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

@kolinmartz

4 жыл бұрын

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

@SanjayT06

4 жыл бұрын

@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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@EvMstein

4 жыл бұрын

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

@carso1500

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

@AZrakoon

4 жыл бұрын

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

@bobhager5248

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Will-dp3us

4 жыл бұрын

How about we make the moon a death moon

@AZrakoon

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

@john maziasz >god emperor Trump Lol

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

And on that note, merry christmas

@MarcLovesEChassis

4 жыл бұрын

You to m8

@mouthbreather280

4 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas 🎄 Oh and happy Boxing Day lol

@spankthemonkey3437

4 жыл бұрын

12345redrock maybe Kim Jung un will send a pretty vase

@lucapatsias9101

4 жыл бұрын

12345redrock and happy new year Signed USA

@lechefy1413

3 жыл бұрын

Not so merry bruh ahaha CD

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

@Wallyworld30

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Torus2112

4 жыл бұрын

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

@mickeyg7219

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

Scorch

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

4 жыл бұрын

South Africa missed a liberation chance from uncle sam

@DarthEarp

4 жыл бұрын

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

@genghiskhan5701

4 жыл бұрын

Mostly because the Apartheid Government didnt trust blacks with nukes

@death_parade

4 жыл бұрын

@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

4 жыл бұрын

@@death_parade it was a joke dumbass

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

@neurofiedyamato8763

4 жыл бұрын

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

@SayinWTF

4 жыл бұрын

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

@jakehayes1998

3 жыл бұрын

@@SayinWTF well more like whatever arms are left.

@jakehayes1998

3 жыл бұрын

@Ace of Spades neither

@professory4320

3 жыл бұрын

Aliens

Antimatter weapons is how you remove nuclear weapons.

@michaelzlprime

4 жыл бұрын

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

@alexnickolaev

4 жыл бұрын

I am sure Gendalf can stop nuclear missles

@POPJack1717

4 жыл бұрын

@@quantum_aigeek But minus the radiation.

@lukegodfrey1103

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

@@lukegodfrey1103 but it does sound cool

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

@sohomchatterjee

4 жыл бұрын

😂 I like your sarcasm...

@Sedna063

4 жыл бұрын

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

@midgetman4206

4 жыл бұрын

@Marcos Filho source?

@flameballs

4 жыл бұрын

@Marcos Filho BS, db isn't linear

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

@Gandalf17

4 жыл бұрын

confused as fuck

@matchesburn

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

Balance of power can really be a MAD thing

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

@cricketman1322

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ZTIERK

4 жыл бұрын

Wait is this a Fallout reference

@conmc3573

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZTIERK Yeah, New Vegas

@dannymeadowswa6mqz212

6 ай бұрын

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

"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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@5000mahmud

4 жыл бұрын

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

@cageybee7221

4 жыл бұрын

@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.

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@pastordonkoh7692

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

@darkhorseman8263

4 жыл бұрын

Some form of neutron bombardment.

@shadowling77777

4 жыл бұрын

Woah

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

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

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

@tj9959

4 жыл бұрын

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

@DivineMind222

4 жыл бұрын

@@tj9959 lol for real though!!

@fractal6929

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

The blast yield was more than expected it was 57 megatons

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

@j.mangum7652

4 жыл бұрын

@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

4 жыл бұрын

"The only winning move is not to play."

@jacksparrow6754

4 жыл бұрын

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

@spankthemonkey3437

4 жыл бұрын

Marcos Filho I highly doubtful of that

@Est.1995

4 жыл бұрын

Okay

Good analysis! Thanks for putting the video up.

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

Love watching these videos, always engaging

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

@UmbraHand

4 жыл бұрын

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

@thereyougoagain1280

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ulysseysss9537

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@saucysauce593

4 жыл бұрын

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

The B2 is one plane that could deliver them.

Great analysis, thanks for posting.

