Building bunkers for the very people that start the wars is insanity. Putting our "leaders" in harms way and making sure they know they're the first to go is by far the best way of preventing any such conflict.

@al_kebulanolutosin2702

10 ай бұрын

OFF-GRID MY FRIEND, LOUD & PERFECTLY CLEAR. BUT THERE LEADERS & LEADERS, THERE ARE FEW, VERY FEW WHO ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIFE FOR THEIR PEOPLE. " THAT IS WHY, "THE CHRIST" IS ETERNALLY OUTSTANDING!!!!!. HE DID NOT RUN FROM HIS ENEMIES ---- & HE MADE NOT A SOUND WHEN BEING CRUCIFIED ---- THE ETERNAL CONQUERER!!!!!!! I ADMIRE THE "IMMORTAL" NOT THESE PETTY MUNDANE RULERS!!!!!!!

@rgracia611

10 ай бұрын

That is one of the smartest things I’ve ever heard. I’m on board with that.

@yuchoob

9 ай бұрын

How would putting the UK leadership in harm's way help prevent an attack by an adversary?

@offgrid7837

9 ай бұрын

@@yuchoob I didn't specify just UK leadership. Wars are started by elites for their own benefit and pose no real risk of death to them. If they were the very first to be eliminated you can be sure there would be very few wars.

@al_kebulanolutosin2702

9 ай бұрын

LOUD AND CLEAR!!!!!!

In the event of a nuclear explosion, I would like to be in the 3 mile zone area, so I would disintegrate ASAP.

@gilgammesh1

11 ай бұрын

Same, put me at the epicentre

@Xiph1980

11 ай бұрын

And miss out on the finest radroaches, brahmin, and deathclaw recipes??

@RichieKeane

11 ай бұрын

That was the problem in UK/EU most countries just didn't bother because they needed too many bunkers and not much point in the end. But the swiss.. one place for every citizen in every town..

@bghoody5665

11 ай бұрын

@@Xiph1980 Don't forget Mirelurks.

@dazzab111

11 ай бұрын

same, I've seen the movie Threads

Great video. However there is one additional aspect of a nuclear explosion that you didn't mention. After the initial flash followed by heat and then blast there is a fourth effect - it is called drag back. Once the force of the shock wave is over the air rushes back to fill the vacuum created by the shock wave. The drag back effect causes further catastrophic damage.

@alicianah8352

4 ай бұрын

Additionally all power plants unmanned would overheat and explode adding further radiation for tens of thousands of years.

@stevenfries9007

3 ай бұрын

Yes-and you rarely see that effect on many nuclear videos.

As a kid in the 80's, my mother worked for the MoD within the Nuclear department. If an attack was imminent, she had a place in a bunker, but the family did not. And for the reason, that after many years going down bunkers for fire drills. The amount of video's and classified footage of the effects from these, she left the department and worked elsewhere. Her advice was that if one went off, she would just march us outside. I guess, because we would not feel a thing and would be the kindest thing to do for us all, rather than try and survive along with the cancer rate and other diseases within an apocalyptic world.

@stevenewton7787

10 ай бұрын

Lol yeah I say if one is coming for Manchester I'm watching it.

@FarterBoom

10 ай бұрын

Its near!

@owthattickles8738

10 ай бұрын

Cancer would be the least of your problems

@FarterBoom

10 ай бұрын

@@owthattickles8738 yeah, mutants and zombies must be the Worst

@ireneerrico4706

10 ай бұрын

Famine

After the bomb goes off all we'll hear is Clarkson say "And on that bombshell"

@xXxlLEGENDZlxXx

11 ай бұрын

"HAAAMMMMMMOOONNNDDD!!!"

@WarButler

11 ай бұрын

It's time to end

@StaticSRR75

11 ай бұрын

What could go wrong?

@Okurka.

11 ай бұрын

Still, could be worse.

@hesky10

11 ай бұрын

And on that terrible disappointment ... for you!

Well this was unexpected lol

@koshintokoshinto

11 ай бұрын

No one expects the nuclear option!

