Cold War - MAD [E12/24]

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  • @pierresashimoto4442
    @pierresashimoto44423 жыл бұрын

    When documentaries were worth a damn

  • @colinstewart1432

    @colinstewart1432

    6 ай бұрын

    So true. Now they're just propaganda in a costume.

  • @thischannelisdeleted

    @thischannelisdeleted

    9 сағат бұрын

    You don’t look for them

  • @Macolicious88
    @Macolicious884 жыл бұрын

    Excellent series. The writing, the interviews with all those historically important individuals. Then to top it all off, one of the best narrators.. Kenneth Branagh. Thanks for uploading

  • @LoneKharnivore

    @LoneKharnivore

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can't get over the fact that your namesake (Bobby Mac) was not only still alive but actually contributed.

  • @Macolicious88

    @Macolicious88

    4 жыл бұрын

    LoneKharnivore oh, me as well! He died back in ‘09. In his 90’s

  • @Boc3phu5
    @Boc3phu55 жыл бұрын

    M.A.D. was a great idea, an idea that saved the modern civilization.

  • @MrAlexkyra

    @MrAlexkyra

    4 жыл бұрын

    M.A.D. was probably the only solution at the time (it was MAD or extinction). But it relies on assumptions that are getting harder to justify today. Perfect detection with no false positives and no false attribution. Nuclear war almost broke out in 1979 because of a computer error in NORAD and in 1983 because of a Soviet satellite misattributed reflected light from clouds to incoming missiles. We also have to assume perfect rationality, no rogue commanders launching a strike on their or some lunatic in office who welcomes the end of the world or thinks the consequences are worth it. A Soviet submarine officer almost launched a nuclear torpedo at the US Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis but was vetoed by another officer. Mao Zedong argued that nuclear war could be worth it if it meant destroying imperialism, as long as half of humanity survived. Imagine if Hitler had nuclear weapons. Leaders have bunkers preparred, perhaps they might decide nuclear war is worth it, since they and their families will have the privilege of surviving. Nuclear war was avoided during the Cold War thanks to M.A.D. but also because of some humanity shown by American and Soviet leaders, and also with a lot of luck. The logic of M.A.D. might not hold forever, and I don't think we can rely on good fortune and rationality from political leaders forever. The best long term solutions is the reduction and removal of nuclear weapons

  • @terryrodbourn2793

    @terryrodbourn2793

    4 жыл бұрын

    Xadion kid you don’t understand! If Nuclear War bro,e Out you can kiss your Suburban butt goodbye! If there is a US Military base with 150miles from you your screwed with modern H-Bombs! Learn the radius of the H-Bomb! You would be dead instantly!

  • @MisterMcKinney

    @MisterMcKinney

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, assuming we don’t misinterpret false missile warnings, no rogue commanders, no irrational actors- all of which have a statistical probability of inevitably happening.

  • @TheDoctor1225

    @TheDoctor1225

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MrAlexkyra Agreed and well stated.

  • @andrewmettler2228

    @andrewmettler2228

    2 жыл бұрын

    All it really did was incentive research in missiles that could evade detection, which we now have. The only real, true way to avoid nuclear war is complete disarmament, but that isn't a possibility either. We pretty much signed our own death warrant. It's only a matter of time.

  • @pzingh3663
    @pzingh36638 жыл бұрын

    I remember the mandatory 10:00AM air raid sirens every morning throughout most of my childhood. We used to make plans before leaving the house, which bomb shelters we would try to go to in case of an emergency. (Oh yeah, learn your bomb shelter locations).

  • @suminshizzles6951

    @suminshizzles6951

    5 жыл бұрын

    I laugh when i see those early black and white films teaching kids to DUCK-And-Cover. As if that is going to save them. That was an attempt to soothe the public. At that time the US still thought they could "win" a nuclear exchange.

