The Nuclear Arms Race (And Its Decline)

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  • @megaprojects9649
    @megaprojects96493 жыл бұрын

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  • @Real_Claudy_Focan

    @Real_Claudy_Focan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don't worry Simon, this video gonna be ... A BLAST !

  • @marcbeebee6969

    @marcbeebee6969

    3 жыл бұрын

    This channel is going BOOM 💥 this week

  • @FIRE_STORMFOX-3692

    @FIRE_STORMFOX-3692

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love the cold war too

  • @gamehacker5692

    @gamehacker5692

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mega projects “the laws of physics and the history of physics them” could be a long video might need separate parts to it but can include Einstein Kepler plank avagadro photoelectric effect Doppler effect and maybe dive into quantum mechanics. Like this comment if you like the idea

  • @craigmcleod4002

    @craigmcleod4002

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's time to change the name of the channel to Cold War projects

  • @heartofdawn2341
    @heartofdawn23413 жыл бұрын

    The nuclear arms race was like two men standing in a pool of gasoline, one with four matches, the other with six.

  • @leandrochavez6480

    @leandrochavez6480

    3 жыл бұрын

    Carl Sagan?

  • @MinistryOfMagic_DoM

    @MinistryOfMagic_DoM

    3 жыл бұрын

    And they were lighting those matches.

  • @quinnzyker6521

    @quinnzyker6521

    3 жыл бұрын

    And another guy with orange kool aid

  • @bosmerfromcanada3878

    @bosmerfromcanada3878

    3 жыл бұрын

    Let us hope those matches were lit. And also pray either Xi Jinping or Joe Biden drops one of those matches.

  • @grlt23

    @grlt23

    3 жыл бұрын

    Strange game... the only winning move is not to play...

  • @jonathanmatthews4774
    @jonathanmatthews47743 жыл бұрын

    Keeping track of all Simon's channels and topics covered (making sure there is no overlap) should be a MegaProject video on it's own.

  • @Taygetea

    @Taygetea

    3 жыл бұрын

    Except the Pepsi Harrier

  • @SovereignwindVODs

    @SovereignwindVODs

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Taygetea i swear that thing has shown up on all of his channels except bio/geographics and xplrd.

  • @edmundthespiffing2920

    @edmundthespiffing2920

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SovereignwindVODs for now....

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын

    2:05 - Chapter 1 - Out of the ashes 2:55 - Chapter 2 - The bomb 4:05 - Chapter 3 - On your marks 5:30 - Chapter 4 - Ideology 6:30 - Chapter 5 - Hydrogen bombs 8:15 - Mid roll ads 9:30 - Chapter 6 - All change 13:00 - Chapter 7 - A mad time 13:40 - Chapter 8 - The cuban missiles crisis 15:25 - Chapter 9 - Calming times 17:00 - Chapter 10 - The end of the race 18:50 - Chapter 11 - Today

  • @thegunslinger1363
    @thegunslinger13633 жыл бұрын

    To quote the film Crimson Tide "In the nuclear world. The true enemy is war itself." If you haven't seen it yet. I highly recommend it.

  • @jonathanmatthews4774

    @jonathanmatthews4774

    3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent movie

  • @seanbrazell6147

    @seanbrazell6147

    3 жыл бұрын

    Say, know anything about horses? 😉

  • @NealWilliams

    @NealWilliams

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@seanbrazell6147 What color are they when they're born? 😁

  • @NealWilliams

    @NealWilliams

    3 жыл бұрын

    Loved that film. Loved that, essentially, both were equally right and wrong.

  • @O4FUXACHE

    @O4FUXACHE

    3 жыл бұрын

    I prefer Wargames . . . "The only way to win is not to play".

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter80803 жыл бұрын

    I lived through most of The Cold War years. I certainly remember the fear which generated from The Cuban Missile Crisis. I never worried about all-out thermonuclear war between the super-powers. I was concerned with just one nut who gets his hands on just one small-yield nuke. I'm still very much concerned about that. Thank you, Simon Whistler, for this chilling yet informative video. -- A USAF vet

  • @uggligr

    @uggligr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Walter, read my post. It's only three spaces above yours and is highly relevant to what you are saying.

  • @uggligr

    @uggligr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @John Barber read my post, it's about a situation that is even more frightening than your scenario. When I first stumbled on to this, it scared the hell out of me.

  • @BHuang92

    @BHuang92

    3 жыл бұрын

    There were so many close calls due to a few unintentional mishaps. The scariest thing of all of these scenarios is what if WW3 is not ended but delayed........

  • @KKTR3

    @KKTR3

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe now need to re-evaluate it now

  • @walterfechter8080

    @walterfechter8080

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KKTR3 Yes, now more than ever.

