The Norwegian Rocket Incident of 1995

[@billthetraveler51]

In this time of rhetoric you have the ability to report on history straight up. No politicized propaganda just factual history. Nothing could be more valuable! Sorry but I'm only allowed to give one like.

[@nailinpalin1477]

@Famous KZbinr an elephant never forgets.... ....to work the ballz

[@WilhelmDrake]

Are you serious?

[@Allangulon]

You can have mine!

[@knightlife98]

@Peder Hansen I always thought that the Russian submarine carrying nuclear weapons, that lost contact with the outside world, when Cuba was blockaded. Was the closest that this world ever came to full-scale, nuclear, war. I am sure that you have heard of it, yes? Where it came down to a single man being the tie-breaking vote, to not fire it's nuclear weapons.

[@knightlife98]

@Peder Hansen They possibly could be the same incident, I'll check into it to be sure. It'll be a little disconcerting to find out, that almost starting, "all-out nuclear war" has happened with more regularity, than we think.....

[@charliegivens1481]

I love this Channel! It reminds me of the good old days when the history channel actually had... History.

[@twizz420]

reality shows are history!

[@jmoody3]

...aliens...

[@nando03012009]

I miss the old history Channel. I guess reality show are more important than history. I wish they could bring back good programming

[@ernestmccollum2397]

This is awesome. Someone actually speaking history. The History channel is pretty much in the toilet. MTV is the same thing. All reality shows. Or I should say garbage

[@kendenning6517]

History is fascinating, better than TV. Reality is real life. Life's historic near missis that nobody seems 2 know about will scare the hell out of U. 4-5 times we've tried 2 annihilate ourselves in the last 70+s yrs with nuclear weapons caused by mistaken interpretations of actual events happening in real time. Luckily we've had men on both sides with calm reasoning 2 prevent it. Reality TV can't come close 2 that. History is scarier than any scary movie ever made, it's real facts. IT HAPPENED. Problem is, when U 4get your history your doomed 2 repeat it. Different places & people but same causes each time. Do we really want 2 go thru that s#/t again? The outcome might not B the same next time. In that case the only recourse U have is 2 bend over, put your head between your legs & kiss your ass goodbye. I'm 65yrs old & grew up during the cold war, witnessed 1st hand the USSR'S nuclear advancements, the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam war, & China's rise. Now the Ukrainian war with Putin. He's the same as Satlin was. History Repeating itself. Don't think it can't happen, easily can. Pucker up, I don't think we'll get lucky this time. Odds R against us.

[@francisebbecke2727]

Shi_t happens. As the guy who shot Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 reportedly said, "I didn't expect everyone to get this upset!"

[@killermfkaty]

Lmao

[@kade426]

Gavrilo princep, a 20yr old boy.

[@trotskyiteicepickenthusias398]

Atleast few very wealthy and powerful British war hawks got what they wanted, weak germany and a strong British Empire along with massive US arms industry backing the Empire. War for profits needs a constant enemy and Germany was perfect for that role.

[@stevek6486]

If we’re to happen today: “that escalated quickly”

[@candybanks8717]

If it happened today Austria would feel "triggered".

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

A couple of viewers had questions regarding the map that rolls by at 7:50. The map is a map of border changes following the end of the Cold War. The red in the first map does not represent the borders of the Soviet Union. I mention “Trident III” missiles. Several viewers have pointed out that the US SLBM is, instead, the Trident II.

[@cabalcore2555]

This isn't related to this comment but I wanted to show my friends the video you did about the HMCS Haida, the ships' crew were declared honorary Texans for saving the crew of a B-29. I can't seem to find the video anywhere, if you could point me in the right direction? Thank you so much for your content, I love it!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Mister Gray I am sorry, I have not done an episode on HMS Haida.

[@cabalcore2555]

Thank you for responding, that's very kind of you. I guess the ships story was so interesting that I assumed it was from you.

[@DavidHarris-qn7em]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel ..If you were ever to come to a symposium here in Arkansas you would have a huge following..plus I had a rubber Burt turtle as a child

[@panchalbaruah9238]

Can you please do a video about the Chad- Libyan conflict, which is also dubbed the Toyota war. It probably is one of the strangest conflicts of the modern times.

[@redram5150]

My father, who vividly recalls the Duck & Cover drill, always called it "An organized way to find the bodies"

[@rutabagasteu]

Yeah. Under wooden desks.

[@flagmichael]

@@rutabagasteu I remember crouching under the desk in the daily drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis and thinking, "This doesn't look like it would help."

