Computer Bug That Was 7 Minutes Away From Launching a Nuke

People make mistakes, but accidentally launching a nuclear strike that would have destroyed the Earth would have been the biggest and last mistake anyone would have ever made. The US was in the midst of the Cold War with Russia, and a computer system for detecting Russian missiles was relied on to protect America, but one problem, it wasn't human proof. In today's insane video we're looking at the time when a critical human error almost obliterated the entire world.
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[@datonepersonwholikeswaffle1657]

Computer: about to send nuke Grandma who said yes on a popup ad: ಠ_ಠ

[@zsin128]

dat one person who likes waffles twist

[@zsin128]

dat one person who likes waffles twist

[@zsin128]

My tablet glitched

[@CheseBitez]

@@zsin128 dude, could have sended a nuke lol

[@mordiandrigsyt6741]

zsin128! Up

[@N8riz]

*Wife:* "Morning honey! I made you coffee! How did you sleep last night?" *Husband:* .....

[@beanwater4542]

Ion get it

[@jiremgt4362]

Fish he didnt sleep

[@beanwater4542]

JiremGT oh lol

[@bedshitter6946]

@@jiremgt4362 Thats the joke, she didnt know he was awake and trying to stop some nukes.

[@rarepepe8790]

This was a great joke but explaining it ruined it.

[@uranium54321]

On the other side of the cold war, something kinda similar happened. A soviet missile detection system detected 6 missiles coming from the US. Protocol was to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike but the officer who was supposed to pick up the phone to call it in, Stanislav Petrov, correctly judged that the US would’ve sent all their missiles and that it was a false alarm. This man singlehandedly saved the world as we know it, went against the orders of superior officers to do so, and didnt even tell anyone until years later. He died in 2017, may he rest in peace

[@Mushroom_moon_stirfry]

wow, that's something. Going against the orders of superior officers? In Russia? Even today it sounds like a bad idea.

[@nakamura3886]

Rip

[@SpatialAdmirer273]

Woah! Rip

[@smokyblackeyes3615]

rip

[@daviddevereux3427]

@@Mushroom_moon_stirfry guess what he was not made a hero of the soviet union

[@jackthibodeau6810]

When I said “nuke the Chinese”, I meant “put the takeout in the microwave”.

[@donaldzickau5362]

Jack Thibodeau ha ha ha

[@unusualsheep]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@arnavdub2463]

all said by jim kong un

[@jackthibodeau6810]

Mercyy bro have a sense of humor.

[@diego1813]

Mercyy It’s comedy, Nuking the Chinese, he simply meant “Nuke the Chinese food,” or “Put the Chinese food in the microwave.”

[@sirscribbley1822]

When you hit send by accident but turn on airplane mode at the last second

[@GoGoTomoko]

Walter

[@shinigamizzz5372]

dont give away our secrets

[@cad291]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@cad291]

YOU JUST SAVED MILLIONS YOUR A HERO WE SHALL ALL REMEMBER THE DAY YOUR TURNED ON AIRPLANE MODE

[@lightyagami3492]

This is me 😂😂😂😂

[@Ducks892]

World: Let’s let the computer help us. Computer: nUkE tHEm

[@someguy3766]

Lol, funny. xD

[@thedarkdragon1437]

The irony is AI wont hesitate, they will nuke us

[@thenoob4310]

lol that’s a one plus phone

[@drmadjdsadjadi]

Once the computers figure out how to avoid generating an EMP, we are all dead.

[@thedarkdragon1437]

@@drmadjdsadjadi on the contrary, not avoid generating EMP, but actually shielding from it with charged particle or reflecting it back (highly unlikely but so far not proven impossible)

[@brxnmaverick383]

“is this the it department?” “yes?” “well we have an urgent issue that needs to be fixed in at most 6 minutes” “ok please hold” “wait wha- *elevator music plays*”

[@MrKrissKross2010]

Have you tried putting it in rice?

[@jimmyeagleeye]

Have you tried to turn it off and on?

