Vasily Arkhipov should have his own video. His life is quite amazing. He was on the K-19 the the reactor melted as well. So this guy helped saved the world not once, but twice.
The three most power people in the world are the President of the United States, the president of the Russian federation. *and the captain of an Ohio class nuclear submarine*
The Fog Of War is meant to be a great film too. It goes deep into the life and secrets of Robert McNamara; who had a much bigger hand in the Cold War than most people realise.
Yeah, I'm no botanist but I think he used the acronym as a double entendre of sorts... as in a double meaning. Like M.A.D. (mutually assured destruction) and "mad" as in anger. Man, this guy has got it all!
My grandfather is a Vietnam veteran, what he says any time someone brings up the topic of nukes he always says: “ if nuclear war ever starts I want the first one to land right on my head”
@Jack Foo ahh yes, because an instant death by being shredded to atomic mass is guaranteed to be painless. I'd honestly bet stacks it would be the single most excruciating pain ever felt by anyone in the history of human Civilization the moment it starts. Fun fact, being in pain can make time perception stretch to make it feel longer than it has been.
@@Atamosk-bu7zt If you got hit with a nuke, you would die instantly. It would be painless, other than for maybe a split nanosecond, but your brain wouldn't even have time to process the pain before you ceased to exist.
In a long line of fantastic videos this is hands down your best video made. I love you guys for making history informative yet very digestible and entertaining. I'll be sharing the video!
There's a mistake in this video: tactical nuclear weapons are just that -- tactical. They're used to achieve a battlefield goal and are smaller yield than strategic nuclear weapons. Strategic nuclear weapons are used to achieve an overall strategic goal (in this case, blowing up the enemy's whole nation). Tactical: "I want to win a battle". Strategic: "I want end the war."
also that nukes now are.,...... safer for a term. they are more destructive but cleaner in both the ash they would throw up and the radiation leftover.
@@shubhampreetsingh8630 the thing is most nukes these days are tactical in nature most of the nukes that where scrapped after the soviet union collapsed are that type, the ones that countrys kept improving where the smaller ones since they where cheaper to build, and more reliable
“Nuclear devices come in all shapes and sizes just like the lunatics who use them. Anyone who tells you that the threat of thermal nuclear war is over is a fool, enemy, or both.” ~ General Earle, Nuclear strike
Stanislav Petrov should have gotten a shoutout in this video. To me, the 1983 False Alarm incident was the closest we have gotten to being nuked for nothing.
@@winnienguyen4420 not as close as this incident. Petrov was the sole individual to prevent nuclear war, as he took a risk not to inform his chain of command and instead assumed the alarm was a false alarm. Think about it this way. He had a very good reason to believe nukes were heading his way, and he decided not to launch nukes back. If you could define 1 second to midnight on the Doomsday clock, it would be that incident alone.
Nah. This is closer to doomsday. Arkiphov was literally and figuratively under immense amount of pressure but his cool and calm head prevailed and saved the earth.
77 years without a nuclear war and counting. Seems to work so far, we may have had "close calls", but nobody has had the courage to actually press the button
It’s not courage that makes you press the button, it’s cowardice. A courageous man would allow his country to die to save the world, while a coward would make sure he takes as many with him as he can
I think what gives MAD legs versus the interlocking defense treaties that resulted in WW1, is the fact that the destructive and devastating power of nuclear power has been witnessed before thanks to Little Boy and Fat Man. Just that knowledge alone makes it very telling about what the horrors of nuclear war will look like.
Nah... Is completely different... Prior to the Great War, nobody was fully aware of the industrial scale of the time. Before the 20th century, weapons didn't have that scale neither in destructive power nor quantity.
Surprised you missed the operation able archer near miss of 1983. I think his name was Anatoly petrov, could have ordered a strike but used his noggin and realised it was a computer glitch. His reward I believe was to be drummed out of the service without pension for technically disobeying orders. Some things never change
I agree. I think that incident is closer than the Cuban Missile Crisis. What happened during the CMC was scary close, but you are talking about the belief that nukes had already been launched and were in the air, not that there was just warfare going on.
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet." - William L. Shirer
@@abelramirez7320 nope. Pop science misinformation. Ants and roaches aren’t radiation proof and die just as easily as everything else. The only thing that doesn’t effect them is having their DNA mutated.
I’ve known about this for a long time, but we literally just covered about it in APUSH earlier today, which is a cool coincidence. Also, I’m sure that the timing of this upload is no coincidence in regards to certain ongoing developments.
