Wow, that’s my grandfather in between Homi Bhabha and Jawaharlal Nehru in the thumbnail! Dr. Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad who worked on India’s first nuclear energy reactors and then later was chairman of ONGC, where under his leadership Bombay High was discovered and then operationalized in record time!

@nicksharma4200

6 ай бұрын

Wow seems like a very impressive man he was. I express my humble gratitude to him for his services to the NATION.

@randmht9976

6 ай бұрын

Thank you to your grandfather for his service to the Motherland.

@JaiJi-mp7hq

6 ай бұрын

So wow that he left India ?😁

@demonjay5790

6 ай бұрын

​@@JaiJi-mp7hqhere comes mentally disable one with congenital disability 😂

@tusharsharma8952

6 ай бұрын

@@JaiJi-mp7hq what have you Done for India ?

“Having a bomb is very different from using it” -Nuclear Gandhi

@k-c

6 ай бұрын

Peace will prevail after everyone transforms into atoms - Nuclear Gandhi

@infinidominion

6 ай бұрын

I am become Peace

@DSAK55

6 ай бұрын

lying to oneself

@stifflery

6 ай бұрын

Civilization VI :D

@T3hderk87

6 ай бұрын

Civ 2 had it right...

This channel has researched Indian history better than most from my experience.

@monsieur1936

6 ай бұрын

+1 as it actually showed that we developed nukes much much earlier than we actually started making it for military purposes. Most of the other coverage on this issue is about 98 tests, but they seem to overlook the foundation of the technology we developed.

@PRITZ060191

6 ай бұрын

+1, even as an Indian from Bengal, I didn’t even know Meghnad Saha was an MP and a communist!

@maxheadrom3088

6 ай бұрын

I can confirm it did the same about Brazil also. The dude is The Dude!

@k-c

6 ай бұрын

@@clutternutjack3995 It gets difficult when people are not committed to the truth, there sticking to the presented facts have risks and have corrupted intentions or conflicting interests.

@CarlosGutierrez-ef2pd

6 ай бұрын

NO TOILETS 😔

30:30 Shastri's death is not as simple as a heart stroke. The story behind his death is bit complicated because he died during a peace negotiations meeting with Pakistan in Tashkent (now capital of Uzbekistan) which was very suspicious news for many indians.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

😢

@AKumar-co7oe

6 ай бұрын

Also Homi Bhabha was probably killed by the CIA

@lewisavinash1

6 ай бұрын

Shastri was killed in Tashkent, by Soviets at Ghandis orders, go figureout

@SaiKiran-fd3gq

6 ай бұрын

Cia is accused of killing both shastri and homi bhabha.

@YuruCampSupermacy

6 ай бұрын

​@@lewisavinash1source? Is it "trust me bro?"

There is an error in this video. The US sent the Task force 74 to evacuate Pakistani forces from east Pakistan in the event of ceasefire. In reality it was to discourage India from participating in penetrating offensives into west Pakistan. The soviets deployed their nuclear submarine to match this show of force in support of india.

@RaNc0R

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, which is also a reason why India values its relationship with Russia, when the world was against them only Russia came for help.

@avanishawade

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely. I was really dissapointed when he got that so wrong and showed the US in a good light which it does not deserve for supporting a genocide. I used to think this channel is a neutral, reliable source of historical and other information. Not from now on.

@devannayar6456

5 ай бұрын

It was a deliberate misdirection, not an error by the author ! You can see other such acts to divert from the facts.

@johndoe-vc1we

5 ай бұрын

This is my understanding

@ArmageddonIsHere

5 ай бұрын

Lol, that wasn't an error! But, appreciate your politeness...😂

This Channel is a goldmine of knowledge on the technology development of Asia

@SomeSortaPro

6 ай бұрын

I love this channel!

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

😂

@aakashdutta7921

6 ай бұрын

WHY INDIA GOT NUCLEAR WEAPON! kzread.info/dash/bejne/g4utx5dpepjQj7Q.htmlsi=2RmHj7Gv_yrCPfsQ

@gogudelagaze1585

5 ай бұрын

Not just. His coverage of eastern european development is top notch. I'm genuinely impressed with the details he presented there, as very few people even in the region know of them. I can only imagine the amount of research that goes into this. I like to call him the Perun of tech because of this.

@it1970

5 ай бұрын

i like his simple style n level of research he can easily expand it to globometry@@gogudelagaze1585

They called it smiling Buddha.. brilliant name, absolutely brilliant

@rohandalvi6476

6 ай бұрын

At a time in the epoch of Buddha, the ancient kingdom of Magadh launched a war of conquest over its neighbour Vaishali. While Magadh was the usual monarchy that built a big army and collected the weapons for the assault, Vaishali was some kind of an anarchic street democracy where people spent all their time arguing over whether to fight, how to fight, who will fight. Sure enough, Magadh annihilated and massacred poorly armed Vaishali. When the news got to a meditating Buddha, it seems, he frowned in disapproval. Meaning that to keep the peace, a kingdom has to be fully prepared for war

@whatslifespurpose

6 ай бұрын

@@rohandalvi6476 Your comment should be pinned so that everyone watching the video would understand why it was called "Smiling Buddha". Vaishali was the capital of Vajji which was a powerful kingdom and had democratic rule.

@chetan_naik

6 ай бұрын

@@rohandalvi6476 Reverse happened in the WW I and WW II though. Most of the democratic world defeated dictators and fascists.

