadays, but up until I was in junior high school, I had the opportunity to listen to the stories of hibakusha who had actually suffered nuclear attacks. Thanks to this, I understand "part" of the horror of nuclear weapons when they are used, even to the point of disgust. However, there are three countries near our country that possess nuclear weapons, North Korea🇰🇵, China🇨🇳, and Russia🇷🇺, and at this very moment, we are living within the range of nuclear weapons that are almost impossible to counterattack. But we are also well aware that what protects us from the threat of those nuclear weapons is the power of the nuclear threat that the United States🇺🇸, which used nuclear weapons on our country, now possesses. Right now, Russia🇷🇺 is waging war against Ukraine🇺🇦 with the threat of nuclear weapons. We, the people born and raised in Nagasaki, continue to hope that our city will remain the last city where an actual attack with nuclear weapons was carried out. We know that it is difficult for people to understand each other. Still, the nuclear threat that now hangs over the world is too high a price to pay as insurance against those with whom we may not understand each other.☮️

[@ColinoDeani]

As an Army Vet and American Citizen, I hope our Friends in Japan understand Hiroshima and Nagasaki would never have lost life like that if not for the Betrayal in Pearl Harbor.. Sometimes freinds fight once and never again becasue they learn to value their freindship over any silly conflicts.. Hopefully this will always be the story of the U.S and Japan.. Friends, Enemies then Best Freinds forever

[@Kazuki_Aozaki]

@@ColinoDeani Not all Japanese think in the same way. However, at least I believe that the attack on Pearl Harbour was ultimately our country's mistake, even if there were unavoidable circumstances on our side. And I also think it was our country's fault for not making the decision to stop the war. I am not sure if the way we have reflected on that war for the past nearly 80 years is the right way. However, I believe that we Japanese must repay the debt of gratitude we owe to the US for saving the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake with Operation Tomodachi, and I hope that we can continue to be ‘good friends across the Pacific’ for many years to come.

[@ColinoDeani]

@@Kazuki_Aozaki We shall indeed! Unfortunately Imperial Japan was not ruled by ist Great people, but an Emperor who made a bad call to betray.. this was not the fault of the People... Now japan is controlled by its people who are honorable with a rich history & Japan is her people now proud & resilient to even the wrath of Nature!

[@leonardselenide2204]

it is not about "difficulties for people to understand each other"!!! It is about freedom and slavery, it is about life and genocide. And remember - today it is Ukraine (that surrender a nuclear weapon) , tomorrow it can be you and your country, anywhere in the world. You think I am mistaken? Sure I was, till February 24, 2024. Now you keep hope that everything will be Ok!

[@jabloko992]

This needs more likes. Serious stuff. Are there any standouts for you from the people who experienced a nuclear attack?

[@JVS9977]

Take a drink everytime he says "NUCLEAR" 😂

[@klutch4198]

💀

[@VoidMaker407]

Bro im drunk already (its been 50 seconds)

[@johnredcorn2476]

Youanb dnagbd good ladf mate

[@Englishsea24]

I was under the table before the end of the video

[@phajthoj]

Nucular, it's pronounced Nucular

[@ProfessorJayTee]

Now, Ukraine regrets the HELL out of giving up its nukes and trusting anybody else's "security guarantees..."

[@MrS3RAS]

Ukraine originally got their nukes from Russia. When they have them back it was less by choice and more just Russia saying give them back or we'll come take them.

[@F079YWM]

It's the US forced Ukraine to give back all nuclear weapon to Russia after USSR collapsed. Addtionally the US paid huge money to Ukraine to make it happen because all control/command/infrastructure of Nuclear Weapon System were in Russia. And Russia is only country who can properly handle this kind of weapon among all the countries of former USSR which logically guarantees to the whole world that nukes will not be lost occasionally and appeared in "black markets for sale". The same thing happened with nuclear arsenal in Belarus and Kazakhstan.

[@needs_more_dakka5774]

Ukraine wasn't a wealthy country. The couldn't have supported the infrastructure to maintain and secure the massive ICBM silos placed there by the USSR.

[@MuhammadRidwan-pe7ny]

if only they didnt insist on wanting to join NATO just like what the Budapest agreed to

[@b.g.4353]

signed by, The US, The UK and drumroll............RUSSIA!😆

[@hyper8545]

Patton was right.