@@sigsauer_firearms US schools don’t teach mutually assured destruction before high school (They still gloss over it in high school) people have to rely on media to tell them what it is
This was way more informative on the cold War than my actual history lesson was in school. I also busted out laughing when the narrator said that the attack on the submarine was a stupid move. The tone of it was just hilarious.
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike). It is based on the theory of deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. The strategy is a form of Nash equilibrium in which, once armed, neither side has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm. The term "mutual assured destruction", commonly abbreviated "MAD", was coined by Donald Brennan, a strategist working in Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute in 1962. However, Brennan came up with this acronym ironically, spelling out the English word "mad" to argue that holding weapons capable of destroying society was irrational.
I grew up in the 60's and saw it all unfold. Then as a member of a tv crew I was in Berlin when the wall came down. Now I fear that it's all starting again. I feel like apologising to my grandchildren.
"a strange game..." "The best move is to not play?" I hope there is enough sanity left between the east and west to not go through with M.A.D. as no one wins in a duel of nukes.
Suggestion for a future video: The Vela Incident. It is a still unconfirmed / unsolved mystery, but a lot of people consider it evidence of a joint Israel / South Africa nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, in 1979.
Able Archer 83 > the Cuban missile Crisis. Cuba happened at the height of the cold war, Able Archer was in 1983, when the machine that was the USSR was on life support. Not to mention that the actual machines the USSR had were crap, and what crap they did have, if it worked, was, shall we say "not ideal" for use. Add in a central committee with an average age of something like 87. You get a situation that was not as flashy, just as dangerous, and happens when everything is breaking down and the guys in charge are such products of the times they wrought themselves and as such, are not pinnacles of good mental health.
what the video didn't point out is that at the height of the Cold War there were 75,000 nuclear weapons in potential deployment, now we see that the arsenal has fallen drastically to 9440 with Russia having 4400 in stockpile/deployment, and the USA with 3800 in stockpile/deployment, with around 3000 in retirement set for dismantling, with a total combined of a bit over 12,500. we also need to consider that there is the possibility that by the end of this decade the nuclear arsenal is set to decline even further in both number and average yield, the more nuclear weapons that are retired and dismantled, the less likely MAD becomes a reality, really if anything MAD is a Cold War relic.
One thing I wished was discussed was the criticism of MAD as a concept. I think the public has been led into a false sense of security regarding nuclear weapons, under the belief ANY use of nuclear weapons would result in total nuclear war. But there are those who are postulating around strategies of how to use nuclear weapons in a way that may not potentially provoke mass retaliation.
Nuclear weapons are fascinating to me because it shows that humanity does actually have limits, even amongst the most hardcore and tyrannical, kind of like how Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Sky was with it's Time Gears; not even the most hardcore of thieves would dare to steal a Time Gear due to how important it was in keeping the world functioning.
I like how they go from the charges being "signaling depth charges" to "The Soviet submarine they attacked". Do they even know the difference between a signal and an attack?
it amazes me how so little people understand how dangerous nuclear warheads are an how hairpin trigger the nuclear holocaust really can be. I guess our world has really gotten that decadent
>it amazes me how so little people understand how dangerous nuclear warheads are an how hairpin trigger the nuclear holocaust really can be. You're one of the people who thinks nations deploy nukes like how you would them in a strategy game, are you?
The deterrent factor of Mutually Assured Destruction only assumes that both sides are reasonable, and these days reasonableness seems to be something that government officials could really work on.
But, what if we are now in a time where the one that is given the choice to retaliate doesn't do so due to the knowledge knowing that striking back is what seals humanity's own suicide? Sure, the one that gets attacked gets annihilated, but at least by not retaliating, the majority of humanity is still able to recover and thrive as opposed to a minority. This was an idea/theory that was bought up in the video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. After all, we do call nuclear deterrence a theory.
Actually its pretty widely accepted that Israel processes the nuclear trinity which it acquired in 2011, it consists of the Jericho 3 ICBM the Popeye Turbo SLCM and nuclear equipped F16s (and now probably F35s).