  • @TheDoctor1225

    @TheDoctor1225

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@suminshizzles6951 I don't. It's way too easy to sit in the comfort of our 21st century homes and look back and sneer at people who didn't have the benefit of 60+ years of learning, studying and the advantage of knowing all that we now know about nuclear weapons, both true and false. Consider this: Duck and Cover was made in 1951. Stockpiles of nuclear weapons were VERY small, there were no thermonuclear weapons, and no ICBM's. If you were far enough from the point of impact, "duck and cover" could very well save your life from the thermal and concussive effects of the blast. Obviously, if you were too close to ground zero, nothing would save you. Given the small size of stockpiles and relatively small yields involved, "winning" a nuclear war may well have seemed possible. The historian's fallacy (also called 'presentism') is when one assumes that decision makers of the past viewed events from the same perspective and having the same information as those subsequently analyzing the decision.

  • @jerrywatt6813

    @jerrywatt6813

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes here in Los Angeles as a child it was the last Thursday of the month at 10 am from my back yard playing with my toys , even then not knowing what we all know now it frightened me and I would go inside with my mom and she would hug me and calm me down a bit , even as a child I knew enough to be terrorized !

  • @PackaGame

    @PackaGame

    10 ай бұрын

    @@TheDoctor1225it’s a shame you don’t have the foresight to consider that if a nuclear war did happen even with these small stockpiles, that not every effort imaginable would be put into creating more and more and more until total annihilation is guaranteed… Once you set something like that off, you create nothing but suffering, hatred and disdain. And that will never ever win you anything… Just look at Afghan or any other place America has meddled in. Everywhere we go, we end up terrorizing people and building hatred. We’re so afraid of the enemies WE have created that we would be willing to justify just about anything…

  • @montygemma
    @montygemma2 жыл бұрын

    M.A.D is a very good policy as long as the person in charge of the button isn't mad.

  • @andrewmettler2228
    @andrewmettler22282 жыл бұрын

    You can actually see the guy gradually come to the realization of just how absurd MAD is the more he explains it. It's like he's never said it out loud before until right then.

  • @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

    @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's not absurd, it is extremely simple, and effectively what effectively saved mankind from the use of nuclear weapons during the Cold War and directly led to the policy of gradual disarmament. If you know the use of nuclear weapons will result in ones own destruction, *no one will use them.* And they didn't. It is that simple. And it's in that same context that nuclear disarmament is the logical conclusion. Why? Because no one wins a nuclear war anyways. Mutually Assured Destruction is the same as Mutually Assured Deterrence. Ideal? Of course not. Effective in preventing WW3? So far, absolutely.

  • @PackaGame

    @PackaGame

    10 ай бұрын

    I don’t think most of these people ever did or ever will understand exactly what they are saying. They just say it because they think THEY would be safe, with absolutely no consideration for the hundreds of millions of common people. Who neither had a choice nor any form of survivability.

  • @Mark-lv1ub
    @Mark-lv1ub2 жыл бұрын

    Concerning MAD, there are 4 conditions under which MAD has little or no deterrence: 1: accidental launch; 2: a deranged leader; 3. a doomed leader; 4. a doomed country. In each of these scenarios missiles could possible, or would probably be launched. Deterrence will work right up until the moment it fails. MCI

  • @lynchwilliamt

    @lynchwilliamt

    Жыл бұрын

    It also fails if counterforce missiles targeting hardened silos cause the other side to fear they will need to use them or lose them in a crisis. The U.S. continued to pursue highly accurate missiles capable of counterforce, more or less so it would give the Air Force a rationale for missiles when the Navy had a monopoly on secure countercity missiles (missiles underwater are a more secure deterrent). See Donaild Mackenzie's book, Inventing Accuracy. MAD was more PR than actual policy, especially if you look at actual targeting. This is why the silo operator in the video talks about the need to hurry and get their missile out before they are hit by a Soviet (counterforce) missile.

  • @lynchwilliamt

    @lynchwilliamt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jevans6953 MAD is a scenario that is stabilizing by ensuring that any attempt at use will be met by overwhelming response. It should always deter use. Highly accurate missiles designed to take out silos before they launch undercuts that security and might make a nervous opponent use them if they think they will have their missiles wiped out on the ground. MIRVs, SDI, and other developments likewise made a secure, mutual deterrent less likely. Counterforce directed at nuclear missiles was a moving target as they became more secure, hardened and moved underground. To some extent, bigger can make up for more accurate, but you really have to improve accuracy a lot to take out silos.