@double6530

6 ай бұрын

​@@chetan_naikIt's about organization , not democracy or autocracy. The fact that democratic states were better organized in WW2 was one of the reasons for their victory

@sumeettanwar1608

6 ай бұрын

​@@chetan_naikreverse didn't happen as they were prepared with weapons to keep the peace as the moral of the story indicate.

Imagine being named Homie Baba. What a cool ass name.

@lucasrem

6 ай бұрын

Abdul Qadeer Khan !

@AemondTomahawk

5 ай бұрын

​@@lucasremhe was a thief. Also he wasnt even a nuclear scientist but a metallurgist who stole dutch centrifuge blueprints.

@unknown-mx9it

5 ай бұрын

​@@lucasremone who stole and sold nuclear technology. 😂😂😂

@Traderking1990

5 ай бұрын

​@@lucasremWe North Koreans and Iranians thank Mr. AQ Khan for selling Pakistani nuclear secrets on the black market and humiliating Pakistan.❤

@shasha0076

5 ай бұрын

It wasn't baba. Its bhabha🙌

I just want to clarify that if the reactor is built sufficiently safe, there is no danger swimming around the top of the reactor pool. Radiation does not penetrate all of the water in the pool. I'm not recommending everyone go try it but scientifically, the math checks out.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

😢

@tonygunk307

6 ай бұрын

The water is there to keep the reactor and operators safe. What are you talking about?

@ramchandrahegde2763

6 ай бұрын

During college days in late 1990s we had an educational trip to BARC. We were able to climb up on Apsara reactor's platform and glance inside to see the atomic reaction taking place. It was a memorable experience. I asked scientist who was with us, if it was safe to be there. He replied in affirmative.

@navdeepgusain3059

6 ай бұрын

​@@retrocatalogBhabha was exactly that type of person.

@thorin1045

6 ай бұрын

not riskier than standing over the water, or near it, but not safe. yes, alpha and beta radiation stopped by the water, and most of the gamma, but not all. of course since it is based on time, a few minutes of exotic swimming probably not a major risk, not more than a long flight or something similar.

During college days in late 1990s we had an educational trip to BARC. We were able to climb up on Apsara reactor's platform and glance inside to see the atomic reaction taking place. It was a memorable experience.

@saiprateek5779

6 ай бұрын

It is interesting that Tata, who had its name on a Nuclear Research Institute, named it later after Dr. Homi J Bhabha in his honour.. Without Bhabha sir, we as India would have been in deep trouble..😊

@lucasrem

6 ай бұрын

@@saiprateek5779 Abdul Qadeer Khan = trouble !

@saiprateek5779

6 ай бұрын

@@lucasrem every immigrants from Pakistan is a trouble, that involves crossbreed in India too.. who call themselves pure Muslim

@Traderking1990

5 ай бұрын

​​​​@@lucasremAQ Khan was more of a trouble for Pakistan than India after he sold nuke blueprints to North Korea & Iran. In fact Pakistan arrested him for nuclear theft after the CIA caught his shady business redhanded. 😂

@plusultra7258

19 күн бұрын

@@lucasrem You mean the copy cat XD?

38:07 The US didn't stay out of the war because of the Chinese, there was a Soviet fleet (also nuclear armed) in the area and you can see that mentioned in the caption of the map. The Vietnam war was still ongoing and could have also been a factor.

@xenon6947

6 ай бұрын

US stayed out of the war as India has signed friendship and cooperation treaty with Soviet union in Aug 1971.

@micnorton9487

4 ай бұрын

I'm sure they did,, it's always struck me as incredibly frivolous and ultimately useless for the United States to have a no confirmation or denial policy on American surface warships, they all carry nuclear weapons simply because that's what they're for...

When I lived in India I was always amazed at how children there were better at math than I was at 24. Many of the kids didnt even attend regular school. The Indian people are certainly one of the beautiful colors in the tapestry of "Man". Thank you for this, it was fascinating.

Mrs Gandhi ordered a test in 1974 because the US threatened India in 1971 with the 9th fleet. She made sure that no other threat would come to India in the future.

@tmoney007confederation7

6 күн бұрын

Yup you are correct 😅😂 and idoits in the WEST thinks India will side with NATO over China and Russia? I think not.... India will work their differences out with China but they know about the CORRUPTION of the WEST. India-Russia-China can stop the WESTERN IMPERIALISTS....

Props to Indira Gandhi for giving the go ahead. As flawed as many leaders ofter are, she often had bigger balls than many of the men who sat in the PM chair.

@eJohndoe

6 ай бұрын

She had to, because China. She and her father are the chief reason for India's impotency post independence, be it with their adoption of Fabian system, letting go of India's territory without (thankfully Vallabhbhai Patel was alive to save India from him), or cozying up to and then partnering with Russia and the socialist bloc.

@yeahwhateveridc6062

6 ай бұрын

Indira ghandi might be an example of ‘even a broken clock is right twice a day’

@YuruCampSupermacy

6 ай бұрын

​@@eJohndoeher father was responsible for the border conflict with China but she was able to keep China at bay when she was in power. I don't like IG at all because she was too authoritarian and normalised the kind of politics that the right wing is practicing now but in terms of war and foreign policy her tenure outshines all PMs.

