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I'm 61 now. My father was a Nuclear Power Engineer and the head of Tiger Team(Navy's Civil Service Nuclear Emergency Response team) based in Charleston SC (then, since moved) I remember the government put in a "red" phone in our house (a dedicated line). My dad kept a Go Bag Litterally by the door for over a year. We had plans to go to the mountains in Western North Carolina if my dad gave us the word. We did "Duck and Cover" drills at my elementary class, where we dived under our desks if we saw a Nuclear Flash. Yeah... It was pretty Sporty..

@Thebestaustin-d8f

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@sallyintucson

Жыл бұрын

No doubt your dad knew the dad of a friend of mine here in Tucson, AZ. He never had a high rank (on purpose) but he was in charge of the nukes in the West. Does the name Blennman ring a bell?

@Mkproduction2

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@Sally Chandler Sadly, my father passed in 1978. He was 52 and there's NO DOUBT, that stress was a huge contributor. These guys put the weight of the world on their shoulders and made it possible for us to be the idiots we are today.. Thanks for your comment, Richard

@sallyintucson

Жыл бұрын

He was SO young! I’m sorry.

@strasbourgeois1

Жыл бұрын

What a time to be alive.

The nuke isn't about enabling occupation cause that's basically out of the question it's about total devastation

Congratulations on a sponsor 👏 👍 Predominantly when one says "Korea" they're implying South Korea, not the whole peninsula.

Post world war 2 till the fall of the Berlin wall in 89 which I do remember watching on the though I was quite young

Do they know that there is a Part II? We still have 30 more years left of the Cold War.

I was born in 1966, and my entire childhood consisted of fears that a nuclear war could start at any moment. In California, we would have "duck and cover" drills in school, sometimes in case of an earthquake, and others in case of a nuclear attack. When we reached 4th grade we all became smart enough to realize that cowering under a desk wasn't going to prevent us from being vaporized, and it all became a bit of a joke. The 80s were the worst time because of the constant tension and threats between the US and USSR. The danger still exists, of course, but for some reason I don't feel as threatened now as I did when I was young.

The new Oversimplified videos like the Pig war and the First Punic War are very good.

@Moshinoki

Жыл бұрын

I believe they've done the pig war about 2 months ago

I grew up in the 80s and yeah there was definitely worries of getting nuked. In my first years of school we still did air raid drills a couple times a year. To get an idea look up the movie "The Day After".

@JPMadden

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching that movie in 1983 when I was 13. Later in the '80s, at least for me, the threat of nuclear war seemed more remote, since it was so absurd, especially after Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union.

@blueptconvertible

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@@JPMadden I'd say the last air raid drill we did was like in 85 or 86.

@skxlter5747

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What about red dawn ?

@gamingclipz7309

Жыл бұрын

I did too but I worry more about nuclear war now then I did then….

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I'm in my 50s now. I remember in elementary school we had, "Duck & Cover" drills. We would hide under our desks. Not that it would have done any good. Yes, I grew up in fear of a nuclear war.

Yes. Nuclear war was definitely on our minds growing up

@rg20322

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I was 7 in 1971 and since there were only basically 5 channels and no internet at the time you read everything. Also 1 of my brothers had just turned of age to be drafted to Vietnam so the conversation of what was going on was always there. The Cold War was a very real thing, and you could feel the tension at times and understood that something could happen. I can't stress enough that even at age 7 how much we use to read the newspapers, and believe it or not even books and libraries :) Also keep in mind that the Korean war and especially WW2 was only 25 years prior, and you can't imagine how much detail was available even at my age at that time. It was if it happened yesterday at that time.

I was born in the early 80s and when I was old enough for school, we were taught about getting nuked and did drills at school of where to go and what to do if alarms sounded for a nuclear strike. Back then many school buildings were built to be bomb shelters where we'd have a place to go and duck and cover. They wanted to at least try and protect the kids even if most of their parents were as good as dead if a bomb was dropped in the area and they'd try and get some adults in there, but room was limited so the priority would have been the students to protect the next generation. Back then, we were taught that if a nuke was dropped in the area, the town wouldn't survive and we've have to wait for rescue inside the school. We had WWII vets and Vietnam vets among the teaching staff and they were pretty blunt about it. There was an army base less than an hour away by car so if a bomb dropped on the base directly, we still would've had deaths where we were. Just like in the game of horseshoes, being close wins. A nuke could've been dropped near the base instead of on the base and still destroyed it (and us). Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were still very clear about the dangers of nuclear war with us and what MAD meant. Nowadays, I hear that it's not covered nearly as in-depth as it used to be as other important events have happened since then and that's to be expected. Time flows like a river and is ever changing, but it's important to occasionally go back upstream and see where it came from to know how it got to where it is now.

