Was Oppenheimer right? | What would happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped on a UK city?

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  • čas přidán 2. 06. 2023
  • It's a question that was once incredibly important, then became less relevant, but with current global politics has come back to the fore - What would happen after a nuclear strike?
    Mike Fernie investigates this brutally apocalyptic subject matter by visiting Scotland's secret bunker in the Kingdom of Fife, diving into the science and engineering behind both atomic and hydrogen weapons.
    Music: MB01WOVIHQAGMXK
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  • @offgrid7837
    @offgrid7837 Před 10 měsíci +950

    Building bunkers for the very people that start the wars is insanity. Putting our "leaders" in harms way and making sure they know they're the first to go is by far the best way of preventing any such conflict.

    • @al_kebulanolutosin2702
      @al_kebulanolutosin2702 Před 10 měsíci +20

      OFF-GRID MY FRIEND, LOUD & PERFECTLY CLEAR.
      BUT THERE LEADERS & LEADERS, THERE ARE FEW, VERY FEW WHO ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIFE FOR THEIR PEOPLE.
      " THAT IS WHY, "THE CHRIST" IS ETERNALLY OUTSTANDING!!!!!.
      HE DID NOT RUN FROM HIS ENEMIES ---- & HE MADE NOT A SOUND WHEN BEING CRUCIFIED ---- THE ETERNAL CONQUERER!!!!!!!
      I ADMIRE THE "IMMORTAL" NOT THESE PETTY MUNDANE RULERS!!!!!!!

    • @rgracia611
      @rgracia611 Před 10 měsíci +34

      That is one of the smartest things I’ve ever heard. I’m on board with that.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Před 10 měsíci +9

      How would putting the UK leadership in harm's way help prevent an attack by an adversary?

    • @offgrid7837
      @offgrid7837 Před 10 měsíci

      @@yuchoob I didn't specify just UK leadership. Wars are started by elites for their own benefit and pose no real risk of death to them. If they were the very first to be eliminated you can be sure there would be very few wars.

    • @al_kebulanolutosin2702
      @al_kebulanolutosin2702 Před 10 měsíci +2

      LOUD AND CLEAR!!!!!!

  • @laurelhardy4064
    @laurelhardy4064 Před rokem +892

    In the event of a nuclear explosion, I would like to be in the 3 mile zone area, so I would disintegrate ASAP.

    • @gilgammesh1
      @gilgammesh1 Před rokem +59

      Same, put me at the epicentre

    • @Xiph1980
      @Xiph1980 Před rokem +138

      And miss out on the finest radroaches, brahmin, and deathclaw recipes??

    • @RichieKeane
      @RichieKeane Před rokem +25

      That was the problem in UK/EU most countries just didn't bother because they needed too many bunkers and not much point in the end. But the swiss.. one place for every citizen in every town..

    • @bghoody5665
      @bghoody5665 Před rokem +8

      @@Xiph1980 Don't forget Mirelurks.

    • @dazzab111
      @dazzab111 Před rokem +16

      same, I've seen the movie Threads

  • @alanjames5586
    @alanjames5586 Před 8 měsíci +40

    Great video. However there is one additional aspect of a nuclear explosion that you didn't mention. After the initial flash followed by heat and then blast there is a fourth effect - it is called drag back. Once the force of the shock wave is over the air rushes back to fill the vacuum created by the shock wave. The drag back effect causes further catastrophic damage.

    • @alicianah8352
      @alicianah8352 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Additionally all power plants unmanned would overheat and explode adding further radiation for tens of thousands of years.

    • @stevenfries9007
      @stevenfries9007 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yes-and you rarely see that effect on many nuclear videos.

  • @Graham_Wideman
    @Graham_Wideman Před 10 měsíci +10

    Nothing says "expertise" like "nucular".

  • @ADF86123
    @ADF86123 Před rokem +309

    After the bomb goes off all we'll hear is Clarkson say "And on that bombshell"

  • @LtNduati
    @LtNduati Před rokem +385

    Well this was unexpected lol

    • @koshintokoshinto
      @koshintokoshinto Před rokem +15

      No one expects the nuclear option!

    • @jcat96
      @jcat96 Před rokem +17

      ​@@koshintokoshinto nobody expected the Spanish inquisition

    • @jessandkaka
      @jessandkaka Před rokem

      That’s different.

    • @robertrico7598
      @robertrico7598 Před rokem +10

      Was this a whole video to show that Mike can’t pronounce the word Nuclear?

    • @imanidiot2904
      @imanidiot2904 Před rokem +2

      As long as its in the USA or the UK the world would be better off after

  • @rbob1973
    @rbob1973 Před 11 měsíci +364

    As a kid in the 80's, my mother worked for the MoD within the Nuclear department. If an attack was imminent, she had a place in a bunker, but the family did not. And for the reason, that after many years going down bunkers for fire drills. The amount of video's and classified footage of the effects from these, she left the department and worked elsewhere. Her advice was that if one went off, she would just march us outside. I guess, because we would not feel a thing and would be the kindest thing to do for us all, rather than try and survive along with the cancer rate and other diseases within an apocalyptic world.

    • @stevenewton7787
      @stevenewton7787 Před 11 měsíci +17

      Lol yeah I say if one is coming for Manchester I'm watching it.

    • @FarterBoom
      @FarterBoom Před 10 měsíci +5

      Its near!