[@mikel7601]

I was a life support tech at Offutt AFB when this happened and this video barely touches the true horror we were experiencing as we got our planes off the ground. We knew we were all going to die in the next few minutes and did what needed to be done to get all our planes off the ground as quickly as possible. As soon as we were done, we stood there looking at the sky, wondering if we would see the the trails of the missiles before they detonated. We also ignored orders to flee to the countryside to get out of range of a blast. We thought of ourselves as the lucky ones because we would die instantly as opposed to the millions who would suffer for days or even weeks with a slow painful death in the aftermath of the attack. I often still recall the horror of that day as it profoundly altered my view of the world and civilization. (not in a good way). We lived the impending end of the world, not as an abstract but as it was unfolding before our eyes.

[@josephh891]

I can only imagine how surreal that experience would have been. At any stage were you hoping it was an error, or were you convinced the entire time that this was the end?

[@mikel7601]

@@josephh891 at first we hoped but we were strongly reminded that this was not a drill. When SAC says it's not a drill you know it is for real. When it is not a drill certain safety this are ignored by us, things that could get you killed. Things that if done during a drill could get you in BIG disciplinary trouble but are ignored during real combat situations. Fortunately no one died but a few guys did suffer minor injuries

[@josephh891]

@@mikel7601 I'm glad there were only minor physical injuries. The damage to the psyche, perhaps more so after you've had a time to reflect, must be extreme. You were in a state knowing that *humanity* was about to end in a few minutes. So surreal. Thanks.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

If people realized how many of these nuclear close-calls there have been over the past 50 years ( _at least_ four)… :-\

[@thebeachcomber8048]

- more than 4 just 4 the public knows about

[@nathanye2866]

We're just in a simulation. The robots took over after seeing us destroy ourselves (there were a lot of nuclear war), and then put us in ahhaos fpiojsaoid Agent SMith is here! Long live The One!

[@Devvo0z]

@@nathanye2866 are you okay?

[@ohtheblah]

@Dope nyan Cat are you one of the goth kids from south park?

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

There is plenty of nuclear war heads are scattered around the world that hidden in the ground because countries can keep their weapons together.

[@MrFish-kg1cn]

“THE ROBOTS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE NAVY” -Spongebob

[@Nova-dy3vu]

“NOT THE NAVY” -Squidward

[@Theaura1]

NOT THE NAVY

[@noelblack8159]

NOT THE NAVYYYYY

[@mitslol784]

the sun came up and it smiled at me

[@flynn4700]

Let’s sit round the campfire and sing our campfire song

[@yourlocalasleeponioperativ4095]

“How did ww3 start dad?” “Well, it all started when someone deleted system 32...”

[@Kevin-jz9bg]

HA : )

[@chillnspace777]

🤣

[@technolousy2258]

Imfao

[@Stinger420]

Hahaha! That's perfect! However, considering the era, you could have also used, "Well honey, let me tell you story about something called AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS."

[@brosthestickmandude]

loooooooooooool

[@vurhzs618]

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind" - John F. Kennedy

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

But he put and to his life by himself

[@oliverdotson909]

Bruh if alien existence they just wait for us to destroy or self

[@proapocalypse1448]

"We like to use the word peoplekind" - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

[@thisisthecat9518]

Mankind put an end to him

[@NightBeWheat]

So true.

[@rozarcatlas8925]

USSR: How one man disobeying order prevent ww3 US: How a computer bug almost make us start ww3

[@drmadjdsadjadi]

It was not a computer bug - it was a human error.

[@mikerentiers]

@@drmadjdsadjadi Technically it was both. Someone put the wrong tape in (tape, lol) but the system also glitched because it did not inform the rest of the system that it was a training experience. Narrator says at the end the could not figure why the system didn;t inform of the demo status.

[@jessko747]

We could’ve. Died

[@ianhogben3472]

I've heard of that Russian I think there should be a day where we celebrate all those who stoped potential ww3's

[@LAkadian]

Surprised they didn't try to blame "Russian Hackers". Lol.

[@razzuberri3240]

When you earned a nuke in MW but the game ends before you can call it

[@younglingslaughter6938]

Mission failed we will get them next time ....