[@Finnbobjimbob]

Vile human being

[@captainamerica6525]

At the end of the war Patton was depressed. He wanted the war to continue. Patton was not of sound mind after the surrender of Germany.

[@davidpowell6098]

"We defeated the wrong enemy".

[@debrickashaw9387]

Mach 25?? I knew they were fast but that is insane

[@iitzfizz]

Yup, about 5 miles a second!

[@senorhayomayo]

It’s gotta be in space. Less aerodrag, no atmosphere to heat the nose, it’s gotta be in space.

[@h8GW]

All ICBMs are hypersonic. There is no known weapon that can go remotely that fast in atmosphere.

[@philsmycrevice]

I think it's the loitering capability not the speed. (3rd KZbin edit).

[@liamcore7203]

Yes, I saw a video on an icbm re-entry from space when I was young. Besides being very fast, it looked like a golden laser. A streak of gold light, then impact.

[@DrEcho]

In terms of scale, it's not the most powerful nuclear weapons that keep me up at night, but rather the smallest. The ones you can hide, disguise, smuggle, lose.. the ones that are more tempting to use when backed against into corner..

[@NantasCookieGod]

Man thinks himself clever building the atom bomb, but I’ve never seen a mouse build a mouse trap.

[@killman369547]

Eh, that's a flawed argument. A mouse is literally incapable of building a mouse trap. Imbue a mouse with human level intelligence and opposable thumbs and THEN lets see if a mouse would never build a mouse trap.

[@capeofstormz5974]

​@@killman369547 It's not meant to be a literal comparison.

[@lexinexi-hj7zo]

best reply on youtube

[@JackKolody-fl5dk]

Underrated comment

[@bombomos]

How long ago was the last world war?

[@khankrum1]

We are all irradiated by these tests!

[@stepitupandgo67]

totally insane.

[@PsychoC4rnivore]

You get irradiated by the sun every day

[@mavzdog]

you get irradiated from literally everything around you

[@christopherscott932]

​@@PsychoC4rnivoreOh understandable that makes it all better 🙄

[@izenguarr5236]

No.... We're all radiated by the fking CELL PHONES & 5G death towers everywhere. Most are dead already and don't even know it.

[@TheSCPStudio]

Most of us are born into the constraints of whichever country were a part of. Most of us can’t go to the wild, build our own house and farm, etc. We’re forced into working jobs which ultimately only really benefit a few people with multitudes more freedom than us. On top of all that, every country has the ability to completely wipe out humanity. And we ultimately have no control over any of it. I love humanity. :D

[@User-jr7vf]

Fortunately for me I was born in a relatively wealthy family and we live on a farm in the country side of a Latin America country. I never had to subject myself to any job and I spend my time doing only things that I like, this at 28 years of age. I know I'm privileged and if re-incarnation is real, only 2 out of 10 times I would have this life.

[@Zenithx622]

@@User-jr7vf Thinking about besides antartica south america is the only continetns not to have a nuke go pop. Lucky

[@jahinsadman1505]

@@Zenithx622 i dont think it will matter much in case of a nuclear winter caused by a lot of nukes elsewhere

[@nickhaynie5980]

I don't like it. D:

[@ChaoticMartian]

​@@jahinsadman1505nuclear winter is scientifically impossible. It's just not how nukes work.

[@matthewsutphin7508]

89% of human population on this earth doesn't even know what a nuclear winter is. Scary

[@thedausthed]

Why would they need to know about a fake effect that was dreamed up by anti nuclear activists, as admitted by one of the creators of the idea and disproven when the model that the idea was based on falsely predicted the same thing happening from oil well fires during the Gulf War?

[@chriskleinbach-vd5ch]

Threads 😖😥..

[@0mniVerse777]

They don't need to know because it's all theoretical. No one knows if thats a 100% possibility.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

Rich people building their nuclear shelter is hilarious. Either they have supplies to live the rest of their lives, or they will need to save those who will grow the food, those who will do maintenance to the facility, those who keep their lifestyle running. That is a big Noah's ark. The most hilarious is that none of these facilities have been tested to see if they will work under real conditions. So be sure that no prepper billionaire will have certainty about anything.