  • @chiensyang

    @chiensyang

    Жыл бұрын

    In MAD, one word must never be uttered. OOPS!

  • @colinstewart1432

    @colinstewart1432

    6 ай бұрын

    True. A top USAF guy got sacked for asking about what happened if the president is, or becomes, insane. He argued that there's no definitive test ensuring the President is Sane.

  • @scottkrater2131
    @scottkrater2131 Жыл бұрын

    We were obsessed with World War 3 in the late 80's. So much of our literature, television, movies and music dealt with the subject. I thought it might have ended after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But here we are in 2022 with the same old fear. This time we call the other guy Russia instead of the Soviet Union.

  • @PackaGame

    @PackaGame

    10 ай бұрын

    We’ve also called it Iran, North Korea and China. Games like Fallout, movies, tv books. Our country has always been horrifically tantalized by the thought of a nuclear war. And yet at the same time, fear nuclear power plants with complete lack of reasoning considering their astounding safe history. Total disillusion. 😂

  • @sshray1115
    @sshray1115 Жыл бұрын

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chapters 📖🔖: 1:29 RB-47 reconnaissance plane shootdown incident 1960 3:53 Nuclear mistrust, misperception and parity 5:52 Kennedy presidency, Doctrine of Massive Retaliation, 6:48 Nuclear catch-ups, serial nuclear tests 10:48 Disarmament & public discontent 11:47 McNamara's Counterforce Strategy 14:15 Nuclear Precipice: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962☢️⚔️ 16:38 🇺🇸-🇷🇺-🇬🇧 Limited/Partial Test Ban Treaty 16:59 Mutual Assured Destruction; Balance of Terror 21:26 Age of SSBN and second strike capability 24:16 Nuclear paranoia & melodrama; Nuclear civil defence 28:19 Broken Arrow: Palomares B-52 crash 1966 32:07 🇷🇺 ABM capability 35:36 Six Day War 1967 🇮🇱 vs.🇪🇬🇸🇾🇯🇴🇮🇶🇸🇦 36:17 Johnson-Kosygin Glassboro Summit Conference 1967 37:35 MIRV: antidote to ABM 39:53 SALT-I 1972

  • @horatiohuffnagel7978
    @horatiohuffnagel79787 жыл бұрын

    If you going to blow the planet up you might as well do it a thousand times over. Yolo....you only launch once.

  • @pashosemwengie5942

    @pashosemwengie5942

    6 жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAHA!!!

  • @NANA-qd8wz
    @NANA-qd8wz Жыл бұрын

    Honestly if there’s an insane amount of international trade and the entire world is so economically interlinked that we need each other is the most viable path to world peace.

  • @thischannelisdeleted

    @thischannelisdeleted

    9 сағат бұрын

    AKA capitalism. Please tell all the liberals this.

  • @bricaf
    @bricaf Жыл бұрын

    If anybody wants to see a documentary about the Tsar Bomb in 1961, it's Secrets of the Dead: The Tsar Bomb. It's impressive, the sheer majesty of the explosion.

  • @middlegrounds109
    @middlegrounds1092 жыл бұрын

    This video is more important then ever with the war in Ukraine going on.

  • @aarondavis8943
    @aarondavis8943 Жыл бұрын

    I love Russian humour. It encapsulates absurdity perfectly.

  • @theolivesthamster3564
    @theolivesthamster35643 жыл бұрын

    Is it weird to say that mushroom clouds are gorgeous. Cuz they are. But they are DEADLY!!!!! Gods of olympus that sounded wierd

  • @MrDaddynomates
    @MrDaddynomates5 жыл бұрын

    Broken arrows. Lost nukes. Holy crap. How the fuck can they lose nukes? Ridiculous

  • @vermontvermont9292
    @vermontvermont92924 ай бұрын

    We have a few of those old early warning radars in Vermont. Theres an old abandoned station in burke Vermont, and one just outside of St. Albans.

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible3 жыл бұрын

    7:35, this just reveals how foolhardy mankind was in the early '60's !!

  • @Bestillivoze

    @Bestillivoze

    2 жыл бұрын

    But since then it underwent psychological evolution. Darwin would have been proud of mankind.