[@oldforuv9256]

Imaginary Fries the fact that this has happened before, actually it was late week on shoothouse. It was my 4th nuke I believe and I was in the middle of calling it in when we lost lol

[@david_orencia]

I did that and it is so painful

[@CHloE748]

What is mw

[@anchoviesonnachos7074]

@@CHloE748 Call of duty: modern warfare (2019)

[@notquitebleu]

*"The great rickroll"*

[@Perririri]

Ok Boomer

[@fortunate9714]

@@Perririri emphasis on the "Boom"

[@starwarsfan_1206]

Ok

[@Arae_1]

@Channel Unknown now 100 (101 with mine)

[@admiralhydra519]

@Channel Unknown 169 now

[@cross9224]

Fun fact: Bob ross was still in the military as a drill sargeant in that time

[@bobbaganooch2843]

Painting happy little mushroom clouds right over there.

[@jeffgreenphotography]

Even funner fact: Bob Ross was in the military at Eielson AFB as mentioned in this video. Though, it is pronounced EYE-el-son, narrator.

[@1235tristan]

Just try to picture him in your head as an angry drill sargeant yelling at his platoon...

[@fortunate9714]

Happy little accident

[@Trek001]

@@1235tristan The squad cadence went like this... "I don't know what I've been told Sgt's painting a mountain old" "Van Gogh only had one ear Sgt Ross is so dear" "A plane is hard to maintain We'd rather watch the drill painting"

[@JohnDoe-on6ru]

"...tensions with the Soviet Union are at an all-time low" THE SOVIET UNION IS BACK?!

[@nukeruranium9417]

GUESS WHO'S BACK

[@TheStonedEvo]

John Doe sheesh... an all time low a month before 1980, when this story takes place.

[@dillonh321]

This took place in the 80s

[@annie_xo]

nuker uranium STALIN’S BACK, TELL A FRIEND

[@joshtheflyersfan18]

Stephan Beauvais I think it was a joke 😂

[@shopnil4]

Some intern just made the US go full panic and use a lot of resources and risk actually starting WW3.

[@lightyagami3492]

We would have never known about it had it not been discovered within the first 7 minutes to

[@sho6413]

do you have any links where I can find this and find out myself?

[@rhcrcgvp]

Shouma JP, the page titled "List of nuclear close calls" on Wikipedia has a paragraph about this event and it links several references.

[@sho6413]

@@rhcrcgvp thank you random dude

[@enderbirds3814]

The soviets were probably like -what those B****s preparing for?

[@seyoftime9785]

The humans created the nuclear bomb, but not a single mouse on earth would create the mouse trap -Albert Einstein

[@digs154]

I mean they don’t have the intelligence to do it

[@troy8349]

@@digs154 intelligence 100

[@urchhyy1253]

@@digs154 this quote of alberts goes along with my ideology, intelligence brings stupidity

[@digs154]

@@urchhyy1253 in a way it does. If mouses had the intelligence to make mouse trap they will definitely do it to battle competition. Its just survival of the fittest. Nature at work

[@zzduckxx8646]

So we almost cost the entire world the entire human race that day........cool...let’s hope it doesn’t happen again as there are more than 15000 active nukes across the world....

[@K7EXO]

That’s honestly the sweetest thing in the world, what he did for her. He thought the entire world would end in a matter of minutes, and he chose to let his wife sleep instead of holding her or telling her he loves her one last time. He wanted her last moments to be peaceful. He was, no doubt, consumed with anxiety. Still though, he loved his wife so much that he let her be. He didn’t even give her a last kiss or hug, for fear of disturbing her peaceful slumber. That’s the deepest love I could ever imagine. Carrying the weight of the end of the world on your shoulders, and letting your wife sleep, so she doesn’t have to take on the burden.

[@AsrielDreemurYT653]

Cool, now shut up.

[@andrewpatton5114]

Your mileage may vary on that. For a Catholic, those last few minutes would be the most important of your life, and you want to be fully alert to make the best use of them.

[@untildownfall]

That made me cry a bit

[@RoeiCohen]

@@AsrielDreemurYT653 lol

[@thegoldenjuvi5977]

@@AsrielDreemurYT653 I would say the same to you

[@Kxre_]

When you put “Send Nukes” instead of “Send Nudes” Haha yes original comment

[@vasanthnannuri8544]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@winterpeony1462]

EliteLegendZXxD yes. seND nuKes wInkY faCE

[@ooggabooga6675]

♥️ I approve of this message 👍

[@charliezoa4899]

🤣 🤣

[@Daesarul]

OOPS

[@Fuzzyface239]

“Mankind invented atomic bomb, but no mouse construct a mouse trap” Albert Einstein

[@aleeHOSA]

???????