[@timothy4011]

@@josepablolunasanchez1283ok?

[@septembersurprise5178]

"If we had less statesmanship, we would get along with fewer battleships." - Mark Twain

[@metalmark1214]

So much for that treaty of Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons for Ukraine signed by the US, UK and Russia. Russia certainly broke that agreement.

[@anthonysmith7913]

Ukraine was part of Russia at that time. They didn’t have the right to have it after they decided to separate from the USSR.

[@seanwebb605]

@@anthonysmith7913 They weren't part of Russia. They were part of the Soviet Union. And they chose not to maintain nuclear weapons.

[@anthonysmith7913]

@@seanwebb605 it wasn’t a choice. You don’t get to keep the “benefits” if you leave the “company”.

[@seanwebb605]

@@anthonysmith7913 You are pretty simplistic.

[@anthonysmith7913]

@@seanwebb605 based on what? You can’t even support your statement.

[@alexmarshall7906]

We went from Bow and arrows and cannons to Assult rifles and nukes in 100 years... that is actually crazy to think about

[@verakoo6187]

Especially considering we were on bows/swords for 1000's of years lol

[@milesromanus7041]

The first rifle was made in the 15th century while nukes appeared in 1945..

[@alexmarshall7906]

@@milesromanus7041 yes but I said Assult Rifle not just any rifle. The first Assult Rifle was the German StG-44 used in ww2. First LMG was The Danish Madsen used in 1899 to 1906.

[@TheWilliamHoganExperience]

Breach loading fire-arms were in common useage by the middle of the 1800s. Muzzle loaders were around for 300 or so years prior to that, so I think you meant to say from breech loading firearms to nukes inside of 100 years, lol

[@erictaylor5462]

A lot of people thought it was a lack of technology that the US was "behind" the USSR when it came to ballistic missiles. We were, but only because we were so far ahead in airplanes. In the US strategic thinking was, bombs would be delivered by strategic bombers, and so the US focused on developing faster, better bombers and the means to shoot down bombers from the other side. The Soviets could see that penetrating US air defenses was going to be very difficult, so they decided to develop ballistic missile systems. So by the late 1950's while the US was working to develop aircraft that could fly deeply into the USSR the Soviets were developing missiles that could deliver nuclear payloads to the US, or non-weapon payloads to orbit.

[@EmmettBrown9]

The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider will save us.

[@Preview43]

You know it's not good when the clouds start running away.

[@divergentthg7925]

Imagine being a species capable of great things but rather destroy itself

[@keeranimal8]

0:09….now I want a bag of Nerds Gummy Clusters lol

[@DeepRestMan]

remember to turn off your ac during peak hours, and don't let your car warm up in the winter.

[@eminentthethird5926]

What’s insane about the tsar bomba is they were originally planning to use 100 megatons not 50

[@QWERRR7771]

Do you feel it? If the United States develops and uses new weapons and technologies, it is good and no comments are made. As soon as the USSR repeats technology or invents something that the United States does not have, it immediately "changes the strategic balance of power"

[@MarcoInaros-ns7ut]

The legendary hypocrisie of the west,just like the Cuba missiles crisis where people think the russians were the first to escalate when in fact it was the Us who put nukes in Turkey

[@verakoo6187]

By the 1960's the USSR had already slaughterd 10's of millions of their own people and were actively trying to take over the world, so yes we were very invested in the fact that they gained the ability to delete entire counties with a button preas.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

The Cuban missile crisis did not begin when US reconnaissance detected missile sites in Cuba. The Cuban missile crisis started when the US stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey. The Soviet positioning of missiles in Cuba was Krushchev's only option, as he saw it, after the UN ignored Soviet complaints about the American missiles in Turkey.