"Stupidity has it's way".. -The Day After... the best Nuclear War drama next to "Threads". I've watched a lot of these films recently because a lot of stupid, corrupt people have their fingers next to the button.
what I find so ironic and kind of dumb is that people haven't started building deep enough survival bunkers/shelters just in case of M.A.D to ever occur, people thought a pandemic wouldn't happen again but it did, people thought another war wouldn't happen but it did and its still going on, people put too much hope on leaders these days and we always keep getting disappointed. I say there should be some sort of program formed where it would make it affordable and possible to build actual safe bunkers or metro systems under the ground so that if somehow in our timeline or the next, we have a safe haven to go to instead of just the government heads running off in their own bunkers and planes while we get cooked alive on the surface, if we can build shelters and bunkers for when tornados or other natural disasters happen, why not nuclear survival bunkers? also you skipped a good story on a Russian officer back in 1983 on how he didn't push the death button for nuclear fallout. and fun fact, in Feburary of 2022, we were close yet again to M.A.D Nuclear fallout when Putin flexed his threats to any country outside of Ukraine to not interfere, reaching up to Defcon 2 like in 1962
I want you to make videos on all US invasions, Masscares, bombing and crimes Wonder how many videos you could make with that about democratic peaceful freedom lovin Americans. Also if your channel gets cancelled or not or most importantly, my comment gets removed or not
Sixty years ago there was a book called On The Beach. The northern hemisphere was destroyed by nuclear warfare and the people in the Southern Hemisphere were waiting for the radiation to come to them. I have read that the Russian war doctrine considers that nuclear weapons can be used . What will be everyone’s response if they use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine?
A couple of months ago I discovered the film based on the book that was made in the year 2000. Yes, I've seen the original made back in the 50's but the newer one, even if it was a made for TV movie, strikes me much harder because of its far more pessimistic and darker tone. In the original movie, everyone treats their impending doom with a stiff upper lip for the most part until society comes to an organized halt when the radiation finally comes and everyone gets their government issued cyanide. In the remake, chaos breaks out as people lose their senses and will to live until, in the end, they end up joining the lines to receive their suicide pills quietly like everyone else.
The Soviet Union had very few weapons capable of reaching the continental USA. America had a massive advantage. Had the missile crisis gone hot, America's would have lost the Gulf Coast states, Alaska, and maybe New York and LA. Western Europe would be somewhat crispy, and the Soviet Union a crater. America's losses would have been acceptable, and the country would recover.
Oh im sure you knew the exact intel of the soviet union in all its thick and thins. What you say is utter nonsense. USSR had nuclear weapons and you are telling me they have no capabilities in terms of range. If that was the case, i doubt the cold war would exist to the lengths it did.
My grandfather was born in the Soviet Union he told me that he was very scared and worry that a nuclear war will happen he lives in Moscow he would be the 1st target thank that did not happened
Vasili Arkhipov, what a hero
This reminds me of Stanislav Petrov. I'm so glad we're all still alive and there's no nuclear wars.
:)
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Vasily Arkhipov should have his own video. His life is quite amazing. He was on the K-19 the the reactor melted as well. So this guy helped saved the world not once, but twice.
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"In the nuclear world. The true enemy is war itself." From the film Crimson Tide.
The true enemy is yo momma lmfao owned 😂😂😂
That was a great movie
The three most power people in the world are the President of the United States, the president of the Russian federation.
*and the captain of an Ohio class nuclear submarine*
Putting the M.A.D. in Mad Max
The Fog Of War is meant to be a great film too. It goes deep into the life and secrets of Robert McNamara; who had a much bigger hand in the Cold War than most people realise.
“We just hope that no one is “MAD” enough to launch the first strike”
I see what you did there
unfortunately war is inevitable
Of course. We surely don't want to descend into madness, do we? 😅
Yeah, I'm no botanist but I think he used the acronym as a double entendre of sorts... as in a double meaning. Like M.A.D. (mutually assured destruction) and "mad" as in anger. Man, this guy has got it all!
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*ba dum tss*
My grandfather is a Vietnam veteran, what he says any time someone brings up the topic of nukes he always says: “ if nuclear war ever starts I want the first one to land right on my head”
You have a cool Grandpa
same
@Jack Foo ahh yes, because an instant death by being shredded to atomic mass is guaranteed to be painless. I'd honestly bet stacks it would be the single most excruciating pain ever felt by anyone in the history of human Civilization the moment it starts.
Fun fact, being in pain can make time perception stretch to make it feel longer than it has been.
@@Atamosk-bu7zt If you got hit with a nuke, you would die instantly. It would be painless, other than for maybe a split nanosecond, but your brain wouldn't even have time to process the pain before you ceased to exist.