@gwgux

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@Dayspring East coast in NY state. I was about 45 minutes away from an army base (West Point) and while it's mostly known for being a school for training officers, it's still a full active army base so it could still deploy troops and do other functions like you'd expect of other bases. As such most of the Hudson Valley had to be prepared given the proximity to a military target. Plus being close enough to NYC didn't help either as if USSR wanted to bring the pain to as many Americans as possible, well there's the most populated city in the country right there on the coast and a nuke hitting the city still could send deadly radiation as far up as where we were at the northern end of the NYC metro area (all the nuclear power plants in the area were probably a cause for concern as well given what could happen if they were hit). I think the threat of nuclear attack was probably felt the most by people living in coastal states. The navy is great at protecting us, but the ability to shoot down a nuke before it reached land wasn't exactly a guarantee. Though nowadays, nukes can reach all the way inland to pretty much anywhere. My guess is that coastal states on the east and west sides of the country would be targeted first simply because that's where most of the people live. New York, Virginia, Maryland, DC, etc. either all have prime military targets or are in close enough proximity to one that if the USSR was going to attack with nukes, most of coastal states would've been in real danger.

In WWII American General Patton wanted to immediately rearm defeated German troops and continue east to defeat the Soviets because he saw them as a major threat.

@iKvetch558

Жыл бұрын

He was not the only one that wanted to do something like that. Look up Operation Unthinkable...there is a good video by the Cold War channel, but there are quite a few channels that have put out videos on the post WW2 plan to immediately engineer a war with the USSR. ✌

Russia was so destabilized by the time Lenin took over they basically could have blown over in the wind

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Growing up in the 1950's we had nuclear bomb drills regularly in school. Everyone went in the hall, got on our knees against the wall and put our hands over our head. Like that would save us from anything!

@nightstrike90

Жыл бұрын

At least back then they were only atomic bombs, not thermonuclear bombs we have today

In cities and towns across America incoming missile sirens were tested daily, school children like myself held drills in school on what to do for an incoming attack and fallout shelters were commonplace. This went on well into the late 1970's. In my town the siren was tested 4 times a day and parents would use it to tell their children when to be home. I always had to be home by the 9 o'clock whistle....lol

@quentil

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Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that. Every night at 6pm, they'd test the air raid siren. This went on until the late 80s/early 90s at least.

All through the 70's and 80's we just lived with the thought that nuclear war could happen at any time. It was like a low level anxiety that you just learned to accept and live with.

'Murrican here. My primary and secondary schools had nuclear fallout shelters built into the cellars. One of the earliest "jokes" I learned from my father involved what to do in the event of a nuclear attack: bend at the waist, grasp your thighs tightly, and kiss your ass goodbye. So, yeah....we learned pretty quickly to ignore the fact that the entire world could end at any moment. It's actually scarier in retrospect, now that we know exactly how close things truly got to a full fledged WW3 on several occasions. EDIT: you laughed, but that really was what happened during the standoff in Berlin: each side backed their tanks up inches at a time with the other side matching the movements, until they had finally disengaged. And through the whole 16+ hours, the only thing standing between the world and an all out war was the _least_ rational teenager crewing any of those tanks.

You basically had two choices when growing up under the nuclear umbrella -- be anxious about it or just get used to it and "Keep calm and carry on" (catchy phrase -- someone should use that). While I'm not quite old enough to speak to the scares of the 50s, once the duck-and-cover drills waned as the 60s droned on, the anxiety lessened though never really went away -- though the peaks in the early 80s with the revolving door of aging Soviet Leaders of dubious mental stability (when technology also showed that it wasn't quite there yet) were fun. Compared to those decades, it's hard to get too riled up about the latest saber-rattling.

12:00 Two follow-ups to your questions. One yes, every day there was a tiny bit of worry, especially there was a crisis or when the air raid sirens were tested, you just learned to live with it, like living in a bad neighborhood. Two the main reason the UK & France have nuclear weapons is that because of McCarthyism the US started to treat its allies badly, and then the US kind of stabbed them in the back in 1956 during the Suez Crisis. So both countries decided to build their own nukes so they would have some leverage.

Glad to see you doing the Cold War. Great Video!!

I was born in the late 50’s and was a child during the 60’s. I thought it was a very scary time. Fears of nuclear war were always there. That was the height of the Cold War. I actually thought that when I was grown I wanted to leave the US and move to South America. Not just the the fear of nuclear war but also the Vietnamese War, demonstrations against the war, race riots, etc. it was a very scary decade for a child.