[@nukemanmd]

Heck I remember civil defense bells in elementary school where we were required to exit the classroom an line up in the hall against our lockers. I was 8 years old and remember asking the teacher what good it would do in the event of an atomic bomb. Her response was to shush me - we didn't want the Russians to know where we were. Oh, the absurdity of life in the 50s.

[@peterk8909]

K ris I remember being led to the basement of my school. "Face the wall. cover your face". Since I grew up 13 miles from NYC, I pretty much figured we'd be crispified. Teachers didn't like me much.

[@prereed]

We had bracelets with our name, address and religion. Like dog tags for kids.

[@Duncan_Idaho_Potato]

I already knew this story but your presentation of it was excellent. I knew the players, the settings and the plot, but DAMN if your narration didn't have me on the edge of my seat. Well done, sir.

[@98triffid]

Then you probably know this wasn't the only time this happened...in 1983 a similar incident occurred, also on the Russian side

[@bartman9400]

Yeah he really get into it and makes it seem like your watching a movie

[@ricknarveson4675]

Eye opening glimpses of history that deserves to be remembered. Someday soon I hope you can provide your perspective on the current history that we are living through, assuming we're going to be allowed to look back and see it clearly. Thanks, Rick

[@RobMarchione]

I love how every time I open youtube there is yet another random bit of history that deserves to be remembered. May it never end.

[@reggierico]

Amazing! My father became a nuclear submariner after his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1954. He served in that arm of the nuclear triad for over 26 years, serving on and commanding both fast attack and ballistic missile submarines. More than a few harrowing incidents occurred between the Soviet and US naval submarines while on patrol. My father loved his role in the cold war and was away from us at home for nearly eleven of his 26 years of service.

[@A_Man_In_His_Van]

The history guy is the best on you tube. Period.

[@chainarol]

I am one of his first subscribers. It was saddening to see so less viewers and subscribers for such a good content. I almost lost hope but he din't. He came up with more and more good contents with regularity and consistency. Now I feel good to see his videos becoming quite popular.

[@tanussc]

Unbealievable!!! What a story. We were two minutes away from being blown to bits and nobody knew. Thank you for telling us all these very interesting stories

[@lawrencetate145]

I was stunned after watching your piece on 1983. Now, I'm double stunned. If the soviet sub had lauched a nuclear torpedo in 1962, I really believe the situation would have been contained. The 1983 and 1995 situations, as you describe, seem much more close to real disaster than the 1962 event. Only time will tell if 2023 is added to the list. BTW, sounding rockets are also great at messing up beatiful atomic blast photos.

[@dereckcriner1]

[Five minutes and nineteen seconds of science] 5:20 - "And then, things went weird." I love the condensed context given at the beginning of each of these videos. It's so critical to understand context when studying history, because that's what makes it special. Nothing happens in a vacuum.

[@eliasshedd]

Wow thanks. I was a freshman in college during this incident and I'm 42 years old now. I generally consider myself a person that knows at least a little bit about all significant events in modern history. I had never heard of this incident. Thank you.

[@BrentBestwick]

My oldest son was born in 1995 and graduated from college today....which makes this previously unknown (to me) incident all the more relevant. Your channel has become my go-to for excellent historic journalism anytime I have at least 15 minutes to spare. Thank you for your excellence!

[@rico_cavalierie]

I remember the fall out of this. The military ops tempo kinda increased for a while until the giant heads realized that it was like remembering to roll up your car window a day after the storm. It shocked me how little was said at the time. Speaking of storms, My thoughts prayers are with all the folks effected effected by Florence.

[@mikemcnamara1986]

Wow. Thank you. I've no idea how you ferret out these snippets, but this proves how important and compelling they are. I am breathless.

[@thegreenpickel]

Great research and delivery. Glad you decided to keep rocking the bow tie.

[@fredherfst8148]

As a meteorologist, I wholeheartedly applaud you, sir! I am impressed with your presentation of the science side of this multifaceted story. Thanks a bunch..

[@domdipyatic3997]

Another great video. I’ve heard of the black brant rocket before. It was an Estes model rocket I built back in the early 70’s when I was a kid.

[@robertgutheridge9672]

I built every model rocket they had. It was fun and I learned a lot. Very few stores have them anymore.

[@davidmurphy8190]

Try Hobbylinc in the USA. Estes still in business.

[@joshroolf1966]

I built one in the late 80's! Good times, good times..:::💙

[@samueltucker8473]

Me too

[@samueltucker8473]

Multi stage with a camera. Went higher than any kite could have.