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

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@sturmtiger1508

4 жыл бұрын

Unless both nations launch simultaneously

@CaptainChrom

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@nightvigil

3 жыл бұрын

@@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".

I love the effort u put into researching the topic

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

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

@angelkitty11

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Mr71paul71

4 жыл бұрын

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

@DavidFMayerPhD

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@Sir_Budginton

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

LOVE your content. Thanks a lot

Love your videos. So informative.

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@grubbybum3614

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

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

Problem is: in Russia, atom splits you.

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

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

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

God help us, God help us all.

@sturmtiger1508

4 жыл бұрын

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

@mobiuscoreindustries

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

sadly that's not how politics work

@slyseal2091

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@edew9180

3 жыл бұрын

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

Highly informative video Thanks

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

Ironically a nuclear war will end nuclear war

@LordOfChaos.x

4 жыл бұрын

@Jonathan Bowen few years at best

Quantum computing is going to revolutionaze missile defense

@HamzaKhan-ky1mt

3 жыл бұрын

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

@nothingtoseeheremovealong598

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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!

13:58 who heard the voice crack 😂

You know what works ? Mutually Assured Destruction

@ad5792

3 жыл бұрын

Sad, but true!

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

I like your analysis you did a great job

"Save the Cheerleader, save the world"

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@metanumia

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Thank you for very interesting content.

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

Excellent conclusion

3:01 Look at the launch sequence. Dazzling!

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

@Make-Asylums-Great-Again

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

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

Great video!

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

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

@asneecrabbier3900

4 жыл бұрын

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

@asneecrabbier3900

4 жыл бұрын

ILike Mushrooms well fuck all of them

@aslanbayramuqlany6189

4 жыл бұрын

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

"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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@thereyougoagain1280

4 жыл бұрын

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

@matchesburn

4 жыл бұрын

...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

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

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?

Finally, a new video

Wish I knew you were gonna make this video beforehand. I could have written some intense cinematic music (royalty free) for you that would blow this track away! In any case, very informative video. Many thanks.

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.

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

@justyougo6274

4 жыл бұрын

Kaspar Baggott aka the rise of the cockroachs

Merry Christmas again

Awesome for thought

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

@digger105337

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

Growing up, I remember seeing the Nike missile sites in and around MD and NJ -- having no idea that (at least some of) those missiles had (or were meant to have) a nuclear warhead on them...

@PatrickLipsinic

2 жыл бұрын

Nike-x system which had the Zeus and Sprint missiles armed with nukes with the Safeguard Program.

16:45 When did Ireland get ICBMs?

@exundfluriba

4 жыл бұрын

Haha they're anti-brexit missiles

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

@mahdi1982r

4 жыл бұрын

Putin

@maximkonechno8742

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Mr71paul71

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Cosby

Ok, we would really need that now

Best bet is a type of space cannon which can reuse excess heat produced as an energy store what could do more is a tracking system to keep it on course

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

@TheLiamster

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Title should be: how to stop ICMB’s

Great content

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

I feel like I’ve watched this already. .

@bobjohn2000

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t know, I get that same feeling

@major0noob

4 жыл бұрын

curious droid?

@limescaleonetwo3131

4 жыл бұрын

glitch in the matrix

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

4 жыл бұрын

@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.

That Poseidon torpedo looks very mean! It probably is one of the meanest things around. I wonder how it sends information back to base. Maybe its just laying in wait for the attack. You cannot send radio messages back underwater when you are deep. You can however receive very low frequency messages. Very interesting! Greetings, Jeff

Good info

Tzar Bomba: Well there's your global warming!

@heart0fthedrag0n

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ZTIERK

4 жыл бұрын

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

@terryboyer1342

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

@@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?

13:59 voice crack

All one needs to do is get within a blast range of a smaller nuke of say 2-3 miles, quite possible and detonate when within range to destroy the incoming nuke. No fallout is a problem from air burst nukes.

Merry christmas 2020!