The Worst Radioactive Ideas in Nuclear History | BlueJay | History Teacher Reacts

Starting with beginning of the Atomic Era, people have tried to think of all kinds of crazy ways to use radioactivity. AND I MEAN CRAZY WAYS. BlueJay shows some of these crazy ways, and Mr. Terry adds his commentary and the historical context!
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[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

A nuke launching nuke is the most American thing I've ever heard of

[@TheSkyGuy77]

And have it in space

[@gilliganallmighty3]

​@@TheSkyGuy77and it launch from an AR-15.

[@stargazer-elite]

A nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke launching a nuke that launches a nuke An American nesting bomb

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

@@stargazer-elite *A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR*

[@cbmedia6850]

The American symbol of freedom

[@DanGamingFan2406]

18:37 That scene always cracks me up. Also, I can't believe someone was actually planning to nuke Isreal in order to dig a canal. In the middle of the cold war. In a very politically tense region.

[@lukasmclaughlin2581]

This can't go horribly wrong at all! 😀👍

[@Nolroa]

A very exaggerated example of “turning swords into plowshares”

[@amirg7225]

as an israeli, i think that would have solved many problems

[@Amorphous_Sand]

@@amirg7225As an Iraqi, sounds like a good way to render the entire length of Jordan and the southern end of Israel as uninhabitable. Jerusalem doesn't even look far from the planned path, which wouldn't end well for either side of the conflict... actually... maybe that'd somehow unite the region against outsiders? Lol

[@amirg7225]

@@Amorphous_Sand im aware, dont have a problem with it though

[@theAverageJoe25]

I’m surprised they didn’t mention the M-28 Davy Crockett, which was basically a recoilless cannon that fired micro-nukes

[@Tunkkis]

Or AFAPs, Artillery Fired Atomic Projectiles, small nukes that can be fired from standard guns and howitzers.

[@chugachuga9242]

Probably because the Davy Crockett is so well know, it seems like this was supposed to be a bit more obscure stuff.

[@twylanaythias]

The great 'joy' of the Davy Crockett was that the smaller version delivered a warhead with a two-mile blast radius.... and one mile of range. The larger version had a whopping three-mile range, though its warhead had a five-mile blast radius.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG: Entry 868. I cannot have a gun with an area of affect larger than it's range.

[@SCP_Wandsman13_13]

They would inspire the Fat Man in Fallout 4

[@Nolroa]

18:42 Yes, teacher, we also laugh at those kinds of jokes told with references to Japanese anime, such as a certain pixelated area and the fact that the character that by means of a supernatural force is catapulted towards infinity, leaving a small cross-shaped flash on the horizon.

[@llandrin9205]

I'm a boomer, but I remember the Curie's discovery of radium was remarkable for the x-ray machine used to diagnose and cure people. I do not remember the nuclear bomb mentioned in connection with the discovery. I do not remember Marie Curie being singled out for the discovery, but Pierre getting equal recognition.

[@windhelmguard5295]

@jamescheddar4896 they might just be confusing Curie with Liese Meitner (co-discoverer of nuclear fission). Curie was quite a bit early to be associated with nuclear weapons.

[@LordBaldur]

That Soviet experiment where they used the nuke to stop a gas fire is actually a very interesting story and I'm pretty sure there are videos on KZbin about it.

[@FewVidsJustComments]

18:43 made me laugh so hard it’s unreal, just like Terry did

[@kabob0077]

16:00 Sad part is those tonics were probably still heathier than anything with something produced from Radioactive Quackery.

[@tonywalter2136]

I've always loved how you let the ads play to try and support the original creator, very wholesome 😊

[@MrTerry]

What else would you use an atomic bomb or radioactivity for?

[@Loard2]

First use small nukes for creating lakes

[@DanGamingFan2406]

You should watch the science of radiation sister video. Also, I'd build a nuclear powered car, like Ford tried to do once.