  • @McIntyreBible

    @McIntyreBible

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Bestillivoze Darwin was nothing but a foolish humanist! His unorthodox theory of evolution, etc has done more harm to the well-being of the world since the beginning of time!

  • @kiviuq3495

    @kiviuq3495

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mankind is no wiser now.

  • @McIntyreBible

    @McIntyreBible

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kiviuq3495 that is certainly true!

  • @divaybishnoi2773
    @divaybishnoi27736 жыл бұрын

    40:36 that is stannis the mannis on the right!

  • @dima.jiharev
    @dima.jiharev5 жыл бұрын

    U MAD bro?

  • @rrice1705
    @rrice17052 жыл бұрын

    Little bit frightening we had that many broken arrows. Cripes, some airlines keep better track of luggage than that.

  • @perryfranciscaravello134

    @perryfranciscaravello134

    2 жыл бұрын

    Makes you wonder about the ones we haven’t heard about…

  • @jtgd
    @jtgd11 ай бұрын

    “Mr president, we MUST NOT ALLOW A MINESHAFT GAP!”

  • @raymain7710
    @raymain77105 жыл бұрын

    I don't like nukes I don't even own a microwave

  • @reymiguelperez6643

    @reymiguelperez6643

    5 жыл бұрын

    LMAO

  • @Mr71paul71

    @Mr71paul71

    4 жыл бұрын

    microwave ovens equal cancer !!! I'd never have one in the house

  • @oboonkero326

    @oboonkero326

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Mr71paul71 learn basic science

  • @grahamfisher5436

    @grahamfisher5436

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@Mr71paul71 Microwaves is the equivalent to a trade name Like hoover They were called microwaves Because they couldn't use the name of what they really are - Radiowaves.. 😊

  • @ThroneOfBhaal
    @ThroneOfBhaal2 жыл бұрын

    27:30 That's the most Russian sense of humour I've ever seen. xD

  • @MisterMcKinney
    @MisterMcKinney3 жыл бұрын

    The nuclear arms race is the biggest, unnecessary mental gymnastics humanity will ever do.

  • @quaziplays

    @quaziplays

    Күн бұрын

    You must not have a wife

  • @JasonCameron774
    @JasonCameron7742 жыл бұрын

    MGS3 brought me here, why didn't they make GCSE history this interesting?

  • @BenPernezny
    @BenPerneznyАй бұрын

    Yeah, Bob...it was pretty effing mad...

  • @bcde
    @bcde Жыл бұрын

    27:16 this cracks me up every time classic russian humor

  • @misternewoutlook5437
    @misternewoutlook54373 жыл бұрын

    When you think of the nuclear technology over 50 years ago compared with today, our concern over WMDs of this type is somewhat complacent. I'm reminded of the kid who was enriching uranium in his backyard not long ago. He could have conceivably made a so-called "dirty bomb" with the materials he was manufacturing. This just tells you how near an enterprising terrorist group could be to entering the WMD conversation. Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism are in this game.

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible3 жыл бұрын

    40:00, the Super Powers in 1969 were spending $50 million a day

  • @MisterMcKinney

    @MisterMcKinney

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s nuts.

  • @McIntyreBible

    @McIntyreBible

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MisterMcKinney yea it is! It’s sort of sad to think what that kind of spending for the poor and less fortunate would have accomplished for their good!!

  • @grahamfisher5436

    @grahamfisher5436

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@MisterMcKinneybig nuts

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible Жыл бұрын

    24:17, this imaginative film is intense!

  • @pzingh3663
    @pzingh36638 жыл бұрын

    That dirty rotten "spectre" will fall.

  • @faridwajdi8647
    @faridwajdi86477 жыл бұрын

    i do understand now...why Michael H. Hart put Him ( JFK ) on his list

  • @PKLO9727

    @PKLO9727

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @SiskinOnUTube
    @SiskinOnUTube7 жыл бұрын

    MAD is fine, so long as madmen aren't in power. Eek!

  • @Cloud_Seeker

    @Cloud_Seeker

    6 жыл бұрын

    A outspoken madman is not worse then a manmad that is hiding it from you. I think it is good that Trump got elected because it is only now people fucking get that you shouldn't give a President so much power in the first place.

