Ending Nuclear War

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Komentáře • 1,7K

  • @raterNAZ
    @raterNAZ Před 4 lety +1636

    Shall we play a game?
    the only winning move is not to play

    • @kolinmartz
      @kolinmartz Před 4 lety +35

      Marcos Filho where’s you’re peer reviewed scholarly source?

    • @SanjayT06
      @SanjayT06 Před 4 lety +50

      @Marcos Filho It doesn't work like that. dB is logarithmic.10 decibles is 10 times louder than 0 decibles, or 20 decibles is 10 times louder than 10 decibles.

    • @SanjayT06
      @SanjayT06 Před 4 lety +10

      @Matthew Cooper Lol if you fart hard enough to reach 1100dB then yes.

    • @EvMstein
      @EvMstein Před 4 lety +8

      Never heard of it before that we could create black hole by just create really intense vibration.

    • @carso1500
      @carso1500 Před 4 lety +10

      @Marcos Filho eh, nuclear weapons don't disapear matter, it just transforms it into something diferent but that matter is still there

  • @lightzpy8049
    @lightzpy8049 Před 4 lety +340

    It's simple guys: *Just build the Death Star*

    • @AZrakoon
      @AZrakoon Před 4 lety +8

      It wouldn't surprise me it was already thought of by a military.

    • @bobhager5248
      @bobhager5248 Před 4 lety +3

      @john maziasz To stop nukes, what other non radical conspiracy theory could there be?

    • @Will-dp3us
      @Will-dp3us Před 4 lety +4

      How about we make the moon a death moon

    • @AZrakoon
      @AZrakoon Před 4 lety

      @@stars227 true.....there are satellites that use energy weapons can destroy icbms....perhaps that same (or similar technology) idea can be used to try to hit stationary targets on earth's surface.

    • @thepatrioticdog3154
      @thepatrioticdog3154 Před 4 lety +1

      @john maziasz
      >god emperor Trump
      Lol

  • @12345redrock
    @12345redrock Před 4 lety +416

    And on that note, merry christmas

  • @PadreAlan67
    @PadreAlan67 Před 4 lety +586

    Do you know that there is only one country that has developed and exploded a nuclear device and then gone on to scrap it's nuclear program? South Africa.

    • @gobimurugesan2411
      @gobimurugesan2411 Před 4 lety +67

      South Africa missed a liberation chance from uncle sam

    • @DarthEarp
      @DarthEarp Před 4 lety +105

      @Marcos Filho dB is logarithmic so 5 250dB sounds would be around 255db's not 1250

    • @genghiskhan5701
      @genghiskhan5701 Před 4 lety +116

      Mostly because the Apartheid Government didnt trust blacks with nukes

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade Před 4 lety +93

      @Marcos Filho "Open up black hole".
      Do you even know how those things work? They aren't wormholes. Stop watching Star Trek ffs.
      "Simultaneously explode 5 nuclear bombs"
      What are you? Five years old? Do all nuclear weapons have the same yield? What does it take to open a black hole? 5 Little Boys or 5 Tsar Bombas?
      "sucking half the Earth in another dimension of space"
      More BS. Even if it did happen, it would not be "half the Earth" moron. Moreover, "Earth" would not survive the journey through a wormhole. Not that it matters anyway because wormholes are a hypothesis. None have been observed so far.
      Your entire comment is schoolboy level comprehension of a very serious situation.

    • @InfinityGamingHere
      @InfinityGamingHere Před 4 lety +9

      @@death_parade it was a joke dumbass

  • @thetooginator153
    @thetooginator153 Před 3 lety +34

    It’s REALLY rare when a video actually lays out all the options in a rational and complete manner. No sugarcoating or naïve optimism. This is the only video I’ve seen that has the guts to state the obvious: the reason we haven’t had a third world war is that no one (including leaders) would survive it - and every sane person knows it.
    Even small, regional conflicts can escalate, so, these conflicts are dangerous. It’s in everyone’s self interest that conflicts are resolved BEFORE they become wars.

    • @hashtagunderscore3173
      @hashtagunderscore3173 Před 2 lety

      I would agree with you, except the video is clickbait. It should more accurately be titled “you cannot stop enough nuclear warheads.”

  • @cullenduval1056
    @cullenduval1056 Před 4 lety +757

    “Mankind had the ability to destroy the earth”
    More like scratch the earth.

    • @Wallyworld30
      @Wallyworld30 Před 4 lety +172

      Zx Az Earth will be fine, it’s humans that are screwed. From the social media age back to the stone ages!

    • @Torus2112
      @Torus2112 Před 4 lety +36

      ​@@Wallyworld30 If the nuclear winter after is bad enough there won't be any life left at all.

    • @mickeyg7219
      @mickeyg7219 Před 4 lety +151

      @@Torus2112
      No, extremophiles and smaller animals can easily survive the nuclear winter. Life survived an asteroid impact that will make the entire combined nuclear arsenal of the world looks like a spark.

    • @Wallyworld30
      @Wallyworld30 Před 4 lety +28

      @@mickeyg7219 Probably, except for some small bugs. My point was actually that earth itself wouldn't even notice it. It's the living creatures on earth that would go bye, bye!

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM Před 4 lety +2

      Scorch

  • @neoxenoz3262
    @neoxenoz3262 Před 4 lety +272

    "Some have suggested the removal of the entire nuclear weapons supply"
    Ah yes, I can smell world war 3 from a mile away.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 Před 4 lety +17

      Removal of the nuclear supply via the use of the nukes :P

    • @SayinWTF
      @SayinWTF Před 4 lety +13

      I do not know the weapons that ww3 will be fought with but ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
      -Albert Einstein

    • @jakehayes1998
      @jakehayes1998 Před 3 lety +1

      @@SayinWTF well more like whatever arms are left.