[@racsoleerf124]

Cooking my mayonnaise and peas for breakfast

[@zeusalternative1270]

In the element race, the USA nuked the sky and flied planes above the residual clouds in order to collect dust and rushed to the lab before it decayed so they could analize the dust in search for new elements, worst part is that it worked

[@userofthetube2701]

Project Orion is a really cool concept that could actually have worked. The idea was to build spaceships powered by exploding 'small' nuclear bombs behind them. A pressure plate at the back transferred the energy to the spaceship, allowing it to reach much higher speeds than is feasible with chemical rocket technology. And because it's in space, for once, the radiation is not so much of an issue. Except for the whole getting it into space thing...

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The 50s and early 60s were really wild in terms of nuclear ideas. From a nuclear powered plane to nuclear mining, to nuclear built harbors to shoulder fired nukes to

[@MalekitGJ]

You forgot the miniature scale nuclear reactors for commercial cars. Enjoy drunk driving on those.

[@TheRacingBoy1]

A lot of this video reminds me of 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver': The burning pit in Turkmenistan, the random use of radium with terrible consequences, the USA military nuclear mishaps, ... As with dynamite (and lots of other stuff): one smart persons invention is misused in all times of history. Mr. Terry, your reactions and contributions always crack me up, so let's keep 'em coming. (non-English) European greetings

[@Sevofthesands]

I wish he mentioned them but everyone look up the story of the Radium Girls. A group of factory workers all female who were the victims of radium posioning.

[@volundrfrey896]

I have a theory about the ramjet nuclear missiles, the Americans realized how easy it is to build one of these so all soviet needed was to have the idea. So by stating that they can build one they've essentially told the Soviets that they will build it if they ever attempt to do so. So it becomes kinda a "we won't build it if you don't" type deal. Particularly when the US made it clear that they have all technology necessary already so they could whip it up in no time.

[@krisfrederick5001]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they COULD they didn't stop to think if they SHOULD." -Dr. Ian Malcolm

[@jackb936]

"That's one big pile of shit" - Dr. Ian Malcolm Just kidding around!

[@pencilcase8068]

Anything goes when looking for bigger boom

[@anitatereszczuk3967]

Obligatory comment from a Polish person: Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish woman who married a French man. Polonium and Radium were both named after Poland

[@zeusalternative1270]

I have to mention that the USA nuked the sky over the Pacific Ocean and sent jets to collect the mushroom cloud, then they rushed to the lab before it decayed so they could analyze it for new elements, the worst thing is that it worked that is how they discovered element 99 and element 100.

[@diarnagotefternamn3067]

What does the elements do

[@Xnoob545]

​@@diarnagotefternamn3067cause cancer and possibly vomiting, skin peeling, etc

[@TheThermostat]

Had an Ancient Civilization teacher back in the day, it's crazy how similar you two are. I've been watching you since 2019 when I had to drop my courses. You help greatly. This fella was USAF back in the 90s/2000s and was a Blackhawk pilot and never got into it past that other than loving their Stinger missles hahaha. With stress comes passion and he brought a new level to teaching. More like encompassing the class in knowledge like bright lights and shiny surfaces. The man dressed as a Spartan, armor and all for Greek Day which he propossed as an idea to the committee. The man had a one on one with me cause I was chunky back then and it was either fight or temper with some idiots. He leveled with me since he was chunky too at one point. It was good to have someone looking out for me in the battlefield and in the classroom. I studied chemical engineering later on and went from 255lbs to 175 with practically no loose skin since it was early enough. He's probably got you by 20 years now, but the passion you both hold helps me keep that part of the past close in heart. May the Good Lord further Equip Mr. Terry and Mr. Carter. You guys are just too badass.

[@asherdales]

Radioactive "health" products still pop up. Not too long ago a bunch of negative ion products were on amazon that had thorium in them. From pendants to blankets and even eye masks.

[@bthsr7113]

The truly disgusting irony is that they are advertised to protect from 5G radiation. The irony is sickening.

[@BetaD_]

Yes, we also have a whole "medical" spa with natural radium/radon water here in Germany :D And yeah the radon part is there main selling point ^^

[@asherdales]

@@BetaD_ Considering you guys can't even put any parts on your cars that aren't TUV certified I'm surprised a place like that exists.