  • @eitanschulman1

    @eitanschulman1

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's the difference between the Commie Russians and the Islamist Iranians. The former act by logic, the latter by radical theology

  • @ricardocorchado4641
    @ricardocorchado46417 жыл бұрын

    has anyone noticed that Kenneth's voice is more ominous in the start of the episode?

  • @jennifersman7990

    @jennifersman7990

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s the Shakespeare side of him coming out

  • @jtgd
    @jtgd11 ай бұрын

    5:37 literally both sides agreed on the suggestion that their opponent was bent on world domination and their actions were altruistic and done to “save the world”

  • @Stardust314159
    @Stardust3141592 жыл бұрын

    No Cities Counterforce? Okay, we won't launch an H-Bomb on Honolulu; we'll just hit Pearl Harbor, Hickam, and Wheeler. What could possibly go wrong?

  • @lisalasoya2898
    @lisalasoya2898 Жыл бұрын

    Approximately 42:23 we are toward the end of this tutorial, this man who you would think stutters is actually making points on analytical nature. Except it still comes down to nuclear genocide, why else would you use these new wave of fighting, you don't even have to dirty your hands.

  • @ThomasAffoltertevis
    @ThomasAffoltertevis5 жыл бұрын

    What are we as human beings that we have to use such a strategy to maintain peace? It's depressing. Still, one could argue that it did work. In particular, nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles pretty much ensured deterrence, barring a catastrophe of accidents.

  • @TheDoctor1225

    @TheDoctor1225

    3 жыл бұрын

    What are we? You said it yourself - we are human beings. Being depressed over the fact that humans are flawed, always have been and always will be as long as they are humans is about as sensible as being depressed over the fact that the sun shines or the sky is blue. It's a fact of existence. Be happy, instead, that even as flawed, failing human beings, that strategy DID maintain peace, and we're all still here to talk about it.

  • @PackaGame

    @PackaGame

    10 ай бұрын

    @@TheDoctor1225it’s an ongoing strategy. You can’t say something “worked” when it’s still happening. There is no conclusion, our data set has only 1 data point. Until nuclear war happens or all nuclear weapons are disbanded we won’t know the outcome of the strategy 😂🙄

  • @seanwolfe693
    @seanwolfe6934 жыл бұрын

    Vizzini that you? Working with McNamara? Incontheivable!

  • @thegreatnessoftheraiders4948
    @thegreatnessoftheraiders49482 жыл бұрын

    29:12 the tv series “I Spy” did a parody of this incident.

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible3 жыл бұрын

    11:58, McNamarah's statement is logical!

  • @TheMaristBoy
    @TheMaristBoy3 жыл бұрын

    @37:05 SDI says hi

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible Жыл бұрын

    39:55, an unbelievable statistic!

  • @eduardoangelgaribaygiordan6546
    @eduardoangelgaribaygiordan65464 жыл бұрын

    Does anybody know how to spell this man's name ( 19:58 )? I'd like to research on who he was in jstor. Thanks

  • @gheorghitapostolache74

    @gheorghitapostolache74

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey dude, hope this late respons will suffice. His name's McNamara, or Mac Conmara, depends on the context.

  • @BadRussian77

    @BadRussian77

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gheorghitapostolache74 Si, Roberto Mac Con Mare.

  • @johnhasty3411
    @johnhasty34112 жыл бұрын

    After watching this I’m really glad that this is in the past. Everyone did the right thing when they got rid of those weapons.

  • @joostvanwijk3842

    @joostvanwijk3842

    2 жыл бұрын

    They did not get rid of them.

  • @beavisjones9199

    @beavisjones9199

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wait do you think nuclear weapons are gone now?

  • @kiviuq3495

    @kiviuq3495

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you living on planet earth?

  • @mmdirtyworkz
    @mmdirtyworkz6 жыл бұрын

    14:22 "seeking to..." - give a answer to US nuclear missiles in Turkey. Should have been said instead of BS

  • @chetpomeroy1399

    @chetpomeroy1399

    5 жыл бұрын

    @mmdirtyworkz--Those Jupiter missiles in Turkey, even before the Cuban Missile Crisis, were aging and obsolete. The (then) new Trident submarines had SLBM's with better capabilities. The Soviet Red Army and other Warsaw pact nations had a 3-to-1 superiority in conventional troops and armaments, and could have seized West Berlin, West Germany, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and France within a week. Something *had* to be in place to prevent them from doing this.