[@EmmettBrown9]

Before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States had indeed stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey, close to the Soviet Union's borders. These Jupiter missiles were a significant concern for the Soviets. In response to the U.S. missiles in Turkey and other perceived threats, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided to secretly place nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962. This move was intended to deter any potential U.S. aggression and to address the imbalance created by the U.S. missiles in Turkey. The crisis officially began in October 1962 when U.S. reconnaissance discovered these missile sites in Cuba. This led to a tense 13-day standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. However, it's an oversimplification to say that the Cuban Missile Crisis "started" solely because of the U.S. missiles in Turkey. The crisis was the result of a complex interplay of Cold War tensions, including the U.S. attempts to overthrow the Cuban government (e.g., the Bay of Pigs Invasion), Soviet ambitions, and the broader arms race. The crisis ended when the U.S. agreed secretly to remove its missiles from Turkey (as part of a broader agreement) in exchange for the Soviet withdrawal of missiles from Cuba. while the U.S. missiles in Turkey were a significant factor in the events leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the crisis itself was triggered by the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba and was influenced by a wide range of geopolitical factors.

[@raymondmartin6737]

I was born 1944 in London during WWII, came to the US in 1949 on the Queen Mary, 15 years later in Air Force ROTC, was an Officer in the USAF, SAC, 509th Bomb Wing, Peace is Our Profession, from 1968 to 1974, after growing up in the duck and cover school days of the Cold War . Now a 100% Disabled American Veteran of the Vietnam War Era and being 80 years old to see the past history repeat itself. 😮

[@dufo4766]

Magnificent presentation, probably the best I have seen of its type! Thanks a lot for that!

[@ScienceTime24]

Thank you for watching

[@flylippfantom8425]

Sickening what the US military did to the citizens of Bikini Island and then after everyone had radiation poisoning. They named a sexy swimsuit after it.

[@TheTimer1337]

He "blinked" first is another way of saying they were negotiating like adults. We don't see any "blinking" these days.

[@fubaralakbar6800]

50 megatons seems to be the popular figure for the Tsar Bomb. I ready that it was closer to 60 megatons!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

57, sometimes 57 and change. Basically bigger than anything the US had done by far and less than the 100 MT yield.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Geez, you're getting quite a lot wrong here. First, Klaus Fuchs was not a Soviet plant in the Manhatten Project. He was so horrified at the devastating power of nuclear weapons that he could not in conscience allow one nation to have a monopoly over it. Second, the US monopoly of 1945 - 1949 only existed because they reneged on a deal signed with the UK. The Manhatten Project did not start from scratch. The British Tube Alloys project laid the theoretical groundwork upon which the Manhatten Project was based, and it was handed over wholesale to the US once the agreement was signed. Third, the hydrogen bomb wasn't begun in 1949. Edward Teller started work on what he called "the Super" in 1945, but much of the theory that underpinned this design was worked on before that.

[@soureneg1263]

"Smiling budha" dope name 😂

[@kent_calvin]

Good one

[@ReconMan8654]

Excellent work

[@Ballacha]

firing an atomic weapon from an artillery gun is just so comical and horrifying at the same time

[@raymondcava4669]

Seems Humans we’re not meant to last very long on this planet. Glad I never had kids. I’m enjoying life one day at a time.😂

[@user-ty2pk9om8c]

Привет с России. Да я тоже так думаю

[@berndmensing8707]

Same..

[@tatscabs4860]

You're right..

[@prophecyrat2965]

People who have kids are fools

[@redsun9261]

Agreed. You never know when you die. Live every day like your last one, its the only way to be truly happy.

[@matthewakian2]

Great video.

[@robertelmo7736]

Well, if it hits the fan at least I won't have to go to work Monday?

[@informationageenterprise2184]

I had no idea nuclear artillery was a thing 😨

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Check out Davy Crockett (M-28/29 launcher, M388 projectile, W54 warhead) for maximum WTF-value.

[@perkins1439]

The future so bright I got to wear shades or maybe welder's goggles

[@WorldDiscoveries-772]

Who knew splitting atoms could lead to such explosive consequences? From 'Little Boy' to Tsar Bomba, we’ve gone from playing with firecrackers to setting off the ultimate fireworks display. Talk about a glow-up!🤓🥳

[@marcogilardini5872]

Green.....very green....but the government says that is your car the problem.....

[@domoniquesaul120]

If we hadn't tested at Bikini Atoll how would Spongebob and the rest of Bikini Bottom have been created?

[@enterprise0523]

Radioactive fallout mutation 🤣🤣

[@ColdSid]

Guess we got something good out of it

[@GabrielVitor-kq6uj]

the weird thing is that... it's bad to have Soviet missile systems in Cuba, right next to USA. But it seemed to be ok to have USA missile systems in Ukraine, right next to Russia.