[@BetaD_]

@@asherdales Hahaha exactly :D Probably the natural radiation is so low that there is no risk for your health, but I dont know

[@derwoodbowen5954]

A kind of weird thing with radiation, watches with glowing hands and numbers so you could read them in the dark. They made a radium paint and had women actually paint the watch faces and hands with the paint. Some of the women would lick the brushes to make them come to a point so their painting was accurate. Guess what happened to them. Ugh!

[@bthsr7113]

One he didn't mention was Project Orion. It was a plan to propel a spacecraft with a-bomb generated shockwaves slamming into a massive steel plate on springs.

[@sabliath9148]

Ah yes, Project Orion, AKA, the nuclear powered pogo stick

[@anubisworld3546]

Ain’t no way someone thought it was a good idea ☠️

[@bthsr7113]

@@anubisworld3546 You'd be surprised. People have horrible judgement at times.

[@dgthe3]

@@anubisworld3546 Its a vastly better idea than any of the ones covered by this video. At least with a nuclear powered spacecraft, nobody has to deal with the radiation.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

No worries. We're in Cold War II. One of the first things we're doing with artificial intelligence is applying it to the military and creating autonomous weapons. Both sides are also extensively using cyber attacks against each other's countries including civilian infrastructure. I don't see any possible negative ramifications. Also, SkyNet is happy

[@Tunkkis]

16:38 Well, some of that stuff lasts for tens of thousands of years, while others don't last even a second. The more radioactive something is, the shorter a half-life it'll generally have because it is ripping itself apart quicker. But then you need to consider the decay chain, and it can quickly become quite convoluted.

[@LadyMaria_AstralClocktower]

Yeah it's not as simple as just saying it last a long time, bismuth is radioactive and lasts 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 years while others are so short they barely have time to form an electron cloud, 1/ 1,000,000,000,000,000th of a second

[@notsae66]

Oh, I love Project Pluto! Gotta be my favorite Cold War Doomsday Weapons, just so much over the top apocalyptic madness! So American, it makes my heart pound out the national anthem!

[@bthsr7113]

The articles I read didn't mention it having its own warhead tip, but that after emptying its launch tubes, it would just continue to fly over the USSR until finally crashing and slamming the unshielded reactor into the ground. Edit: If you have enough time, "Well There's Your Problem" did an entire episode on Project Plowshare. Also some Scott Manley videos.

[@OG.2435]

Love how you try not to react to the dirty jokes, but 18:42 completely broke you 😂

[@nunyabidness674]

you're talking about the bluejay channel... You say: "I like to think of bluejay as kind of the torch bearer for Sam and Ella." I hear: "I like to think of bluejay as kind of the torch bearer for salmonella." My brain: Immediate picture of a plucked, raw, bluejay sitting on a chopping block

[@DSzaks]

For anyone interested the natural gas fire Mr. Terry referenced is the Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan. It's not entirely clear how it was ignited but some of the locals claim Russian miners lit it while trying to dig for oil in the 70's.

[@Dachsie_Drella]

9:03 I'm not exactly sure which one it is, maybe the Sarmat 2, but Russia has an ICBM that can split into like 20 different smaller projectiles(each one individually guided) so that it can destroy multiple targets at once or can have all the projectiles target the same place to overwhelm air defense and interception, so, somewhat similar to the design there in the video

[@joshawott331]

16:42 Mr terry you're goofing with that one 😂 "it might be worth it"

[@ShoWel]

18:30 idk, I bet people actually seek the "downstairs enlargement"

[@unablenarwal8863]

I went into this hoping Project Pluto would be mentioned and I’m so happy it only took 5 minutes Something that was left out about the ramjet is iirc there was also an idea that after it dropped its 3 bombs they could fly it in a circle over notable places to just irradiate the hell out of the area

[@jclindsay007]

if you haven't yet, you should look into War Thunder just a bit... They keep having classified military documents leaked on their forums because people want the stuff in game to be realistic. History of Everything Podcast just did a vid on it.

[@thunderatigervideo]

I grew up about half an hour from EBR 1, which was the first nuclear breeder reactor. It’s a museum now (really fun, by the way, for nerds like me) and outside of it it has an engine that was meant to be the first nuclear powered aircraft engine. Never worked (for MANY reasons) but it’s really interesting and HUGE. So nuclear power has been an idea for lots of things.