@@Atamosk-bu7zt no there would be no time for pain receptors to register when vaporized. Silence beard neck.
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There's a mistake in this video: tactical nuclear weapons are just that -- tactical. They're used to achieve a battlefield goal and are smaller yield than strategic nuclear weapons. Strategic nuclear weapons are used to achieve an overall strategic goal (in this case, blowing up the enemy's whole nation). Tactical: "I want to win a battle". Strategic: "I want end the war."
also that nukes now are.,...... safer for a term. they are more destructive but cleaner in both the ash they would throw up and the radiation leftover.
@@taddad2641 tsar bomba was very clean
But there is no guarantee that if you use tactical nuke the other side won`t go all in and use strategic nukes as well
@@shubhampreetsingh8630 the thing is most nukes these days are tactical in nature most of the nukes that where scrapped after the soviet union collapsed are that type, the ones that countrys kept improving where the smaller ones since they where cheaper to build, and more reliable
So the a bombing were strategic
“Nuclear devices come in all shapes and sizes just like the lunatics who use them. Anyone who tells you that the threat of thermal nuclear war is over is a fool, enemy, or both.” ~ General Earle, Nuclear strike
Stanislav Petrov should have gotten a shoutout in this video. To me, the 1983 False Alarm incident was the closest we have gotten to being nuked for nothing.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was also pretty damn close.
@@winnienguyen4420 not as close as this incident. Petrov was the sole individual to prevent nuclear war, as he took a risk not to inform his chain of command and instead assumed the alarm was a false alarm. Think about it this way. He had a very good reason to believe nukes were heading his way, and he decided not to launch nukes back.
If you could define 1 second to midnight on the Doomsday clock, it would be that incident alone.
Nah. This is closer to doomsday. Arkiphov was literally and figuratively under immense amount of pressure but his cool and calm head prevailed and saved the earth.
He was considered the most powerful man in the world during the incident, his decision impacted the fate of the entire world.
77 years without a nuclear war and counting. Seems to work so far, we may have had "close calls", but nobody has had the courage to actually press the button
its not the courage, its the stupidity
Well you can’t really rule cockroaches and ruble
i will highly courage the world goes on end.
It’s not courage that makes you press the button, it’s cowardice. A courageous man would allow his country to die to save the world, while a coward would make sure he takes as many with him as he can
All it takes is one madman. Imagine the fact that Adolf Hilter was merely a year or two away from nuclear weapons. The thought turns the blood cold...
Simple History once again looking into current events, relating it to history, and filling us with nightmares
i dont think so Simple history wounds Apolitical
Good, so that everyone is ready for the worst.
Next video idea:
Douglas Monroe. The first and only U.S. Coast Guardsmans to be awarded the Medal of Honor for saving no fewer than 75 marines.
Great idea
I want to see that
Maybe even a video on the coast guard in vietnam, the war on drugs, or the the coast guard special forces and snipers (they exist)
I’ve always thought that MAD is worryingly similar to the series of interlocking defence treaties that failed to prevent the Great War.
Instead of a war on the continent it would result in a nuclear Holocaust
bruh....
I think what gives MAD legs versus the interlocking defense treaties that resulted in WW1, is the fact that the destructive and devastating power of nuclear power has been witnessed before thanks to Little Boy and Fat Man. Just that knowledge alone makes it very telling about what the horrors of nuclear war will look like.
Nah... Is completely different... Prior to the Great War, nobody was fully aware of the industrial scale of the time. Before the 20th century, weapons didn't have that scale neither in destructive power nor quantity.
The Congress of Vienna did avert a full scale European war for 99 years. Given European history I think that is a success.
"humanity invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap"
-Albert Einstein
Mice are incapable of most things though.
@@kishascape Yes, just like how you're incapable of thinking
I have been watching this channel since 2018 and I love how the animation have evolved since then
“My god, what have we done. I have come become death, destroyer of worlds.” ~Robbert Oppenheimer
"speak of mutually assured distruction!"
"Nice story,Tell It to the reader's digest!"
This whole thing has got me "sweating bullets"
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Surprised you missed the operation able archer near miss of 1983. I think his name was Anatoly petrov, could have ordered a strike but used his noggin and realised it was a computer glitch. His reward I believe was to be drummed out of the service without pension for technically disobeying orders. Some things never change
I agree. I think that incident is closer than the Cuban Missile Crisis. What happened during the CMC was scary close, but you are talking about the belief that nukes had already been launched and were in the air, not that there was just warfare going on.