    • @jakehayes1998
      @jakehayes1998 Před 3 lety

      @Ace of Spades neither

    • @professory4320
      @professory4320 Před 3 lety

      Aliens

  • @PwerRanger01
    @PwerRanger01 Před 4 lety +154

    Antimatter weapons is how you remove nuclear weapons.

    • @michaelzlprime
      @michaelzlprime Před 4 lety +15

      I dont think the exact composition of deadly subatmoic particles matters as much... fission, fusion or antimatter - the result is the same

    • @alexnickolaev
      @alexnickolaev Před 4 lety +1

      I am sure Gendalf can stop nuclear missles

    • @POPJack1717
      @POPJack1717 Před 4 lety +10

      @@quantum_aigeek But minus the radiation.

    • @lukegodfrey1103
      @lukegodfrey1103 Před 4 lety +23

      In all likelyhood, this will never be a thing.
      If the enemy hits a nuclear missile bunker with conventional warheads, you get a conventional (if somewhat dirty) explosion.
      If he hits your antimatter missile bunker, the whole lot goes up instantly.
      If one missile loses power to containment, the whole lot goes up instantly.
      The yield is higher, but not insanely so; 1kg antimatter would almost equal the yield of the tsar bomba, but the containment equipment would weigh as much if not more, and a hard enough knock will cause the antimatter to collide with the containment walls, causing it to go up instantly.
      Nukes have all of the power of antimatter in a similar sized package, with inherent safety.

    • @midgetman4206
      @midgetman4206 Před 4 lety +2

      @@lukegodfrey1103 but it does sound cool

  • @Sedna063
    @Sedna063 Před 4 lety +289

    Oh yes, another in-detail analysis. Have been worried without my monthly dose on independent military analysis.

    • @sohomchatterjee
      @sohomchatterjee Před 4 lety +3

      😂 I like your sarcasm...

    • @Sedna063
      @Sedna063 Před 4 lety +10

      That is not sarcasm. Was genuinely worried that I could not get some new stuff to think about.

    • @midgetman4206
      @midgetman4206 Před 4 lety +2

      @Marcos Filho source?

    • @flameballs
      @flameballs Před 4 lety +1

      @Marcos Filho
      BS, db isn't linear

  • @IsraelMcDonald
    @IsraelMcDonald Před 4 lety +185

    “The only way to stop a nuclear war is to not be able to stop a nuclear war.” Now you are getting deep.🤔

    • @Gandalf17
      @Gandalf17 Před 4 lety +1

      confused as fuck

    • @matchesburn
      @matchesburn Před 4 lety +25

      @@Gandalf17
      When you know that you can start the end of the world, but the caveat is that you will also die... you tend not to want to start it.
      When you get over-confident and think you can survive and kill the other guy? Then you start making people nervous.
      That's why American "Star Wars" Anti-Ballistic Missile defense systems were such a dangerous game. Not only could we not make them work as well as we wanted them to, we had to try and make believe that we could and convince the Soviets that we could. While also giving them enough doubt not to go full paranoid and start doing crazy or stupid things that would cause "incidents" to happen. Thankfully the Soviets were already at a weak point and all we had to do was, basically, out-spend them. Turns out that, thankfully, the Soviets were communists. And communism, as we all (should) know, doesn't work.

    • @gobimurugesan2411
      @gobimurugesan2411 Před 4 lety +3

      I don't think anti missile systems can become 100% success rate. While anti missiles get new capabilities nuclear missiles also got new upgradations. It's a cat mouse game

    • @MrFlatage
      @MrFlatage Před 4 lety

      @@gobimurugesan2411 Agreed you thinking does not work. Luckily we presented our ASD which proves to be 100% against any and all hypersonic weapons in the air, space and deep space. Rest is easy really.

    • @emanueleg.4651
      @emanueleg.4651 Před 4 lety +2

      Balance of power can really be a MAD thing

  • @conmc3573
    @conmc3573 Před 4 lety +84

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

    • @cricketman1322
      @cricketman1322 Před 4 lety +9

      BIG IRON! BIG IRON! OOHHHH HE TRIED TO MATCH THE RANGER WITH A BIG IRON ON HIS STICK!

    • @ZTIERK
      @ZTIERK Před 4 lety +3

      Wait is this a Fallout reference

    • @conmc3573
      @conmc3573 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ZTIERK Yeah, New Vegas

    • @dannymeadowswa6mqz212
      @dannymeadowswa6mqz212 Před 6 měsíci

      The Mojave is like it has been nuked all ready no change😊😅

  • @h0lx
    @h0lx Před 4 lety +19

    The nuclear bomb to defeat the incoming nukes was actually a neutron bomb, designed to irradiate the incoming nukes core with neutrons, making it fissle

  • @Sophistry0001
    @Sophistry0001 Před 4 lety +59

    "With the development of nuclear weapons, and the realization of the destruction a nuclear war would bring, we never had a 3rd world war"... yet.

    • @forsakenbins8835
      @forsakenbins8835 Před 4 lety +1

      Now, since superpowers are armed with nuclear weapons, we experience the moast peaceful period in human history.

    • @5000mahmud
      @5000mahmud Před 4 lety

      G Guest which is why nuclear proliferation is taken so seriously, except for iran

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 Před 4 lety +1

      @G Guest yes but a nation like saddam's iraq would not have the industrial capacity to produce a superpower sized nuclear arsenal, north korea for example even though they are not a rogue state and their program is defensive has only managed to pump out about 20 bombs compared to the thousands the US has.