[@killman369547]

Yeah. There was a time where they did try to shove a nuclear reactor into pretty much everything with varying degrees of success. There were attempts at nuclear powered cars, trains, trucks etc. The idea with the most potential though was nuclear powered cargo ships. That never really went anywhere back then due to cheap oil. But today it might get a 2nd look.

[@thunderatigervideo]

@@killman369547 Nuclear powered aircraft carriers could provide a good blueprint for those cargo ships. Submarines, too. Ocean-going craft have a pretty good track record with nuclear reactors.

[@catman8770]

2:20 The chinese did in fact weaponize gunpowder, primarily in making primitive rockets or as explosives attached to arrows, they just didn't use it to make guns like the europeans. They notably used gunpowder rockets against the mongols.

[@itsmebatman]

I think what this shows is, that back then they simply viewed nuclear weapons as very powerful bombs. They did not yet have an understanding of how bad the radiation problem is. So they literally thought about using it like dynamite.

[@TheNeonParadox]

Mr. Terry, you're driving me insane. Nuu-clee-ar. As in the nucleus of an atom, not the "nuculus." I love you, man, but my Zod! 😂😂

[@MrTerry]

Sorry, I’ll delete the video.

[@TheNeonParadox]

Oh, don't be like that. Lol. I still loved the vid, as always. However, if you watched a history video about Egypt, and the narrator pronounced it, "Ee-gipt" I'm sure you'd have words. 😀

[@Cyberdemon11120]

So a lot of people don't know this, but Thermonuclear devices, or Hydrogen Bombs, didn't get more explosive potential from the fusion reaction. That is, the fusion reaction itself didn't create an explosion. The principle behind adding a fusion reaction to a standard nuclear fission reaction, known as Tritium Boosting, was done to introduce more Neutrons to the fission reaction process and increasing the efficiency of the bomb by properly fissioning more of the Plutonium/Uranium instead of just vaporizing it and spreading in all directions (which is where the long term Nuclear Fallout conditions come from). In fact, the largest Thermonuclear device ever used, Tzar Bomba, was also the most efficient and responsible for the least radioactive fallout ever recorded for a detonated Thermonuclear nuclear device, with Ground Zero of the bomb site being safe to visit and walk over merely 2 hours after detonation. This design principle has already been used to make nuclear weapons more compact for use in ICBMs, among other things. So it actually stands to reason, that Thermonuclear devices still have the potential to be used in mass excavation, provided the designs are further refined and can reliably achieve the same (or better) efficiency as the Tzar Bomba.

[@m_chupon5131]

Don't forget the Hwacha! Such a cool and ridiculous weapon

[@jordanpeterson5140]

25:35 yeah, why did Constantinople get the works?

[@OzzieTheHead]

Did or didn't?

[@wyattguilliams5325]

I mean... black powder was accidentally found in an attempt to create an elixr of immortality. Then used as fireworks, until the military said "hey lets make a fire lance"

[@joshportal2808]

There were actually 5 projects that used Nuclear weapons for non lethal purposes the United States did that original video did not mention. (1)In 1951 there was a crazy idea to nuke a hurricane and in 1952 a category 2 hurricane was hit with a hydrogen bomb. Instead of destroying the hurricane it became the first category 5 hurricane to make landfall in America. The project with all its information did not become public until 2008. (2)In 1964 there was a crazy idea to nuke the moon. It happened in an annoying space mission in 1988. Basically sent trash into outer space and see the costs. Basically to see if it would be a cheaper option to get rid of all of America’s trash instead of burning or Burying it. There was about half a ton of regular trash and a nuclear device from 1955 in it. The trash was launched at the moon and about 6 days later the nuclear device exploded on the moon. It was said to be part of operation Space Wars until 2016. (3) In 1959 there was an Island made into a trash island and was nuked. The idea was to extremely burn trash instead of regular burying or burning. It worked but the Island became radioactive. America kept doing tests like these until 1965. 5 of America’s smallest uninhabited islands were destroyed off the map and ocean. (4) In 1955 there was an attempt in the Mojave desert to dig for oil with a nuclear device. They did get to the oil but also burn most of the oil itself. It was tried again in 1974 in Alaska for natural gas. It caused an international issue and almost started a war with the USSR. It destroyed most of the natural gas which had a line that went under Soviet territory. Luckily no person was harmed but for a year the Soviets thought America tried to attack their underground gas lines. (5) In 1977 before most people in the world knew there was a hole in the Ozone, a weird join operation between America and the Soviet Union started and lasted 6 months. Basically both countries shot nukes at the area where the hole thought to be. The belief was the radioactive material would be thick enough to cover the hole. Instead a good amount of radioactive material spread through the south hemisphere of the world. Mind you generation 1 nukes were used, no hydrogen bombs. The last 3 projects were released to the public in 2020.

