The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About

The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About | The Chill Zone Reacts

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@djchappell1726 Ай бұрын

The only difference between Sundial and the 120,000 known nukes on the planet is that the 120,000 nukes weigh less on the conscious of the first person to start detonations.

@Amaninacanofsoup Ай бұрын

And they are real.

@samhescott348 Ай бұрын

@@Amaninacanofsoupwouldn’t be surprised if it was real. If it was real, they’d bust all the glaciers first. No coming back from that.

@Judgement_Kazzy Ай бұрын

Well, you know. There's also the fact that they are separate weapons owned by different countries. Meaning A LOT more people would have to hit the big red button to trigger something of that scale The craziest thing about Sundial is the fact that it would have basically been a full-on global nuclear war condensed down to ONE decision.

@jannegrey Ай бұрын

12.000, but sort of yes.

@Su-57ej Ай бұрын

@@jannegrey both of you are wrong lmao, its around 12,000 not 12 or 120,000

@danielvalentim91 Ай бұрын

One thing I thought about when I saw this video for the first time: Firstly the sound design of this is incredible Second: the stereotype of mad scientist who destroys the world that exists in fiction is not so fiction

@abnegazher Ай бұрын

"Yeah. You could consider that we are the only species that managed to put a deadman trigger in the entire planet."

@cheeseninja1115 Ай бұрын

The 'beauty' of modern nuclear weapons compared to Project Sundial is that modern nukes can actually be targeted and launched. Allow for MAD to be enforced on individual nations. Sundial was so big, that the only use of it would be if the world was against the US, which it wouldn't. Thus Sundial's existence would defeated it's purpose of nuclear deterrence. To deter you must be capable to act.

@RaptorNX01 Ай бұрын

"if the world was against the US, which it wouldn't" this didn't age well. or at least, we are much closer to this milk starting to curdle.

@snowgrave2475 Ай бұрын

@@RaptorNX01uhhh. No? What new countries are all coming out of the dark to be against the USA?

@martenkahr3365 Ай бұрын

Nah, Sundial did have a point at the time. The reason stockpiles grew to thousands of nuclear missiles during the Cold War wasn't just an arbitrary "we need to have more than they do". The point was that to maintain deterrence, you'd need to have enough for at least one to get through to each of the enemy's military targets and population centers, and all of the nukes needed to be big enough that they destroy the target even if they were a "near miss". And technologies to intercept nukes, harden facilities against "near miss" nukes, and camouflage them from reconnaissance so the enemy wouldn't be sure where to aim were improving faster than the accuracy of long range nuclear missiles was. Every few years, technological developments happened and both needed one more nuke per target to be confident that at least one got through. And both sides also kept building new military sites that made the list of targets longer and longer. If your enemy ever suspected that they might come out with military capability and meaningful population intact after the brief nuclear exchange of WW3, they might break MAD and pull their trigger, leaving you no choice but to pull yours and hope your enemy grossly miscalculated. Sundial could, theoretically, have skipped that expensive nuclear arms race if built: the US would have a bomb big enough to destroy the world regardless, and the USSR (and later China, too) would know that the US will set it off if they ever escalated to nuclear war or crossed some other "red line". The US would never have to build another nuclear bomb or ICBM, no matter how good their enemies got at intercepting missiles and bombers. The US wouldn't have to run constantly ongoing, dangerous operations like Chrome Dome to keep nuclear bombers in the air 24-7, with live nukes on board on every bomber just in case nuclear war suddenly starts to maintain credible MAD deterrence. Dealing with non-nuclear nations could, and historically was even without Sundial, be resolved with conventional weapons, and the US would have more budget to develop and manufacture them because it doesn't need to spend on nukes or a nuclear air force. The reduced spending could even benefit the private, civilian economy either as welfare programs, industrial subsidies or in the form of reducing the tax burden on the population.

@Th3_W01f Ай бұрын

09:42 Nuclear arms race in a nutshell "Who can kill who deader"

@Thugblader92 Ай бұрын

I read an argumentative weapons thesis from Germany way back where the consensus of weaponry was to kill humans, and the methods at the time were putting a cart before the horse. "Poke a hole in skin, causes death. Can we develop a weapon that removes all skin on a target with slight contact?" The madman then proposed a sort of skin-desolvant that could be put into localized rainclouds. Just send a plane up above the 'enemy' on a rainy day and the enemy will simply disolve.

@Hal-Embers Ай бұрын

Nice i needed a new video from our Buff bro Daddy Jack today lol

@ToyotaCorolla-en2mv Ай бұрын

You're not wrong but damn chill😭

@DeHerg Ай бұрын

So not only did "Dr Strangelove" predict the fluoridation conspiracy theories, but even the doomsday device in it was real? Next thing you're going to tell me, the US dept of defense employed a bunch of former WW2 German scientists with twitchy arms.

@RookMeAmadeus Ай бұрын

So, Edward Teller unironically wanted to turn the US government into a literal movie villain by giving them the ultimate doomsday weapon and the keys to it? As a DETERRENT? Sounds like the man was absolutely brilliant from a scientific perspective, but dumb as dirt when it came to sociology and politics.