[@philsmycrevice]

I love KZbin censors. I don't know what I wrote that was offensive or bullying by explaining loitering munitions but this is my fourth attempt.

[@robertbolding4182]

You two are a cyberbully?

[@zainday7173]

KZbin is a coward

[@RedwolfDogrocket]

Its because you have looked at 'spicy' channels like Lotus Eaters, Count Dankula, Louder with Crouder etc. The youtube bot picks out key words and auto pulls you. Or you have upset someone and a lefty has tailed you and mass reported your posts. Check your privacy settings

[@poindextertunes]

@@RedwolfDogrocketnope! these are delusions of a butthurt snowflake who think the world revolves around them and their beliefs 😂

[@brizzybones7377]

I always thought nukes were like 50 miles wide so 6.5 ain’t nothing to my child imagination 😂

[@paulkarl1149]

That distance is only fireball

[@paulkarl1149]

Destraction is over 100 miles wide

[@brizzybones7377]

@@paulkarl1149 that makes sense now

[@Aetnaboy73]

90 seconds to midnight

[@Whatisright]

The folks in our galactic neighborhood during the 20th century were probably wondering why the hell so many stars were exploding at our house.

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

Curiously enough, during this period, there were numerous ufo sightings, with one at a British military Base, which stored nukes.

[@DeviousKid45]

The hypothetical galactic neighbourhood would have more devastating weapons that deal more loss of life. They don't get to talk.

[@Whatisright]

@@DeviousKid45 I agree about them most likely not being impressed with what we’ve got, but it’s that eagerness some of us have to use this stuff that’s a problem. Can’t have that mind set running around, they have kids out there.

[@BreckThePanther]

dumb

[@user-rk1bf4eh2p]

When I was a kid in school we used to go through these bombing drills to get under the desk, stand in the doorway, what's that going to do when it Melts your skin off

[@HPcartmuc200]

Think they were more for the purpose of it being detonated a longer distance away, so the shockwave would be less deadly. But yeah, if a nuke was detonated right next to you, there would be no point in doing any of that

[@Evan_Bell]

Such actions would save millions from flash burns and flying window shards. It saved school children at Chelyabinsk. The teacher who approached the window was hospitalised.

[@TheGreatSeraphim]

Tzar Bomba was a theoretical test and not a practical test. The Russian's had no intention of ever making it a practical nuke. There were a lot of reasons to never have mega nukes, payload efficiency drops rapidly as less of the material % has time to fission before it rips itself apart. They were essentially looking for the sweet spot by using it to verify the efficiency curve. Castle Bravo was a less extreme of the same idea. The Tzar core split into 10 smaller nukes would have a far greater overall yield with less collateral.

[@dannypatterson9774]

Great video!

[@tgsgardenmaintenance4627]

So the US wasn't worried about the fallout of their own atomic weapons test? As for NATO, the only members that are of any consequence , apart from the US, is the UK, France, and maybe, Germany! Luxembourg and Belgium?🤔

[@Maurizio4672]

Nella Nato comandano da PADRONI indiscussi gli USA, la Francia e la Germania non contano un cazzo, forse un po' solo gli Inglesi, ma i padroni sono gli USA. Se non hai capito questo sei ancora in alto mare

[@META19991]

Damn, it's 2:43 a.m. I'm high, but I learned something new, and that's good!!

[@Ranstone]

If we were an hour from midnight in the 60's, we're minutes away now, and there are still people that deny this... SMH...

[@Chuck44442]

It is amazing no one has set off one or two...

[@cade8986]

“Destroy the world many times over” is such an exaggeration. I’m so tired of hearing that.

[@jpaulc441]

I know how you feel. I've met people who actually think that if all the nuclear warheads were to explode at once, the entire planet would break apart like the Death Star exploding.

[@debbies3763]

HISTORY has proven time an again that absolute power causes insanity.

[@greentriumph1643]

I was born in NYC in 1960. There was asbestos in the brakes and lead in the paint. They did atmospheric nuclear testing until I was 3 years old. Still here somehow.