[@drkimbathelion]

This is excellent. I wasn't even aware of this incident and it's a great example of how the simplest things can go wrong in a (almost) catastrophic way. Love this channel.

[@lawrencet83]

I never knew this. Please keep up the excellent work!

[@raoulcruz4404]

I think this is the incident that caused the two superpowers to set up the "red phone". A direct link between D.C. and the Kremlin. Or was that earlier than this?

[@davidmurphy8190]

Earlier,but it was a teletype connection.

[@kathrynradonich3982]

Yet another excellent video!

[@brmelez]

Thank you history guy amazing how informative your segments are. I particularly like the context that you build into each of the stories. Once again thank you so much.

[@bootlegboo]

I was on the edge of my seat listening to your piece of history. Thank you. In 95’ I was just living a boring life never realizing how close we were to WW3.

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

This channel is starting to grow on me. Keep up the good work!

[@sbcwinn]

All I can say is WOW! Thanks for telling this story. It is an important one and something that the world should be aware of. I must also say that you are perhaps the most articulate presenter on KZbin. I enjoy you very much!

[@Morbius1963]

These are my regular viewing. I understand the world a little better each time. I clearly remember, as a young boy, the tension in our London house in 1962. One late evening, watching the news, a powerful low flying jet passed over and I saw the look exchanged between my mother and father and, understanding no facts, I was frightened.

[@87niner]

It never ceases to amaze me how close we have come, on so many instances, to extinguishing ourselves.

[@johankriel8883]

Add Windows95 into the mix and it would indeed be a close shave.

[@toasterbathboi6298]

I absolutely love these types of videos. Keep up the amazing work!

[@JerjerB]

For some reason the ad before the video was for appenzeller Swiss cheese. What is up with Google's algorithm

[@carlstenger5893]

Excellent video. Your ability to bring historical events "to life" is remarkable. Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us.

[@buonafortuna8928]

Thanks HG. Delighted you posted today as I'm another who has exhausted your back-catalogue. 92k woohoo.

[@michaelprinzi578]

Just found your channel a couple of weeks ago. I can't get enough. THANK YOU!

[@deelarry2137]

Awesome! Love these vids!

[@SyrianApostate]

I love how you built up all the different back stories. Great video, very rich in information and entertaining at the same time

[@thomaskaroliussen7326]

My uncle worked at the Rocket base on Andenes, Andøya at the time this incident unfolded. He told me the rocket did not launch in a correct angel , and the Russians were informed that the launch would be done at Andenes, but since the rocket was not in a correct trajectory as planed, the Russians thought this was a sneak attack. This is what I’m been told by my uncle who was working at the base as a countdown engineer at the time.

[@substrate001]

I got chills listening to this... I'm part of the generation born when the Cold War was in danger of going 'hot' at nearly any time... Another great presentation by The History Guy!!!

[@1dedrer]

Thank you for your wonderful videos. They are such a great comfort and help to pass the time as I recover from an injury and lying in bed. I’m sure there are many others who would agree with me. Also loved the video (mourn 79) about the plane crashes in and around Mt Spokane. My family has lived at the base of the mountain since 1978.

[@pinkdispatcher]

I vaguely knew about this incident, but it's still scary to hear it again in all the terrifying detail. Thanks.

[@deelarry2137]

Is this history that deserves to be remembered again? Love your channel!

[@Codoloco1]

Its incredible when I expect to learn what the title has to offer but you throw in so much more knowledge on different things that ties everything in by the end of the video. Well edited and superb dialogue

[@petterd6966]

Thanks for another wonderful history lesson. This episode was especially wonderful. Keep up the good work! ❤️

[@michaelhofer9149]

Thank you for providing this AWESOME historical experience! It’s been 41 years since I darkened the door of a school, and it’s nice to have the resources available today! I wonder if I would have made better decisions about where to head after graduating from high school in 1976, if these types of resources had been available. Guess I’ll never know.

[@Red-rl1xx]

Thanks for the video! Always like your stuff!

[@jaybee9269]

Red 13 >> I think I commented on your thumbnail before; still cool. 😎 What’s the insignia on the rear fuselage? Bunga Bunga!

[@Red-rl1xx]

@@jaybee9269 Its just the "plus sign" (the only way I know how to describe it) formed by the white lines that appeared on a good many German aircraft. You know, as opposed to the swastika or Iron Cross?

[@bcschafer]

Boy is that amazing. I had never heard of that. It gives me the willies just thinking of how close a call that was. Great episode.