[@MattnessLP]

To answer your question about planes vs tanks: I cannot decide lol. I looove WW2-era piston engine planes, but when it comes to War Thunder I also love the tanks and see their development over the time. So idk, it's Realistic Battles for me, so I can have both

[@nunyabidness674]

Side note: the SNARK was the rocket used to figure out internal navigation for SLAM type weapon systems. As a result of this project the coastline off Florida is SNARK infested waters.

[@Some_who_call_me_Tiim]

13:40 @Mr.Terry have you ever gone so far off on a rabbit hole in class when you had a "history lesson, oh crap thats right" moment?

[@Subzer039]

15:10 Beta Ray Bill? He's real. That's a thing. Not Thor's brother, he's Earth-616 Thor though pretty much.

[@jonathanlunger2775]

The slam missle was an apocalypse machine. We should've finished it.

[@comradedog4075]

Yes, the United States of America has, in fact built 2 nuclear powered jet engines. They have been used and tested but they are so big it would of been impossible to get them airborne. They are still very radioactive. And to my knowledge they are sitting in a parking lot in the middle of nowhere somewhere in Idaho.

[@Xnoob545]

Oh btw Maria Skłodowska Curie would not appreciate being called "Marie Curie" or "French" Will someone please recognise her Polish heritage As a Lithuanian I have to say that Slavic and Baltic countries are underrated

[@m_chupon5131]

Did you hear about the genius idea for "nuclear power" called Project PACER? Where we'd just drop bombs down into a giant cave full of water in order to make steam?

[@haydenk6459]

14 to 26 thermal nuclear warheads? God damn that brought a patriotic tear to my eye

[@AdurianJ]

Alfred Nobel literally owned Bofors and made cannons. He wasn't a pacifist. The Nobel Prize is the worlds best PR. His death was wrongly reported in the press and he didn't like the obituaries about how he was a war profiteer, so he founded the Nobel Prize in his will with a large part of his fortune.

[@tylernero6671]

I think I heard Noble read an obituary that was supposed to be for his brother but was mistakenly written for him and established the prize because he didn't want his legacy to be destruction.

[@Garthman03]

That scene that killed you, it looked like a Minecraft sword, and the guy is wearing a vault suit...

[@oliversherman2414]

Russia: The west is working on a new nuke. But who? Nuke: *Starts firing more nukes* Russia: Yeah, that's definitely American

[@artao5]

My dad has a bare spot on the back of his wrist where hair won't grow. It's where his watch with the radium glow-in-the-dark numbers sat, for years and years and years. Locally there used to be a place that had "uranium baths." Yes, big hot baths with uranium (ore?) sitting on the bottom in the water. (Or so I've been told. That may be apocryphal.)

[@guitarguymi]

I like how the rock wasn't a rock but was the rock that really rocks.

[@Salarian8]

Fun fact, the chinese guy who invented gunpowder was trying to make medicine.

[@killman369547]

@@yorha42s Your thinking of Alfred Nobel. The guy who invented gunpowder lived hundreds of years before him.