@filthycasual8187

Жыл бұрын

Funny how all that shit is happening AGAIN.

"The rose’s bud had blossomed out Reaching out to touch the violet The lily was waking up And bending its head in the breeze High in the clouds the lark Was singing a chirrupping hymn While the joyful nightingale With a gentle voice was saying- ‘Be full of blossom, oh lovely land Rejoice Iverians’ country And you oh Georgian, by studying Bring joy to your motherland.’" Poem by Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, Georgian writer and political figure

For a dramatic version, check out the movie 13 Days, puts you in mindset as to what was going on.

Many of us who grew up with the fear of Mutually Assured Destruction., nuclear war, being pounded into our brains at school, newspapers, television and radio, still feel the fear and uncertainty today.

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@TheBeesleys99

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Mental to think aha! Helps on videos like these which always get copyright :D

Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946. Not far from where I currently live.

Millie the general idea is called mutual destruction.That keeps both sides in check mate so neither side does anything that drastic.

Hello from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

I was a teenager in the 80s and my father worked for a company that manufactured large, specialized vehicles. Because most of their contracts were military in nature, the city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin was listed as a major target for Russian nukes. We just lived with the thought that if they world descended into nuclear war, it'd probably be best to go quick than deal with the terrible aftermath...

Russia was allied with Hitler until Hitler attacked them. Then they changed sides. We had attack drills in elementary school. Duck and cover under a desk, imagine. My father fought in the Korean War, against the Chinese. I was assigned with military intelligence in the 70s in Europe. It was scary at times.

You got a sponsor! Love both of your profesh sponsorship voices btw. 😊

Yessss you got sponsored.

It is about time you got a sponsor.

There was a fear of a nuclear war back then, but if we had known that the soviets nuclear arsenal was very small, and their ICMB targeting systems were really really bad, no one would have worried too much. The russians have always bluffed their capabilities. After WWII they reverse enginered a B29, and manage to build just 4 of them, and they were already obsolete. Most of the missles they paraded around were fake. Their copy of the space shuttle was so awful, it only flew one test flight. The only reason they made it to berlin in WWII was because there was a lot more of them than there were germans.

The alliance between the USSR and the west during WW2 was mainly one of convenience as they were both fighting Germany and Italy. Churchill and Roosevelt understood relatively early on that the next big conflict would be between the West and East.

1) The Germans did provide some financial assistance to Lenin when they sent him home from Switzerland. 2) The U.S. and the UK helped the Soviet Union during World War 2 because all were fighting Nazi Germany, but the relationship was always strained. 3) There was always fear of nuclear attack. It was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. I remember having a discussion in a high school class (1986 or 1987, probably) about what we would do if we heard the missiles were flying. The consensus was that we should drive toward the nearby, likely-targeted Air Force base, ensuring that we would be killed instantly rather than suffer through and die from the nuclear winter and fallout. But at that point in the Cold War there wasn't much genuine fear that a nuclear attack would be planned; it was more black humor at the absurdity of the world ending one day because some idiot humans or computer screwed up and mistakenly launched an attack (check out the 1983 movie "WarGames"). Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union since the 1950s have had a sufficient number of hydrogen bombs to end virtually all life on Earth. The UK has nuclear weapons, with missiles ready to launch at any time. The list of countries with nuclear weapons is the U.S., the UK, France, Russia, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Israel. 4) Except for 1897-1910, all of Korea has never been a united, independent nation. It was dominated by China for centuries before 1897 and was a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945. North and South Korea have existed since 1945, and the more industrialized North was initially more prosperous. But now the North is among the poorest and the South among the richest countries in the world. South Korea is also known as the Republic of Korea, but it's never included all Koreans. 5) Ironically, the reason the Soviet Union was the first country to develop rockets powerful enough to put satellites or spacecraft into orbit was that their less technologically advanced nuclear weapons were heavier than the American bombs. The Soviets were pleasantly surprised by their huge public relations victory when they launched the first artificial satellite in 1957. 6) At 19:33, OverSimplified said "millions" defected from East to West Berlin. He should have said "thousands." 7) At 20:15, OverSimplified is taking the piss out of a certain former U.S. President.

I remember attending elementary school in the early 1960s, where we had regularly scheduled "air raid drills". Classes would move to the school basement, which was considered a bomb shelter to protect us from the nuclear weapons.

The Soviets were some of the crappiest allies ever. Yeah they pushed back the Germans but what choice did they have? They also received lots of Lend Lease, which they downplayed of course. Let us also not forget their interning of B-29 crews at the end of the war so they could steal the B-29 design. Of course they also pulled a swift one attacking the Japanese to grab a bunch of Asian land right at the end of the war once the Japanese were on their knees.