[@TAnimations]

Humans destroy everything..

[@catchannel8883]

He means the mouses didnt build traps and weapons for their own kind

[@theleftfootedsultan]

“I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but World Way four will be fought with sticks and stones” Also Einstein

[@RAiNfORAiNbOW]

@@catchannel8883 they would if they could but they dumb

[@Green-sg2td]

“City Killers can completely eradicate cities.” Hmm, the floor here is made out of *Floor*

[@fortunate9714]

The floor is covered in fallout

[@Dumb_]

@@fortunate9714 welp time to get a powersuit

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

Well, city busses cannot transport whole cities.

[@inhex1603]

the us had 2 wars that made them have two fights with other countries

[@teddytoucan6276]

idk bro here the floor is made out of ceiling

[@lunarmoon8395]

Imagine what russia was thinking when they started seeing nuclear weapons in the air from the US

[@theacidknight6463]

oop time to nuke the world.

[@user-lm4ui2zb7x]

It’s the ussr not russia

[@sushimidnight9539]

@KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti you are rly LARPing as a kgb agent,kinda cringe

[@shebahammy]

"Ahem, Sir. We were not prepared for this."

[@g.williams2047]

They would view it as a counterattack and likely didn't escalate the threat beyond "be on high alert".

[@Delguerrero]

First thing I would do if I knew that a nuke was going to hit my area.... I would cancel my magazine subscription to ' Beautiful Homes & Gardens . ;

[@pi9857]

😂

[@anhduc0913]

@@pi9857 sound like a fallout magazine

[@pi9857]

I couldn’t agree with you more.

[@SUPABROS]

ki

[@RAiNfORAiNbOW]

i dont get it why would you cancel your nice magazine

[@jahbrilplaysgamesandstuff326]

"Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter."

[@kindlygray4309]

I live in Trona which is way hotter than where you ARE

[@jahbrilplaysgamesandstuff326]

@@kindlygray4309 somebody whooshhh this man

[@casda5226]

@@jahbrilplaysgamesandstuff326 was IT a fallout 3 reference or a fallout la Vegas ? Cant remeber

[@jahbrilplaysgamesandstuff326]

@@casda5226 yea in fallout new Vegas the ncr troops usually say that when you talk to them it's kinda of a meme in the fallout community.

[@mustangrudolf1298]

Kindly Gray r/woooosh

[@tylerstacostop]

That is perhaps one of the largest “what if”s in history. I can’t help but to wonder what would have happened if the attacks would have been carried out.

[@neuro301official7]

You and I wouldn’t be here to ponder

[@greetingsgentlemen.8179]

@@neuro301official7 true

[@hellothere3071]

@KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti yep and then later the world would thrive again a few thousand years later

[@Msajjadhussain-mg6cy]

Don't forget about vasili arkhipov his one wrong decision would have ended everything as we know it

[@darrsigilman7956]

I don't think we would have been here to wonder about anything.

[@Hetgamingblokje]

Imagine the US nuking China and then on the nuke is written: *MADE IN CHINA*

[@theacidknight6463]

self assured destruction

[@aneshkumar4513]

@@theacidknight6463 otherwise known as SAD

[@williamo1390]

Refund

[@nato5868]

lol

[@Blizzard2212]

Sorry I don't like this nuke,you can take it back for free

[@Marzianito21]

Ha, my teacher was literally speaking of this during class

[@sirwrench6972]

Lel

[@dymond457]

My teachers can't explain as well as the Infographics show

[@rodneytaylor6261]

Smart teacher.... Prepair now ..... Google about it

[@deadcreeds2gaming484]

When was this?

[@shivampokar]

😂

[@crore1669]

This is what happens when you click on the “Hot moms in your area!” ad. 😂

[@djdaleo03]

💀💀

[@crore1669]

Sylestic • 30 years ago I thought of three funny things and i decided to share them in the comments.

[@turtlewarrior7946]

Imagine waking up in the morning and your husband just says "The world almost ended last night."

[@dustyzoid3535]

America: WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! WWIII IS ABOUT TO START! Meanwhile is USSR: Such a beautiful day/night (I do not know).