[@glennchartrand5411]

The canal idea was to put the bombs in shafts so deep the explosion wouldnt reach the surface They would create huge voids deep underground All of the radioactive contamination would remain in the void created by the blast then the ground above the void would sag down and fill it in creating a depression on the surface. Between drilling shafts that deep and the cost of the bombs , it was actually cheaper to dig one conventionally, but it was faster. You could create a canal in months instead of decades. The program was a cover story for researching to see if it was possible to rapidly create a replacement for the Suez Canal in an emergency situation.

[@gtgodbear6320]

Using nukes to dig a canal is like them people that thought they could inisintegrate a whole whale with tnt. Just became a humongous disaster with whale chunks raining down for a mile.

[@jjkehrley]

Dude, I'm jealous of your Turtles arcade machine!🤣

[@frantisekvrana3902]

8:00 But this was intended to be fired from own territory. Where the side effects would also be felt.

[@dgthe3]

It would only work if it were launched with some kind of conventional booster. Chemical rocket, bomber aircraft, insanely powerful catapult, whatever. Ramjets need air moving through them to work, and so they aren't terribly useful for getting things moving. But regardless, the radiation experienced from firing these things off from your own territory is nothing compared to the radiation you'd get from the retaliatory strike -which would absolutely happen.

[@JKingSniper]

Oh god 18:37 laugh was amazing

[@CynicalPlatapus]

I like the way you say nuclear, it sounds to me as if you're saying "nukular", reminds me of the Simpson episode where homer corrects the captain "nukular, it's pronounced nukular"

[@joshuafoster354]

Planes are 100% cooler than tanks

[@kala857]

Ships are cooler then planes imo

[@nelsondfg211]

Trains are cooler than them all

[@icyseven4542]

@@nelsondfg211your mom tell you that (sorry I couldn’t not 😂)

[@KoolDuckGuy]

@@icyseven4542too far, trains are sick

[@ICECAPPEDSKY]

I mean planes are significantly more complex and technologically advanced than tanks. The engineering involved is insane. Fighter aircraft, attackers and bombers are essentially modern day man made dragons.

[@OzzieTheHead]

25:27 whoa buddy

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@ZKP314]

"Using a Nuke to build a canal" SUEZCANALCRAB moment.

[@kineuhansen8629]

back in the 1950 they wanted to make nuclear powred cars dont know why ohh and a nuclear powred cruise ship called ms savannah

[@fieryredpodcast]

At least Baily believed in his own products. Lol😂

[@zZ38PYB50guA9PUuDhAI]

2:54 not really.. East Asians also made weapons with gunpowder. For ex) Hwacha (automatic multiple arrow shooters in Korea).. it wasn't as powerful as western guns but they also weaponized gunpowders.. but I think gunpowder weapon developement was slower bc they didn't have strong naval powers as western European countries.. I had fun watching this because I naturally have interest in nukes since I am Korean. Kim Jong Un, a nuclear genius, is also Korean.

[@Anonymus-ih7yb]

Some stones really have energy. This energy is “eat shit and die” but still. I do not take credit for this, I saw a similar sentence on a Tumblr post.

[@alannamcneill5679]

My family and I are airplane people because we seem to have a habit of going into the Airforce when we participate in wars.

[@Zalzany]

Ships I like playing ships in War Thunder but yeah in RB mode you can use you planes, aand takes or planes and ships.

[@collinscody57]

If you sold tickets to watch all the nukes make a gaint trench in a second you could probably make alot of your money back.

[@julianozaur444]

I'm suprised how there aren't any Poles shouting that Marie Curie was Polish and not French.

[@jjkehrley]

Just remember, you CAN'T nuke a hurricane! 😆

[@oddjonsson2815]

Nobel wasn't really a pacifist though he was strongly against war. He was among other things a minority owner in Bofors

[@atomicphilosopher6143]

We rip on people in the early 1900s for thinking that putting radium near your balls would cure impotence, but remember that there are people out there today who thought that sticking Gwyneth Paltrow's jade egg up their nether regions would cure hormonal imbalances. These are typically the people who still believe that diluting medicine to one part per million will cure anything because water has memory somehow. XD

[@dgthe3]

And don't ignore the guys: Alex Jones and others have shilled the same crap to insecure men.