The crew of the K19 was also accused of attempting to defect and dishonored for a long time.
Maybe next video about Stanislav Petrov? A single man, who prevented a nuclear warfare in 1983.
8:23 I like how he says "Luckily for everyone"
as the fate of literally the entire world rests on this 1 guy's shoulder
War, war never changes.
For those of you who recognise this reference but not where from, I’ll mark it on your map 🗺
*A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a game of chess?*
A based game, make the first move.
If only our leaders were as capable of learning as that computer.”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
“We just hope that no one is “MAD” enough to launch the first strike”
We do a little trolling
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet." - William L. Shirer
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Cockroaches should be just fine
@@abelramirez7320 Not that surprising. Insects have survived all of the five mass extinctions within the prehistory of our precious Earth.
@@abelramirez7320 nope. Pop science misinformation. Ants and roaches aren’t radiation proof and die just as easily as everything else. The only thing that doesn’t effect them is having their DNA mutated.
I got some peace. Anybody wanna buy it?
Does it cost oil?
Send it to Ukraine. They could use some peace right now
Megadeth reference
If You want a Peace, then Prepare for The War
If you don't like where we're going then you won't like what's coming next
I’ve known about this for a long time, but we literally just covered about it in APUSH earlier today, which is a cool coincidence. Also, I’m sure that the timing of this upload is no coincidence in regards to certain ongoing developments.
Bro if you only just now learned what MAD is how are you in APUSH
@@sigsauer_firearms US schools don’t teach mutually assured destruction before high school (They still gloss over it in high school) people have to rely on media to tell them what it is
@@sigsauer_firearms I've known what MAD is for a long time, but we covered it yesterday in APUSH. I'll edit the comment so it's a bit clearer.
"Such a strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
How about a nice game of chess?
Thumbnails just keep getting better and better
Man those animations are mint, they really improving fast
I love how these guys use actual relevant hints and cues about nuclear war, inflation, censorship etc. They understand what's going on today.
That’s the thing about history. It doesn’t just stay in the past
MAD is just the definition of fallout any of the games
This was way more informative on the cold War than my actual history lesson was in school. I also busted out laughing when the narrator said that the attack on the submarine was a stupid move. The tone of it was just hilarious.
Hours upon hours of lectures only to teach dramatically less information than this ten minute video provides
@kc korea My state is ranked 50th for quality of education...
Only it wasn’t slightly stupid but VERY stupid.
‘Even a warmonger would think twice to use this weapon’ - Age Of Tanks
Animations have gotten so good
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike). It is based on the theory of deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. The strategy is a form of Nash equilibrium in which, once armed, neither side has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm.
The term "mutual assured destruction", commonly abbreviated "MAD", was coined by Donald Brennan, a strategist working in Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute in 1962. However, Brennan came up with this acronym ironically, spelling out the English word "mad" to argue that holding weapons capable of destroying society was irrational.
"Such a strange game, the only winning move is not to play"
- Joshua
6:15 nice reference to the movie War Games, lol. Also, this is a really good and interesting video, good job!
I grew up in the 60's and saw it all unfold. Then as a member of a tv crew I was in Berlin when the wall came down. Now I fear that it's all starting again. I feel like apologising to my grandchildren.
I consider the cold war as an ongoing war, as the US and Russia have always threatened eachother with nukes and still are.
idk why but that animation of the silo opening is so smooth and detailed out of nowhere...
Thank you Simple History! I love the Cold War
You're living in one
Who winner?
@@averagelifeenjoyer USA vs Russia?
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Video Idea/Suggestion: I would like to see a video explaining exactly what Defcon is, I know a basic part of it, but I would like to know more. =)
Hey, stop getting MAD over the Cold War
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
“ Do you know what sounds to good to be true ? “
Everyone : No 5 minute long adds at the beginning of these videos
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME?! Don't you KNOW WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH?!"
*Slams button*
*Cackles*
Nice "Ren and Stimpy" reference...
Simple history animations has come a long way to this
Are we not gonna talk about how epic the background music is.
"a strange game..."
"The best move is to not play?"
I hope there is enough sanity left between the east and west to not go through with M.A.D. as no one wins in a duel of nukes.