[@stevenpinneo6590]

Day, I think

[@ussgettysburg316]

"Hey, why are the Americans launching their bombers?"

[@pixeldemon6173]

Actually, while it's nighttime in America, it's day in USSR, and the other way around.

[@Blitztein_beta]

Title: *Computer bug near to nuke launch shy of 7 minutes* Video released: *7 Minutes Ago* Uhhh

[@bloke1343]

Me

[@sandro6411]

🤣

[@zacky333.]

@Blitztein beta i know you play gd from the pfp

[@J-SilverH]

ooo look it’s a lovely sunse....

[@changel711]

Same

[@greeniegg2639]

I was more amazed by the reaction time of the various the interceptors and all the other forces

[@vikkil8804]

I know right

[@enderbirds3814]

They were sped

[@pr3ttyb0yfl4cko]

I agree. Just 1 minute and the entire military force of the US was ready for an all out nuclear war.

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

@@pr3ttyb0yfl4cko know imagine with today's technology

[@mohdnazreen5892]

So, the same goes to the Russian under this circumstance

[@CountryBoyMakinNoise]

Imagine the adrenaline rush everyone was feeling. I bet there’s never been a rush that high for any of them ever again.

[@mikel7601]

We were too busy doing our jobs to think about that until we got all our planes off the ground... then it switched to abject horror and resignation... I can still feel the emotional experience to this very day...

[@JohnJJones-py2gr]

Video: *talking about how a Nuclear Missile was 7 minutes away from being launched* The Music in the background: *Inspirational Music*

[@Void-qn3ty]

I love how the world could have ended in just a few seconds cause of a computer bug this is truly a scary time to live not knowing if we could die any second from a computer malfunction

[@rexdevil3771]

You love?

[@drmadjdsadjadi]

Why do you think it was a computer malfunction? Most so-called “computer malfunctions” are actually either deliberately programmed or are errors introduced by humans.

[@keirantodd06]

@@drmadjdsadjadi well it says that it was a computer bug

[@drmadjdsadjadi]

do the roar That is because we usually do not like to admit that 99.999% of all “computer bugs” are, in reality, solely human errors introduced into the computer code or failures by humans to follow proper protocol. Any true “computer bug” is actually few and far between and almost always involves a hardware failure of some kind (these do exist - for example, the first actual computer bug was in 1946 and was caused by a moth that flew into a computer, causing the computer to malfunction). We just do not like to admit that programmers are human beings and when they make errors, these errors are magnified because they are 100% certain to occur every time the unforeseen (by the human) circumstances are replicated. We also do not like to admit that to err is human, to really mess things up requires a computer because computers are wonderful tools that allow us to do whatever we program them to do much faster than any human possibly could, even if what we program it to do is not what we want them to do.. In any case, though, the problem almost invariably lies between the chair and the keyboard rather than being the fault of the computer itself, which is why I hate it when people blame “computer bugs” rather than assigning the blame to the person who programmed the computer (or was using the computer) in the first place.

[@fumiko___]

drmadjdsadjadi dude... have you ever met somebody who codes before. A computer bug is when the programming introduces an error into the program. if there’s a bug in your code you go to the debug to check what’s going wrong, then you fix the error. A moth flying into a computer and causing a malfunction is NOT a computer bug (well, it is a computer 💻 bug 🐜 but not the other way) it is an accident that causes a malfunction.

[@wik5123]

In an alternate timeline that's how the fallout series started

[@brosthestickmandude]

All hoomans in that vault are russians confirmed...

[@grfrjiglstan]

That guy who put the wrong tape in must've been scarred from the experience. Even if nobody ever found out who did it, he knew that he almost singlehandedly caused the end of the world. I wouldn't be able to come back to the office ever again.

[@thefearfamilysvoid4734]

“I don’t fear anything but nuclear warfare makes me shiver” Unknown unknown -2014

[@mbcommandnerd]

I fear no man, but that thing…(nuclear warfare)…it scares me.

[@izzatihassan1475]

Imagine waking up in the morning and realising that your house location is a pre-programmed target of a intercontinental missile!