  • @theemissary1313
    @theemissary13133 жыл бұрын

    My dad was in the RAF in the late 50s and 60s. He said once there was a screen around a Vulcan Bomber (indicating a nuclear bomb being loaded or unloaded because secrecy). He said he heard a really loud, metallic clang from behind the curtain and a lot of swearing. To quote him on the whole Cuba missile crisis - Fun times :)

  • @joshduthie3401

    @joshduthie3401

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep, it's amazing how close we've come to disaster, multiple times.

  • @TheJediCaptain
    @TheJediCaptain3 жыл бұрын

    Would a rundown of the events in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" make for a decent Biographics video?

  • @Ksweetpea

    @Ksweetpea

    3 жыл бұрын

    We did a rundown of it in my AP US History class in 2013... Definitely video-worthy

  • @Beryllahawk

    @Beryllahawk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ooh I like this idea

  • @MrT------5743

    @MrT------5743

    3 жыл бұрын

    In high school history class (in 1990 or so) they broke the song down into 7 or 8 events for each kid and we had to research our events and then presented our findings. My section was: U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

  • @steelydan449

    @steelydan449

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @That_Thicc_Cat
    @That_Thicc_Cat3 жыл бұрын

    Video 5 of asking for a video on the Pennsylvania T1. The T1 was supposedly the fastest steam locomotive in history and it took over 20 years of development

  • @GintaPPE1000

    @GintaPPE1000

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’d love it too, but I think that video might be better-saved for when the T1 project progresses further. Would be a great way to raise attention for it.

  • @That_Thicc_Cat

    @That_Thicc_Cat

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@GintaPPE1000 you’re right

  • @mmdirtyworkz
    @mmdirtyworkz3 жыл бұрын

    15:20 and USA agreed to remove missiles from Turkey. The whole crises was about those. US did it first, not USSR (bring nukes close to enemy). USSR was made to keep quiet about the withdrawal of weapons from Turkey. It was worth saying Simon :)

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays41863 жыл бұрын

    I grew up during the Cold War years. I was practically a toddler when The Bay Of Pigs happened. I was in highschool when the first SALT talks were going on. In my English class we read an article about it.

  • @569139

    @569139

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here, born in 1960 I recall doing "Duck and cover" drills in grade school..

  • @GerryBolger

    @GerryBolger

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@569139 As a European born in the mid 80s that "duck and cover" strategy seems so insane to teach to school kids. Did ye actually believe it would ever have to be used? I understand how close the world came to nuclear war but, as a child, was the gravity of the whole situation known to you? Sorry for all the questions, it's just that you and I grew up in such vastly different ways that I still can't really wrap my head around the fact that people were (rightly) scared on nuclear apocalypse.

  • @569139

    @569139

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@GerryBolger as a child I did not know what to think.. as I look back I see it was insane to think that it would haved saved anyone... Thank god it never came to that!! I served US Army 1978-1981 near Nuremberg, by then T realized that any nuclear exchange would be horrific beyond comprehension......

  • @doniygo
    @doniygo3 жыл бұрын

    All hail Vasili Arkhipov, the unsung hero of the Cuban Missile crisis...

  • @drgunnwilliams5185

    @drgunnwilliams5185

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @BHuang92

    @BHuang92

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@drgunnwilliams5185 If it wasn't for him as commander of the Soviet fleet talking down an agitated captain of a nuclear armed submarine, WW3 would've started in Cuba......

  • @N1njaSnake
    @N1njaSnake3 жыл бұрын

    The fact that we survived the Cold War is a happy accident.

  • @skyboy4341

    @skyboy4341

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Scott Reynolds you'll get them in october of 2077

  • @toasterkolin9951

    @toasterkolin9951

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@skyboy4341 (ಠ_ಠ)

  • @singletona082

    @singletona082

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Scott Reynolds sorry wrong universe all you would get is horrific turbo cancer.

  • @AstroFan428

    @AstroFan428

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank God for the Xmen. 😋

  • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228

    @axelpatrickb.pingol3228

    3 жыл бұрын

    After the many, MANY close calls that could have resulted in one. I for one thank Truman for this...

  • @TheTotallyRealXiJinping
    @TheTotallyRealXiJinping3 жыл бұрын

    Let’s face it. It was bound to happen. We have broken the 4th wall and went full meta talking about the Mega Project that began all Mega Projects.

  • @clem719

    @clem719

    3 жыл бұрын

    Winnie, is that you?

  • @TheTotallyRealXiJinping

    @TheTotallyRealXiJinping

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clem719 I have people headed to your location.

  • @GhostDriver87
    @GhostDriver873 жыл бұрын

    We really need to just change the name of this channel to “Cold War Projects” already

  • @tomx641

    @tomx641

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mega seems to have become moderate in size.