@jcat96

11 ай бұрын

​@@koshintokoshinto nobody expected the Spanish inquisition

@jessandkaka

11 ай бұрын

That’s different.

@robertrico7598

11 ай бұрын

Was this a whole video to show that Mike can’t pronounce the word Nuclear?

@imanidiot2904

11 ай бұрын

As long as its in the USA or the UK the world would be better off after

In 1984, the BBC produced a documentary drama,'Threads ' .It was made during the Cold War and was critically acclaimed. It was said this docu drama was the closest Britain came to nuclear war.

@odineproci2455

10 ай бұрын

It was. In the present, Britain is edging closer to nuclear war than ever before. The main reason for this, apart from acting as a vassal to U.S. empire, is the unstable situation where a much larger and more powerful U.S./NATO now has enough hubris to no longer fear a nuclear confrontation with Russia. NATO is not a defensive alliance but a framework of U.S. empire. It is a tool designed to defend U.S. interests first and foremost, as its European members are even pulled into U.S. imperial wars that are detrimental to own interests e.g. the Iraq war (which led to terrorism, economic damage and refugee crises in Europe). However, NATO's expansion to former Warsaw pact and now ex-Soviet countries was always about weakening and isolating Russia, with a long view to disintegrate, disarm and ultimately plunder the former superpower. The main problem with this plan is that they are still armed like one. A large part of NATO, including Britain, does not posses adequate defence against Russia's modern nuclear weaponry. I believe our masters might be quite safe behind concentrated defences with their GMD, THAAD, Aegis, Patriots etc. But what about us? Our current leadership is convinced they can survive that, probably in some deep bunker. But what about us? When do we get to vote on all the incredible political stupidity that puts us collectively at risk? Oh yes, there is no vote on NATO. That sort of Brexit is not allowed. But the master did appreciate an economical Brexit from the EU, since a more divided Europe is easier to control and allows American businesses to make more profits here.

@alxgu198

10 ай бұрын

My uncle was in ‘Threads’. Well, his hands were lol, he was the milkman near the start of the film.

@chrisholland7367

10 ай бұрын

@alxgu198 lol 😆 oh dear, his fate was sealed the morning he went on his milk round.

@alxgu198

10 ай бұрын

@@chrisholland7367 😂👍

@daydays12

10 ай бұрын

@@odineproci2455 what is all this drivel? have you not got anything better to do or anything more worthwhile to contribute?

Nothing says "expertise" like "nucular".

Cant wait for the follow up video - James May Reassembles Thermo-Nuclear Bomb part 1

The eeriness from watching this vid whilst on a casual walk in the neighbourhood is on another level. I started picturing what a nuclear mushroom would look like on the horizon.

Imagine spending your life career as a physicist and you make history by splitting the atom but your government sees potential to use it as a form of world control

@daydays12

8 ай бұрын

Oppenheimer....odious criminal.

@Desert-edDave

7 ай бұрын

Imagine being so intellectually lazy as to think a single government can "control" the world.

I must congratulate your team on your cinematography. Top notch colour-grading here. A beautiful and interesting video. Well done.

If you were in the bugout bunker kitchen i imagine you would be fine.

@Mazomania

11 ай бұрын

🤓

@MillhouseSpeaks

11 ай бұрын

🧀

@gewglesux

11 ай бұрын

but only if adequately supplied with lurpak.

@theog841

11 ай бұрын

​@@gewglesux invented in 1901

@Okurka.

11 ай бұрын

The council issued white bread stays fresh for decades.

Mike, as much as we all love you. There is only ONE 'U' in nuclear!

@405pugMi

11 ай бұрын

Haha, yep. I immediately thought of Homer Simpson. "Nuculer. It's pronounced nuculer"

@fdsman

11 ай бұрын

You could make a drinking game out of it

@stuartkseels

11 ай бұрын

@@fdsman lol.

@Okurka.

11 ай бұрын

@@405pugMi *pronounced Oh, the irony!

@405pugMi

11 ай бұрын

@@Okurka. fat thumb syndrome strikes again..

Great job Mike. You need to do more of this type doc videos.