[@Victor-gr2yj]

Wouldn't change much if it was your neighbour's

[@woooooooooooooooooooooooo]

@@Victor-gr2yj Or on the other side of town

[@siddharththakur5978]

I will be proud

[@fumiko___]

“Why did I ever join the military” famous last words

[@jahbrilplaysgamesandstuff326]

Then apple would turn into vault tec

[@cal8850]

jahbril plays games and stuff lol

[@matthewawesome1212]

jahbril plays games and stuff mmm now we can all live in underground vaults with inhuman experiments and tests can under go on the dwellers

[@cowboyjack8124]

@@matthewawesome1212 I don't even know you but I just sense you take things way too literally

[@matthewawesome1212]

Cowboy Jack nope just a joke

[@enderbirds3814]

They would make everyone pay 1000 for the door

[@ZacTheSword]

Russian Spies when hearing alert be like - "Hey Russia y u leave us here ._."

[@_v1nce_]

guilding

[@isaacescobarfernandez8578]

Thats my roleplay for fallout 4 lol

[@thearchitect774]

All I can say is, “Let’s play Thermonuclear warfare”

[@PuppyPlootes]

At least they still “track” Santa

[@clayten6031]

It’s crazy to think, we could be going through our day and then all of a sudden nukes just start going off... wicked

[@robertbobbypelletreaujr2173]

"Honey, why are you screaming hysterically? I was asleep."

[@thatguy3199]

What if the Soviets did this on purpose to test America’s reaction time

[@raylessneptune451]

Pretty f*cking fast

[@pr3ttyb0yfl4cko]

Well they're extremely fast. Just 1 minute after the alert went off and the country was ready to give it all.

[@MovedErmOk]

ngl if america fired nukes right away at the soviets while their just vibing

[@SirSpiro]

fast, within 2 minutes america was ready to put all in

[@marcoroberts9462]

@@MovedErmOk I mean you'd think that the soviets would have their own pretty fast reaction time

[@arthurchapman6128]

Literary no one: Infographics show: Nuclear weapons are boxing gloves.

[@derekchuff1430]

See opening of Rocky 4

[@pessimisticpianist582]

Analogies

[@malgold88]

@@derekchuff1430 at least they had an explosion

[@shivampokar]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wesbesttreacts4515]

I would’ve been SWEATING HARD

[@WertyTT4]

I really dont want this to happen, i just want to live my life.

[@EnDTh3S1L3NcE]

Couldnt have summed it up better than that my friend

[@arbysregionalmanager7032]

Too bad, you're being drafted.

[@dogboi187]

just make sure your friend who works at norad doesnt take any tapes over for work

[@agatethegreat9135]

WertyTT, your time on discord has ended. Get drafted.

[@TPS070]

"Though tensions between the U.S and Russia are at a historic all time low" *2 years later*

[@BiscuitZombies]

Nobody: Not even your mailbox's manufacturer: USA: Soviet Nuclear Attacc is Imminent

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@nikkidubose7869]

7 minutes a way from Nuke video Posted: 7 minutes Me: uh oh

[@joshfenwick1479]

Imagine being one of those pilots in the jets tho? Like that adrenaline rush

[@joshglover2370]

We almost burned ourselves off the face of the Earth, and it would have been our own fault! Were like toddlers playing with daddy's gun! 🙄

[@KSGaming419]

Humanity was never meant to get access to missiles

[@skygge1006]

@@KSGaming419 it’s a bad invention but who said we weren’t supposed to get it, it might be better if we never got them although the us and soviets wouldve went to war it still would’ve been better if they are never invented but wdym not supposed to discover who chooses what’s we discover

[@talharehman6732]

Is nobody gonna appreciate how well this story was explained??

[@kens8903]

This story makes me want to believe we are living in a simulation

[@ashiksaleem360]

We are.

[@casda5226]

@Cmdr. Lewdiepie or we go into another simulation

[@casda5226]

@Cmdr. Lewdiepie and when we die in that simulation you go to another simulation. FOR ALL ETIRNITY

[@MichaelHarto]

idk man.. this simulated hotdog tastes amazing.

[@yung_carter2329]

We are

[@cadescott2248]

It's impossible to comprehend the true scale of devastation this war would cause

[@kahlzun]

The duty of these brave souls, knowing that they will never see their family again nor get a chance to say goodbye.. I imagine the hugs that night.