  • @globalrevolution

    @globalrevolution

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah it does branch out from "simon looking at planes and ships"

  • @megaprojects9649

    @megaprojects9649

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're not wrong.

  • @XerrolAvengerII

    @XerrolAvengerII

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@megaprojects9649 more like megaton projects

  • @jacksone5856
    @jacksone58563 жыл бұрын

    This video feels like a summary of the near-entirety of Megaprojects

  • @danielking5812
    @danielking58123 жыл бұрын

    Can you do the Eurofighter Typhoon please?

  • @Shadow__133

    @Shadow__133

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think only Airbus can. It's proprietary tech.

  • @bradhobbs6196
    @bradhobbs61963 жыл бұрын

    Am disappointed that Simon didn't remind us you can't hug your kids with Nuclear Arms. Well, more than once.

  • @gersonboav1

    @gersonboav1

    3 жыл бұрын

    you...

  • @bradbrandon2506

    @bradbrandon2506

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually you can! It just requires a lot of engineering, several different tools and someone that is way, way too obsessed with mechs and transformers.

  • @bradhobbs6196

    @bradhobbs6196

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bradbrandon2506 And at least that way, they'll glow in the dark so it's harder to misplace them!

  • @bradbrandon2506

    @bradbrandon2506

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bradhobbs6196 Well any practical engineer would give sufficient lead shielding.

  • @Noise-Bomb
    @Noise-Bomb3 жыл бұрын

    It's as much terrifying as it is fascinating to me that humanity wields the power to extinct itself by the press of a button.

  • @treble8921

    @treble8921

    3 жыл бұрын

    I consider myself quite the idiot, despite technically being in the "top 1%" intellectually. So for me, the fact that these unfathomably powerful weapons are in the hands of people almost certainly dumber than I am is the most terrifying thought.

  • @piglin469

    @piglin469

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@treble8921 as long as they understand the basic phrase I cant rule over people if everyone is ded where fine

  • @treble8921

    @treble8921

    4 ай бұрын

    @@piglin469 Unless someone who has that power and is about to die (or lose and be captured) decides that the world doesn't need to exist after they die.

  • @piglin469

    @piglin469

    4 ай бұрын

    @@treble8921 don't put thoughts like that into my head it makes me paranoid

  • @aceundead4750
    @aceundead47503 жыл бұрын

    Looking at world politics nowadays im not convinced the cold war is over

  • @LogieT2K

    @LogieT2K

    3 жыл бұрын

    It ended, but the west has been forced i to new one through chinas unprecedented growth in its economic and military power.

  • @GuntherRommel

    @GuntherRommel

    3 жыл бұрын

    It only went under the ice. Strong evidenced suggests it still continues under Putin

  • @BHuang92

    @BHuang92

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not over but delayed.......

  • @robertharper3754

    @robertharper3754

    3 жыл бұрын

    It never really ended, only to those who moronically are optimistic or willfully ignorant of human history.

  • @jakenou7736
    @jakenou77363 жыл бұрын

    megaprojects should cover the NASA Crawler sometime

  • @ephennell4ever
    @ephennell4ever3 жыл бұрын

    The real key to ending the Cuban Missile Crisis was the U.S. agreeing to remove *their* intermediate range nuclear missiles from Turkey; which was not really acknowledged by the U.S. gov't until a few administrations later.

  • @kurzeful

    @kurzeful

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's an important fact that Simon left out. America had missiles close to the USSR.

  • @joyl7842
    @joyl78423 жыл бұрын

    The fact that nations which share such absolute hatred for one another, like Israel, Pakistan & India, have nuclear weapons - terrifies me.

  • @daveclyborne4021
    @daveclyborne40213 жыл бұрын

    Would be interesting for you to cover SDI (aka Reagan's Star Wars program) in one or more videos (objectively of course).

  • @koori3085

    @koori3085

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's a great idea, sad how little is known about that "Star Wars!" The 747 with the laser in the nose is amazing.

  • @NotTheBomb
    @NotTheBomb3 жыл бұрын

    You forgot to mention that America also had to remove their missiles from turkey.

  • @anydaynow01
    @anydaynow013 жыл бұрын

    "The beauty of nuclear weapons is nobody wants to use them first" ~Simon 2021 As much as I hate to say it MAD works, just think of how many people would have died in WWIII and WWIV and so forth.

  • @moritamikamikara3879

    @moritamikamikara3879

    3 жыл бұрын

    MAD worked* past tense. The possibility of some kind of chaos actor who has no interests on this earth that would not be afraid of setting off nukes if they could get hold of them and ending the world is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than in the era of the Soviet Union.