    • @owthattickles8738
      @owthattickles8738 Před 10 měsíci +19

      Cancer would be the least of your problems

    • @FarterBoom
      @FarterBoom Před 10 měsíci +6

      @@owthattickles8738 yeah, mutants and zombies must be the Worst

    • @ireneerrico4706
      @ireneerrico4706 Před 10 měsíci +5

      Famine

  • @chrisholland7367
    @chrisholland7367 Před 11 měsíci +49

    In 1984, the BBC produced a documentary drama,'Threads ' .It was made during the Cold War and was critically acclaimed. It was said this docu drama was the closest Britain came to nuclear war.

    • @odineproci2455
      @odineproci2455 Před 11 měsíci +15

      It was. In the present, Britain is edging closer to nuclear war than ever before. The main reason for this, apart from acting as a vassal to U.S. empire, is the unstable situation where a much larger and more powerful U.S./NATO now has enough hubris to no longer fear a nuclear confrontation with Russia. NATO is not a defensive alliance but a framework of U.S. empire. It is a tool designed to defend U.S. interests first and foremost, as its European members are even pulled into U.S. imperial wars that are detrimental to own interests e.g. the Iraq war (which led to terrorism, economic damage and refugee crises in Europe). However, NATO's expansion to former Warsaw pact and now ex-Soviet countries was always about weakening and isolating Russia, with a long view to disintegrate, disarm and ultimately plunder the former superpower. The main problem with this plan is that they are still armed like one. A large part of NATO, including Britain, does not posses adequate defence against Russia's modern nuclear weaponry. I believe our masters might be quite safe behind concentrated defences with their GMD, THAAD, Aegis, Patriots etc. But what about us? Our current leadership is convinced they can survive that, probably in some deep bunker. But what about us? When do we get to vote on all the incredible political stupidity that puts us collectively at risk? Oh yes, there is no vote on NATO. That sort of Brexit is not allowed. But the master did appreciate an economical Brexit from the EU, since a more divided Europe is easier to control and allows American businesses to make more profits here.

    • @alxgu198
      @alxgu198 Před 11 měsíci +13

      My uncle was in ‘Threads’. Well, his hands were lol, he was the milkman near the start of the film.

    • @chrisholland7367
      @chrisholland7367 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @alxgu198 lol 😆 oh dear, his fate was sealed the morning he went on his milk round.

    • @alxgu198
      @alxgu198 Před 11 měsíci

      @@chrisholland7367 😂👍

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Před 11 měsíci +9

      @@odineproci2455 what is all this drivel? have you not got anything better to do or anything more worthwhile to contribute?

  • @georgesmith3628
    @georgesmith3628 Před rokem +34

    Cant wait for the follow up video - James May Reassembles Thermo-Nuclear Bomb part 1

  • @kal1mm
    @kal1mm Před rokem +68

    If you were in the bugout bunker kitchen i imagine you would be fine.

    • @Mazomania
      @Mazomania Před rokem +3

      🤓

    • @MillhouseSpeaks
      @MillhouseSpeaks Před rokem +4

      🧀

    • @gewglesux
      @gewglesux Před rokem +12

      but only if adequately supplied with lurpak.

    • @theog841
      @theog841 Před rokem +6

      ​@@gewglesux invented in 1901

    • @Okurka.
      @Okurka. Před rokem +3

      The council issued white bread stays fresh for decades.

  • @XpunisherX8152
    @XpunisherX8152 Před 10 měsíci +31

    Imagine spending your life career as a physicist and you make history by splitting the atom but your government sees potential to use it as a form of world control

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Před 8 měsíci

      Oppenheimer....odious criminal.

    • @Desert-edDave
      @Desert-edDave Před 8 měsíci

      Imagine being so intellectually lazy as to think a single government can "control" the world.

  • @AJ_UK_LIVE
    @AJ_UK_LIVE Před 11 měsíci +14

    I must congratulate your team on your cinematography. Top notch colour-grading here. A beautiful and interesting video. Well done.

  • @gmark007isGianmarcoMaioli

    The eeriness from watching this vid whilst on a casual walk in the neighbourhood is on another level.
    I started picturing what a nuclear mushroom would look like on the horizon.

  • @arunodg5536
    @arunodg5536 Před rokem +15

    1. lucy does a budget travel show
    2. james may promotes his new gin
    3. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF A NUCLEAR BOMB-

  • @1958HHH
    @1958HHH Před 9 měsíci +12

    Great job Mike. You need to do more of this type doc videos.

  • @tspmcfarlane
    @tspmcfarlane Před 10 měsíci +3

    Didn’t expect this video to be so close to home here in Glasgow. Brilliantly made and presented!

  • @karlsilcock8727
    @karlsilcock8727 Před rokem +96

    I've always wondered what justification politicians used to justify their survival post apocalypse and the same goes for any nobility that would have been saved as well. Why save a group of people who's skill sets would in all honesty be quite useless and in fact are more likely to be a drain on whatever society would be left than any realistic benefit.

    • @nigelgribble8736
      @nigelgribble8736 Před 11 měsíci

      Absolutely, if politicians didn't have bunkers to hide on they would think twice about using nuclear weapons

    • @patriciarowe6685
      @patriciarowe6685 Před 11 měsíci +6

      Agreed 🤝

    • @sodium7127
      @sodium7127 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Money talks.
      Unless humanity launches dozens of nuclear weapons simultaneously and renders the world uninhabitable, the rest of the world outside the blast zone will still exist and money will still hold its value.
      That is what I assume at least.