[@apollo4619]

One thing of note: Modern Nuclear warhead compared to warheads of the 50's-70's are alot "cleaner". Meaning they go for a larger explosive force with far less fallout. Due to the fact the users want to use one warhead on all targets (ex: bunkers, ICBM control bunkers, silos, etc) so in order to be effective against hard targets you get more bang and less rad. So you wouldn't see something like in fallout where radiation is everywhere 200 years after a nuclear war. In fact with the number of modern ICBM/SLBM interceptors the U.S can shoot down 600-900 warheads depending on if they use 2 interceptors per warhead (80% chance of kill) or 4 interceptors per warhead (99.9% chance of kill). So rapidly we are coming to a point where some politicians might think a nuclear war is winnable as the U.S makes more interceptors.

[@Evan_Bell]

No they're not. Many modern weapons still have very high fission fractions. Fallout becomes safe after about 5 years. The US can intercept 26 warheads, not 600-900. They only have 44 GBIs.

[@apollo4619]

@@Evan_Bell The USAF can only intercept 26 warheads. The U.S Army has 7 batteries of THAAD And the U.S Navy has every AGEIS equipped warship with SM-6’s All of those systems can intercept ICBM warheads alone or in combination with other systems. (Also the half life of most radioactivity is about 3-4 days outside of large deposits near ground zero)

[@Evan_Bell]

@@apollo4619 THAAD and SM-3 cannot intercept ICBMs, only up IRBMs. SM-6 can only handle up to MRBMs. Fallout is comprised of a multitude of nuclides with varying half lives. After 5 years, the dose rate will fall enough that someone can be born and live their whole life in that area without a statically detectable increase in cancer risk.

[@Evan_Bell]

@@apollo4619 THAAD and SM-3 cannot intercept ICBMs, only up IRBMs. SM-6 can only handle up to MRBMs.

[@Evan_Bell]

@@apollo4619 Fallout is comprised of a multitude of fission products with varying half lives. After 5 years, the hottest zones become safe enough that someone can be born and live their whole life in that area without a statically detectable increase in lifetime cancer risk.

[@rff6866]

Beautiful

[@SharkLawd]

Camera man never dies😂

[@c.c.1070]

Damn, I knew I should’ve been a bomber pilot or a valet at Raven Rock, 🤦

[@jameshowland7393]

Or as JFK called it "Cuber".

[@stevencooper2464]

It has been nearly 80 years since a human population experienced the horror of atomic weapons, crude though they were. Today, the world is headed for a very painful reminder; hopefully, somebody will be around to tell the story to future generations.

[@ethanmac639]

Does Iran or North Korea get the leeway pass of "nuclear ambiguity/opacity" like Israel does?

[@JamesPhieffer]

Israel has never even acknowledged having nuclear weapons. It went about the matter in secret, and it has remained mostly so. Even the US, so far as is publicly known, only found out that the Israelis had nuclear weapons through the use of means like flights by intelligence aircraft using sensors that could detect various emissions and other evidence of the devices. Thus, Israel simply doesn't answer any questions about a nuclear program. By word and action they say nothing - not yes, not no - regardless of the question. North Korea on the other hand made no bones about its pursuit of nuclear weapons or its eventual possession of them. It then used the program and later the weapons themselves for diplomatic blackmail and to continually threaten its neighbours and the wider world. And Iran has followed a model which is only slightly less overt. That's the difference.

[@ethanmac639]

@@JamesPhieffer take your hypocrisy, apologetics and shove it 🙂👌🏻👍🏻

[@JamesPhieffer]

@@ethanmac639 translation: "I don't have any logical basis for rebuttal, so I'll have a social media temper-tantrum". Sorry, but no matter how much you kick and scream - literally or metaphorically - it won't change the fact that North Korea and Iran, both of which have built/are building nuclear arsenals specifically for offensive use (thru blackmail or otherwise), are categorically different from every other nuclear power. Those other powers traditionally haven't threatened on a regular basis to attack their neighbours with their nukes. Russia, of course 🙄, has broken from that tradition since they invaded Ukraine. So they could reasonably be categorized with N Korea and Iran now.