@mattdoespushups2350

6 ай бұрын

​@@yeahwhateveridc6062nailed it

@Goofyderclown

6 ай бұрын

​@@YuruCampSupermacythe politics which the right wing is practicing now is not even 10% of authoritarian politics as was prevalent during Indira regime. See I like her foreign policy, and how she stood like that Iron woman in front of USA and literally divided Pakistan, our main enemy, into 2 halves. But her domestic policy was absolute BS. Forceful sterilization of millions, anti-Sikh approach the repercussions of which we can still see today, nationalization of literally all business which led to a collapse of private enterprises, banks etc. Authoritarianism right now isn't even 10% of the authoritarianism displayed during Indira regime. Overall her domestic policy was absolutely gutter but foreign policy was dope.

I remember the day and how Walter Cronkite looked when he read the announcement that India had become a nuclear power. My dad thought it was a one-off and that the Britts had given them a weapon as a way of messing with China and Russia. I didn't know any better, I was eleven years old. I wonder if that's how most Americans thought: that without the involvement and management of the West, India was incapable of building a device? The West underestimated the rest of the world far too often. Excellent work, BTW.

@hellomoto2084

6 ай бұрын

No disrespect to your father , if he is alive may he have good health and if he has passed away may he rest in peace , but your father was quite unaware. India and Russia were friends , tbh just more than friends. They gave us arms of every kind. By the seventies india seldom purchased weapons from Britain , it was all soviet . Not only taht, Soviets helped india in making dams , more than 5 steel planst.and almost every damn industrial setup . It was said in 70 s that even in a small town of India you could come across a Soviet expert of some sort be it a engineer, a agricultural scientist or any other kind. So india messing up with Russians was preposterous, as for china it's excatly opposite.

@KurianfromIndia

6 ай бұрын

Well Russia isn't our enemy.

@johnmiller4859

6 ай бұрын

@hellomoto2084 I will be the first to admit to his cluelessness on most things, technical, social and political. He was a Southern US version of Archie Bunker and proud of it.

@satyakisil4289

6 ай бұрын

It's good that they underestimated, otherwise the Cold War would've never ended.

@death_parade

6 ай бұрын

@@hellomoto2084 Soviets did extract their pound of flesh for all that though. There are no free lunches.

One of the greatest ironies of nuclear weapons is that their unmatched violent potential, being orders of magnitude greater than all previous weapons; it is entirely plausible that they have saved tens of millions of lives in wars both sides deemed unwinnable. With conventional wars, those making decisions could be reasonably assured of their own safety and well being whereas the opposite is true in the case of widespread nuclear exchange. I was aware of how India got the bomb but not the full history and context surrounding it. This was an incredibly well presented piece that did an incredible job of being as neutral and fair as reasonably possible.

@FranzBieberkopf

6 ай бұрын

Hmmm..🤔🤔. Agree and disagree. The deterrent effect of nuclear weapons has led to almost 80 years of peace between the great powers-so far agree. However, war has been subcontracted to allies of the great powers in Central America, Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia-so I disagree.

@hari4406

6 ай бұрын

Hence USA getting all sweaty when other try to make the nuclear bomb for their own protection. It dilutes imperialism and bullying capability of USA. Every country and its people are equally sovereign. USA has no right to create instability around the world. Rightfully, the world doesn't trust it anymore.

@km077

6 ай бұрын

Well, bunkers exist, though they provide only some luxuries at most.

@ArawnOfAnnwn

6 ай бұрын

This is a frequently repeated assumption, without basis. As a matter of fact India is also proof against a related claim that's made wrt nuclear weapons - that they prevent wars between nuclear armed states. That has already happened. Pakistan and India have already fought a war after both had nuclear weapons. The nukes did nothing. Secondly don't underestimate the destructive potential of conventional weapons. The Rwandan genocide, for instance, saw a million people die from machetes and small arms.

@ArawnOfAnnwn

6 ай бұрын

@@FranzBieberkopf Disagree on the first point as well. We've already seen war between nuclear armed states - India and Pakistan fought despite both having nukes. Meanwhile nukes nearly plunged the world into armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis despite no active war between the powers involved at the time.

Can’t believe you can pump out such high quality videos so quick, well done!

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

🎉🎉

@heinzaballoo3278

6 ай бұрын

​@@Braveheart849Your profile is absolute haram, love it

@laurynai

5 ай бұрын

Excellent channel!

@garypiont6114

4 ай бұрын

Your a video slave

Wow! Meghnad Saha! As a fellow Bengali Indian, I am very happy you mentioned him. He founded the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. But honestly I didn’t know he was a communist (I am not). I didn’t even know he became an MP. Thank you so much for the video!

@Yajna007

6 ай бұрын

মানবেন্দ্র নাথ রায় was also a Communist. However,, I have found in one of his writings that Revolutionaries {who opposed the Colonial rule} used to chant the slogan हर हर महादेव in our city of Kolkata during the years like 1905 and 1906 etc.. So much so that the *British **_Raaj_* even prohibited the usage of this slogan\chant on the streets of কলকাতা during those years like 1905 and 1908 and 1907 et cetera.

@Yajna007

6 ай бұрын

I mean; মানবেন্দ্রনাথ রায় *mentioned this particular truth* in one his writings.

@prateemmandal743

6 ай бұрын

He and P C Mahalanobis (another scientist and Bengali and with communist leanings) were also the founders of India's Planning Commission.