This vid was amazing. Informative, very well presented and beautifully filmed.

I've always wondered what justification politicians used to justify their survival post apocalypse and the same goes for any nobility that would have been saved as well. Why save a group of people who's skill sets would in all honesty be quite useless and in fact are more likely to be a drain on whatever society would be left than any realistic benefit.

@nigelgribble8736

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely, if politicians didn't have bunkers to hide on they would think twice about using nuclear weapons

@patriciarowe6685

10 ай бұрын

Agreed 🤝

@sodium7127

10 ай бұрын

Money talks. Unless humanity launches dozens of nuclear weapons simultaneously and renders the world uninhabitable, the rest of the world outside the blast zone will still exist and money will still hold its value. That is what I assume at least.

@andyb.1026

10 ай бұрын

Biological weapons are FAR more effective,, witness CoVid

@mikejung3908

9 ай бұрын

I’m glad our leader get to survive, let them eat cockroaches and scorpions when they crawl out of their little hidi holes, let them enjoy the dark world where rotting flesh taints the air.

1. lucy does a budget travel show 2. james may promotes his new gin 3. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF A NUCLEAR BOMB-

Didn’t expect this video to be so close to home here in Glasgow. Brilliantly made and presented!

This was such an informative video. It is such a scary thought that any country in the world would even consider this in today's day and age.

@daydays12

10 ай бұрын

Putin would....he's a narcissistic gangster living in his own psychotic bubble....he 'thinks' he'll live for ever. The 'creature' ruling North Korea would...

@chrisbagley8104

9 ай бұрын

A certain country led by a lunatic might just press the button, wait and see. Look to the East.

@RandomWandrer

9 ай бұрын

An excellent video. It was only distracting hearing the guy say "nucular" instead of "nuclear" every minute.

@christian14329

9 ай бұрын

You only need one lunatic on the trigger! Unfortunately, Putin is a lunatic!

@PeteCourtier

9 ай бұрын

That’s why we have our nuclear deterrent.

Thanks for this. Really interesting watch. Ive been to that bunker a couple of times. Always shocks me how long the ramp is down into it.

Some say it could actually improve some UK cities and towns and that the Co-op would still be open, even if it was directly below the detonation.

@Brian-om2hh

11 ай бұрын

This was Donald Trump's argument, when it was suggested that North Korea should be nuked. Trump didn't see why US taxpayers ought to fund infrastructure improvements in NK......

@richardmorgan5002

10 ай бұрын

🤣

@richardmorgan5002

10 ай бұрын

🤣

@michaelscott7166

10 ай бұрын

If it was dropped on Bradford that definitely would be the case.

@neilarcher2551

10 ай бұрын

You couldn't make Wolverhampton any worse even with a nuke.

Great documentary! It's visually very creative and highly informative as well. What I love best is how it brings the world scale issue down to a human and local context, in this case Scotland.

This is a fantastic video, really well presented!

You continue to surprise with both the quality and diversity of content on this channel. This was an excellent and chilling video. Expertly shot, delivered, and edited. Can't wait to see what's next!

This.. is not what i expected when I clicked on the thumbnail, but ended up really cool and really informative too!

@richardjones2811

11 ай бұрын

Did you expect a cooking video?

I watched Threads the British movie of a nuclear war , its horrific 😢 and knowing now the bombs are so much stronger , it would be quite easy to destroy the planet 😮

@al_kebulanolutosin2702

10 ай бұрын

Thorm ONLY HE WHO MADE THE WORLD 🌎 CAN DESTROY IT!!!!!? THIS WORLD DID NOT MADE BY CHANCE OR BY GUESS!!!!! THE SEASONS COMES & GOES IN FAULTLESS ACCURACY, LIKE WISE THE SUN & MOON!!!! WHY DOUBT THE POWERS OF ----- THE ALMIGHTY!!!!!.

This is an award worthy production. Brilliant everything.

rent would get affordable?

@gewglesux

11 ай бұрын

Think BIG..... Mortgage!!