  • @MrT------5743

    @MrT------5743

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@moritamikamikara3879 I'm not discounting that possibility and the risks associated with it. but the US DEFCON status being 5 now and it was 2 during the Cuban missile crisis begs to differ with you. Setting off a handful of nukes also would not end the world. I do not know the worlds security with their nuclear weapons, but It would probably take more than just a couple of guys storming a missile silo to launch just one missile much less enough to destroy the world.

  • @treble8921

    @treble8921

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@moritamikamikara3879 It's HIGHLY unlikely at BEST that any "chaos actor" would be able to hit a target with a single (or small amount of) nuclear weapon(s), EVEN if they manage to successfully launch a loaded ICBM . With the defense capabilities of today's superpowers -- both airborne and stationary -- nukes in the air are far less threatening today than they were in the Cold War era. Although a massive launch of nukes from multiple superpowers would certainly constitute MAD, the threat of a single nuclear warhead is almost moot to many places around the world. A poor country/regime with nuclear capabilities is less frightening to the world at large than most people believe. Still terrifying on a local scale, but not likely to threaten apocalypse.

  • @mustafaemad3614
    @mustafaemad36143 жыл бұрын

    Mega Project suggestions: Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

  • @diebs84
    @diebs843 жыл бұрын

    Suggestion: Bruce Nuclear Power Development. Lots of unique/interesting attributes and just a massive facility in Canada.

  • @Theviolentagreement
    @Theviolentagreement3 жыл бұрын

    He didn’t mention the fact that Kennedy also agreed to remove missile silos from Turkey..

  • @violetteclingersmith8792
    @violetteclingersmith87923 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see a video about the RDS-1 program. You did a Manhattan Project, time for Soviet knock-off video!

  • @tedsmith6137
    @tedsmith61373 жыл бұрын

    To be accurate the Uranium gun type bomb dropped on Hiroshima was called 'Little Boy' and was quite different from the 'Fat Man' Plutonium implosion bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki. 5:20

  • @gmanor20
    @gmanor203 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video Simon. Thanks for all the combination of knowledge and entertainment your channels bring.

  • @jonathanhott3070
    @jonathanhott30703 жыл бұрын

    Would love a video on the P-51 mustang!!

  • @larrybremer4930

    @larrybremer4930

    3 жыл бұрын

    The P-51 was actually a very quick and dirty project, and somewhat of a failure until a pilot suggested replacing the Allison engine with the Merlin. The rest as they say is History.

  • @billytheshoebill5364

    @billytheshoebill5364

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@larrybremer4930 not at all lmao

  • @Shadow__133

    @Shadow__133

    3 жыл бұрын

    That would be a loud and shaky video.

  • @jonsnowight9510
    @jonsnowight95102 жыл бұрын

    "As the last Soviet soldiers limped out of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union was already circling the drain." There is something oddly familiar yet also foreboding about this.

  • @davidboysel4509

    @davidboysel4509

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed history shows that Afghanistan is a death trap. A lot has been written about how Field Marshal paulus and the German sixth army we're lost at Stalingrad. The British had the equivalent of that happening twice in Afghanistan. You cannot win the hearts and minds of a heartless mindless people. I truly wish that the defense department would actually write history books for all of their War libraries

  • @jonsnowight9510

    @jonsnowight9510

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@davidboysel4509 I'd be satisfied if they just read them

  • @patrickhasachannel
    @patrickhasachannel3 жыл бұрын

    Simon's other channels are becoming more and more like Business Blaze by the day. I love the commentary.

  • @rogueviking9268

    @rogueviking9268

    3 жыл бұрын

    *Allegedly

  • @jordan4777

    @jordan4777

    3 жыл бұрын

    You legend!

  • @kiwi_commander

    @kiwi_commander

    3 жыл бұрын

    Off to the basement with you!

  • @padawanmage71
    @padawanmage713 жыл бұрын

    I still remember watching ‘The Day After’ and being so terrified afterwards 😕

  • @boring7823

    @boring7823

    3 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/e62tm9BxopScmNY.html

  • @patrickscalia5088

    @patrickscalia5088

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watch the BBC production "Threads" and "The Day After" won't scare you quite so much. "Threads" is the most accurate nuclear war movie ever made, and one of the most horrifying movies in history. It's a real gut-twister and not for the faint-hearted or those with a weak stomach.

  • @padawanmage71

    @padawanmage71

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@patrickscalia5088 I watched 'Threads' when it was shown here in my high school, and still remember the last scene vividly.