@Yajna007

6 ай бұрын

So much so,,,, that,, the British _Raaj_ even prohibited the usage of this slogan\chant *Harr harr Mahādeva* on the streets of কলকাতা during those years like 1905 and 1908 and 1907 etc∙. Har har Mahaadēv slogan\chant

@ArupRatanMitra

6 ай бұрын

​@@Yajna007Mahadever nam sunlay mlecchara bhoi pay jay😂

In 1961 or 62 the Soviet Union shipped an atomic test article to the PRC, also Soviet scientists worked closely with Chinese scientists on reactor and device plans until the Sino-Soviet split.

@seitch1

6 ай бұрын

The Soviets weren't willing to answer anything but the most basic questions and in terms of searching for uranium ore, they actively steered the Chinese away from promising areas with granite to alluvial flood plains. The Soviets didn't really help them at all.

@karthur3421

6 ай бұрын

not really, the soviet while seemed to do so actually did more to steer the chinese away and make the chinese dependent on the ussr, they wanted the chinese to fail and ultimately be dependent on the soviet, this is one of the many reasons that eventually led up to the sino-soviet split. The soviets were not interested in letting the chinese become independent, whereas Mao at that time wanted to china to be more self-sufficient.

@studytime2570

6 ай бұрын

@@seitch1How much Russian tech transfer mattered is like asking how much the Soviet bomb program benefitted from espionage. The basic physics is well known, and the fact that someone had solved the engineering problem earlier is critical. without soviet help, prc wouldnt simply get there.

Dr bhabha is the reason india is here in nuclear and rocket technology People say that CIA was behind the bhabha's plane crash. We were Soviet Ally and USA never wanted a Soviet ally to get nuclear weapons. I don't know if it's true or not.

@xenon6947

6 ай бұрын

It is due to Modi ji India is nuclear power. Modi ji helpd Bhabha set up nuclear facilities in Bharat.

@Shubham_Bahirat

6 ай бұрын

@@hsp91 😂😭

@offred6013

6 ай бұрын

​@@xenon6947it was italian bar girl who stole nuke tech from ussr 😂😂

@KaliYugaSurfer_

6 ай бұрын

​@@offred6013l💀

@xenon6947

6 ай бұрын

@@offred6013 Bar girl is better than Napunsak Modi. Lund kam nahi kiya Biwi see bhag gaya.

I did my graduation in political science and studied foreign policy, nuclear policy of India and it's history and I must say you researched it even better than our books. It is fascinating how my country thought about security and morality of things. It is truly an example of a deeply diverse society which also is cause for internal disunity on critical issues. Regardless I pray for my country's future as an ancient civilisation and a balance against all powers who strive to be a hegemon.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

Oh

@randomhuman5525

6 ай бұрын

And now India is pursuing hegemony.

@Akash-jo6oo

6 ай бұрын

@@randomhuman5525 Maybe in it's region only from security lens. I doubt we will ever behave like typical superpowers by claiming unconstitutional land of our neighbours or support terrorist(I know we did support LTTE in 1980s under our dynastic party(Indian National Congress) but that party is gone and after our PM got assassinated we made firm policy to never support terrorists nor we shall talk to them ever for geopolitical reasons) or wage war on dubious beliefs. I think once India has more power it will just ignore most of the liberal rant from the west which is often patronizing and ensure no foreign power disturbs its neighbourhood like China has done.

@aakashdutta7921

6 ай бұрын

WHY INDIA GOT NUCLEAR WEAPON! kzread.info/dash/bejne/g4utx5dpepjQj7Q.htmlsi=2RmHj7Gv_yrCPfsQ

@dashboardu

5 ай бұрын

This video sure was informative but it completely ignored the US interruptions in the test by the FBI and the support to Pakistan in the 1965 and 1971 war, which completely changed the wide picture of the intentions and reasoning of India's choices.

India wished for a world without nuclear weapons yet in 1991, Sid Meier's Civilization was released.

@death_parade

6 ай бұрын

And Gandhi's "Aggression" was set as 1 or 0 but in the code that somehow got translated to -1 which in the data type chosen basically dialed it up to 255 (8 bit max = 256 -1 = 255).

@kc4276

5 ай бұрын

🧘🏾‍♂️⚛️💣🚀⚛️🧘🏾‍♀️

@moonknight3594

2 ай бұрын

😂

In Rocket Boys, Bhabha, played by Jim Sarbh, doesn't jump into the pool to celebrate, rather he he jumps into the pool to manually fix a technical problem faced by the reactor prior to its inauguration by the PM of India.

Jumping into reactor water is no big deal. In the Navy i have personally drank a small glass of primary coolant from there submarine reactor. 1200 rad count off the water and after i drank it, i had 300 count off my tongue. It was a tradition for new nukes once they got to the boat.

@fss1704

6 ай бұрын

yeah, gotta wonder what was the price for that water though, shouldn't have been cheap

@headfullofacid8088

6 ай бұрын

That’s some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.

@death_parade

6 ай бұрын

The one thing I am in absolute awe of is how despite US Nuclear Submarine program's gargantuan size, there have been no nuclear accidents.

@harsh3948

5 ай бұрын

@@death_paradeOh trust me, there have been many. They're just covered up more easily since these programs are already heavily secretive

@boots7859

5 ай бұрын

@@harsh3948 Yeah, all sorts of accidents with radiactive materials have just been covered up, along aliens at Area 51. There have been some, however kind of hard to keep irradiated military members quiet or the VA...