    • @andyb.1026
      @andyb.1026 Před 10 měsíci

      Biological weapons are FAR more effective,, witness CoVid

    • @mikejung3908
      @mikejung3908 Před 10 měsíci +9

      I’m glad our leader get to survive, let them eat cockroaches and scorpions when they crawl out of their little hidi holes, let them enjoy the dark world where rotting flesh taints the air.

  • @conelybiscuit4985
    @conelybiscuit4985 Před rokem +12

    rent would get affordable?

  • @philcollinson328
    @philcollinson328 Před 11 měsíci +6

    This vid was amazing. Informative, very well presented and beautifully filmed.

  • @moynur04
    @moynur04 Před 11 měsíci +64

    This was such an informative video. It is such a scary thought that any country in the world would even consider this in today's day and age.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Před 11 měsíci

      Putin would....he's a narcissistic gangster living in his own psychotic bubble....he 'thinks' he'll live for ever. The 'creature' ruling North Korea would...

    • @chrisbagley8104
      @chrisbagley8104 Před 10 měsíci

      A certain country led by a lunatic might just press the button, wait and see. Look to the East.

    • @RandomWandrer
      @RandomWandrer Před 10 měsíci +9

      An excellent video. It was only distracting hearing the guy say "nucular" instead of "nuclear" every minute.

    • @christian14329
      @christian14329 Před 10 měsíci

      You only need one lunatic on the trigger! Unfortunately, Putin is a lunatic!

    • @PeteCourtier
      @PeteCourtier Před 10 měsíci +1

      That’s why we have our nuclear deterrent.

  • @45H4W
    @45H4W Před rokem +66

    Some say it could actually improve some UK cities and towns and that the Co-op would still be open, even if it was directly below the detonation.

    • @Brian-om2hh
      @Brian-om2hh Před rokem +10

      This was Donald Trump's argument, when it was suggested that North Korea should be nuked. Trump didn't see why US taxpayers ought to fund infrastructure improvements in NK......

    • @richardmorgan5002
      @richardmorgan5002 Před 11 měsíci

      🤣

    • @richardmorgan5002
      @richardmorgan5002 Před 11 měsíci

      🤣

    • @michaelscott7166
      @michaelscott7166 Před 11 měsíci +8

      If it was dropped on Bradford that definitely would be the case.

    • @neilarcher2551
      @neilarcher2551 Před 10 měsíci +8

      You couldn't make Wolverhampton any worse even with a nuke.

  • @stuartkseels
    @stuartkseels Před rokem +124

    Mike, as much as we all love you. There is only ONE 'U' in nuclear!

    • @405pugMi
      @405pugMi Před rokem +19

      Haha, yep. I immediately thought of Homer Simpson. "Nuculer. It's pronounced nuculer"

    • @fdsman
      @fdsman Před rokem +6

      You could make a drinking game out of it

    • @stuartkseels
      @stuartkseels Před rokem +1

      @@fdsman lol.

    • @Okurka.
      @Okurka. Před rokem +3

      @@405pugMi *pronounced
      Oh, the irony!

    • @405pugMi
      @405pugMi Před rokem

      @@Okurka. fat thumb syndrome strikes again..

  • @jdnelms62
    @jdnelms62 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Great documentary! It's visually very creative and highly informative as well. What I love best is how it brings the world scale issue down to a human and local context, in this case Scotland.

  • @weisswurster
    @weisswurster Před 11 měsíci +1

    This is a fantastic video, really well presented!

  • @JG54206
    @JG54206 Před rokem +108

    I always found it interesting that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was designed specifically to withstand nuclear (thermonuclear I believe) weapons, but by the time construction was completed the thinking was that a direct hit would still be able to destroy it. It’s also fascinating to me that the only way a fusion reaction can be kicked off (with current tech) is by using a fission reaction. Simply incredible.

    • @darrinnoble
      @darrinnoble Před rokem +4

      They say it's because of the rock that Cheyenne Mountain is made of. It creates a fused shield when exposed to extreme heat. It's also really obvious which mountain is Cheyenne. 😂

    • @JG54206
      @JG54206 Před rokem +2

      @@darrinnoble this is true lol. It’s not exactly hard to spot.

    • @bertram-raven
      @bertram-raven Před 11 měsíci +4

      Even during the design phase it was accepted a direct hit would destroy it. The belief of the time, now validated as true, was such levels of precision were not possible with initial guidance systems.

    • @bertram-raven
      @bertram-raven Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@JG54206 Not hard to spot, unless you are trying to calculate ballistics from a few thousand miles away using inertial guidance systems. Then it is very hard to spot.

    • @JG54206
      @JG54206 Před 11 měsíci

      @@bertram-raven I would imagine that scenario would add quite a bit of difficulty and complexity to the equation.

  • @ravismcromarty5600
    @ravismcromarty5600 Před rokem +9

    I'm wondering what kind of damage a Scottish made 58 megaton nuclear warhead infused with Irn Bru would do.