  • @boeingdriver29
    @boeingdriver29 Před 4 lety +41

    I’m far more concerned about the weapons we DON’T know about than the ones we do. And that’s a long list.

    • @paveantelic7876
      @paveantelic7876 Před 3 lety +3

      Eh its probably just stealth and drone technology, because thats how warfare works now

    • @pastordonkoh7692
      @pastordonkoh7692 Před 3 lety +1

      i still think we should have 15-20K nuclear weapons but just like the seedbank, they are under the custodian of neutral countries because the threat of extraterrestrial intelligence is real and nukes are the most powerful weapon we'd have.

  • @nodice1881
    @nodice1881 Před 4 lety +19

    "The only way to win, is not to play"

  • @j.mangum7652
    @j.mangum7652 Před 4 lety +150

    Nuclear war simulator game: "dO yoU waNt To plAY a GaMe?"

    • @j.mangum7652
      @j.mangum7652 Před 4 lety +1

      @Marcos Filho On a macro scale, a three dimensional geometric array of nuclear devices built as one bomb could theoretically make what you're after. After measuring for whether said device shall be detonated with or without atmosphere conditions(on Earth or in space).

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker Před 4 lety

      "The only winning move is not to play."

    • @jacksparrow6754
      @jacksparrow6754 Před 4 lety +1

      @Marcos Filho lol that is not how decibel works. Decibel is logarithmic not linear

    • @spankthemonkey3437
      @spankthemonkey3437 Před 4 lety

      Marcos Filho I highly doubtful of that

    • @Est.1995
      @Est.1995 Před 4 lety

      Okay

  • @stormbelka7213
    @stormbelka7213 Před 4 lety +24

    It's so good to get a video! Yaaaaay! I've missed you Cabal!

  • @tedfields1923
    @tedfields1923 Před 4 lety +34

    Thanks for the time and effort you put into this video, like most of you're video's it was great.

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil Před 4 lety +14

    The B2 is one plane that could deliver them.

  • @misone01
    @misone01 Před 4 lety +6

    I recall reading somewhere that the Tsar Bomba was actually built to be capable of yielding a 100 megaton blast, as that was what the Soviet leadership wanted. But the scientists developing it talked them down to 50 megatons. Telling them that a 100 megaton fireball would be taller than the Earth's atmosphere, and might fling chunks of the very air we breath out into space.
    Whether that last bit is actually true or not, the leadership agreed, and the scientists swapped out one of the Bomba's fusion stages with a fusion damper, cutting the final yield in half for the desired 50 megaton output, and accidentally also making the resulting detonation relatively clean, with nowhere near as much fallout as was expected.

    • @andrewgraham6006
      @andrewgraham6006 Před 4 lety +1

      I think another reason was that since it was only a test flight the poorly couldn’t attualy get the plane out of the kill zone but I doubt that if it was attual drop in a enemy target they would go for the 100 and not give a fuck about the pilot

    • @aerodynamic1440
      @aerodynamic1440 Před 3 lety +1

      The blast yield was more than expected it was 57 megatons

  • @ulysseysss9537
    @ulysseysss9537 Před 4 lety +138

    "Russia was the only country to deploy a nuclear armed interceptor"
    Sprint Missile: "Am I a joke to you?"

    • @UmbraHand
      @UmbraHand Před 4 lety +10

      Thing is that neither of the Nike missile programs were actually implemented

    • @thereyougoagain1280
      @thereyougoagain1280 Před 4 lety +1

      Lain Iwakura they were. It was operational for a few months, I think

    • @ulysseysss9537
      @ulysseysss9537 Před 4 lety +7

      @@UmbraHand The Sprint and the Zeus were deployed for only few months, I can't say exactly for the rest of the Nike program but some missiles mainly conventional A2A like the Ajax and later ABM Hercules were deployed around pretty much all major cities from the mid 50s to mid 60s, but I get your point for the Zeus and the Sprint, they were technically deployed but not enough and not long enough to make any impact whatsoever to the US defense capability I was just taking the piss ^^

    • @matchesburn
      @matchesburn Před 4 lety +2

      @@UmbraHand
      They were. They were operational for several months before being defunded/cancelled.

    • @saucysauce593
      @saucysauce593 Před 4 lety

      Adam O
      yeah i live near that place to, talcott mountain i think

  • @DivineMind222
    @DivineMind222 Před 4 lety +17

    9:15 bet StyroPyro would have a laser built within a week that could shoot down anything lmao.

    • @tj9959
      @tj9959 Před 4 lety +3

      Dustin McElveen giving that guy even a fraction of the militaries money would be a bigger problem than mere nuclear bombs

    • @DivineMind222
      @DivineMind222 Před 4 lety +2

      @@tj9959 lol for real though!!

    • @fractal6929
      @fractal6929 Před 3 lety

      @Rasa Khosrofar and if he Robs bill gates, then mathematically, he fan build 97 more.

  • @KermitFrazierdotcom
    @KermitFrazierdotcom Před 4 lety +6

    I Like this Examination of this Problem.
    Deterrent is the Best "Peace Strategy"
    Prevent War by Preparing for War.

  • @adonissherlock
    @adonissherlock Před 4 lety +27

    How to not get nuked: Have more nukes than your enemy

    • @sturmtiger1508
      @sturmtiger1508 Před 4 lety +1

      Unless both nations launch simultaneously

    • @CaptainChrom
      @CaptainChrom Před 4 lety +4

      How to not get nuked: Have enough nukes to be able to cause severe damage to your enemy. It doesn't matter if you have 500 or 5000 missiles. 500 missiles are enough to cause extreme damage to your country. Enough to destroy major parts of the infrastructure, kill a lot of people or attack atomic reactors to increase the damage exponentially. Even if you have 50000 atomic bombs you wouldn't want a nuclear war with a country with even "only" 500 bomb. Having more bombs than your enemy won't help you. You wouldn't want a nuclear war nonetheless.