[@StrokeMahEgo]

"Shall we play a game?"

[@BluBird12]

0-players

[@0077Nemanja]

/Y /Set scenario: Total annihilation of human race

[@pascaledits7219]

Skynet was inspired by this

[@anhduc0913]

Or maybe skynet was this.

[@jansenjaedendanglacruz2673]

anh duc are you sure about that

[@JackKeph716]

I have read an article in my freshman year of college about a similar instance where the United States misdetected hostile nuclear launches on a sunny morning. That case turned out to be the US scanners thinking that long shafts of sunlight were hostile nukes, whereas it was an computer error. It is crazy to wonder how one moment we are with our loved ones sharing a moment and in the next minute, we could all succumb to mutual and complete annihilation due to some sort of coding error.

[@petero.7487]

I believe you're mistaking that with a case in the former USSR. They had a similar malfunction back in 1983

[@TheDreadedHope]

With this much scrambling, I want to believe other nations noticed. Hearing their side of the story would be interesting.

[@autumnvibes9313]

*infograffics releases new vid* Me: more facts to torture my new prisoners with. These kids will never sleep during history class ever again!

[@bruhx2792]

You do this two

[@autumnvibes9313]

laura parry ah, I see you are a man of culture aswell. Assuming you are a man.

[@bruhx2792]

@@autumnvibes9313 no comrade I'm aliean

[@bruhx2792]

@@VaughnMurphy a aliean is something witch is in the oncheans of another planet since we know zero about oncheans i'st alien sqaured and like a animal sintest would do we get a different name

[@z0onder]

Did you seriously say infograffics *sigh*

[@tahjayplays360]

0:43 *TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!!!*

[@SilentJnation]

This is Ibs Reporting: Everyone in the world is dead.

[@SilentJnation]

@Bryan BD yup I'm deeeeed

[@gard3boi311]

A similair thing happened in Russia as well. If I remember it correctly, there was this guy who was in a nuke launching center, and the systems detected 4 US nuclear missles inbound. He contacted High command, who ordered him to prepare to retaliate. He however stated that it didn't make sense that there were only 4 missles, as a true nuclear strike would involve thousands of simultaneous missles being launched. Of course, i read this in a book almost a year ago, and the details are kinda fuzzy. Feel free to correct me if I messed some details up!

[@LiMCRiMZ]

This is what it feels like when I start my computer

[@ionly6805]

Imagine what could have been...

[@legodfatherfrog3253]

peace could have been if the world was obliterated

[@Mr.Lawton534]

Peace once and for all

[@AC-ri2ph]

Jericho on Netflix will show you.

[@crore1669]

No one: When you click on an ad:

[@winterpeony1462]

Sylestic • 30 years ago sometimes it glitches and comments it two times,

[@winterpeony1462]

Sylestic • 30 years ago oh

[@Theabramsoutside]

life is pain

[@_Myrhl]

Why do you have two comments

[@crore1669]

Time Travellar why does that matter.

[@Akronox.]

Great! Add some cameras, a budget, some bad actors, and an anticlimactic ending, and you got yourself a cash grab movie!

[@stephweasenforth7891]

So the sequel to Battleship?

[@andrewpatton5114]

Basically what happened. War Games is based on this.

[@VintageNarwhal]

My grandpa worked at NORAD in the 1970’s and my mom visited (part of) the building for a thanksgiving thing they did for the families of the employees. Had to take a train thing. Actually had to go inside the mountain apparently she thinks it was pretty rad.

[@benjaminlaprise4047]

This is fun learning school should take notes lol

[@benjaminlaprise4047]

@Drive ssjm and the schools are run by humans and i was talking about schools learning from all the infographics videos

[@johngammon6450]

9:16 "The fallout will make farming impossible for decades, and ensure that the Soviet Union starves to death." Why is that farmer fat?

[@ryzingsun]

i want to know how the USSR reacted to this when they saw everyone in the US scrambling all the sudden.

[@Tilleire]

Its pretty amazing that in just 10 minutes of a missile being launched at the us, we respond by leveling multiple major cities 3 to 4 times.