[@zootsootful]

Growing up, we had one of the chemists of that Canadian research group as a neighbor; It was pronounced CARDY, not card.

[@thomashughes_teh]

This remarkable channel is giving me an education I didn't know I craved before I latched on to it.

[@danbhakta]

Greetings Professor Falken. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

[@David-dl6zg]

How about Global thermonuclear war.

[@willwarden2603]

Tic tac toe number of players 0

[@JH-ji6cj]

Shall....We...Play...A....Game?

[@Nathan-dk4mv]

This was exactly what i had in mind when i watched this video. Wargames is a very Great film.

[@markgigiel2722]

@@David-dl6zg Good movie

[@erichobbs4042]

The sword of Damocles still hangs over our heads today. Great episode, it was an incident that I had never heard before.

[@howegav]

Another great episode. I find your cold war episodes very interesting. The subject matter is history, but recent history, but somewhat forgotten history. Many of its veterans, I would imagine, would appreciate the likes of this episode , and the other cold war episodes that you've made.

[@leighw9684]

So happy to have found this channel...fascinating stories, well-researched and engagingly presented. Thank you very much!

[@davidharris6581]

Scary stuff! Wasn't it JFK that said "There's always some SOB who doesn't get the word."

[@rutabagasteu]

Old Army saying likely first used before the Roman Empire.

[@GIGABACHI]

I don't know who said but damn right you're.👍

[@jaybee9269]

David Harris >> The supply of S.O.B.’s in inexhaustible! (Bunga Bunga!)

[@poppiarlin5612]

Jay Bee And idiots.

[@oceanhome2023]

The SOBs on both sides!

[@MajWMartin]

In school and college history was the only subject that I could not wait to set in on. Thank you.

[@michrain5872]

Life is ever so fragile... That was close :/

[@jaybee9269]

Mich Rain >> And it was HUMAN judgment that avoided an almost unimaginable disaster. (Bunga Bunga!)

[@charlessmith6412]

Mich Rain: Would you care to comment on the meaning of your icon's middle finger? What does it symbolize to you?

[@mattprior8442]

You proved in this particular video that you are not only the history guy but also the astro physics and geo atmosphere guy as well !

[@Absaalookemensch]

These videos should be shown in history classes.

[@chanceDdog2009]

They are

[@AlternateSteve90]

I've been impressed as well, having seen a few of his other videos before this one. =)

[@johnd2058]

"Miscellaneous engineering disasters of the Twentieth Century." Yes, totally a missed opportunity when half of the USA's electorate doesn't know that the first amendment forbids the abridgement of the individual Freedom of Speech, let alone the other stuff in there, or that anyone who campaigns for president mostly on economic issues is full of --it, as that's mostly on Congress.

[@Absaalookemensch]

It's hard to make any nation succeed that goes bankrupt. Half of the government still believes in Keynesian economics, which mandated borrow to pay for needs based programs until you cannot afford the interest payments, then roll over the debt (declare bankruptcy). They want America to go bankrupt. There was little choice in the last election and the majority of the legal votes were cast for the current administration.

[@johnd2058]

Absaalookemensch That's only when the economy's in a downturn. Look up "business cycles"; Keynesian economics proposes making the ride less bone-crushing for working families. In bad times, the government is to 'prime the pump': put money into the economy, preferably by creating jobs -- hiring people to do jobs, as in FDR's "Alphabet Soup" programs -- & cutting taxes. *Everyone*, far more than 'half', just LOVES that. The problem is, they forget the 'pulling back on the throttle' part. In economic upswings -- like right f-ing now -- the govt. is to cut spending and raise taxes to keep inflation from getting too high. That is not happening, not now, not in the late Aughties (00's), or the late '90s, & so on. At least in the latter, some of the national debt got paid down.

[@oresvaldodesousavaz3838]

Yet another amazing snippet of History. Please keep the good work.

[@bobsteinbruck7278]

I remember Berlin, Cuba, an a couple of other episodes of this gender, but never knew I was that close to being a fatality of nuclear war. This episode reminded me of all the meddling the USA did in Russian block countries after collapse of the USSR. We really screwed up a golden opportunity to eliminate conditions like our current relationship with Russia...

[@icegiant1000]

I want to compliment you on your attention to detail and important content. I find it touching that you referred to the surviroros of the crash as survirors, and that you listened to history. Obvviously, keep up the great work.

[@stonefree1911]

You Sir are VERY good at this. You should have a TV or streaming show. This is very good stuff.