    • @heyyo2828
      @heyyo2828 Před 3 lety

      You don't need more
      You just need to have enough to threaten your enemy

    • @nightvigil
      @nightvigil Před 3 lety +3

      @@CaptainChromUse 500 warheads on your enemy. Wait a few weeks for the fallout and freezing temps to slowly kill your people at their job and in their homes. There is no reason to strike back. 500 nukes is worldwide destruction. For you budding young dictators on a budget, you could cause world-wide havoc with a 90% death with 100 well placed Nukes. Think about the poles and what all that ice is going to look like radioactive and thawed. I bet you could melt it all, and yet still have 50 or so left to hit the world's desert areas. Pay special attention to the central Saudi Desert. It's sand is exceptionally fine and dusty, they have to import sand for construction purposes. Cluster a few together in that desert, spread the rest around the other deserts, you will have an ash cloud that will pretty much block out the sun for 10 years. The last people to die from radiation will be followed by the first of the ones to die of starvation. When countries beat their chests and say, "look at me, I have nuclear weapons". They are really saying, "look at me, I'm an asshole".

  • @gspot525
    @gspot525 Před 4 lety +2

    Well done and much respect from someone who shares your passion for knowledge and who feels the need to share it with others.

  • @ares106
    @ares106 Před 4 lety +6

    One could argue nuclear weapons and MAD is the only reason we haven’t had WW3.
    Paradoxically the most destructive weapons keep the peace.

    • @ares106
      @ares106 Před 4 lety +1

      51HankySpanky I concur, however this might not be a sustainable strategy for the long term, because super powers collapse and are born over the centuries and even decades.
      In the future we might need to readjust who should and could own nuclear capabilities to keep this balance going. One could easily imagine a future scenario where one of the current nuclear powers fragments into civil war or collapses socially and economically leading to the possibility of fringe elements will nothing to lose gaining access to nuclear arms. In fact it’s a miracle this has not happened during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

    • @grubbybum3614
      @grubbybum3614 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ares106
      >Super powers collapse
      This is the reason MAD is a flawed concept. It's based on only 60 years of history, and a handful of capable nations. Expand either of those variables (Time or capable nations) + actual history of total warfare, and somebody will eventually launch a nuke in anger.

    • @ares106
      @ares106 Před 4 lety +1

      Grubby bum, indeed. Yet I can’t think of a better and more enforceable strategy to prevent a return to the cycle of world wars. MAD is a stop gap that needs to eventually be replaced but total disarmament is also a bad idea imo. Hopefully much smarter people than me will figure something out for the sake of humanity.

    • @user-zo8hs4yh2h
      @user-zo8hs4yh2h Před 4 lety +1

      Trump pulled out of the INF treaty and I've been testing a few missiles instead of writing love letters. So..

    • @grubbybum3614
      @grubbybum3614 Před 4 lety

      @51HankySpanky yes, it's the fallout which worries me the most too.

  • @MasterNater808
    @MasterNater808 Před 4 lety +1

    Great work on this video. I can only imagine how much time and energy it takes to put together a detailed and descriptive analysis such as this. Much appreciated!

  • @norkator
    @norkator Před 4 lety +10

    Waiting long time for new video, at least feels long time. Your videos are so full of information. Love it!

  • @blaskoxx4954
    @blaskoxx4954 Před 4 lety +5

    I've seen that airborne laser, its sitting over at the boneyard in Tucson.

  • @loganmcbee1752
    @loganmcbee1752 Před 4 lety +6

    Love watching these videos, always engaging

  • @1911Drew
    @1911Drew Před 4 lety +1

    Good analysis! Thanks for putting the video up.

  • @AscendantStoic
    @AscendantStoic Před 4 lety +2

    Excellent video, Specially the point made at the end about the value of nuclear weapons as deterrent.

  • @dunodisko2217
    @dunodisko2217 Před 3 lety +6

    MAD: A TL;DR by me:
    “If you launch one nuke at us, we’re going to launch out entire arsenal at you to not only intentionally destroy your country, but to also ensure that you will never be capable of hurting us or anyone else ever again. Capiche?”

    • @edew9180
      @edew9180 Před 3 lety +5

      Fortunately, it doesn’t quite work like that. A small scale launch would typically be met with similar force. Granted, it depends on our tech to accurately see what is coming our way, but a few nukes launched by north korea or china would not mean the usa would throw everything it has. Then we would have nothing left for russia, who could take advantage of the situation.
      However, the russian dead hand system would most likely launch all their icbm’s if enough damage was sustained to their military infrastructure.

  • @JG27Korny
    @JG27Korny Před 4 lety +2

    That was a great video, very informative, dense with information and concise. The quality rivals big documentary productions.

  • @antonleimbach648
    @antonleimbach648 Před 4 lety +1

    Great analysis, thanks for posting.

  • @carson2725
    @carson2725 Před 4 lety +11

    Problem is: in Russia, atom splits you.

  • @evan448
    @evan448 Před 4 lety +8

    You could power the laser with a rtg
    A nuclear thermo electric generator
    You’d need more radiators obviously

    • @Sir_Budginton
      @Sir_Budginton Před 4 lety +3

      RTGs aren't actually that powerful. The one on the curiosity rover only generates abut 110 watts of electricity, and yet produces about 2000 watts of heat. Any RTG powerful enough to power a space based ABM laser would be obscenely hot and heavy.