@martenkahr3365 Ай бұрын

The point as a deterrent was that the US would be capable of destroying all enemy military targets and population centers no matter how good the Soviets got at missile/bomber interception or bunker-hardening. It basically would have meant the US would be able to maintain credible MAD deterrence without ever having to build any more nukes or maintain a nuclear air force. With the especially expensive part of the latter being Operation Chrome Dome: strategic bombers with nuclear bombs on board flying over the north pole and along the Soviet border 24-7, just so they survive and are ready to go in case the Soviets launch their nukes and they need to go drop their bombs instead of turning back home with them like usual. In the long term, building out Sundial would have been a huge economic advantage for the US, especially if the Soviets refused to do the same thing and still kept building nukes to wipe out US facilities and population centers "the hard way".

@Ariyan_12349 3 күн бұрын

Yeah, "mad scientist"

@thalmoragent9344 Ай бұрын

Honestly, even if the Sundial isn't as devastating as it sounds, the real question is if we could find a way to mass-produce the Sundial... would have to scrap the rest of the nukes, though.

@RedUnit10 Ай бұрын

To quote a Falcon "He's Out Of Line But He's Right"

@DirtSpud Ай бұрын

Thank you man! Just got off work and need to unwind and boom new upload. Love the videos man. You give me more information than what the videos usually present AND you are chill as hell. Your chill and mellow aura is underappreciated on this wacky platform.

@boomsoldier9267 Ай бұрын

how do you test a world ending bomb? realistically

@Mr-bw7yi Ай бұрын

probably somewhere in space that is much farther than the moon's orbit

@boomsoldier9267 Ай бұрын

@@Mr-bw7yi oh

@KibitoAkuya Ай бұрын

@@Mr-bw7yi throw it at Venus

@SBCMRTalana Ай бұрын

I love the editing on this video.

@gastari429 Ай бұрын

So you're telling me people managed to CREATE a fraction of the power that a STAR has back in 1950s-60s!?

@royce_beyer Ай бұрын

The interesting thing is, that this is the closest to a real life NOVA bomb from halo. I really pray that we never built this.

@Egg-noodles Ай бұрын

We never did. The sheer amount of raw material needed for fuel refining would be impossible to keep hidden. There is no way the US could have built this without the rest of the world noticing the astronomical amount of radioactive material that they would be buying.

@cewkins721 Ай бұрын

Kurzgesagt is such a great science channel! If i am not mistaken if you compare the ratios of the power of the sundial bomb to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs they are just 3 order of magnitude aparts (10 billion/giga tons tnt compared to 72 tera tons of tnt according to wiki). Also is that the Lutece theme from bioshock infinite in some portions of the video? At 14:02 I think you meant nitrogen and not hydrogen. Great reaction video btw!

@hostedbysimples5416 Ай бұрын

It's a original soundtrack. Just search "Project Sundial" and you'll find it.

@Anarkyfloyd Ай бұрын

So this is real life Doomsday machine? No wander why government angry at Kubrick when he made Dr Stangelove. It wasn't about he made politician look stupid but because he said the Soviet have a Doomsday machine instead of them

@homifelldown5683 Ай бұрын

Needed that after the last few days

@yamato9753 Ай бұрын

12:42 Did blud just say a hydrogen-Bomb is literally a *Atom-Bomb^2*

@RookMeAmadeus Ай бұрын

I think it's closer to A-bomb^A-bomb, mathematically speaking. Still, anything where what used to be the biggest boom you could ever manage is now the IGNITION instead of the actual weapon...Terrifying doesn't begin to describe it.

@RookMeAmadeus Ай бұрын

I think it's technically Atom-Bomb^Atom-Bomb, the way I understood it.

@ArtwellI Ай бұрын

I could survive that.

@JoshuaJapitan Ай бұрын

Nuclear Attack by Sabaton is the best song for this

@juraijkazi5147 Ай бұрын

Yes more science content

@chris007ssundee6 Ай бұрын

Can you at some point react to "living ironically in europe"?

@ericscott8348 Ай бұрын

Project Exterminatus

@examplethereasonwhy Ай бұрын

This was another fast one

@mfgrobin9657 Ай бұрын

id say its more overdramatized fear fuel then informative transformative content. this feels like a miss not just because a lot of the philosophy feels brushed over but because people watchingthis content can more often then not think with perspective or add their own knowledge. It again also demonizes Nuclear Energy even so ultimately humans pull the trigger and play judge.

@arfrados4553 Ай бұрын

So if we sun dial mars it would have a habitable atmosphere... Eventually...

@snowgrave2475 Ай бұрын

Venus, maybe. Mars has no atmosphere

@arfrados4553 28 күн бұрын

@@snowgrave2475 damn mars, we need to improve our DNA to resist radioactive obliteration 😩🤣 Venus is too slow to release heat, we need to get rid of every single drop of acid to even enter.