  • @patrickscalia5088

    @patrickscalia5088

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@padawanmage71 Without doubt one of the toughest movies to watch in history. For a movie that shows relatively little gore, Threads is one of the most horrific movies ever. The story is brilliant. From the constant dread that suffuses the entire movie to attack and post-attack scenes that are gut-wrenching as they are horrifying, its a magnificent if extremely shocking and depressing movies ever. For anyone who has a specific interest in apocalyptic fiction, there is one book that is sort of the print equivalent of Threads in being the most authentic depiction of a nuclear war and its aftermath. "The book is called "War Day," by Whitley Streiber and Jim Kunetka. It's extremely well written by two renowned authors. A very close relative to me was a navigator/weapons officer on a SAC B52 (meaning he was the one responsible for targeting and lauching nuclear rockets and dropping the hydrogen bombs) at the time War Day was published and I offered it to him to read. He took it and was doing a little reading before bed. I looked in on him a couple hours later, and he was still reading it and had turned white as a sheet. The section of the book he was reading right then was the scene where one of the characters is riding a city bus when the pattern of warheads detonated over NYC. The next day he said to me "They got it right." I asked "Got what right?" And he replied "everything." It's as horrifying as Threads and every bit as realistic. In addition to that, some of the descriptions of NYC immediately after the attack are so close to descriptions of NYC in the days and weeks following 9/11 that it's downright eerie. Note, War Day was published in 1984, a full 17 years before 9/11 occurred. Close second for best novel about a nuclear war is "The Last Ship" by William Brinkley. In that book the crew of the guided missile destroyer is in the Mediterranean sea looking for survivors. They do find a few survivors here and there and the description of the condition of those people is again utterly horrific. If what you want is a hyper-realistic depiction of nuclear war then you won't find anything better than the two books I just named. And yes, "The Last Ship" is also the name of that utterly stupid, shitpile of a TV series. And yes, the shitpile TV series is purportedly based on the novel by Brinkley, but aside from the name and the setting of naval personnel in a ship sailing the seas after an apocalyptic event, the series uses very little else from the original story. The TV series is garbage, the novel is brilliant.

  • @DPCB01
    @DPCB013 жыл бұрын

    Sydney Opera House or Sydney Harbour Bridge for a video suggestion! Plenty of engineering challenges!

  • @tomx641

    @tomx641

    3 жыл бұрын

    Another vote for the Opera house

  • @Shadow__133

    @Shadow__133

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't 👎

  • @whocanChandlerCAN
    @whocanChandlerCAN3 жыл бұрын

    Keep these coming ! I love your different channels

  • @569139
    @5691393 жыл бұрын

    Great video as usual!! Keep them coming!

  • @AmitPartTimeGamer
    @AmitPartTimeGamer Жыл бұрын

    great learning man. Thank you for knowledge.

  • @ksturmer5388
    @ksturmer53883 жыл бұрын

    Well done Son! Well done Simon. I've been following you for a couple of years now, and you just GROW....man!! This, one of your finest posts. Cheers, love, light, peace and humanity.....for all.

  • @Jstoneoneil
    @Jstoneoneil3 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos so much! You’ve made love history. Especially the Cold War era even greater! Thanks for the great videos for me and my fellow nerds lol.

  • @carso1500
    @carso15003 жыл бұрын

    You know what would be a fascinating vídeo, one on KZread itself because this website is soo fucking massive it's kinda scary all the infrastructure that has to be in place to keep it running

  • @JohnPap21
    @JohnPap213 жыл бұрын

    The song 9:27 is Haendel - Sarabande for those who wondering

  • @Cooky00123
    @Cooky001233 жыл бұрын

    Dresden and Tokyo had similar casualties in one conventional bombing raid.

  • @speedy01247

    @speedy01247

    3 жыл бұрын

    But how many bombs were used for that, compared to the one used against those cities.

  • @Cooky00123

    @Cooky00123

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@speedy01247 I sure it did matter to the people killed, they are just as dead.

  • @owenshebbeare2999

    @owenshebbeare2999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, perhaps the Germans shouldn't have started bombing Britain...they started it, we finished it, and whining on behalf of the bullies who got righteously put down reeks of 1960's Left-wing revisionism.

  • @makeracistsafraidagain
    @makeracistsafraidagain3 жыл бұрын

    The first time I saw a nuclear weapon I walked up to it and put my hand on it. After a minute the sergeant giving me the tour stepped up next to me and said "everyone does that".

  • @ErickSoares3

    @ErickSoares3

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Demarquez Jones I think you misunderstood his name.

  • @armr6937

    @armr6937

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Demarquez Jones you're boring. I'd touch it too.

  • @bobw1678

    @bobw1678

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would love to make racists afraid again. Unfortunately the left is still pretty bold. Now please tell us more about how minorities are too stupid to figure out how to get a free state-issued voter ID. Or reduce testing standards because you think minorities are too stupid to keep up (looking at you, california.) You know what "critical race theory" is? Its literally *institutionalized racism*. And YOURE THE ONES INSTITUTIONALIZING IT.