I was born, raised & have lived for more than 38 years just about 20 km away from BARC, in the same city, and this was all new info to me. Thanks a ton, Asianometry. You're really a star.

Ahh Cold War geopolitics: this is really some OG Asianometry content. Longest video the channel ever made too!?

@mirzaahmed6589

6 ай бұрын

There are definitely longer videos on his channel.

@ghostmantagshome-er6pb

6 ай бұрын

The semiconductor history ones are good.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

😢

The US Navy's 7th fleet was intercepted by Soviet Nuclear Submarines and were blocked from assisting Pakistan Thanks to Indo Soviet Friendship Treaty.

Fuel rod storage pools, due to the nature of water as a flux moderator, are actually (like any other pool) less radioactive than the concrete around them. These pools are also often maintained by SCUBA divers.

@christopherleubner6633

5 ай бұрын

Yup. Often in there measuring the fuel emissions with a waterproof teletectotor probe. Don't go toward the blue violet light 😂😂😂

@mattbritton6222

5 ай бұрын

Flux moderator. Bah! The key is capacitance my boy...

@jansenart0

4 ай бұрын

@@mattbritton6222 Great Scott!

One small clarification the US and the UK sent their fleets to intervene For Pakistan and invade India then the USSR had stopped the 7th fleet from entering indian waters as per the indo-soviet treaty ,this is what was missed and pretty important other than that else was on point nice vid!

@dograkhalsa1098

6 ай бұрын

Everytime, every frickin time huh

@mattsavage9960

5 ай бұрын

They were not going to invade India just stop them from destroying Pakistan.

@TimJBenham

5 ай бұрын

That's just hindutva fantasy.

@Traderking1990

5 ай бұрын

​@@TimJBenhamCongratulations, that you are a Hinduphobe. The comment you replied to had nothing to do with religion. Monkey Tim.

@Uzumaki-tj4tl

5 ай бұрын

​@@TimJBenhamyours is pislam terrorism 😂

The tragic plane crash you mentioned which took away Bhabha from India was a CIA mission. None will accept it but you get the message from various inklings.

The image used around 37:20 is distinctly not CV(A)N-65 Enterprise (Big E), but CVA-31 Bon Homme Richard (Bonny Dick). CV(A)N-65 has a distinct square island which separates her look from the longer rectangles of the later Nimitzes or her rough contemporaries in the Kitty Hawk and JFK Classes. I'd note that CVA-31 was off the WW2 era Essex class, and was only about a third of the displacement of the later nuclear powered ships. The second image shows Enterprise in a later configuration after she lost her large radar sets that dictated her island shape.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

😢

@fss1704

6 ай бұрын

damn, the people on this channel are another level.

@Shubham_Bahirat

6 ай бұрын

Brother is walking Google

@saifalik6226

6 ай бұрын

Task 44 was code name

@sumiseemedome317

5 ай бұрын

You are sharing information that might be useful but somewhere else , totally useless and irrelevant to the story here .

M.N. Saha is not just a random Astrophysicist. He was one of the best in India.

@tejesheconomics4072

6 ай бұрын

But he joined with China and Russia to destroy bhabha

@Rabindra_

6 ай бұрын

And he was a fool

@apayandas3990

6 ай бұрын

@@tejesheconomics4072 If you think opposing the idea of having a Nuclear bomb is same as being in cahoots with Russia and China to destroy India, then God save your IQ. And remember the very Russia (actually Soviet Union then) which you are accusing of conspiring against India had helped us Win the 1971 war. So, set you facts and mindset correct. Even Vikram Sarabhai, the father of Indian Space program initially opposed the idea, so was he trying to destroy India ? Just being associated with or influenced by communist ideology doesn't mean someone is anti national. The entire Judicial system is influenced by Socialist ideology. Does that mean they are anti India ? Well if one is hard core RW then he/she may say so. But that doesn't change the reality. Read about M. N. Saha. His contributions to the world of Science, eg. The famous Saha Ionisation Equation. I bet you didn't even know about him and started commenting like an illiterate fool.

@apayandas3990

6 ай бұрын

@@Rabindra_ do you even know the man ? His contributions to Astrophysics ? How renowned he is or his contributions are ? You would've if you were a literate in real sense. Know about a person first, them judge him/her.

@thebestevertherewas

6 ай бұрын

Meghnad Saha was NOT an ordinary scientist. He was a leading physicist of his time. His Saha ionization equation is still used to this day to calculate star spectrometry and particle density.

Thanks this was a wild ride ❤❤❤. Have to point out though, this episode had more politics than usual 😅😅😅😅

@prakhargupta2081

6 ай бұрын

I mean, he is talking about india

@herp_derpingson

6 ай бұрын

All of Indian history is a wild ride

@shounak2022

6 ай бұрын

@@prakhargupta2081 can't argue on that, brother. 😂😂😂😂

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

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@RonnieBanerjee007

6 ай бұрын

Anything Nuclear, Aviation, Rocket etc. related will involve heavy politics, such is the nature of these industries.

Your diction is fantastic. I love how your videos are written, and the fact that the subtitles are, to the letter, to your delivery. Always so interesting too. A world that I would have no clue about without your videos. Thanks! 👍

Atleast India had the balls to test the weapon in their own mainland soil. Unlike the powers like US, USSR and France.