This was painful. I’m an historian and I spent a lot of time studying Stalinism. It breaks my heart that you don’t know any of this. Every young person I know says that history class ends with WWII, as if history just stopped in 1945 🤦🏼‍♀️ Not knowing this is why people think Communism is a good idea.

That’s why it’s called MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction.

Finally!!! Keep these oversimplified reactions coming!!! 🎉 also check out “history of the entire world I guess” by Bill wartz although I think you guys did already lol in which case, nvm enjoy your day 😂

@emeraldaura9031

Жыл бұрын

They already reacted to History of the Entire World I guess

Watch the 8os movie War Games starring Matt Broderick et al.

There used to be enough nuclear weapons to cover most of the earth. US peak stockpile was 31,255 in 1967; Soviet peak was around 40k in 1985.

You gotta do the Pig War!!

Check out the movie WarGames, a classic 1980's movie about accidentally starting a nuclear war.

News didn't travel THAT slow, we had TVs and stuff

As Americans, we grew up in the 1980’s thinking Soviet Russia was dead set on invasion. Movies like Red Dawn explicitly spelled it out. But reality was that it was never even a remote possibility.

As a kid I heard that other kids were afraid of nukes. I wasn't afraid because being afraid didn't help either way, and if the world got nuked everyone's troubles were over.

I'm a gen Xer who grew up in the 80s and early 90s. I know when I was a kid, we fully expected to go to war with the USSR at some point. Europe was an armed camp, and most towns that I lived in had designated nuclear fallout shelters, usually under schools or town halls. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was celebrated live worldwide. I remember watching the news and feeling so happy.

Get straight into it (after ad) at 3:11

11:30 Not knowing when you're gonna be vaporized when you're 8yo is a worry...yes.. yes it was worrisome! I was born in 1980 after he said this but it is a terrifying proposition! I highly recommend DR. STRANGLEOVE - OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB by Stanley Kubrick with James Earl Jones and Peter Sellers. "Mr. President, can not allow a mine shaft gap!"

They used to have drills in schools and as a community for a nuclear bomb. There are a ton of abandoned bunkers and shelters from that era in America. If you’ve ever played fallout, that gives you an idea 😂

My parents were around then and yes the fear of a nuclear holocaust was very real that had drills in school in case of an attack

5:13 Lenin was able to come to power so quickly(which actually took a couple months to a year if my memory serves me right), because the Russian Tzar had come to power way before he was ready to rule and didn’t do a great job of running the country. The Russian people hated him, and they were starving, and all the soldiers were at war, so it was ridiculously easy for Lenin to force him to abdicate because all the people of Russia were behind him. You should check out Oversimplified’s version of the Russian Revolution to learn more.

the bombs now are about 1 megaton to 3 megatons each for the most part. back then they could it 20+ megaton each.

If you’re doing Oversimplified, might as well react to the Pig War. A great moment in history where both nations said, whoa, maybe let’s not be idiots.

I remember being taught to hide under your desk if an air raid alarm sounded (like hiding under a desk would help in a nuclear attack). We were taught that communism and Russia were are enemy.

We’ve just switched from a Cold War with the Soviet Union to a Cold War with Russia and China.

@mikehermen3036

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You sound like someone who didn't live through the Cold War.

There has always been a special relationship between the US and England. Also, do the candy bomber next.

I was born in 1966. Everyone my age knew that there was only one way that the Cold War was ever going to end...and none of us expected to survive it. You just tried not to think about it too much, because it would drive you mad if you did, but it was a grim expectation that kind of lurked beneath everything that happened in the 1980s. You even find it in so much of the dumb pop music of my high school years. "99 Luftballons." Alphaville's "Forever Young." Some songs tried to veil it, pretending that they were actually about other, more optimistic things...but c'mon, we all knew what "The Final Countdown" was *really* alluding to. And then the Cold War actually ended, and -- wait, what? We weren't all dead after all! -- and it was just really freaking *weird.* I'm still occasionally bewildered that I'm in my 50s. As a teenager, I honestly never expected to live this long. I was certain that I'd die in a nuclear conflagration long before reaching middle age. The early '90s sometimes seemed like a really long scene from some absurdist one-act play, one in which all of the characters just stood around on the stage in silence, staring blankly at one another and wondering: "Um. Okay. So... what happens now?"

I don't think the US (and UK by extension) was ever best buddies with the USSR. During WW2, we all had a common enemy: Germany. So I think it was more of a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" type situation

Growing up in the second half of the Cold War, with the Vietnam War going on, I was never particularly afraid of nukes, because if the Soviets wanted, they already would have.