[@cornbread83]

Couldn't agree more!

[@detg8498]

TV would ruin this. I like it how it is.

[@flagmichael]

@@detg8498 Sad but true - it is only as good as it is because The History Guy retains creative control.

[@georgerasmutin699]

@@flagmichael absolutely 1000% putting historyguy On tv would be like going from jetsons to flinstones.

[@feetnincheees]

Wow !! I was totraly unaware of that... thank you ... and while I am here, superb presentation and commentary.... top shelf. All power Histoty Guy.

[@SnorreSelmer]

Excellent video. Well analyzed, well concluded, not sensationalist. As a Norwegian, I approve! :)

[@eottoe2001]

Never read or heard about this. When a country is in disarray there is a lot danger in terms of vulnerability and chains of command. You see that with the last days of Richard Nixon and there were some concerns by Lincoln about external attack as our Civil War progressed. This is an important lesson in terms of how one looks at US placement of missiles in Turkey prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis and what is our current missile program in eastern Europe. It seems that even if we learn from the past we seemed to doomed to repeat it anyway. Brilliant video. Bravo Mr. History Guy.

[@harrisonmantooth3647]

Very interesting, I don't think I've ever heard this account before. I remember sitting in my high school class and listening to the radio news about the Sputnik and our own space launches. How we've advanced. Thanks for sharing another great video. Stan

[@mauricedavis2160]

all your shows are the best, keep them coming, thank you the Mrs, and the Crew!!!

[@Smart-Skippy]

Another amazing vignette into our world's eclectic history. Kudos sir. Your videos are the creme de la creme of KZbin. #TheHistoryGuyHistoryDeservestoBeRemembered @The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered +The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

[@TheWirdbird]

I remember that in school, once a month, we participated in these drills. Most of us thought the drills were fun. After a few years, these drills became "fire drills". The signal was a warning siren, and up hearing that, we had to line up in an orderly fashion in our classrooms, then march to the gym. After another few years, no more drills, but the warning sirens still sounded off, just to make sure the sirens still worked. We were expected to look to the sky and act appropriately. After a few more years, sirens no longer sounded off. Many years passed, and it had become a joke about getting under our desks to survive a nuclear bomb. We had become aware somewhere along the way that no one survives a direct hit from a nuclear bomb. Thanks again, History Guy, for the most interesting episodes.

[@joetaylor486]

Superb video, but my gosh how scary!

[@kensmith5694]

It is even scarier when you see that it was just one good man in a leadership position who saved the situation. Look around today and imagine the same mistake with China, Russia, India, or the US thinking there was a launch against them. In how many of those four cases would you be sure the button would not get pushed.

[@kirtliedahl]

FANTASTIC! Every bit as interesting as always- thank you!

[@h2o270]

Great video! Last semester I took a Cold War class and got into a debate with my professor that we are still in a Cold War. I wonder if other people feel this way. The U.S. is still engaged in proxy wars with Russia and both sides are continuing to modernize and update their nuclear arsenal, seems like a Cold War to me.

[@marbleman52]

Ron....Yes, the Cold War never ended...it just became more subtle and hidden behind more 'goodwill' handshakes and photo-ops. With the advances in computer hardware & software, we are in a whole new arena of cyber-security and cyber snooping and meta-data gathering. New 'rules of engagement' will have to be developed...which I'm sure they are already being done & implemented...but it's a different game today.

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

I do not think that Yeltsin was ever in a cold war with the West... his mindset to the last was one of peace. The current Russian administration on the other hand lives in the Paradigm of a zero-sum-game. for many in Russia, the cold war was never ended, today, America, and to a lesser extent Europe, also shifted back into the cold war mindset. in this second cold war however, there are much fewer things that keep it cool. people now are just not scared of the power they posses to annihilate each other the way they had been scared before.

[@h2o270]

Stanislav Kostarnov, I would absolutely agree. It was in the news a few weeks ago that the U.S. has produced a new penetrating nuclear weapon of the B61 series. One of the features touted is that the yield can be dialed down to very low limits. While I think it is a great weapon, I feel that the possibility of a low yield could mean that it is more likely to be used which could let the proverbial genie out of the bottle and lead to other counties using their nuclear weapons.

[@xmlthegreat]

I would add that this is a tripartite Cold War, with America/EU, Russia and China being the three sides. Each side tries to manipulate the other two into conflict, while trying to gain an upper hand itself. There are layers upon layers of subterfuge, complicated by the fact that all three depend heavily on trade with each other and want geopolitical power while not giving up economic stability.