  • @jamiecullum5567

    @jamiecullum5567

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chetpomeroy1399 doesnt change the fact that usa illegally blockaded a sovereign country, broken international law and almost caused nuclear war over the missiles in cuba. While the ussr was expected to just shut up and accept the missiles in turkey. It just shows the constant hypocrisy of the cold war, on both sides

  • @chetpomeroy1399

    @chetpomeroy1399

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jamiecullum5567 Fortunately, the Cold War ended, and those of us who lived through it survived to make comments on KZread.

  • @jamiecullum5567

    @jamiecullum5567

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chetpomeroy1399 the nuclear weapons havent gone anywhere, russia is a dictatorships again and has been since 2000, and a new cold war has been happening since around that time too. Afghanistan, iraq, Crimea, Ukraine, syria and now belorus. Then to top it all off america elects trumps, who seems like just the kind of stable person you should but in control of the world largest nuclear arsenal.

  • @Bestillivoze

    @Bestillivoze

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you survivor of Navada nuclear test site?

  • @negaless1144
    @negaless11445 жыл бұрын

    Jne to as DB be on it

  • @negaless1144
    @negaless11445 жыл бұрын

    Gps

  • @aussiedrifter
    @aussiedrifter2 жыл бұрын

    Robert McNamara, the Butcher of Vietnam.

  • @zacharysmithandguitars355
    @zacharysmithandguitars3554 жыл бұрын

    I am afraid of nuclear weapons ☢️

  • @chetpomeroy1399

    @chetpomeroy1399

    4 жыл бұрын

    They prevented World War III because human beings fear death.

  • @alexlemus2559

    @alexlemus2559

    4 жыл бұрын

    I feel like there people will say fuck it and push the button I feel there people who has the will to do it for no reason

  • @finalthemickith476

    @finalthemickith476

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ask the millions upon millions who died in ww1 and ww2 who died due to not having any nuclear deterrence. There would have been 10 world wars by now if it wasnt for these weapons. Will the future be peaceful? well no but thats a humanity issue not a nuclear issue.

  • @MisterMcKinney

    @MisterMcKinney

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chetpomeroy1399 it was luck!

  • @pedropimentel1743
    @pedropimentel17437 жыл бұрын

    Fimes suspence

  • @aypniasanagnosma
    @aypniasanagnosma2 жыл бұрын

    25:30 nightmarish film indeed

  • @TheDane_BurnAllCopies
    @TheDane_BurnAllCopies Жыл бұрын

    If you want to know how the cold war dictator putin thinks, just listen to what the former soviet generals were saying, doing and thinking during the last cold war.

  • @PackaGame
    @PackaGame10 ай бұрын

    Funny how it’s basically ALWAYS the USA flying in or near Russia trying to snoop… we Americans seem all too willing to meddle everywhere and then cry like innocent babies when we are caught and throw a hissy fit 😂

  • @zakiakhan2574
    @zakiakhan25747 жыл бұрын

    Bangla song

  • @InsaineClowns
    @InsaineClowns7 жыл бұрын

    Anyone up for a game of ball

  • @kianpilu8175
    @kianpilu81758 жыл бұрын

    Did i hear the yank saying there fob was raf brize norton! I knew the yanks where based there for thirty odd years but didn't know there planes with nukes on them where based there. Fuck that's a base i've been in countless times flying out on the tri-stars going to iraq & afghan.

  • @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

    @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

    8 жыл бұрын

    That was for the unarmed RB-47, the reccon version of the B-47. The only damaged the RB-47 could do was to crash onto the target kamikaze-style.

  • @LoneKharnivore
    @LoneKharnivore4 жыл бұрын

    Those white sparkles in the b&w film around 31 minutes are caused by radiation.

  • @samiam5557
    @samiam55576 жыл бұрын

    Watch the movie "Doctor Strangelove" =D

  • @veterankasrkin7416
    @veterankasrkin74167 жыл бұрын

    So, do you really need 1000 ICBM to turn another country into barbecue?