@cedriclynch

4 ай бұрын

The USA conducted its early nuclear tests on its own soil but later ones on or near various Pacific islands that were under US control at the time and in one case on a satellite in orbit. The USSR conducted all of its tests, even the one that was equivalent to 50 megatons, on its own soil. France conducted all of its tests on Pacific islands that are under its control.

@androwindo

Ай бұрын

@@cedriclynchunder control is different from the own soil. That’s like saying British detonating something in India before independence and claiming they did it in the land under their control. We all know why they don’t do it in their own soil

This is one of your best videos, I have watched them all. Undoubtedly, your best work yet. Great cliffhanger at the end, waiting for the second part.

Love your videos! You’re one of my favorite sources of educational content. I will mention, though, that there’s been much audio static in some of your most recent videos.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

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@studytime2570

6 ай бұрын

@@Braveheart849 ccp bot spotted.

Moral of the Smiling Buddha story: a democracy needs to be suitably armed to protect itself, else you end up like the kingdom of Vaishali did, getting invaded and being destroyed, making Buddha sad. Also stated in modern parlance as "freedom isn't free, it must be protected.." And when you do that, the Buddha smiles.

@pushpenderrana6190

5 ай бұрын

When the goons are armed its foolish for law abiding and peace loving people to remain unarmed

@user-vy5uy9fo8p

5 ай бұрын

Vaishali was a Republic not a kingdom, it was Magadh which was a kingdom and Vaishali was final thorn in their way to become an empire. Ironically, the Republic of India took more inspirations and symbolism from the Empire of Magadh than the Republic of Vaishali.

The revelation of Pakistan's path to obtaining nuclear weapons might potentially cast a rather unflattering light on the matter, rendering it an uncomfortable narrative for many Pakistanis.

Crystal clear voice. Perfect pace. Detailed research. Best informative channel in my opinion. Keep it up!

16:33 Its Apsara not Aspara. Guess its typo. It means being with divine beauty.

I grew up amongst the scientists of BARC..with my dad being one of them. Immensely proud of them, for their service to the nation.

RE 1971: From what I've read Task force 74 redirected to the Bay of Bengal from its deployment in the Vietnam war was seen as nuclear coercion. The Soviets submarines getting the americans to back off with the threat of nuclear war is what ultimately led to deeper relations between India and USSR I believe. Also, in India its generally assumed that the KGB had been infiltrating the indian gov since the 60s, and the brits were literally in charge of indian intelligence for a couple of decades after independence. Indian history is a wild ride.

@double6530

6 ай бұрын

It's not assumed , KGB definitely had many assets inside the Indian government structure

@PurushNahiMahaPurush

6 ай бұрын

KGB had infiltrated Indian politics and academia to a large extent. See Yuri Bezmenov’s interviews.

@user-vy5uy9fo8p

6 ай бұрын

India kept everyone equidistant from itself. All sorts of spies from many countries had infiltrated and yet no body had any distinct advantage in shaping of its policy, this was kind of the trick here that most countries miss when they are not strong enough to resist. Let everyone enter and then frustrate them to no end, instead the weaker countries act belligerent and ultimately pay the price for it.

@parker4406

6 ай бұрын

Britain assumed charge of intelligence in Pakistan not India post independence.

@davesprivatelounge

6 ай бұрын

@@parker4406 IB was still reporting and answering to the brits in the 60s, look it up. I imagine PK had a similar setup because of the "instruments" the brits had in NWFP

Dude, this is such an awesome video. Just pure wow. I watched and read several videos and articles on this but you a brilliant job. Congrats and thank you for making this video without any prejudice.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

Hm

@studytime2570

6 ай бұрын

@@Braveheart849 ccp bot spotted.

Momentum for building the bomb picking up at 1972, when just in 1971 the US navy threatened India during Bangladesh liberation from Pakistan and USSR nuclear submarine had to deter them, wasn't just a wild coincidence. It wasn't just some random enlightment that convinced India that US nuclear umbrella was like giving your home's key to a thief. So we really don't need to say 'we don't know what made Indira Gandhi go ahead'. It was clear as day, that nuclear haves and havenots will one day be a clear deteriment to India, when US- Pak has such 'warm relationship' to place nuclear naval ship too close to India without India's understanding, and China already having a nuclear weapon. It would've been a no brainer to any secular head of state.

Wow, such a well-researched video. Kudos to Asianometry for presenting it! This will be useful for many Indians who would like to learn about their own history.

17:30 that series is the last thing you can reference about Indian scientific history... The creative Freedom they took was beyond limits...

The research that went into this is admirable.....and the unbiased nature of it too is fabulous....u have gained a new subscriber in me my good sir.

Your research on this subject is top notch. My father worked in the nuclear industry in India and I did not know half of the stuff you covered in this story. Well Done!!

@lucasrem

6 ай бұрын

What did he do, what would they tell him, how would you know ?

@ultranationalist.

6 ай бұрын

@@lucasrem maybe a engineer

@vikramgupta2326

5 ай бұрын

I've heard the nuclear industry in India tends to be more secretive than here in the US.

@fark69

5 ай бұрын

​@@vikramgupta2326Why would this be the case? Now with Pakistan having nuclear bombs, and basically the world being in an equilibrium of enemies each having access to the tech, what is the purpose of such secrecy?

@vikramgupta2326

5 ай бұрын

@fark69 I was referring to the commercial nuclear power industry. Regarding being more secretive than the US, I only heard this second hand many years ago. My guess is it's because India's commercial nuclear program is more closely linked with the weapons program than in the US. And India has hostile nations on 2 borders. They may have nuclear technology, but you still wouldn't want them knowing the particulars of what you have, how much, and what you're up to. My guess anyway.