[@marbleman52]

Stanislav.....Your name kinda sounds Russian...? Anyway....Maybe you are correct about Yeltsin, but what I would have not doubted would be the rest of the Government that was still operating under the Cold War mindset and things were still " business as usual". Your last sentence is scary to think about and you may very well be correct for the most part. I have no doubt at all that there are individuals, or terror groups/organizations...how ever they may be called...that would not hesitate to set off a 'suitcase' nuclear device and not care about the consequences. Yes...the Doomsday Clock is still perilously close to midnight.

[@citizenblue]

History Guy, you are a treasure. Thank you doing what you do!

[@Dobermanator]

The History Guy himself deserves to be remembered. Remembered more so even than Bill Nye, imo. I can't see History Guy going all flaky on us or someone that will later deemed of having inappropriate behaviour. If I was in charge of HBO, 60 minutes or similar type Media, I would be jumping all over this content.

[@dalethelander3781]

I still prefer Beakman.

[@guyfawkes9951]

Ah, Bill Nye the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering pretending to be a scientist guy. Never could tolerate him. How he became the "Voice o' Science" I'll never understand.

[@jaybee9269]

Dobermanator >> Indeed. Bunga Bunga!

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Why do you need to attack Bill Nye in the process of complimenting "The History Guy" ???

[@rkkotilley358]

dont insult the man by the mere mention of that fraud BN the sguy

[@Cj-gd1db]

Another great video. I find Cold War stuff very interesting.

[@gapratt4955]

May I suggest finding the movie Thirteen days with Kevin Costner.

[@markhughes7927]

Your channel is pure gold.

[@carljacobs1260]

In June 1980, there was something of a similar incident in the US that caused the SAC Alert Force to go up in readiness for a brief period of time. Missile crews inserted launch keys on that occassion as well. It should be stated however that there is a huge distance between inserting launch keys and actually committing sorties. The former does not imply the latter. I was assigned to missile crew duty about two years later, and so I was able to talk to some of the guys who were pulling alert that day. The Base Command Post had an open line by which it could talk to every Launch Control Center at once. As soon as the crews had finished reacting to the Readiness increase, the CP opened that comm channel and said "Do not call home. Keep the outside lines clear." You can understand why they did that. My first instinct would have been to call my wife. And that would have been exactly the wrong thing to do. Launch key switches are sealed to prevent tampering. You have to break the seal to insert keys. When normal readiness was restored, teams were immediately dispatched into the field with replacement seals. They said the guys in the field were just white and still shaking. Inserting launch keys is what you call a significant event in the life of a missile crew member.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

You are likely talking about this event (the training tape incident) or one of the chip failures a few months later. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3S0eoeEl9xqqsU

[@carljacobs1260]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel The latter.

[@propanepusher101]

I was at a Wilderness Camp for a week when there was a chip failure that stirred everything up. We didn't even know about it for 3 days , by then it was too late and over , but I find it humorous that had it all gone up in smoke we were in the right place for it. Mom spoke of the Cuban Crisis once, she was pregnant with me at the time and she said people were just buying grocery stores empty everyday for weeks. Enjoy your channel greatly !

[@REMIREZZ]

Richard Mercer buying grocery stores empty for weeks sounds oddly familiar now 😢

[@Cleveland.Ironman]

I remember watching the movie “Fail Safe” with Henry Fonda, it gave me nightmares for a week. It was too bad that “Dr. Strangelove” was released before “Fail Safe” because of the “Dr Strangelove” film people didn’t take the possibility of a nuclear war occurring due to a chain of events stemming from an equipment malfunction.

[@KennyTheB]

Yay! I had asked about a video for this event! Well done and well put as always.

[@UTubeGlennAR]

WoW, not only can I easily recall being a "duck n cover" kid of the late 50 n early 60s. My dad, having been a US Navy navagator and knowing much more than anyone I knew about the night sky, I easily remember him taking us outside one night during the summer between my 3rd and 4th grade schooling and our family watching the Sputnik twinkel acorss the sky. I can easily recall all that some 60 years ago. However what happened in 1995, just a little oiver 20 years ago I don't recall hearing ANYTHING about the "Norwegian Rocket Incidence". And since my maternal GrandMother was 100% Norwegian, this fact alone would nale anything about Norway to my noggin I would surely suspect. Can't believe I lived thru this and totaly missed it somehow???????? Big Thank You Mr. History Guy..... Again, Vary Interesting and Enlightening Indeed............ But, just think, we have a Vary Inpulsive person, not overly experineced in geopolitical situations with access to the football now. How Scary Indeed. And I am a Republican thinking this.....