  • @albertramsay847

    @albertramsay847

    7 жыл бұрын

    It depends on how well done you like your meat.

  • @veterankasrkin7416

    @veterankasrkin7416

    7 жыл бұрын

    Albert Ramsay Medium Well

  • @Cloud_Seeker

    @Cloud_Seeker

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well. Do people live in clusters or spread apart with 10km between each neighbor? You do not need to nuke a forest no one lives in.

  • @Cloud_Seeker

    @Cloud_Seeker

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Big Lurch Aka Looney2 ECC Actually that is incorrect. The stronger the nuke the more of the nuclear fallout will be shot up into the sky and stop being radioactive when it falls down again. To have the most fallout you need weaker bombs then what the ICBMs offer. The older games of Fallout research it and picked at the time weaker bombs just to create the maximum amount of fallout just so they can create their lore. Also, the USA have 6800 ICBMs in inventory as of 2017.

  • @tdward23

    @tdward23

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Stop being radioactive." Lol

  • @gaittr
    @gaittr5 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if nuclear weapons will ever be used again? If so, by who?

  • @Mr71paul71

    @Mr71paul71

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think its a pretty safe bet nukes will be used again, and in fact Ezekiel 38 seems by many theologians seems to predict a nuclear war between Russia and the USA

  • @Spacey_Mad

    @Spacey_Mad

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Mr71paul71 in that case we're all doomed

  • @daddymcsnacks_561

    @daddymcsnacks_561

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not likely. Some say Iran, doubt it. It's a stupid move any way you slice it. Far better ways to destroy a country. #avirus 🤗

  • @negaless1144
    @negaless11445 жыл бұрын

    T r y

  • @owlnyc666
    @owlnyc666 Жыл бұрын

    "I am MAD as hell I am not to take it anymore." Kruschev U2. Largest bomb ever detonated. Nuclear weapons did deter war between the "big powers". Proxy War between the "super powers". Is there still a "hot line"? Military targets okay. Cities not so much. Underground testing okay. Atomosphic testing not so much. What was the name of the movie where the USA "accidentally" bombed Moscow and the USA "let" the Russians nuke NYC? Civil Defense. "Duck and cover". "The living envy the dead." 14+ broken arrows. ABM and ICBMs. MRV s. Building Communism or missiles. SALT and "back door channels". 🇺🇸🇻🇳😎😇⛪

  • @landenthe70s
    @landenthe70s2 жыл бұрын

    Its stupid to ban a show like that war game. everything no matter how graphic should be shown so people can see what to avoid.

  • @Bestillivoze
    @Bestillivoze2 жыл бұрын

    29:20 - Franco was MAD about that.

  • @calvinduke4810
    @calvinduke48103 жыл бұрын

    Anyone here in 2021 with Russia and China and Iran

  • @MisterMcKinney

    @MisterMcKinney

    3 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @Bestillivoze

    @Bestillivoze

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you mean the evil guys?

  • @aldoclares273
    @aldoclares2738 жыл бұрын

    waste of time and money in a crucial time for civilization

  • @negaless1144
    @negaless11445 жыл бұрын

    F trumt

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible Жыл бұрын

    20:43

  • @kurtbjorn3841
    @kurtbjorn38414 жыл бұрын

    What annoyed me as a "cold warrior" was the fact that Europe thought they alone, would bear the brunt of any exchange. Ridiculous, we had every major city in the USA hanging out like London, as a target. So we spent the money and yes lives to defend Europe, yet it was primarily Europeans who spit on us. I almost felt like "let them be overwhelmed by the Warsaw Pact. F em".

  • @joshuacondell1686

    @joshuacondell1686

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's your problem not USSR. You even defended Germany who did the wwii. ????

  • @jamiecullum5567

    @jamiecullum5567

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah and you were responsible for creating the cold war in the first place so you should take the consequences

  • @kurtbjorn3841

    @kurtbjorn3841

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jamiecullum5567 - We were responsible? The USA? Churchill's ghost would spit on you.