Ok so as a teenager back in 1977 I joined the U.S. Army. This was in the heart of the Cold War. As a private I was stationed in West Germany in the middle of nowhere at a Nike Hercules missile site where I would spend the next nine years of my life itwas a very tense time in the world and a very, very dangerous one as well now as an older gentleman I look back at those days and the last 27 years of service to the military and realized just how unstable world had become. While we now live in a highly agitated world, the US has then and now, and always will be ready and able to make any sacrifice to defend the democracy that is loved and cherished by many. Please excuse any typos or punctuation as I have a hard time seeing

My old elementary school actually had a nuclear fallout shelter under our gym

I’m kinda curious what would’ve happened had Lenin succeeded with not having Stalin put in charge.

Well, watch the Oversimplified video about the Russian Revolution, and, you'll see exactly how Lenin gained power.

The ending from War Games - The only winning move is not to play. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHyLzM58kazYgdI.html

Cold War: Basically end of WW II (1945) to 1991…

The wall between East Germany and West Germany really left scars. My father was from East Germany and even though it wasn't a real democracy they lived well. But many from West Germany didn't take the East Germans seriously like a small subgroup. There was a lot of hatred that continues to this day. They felled the wall and that was good too and they wanted to do that, but relatively quickly it was noticed that the GDR had been taken over by the FRG, so the unified Germany was just the FRG. Of course, as I said, the GDR was not a real democracy, but it was still home. Especially for my father who was born there. And many East Germans were still smiled at and not taken seriously. So the hate grew on one side and then on the other. To this day, my father and grandfather don't think it's good when so many West Germans can be seen here in East Germany, although that no longer exists for me and they also know that they're just people. Many will not forget the hatred and how they were not taken seriously and treated badly. Even worse is that the GDR was later portrayed as a completely evil dictatorship. Which is partly true, partly not. A whole generation of actually uniform Germans was thus destroyed. And it would be naïve to think that this hatred will die when the generation is gone. Because many parents will pass this on to their children. Luckily my father was a bit more relaxed and wanted me to have nothing to do with it. And all those scars to this day because of that wall, because of that separation. I find it very sad

Technically the Korean War has never ended. Hence why the zone between the north and south is still so heavily guarded.

I watched it on tv I'm an American

So part 2?

You guys doing part 2?

Except the Cold war continued with the Cuban Missile Crisis, etc through 1990.

they literally jamming to ussr anthem 😂

Oof. RAID. Also that's not Milly in the ad... unless she just huffed some helium. Dafuq

In the 80s here in Texas we were worried that the Soviets just might start a war with us or try to invade.

Do the napoleonic war please!

Holy crap I hate in video ads but I understand them. However I can for sure say that Millie's voice while advertising that game sounds like she should be the paid spokesperson. Maybe it's because I'm American and I find the female British accent appealing (I use it for my GPS lol) or maybe just Millie's good at it

Part 2?

Just wait till you see how the next video starts... even by the time we reached the 80s the possibility of the bomb being dropped on us at any moment was a very real threat and a major source of imminent existential dread. But, if you want to watch an excellent movie that satirizes that dread and the concept of MAD check out Doctor Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

The point of nukes is to maintain peace as they have been doing for 80 years.

The Soviets weren’t Allie’s cause we liked them, more out of the fact they got attacked and necessities

@robertm.3520

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Correct. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Cold war part 2 please

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Comparing to Korea, something always seem strange to me even though I knew the information was how Germany for a couple decades was divide as a country. Its just feels bizarre to think on the world stage they were once one of the great super powers and then so quickly became a pawn in west vs east ideology not even being in full control of their own country anymore until the 90s.

You would really freak out if you knew how often and close the world has come to nuclear war

No offense to you guys, but I'd always assumed the US history education was far worse than in Europe. But most of these concepts seem pretty common knowledge to me as an American. Makes me wonder about the differences in how history is taught around the world.

Well to understand it better, I recommend you react to The Russian Revolution Oversimplified.

Oh I thought you were doing the Pig War

The Soviet Union was only an allies in WWII because Germany was a common enemy.

The history with the US and Russia was always kinda mistrustful

@iKvetch558

Жыл бұрын

Since the October Revolution in 1917, most definitely. Before that, the US had generally good relations with the Russian Empire.✌

@chriswardwell5170

Жыл бұрын

Be for that our interactions with Russia were minimal

Saving Private Ryan

60's till the USSR dissolved

Parent's we're forced to eat there children

Contrary to popular belief you have to be voted in, in America. So you need the same kind of backing, just saying.

What did they teach you in school? How can you know nothing about this????