I always found it interesting that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was designed specifically to withstand nuclear (thermonuclear I believe) weapons, but by the time construction was completed the thinking was that a direct hit would still be able to destroy it. It’s also fascinating to me that the only way a fusion reaction can be kicked off (with current tech) is by using a fission reaction. Simply incredible.

@darrinnoble

11 ай бұрын

They say it's because of the rock that Cheyenne Mountain is made of. It creates a fused shield when exposed to extreme heat. It's also really obvious which mountain is Cheyenne. 😂

@JG54206

11 ай бұрын

@@darrinnoble this is true lol. It’s not exactly hard to spot.

@bertram-raven

11 ай бұрын

Even during the design phase it was accepted a direct hit would destroy it. The belief of the time, now validated as true, was such levels of precision were not possible with initial guidance systems.

@bertram-raven

11 ай бұрын

@@JG54206 Not hard to spot, unless you are trying to calculate ballistics from a few thousand miles away using inertial guidance systems. Then it is very hard to spot.

@JG54206

11 ай бұрын

@@bertram-raven I would imagine that scenario would add quite a bit of difficulty and complexity to the equation.

Well thanks for cheering my evening up you’ve been a great laugh.

Great video. Very well made.

Unexpected but enjoyable. Nice one

I'm wondering what kind of damage a Scottish made 58 megaton nuclear warhead infused with Irn Bru would do.

I used to work in an R3 bunker during the 90's. The bunkers were so bad that it was said that a 1000 lb bomb could have taken it out. So, whether I'd have survived down there if the big one happened was doubtful.

Mike, what an incredibly interesting and clear video. Thank you.

Fascinating! From travel videos to this!

that's a change of pace. Also: When the Wind blows. Extremely impressive and haunting film on the topic. Despite (or because) it being quite funny as well.

Excellent video, explanation was just perfect

Over 30 years ago I supplied valves and other plant controls. Many nuclear shelters were still in operation at the time and I visited a couple under the strictest security. The air filtration plants would fail regularly - usually every fortnight- and as I was informed by one of the engineers, in the event of nuclear attack one of the personnel who would not be permitted in the facility at that critical time would be the engineers..

I’ve just looked at the reaction of the thermonuclear fusion bomb and that is really very scary. Incredibly impressive that somebody came up with it, but crazily scary.

@robertokandal

11 ай бұрын

it will not fall 1 , but thoussands of them over uk,,, you ahve been warned.

@darrenmurray861

11 ай бұрын

@@robertokandal well; if the Russian aim is as terrible as your spelling and grammar I think we will be just fine thanks. Off you go now 😊

@jamesbarbour8400

10 ай бұрын

@@robertokandal that's what we get for sticking our nose into a War that has nothing to do with us -'we're like a subsidiary of the US in this Country. Everytime they say 'jump', we say 'how high' !?

@daydays12

10 ай бұрын

fusion bomb 'impressive'? The works of JS Bach are impressive, the works of Shakespeare are impressive , not fusion bombs.... fusion bombs are the stuff of nightmares.

@ivanexell-uz4mv

10 ай бұрын

@@jamesbarbour8400 and Belarus and Serbia? 😂

Amazing video. Thank you.

oh its mike ! , another great video

Thank goodness we're being softened with the idea before it all kicks off

Last week: James May drinks some gin This week: *WHAT IF WE ALL DIE IN A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION*

@stevenmclucas1894

Ай бұрын

Cheery stuff😂

Really well made vid! Very informative! 👍

I really needed cheering up. Thanks for this. 😂😅

The worst of it will be for the people farther away from the blast. Those that are close will die quickly. Those farther away will have severe injuries and radiation sickness. Most of them will still die, but it will be over a long and excruciatingly painful period of time. These weapons should have never been created. I know it didn't appear so at the time, but the losses taken invading Japan would have been preferable to the looming destruction and suffering we face today. Murphy's law will eventually get us.

@rain-cy6ve

10 ай бұрын

I agree, better more loss of human lives then than this monstrousity threatening the very existance of our world as it is now. I think somebody took the wrong decision and they didn t have much forsight to see what would happen.

@ian323183

10 ай бұрын

Depends on the wind direction, most will probably starve if there is a nuclear winter.