I think if anything, nuclear weapon is the reason why we have not seen global scale war since WWII. The bomb made such war extremely dangerous, and so people talked it out rather than go to war.

@yogesh41048

5 ай бұрын

Fully agree with your statement

@maheshrathod5593

5 ай бұрын

Stupid weapons. We need war for technological development.

@micnorton9487

4 ай бұрын

That's an incredible statement to make seeing as how wars have raged ever since world War II WITH CONVENTIONAL weapons...

@taiwanluthiers

4 ай бұрын

@@micnorton9487 Limited regional proxy wars, not massive wars between superpowers costing millions of lives. Superpower won't go to war with each other because of mutually assured destruction.

@micnorton9487

4 ай бұрын

@@taiwanluthiers .. and if you're not paying attention to the news, that proxy war that the pentagram is supporting in Ukraine is killing Russian soldiers, so your contention that the superpowers will not attack each other because they have nuclear weapons is of course total bullcrap... It's just that Wall Street with its sleaze and cowardice doesn't want to do the fighting itself....

Excellent coverage of historical aspects. Well researched piece. Thanks and congrats .

I was looking for a video in this topic n here it is!!!! Well researched, well done

Este es mi canal favorito para enterarme de cómo los países asiáticos se han desarrollado y adquirido tecnologia, mmmuy buen trabajo!!

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

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Thoroughly researched& accurate. Well done🎉

AS USUAL, ABSOBLOODLUTELY AMAZING ! Jon... Keep up the excellent work and may God bless you always ! Thank you very much for the video !

Parsi / Farsi: The people who came to India to save their lives after the barbaric invasions of Persia in the late 7th century. The true minority of India but has helped the nation beyond their numbers by many times.

@Lesboi

6 ай бұрын

Parsis are merchants and rootless urban nomads ...of course they will have to make up for no social security through higher competency lol

This was a great video. Thankyou for sharing this fascinating history with us. The question of the bomb is a difficult one. Having the bomb is a threat that dissuades others from launching their nuclear bombs at you, but it simultaneously puts a target on your back; your enemies will want to attack you before you can use your bomb on them. That's the fallacy of these weapons: the only way strategic nuclear bombs can be useful is by not using them at all (and using tactical nukes has the strong danger of escalation anyway). As soon as you use them, Mutually Assured Destruction applies, and both countries will be destroyed. It's not hard to create dispersed missile facilities so at least some can survive a first strike and retaliate, but nowadays with modern tech, an incoming missile can be detected by the target country and a retaliation launched before a first strike even lands. Who strikes first really is irrelevant. So when the consequences for having it are so dire, why build one? Well, the problems India and other countries were struggling with from the 50's onwards can't be discounted: no country wants to be a victim with no defence. If your country doesn't have the bomb, other countries can use the threat of nuclear bombs to bully you and hold you hostage, or they can actually attack you without risk in a war. .

I was 14 when this occured... I remember it.... impressive reporting.. thank you.

@Braveheart849

6 ай бұрын

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@AditVats

6 ай бұрын

Which state are you from? If outside India then which country? What people around you had the opinion of bomb testing?

@hypercomms2001

6 ай бұрын

@@AditVats Victoria Australia...don't worry... Looking forward to the next India Vs Australia at the MCG on Boxing Day.... Go Aussie!

@doctorpanigrahi9975

5 ай бұрын

​@@hypercomms2001Australia won the cricket world cup m8 😢

@hypercomms2001

5 ай бұрын

@@doctorpanigrahi9975 Bum! Yet count your blessings you did bloody well to get where you did…. ! Next time it will be India… not Australia…

Dang, this channel is the true plug of high quality vídeos !

Great video man. Dropping bangers after bangers

I know it’s not much yet, it’s not the best time for me to donate right now - but I have appreciated your work immensely for a while now and it does not feel right to just walk away. Will happily pledge to the newsletter soon 🤝🏻

Baba means grandma, while tata means dad in Serbian. 😅

@arpanmandal7244

6 ай бұрын

They are parsi from iran . They fled to India when Islam concurred iran.

@hellomoto2084

6 ай бұрын

Tata was indeed dad of Indian industries kek. It is bhabha , not baba though. In india baba means grandfather not grandmother, grandma is called as dadi.

@zeltron-qk2iu

6 ай бұрын

Bhabha*, pronunciation very different

@death_parade

6 ай бұрын

In Japanese, if I am not mistaken, "baba" is a particularly rude way to refer to an old lady.

@aryans5129

6 ай бұрын

It's "Bhabha"....not "Baba". That 'h' got lost due to the pronunciation trouble faced by western people while reciting indian names.

Am a student of final year MA international relations, i must thank this video helped me in understanding our Nuclear policy which is a complicated subject in my field. Proud that Raja Ramanna who was a leading scientist at operation smiling budda was from my state of karnataka, so many scientist from different backgrounds coming from different indian states worked hard to realize their dream to making india a nuclear power, thias is our strenth of unity in diversity!!