  • @Chris-hx3om

    @Chris-hx3om

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Make Racists Afraid Again" - You have to define 'Racist', because from what I see, the people calling everybody racists are the biggest racists.

  • @nicholasmazzei6126
    @nicholasmazzei61263 жыл бұрын

    Love the videos like this!

  • @zacharymitchell5190
    @zacharymitchell51903 жыл бұрын

    Once again the beard of knowledge never fails to impress. Awesome video!

  • @tylerray1728
    @tylerray17283 жыл бұрын

    Do a video about the Chrysler T-1 Nuclear tank!!

  • @Sishqabob
    @Sishqabob3 жыл бұрын

    Great video! I would love to see a comparison series about the Falcon 9 and the Atlas V rockets.

  • @rogueviking9268

    @rogueviking9268

    3 жыл бұрын

    This! #Legend

  • @There-ought-to-be-clowns
    @There-ought-to-be-clowns3 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done.

  • @Dmob1995
    @Dmob19953 жыл бұрын

    Hey Simon, you should do a video on Bagger 288. It was the heaviest land vehicle in the world from 1978 until 1995. A perfect mega project!!

  • @MikePlaysYeet
    @MikePlaysYeet3 жыл бұрын

    Would be cool if you made a ‘Historics’ channel where you discuss events like Berlin Wall, Molotov Ribbentrop or Assassination of Franz Ferdinand 😁

  • @peterpreston-yates2358
    @peterpreston-yates23583 жыл бұрын

    Very watchable as ever Simon. Ideas - Forth rail bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Blue Riband winners, Production car race to hit 300mph,

  • @G13-Gundam
    @G13-Gundam10 ай бұрын

    I really enjoyed this one, I hope more things like this happen more often (Where we all agree we need to chill out and just go about our lives peacefully)

  • @charlesistheman
    @charlesistheman3 жыл бұрын

    Great job!

  • @mikeyoung9810
    @mikeyoung98103 жыл бұрын

    As someone who experienced the Cuban missile crisis at age 7 and someone who remembers the fear to this day I have to say the reality is that nothing has changed.

  • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228

    @axelpatrickb.pingol3228

    3 жыл бұрын

    More things changed, more things stay the same...

  • @MrT------5743

    @MrT------5743

    3 жыл бұрын

    So you are saying DEFCON 2 is about the same as DEFCON 5?

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter3 жыл бұрын

    Good video 👍

  • @joedavis6029
    @joedavis60293 жыл бұрын

    I'd love for one of your channels to cover the September 18-19, 1980 accident at Missile Complex 374-7 in Arkansas. The nuclear warhead was blown out of the silo and completely out of the missile compound itself. There are so much more juicy tidbits in this story!

  • @timothyhouse1622
    @timothyhouse162210 ай бұрын

    You kind of forgot a HUGE issue with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia putting missiles in Cuba was in retaliation for the US putting missiles in Turkey. The US agreed to remove the missiles, though this was not announced to media.

  • @bradbrandon2506
    @bradbrandon25063 жыл бұрын

    "A mad time" ahhh, Simon, I see what you did there!

  • @thxee182
    @thxee1823 жыл бұрын

    Please do the A-10 warthog. Its a monster of a plain.

  • @supa3ek

    @supa3ek

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow how big is that 'plain' ????? Does it have vast sandy areas : ) that can fly ? Im a little confused : ) !!!!!!

  • @KneeDeepInTheDead81
    @KneeDeepInTheDead813 жыл бұрын

    Whistley boi! The beard is coming on 👍

  • @scottguffie7759
    @scottguffie77593 жыл бұрын

    Simon should've put as the background music "Hammer to Fall" by Queen since it was basically written about the Cold War. After all, back then we really all were "Just waiting for the Hammer to Fall".

  • @shannonrhoads7099
    @shannonrhoads70993 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: the hotline between the USA and USSR was *not* a telephone line, but used teletypes. The idea was that if you had to write your message down, you'd take the time to be clear, concise and avoid heated exchanges.