@alexburt6995

9 ай бұрын

Someone was going to develop them eventually. I'm glad it was the US to do it first rather than certain other nations.

"Shall we play a game"

I've been inside the bunker at Kelvedon Hatch. Like the one in this video, as you go below ground, there is a very long corridor leading to the blast door around the corner at the end of it. It's obviously a common feature to aid in the defence of these bunkers.

@TheGonzogibby

9 ай бұрын

We had raves in the “secret bunker” back in 2002-2004 - Bangin’ indeed. Ffs I’m old now.

@davetdowell

9 ай бұрын

The Blast Doors are deliberately placed at right angles to direction the blast would come from, to reduce the impact to the door.

Kept that bunker a secret when I visited Anstruther. Honestly, though, there’s far more to worry about from the nuclear bomb than there is the nukelar bomb because, and this is true, nukelar bomb doesn’t exist 😉 Worked on Britains nuclear deterrent in Faslane and Coulport. The v-boats were fascinating as were the trident ICBMs. If they weren’t so ch a horrendous weapon of destruction (and also housed so f king close to Glasgow), the technology behind them is incredible. Everything from how, on launch, they clear the water to allow the sun launch, to how it travels, all the way to it travels 1,200 miles up and reads the stars to to locate itself and its target

@davidantonucci1161

9 ай бұрын

all those who are righteous will increase And all those wicked will act in righteousness in order that they will not be cut off As wicked does not support those righteous They will lie down and not get up.+They will be extinguished, snuffed out like a burning wick. How have the anointed shown themselves to be people for the name today To worship and serve Jehovah accept Those who are not spiritual how was this foretold in bible End the son of man ? For angels , to separate The sons of the kingdom Look! I am doing something new; I will make a way through the wilderness The wild beast of the field will honor me, The wild beast of the field will honor me, For I provide water in the wilderness, For the ostriches For my people to drink I formed for myself The people Who grew You have not called me I have bought And I have not compelled I am the one bring me Prove me your right side The one for my sake Taken from my own body For her sake - Bring me a gift

I tell you what would happen, we would be mildly miffed!

"War never changes."

you took me on a ride in this one... what a great vid

One of the best vids on the channel, very eerie

"We sent Lucy on the three cheapest flights possible to create a travel show in three days" "Next up, just how devastating is the hydrogen bomb?"

@crazoatmeal1854

11 ай бұрын

I originally subscribed for the Bugout Bunker, so we've kind of come full circle

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed! One small correction if I may, the RAF are no longer in Kinloss, the old base is now Army barracks. It’s nearby Lossiemouth and Leuchars that are still active 😃

@chunkymonkey3957

9 ай бұрын

One small correction to your correction, Leuchars is no longer an active RAF station either. The Army have control of what was RAF Leuchars now.

@timdeegan3753

4 ай бұрын

Somewhere else will certainly be the new equivalent

Great vid 👍

Question: At 20 seconds into the video, where is the camera at that it survives?

Just in time for the Oppenheimer film

Like with so many other things, we opened Pandora's box when we made the first nuclear bombs. In an ironic twist, it became so the only way to ensure none would be used against you was to have your own so you were equally as threatening to your enemy. I fear the AI revolution that is taking off now will be the next problem like the nuclear arms race was. Because don't kid yourself, AI will absolutely be used, or at least be available to use, as a weapon of mass destruction, and quite possibly it may very well reach a point where we are no longer controlling it.

@stevezodiac491

10 ай бұрын

We didn't Oppenheimer did.

@jamesbarbour8400

10 ай бұрын

@@Terminator- ha you beat me to it - I was going to reference the Terminator movies. Oh well - great minds obviously think alike 🤣

@tadhggoreyoneill13666

10 ай бұрын

​@@stevezodiac491oppenheimer couldn't look himself in the mirror ever again after Hiroshima and Nagasaki

@daydays12

10 ай бұрын

@@tadhggoreyoneill13666 He was the lowest of the the lower... using a brain smarter than the average for evil.