  • @thornbird6768
    @thornbird6768 Před 11 měsíci +16

    I watched Threads the British movie of a nuclear war , its horrific 😢 and knowing now the bombs are so much stronger , it would be quite easy to destroy the planet 😮

    • @al_kebulanolutosin2702
      @al_kebulanolutosin2702 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Thorm
      ONLY HE WHO MADE THE WORLD 🌎 CAN DESTROY IT!!!!!?
      THIS WORLD DID NOT MADE BY CHANCE OR BY GUESS!!!!!
      THE SEASONS COMES & GOES IN FAULTLESS ACCURACY, LIKE WISE THE SUN & MOON!!!!
      WHY DOUBT THE POWERS OF ----- THE ALMIGHTY!!!!!.

  • @mavrick1834
    @mavrick1834 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Mike, what an incredibly interesting and clear video. Thank you.

  • @myrants5836
    @myrants5836 Před rokem +17

    Thanks for this. Really interesting watch. Ive been to that bunker a couple of times. Always shocks me how long the ramp is down into it.

  • @cjjk9142
    @cjjk9142 Před rokem +8

    Last week: James May drinks some gin
    This week: *WHAT IF WE ALL DIE IN A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION*

  • @chrisbaggieboy5656
    @chrisbaggieboy5656 Před 11 měsíci

    Well thanks for cheering my evening up you’ve been a great laugh.

  • @Kevinfordsynthesizers
    @Kevinfordsynthesizers Před 7 měsíci +4

    Over 30 years ago I supplied valves and other plant controls. Many nuclear shelters were still in operation at the time and I visited a couple under the strictest security. The air filtration plants would fail regularly - usually every fortnight- and as I was informed by one of the engineers, in the event of nuclear attack one of the personnel who would not be permitted in the facility at that critical time would be the engineers..

  • @ITViking
    @ITViking Před rokem +28

    "We sent Lucy on the three cheapest flights possible to create a travel show in three days"
    "Next up, just how devastating is the hydrogen bomb?"

    • @crazoatmeal1854
      @crazoatmeal1854 Před rokem +7

      I originally subscribed for the Bugout Bunker, so we've kind of come full circle

  • @spiercephotography
    @spiercephotography Před rokem +12

    This.. is not what i expected when I clicked on the thumbnail, but ended up really cool and really informative too!

  • @neilbowers6956
    @neilbowers6956 Před 11 měsíci +6

    I used to work in an R3 bunker during the 90's. The bunkers were so bad that it was said that a 1000 lb bomb could have taken it out. So, whether I'd have survived down there if the big one happened was doubtful.

  • @gazwild438
    @gazwild438 Před rokem

    Excellent video, explanation was just perfect

  • @Thisandthat8908
    @Thisandthat8908 Před rokem +7

    that's a change of pace.
    Also: When the Wind blows. Extremely impressive and haunting film on the topic. Despite (or because) it being quite funny as well.

  • @WarButler
    @WarButler Před rokem +28

    You continue to surprise with both the quality and diversity of content on this channel. This was an excellent and chilling video. Expertly shot, delivered, and edited. Can't wait to see what's next!

  • @philipburrell9756
    @philipburrell9756 Před rokem

    Amazing video. Thank you.

  • @LostInADV
    @LostInADV Před 10 měsíci

    This is an award worthy production. Brilliant everything.

  • @darrenmurray861
    @darrenmurray861 Před rokem +44

    I’ve just looked at the reaction of the thermonuclear fusion bomb and that is really very scary. Incredibly impressive that somebody came up with it, but crazily scary.

    • @robertokandal
      @robertokandal Před rokem +1

      it will not fall 1 ,
      but thoussands of them over uk,,, you ahve been warned.

    • @darrenmurray861
      @darrenmurray861 Před rokem

      @@robertokandal well; if the Russian aim is as terrible as your spelling and grammar I think we will be just fine thanks.
      Off you go now 😊

    • @jamesbarbour8400
      @jamesbarbour8400 Před 11 měsíci +8

      @@robertokandal that's what we get for sticking our nose into a War that has nothing to do with us -'we're like a subsidiary of the US in this Country. Everytime they say 'jump', we say 'how high' !?

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Před 11 měsíci +2

      fusion bomb 'impressive'? The works of JS Bach are impressive, the works of Shakespeare are impressive , not fusion bombs.... fusion bombs are the stuff of nightmares.

    • @ivanexell-uz4mv
      @ivanexell-uz4mv Před 10 měsíci

      @@jamesbarbour8400 and Belarus and Serbia? 😂

  • @MillhouseSpeaks
    @MillhouseSpeaks Před rokem +9

    Fascinating! From travel videos to this!

  • @explorationsouthwest8851
    @explorationsouthwest8851 Před 10 měsíci

    Really well made vid! Very informative! 👍

  • @amcl7
    @amcl7 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Great video, thoroughly enjoyed! One small correction if I may, the RAF are no longer in Kinloss, the old base is now Army barracks. It’s nearby Lossiemouth and Leuchars that are still active 😃

    • @chunkymonkey3957
      @chunkymonkey3957 Před 10 měsíci +2

      One small correction to your correction, Leuchars is no longer an active RAF station either. The Army have control of what was RAF Leuchars now.

    • @timdeegan3753
      @timdeegan3753 Před 5 měsíci

      Somewhere else will certainly be the new equivalent

  • @JackIsMe1993
    @JackIsMe1993 Před rokem +4

    Oh no they nuked Grimsby!
    Alexa play Mike Oldfield.

  • @JackB_Music
    @JackB_Music Před 10 měsíci

    Great video, your narration style is spot on!