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

@@zacharycowart8380 most planes can carry the b61 nuclear warhead

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

@@zacharycowart8380 probably the f22 would be the first to deploy and f35 lightning 2 with b61 nukes and b83 to drop them on a noway return mission and tasked if survived to engage any bombers

[@mohdnazreen5892]

@@cristobalalvarez5491 you didn't know what the Modern USSR could respond under this circumstance, you have your own countermeasures and they also have their own countermeasures

[@alannysanchez3570]

*And that’s how I met your mother*

[@iamwonted1444]

Plot twist: the bug actually stopped the launch

[@absent-mindedgoldfish]

i have been summoned? oh, different plot twist... ok, bye

[@iamwonted1444]

Twisted Plot Twist no..you must be kept

[@sushilverma6696]

Best infographics video I have ever seen. Nice info

[@xavier6130]

0:19 *"Such a world would be f*cked with nuclear weapons."*

[@ocefloww]

Lol didn't notice that.

[@steveharveyhd5289]

If my logic is correct, then that could’ve been bad...

[@crackergaming3840]

Nah

[@pesticeed8168]

No it would be guuuuuud

[@SwissSareth]

(Yzma impression) "You think?!"

[@Terminate1783]

No one literally not a single soul in the milkyway galaxy: ... Coputer: dO YoU waNT tO ExpLOdE!?!?!?!?!?

[@nO-YoUrE-DuRnK]

No one.. Not a single soul.. Laughs at this joke

[@Terminate1783]

@@nO-YoUrE-DuRnK Nii varmaan

[@hamburger4626]

I liked it

[@fumiko___]

Comrade Ivan you’re not human

[@hamburger4626]

Diavolo The Boss well sorry to disappoint you but last time I check I am

[@DeputatKaktus]

Computer: „A strange game...the only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?“

[@erikmckoul2478]

I guess skynet had a change of heart and decided to spare us lol

[@AdamOctorachmadi]

The guy: "Its just A PRANK BRO"

[@zeeshchamp979]

I don't know why but this video got me hyped and emotional at the same time. And I'm neither American nor Russian.

[@Check1t0ut1]

glad to see this channel is soon reaching 10 million

[@annygirl2992]

'Icy' grip of the 'Cold' war. I don't think that was an accident 😅😂

[@joshkemme427]

I agree at 1:50 that tensions with the Soviet Union are at a historical low. Almost nonexistent at this point

[@SwissSareth]

Yeah, so low the US was immediately starting to nuke the planet into extinction when their computer sneezed.

[@fumiko___]

Bro... the Soviet Union doesn’t exist at 1:50 they said that from the timeline of the 80s in the cold war

[@GamingOzzz]

Am I the only one who thinks someone did that deliberately in order to start a nuclear war?

[@Deathbrecht]

Maybe, maybe not.

[@enderbirds3814]

The soviets were probably confused as f**k

[@300spartan2222]

@@enderbirds3814 Soviet general: Aigh what dem bitc*es doin with those b-52's in air?

[@fumiko___]

maybe, what’s sure though is that not everyone thought that

[@Rickwmc]

"We let our machines get out of control." - Henry Fonda, Fail Safe (1964)

[@JastoMcJr]

8:40 Thats no nuke, thats the worlds largest Apple Pen.

[@pessimisticpianist582]

Whooooo glad it wasn't MY computer that was handling it :D

[@Amit-tr4kw]

2:41 it looks like the military person is a leprechaun

[@justadude7497]

I just realized that 😂😂

[@fumiko___]

lol no it doesnt

[@NameisNick_]

*when you’re watching something about a time when world war 3 almost happened and you get an emergency alert*

[@glorytoidk595]

When the computer get sentient and wants to end the human race

[@mbcommandnerd]

That’s the movie WarGames in a nutshell.

[@godzillakaijuboy]

Judgment day has begun

[@alexyoho8253]

When one thinks "The Sum of All Fears" is scary.

[@nuggies6872]

2:45 You just didn’t want to say 3 AM huh? *TRIGGERED*

[@arctrooper6386]

launching a nuke at 3AM ** not clickbait ** 😢😢** very emotional **

[@rareuses]

Stonks

[@renelammers813]

supreme leader snoke **gone wrong** **YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT**

[@jmseverino4141]

2:04 Everybody gangsta till cars start moving with nobody in it.

[@cdbcbd4930]

04:48; when you're watching and google ad about flipping the senate starts.