[@ariel-danielle]

"With a chaser of cotton candy bang" Me currently drinking cotton candy bang😅

[@johankaewberg8162]

Nobel instituted his Prizes, *especially* the Peace price because he felt extremely guilty for the uses his technology had been put to. A minor Oppenheimer.

[@szariq7338]

Terry, I need your answer on the question I'm going to ask you, which when answered will never reappear: Do you consider any videos touching unknown chapters and detours of history of foreign creators (I don't mean Canadian or British, but completely non-Anglo-Saxon) to be reacted to? The reason for asking is that I feel, that for quite some time you've only reacted to videos about either relatively known subject or made by popular creators. Is it because you have no trust in the quality of the videos by small creators unless proven by more people or is it something else? If yes, will it be enough if it has only subtitles or does it need to be made in English language? If (good quality) subtitles are enough, then I have a channel (whose couple of videos are subtitled so it'll be better as one-hit wonders), that not only talks about a certain topic, but usually also shows items connected to the told subject (and usually those items are an incentive to create a video about the topic) and has genuinely awesome conclusions. If you require English voiceover, then I have another channel, which is basically an expert about the interior of Soviet Union.

[@Themonkeyinthebushes]

I am glad you are making a video about this it is a good video

[@Maeshalanadae]

Have you reacted to the Battle of Saragarhi yet?

[@csdn4483]

If you want to read about bad ideas of using nukes, see if you can find a copy of *Introduction to Nuclear Engineering* by Lamarsh and read the forward. That man had some crazy ideas.

[@jarsenaultj]

Isn't the MOAB about 1/10th the strength of the nukes dropped in WW2? If radiation was the only issue (well, radiation and geo-political turmoil...but engineers don't need to worry about that), it seems like that could be worth looking at.

[@dgthe3]

Roughly 1/1000th, not 1/10th. Off by a factor of 100. MOABs are about 11 tons of TNT equivalent. Littleboy and Fatman were 15,000-20,000 tons of TNT eqiv.

[@vxicepickxv]

The US Army's nuclear powered tank didn't fare so well either.

[@rollotomasislawyer3405]

The Chinese had the first rocket propelled grenades! Gun powder in a bomb as the payload launched with rocket using the fireworks blend of powder as fuel.

[@IquonYT]

CONSTANTINOPLE. HE SAID IT. I̶s̶t̶a̶n̶b̶u̶l̶ - Recject Modernity Constantinople - Embrace Tradition

[@Tekdruid]

2:15 The Tide pods OMG [ded] :D

[@jpotter2086]

#1 .... make really big, really dirty bombs.

[@KRDecade2009]

The nuke canal wasn’t feasible mostly because when it was proposed America didn’t have 520 nukes

[@qrusaiderrosettv57]

Radium and Polonium were discovered mostly by Madame Currie ... who was polish not french ...

[@MrDragonlordbahamut]

sorry this is a late comment but i just got around to watching your video. The comment about the west weaponizing gun powder made me question if the battle of kai-fung-fun happened. The battle was supposed to be the first battle in which gunpowder was used as a missle. I am probably wrong but i belive it was in a fight against the mongols. Can you please clarify whether this battle took place the way i was taught? or if it was fabricated

[@rollotomasislawyer3405]

Mr. President, we can not allow a mineshaft cap! Name that movie?

[@nailahprincessofhokuto2024]

27:11 so we have Moabs now, which while not as powerful as a Hiroshima nuke do have a powerful explosive yield while not being nuclear, think it's possible to use those for high end construction?

[@dgthe3]

A MOAB has an explosive yield of about 11 tons of TNT. This video talked about building a canal with 520 H-bombs, each with a yield of 2 mega tons. To do the same thing with MOABs, assuming equal efficiency, it'd take 95 million or so bombs.

[@macaylacayton2915]

definitely can't show THIS in class

[@kurtslavain]

The guy is dressed like the vault boy from the Fallout universe and I think that's intentional.

[@nightpups5835]

metal tube, china was using sturdy traditional bamboo pipes!

[@ineverexist666]

Wasn´t the reason behind Dynomite having an explosive which is saver to handle than nitroglycerin?