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Před 10 měsíci

      Except for the bit where he keeps saying "new-que-lar".

  • @Cheiff117
    @Cheiff117 Před 11 měsíci

    oh its mike ! , another great video

  • @richardreynoso91
    @richardreynoso91 Před rokem +5

    Unexpected but enjoyable. Nice one

  • @fishinmalarkey9830
    @fishinmalarkey9830 Před rokem +3

    Thank goodness we're being softened with the idea before it all kicks off

  • @woesmaro
    @woesmaro Před 11 měsíci

    One of the best vids on the channel, very eerie

  • @JunkWaxSal
    @JunkWaxSal Před 10 měsíci

    Great video. Very well made.

  • @DrKrapulax
    @DrKrapulax Před rokem +7

    I wonder why ~50% of english speakers can't pronounce new-clear and says nukular instead...

    • @cjjk9142
      @cjjk9142 Před rokem +1

      Not sure on 50% as I say it as new clear . Not to mention it’s literally English and you’re complaining English saying English wrong

    • @theheadone
      @theheadone Před rokem +3

      Unfortunately, it's likely because of The Simpsons.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Před 10 měsíci +1

      The weird thing is he can say "nucleus" correctly (he doesn't say "new-que-lus"), but he does say "new-que-lar". I would agree that it's at least 50% of British English speakers say "new-que-lar". It dates far before the Simpsons; most of my school friends used to say it and now so do almost all the politicians and journalists. And yet, most of them don't say "skelington" or "Specific Ocean".

  • @ClellBiggs
    @ClellBiggs Před rokem +8

    The worst of it will be for the people farther away from the blast. Those that are close will die quickly. Those farther away will have severe injuries and radiation sickness. Most of them will still die, but it will be over a long and excruciatingly painful period of time. These weapons should have never been created. I know it didn't appear so at the time, but the losses taken invading Japan would have been preferable to the looming destruction and suffering we face today. Murphy's law will eventually get us.

    • @rain-cy6ve
      @rain-cy6ve Před 11 měsíci

      I agree, better more loss of human lives then than this monstrousity threatening the very existance of our world as it is now. I think somebody took the wrong decision and they didn t have much forsight to see what would happen.

    • @ian323183
      @ian323183 Před 10 měsíci

      Depends on the wind direction, most will probably starve if there is a nuclear winter.

    • @alexburt6995
      @alexburt6995 Před 10 měsíci

      Someone was going to develop them eventually. I'm glad it was the US to do it first rather than certain other nations.

  • @seedless-bud
    @seedless-bud Před 10 měsíci

    you took me on a ride in this one... what a great vid

  • @katiekemp5582
    @katiekemp5582 Před 10 měsíci

    Excellent I learnt a lot, Thank you

  • @GD2X
    @GD2X Před rokem +5

    Just in time for the Oppenheimer film

  • @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK
    @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK Před rokem +16

    Allow me to be the one to point out that it is pronounced Nuclear not Nucular. Next you’ll be axing questions.

    • @paulbrouyere1735
      @paulbrouyere1735 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Especially with the subject of nuclear It is best to not allow misunderstandings or dyslexia.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@paulbrouyere1735 This isn't dyslexia. This is a bizarre mispronunciation of a word by a significant number of people. And it's not even consistent: He doesn't mispronounce "nucleus" as "new-que-lus", so why does he insist on saying "new-que-lar"? Does he also say "skelington"?

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Před 10 měsíci

      Next he'll be axing questions about new-que-lar skelingtons in the Specific Ocean.

    • @paulbrouyere1735
      @paulbrouyere1735 Před 10 měsíci

      @@yuchoob oh great, you found a way to train spelling control😂

    • @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK
      @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK Před 10 měsíci

      @@yuchoob I am internally grateful for your reply.

  • @lester9448
    @lester9448 Před 11 měsíci +3

    The thermal nuke in the film terminator 2 is terrifying

  • @johnnyblaze8439
    @johnnyblaze8439 Před 9 měsíci

    Question: At 20 seconds into the video, where is the camera at that it survives?

  • @williebauld1007
    @williebauld1007 Před rokem +5

    I tell you what would happen, we would be mildly miffed!

  • @aceundead4750
    @aceundead4750 Před rokem +6

    During the description of what'll happen during the explosion of the bomb he Mike failed to mention most of us will be out of a job.

    • @elhasmusic
      @elhasmusic Před rokem

      And jobs would still be forced necessary.

    • @gilesfarmer5953
      @gilesfarmer5953 Před rokem +1

      .. and that 3 million people in the UK will die.......... unemployed!
      Credit to NTNOCN

  • @Buckblacket
    @Buckblacket Před 10 měsíci +3

    I've been inside the bunker at Kelvedon Hatch. Like the one in this video, as you go below ground, there is a very long corridor leading to the blast door around the corner at the end of it. It's obviously a common feature to aid in the defence of these bunkers.

    • @TheGonzogibby
      @TheGonzogibby Před 10 měsíci

      We had raves in the “secret bunker” back in 2002-2004 - Bangin’ indeed.
      Ffs I’m old now.

    • @davetdowell
      @davetdowell Před 10 měsíci

      The Blast Doors are deliberately placed at right angles to direction the blast would come from, to reduce the impact to the door.