How about a games of chess instead
Suggestion for a future video: The Vela Incident. It is a still unconfirmed / unsolved mystery, but a lot of people consider it evidence of a joint Israel / South Africa nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, in 1979.
Able Archer 83 > the Cuban missile Crisis.
Cuba happened at the height of the cold war, Able Archer was in 1983, when the machine that was the USSR was on life support. Not to mention that the actual machines the USSR had were crap, and what crap they did have, if it worked, was, shall we say "not ideal" for use. Add in a central committee with an average age of something like 87.
You get a situation that was not as flashy, just as dangerous, and happens when everything is breaking down and the guys in charge are such products of the times they wrought themselves and as such, are not pinnacles of good mental health.
The animation quality has gotten way better
what the video didn't point out is that at the height of the Cold War there were 75,000 nuclear weapons in potential deployment, now we see that the arsenal has fallen drastically to 9440 with Russia having 4400 in stockpile/deployment, and the USA with 3800 in stockpile/deployment, with around 3000 in retirement set for dismantling, with a total combined of a bit over 12,500.
we also need to consider that there is the possibility that by the end of this decade the nuclear arsenal is set to decline even further in both number and average yield, the more nuclear weapons that are retired and dismantled, the less likely MAD becomes a reality, really if anything MAD is a Cold War relic.
Vasily Archipov should have an international monument in which we should celebrate its birthday.
A hero of our species!
Simple history: nobody is mad enough to launch the nuke.
Putin: are you sure about that
Highly doubt it, but a funny joke nevertheless.
He is a bluff
2:24 the more you look at this map the more you wanna take your eyes off it
One thing I wished was discussed was the criticism of MAD as a concept. I think the public has been led into a false sense of security regarding nuclear weapons, under the belief ANY use of nuclear weapons would result in total nuclear war. But there are those who are postulating around strategies of how to use nuclear weapons in a way that may not potentially provoke mass retaliation.
THIS is not now
In an alternate timeline, Vasily Arkhipov agreed to turn the key. 💀
The US almost nuke itself in 1961 when B52 carrying 4 nuclear bombs crashed in North Carolina.
I'll be sharing it too
*M*-Mutually
*A*-Assured
*D*-Destruction
Well it's been nice knowing you guys. :)
We had a good run.
Nuclear weapons are fascinating to me because it shows that humanity does actually have limits, even amongst the most hardcore and tyrannical, kind of like how Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Sky was with it's Time Gears; not even the most hardcore of thieves would dare to steal a Time Gear due to how important it was in keeping the world functioning.
Shutup
If one guy decides to push the button. Everyone is gonna panic and push theirs, then we're ALL screwed
Salute to Akipov, he not only saved his country but also the world
What if there no nukes
Pros: humanity won't end itself
Cons: there will be no fallout and godzilla
Really startin to miss the days when our most powerful weapons were pointed sticks
7:58... The animation out of context is hilarious here.
I like how they go from the charges being "signaling depth charges" to "The Soviet submarine they attacked". Do they even know the difference between a signal and an attack?
@@me3333 lol. yeah an attack causes destruction on some level. signals are air.
Very good job fellows!! "In the nuclear world. The true enemy is war itself." From the film Crimson Tide.
Do one about the ju 87 stuka
it amazes me how so little people understand how dangerous nuclear warheads are an how hairpin trigger the nuclear holocaust really can be.
I guess our world has really gotten that decadent
>it amazes me how so little people understand how dangerous nuclear warheads are an how hairpin trigger the nuclear holocaust really can be.
You're one of the people who thinks nations deploy nukes like how you would them in a strategy game, are you?
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@@DarkTemplarKain where was the joke?
@@brotherhoodofsteelsoldier1356 there isn't
7:24 funniest line ever spoken in a simple history video
The deterrent factor of Mutually Assured Destruction only assumes that both sides are reasonable, and these days reasonableness seems to be something that government officials could really work on.
new animation style is great
USSR WW2: We fight Blitzkrieg with Blitzkreig!
USSR Cold War: We *might* fight nuclear war with nuclear war.
Russia today: "Towed away by John Deere"
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Humanity has the weapons to destroy itself but doesn't have the capability to do much more effort to destroy inbound weapons itself.
But, what if we are now in a time where the one that is given the choice to retaliate doesn't do so due to the knowledge knowing that striking back is what seals humanity's own suicide? Sure, the one that gets attacked gets annihilated, but at least by not retaliating, the majority of humanity is still able to recover and thrive as opposed to a minority.