@cbo9090

10 ай бұрын

@@stevezodiac491only because Werner Heisenberg was attempting a nuclear weapon for the Nazis. They actually had a several year head start but the program was vastly underfunded. The Americans didn’t know how far along they were with it though.

Years ago, I toured the bunker at what used to be Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Carp, which is located about 20km west of Ottawa, Canada's national capital. It was originally built to be a communications facility for the Canadian military, and as a place where Continuity of Government (COG) operations could be conducted during a nuclear attack. In wartime, the Prime Minster and his Cabinet would be housed there. Built in the late 1950s, it was part of a network of similar government and military bunkers that were located throughout Canada on military bases and in or near major cities. The CFS Carp facility was nicknamed 'The Diefenbunker', as John Diefenbaker was Prime Minister at the time. Like the facility in Scotland, it could accommodate about 300 people. The bunker also featured a vault where Canada's central bank, The Bank of Canada, could store some or all of its gold reserves. At the time it was built, it could withstand the blast and heat generated by a five-megaton bomb landing five miles (8km) away, but not a direct hit. The facility quickly became obsolete with the advent of much more accurate ICBMs. The Diefenbunker was decommissioned in 1994, and today, it functions as a Cold War museum that is run by a non-profit organization. Parts of the facility were used to film the movie The Sum of All Fears. While I toured the facility, it was interesting to note that some areas were off-limits. Who knows what mysteries they held?

Great video 👍

So, we've just given up and are now just gonna say "newkuelar" and not " newclear"?

@SunTzuMedia

6 ай бұрын

Right?! Lol embarrassing

The thermal nuke in the film terminator 2 is terrifying

Excellent video 👌🏼😃

Very well done.

During the description of what'll happen during the explosion of the bomb he Mike failed to mention most of us will be out of a job.

@elhasmusic

11 ай бұрын

And jobs would still be forced necessary.

@gilesfarmer5953

11 ай бұрын

.. and that 3 million people in the UK will die.......... unemployed! Credit to NTNOCN

I wonder why ~50% of english speakers can't pronounce new-clear and says nukular instead...

@cjjk9142

11 ай бұрын

Not sure on 50% as I say it as new clear . Not to mention it’s literally English and you’re complaining English saying English wrong

@theheadone

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, it's likely because of The Simpsons.

@yuchoob

9 ай бұрын

The weird thing is he can say "nucleus" correctly (he doesn't say "new-que-lus"), but he does say "new-que-lar". I would agree that it's at least 50% of British English speakers say "new-que-lar". It dates far before the Simpsons; most of my school friends used to say it and now so do almost all the politicians and journalists. And yet, most of them don't say "skelington" or "Specific Ocean".

Great video. Very interesting topic

Amazing video. All I could think, however, was, "What have we done? 🤦‍♂️"

This is a great video and I hope you do more like this, and not just war stuff but random tech, engineering, and just any random interesting stuff. You did a really great job on this one, writers and editors pat yourselves on the back. It's sad that the people we put in power end up becoming power-crazed lunatics who would rather sacrifice thousands of their own countrymen than find a reasonable solution. So far thank the flying spaghetti monster none have used these bat$h!t crazy weapons since WW2. Hopefully, in the future, our descendants look at war as just a crazy part of the past.

@daydays12

10 ай бұрын

The human species has always made war. Horrible species in that regard. it shows no signs of stopping. Putin invades a peaceful democratic neighbour and goes about demolishing and drowning it. Warlords fight with modern weapons in Sudan and, as the man said, 'so it goes'.

@AnarchAngel1

9 ай бұрын

Keep hoping because that will never happen. War always has been and always will be a part of human civilization. To expect otherwise is naive

@davidantonucci1161

9 ай бұрын

Test y

@davidantonucci1161

9 ай бұрын

@@AnarchAngel1 yes you are all thinanadams sons

@LordandGodofYouTube

9 ай бұрын

@@AnarchAngel1 a lot of things change. We used to do human sacrifice for the Gods. Capital punishment is slowly going away. To say war will always be a part of life is a bit pessimistic.