  • @cptgrimm
    @cptgrimm Před 10 měsíci

    Great video - I live in Edinburgh and visited this bunker museum when I was a kid! Would like to go back and you’ve inspired me

  • @inelegy
    @inelegy Před rokem +9

    So, we've just given up and are now just gonna say "newkuelar" and not " newclear"?

  • @gewglesux
    @gewglesux Před rokem +3

    "Shall we play a game"

  • @IHazPeppers
    @IHazPeppers Před 11 měsíci

    Very well done.

  •  Před 11 měsíci

    Nicely done Video. When I saw it in the End Cards of the last car Video, I was quite surprised. But as a history nerd, I liked it.

  • @bghoody5665
    @bghoody5665 Před rokem +3

    "War never changes."

  • @_-BikerBoi69_-
    @_-BikerBoi69_- Před rokem +4

    I don't have a nuclear bunker, but I'll be fine, as I can just hide in my Volvo.

    • @greggi47
      @greggi47 Před 11 měsíci

      Isn't there a movie or TV show with that scenario?

  • @GioMarron
    @GioMarron Před 11 měsíci +13

    Kept that bunker a secret when I visited Anstruther.
    Honestly, though, there’s far more to worry about from the nuclear bomb than there is the nukelar bomb because, and this is true, nukelar bomb doesn’t exist 😉
    Worked on Britains nuclear deterrent in Faslane and Coulport.
    The v-boats were fascinating as were the trident ICBMs. If they weren’t so ch a horrendous weapon of destruction (and also housed so f king close to Glasgow), the technology behind them is incredible. Everything from how, on launch, they clear the water to allow the sun launch, to how it travels, all the way to it travels 1,200 miles up and reads the stars to to locate itself and its target

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Před 10 měsíci

      all those who are righteous will increase
      And all those wicked will act in righteousness in order that they will not be cut off
      As wicked does not support those righteous
      They will lie down and not get up.+They will be extinguished, snuffed out like a burning wick.
      How have the anointed shown themselves to be people for the name today
      To worship and serve Jehovah accept
      Those who are not spiritual how was this foretold in bible
      End the son of man ? For angels , to separate
      The sons of the kingdom
      Look! I am doing something new;
      I will make a way through the wilderness
      The wild beast of the field will honor me,
      The wild beast of the field will honor me,
      For I provide water in the wilderness,
      For the ostriches
      For my people to drink
      I formed for myself
      The people
      Who grew
      You have not called me
      I have bought
      And I have not compelled
      I am the one bring me
      Prove me your right side
      The one for my sake
      Taken from my own body
      For her sake
      - Bring me a gift

  • @Cadaver1actual
    @Cadaver1actual Před 10 měsíci

    Great video. Very interesting topic

  • @digitalfootballer9032
    @digitalfootballer9032 Před rokem +59

    Like with so many other things, we opened Pandora's box when we made the first nuclear bombs. In an ironic twist, it became so the only way to ensure none would be used against you was to have your own so you were equally as threatening to your enemy. I fear the AI revolution that is taking off now will be the next problem like the nuclear arms race was. Because don't kid yourself, AI will absolutely be used, or at least be available to use, as a weapon of mass destruction, and quite possibly it may very well reach a point where we are no longer controlling it.

    • @stevezodiac491
      @stevezodiac491 Před 11 měsíci +2

      We didn't Oppenheimer did.

    • @jamesbarbour8400
      @jamesbarbour8400 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@Terminator- ha you beat me to it - I was going to reference the Terminator movies. Oh well - great minds obviously think alike 🤣

    • @tadhggoreyoneill13666
      @tadhggoreyoneill13666 Před 11 měsíci +5

      ​@@stevezodiac491oppenheimer couldn't look himself in the mirror ever again after Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Před 11 měsíci

      @@tadhggoreyoneill13666 He was the lowest of the the lower... using a brain smarter than the average for evil.

    • @cbo9090
      @cbo9090 Před 10 měsíci

      @@stevezodiac491only because Werner Heisenberg was attempting a nuclear weapon for the Nazis. They actually had a several year head start but the program was vastly underfunded. The Americans didn’t know how far along they were with it though.

  • @ragnarironspear1791
    @ragnarironspear1791 Před rokem +5

    Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds', Oppenheimer's

  • @Gazshadows
    @Gazshadows Před 10 měsíci

    Great video 👍

  • @JonMcG
    @JonMcG Před 10 měsíci

    Great vid 👍

  • @ukrobbo
    @ukrobbo Před rokem +4

    Very cool that there were enough bunkers in this country to house anything up to about 1000 of the entire population.

  • @ItsToXxy
    @ItsToXxy Před rokem +4

    If Europe gets nuked, can we still watch Lucy Brown travel the apocalyptic wasteland?

  • @alanconroy7929
    @alanconroy7929 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I really needed cheering up. Thanks for this. 😂😅

  • @thecosmoscorner
    @thecosmoscorner Před 10 měsíci

    Excellent video 👌🏼😃

  • @LordandGodofYouTube
    @LordandGodofYouTube Před 11 měsíci +27

    This is a great video and I hope you do more like this, and not just war stuff but random tech, engineering, and just any random interesting stuff. You did a really great job on this one, writers and editors pat yourselves on the back. It's sad that the people we put in power end up becoming power-crazed lunatics who would rather sacrifice thousands of their own countrymen than find a reasonable solution. So far thank the flying spaghetti monster none have used these bat$h!t crazy weapons since WW2. Hopefully, in the future, our descendants look at war as just a crazy part of the past.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Před 11 měsíci

      The human species has always made war. Horrible species in that regard. it shows no signs of stopping. Putin invades a peaceful democratic neighbour and goes about demolishing and drowning it. Warlords fight with modern weapons in Sudan and, as the man said, 'so it goes'.