[@dc10driver1]

By far my favorite KZbin channel! Just fascinating. It does deserve to be remembered! Keep up the great work!!

[@cavsh00ter]

I believe that today it's not much better sadly, Great history lesson, Thank you.

[@nickjung7394]

I had a very similar experience. I was 12 at the time, living in Leyton, NE London when a low flying jet flew over Leyton Marshes. Just like you I noticed the meaningful looks that passed between my mother and father.

[@kenshores9900]

Holy crap!!!! It sure does. Thank you for presenting this. Extremely interesting and very good.

[@DaveGIS123]

Great video! Canadians are proud of the Black Brant rockets, and we like to think they’re extra special because they’re only used for “peaceful” purposes. Even their name, Black Brant, is a peaceful name: the brant is a harmless species of goose. How ironic and tragic it would have been if the launch of a sounding rocket, launched for peaceful purposes, had led to nuclear war!

[@jimstout5308]

Excellent analysis and presentation!

[@dogstar7]

Tremendous! I remember this because I was living in Seattle and knew someone at Boeing who was in negotiations with the newly privatized Russian aerospace industry at the time. I've always been surprised how few people were ever aware that this occurred

[@dukecraig2402]

You're absolutely correct when you say "They spent their National Treasure...", I often point out to people that by the early 1890's, at least, mankind could design a rifle all the way down to the increments on the rear sight for distance and if that rear sight is dialed to the correct distance to a target, say 500 yards away, then the bullet drop will work out to where the bullet will impact a reasonable sized target, say 18" in diameter, think about that, 125 years ago something could go from drawing board, with all the trigonometry and math involved to take into account the sight radius (distance between front and rear sight), the bullet drop, the proper increments on the rear sight to take into account the curve in the formula for a bullet arc over it's distance, to working model that will hit it's target when the sight is set on the proper distance because of technology that has been pushed by mankind so hard for hundreds of years up to that point, imagine how much less suffering there would be in the world if all that brain power would have been used on something like say, curing cancer, or world hunger, or anything less destructive then what it was used for, I guess it shows where our priorities have been all these years.

[@JackdeDuCoeur]

A great lesson, and another great video. Thank you. For me, this is only the most recent example of how/when we came close to unleashing death and horror on an unimaginable scale. We are very lucky fools, so far.

[@rockystonewolf]

I remember this soooo clearly, living not too far away from Andøya. There was another incident where a Russian rocket flew over Norway heading west, a few years earlier. My friends observed it in the night sky! Is that covered in this channel? Brilliantly told, Mr. Histroy guy!!

[@nuclearjanitors]

2 MINUTES TO MIIIIIIDNIGHT

[@code3xiv]

Yea!

[@Carlton_Wilson]

The hands that threaten doom.

[@JH-ji6cj]

So it was a Maiden voyage

[@KristopherBel]

And although right after the fall of the Soviet Union were went to 3 and the 4 minutes, we have gone back to two minute quite a few times since then We are inured to the threat, not safe from it.

[@prof2yousmithe444]

Keep in mind this arbitrary number is given by some intelligencia to scare the masses.

[@MrEtmedic]

Best story to date on your channel!

[@888Longball]

One possibility is that the launch notification was buried rather than entangled in bureaucracy. I imagine that hawks from the old USSR were desparate for cold war to continue and possibly even turn hot.

[@georgefrench1907]

Great presentation of an incident most Americans are unaware of. Love all of your vlogs, but this one prompted me, finally, to subscribe. Thanks.

[@AIM54A]

Lesser known here is that the Russian radar systems had degraded so badly that they couldn't determine the trajectory properly leading to the confusion. After this event there is a special work station in NORAD just for a Russian officer to get access to our radar data so these sort of accidents dont evolve again.

[@jayfblank]

Even lesser known than that, is that one of the Norwegian officers had a really nasty pimple that was just about to pop.

[@johnjay9404]

Such a cool channel. I've been in love with history since an early teen, and here, there's always something new. I was in the military during the 80's. I've lived through an incredible historical time. Was born right before the Cuban missle crisis so I was unaware of that at the time, but remember the duck and cover drills in school. I remember ending my military years and then taking a sigh of relief when the Soviet Union collapsed. NEVER, absolutely never heard of this incident. Sometimes it's the not so obvious that topples the house of cards.