Excellent ! Well done mike 👏

Both Leuchars and Kinloss are no longer operational RAF Air Bases all RAF aircraft are now based in Lossiemouth

Excellent I learnt a lot, Thank you

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds', Oppenheimer's

Allow me to be the one to point out that it is pronounced Nuclear not Nucular. Next you’ll be axing questions.

@paulbrouyere1735

10 ай бұрын

Especially with the subject of nuclear It is best to not allow misunderstandings or dyslexia.

@yuchoob

9 ай бұрын

@@paulbrouyere1735 This isn't dyslexia. This is a bizarre mispronunciation of a word by a significant number of people. And it's not even consistent: He doesn't mispronounce "nucleus" as "new-que-lus", so why does he insist on saying "new-que-lar"? Does he also say "skelington"?

@yuchoob

9 ай бұрын

Next he'll be axing questions about new-que-lar skelingtons in the Specific Ocean.

@paulbrouyere1735

9 ай бұрын

@@yuchoob oh great, you found a way to train spelling control😂

@CHRIS_HITCHCOCK

9 ай бұрын

@@yuchoob I am internally grateful for your reply.

Fantastic video this.

Great video - I live in Edinburgh and visited this bunker museum when I was a kid! Would like to go back and you’ve inspired me

Very cool that there were enough bunkers in this country to house anything up to about 1000 of the entire population.

Today I saw the movie Oppenheimer. It was impressive, tense, and difficult in terms of making such a decision that would destroy "our enemies" in a blink of an eye, and then the consequences of those who survive the explosion will last for decades. On one hand I have admiration for these incredibly intelligent men, yet they build is "a massive destruction weapon" that put an end to WWII. It is said that in love and war everything is possible. Yet I wonder how these people could live the rest of their lives knowing what they did. It is insanity to think of a hydrogen bomb that literally would destroy the world as we know it. and then what... Why instead we find a way to live in peace and help one another like brothers and sisters around the world. Why humans are so unkind and want more and more power to control the world? Will this even come to an end?

@ednammansfield8553

9 ай бұрын

Probably never. As long as their are human beings on this planet of ours there will always be power mad people who would use these weapons. Mankind will be responsible for its own destruction.

@davidantonucci1161

8 ай бұрын

What is an en i i this is 1 I o v e e uominogOdreewater is on the first day and the second day there shall be light

@Desert-edDave

7 ай бұрын

There is no hope for the Godless.

@davidantonucci1161

6 ай бұрын

@@ednammansfield8553 Man will be brought low, And if the righteous man is being saved with difficulty, what will happen to That is why all hands will go limp, And every man’s heart will melt with fear. What is mortal man that you keep him in mind, a son of man that you take care of him? Only when a wild donkey can give birth to a man. As one would between a man and his fellow in mind, And a son of man that you take care of him and the young man became like one of his sons.

Great video, your narration style is spot on!

@yuchoob

9 ай бұрын

Except for the bit where he keeps saying "new-que-lar".

Fun fact: Electrons are regarded as fundamental particles that can not be broken down further. Two up quarks and one down quark comprise a proton. Two down quarks and one up quark comprise a neutron. Thus, electrons can not be collided and caused to bond.

Don’t you find it strange the government making all phones have this ‘emergency’ warning now with all what’s happening in Ukraine

If Europe gets nuked, can we still watch Lucy Brown travel the apocalyptic wasteland?

Brilliant video, I wasn't subscribed but I am now. I know it is very difficult to condense such complicated information into a short, easy to understand video but for anyone interested -when an atom undergoes fission and splits apart it is not smashed apart in the conventional way like a bullet would smash an egg apart. The atom actually absorbs the neutron and then it vibrates, becomes unstable and pops apart. (This all happens in fractions of a billionth of a second) Both pieces of the atom have a net positive charge and it is that electrostatic force of two positives that makes the two pieces fly apart at high speed. Contrary to normal intuition the faster a neutron is travelling, the less likely it is to make the atom break apart because it will more likely bounce off instead of being absorbed. That is why water and graphite are used in nuclear reactors - to slow the neutrons down.