    • @matchesburn
      @matchesburn Před 4 lety +1

      Nuclear pumped x-ray lasers.
      Yes, using nuclear detonations to power lasers. Not cost effective, pretty insane, very difficult, very expensive... but we have done work into them and proved that they are possible and can work. And would be, if done correctly, insanely powerful.

    • @MrFlatage
      @MrFlatage Před 4 lety

      @@matchesburn My laser gatling cannon is laughing so hard. ;-)

  • @DavidFMayerPhD
    @DavidFMayerPhD Před 4 lety +8

    Stealth bombers and cruise missiles remain EXTREMELY effective methods of delivery of nuclear warheads. Don't disparage them.

    • @angelkitty11
      @angelkitty11 Před 4 lety

      Yeah, especially considering most countries don't have advanced military equipments like the US

    • @Mr71paul71
      @Mr71paul71 Před 4 lety

      Yes you just shoot down any bird flying hundreds of mph as its likely not a bird

    • @DavidFMayerPhD
      @DavidFMayerPhD Před 4 lety

      @@Mr71paul71 Stealth aircraft are difficult to detect, more difficult to track, and nearly impossible to target due to advanced radar jamming technology. Stealth does not make aircraft invisible, but lowers reflection greatly. This makes jamming much easier. Consider this: An anti-aircraft system sends out pulses containing megajoules of energy, but is looking for return pulses of nanojoules or smaller. When a jammer sends back a huge quantity of energy in a narrow beam into the radar receiver, the jamming signal is millions or even billions of times as great as the radar receiver is expecting. Imagine trying to track a firefly in front of a spotlight. The return signal is washed out. Stealth permits the use of lower power jammers.

    • @heyyo2828
      @heyyo2828 Před 3 lety

      Stealth bombers still make up a large portion of America's (and probably Russia's) nuclear defense program
      The other two parts are submarine launched missiles and the icbms in silos out in the wilderness

    • @soumyadipbiswas6835
      @soumyadipbiswas6835 Před 3 lety

      Well Indian rafale jets hare locked on a f22 raptor in indo us war games...stealth is overrated.

  • @WealthAndMoney
    @WealthAndMoney Před 3 lety +1

    Dude, what a high-quality content?! keep up the great work!

  • @andrewmagdaleno5417
    @andrewmagdaleno5417 Před 4 lety

    I love the effort u put into researching the topic

  • @buryitdeep
    @buryitdeep Před 4 lety +21

    Spend the money from defence on gifts to the people of opposing powers. People would have a hard time trying to hate a nation that kept donating funds for building, schools, and hospitals and life enrichment.

    • @AzoreanProud
      @AzoreanProud Před 4 lety +5

      Love is the answer haha, yeah people would likely be against the war, but there's still obstacles, propaganda from warmongers and the reducing need for soldiers (people with moral) at the war fields.

    • @farlandduck4463
      @farlandduck4463 Před 4 lety +9

      sadly that's not how politics work

    • @slyseal2091
      @slyseal2091 Před 4 lety +1

      @@farlandduck4463 Technically it is, while not exactly gifting one of the main things nuclear war gets into the way of is trade - which is exactly what causes things like building schools, hospitals and other entertainment options.

    • @victormuckleston
      @victormuckleston Před 3 lety

      @@farlandduck4463 but what about the usa covid releif bill,?

    • @edew9180
      @edew9180 Před 3 lety

      @@victormuckleston what about it? It passed, donchaknow?

  • @user-uc1oy3zk4t
    @user-uc1oy3zk4t Před 4 lety +14

    Quantum computing is going to revolutionaze missile defense

    • @HamzaKhan-ky1mt
      @HamzaKhan-ky1mt Před 3 lety

      Exactly, it seems good, but it also means that Nations would feel safer and confident starting a Nuclear War. :(

    • @nothingtoseeheremovealong598
      @nothingtoseeheremovealong598 Před 2 lety

      @@HamzaKhan-ky1mt Or a normal large scale war for that matter

  • @davidcameron5958
    @davidcameron5958 Před 4 lety +2

    LOVE your content. Thanks a lot

  • @dirtysanchez8872
    @dirtysanchez8872 Před 4 lety +1

    Love your videos. So informative.

  • @tapatin4366
    @tapatin4366 Před 4 lety +3

    you know those videos you watch at 3am when you should be sleeping because u got shit to do in the morning ? Well here we are

  • @alanli2404
    @alanli2404 Před 4 lety +2

    Few remember when the spectre of nuclear armageddon, didn't hang overhead.

  • @metanumia
    @metanumia Před 4 lety

    Thanks for another highly informative and entertaining video, CC! And thanks for working so hard to create an in-depth video about this particularly important (and highly relevant) topic. Most people cannot imagine the true horror and devastation a nuclear conflict would bring, but it's extremely important for everyone around the world to understand this topic deeply, so as to avoid nuclear weapons proliferation and also for people to support *sane* world leaders and oppose candidates who would even consider ordering a nuclear strike. This topic is so powerfully disturbing that most people choose to suppress any critical thought about it and instead avoid thinking about it, enjoying their bliss in ignorance. The more complacent humanity becomes regarding nuclear war, the more dangerous this world becomes and the closer we all are to the "clock" striking midnight. The global clock is slowly but surely continuing to tick closer to zero hour.

  • @logicVSpassion
    @logicVSpassion Před 4 lety

    Love your point at the end of the video! Very well said!

  • @LLMood
    @LLMood Před 4 lety +9

    Ironically a nuclear war will end nuclear war

  • @wehraboohunterssvu316
    @wehraboohunterssvu316 Před 4 lety +12

    this is important to study because there is almost no chance that some jerkoffs who've watched too many movies aren't eventually gonna convince their selves that turning those keys is a "hard decision that most people wouldn't be able to make" and then doom us all in an attempt to impress their emotionally distant fathers

    • @grubbybum3614
      @grubbybum3614 Před 4 lety +3

      Increased nuclear capable nations, means increased likelihood that q nutcase eventually comes to power, who wouldn't hesitate turning that switch.