[@bigblue6917]

There was, of course, the incident in the 80s when an image from a Russian satellite looked like an American ICBM had been launched. Fortunately the Russian officer viewing the image hesitated and then realised it was not a ICBM being launched. It was actually the Sun striking a cloud but looked like a missile launch. As it happened he was the only one on duty who had a civilian education before joining up. He said if it had been one of his colleges they would not have waited and would have informed their superior of the launch. The thing is the Russians were expecting an attack. Because of the heightened rhetoric of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the Russian leader Yuri Andropov was convinced the West was going to launch a preemptive attack on Russia. So if the had received the information about the supposed ICBM launched they would not have waited. So WW3 would have been caused by the Sun hitting a cloud. When Reagan finally heard about how close we came to total destruction he did have enough sense to dial back the rhetoric.

[@stanleyjedrzejczyk2966]

Big Blue

[@Melanie16040]

4one14 Actually the political officer on that sub consented with the captain to launch. However the flotilla commander was also aboard that particular submarine, making it the only submarine which required 3 individuals to consent for launch of the nuclear torpedo, it was the flotilla commander who refused to authorize the launch. His name was Vasili Arkhipov

[@bigblue6917]

coffin dodger This is true. Unfortunately the fact that he saved us from war did not stop him being fired. They did not like the idea of other people thinking for themselves. I suppose it could have been worse. Imagine what Stalin would have done to him.

[@ChoppingtonOtter]

Big Blue He should receive an honour from the UN really as he saved the hole world. It wouldn't be just the U.S and USSR destroyed.

[@bigblue6917]

Choppington Otter He is an unsung hero for us all, unlike others. It was estimated that one third of the American population alone would have died if WW3 had broken out, yet some US generals thought that they would win and the casualties were a price worth paying. Now people like that should be fired. And yes I do know people in other countries would have thought the same, the USSR for one. I am not singling out America in particular, I am just using it as an example because that is one I know. Of course considering how much of the planet would have been devastated by the war, not to mention all of the radiation, and the possibility of the nuclear winter for at least ten years, any victory would be a very much a Pyrrhic victory. You start to feel those who wold have died in WW3 would have been the lucky one.

[@browndog171063]

Just discovered this Channel and love it, great stuff History Guy.

[@Oorah555]

Wow that was close I never knew this thanks for this video.

[@Balle402]

Another great channel that makes learning fun and enjoyable. Thank you for all of your great videos!

[@Pip818]

Recently discovered your Channel. Fabulous. Just an idea but.....the movie The Battle of Britain, at the end, gives a list of RAF pilots and their nationalities. Prior to the establishment of the RAF's Eagle Squadron, there were seven American lads who flew with RAF squadrons and, happily, I believe all seven survived the battle. Wouldn't you love to know who they were? I know I would...Secondly, the American Johnny Dodge (the inspiration for Hendley, James Garner's character in The Great Escape) - what a life story. Paul Brickhill's book is a great starting point.Greetings from England. Phil

[@tanzanos]

Cannot stop watching your videos. Thank you so very much.

[@carlopton]

This is a good history lesson. A cautionary tale that every incoming leader around the world should be forced to watch and then be tested on. As well as any student that is preparing to graduate from High School, and then again from College. My viewpoint is this: There are thousands of these species killers under the control of multiple countries(tribes). To say that there is control over these baby killers is to say that you do not understand that control is not possible to the point of "NEVER" activating. Perfection is what we strive for, never to be attained. Perfection is an idea to be reached for. You can never say that we have a "Perfect" system in place. So what I am saying is that sometime soon, there will be use of these devices. Ahh, one more thing: Duck and cover and duct tape as espoused as being survival techniques by government mules, are nothing more than manipulative lies. Here's a true survival tip. If you find yourself surviving a nuclear bomb attack, do not drink the water that might come raining down right afterwards. No matter how thirsty you will be. Define the word soon. OK. Soon in this case can mean anytime from seconds from now to within no more than fifteen years. My best guess would be in the 5 to 15 year range. Why? I give that range because we are currently moving thru a global awakening backlash from (multiple words meaning mostly the same type of humans, insert word of preference here). If we get to the 20 year mark, then the twenty somethings will be in their 40 somethings, and will therefore start to have power and influence. I think that this younger globally interconnected in real time generation may achieve a greatness of understanding that was not possible for the previous generations. So I will choose optimism with a heavy dash of pessimism. I want to be wrong on the pessimism. I want to see a global awakening that will do away with these killers(nukes, VX, smallpox, etc.), without any of them ever being used either by intent or by accident. May it be so.