  • @uggligr
    @uggligr3 жыл бұрын

    You left out Vietnam. I have a piece of news that might help this situation. Carnotite is a porous, bright yellow quartz sandstone where the grains are coated with potassium uranyl vanadate, a uranium compound that does not dissolve in water. U-238 decays into thorium 234, a different chemical element that does dissolve in water. It rains. The thorium leaches out of the carnotite and has a half life of 24.1 days, then decays in a four step process into uranium 234. This uranium, once away from the vanadate complex, stays dissolved as long as there is oxygen in the water. If the water runs into an anoxic condition, such as rotting organic matter, it will condense out as uraninite, a hard, refractory mineral that resists further chemical or mechanical attack. Being dense, it is further concentrated in placer deposits. Uranium 234 is a nuclear explosive. So are thorium 230 and protactinium 231. These are found dissolved in water at the bottoms of helium wells. This process is more efficient than the uranium process so it's a danger even though there is less of these materials. Protactinium 231 is the rarest of these materials, but there might (or might not) be just enough protactinium in the world's largest helium well for one bomb. The most unfortunate problem with this is that the material is ridiculously easy to find. It glows in gamma rays in broad daylight and reeks of radon and helium. I"ve turned over a bunch of locations to the Government (U.S. and several others) and they were all painfully obvious. Carnotite is very soft and easily carved by the wind into fantastic, beautiful, much photographed features such as arches and streamlined shapes. This results in loose sand through which water can easily flow. It's something I wish was a joke. But it's not. But this creates an opportunity. The solution to this problem is simple; since it's easy to find even thought it's very rare, find it all and destroy it. All governments ought to embrace this since the country most at risk from this material is the country in which it is located. It's a public menace that threatens everybody. EVERYTHING I know about this is on the open internet for anybody to find. To find out that these are nuclear explosives, look up the neutron cross sections for these materials and compare them to known nuclear explosives. These isotopes are neutron- deficient compared to the other nuclear explosives. Since neutrons are the glue that holds the nucleus together, they are less strongly bound than say, uranium 235 or plutonium 239. Disarmament negotiations are stalled. I believe addressing this problem will get this process off dead center.

  • @drkleo001
    @drkleo0013 жыл бұрын

    Business Blaze is starting to come out in his other channels and it's magnificent. Cheers

  • @blueberrypirate3601
    @blueberrypirate36013 жыл бұрын

    Historians write about the precise point in human history where conflicting politics brewed into chaos and mass destruction long before the first world war and the bitter rivalries fostered between left and right with ordinary people trapped in the middle despite six hundred years of non stop conflict in Europe we never learned. Domination under one single ethos was the golden key.

  • @riddick2016
    @riddick20163 жыл бұрын

    Hi there. Was up in Tummel Village on holiday for a few days and drove home via loch lomond..........was really nice but the drive was a wee bit hairy at times. Maybe that could give you an idea for something. Love ur vids m8

  • @Raz.C
    @Raz.C3 жыл бұрын

    Actually, "Detente" is most usefully defined as "no war, no peace.

  • @porscheguy5848
    @porscheguy58483 жыл бұрын

    Do a video on underground nuclear testing

  • @turismo-2way996
    @turismo-2way9963 жыл бұрын

    Mate, these introductions are getting better and better 💪

  • @zmark7843
    @zmark78433 жыл бұрын

    Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, the most accurate abbreviation i ever heard, the entire idea is just MAD,

  • @owenshebbeare2999

    @owenshebbeare2999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can't say for sure, but it may have worked as a deterrent.

  • @mdramsey
    @mdramsey3 жыл бұрын

    5:20 - Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki, not Hiroshima. Otherwise, great work as usual.

  • @owenshebbeare2999

    @owenshebbeare2999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bad editing would be my guess.

  • @LTCAproductions
    @LTCAproductions3 жыл бұрын

    I always have the commissioner Gordon line in my head at the end of Batman Begins when he speaks about escalation and I immediately understand how we got to this point

  • @chrislong6601
    @chrislong66013 жыл бұрын

    Since you did a video about Air Force One, how about a video about NAOC?

  • @MrT------5743
    @MrT------57433 жыл бұрын

    My dad use to say all the time, 'Close only counts for horseshoes and hand grenades'. I would also chime in and say 'and nuclear weapons'.

  • @stephenmanicom636
    @stephenmanicom6363 жыл бұрын

    Would love to see a video on the Iowa class battleship. Still awesome that all 4 built are still afloat almost 80 years later

  • @BryanElliott_
    @BryanElliott_ Жыл бұрын

    I wish you had a channel talking about how you do all of the channels you have

  • @Nightmare2077
    @Nightmare20773 жыл бұрын

    5:23 Fat Man hit Nagasaki, not Hiroshima (picture and broader statement are correct).

  • @mdramsey
    @mdramsey3 жыл бұрын

    Also, overlooking platforms like the MX Peacekeeper, and SS-18, and how that impacted treaty talks is a pretty big omission.

  • @Touay.
    @Touay.3 жыл бұрын

    Nuclear weapons have saved tens of millions of lives ... if not hundreds of millions .... "Nuclear weapons ended the utility of industrialized war". General sir Rupert Smith.