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia Před 4 lety +2

      You are absolutely correct, it's extremely important for every person on Earth to study nuclear weapons and nuclear war, stay informed about local and international politics, and exercise any and all political influence they have in order to support politicians and other leaders who both fear, respect, and understand nuclear war in depth. Most people cannot comprehend just how insanely devastating even a small nuclear conflict would be, not only for targeted cities, but for every nation on Earth due to radioactive fallout and other large-scale, deadly aftereffects.

    • @matchesburn
      @matchesburn Před 4 lety +1

      People made the same argument in the 1960s. We're still here.
      Then you have the disturbing fact that for god-knows-how-long the override code for all Permissive Action Links for American nuclear weapons was "00000000". Meaning any crazy idiot could punch that in and theoretically have access to ending the world. And this was known by the guys in control of the weapons. The people aren't the problem. The system can be, however. Which is why there should always be someone that has to decide whether or not to go along with a legitimate launch or to say, "No." and do so even if it means death. And many have succeeded in that role and made that all. Stanislav Petrov, for instance. But... When you start automating? When you start having "Dead Hands" (which the Soviets supposedly did/still do have and thankfully not even the Soviets were insane enough to automate it like in "Dr. Strangelove" and was kept semi-automatic if it even was operational) and whatnot? ...Then you might as well start counting down the inevitable.

  • @GoodBalak
    @GoodBalak Před 3 lety +1

    Wow, that last realisation that having no means of stopping a nuclear warhead is the best way of preventing war sums it up perfectly.👍

  • @quazars236
    @quazars236 Před 2 lety

    wow that must be so exciting to watch specially on new year's eve!

  • @MrMassari1231
    @MrMassari1231 Před 4 lety +9

    You defeated ICBM...
    Hypersonic missile I'm joke to you?

  • @MrKickerBass
    @MrKickerBass Před 4 lety +9

    I'm just here for the Nuclear missile, and Political specialist comments, all of a sudden everyone knows how to run the government and negotiate.

    • @rohandalvi6476
      @rohandalvi6476 Před 3 lety +1

      It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand M.A.D. Any two children with rocks in hand know not to hurt another.

  • @Arlien
    @Arlien Před 4 lety

    Ok, we would really need that now

  • @TNGBigTy187
    @TNGBigTy187 Před 4 lety

    Love your vids. Love the intense music. Love the information

  • @gamescomgamer
    @gamescomgamer Před 4 lety +3

    at 5:40 he says that only the USSR had nuclear ABM, but what about the US SPRINT missiles?

  • @dougyates7218
    @dougyates7218 Před 4 lety +9

    God help us, God help us all.

    • @sturmtiger1508
      @sturmtiger1508 Před 4 lety

      Pretty sure our God is just gonna watch us destroy each other

    • @mobiuscoreindustries
      @mobiuscoreindustries Před 4 lety +2

      None one will help us but ourselves.
      Large scale countries like Russia or China won't be the cause of a nuclear war if there ever is one. They care about their survival and know every one loses in a nuclear engagement.
      But in this age of religion and ignorance fueled nonsensical hate on each other, what will start the war is some dumb extremist country that tried to brainwash their country a little bit too much to the point where the common citizen (and common military guy as a result) firmly believe in the lies of religion to the point of no longer fearing death by nuclear fire (because some bloke told him big man in the sky says burning your neighborhood is the thing to do).
      MAD only really works when both sides know and fear the consequences of nuclear fire. But with a regular ideological warfare mostly everyone understand the nature of the arms race and that a nuclear assault is only ever a bluff. But with religions, while the top leadership are basically atheists politicians that use religion as a control tool, the deeper you go, the more people actually believe what they are told, leading to people being actively OK with killing themselves for some guy's word. That adds many more layers of human stupidity on the already extensive layer of things that can trigger nuclear war by accident.

  • @kevinwhite9761
    @kevinwhite9761 Před 3 lety +2

    Never enough warheads to “destroy” the Earth. Just most life on it.

  • @milutinke
    @milutinke Před 4 lety +2

    Finally, a new video

  • @TonyStark-cn2dg
    @TonyStark-cn2dg Před 4 lety +3

    You know what works ?
    Mutually Assured Destruction

    • @ad5792
      @ad5792 Před 3 lety

      Sad, but true!

  • @aslanbayramuqlany6189
    @aslanbayramuqlany6189 Před 4 lety +5

    You didn’t explain why the idea of putting interceptor missiles on satellites was rejected. I would like to know

    • @asneecrabbier3900
      @asneecrabbier3900 Před 4 lety +1

      Aslan Bayramuqlany its because theres a treaty prohibiting the placement of weapons of any kind in space

    • @asneecrabbier3900
      @asneecrabbier3900 Před 4 lety

      ILike Mushrooms well fuck all of them

    • @aslanbayramuqlany6189
      @aslanbayramuqlany6189 Před 4 lety

      CrabbierBull 391 he spoke about lasers though, which I guess include into the prohibition

  • @klin1klinom
    @klin1klinom Před 4 lety +1

    On the other hand, inability to have an all out conventional war stipulates advancement of hybrid warfare - mutual subversion and undermining - which frankly is becoming as destructive as WMD's are.

  • @alfredsutton7233
    @alfredsutton7233 Před 3 lety

    Yep ... pretty darn accurate.
    Thanks for educating the public.