    • @AnarchAngel1
      @AnarchAngel1 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Keep hoping because that will never happen. War always has been and always will be a part of human civilization. To expect otherwise is naive

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Před 10 měsíci

      Test y

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Před 10 měsíci

      @@AnarchAngel1 yes you are all thinanadams sons

    • @LordandGodofYouTube
      @LordandGodofYouTube Před 9 měsíci

      @@AnarchAngel1 a lot of things change. We used to do human sacrifice for the Gods. Capital punishment is slowly going away. To say war will always be a part of life is a bit pessimistic.

  • @brenner7308
    @brenner7308 Před rokem +9

    The Simpsons references start at 00:17 😄

  • @3enLiamMichael
    @3enLiamMichael Před 10 měsíci

    Fantastic video this.

  • @127cmore
    @127cmore Před 10 měsíci +1

    Raf Leuchars and Kinloss are closed now. Only Lossiemouth in Scotland operates as an air force base

  • @iKvetch558
    @iKvetch558 Před rokem +14

    OK...it is not a big deal, lots and lots of accents lead to it being pronounced "nucular" instead of "nuclear"...just like he did repeatedly starting at 0:17...but ever since Baby Bush said "nucular" SO many times during his presidency with possible weapons in Iraq and actual weapons in North Korea, I cannot help but get a flashback to him saying it whenever I hear it. I know it is such an easy word to mispronounce, and there are lots of videos about that, but it is just really funny to my ear...anybody else get that?

    • @arconcritter
      @arconcritter Před rokem +2

      Yeah it’s kind of annoying that the host of an episode specifically about nuclear weapons can’t get the word right.
      Small detail maybe but imagine doing an episode about a car and referring to it as a Frahree 😂

    • @ronjohnson5070
      @ronjohnson5070 Před rokem +1

      President Jimmy Carter, a nuclear expert in the Navy consistently said “ newcular” it drove me crazy

    • @Okurka.
      @Okurka. Před rokem +1

      Simpsons did it!

    • @baconwizard
      @baconwizard Před rokem

      How do you pronounce “psychiatrist”?

    • @who-asked613
      @who-asked613 Před rokem +1

      @@arconcritter it kind of isn't a small detail. The premise of the episode is detailing the use and aftermath of a nuclear device. Pretty central if you ask me.

  • @jameslewis8227
    @jameslewis8227 Před rokem +23

    Dear Mike, this was a great video, but I have to admit that I’m not bothered at all by the possibility of a “nucular” war happening, but I do find the possibility nuclear war terrifying, whether fusion or fission bombs were to be used.

    • @jenncross4139
      @jenncross4139 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Yeah, the nookyoolar really undermines the severity of the threat.

    • @dwchester
      @dwchester Před 10 měsíci +4

      I agree. I hate to be sour, but the repeated use of the wrong word really detracts from what was otherwise a fine, informative article.

    • @pwcinla
      @pwcinla Před 9 měsíci +2

      Exactly. You cannot speak with authority if you keep saying "new killer." Plus the constant cut-away shots where he's no longer talking to us but someone off camera (who?) is so jarring.

    • @anthonydoyle7370
      @anthonydoyle7370 Před 7 měsíci

      Also Apparently, there is no fallout from an air burst weapon.

  • @InitialP_Photography
    @InitialP_Photography Před 10 měsíci

    Wow, Leuchars shut down in 2010, where do you get your info from?

  • @milesmcclure3485
    @milesmcclure3485 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I don't see why people think Faslane poses a threat to Glasgow, Its the largest population centre in Scotland. I think if a full scale nuclear conflict kicked off, the people of Glasgow would find it very hard to worry about the bombs headed for Faslane while they're staring at one falling on George square

  • @geordieian3266
    @geordieian3266 Před rokem +4

    Don’t you find it strange the government making all phones have this ‘emergency’ warning now with all what’s happening in Ukraine

  • @cdeford
    @cdeford Před 11 měsíci +14

    People who lived through the Cold War understand the real risks. Younger people don't feel it at all and are in denial that it could ever happen.

    • @water4826
      @water4826 Před 10 měsíci

      I am a younger person I don’t understand what ur talking about I understand all the risks and possibilities and how devastating it is and I am in no denial at all

    • @cdeford
      @cdeford Před 10 měsíci

      @@water4826 I'm glad you say that but I think you are the exception rather than the rule, judging by the average comment by peopl on the internet in the West.

    • @water4826
      @water4826 Před 10 měsíci

      @@cdeford I have had many conversations with friends and people about my age tho who do also understand

    • @water4826
      @water4826 Před 10 měsíci

      @@cdeford tho I do understand that there are some people that definitely have no idea what it’s capable of

    • @cdeford
      @cdeford Před 10 měsíci

      @@water4826 I think it's more that people who lived through the Cold War believed in nuclear war as a real possibility, but in the safe (for the West) unipolar world we've had since 1991 that possibility has become too remote. People in the West have become used to running the world and ordering everything for their benefit. They can't imagine things not always going their way.