[@ethanmac639]

@@JamesPhieffer H Y P O C R I S Y A P O L O G E T I C S

[@MoistTowelette125]

The USA and Soviet Union weren’t allies during WW2. They just weren’t enemies. Enemy of my enemy is my friend type of deal.

[@xXDoUbLeDDXx38]

Nuclear artillery is crazy! I had no idea they tried that.

[@user-FUCKYOU18]

USA was the first & would be better for battleship (nuclear powered & nuclear arsenal)

[@plxton]

There's not many things that scare me in this world, but nuclear weapons instil a terror into me.

[@StealthMode139]

Aye we know. In the event ,1 megaton , The FireBall would reach our location in approximately 60 seconds. We would be the lucky ones Vaporized. Cool stuff ty

[@fisheresque]

Can you imagine the weapons they have that we don’t know about? We are the only instance of life that we can confirm and all that stands between us and extinction is a few pushes of a button.

[@AlekOsipoff]

France was nat a part of NATO when they developed their nuclear weapon, Cuban crisis starts not in Cuba but in Turkey and Italy, when US decided to takein this countries their strategic weapons, capable of taking down Soviet cities and only after that threat USSR sent their weapon on Cuba

[@shadowfish357]

And we wonder why extraterrestrials don’t visit us.

[@tadhggoreyoneill13666]

I watch these videos and all I can think of to say is "what have we done?"

[@MrRandomcommentguy]

"What was the Cube and Missile crisis? - Philomena Cunk

[@KaiiWinter-nw4vi]

Aliens watching these videos will have a keen idea of what colours of chromatophores we have , by how many colours of the bomb we could see , versus how many of them are invisible on the recording medias we captured them on .

[@EmmettBrown9]

The reference to "colors of the bomb" might refer to the different colors seen during a nuclear explosion, such as the bright flash, fireball, and subsequent effects. These colors are visible across various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, from visible light to infrared and ultraviolet.

[@walterfechter8080]

"I saw black and my face flash in the sky" - "Powderfinger" (Neil Young).

[@aadhunikfacts2280]

Where do you get high quality images for your thumbnail?

[@michaelsublet3283]

We can't destroy the world. But we can destroy our ability to live in it though.

[@hhydar883]

Nuclear weapons are actually not that big of a deterrence now as the world post-WWII with the dominance of the US and its allies can bring any country to its knees especially economically. Having said that, i think the upcoming wars are going to be much more destructive with minimal human intervention due to the rise of AI-based weaponry systems worldwide. If things go out of hand, our extinction would be imminent.

[@tedslaughter169]

A bit wrong on how the " cuban missle crisis" happened

[@aadhunikfacts2280]

Where do you get high quality images for your thumbnail? How to make thumbnails like Science Time?

[@ILiveInCity]

this is so fire

[@user-ty2pk9om8c]

По словам специалистов царь бомба могла сжечь сразу 3 Лос Анджелеса сразу 😱

[@SteveBandido]

The blood of innocence burning in the skies

[@WilliamMitchell-sc3fe]

The brightest of minds creating the dumbest of weapons!

[@iangeorgi3607]