  • @SuperLusername
    @SuperLusername Před 4 lety +14

    "ICBMs have become much more accurate so we can target specific targets with smaller warheads to reduce collateral damage."
    ...nuclear warheads, we are aiming to reduce colateral damage with nuclear warheads...riiiiiiight...

    • @evensong3356
      @evensong3356 Před 4 lety +7

      I mean destroying a city block is better then the entire zipcode..

    • @thereyougoagain1280
      @thereyougoagain1280 Před 4 lety +1

      Evensong a 300 kiloton warhead would destroy much more than just a city block.

    • @matchesburn
      @matchesburn Před 4 lety +7

      ...You do know that nuclear weapons scale, right? We have nuclear weapons that can destroy most of a major city instantly or be only a few kilotons and maybe destroy a city block or two. Stop trying to give witty commentary to point out oxymorons when there is none. Yes, you can reduce collateral damage with nuclear warheads by having better targeting and Dial-A-Yield capabilities. Which many countries with advanced nuclear programs have.

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade Před 4 lety +3

      @@matchesburn All this "destroy entire city" nuke thinking comes from Nagasaki and Hiroshima remains, right? This photo?
      Most cities that are counter-value targets in nuclear warfare are megacities and modern megacities are built out of RCC, not wood like in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
      Yes nukes have gotten much stronger, but not strong enough yet. Go play on nukemap to see how much of the city would be "destroyed" by a nuke. And don't use Tsar Bomba. That thing was the size of a bus and would not fit onto modern Ballistic Missile. Even Russian heavy ICBM don't have the throw weight required for Tsar Bombas.

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker Před 4 lety

      Of course. How are you supposed to occupy conquered territory and render first aid to refugees/survivors if you've turned your target into a radioactive wasteland?

  • @zenoxs5699
    @zenoxs5699 Před 3 lety +3

    13:58 who heard the voice crack 😂

  • @gwyllymsuter4551
    @gwyllymsuter4551 Před 4 lety

    Excellent conclusion

  • @siddharthsaxena7466
    @siddharthsaxena7466 Před 3 lety

    Highly informative video
    Thanks

  • @imoneixusa9742
    @imoneixusa9742 Před 4 lety +3

    "Save the Cheerleader, save the world"

  • @nastropc
    @nastropc Před 4 lety +6

    16:45 When did Ireland get ICBMs?

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ Před 4 lety +1

    Great video!

  • @JohnDoe-hs1jp
    @JohnDoe-hs1jp Před 4 lety +2

    Excellent video. The only problem that I have is that you seem to have not mentioned the role railguns could play in stopping ICMBs.

  • @marcusbelanger3489
    @marcusbelanger3489 Před 4 lety +5

    I feel like my generation will be the ones to launch the missiles when we’re old and in power. Millennial btw.

    • @digger105337
      @digger105337 Před 3 lety

      Because the history of what happened after will be forgotten. Not all things in life are a Video game.
      G Belanger....

  • @beautifulfouse
    @beautifulfouse Před 3 lety +2

    I'm 66 years old, when I was a kid, age 6, we were aware and frightened of Russian Nuke attack. Duck and cover scared us. Today there seems to be no concern, that scares me more.

  • @knunyabeasewhacks8744
    @knunyabeasewhacks8744 Před 3 lety +1

    Putting a mirrored finish on planes and missiles would defeat lasers.

  • @timmyjones1921
    @timmyjones1921 Před 4 lety

    Awesome for thought

  • @wisedisciplebg
    @wisedisciplebg Před 4 lety +5

    "World war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".
    Guess who said it?

    • @mahdi1982r
      @mahdi1982r Před 4 lety

      Putin

    • @maximkonechno8742
      @maximkonechno8742 Před 4 lety

      Don E C US me .and i was wrong there will be badass lasers and tie fighters!

    • @Mr71paul71
      @Mr71paul71 Před 4 lety +1

      Its rubbish !!! Ww4 will be fought by conventional weapons against sticks and stones uses by the nations that aren't able to rebuild quickly enough to defend themselves

    • @user-yn8gu5fi5s
      @user-yn8gu5fi5s Před 4 lety

      Bill Cosby

  • @stevenmarriott2407
    @stevenmarriott2407 Před 4 lety +9

    Hello to every country. In war everyone looses,(THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL BE GONE..WHY

    • @justyougo6274
      @justyougo6274 Před 4 lety

      Kaspar Baggott aka the rise of the cockroachs

  • @mamoudououedraogo8425
    @mamoudououedraogo8425 Před 4 lety

    I like your analysis you did a great job

  • @HxR6_YT
    @HxR6_YT Před 3 lety

    Merry Christmas again

  • @jesuscastillo2346
    @jesuscastillo2346 Před 4 lety +3

    Title should be: how to stop ICMB’s

  • @robertthomas7769
    @robertthomas7769 Před 4 lety +4

    It's virtually impossible to prevent a massive nuclear saturation attack.

    • @TheLiamster
      @TheLiamster Před 4 lety +1

      In theory it can be stopped but in practice it is extremely difficult. The most effective way of interception would be to use a laser or rail gun.

  • @pavelzilberkant3409
    @pavelzilberkant3409 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for very interesting content.

  • @neurofiedyamato8763
    @neurofiedyamato8763 Před 4 lety

    As always you can make rather contentious topic very neutral and unbiased. need more people like you here on youtube

  • @camper1749
    @camper1749 Před 4 lety +3

    Banning nuclear warheads is like putting up a sign saying "knives and guns strictly forbidden inside store" and expecting to not get robbed.

  • @cheyennereynoso4116
    @cheyennereynoso4116 Před 4 lety +8

    I feel like I’ve watched this already. .