  • @tkitt21
    @tkitt213 жыл бұрын

    Aye Aye Aye New Episode!!!!

  • @25jessieg
    @25jessieg3 жыл бұрын

    It was my understanding that Russia NEVER had the upper hand. Not even with sputnik. Our missiles/bombs were always smaller and more advanced. They had Sputnik, but no warhead. They didn't want to sound weak so they lied about keeping up with the US. Sure they had icbms. But the US was so far ahead in numbers and tech we were basically in a race with ourselves.

  • @hokutoulrik7345
    @hokutoulrik73453 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact, the hotline between Washington and Moscow is not actually a phone. It is basically an text messaging system. This would allow both leaders to consider their words before they were sent.

  • @jili4214

    @jili4214

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably to avoid hilarious interactions such as those on the film "Dr Strangelove"

  • @Bdude1111
    @Bdude11113 жыл бұрын

    How about a video on the Kennecott Utah Copper Mine. It's the largest open pit copper mine in the world!

  • @amypondhikes
    @amypondhikes3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Simon, how ‘bout a video on the Warsaw Radio Mast?

  • @Azwarrior94
    @Azwarrior943 жыл бұрын

    Definitely think the PRR T1, the Orient Express(and all it’s routes), the NYC 20th Century Limited and the PRR Broadway Limited would make good topics and be a more uplifting change from the many interesting military topics. Don’t get me wrong. The military tech is interesting. But it’d be good to mix it up a lil.

  • @davidboysel4509
    @davidboysel45092 жыл бұрын

    The SALT Treaty was the equivalent of a modern military removing Flintlock weapons as their main battle rifle sure they have removed Antiquated nuclear devices from their stockpiles but they have not destroyed any of their modern nuclear capabilities

  • @johnynuke3310
    @johnynuke33103 жыл бұрын

    Hey you did a video on the biggest battleship of ww2 how about the most famous, bismarck, and still no full videos on plan Z and the H-class battleships

  • @owenshebbeare2999

    @owenshebbeare2999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bismarck the "most famous"? Depends on to whom you speak.

  • @johnynuke3310

    @johnynuke3310

    3 жыл бұрын

    Point taken, but from my experience it's the most known battleship I mean even my parents know about it

  • @EthanolTailor
    @EthanolTailor3 жыл бұрын

    for anyone that wants complete disarmament I say this. Pandora's box has been opened and there is no closing it again, its better to know we have less nukes than to think we have none.

  • @theknifeknerd
    @theknifeknerd Жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video on the the SCUD missile?

  • @DonBlackBird71
    @DonBlackBird713 жыл бұрын

    Did you know, "Hello everybody welcome to another episode of Megaprojects" is the third most used phrase on KZread after "Like Share and Subscribe" and "This video is Sponsored by Squarespace".

  • @aceundead4750

    @aceundead4750

    3 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly enough those phrases are most used by one singular person. One of these days we'll get Simon recognized by Guiness

  • @jeffd.8105

    @jeffd.8105

    3 жыл бұрын

    I assumed "This video sponsored by Raid:Shadow Legends" would be number one.

  • @Football__Junkie

    @Football__Junkie

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also “Check out my other channel...”

  • @92kevans
    @92kevans3 жыл бұрын

    It would be really cool to do a mega project video about building, maintaining, and the eventual collapse of the USSR. That would be an epic story to hear

  • @arantkjeld7058
    @arantkjeld70582 жыл бұрын

    Have you done a video on the Cannikin Project? 😃

  • @josephmalek1724
    @josephmalek17243 жыл бұрын

    man u changed a lot nice beard and keep it up simon

  • @MarcVette
    @MarcVette3 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in during the Cold War. In grade school, (late 60's) we watched Public Service Civil Defense films once a month telling us what to do if we were attacked by nuclear weapons. They even had a little ditty set to music, "Duck And Cover." That put real fear in the hearts of us 6th graders.

  • @scottyford4224
    @scottyford42243 жыл бұрын

    Simon would love to see Mega Project on The James Webb Space Telescope.

  • @core2zero

    @core2zero

    3 жыл бұрын

    launching soon... (come on, plz, we waiting)

  • @scottyford4224

    @scottyford4224

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@core2zero this is my 4th or 5th time trying to get the Telescope on Mega Projects. Im hoping since i posted this time earlier in comment section it will be seen.

  • @IstanbulBeautyOne
    @IstanbulBeautyOne2 жыл бұрын

    Quote “ A tenacious band of warriors armed with little more then Ak-47 and rockets launcher could be more than a match for… Soviet Union 1989 and United State 2021

  • @utimagus
    @utimagus3 жыл бұрын

    Have you done one of these on the neutron bomb?