Asianometry producing quality videos while Sonyliv making bhabha jump into the pool 😆

I commend your efforts in putting light on India's nuclear struggle. Keep up the good work.

any content related to India-China issue exists. ccp bots in the comment section: we are summoned 🇨🇳

Just discovered your great channel. You may already have a video but id love to see more on Indias development of a nuclear weapons program and its impact on relations with the US

Wow! What a beautifully put video. Bravo for your efforts and thank you ❤

As Sri Ram said in Ramayan "Bhay bin howe na preet." There's no love without fear.

So,India started with Thorium and U-233 like Nazi Germany started in 1942, but made first test only in 1974 with Pu-239 in implosion type device with Po-210 as initiator , like US did in Alamogordo in July 1945. U-233 can be used in nuclear devices as well but that technology was achieved by US and USSR only in 1980s and requires 99.99% of purity of U-233..

@06.vineethdsouza80

5 ай бұрын

india also did a U-233 bomb test

@nyckhusan2634

5 ай бұрын

Nuclear devices based on U-233 considered to be the most dangerous of all types of nuclear weapon, because low critical mass of U-233 made it's possible to create compact portable nuclear devices down to 100 pounds or 45 kg , that could be carried by just one person. Power of such devices is about 0.3 kT..@@06.vineethdsouza80

@mikefallwell1301

5 ай бұрын

The key to an extremely economical molten salt reactor is the moderator. With sodium deuteride as a moderator natural uranium can be used as fuel in a much smaller safer reactor. Seaborg technology is in the final stages of bringing such a reactor to mass production

That was a fantastic video, on a topic I always wondered about.

Very interesting and fair summary. Well done. I leard quite a few details from that. Particularly the political aspects of the affair.

Do one on Brazil's nuclear scientists strangely being imprisoned by US influence after some technological breakthroughs (I think it happened on the 2000s and 2010s).

As usual you have done outstanding research into the evolution of the events of Indian nuclear development program , particularly the dynamics of the change of policies, of democratic nations like USA , Canada, UK and India. The focus of the communist party of china to achieve and execute their atomic bomb, clearly delineate one party one policy irrespective of the time and reference frame in commendable , the benefactors of the Chinese Bomb was the PLA back in the Mid 60 . The atoms for peace was a democracy driven policy which may have been hastily executed without understanding its long term implications. Your deeper insight and research into the atoms for peace in any of your up coming video , would be greatly appreciated Congratulations ! On this masterpiece of information.

Would love to see a video on Pelindaba and Koeberg. I know it's not asia specific, but you're the most thorough out there!

Thank you for documenting brilliantly!!!

Really well made video. This channel is a goldmine for asian content. Though i would like to point out that the USSR had a much bigger role when the US dispatched its 7th fleet. That made their government to be a strong ally with the USSR and their military from then on relied lots on russian made arms from their Air Forces to the Navy.

Wow whan an excellently researched and narrated documentary, pls keep up the good work.

very impressed by your detailed research and story telling skills....subscribed for more!

Im from travancore and was surprised when you mentioned C P ramaswamy.... you've done great research

Saha wasn't a lonely voice, there seemingly were others who didn't see any results and believed that Bhabha was enjoying privileges that he did at the behest of the nuclear effort, while employing Chemists & Physists who did not get their fair share of autonomy or privilege at work...

thanks for the research and time put in this video, was informative,

The quality of your content is excellent. I knew very little of India’s nuclear program and weapon development. Thank you!

24:02 This quote is a favourite of mine from this video.

Any one play Ghandi on Civilization? Nuclear Madman

Truly impressed by the thorough research of the topic.

Good one congratulations on your great efforts and content. Kudos

गहन शोध , स्पष्ट अवलोकन प्रज्ञावान विश्लेषण और बहुत सुंदर प्रस्तुति ; अन्त ही आरम्भ है , अद्वैत।

This is the kind of content that makes me feel good when paying for WiFi service every month😅

Excellent presentation. Amongst your best work.

That was an amazingly researched piece. Thanks 🙏

India is the most underrated country. You only ever hear about China but the Indian people are extremely intelligent hard working and industrious. India will emerge as a global superpower to rival China in the next few decades.

@yomommaahotoo264

5 ай бұрын

Stolen gift cards fool.

An excellent one again by Asianometry. Bravo to you for keeping this all so good. PS- Small request to make one on the contributions of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam , the person almost every teen of India has looked up to and still do. His books really sparked many minds. (Atleast mine 🙂)

Thanks John, fantastic video as always.

Great video, thanks. Waiting for a follow up as to how India's programme developed further.

Great video. It's great to see good Indian history :)

Great job, You seem have taken your time and made this video after much research. There is a TV show called "Rocket Boys" developed by Sony for the Indian market. It is based on the friendship between Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai. Pity takes a lot of creative liberties with events and many supporting characters.

@thelakeman2538

6 ай бұрын

If you listened to the video he mentioned it and how "creative" to put it mildly some of their writing is.

@ishanbajpai6940

6 ай бұрын

​@@thelakeman2538Actually one of the comment mentioned that jumping into that pool would not be lethal or dangerous but it is definitely a massive creative liberty given the kind of man Bhabha was.

@ 26:27 The name of the newspaper is the “Hartford Courant”, located in the capital of Connecticut, Harford.

My heartfelt thanks and deepest appreciation for this excellent narration with period photos. Particularly interesting was 1953 speech of Ike titled "Atoms for Peace". It was USSR's monetization of nuclear technology that forced USA's hands. Thank you one again.

You forgot to share that when usa send an aircraft carrier then soviet had send their nuclear submarine .