  • @captaincat1743
    @captaincat1743 Před 8 měsíci

    Brilliant video, I wasn't subscribed but I am now. I know it is very difficult to condense such complicated information into a short, easy to understand video but for anyone interested -when an atom undergoes fission and splits apart it is not smashed apart in the conventional way like a bullet would smash an egg apart. The atom actually absorbs the neutron and then it vibrates, becomes unstable and pops apart. (This all happens in fractions of a billionth of a second) Both pieces of the atom have a net positive charge and it is that electrostatic force of two positives that makes the two pieces fly apart at high speed. Contrary to normal intuition the faster a neutron is travelling, the less likely it is to make the atom break apart because it will more likely bounce off instead of being absorbed. That is why water and graphite are used in nuclear reactors - to slow the neutrons down.

  • @Mondeoman72
    @Mondeoman72 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Both Leuchars and Kinloss are no longer operational RAF Air Bases all RAF aircraft are now based in Lossiemouth

  • @danielgonzalezd.4343
    @danielgonzalezd.4343 Před 10 měsíci +12

    Today I saw the movie Oppenheimer. It was impressive, tense, and difficult in terms of making such a decision that would destroy "our enemies" in a blink of an eye, and then the consequences of those who survive the explosion will last for decades.
    On one hand I have admiration for these incredibly intelligent men, yet they build is "a massive destruction weapon" that put an end to WWII. It is said that in love and war everything is possible. Yet I wonder how these people could live the rest of their lives knowing what they did. It is insanity to think of a hydrogen bomb that literally would destroy the world as we know it. and then what... Why instead we find a way to live in peace and help one another like brothers and sisters around the world.
    Why humans are so unkind and want more and more power to control the world?
    Will this even come to an end?

    • @ednammansfield8553
      @ednammansfield8553 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Probably never. As long as their are human beings on this planet of ours there will always be power mad people who would use these weapons. Mankind will be responsible for its own destruction.

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Před 8 měsíci

      What is an en i i this is 1 I o v e e uominogOdreewater is on the first day and the second day there shall be light

    • @Desert-edDave
      @Desert-edDave Před 8 měsíci +1

      There is no hope for the Godless.

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Před 7 měsíci

      @@ednammansfield8553 Man will be brought low,
      And if the righteous man is being saved with difficulty,
      what will happen to
      That is why all hands will go limp, And every man’s heart will melt with fear.
      What is mortal man that you keep him in mind,
      a son of man that you take care of him?
      Only when a wild donkey can give
      birth to a man.
      As one would between a man and his fellow
      in mind, And a son of man that you take care of him
      and the young man became like one of his sons.

  • @timofthomas
    @timofthomas Před 11 měsíci +7

    Let's add one significant correction - The US pursued the bomb to it's conclusion first - but they did so off the back of all the UK University of Manchester and University of Oxford research that had already been done, and components already made in a tunnel in North Wales which were shipped across to them as part of the agreement between Churchill and FDR and to prevent the Germans getting their hands on the research in the event of successful invasion of Britain. That work formed a nucleus of the start of what went on to become the Manhattan Project. The USA could have done it without but this saved them several months of work in the early stages.

  • @GTAWildestPolicechases
    @GTAWildestPolicechases Před 10 měsíci

    does anyone know where you can find footage from 3.32 never seen this before.

  • @goflyfpv2798
    @goflyfpv2798 Před 11 měsíci

    Well presented

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Před 10 měsíci

      Except that he can't pronounce "nuclear" correctly, throughout the whole thing.

  • @writinglife6244
    @writinglife6244 Před rokem +4

    wait... "Nukey-lar"?

  • @ukdroneking
    @ukdroneking Před rokem +4

    Excellent ! Well done mike 👏

  • @MikeJackson690
    @MikeJackson690 Před 10 měsíci

    Amazing video. All I could think, however, was, "What have we done? 🤦‍♂️"

  • @charlesroeckeriv6226
    @charlesroeckeriv6226 Před 10 měsíci

    If you get a chance to come to the States there's the Trinity Test Site at Alamogordo, New Mexico, where the first nuke was detonated. There's also the Nevada Proving Grounds (formerly Nevada Test Site) north of Las Vegas where dozens of atmospheric nukes detonated during the Cold War. I've toured this location, and even though it looks like any desert valley, there's remnants of blown-up homes, railroad tracks, bunkers . . . it's spooky, because there's still radiation there.

  • @tamastarczy6262
    @tamastarczy6262 Před rokem +10

    But why does the dude keeps sayin "NUKELAR"???

    • @wolfgangezeh2221
      @wolfgangezeh2221 Před rokem +5

      He’s Scottish!

    • @tamastarczy6262
      @tamastarczy6262 Před rokem +3

      ​@@wolfgangezeh2221 and so? I mean he says it wrong!

    • @Jellybob69
      @Jellybob69 Před rokem +2

      @@tamastarczy6262 it’s his accent dude

    • @Magpie_Media
      @Magpie_Media Před rokem +2

      Lots of people around the world speak lots of different languages, each with their own accents and variations. There is no wrong and right way to say anything. There's your way, and there's somebody's elses way.

    • @Xiph1980
      @Xiph1980 Před rokem +1

      Did you understand what he meant? Yeah, I mean, you attempted to correct him, so I guess you did? Well, that's the goal of language achieved. Language is dynamic. Its goal is to transfer information from one person to another. Its goal is not to satisfy some weird rule someone made up, for all to follow.