This was an idea/theory that was bought up in the video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. After all, we do call nuclear deterrence a theory.
Actually its pretty widely accepted that Israel processes the nuclear trinity which it acquired in 2011, it consists of the Jericho 3 ICBM the Popeye Turbo SLCM and nuclear equipped F16s (and now probably F35s).
"Stupidity has it's way".. -The Day After... the best Nuclear War drama next to "Threads". I've watched a lot of these films recently because a lot of stupid, corrupt people have their fingers next to the button.
The thumbnail looks like a perfect Megadeth album cover
Ah sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension.
These animations keep getting better and better. Keep up the good work!
Most of us will die if that happens
(drum roll) that's the idea!
Huh, I never learned about the B59 and Vasily Arkhipov. Damn insane how close we got.
Nuclear weapons have taken all the fun out of war
“Speak of mutually assured destruction. Nice story, tell it to Reader’s Digest!”
The animated Biden looks tired
It's realistic.
The monotone "a bit stupid" was funny af
what I find so ironic and kind of dumb is that people haven't started building deep enough survival bunkers/shelters just in case of M.A.D to ever occur, people thought a pandemic wouldn't happen again but it did, people thought another war wouldn't happen but it did and its still going on, people put too much hope on leaders these days and we always keep getting disappointed.
I say there should be some sort of program formed where it would make it affordable and possible to build actual safe bunkers or metro systems under the ground so that if somehow in our timeline or the next, we have a safe haven to go to instead of just the government heads running off in their own bunkers and planes while we get cooked alive on the surface, if we can build shelters and bunkers for when tornados or other natural disasters happen, why not nuclear survival bunkers?
also you skipped a good story on a Russian officer back in 1983 on how he didn't push the death button for nuclear fallout.
and fun fact, in Feburary of 2022, we were close yet again to M.A.D Nuclear fallout when Putin flexed his threats to any country outside of Ukraine to not interfere, reaching up to Defcon 2 like in 1962
I definitely wasn't expecting 'you know what's too good to be true?' to be the first words in this video lol
This video is the video you should show to those who want a no fly zone over Ukraine
The animations look better then ever before
Lmao 🤣 I like the thumbnail.
Thanks for that siren sound around 3:35..🙄.. Was watching this while riding in a car, and it scared the crap out of me 😆😅
Here before the on Christian kid blesses us
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At the “conference” meeting why does the Russian look so depressed
I want you to make videos on all US invasions, Masscares, bombing and crimes
Wonder how many videos you could make with that about democratic peaceful freedom lovin Americans.
Also if your channel gets cancelled or not or most importantly, my comment gets removed or not
They talk about that stuff all the time
he just talked about america doing something risky and stupid
@@jackargie1092 no they don’t lol they still haven’t even covered the Mỹ lai massacre
Sixty years ago there was a book called On The Beach. The northern hemisphere was destroyed by nuclear warfare and the people in the Southern Hemisphere were waiting for the radiation to come to them.
I have read that the Russian war doctrine considers that nuclear weapons can be used . What will be everyone’s response if they use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine?
A couple of months ago I discovered the film based on the book that was made in the year 2000. Yes, I've seen the original made back in the 50's but the newer one, even if it was a made for TV movie, strikes me much harder because of its far more pessimistic and darker tone. In the original movie, everyone treats their impending doom with a stiff upper lip for the most part until society comes to an organized halt when the radiation finally comes and everyone gets their government issued cyanide. In the remake, chaos breaks out as people lose their senses and will to live until, in the end, they end up joining the lines to receive their suicide pills quietly like everyone else.
The Soviet Union had very few weapons capable of reaching the continental USA. America had a massive advantage. Had the missile crisis gone hot, America's would have lost the Gulf Coast states, Alaska, and maybe New York and LA. Western Europe would be somewhat crispy, and the Soviet Union a crater. America's losses would have been acceptable, and the country would recover.
Don't know if that takes into account nuclear winter, anybody without years of food and a fallout shelter worldwide would be screwed.
Oh im sure you knew the exact intel of the soviet union in all its thick and thins. What you say is utter nonsense. USSR had nuclear weapons and you are telling me they have no capabilities in terms of range. If that was the case, i doubt the cold war would exist to the lengths it did.
My grandfather was born in the Soviet Union he told me that he was very scared and worry that a nuclear war will happen he lives in Moscow he would be the 1st target thank that did not happened