  • @JamesNzomo
    @JamesNzomo Před 4 lety +1

    3:01 Look at the launch sequence. Dazzling!

  • @tadoshka5170
    @tadoshka5170 Před 4 lety

    Now, we're going to see the live action now

  • @AbdulBido
    @AbdulBido Před 4 lety +3

    Sometimes your curiosity reaches a point where you want to magically reach into the future to know when your impending doom is scheduled. Great video but also very depressing to see where human innovation has reached a point too greater than its ability to comprehend.
    There's an Arabic proverb of warning that goes " you are fattening/feeding a wolf that will eat you". This is that.

    • @AbdulBido
      @AbdulBido Před 4 lety

      @MATHA NOSHTO-MAN I'm sure that dogs are the animal with one of the highest number of instances of injuring humans every year today.
      Also, Arabs don't think dogs are impure and proverbs usually are meant to convey a meaning in abstract and higher level thinking.
      What's meant here is that you think that you are feeding a loyal subject that will grow and not discriminate you from your enemies. In the nuclear context, humans think they are making these weapons to protect themselves against the "enemy" when in reality the weapons will wipe out the human race equally well regardless of who the "firer or aggressor" is.
      Thank you.

  • @Watchyourselvez
    @Watchyourselvez Před 4 lety +7

    Love this channel. Only person with an American accent who's unbiased

  • @636theofthebeast8
    @636theofthebeast8 Před 4 lety

    Very interesting conclusion

  • @keithdantonio680
    @keithdantonio680 Před 4 lety +1

    Love your videos you’re definitely one of my favorite channels sent you a PayPal a while back I’m assuming you got it I never seen anything in the thank you credits, The time before that I did but the last time I did not. Keep up the awesome videos!

  • @terryboyer1342
    @terryboyer1342 Před 4 lety +9

    Tzar Bomba: Well there's your global warming!

    • @heart0fthedrag0n
      @heart0fthedrag0n Před 4 lety +6

      The amount of energy released in a nuclear explosion (while huge) pales in comparison to the amount of energy absorbed by the earth from the Sun. Each hour the earth is being hit by about 105 gigatons of TNT worth of energy from the sun.
      That is why greenhouse gases (that help absorb the energy from the sun) are the main causes of global warming, not the actual release of heat here on earth.

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 Před 4 lety +1

      @@heart0fthedrag0n Maybe you're not American but that's what "some" call humor. But thanks for the science review!

    • @ZTIERK
      @ZTIERK Před 4 lety +4

      ​@@terryboyer1342 Given the number of Americans who don't believe in climate change, a science fact is always welcome

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ZTIERK Climate change is real. The earth has gone through many drastic changes in it's history and will continue to do so. But some scientists are now claiming that man can and is drastically changing the global temperature by by burning some coal and gasoline. Oh and cow farts too. Pseudo science at best. Lotsa money to be made in the doom and gloom market. These experts can hardly predict the weather for next week and yet they can know the temp to within a degree and know the sea level to centimetres 50 to 100 years from now? They've been predicting catastrophe for 50 years now and it's all been hogwash. Earths climate is far too complex with variables far exceeding mans understanding at the present. But go ahead and believe what you want if it makes you feel better.

    • @hydrochloricacid2146
      @hydrochloricacid2146 Před 4 lety +2

      @@terryboyer1342 Instead of conflating two completely different phenomenon (predicting the weather and predicting climate change), try to look at the science instead. Predicting the effects we'll have on our planet involves far fewer variables than predicting the weather at a precise date and time.
      The fact is that Co2 levels in our atmosphere have increased rapidly since the industrial revolution begun, much faster than has happened before. If that isn't proof enough that this is a result of our actions, I'll tell you what is: we can tell that this carbon comes from the burning of fossil fuel by examining the precise isotopes of carbon making up this CO2. (the ratio of C12 to C13 for fossil-derived CO2 is higher than that of our atmosphere).
      We also have large spectrophotometers in orbit measuring the wavelengths of light coming back: big surprise, the absorption of light in the range CO2 absorbs is increasing, telling us that this CO2 is indeed resulting in more energy being trapped in our atmosphere.
      And guess what: we're far from dead yet, but we've been seeing a year-over-year increase in droughts, forest fires and violent storms. Territories in both the first and third world are threatened by rising sea levels. We are seeing a rapid decline in biodiversity as habitats are destroyed.
      Climate change won't kill us, but it'll make our lives a lot more difficult. But hey, bury your head in the sand right?
      You mentioned money briefly. Think about this critically for a second: who do you think has more resources to allocate for their cause? Inconvenient climate activists and scientists or large multinationals which depend on fossil fuels?

  • @skezixx
    @skezixx Před 4 lety +5

    13:59 voice crack

  • @steveshoemaker6347
    @steveshoemaker6347 Před 3 lety

    Just a.....Paradox....Thanks...This is a Super channel...Thank you very much...!

  • @bullshitvendor
    @bullshitvendor Před 3 lety

    Initial proposal for the tsar bomb was 100 mt but they went for half since the yeild from a larger bomb was simply being lost to space

  • @jonathansuparta3857
    @jonathansuparta3857 Před 4 lety +3

    Internet: there is no war anymore
    Trump: lets start the war

  • @gspotmop8242
    @gspotmop8242 Před 4 lety +23

    Covert Cabal
    DO YOUR RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW IRANIAN TACTICS 😲👍

  • @bo_392
    @bo_392 Před 4 lety

    awesome video thanks!
    edit: whoa crazy ending 🤯

  • @f-22enthusiast39
    @f-22enthusiast39 Před 3 lety

    This is a really video, and it really goes to show how important nuclear weapons actually are