It always surprises me how in the United States they talk about the nuclear race and the Cold War, carefully omitting some facts: 6:25 Where does it even come from that the Soviets wanted to hide nuclear tests? The Soviets were more than interested in demonstrating that they also have these weapons to implement deterrence. Yes, deterring the United States from a nuclear attack on the USSR - see "operation Unthinkable", "operation Dropshot" and other options for a preventive nuclear attack on the USSR. And the Soviets were well aware that the United States had the means to detect nuclear tests, after all, their spies had "stolen" an atomic bomb. Therefore, there was no need to shout to the whole world about atomic tests or demonstrate them (as the US did, killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens) - the USSR did not want to be perceived as an aggressor. 6:55 What kind of military threat from the USSR are we talking about, in response to which NATO was allegedly formed? The Soviets were quite satisfied with the simple spread of their ideology in Europe due to the popularity of socialism after their victory in World War II (85% of all wehrmacht military losses fell on the eastern front). On the contrary, it was the former "allies" who planned the attack on the USSR and the violent "liberation" of Europe from socialism immediately after 1945 (see "operation Unthinkable"). The Warsaw Pact, the Soviet military bloc in Europe, was created after the creation of the NATO bloc, in response, and for the purpose of self-defense, and not vice versa. 11:22 And why do you think the Soviets created an intercontinental missile? It was a response to the superiority of the US in bomber aviation. While the USSR was vulnerable to a huge fleet of American nuclear bombers stationed in Europe, capable of wiping dozens of Soviet cities off the face of the earth at any moment, the US remained invulnerable on the other side of the globe. By creating an ICBM, the Soviets made it clear to the US that America is also vulnerable (perhaps for the first time in its history) to a nuclear strike. Therefore, the USSR did not violate the "balance of power", but on the contrary, restored the balance, ensuring mutual assured destruction. 14:06 As always, the United States is silent about the fact that the Caribbean missile crisis began with the deployment of American nuclear missiles in Turkey. It was an attempt to surround the USSR with the prospect of a quick decapitation strike. By placing missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev demonstrated to the US their own strategy. Now Washington was 5 minutes away from a nuclear strike. The withdrawal of missiles from Turkey in response to the withdrawal of missiles from Cuba was Khrushchev's greatest success. Oh, yes, the US asked him not to speak openly about the promise to withdraw missiles from Turkey, apparently they were afraid of losing face. This explains why the United States convinces itself that Khrushchev has "chickened out." 17:33 Ukraine has never "had" its own nuclear weapons. Control over Soviet nuclear weapons (launch codes, the brain of the Perimeter system and the nuclear briefcase, as well as the headquarters of the special "nuclear" directorate of the Soviet army) was located in Moscow (that is, in the Russian Federation). If Ukraine had refused to give nuclear weapons to Moscow, it could have led to a military invasion in 1992 to ensure the control and security of the Russian nuclear arsenal. The U.K. was afraid of this scenario like fire (that nuclear weapons would end up in the center of amenities), so they paid the Ukrainian government a lot of money to give nuclear weapons to Moscow. It is necessary to understand the psychology of countries. Historically, the US has never known what it means to be a vulnerable to a military threat from outside. That's why they reacted so hysterically to the USSR's emerging ability to nuke them. While the USSR barely recovered from the most terrible war, in which 16 million civilian people were exterminated by the invaders. The Soviets swore to themselves that this would never happen again. And this requires proving to any future aggressor that he will be guaranteed to be totally destroyed.

[@jeraldblankenshipsr.9412]

It’s nice to hear someone pronouncing the word “nuclear.” Correctly. Not, New-klur or New-kuh-lur. I used to hate it when Dubya would say it; he always mispronounced it 😂

[@hikigayahachiman6368]

We will get our punishment for playing with nature soon

[@Maurizio4672]

si e stavolta spero si cominci dagli Stati Uniti e dall'Inghilterra, cosa molto probabile

[@GusCraft460]

For a second I thought that thumbnail was the Las Vegas sphere.

[@huhcraig1602]

4:57 bikini lagoon is just ironic

[@Justanotherconsumer]

The swimsuit is named after the test site.

[@anibalbarca9549]

Why they never mention that USA placed the Turkey Missiles before the Cuba Missiles in this kind of videos ?

[@damirrakhmanov3119]

because they are hypocrites

[@acheers9030]

"JFK, facing the gravest threat of his presidency" who gonna tell him.....

[@Beth_OMette]

M.A.D Baby!

[@brentwilbur]

You gotta give the Soviets credit for their ballistics program. It carries on today. Russia still has a real knack for making missiles. If wars were only fought with missiles, Russia would win every time. Every time.

[@ccompson2]

really want to see some 4k footage of nuclear detonations, but I understand why it's probably not a great idea

[@user-rk1bf4eh2p]

We can't use Conventional Weapons it's bad enough, at least you could start rebuilding, I'm scared and confused are the younger Generations !!!

[@StANDby007]

You forgot Kazakhstan. They also had nuclear arsenals and transferred them all to Russia in 1995.

[@Gregwjohnson1]

A very scary world that we live in these days 😐😐😐😐🫥🫥🫥😶😶😶

[@AssassinsDG]

Even in this "historic" video the narrator is not telling the truth about the carribean crisis. USSR has deployed missles in Cuba in 1962 as an answer on the US actions in Turkey, where US has deployed their missles in 1961. Its just historical fact.