  • @jamiecullum5567

    @jamiecullum5567

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kurtbjorn3841 yes the usa, i dont give a shit what Churchill would think, he wad a racist wife beater.

  • @kurtbjorn3841

    @kurtbjorn3841

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jamiecullum5567 - Unlike the UK, we appreciate Churchill. Tell me, how did the USA start the cold war? Did we blockade Berlin? Did we suppress uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia? Did we occupy Poland, the Baltic States? Become chums with Mao? Please educate me.

  • @NNavyBBlue
    @NNavyBBlue4 жыл бұрын

    Who's here from Mr. Chase's history class? @

  • @negaless1144
    @negaless11445 жыл бұрын

    Myself

  • @Muddybagclean
    @Muddybagclean4 жыл бұрын

    Jesus Loves You All

  • @DickDickstein
    @DickDickstein8 жыл бұрын

    This one has a lot of repeated clips for some reason. Tons of the same comments from past episodes. Must have all taken that week off.

  • @s.a.b7617
    @s.a.b76177 жыл бұрын

    oh all that fear about nuclear weapons was so stupid: just make a treaty that in case of war no one will use nuclear weapons. seriously we need to do that right now: whats with this old world mentality. seriously vote me in as president.

  • @aspiringcardist4338

    @aspiringcardist4338

    6 жыл бұрын

    Heard of the Nazi-Soviet Pact? As long as a powerful country has a power hungry/paranoid leader is in power, all treaties may be compromised.

  • @Cloud_Seeker

    @Cloud_Seeker

    6 жыл бұрын

    OMFG how naive you are. Just make a treaty? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! What exactly do you think will make people follow such a treaty in war? Yeah sure, everyone else can follow it but we will not so we just instawin and dominated the world. Words are words, and words do not need to be followed. Heard about this thing called lying before? This is not a game where an agreement will block actions from being preformed regardless. When it comes to the real world the only guarantee you have is by being able to kill someone so hard they agree to follow the rules, that is why every nation that matters have a military and why the police is basically the only people allowed to use force and violence.

  • @KentuckyColonel
    @KentuckyColonel20 күн бұрын

    @42:40.. of course you felt unprotected.. you're atheists.. Only God provides protection for a nation..

  • @kianpilu8175
    @kianpilu81758 жыл бұрын

    @23:25 is that guy fucking mad! The first thing an army wants is to kill as many enemy as possible & to keep your own loses down. Not keep the enemy loses down. That logic is fucked up. You kill as many enemy as possible in a conventional war to weaking the enemy to the point where they want a truce because they have lost to many men.

  • @illyrian44

    @illyrian44

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kian Pilu knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta

  • @lookoutforchris

    @lookoutforchris

    8 жыл бұрын

    What you're describing is a war of attrition. It is standard military practice to avoid this if at all possible. Battles are not won by killing the most soldiers, they're won on strategy and forcing retreat or surrender or taking/denying territory. Wars are won on strategy, not body count. You're clearly ignorant and your ideas of war are probably based on movies and games.

  • @wplants9793

    @wplants9793

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought the goal was to win the battle by causing surrender. And definitely to not kill civilians (my guess is that that isn’t always honored).

  • @lisalasoya2898
    @lisalasoya28982 ай бұрын

    At the height of the 1960's Cold war was heightening, then Robert McNamira secretary of State lectures about MADD. In what, he believes is an interpretation on Nuclear defense but he doesn't make a clear analysis. In effect, people believe it is a soft hit and miss, that the American defense is a coloring book. A British film maker is the actual person that made that statement not French. He, films the rural areas of Britain in the event of Nuclear war the townspeople refer to symmetry, laughing all the way, in exchange nuclear defense proved to be the most dangerous weaponry of all.17-1717-9.pdf

  • @roshanjay7
    @roshanjay72 жыл бұрын

    13:50 This is the sort of psychopathic individual that should not have access to a sharp knife, let alone weapons of mass destruction.

  • @ITILII

    @ITILII

    Жыл бұрын

    Gen. Powers and LeMay were both at least borderline psychopaths, and President Kennedy had to deal with such people to avoid World War 3 and the deaths of many millions, across the world. Thank GOD that JFK was there when the world needed him !!!