Raf Leuchars and Kinloss are closed now. Only Lossiemouth in Scotland operates as an air force base

Oh no they nuked Grimsby! Alexa play Mike Oldfield.

it's Nuclear, not Nucular as you persistently mispronounced.

If you get a chance to come to the States there's the Trinity Test Site at Alamogordo, New Mexico, where the first nuke was detonated. There's also the Nevada Proving Grounds (formerly Nevada Test Site) north of Las Vegas where dozens of atmospheric nukes detonated during the Cold War. I've toured this location, and even though it looks like any desert valley, there's remnants of blown-up homes, railroad tracks, bunkers . . . it's spooky, because there's still radiation there.

There was also the bunker at Barnton Quarry in Edinburgh. The city's worst kept secret, as the lift equipment was in two green-painted telephone boxes on the top of Corstorphine Hill. It would have been useless, as after the fall of the Soviet Union, it was revealed that they knew of it, and had it targeted for a nuclear strike, as well as hitting the city centre, Leith, and Hound Point oil terminal. I have always said if the balloon goes up, I hope I'm in the city centre, where I would be vapourised instantly. My greatest fear is to be at home in Moredun, 3.5 miles to the south of the city centre, which would be just far enough out to survive. As one person once said, in the aftermath of a nuclear war, the living would envy the dead.

The Simpsons references start at 00:17 😄

Actually Britain jumped on it first with operation tube alloys, before handing the research off to the Americans in the joint US/UK and Canadian Manhattan project. the British did the groundwork and the initial research into making a fissile bomb. Scottish independence isn't going to happen, look at the SNP and there is more need to be protected by Trident now than there has in the last 40 years. it is the only reason we have been able to resist Russian nuclear threats.

@petewatson9866

11 ай бұрын

There are a lot more countries that do not have nuclear weapons SO Russia will take them over??😂

@ajkgordon

11 ай бұрын

@@petewatson9866 Ukraine?

@SirZanZa

11 ай бұрын

@@petewatson9866 well..... look at Ukraine...Georgia.. Syria obviously that can happen Russia is one of the most aggressive and expansionist countries in human history how much have you had to smoke???? i'm guessing a lot with that hair brained reply. Britain is the corner stone of NATO's Nuclear deterrent and would be first to reply in a nuclear exchange. it Guarantee's a swift nuclear response if Russia invades a NATO nation or launches a nuclear strike. without Nukes the United Kingdom would be a sitting duck, it isn't fair to let the United States provide NATO with all of it's nuclear deterrence. other countries have to pull their weight. every country that isn't the United States, United Kingdom France or Poland should be doing more.

Nicely done Video. When I saw it in the End Cards of the last car Video, I was quite surprised. But as a history nerd, I liked it.

Removing the Trident defense system would be an insane move.

I don't have a nuclear bunker, but I'll be fine, as I can just hide in my Volvo.

@greggi47

10 ай бұрын

Isn't there a movie or TV show with that scenario?

Dear Mike, this was a great video, but I have to admit that I’m not bothered at all by the possibility of a “nucular” war happening, but I do find the possibility nuclear war terrifying, whether fusion or fission bombs were to be used.

@jenncross4139

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, the nookyoolar really undermines the severity of the threat.

@dwchester

9 ай бұрын

I agree. I hate to be sour, but the repeated use of the wrong word really detracts from what was otherwise a fine, informative article.

@pwcinla

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. You cannot speak with authority if you keep saying "new killer." Plus the constant cut-away shots where he's no longer talking to us but someone off camera (who?) is so jarring.

@anthonydoyle7370

6 ай бұрын

Also Apparently, there is no fallout from an air burst weapon.

I am in awe!!!

I suppose it depends which city it went off in. I've been to some UK cities where it wouldn't make much difference.

Let's add one significant correction - The US pursued the bomb to it's conclusion first - but they did so off the back of all the UK University of Manchester and University of Oxford research that had already been done, and components already made in a tunnel in North Wales which were shipped across to them as part of the agreement between Churchill and FDR and to prevent the Germans getting their hands on the research in the event of successful invasion of Britain. That work formed a nucleus of the start of what went on to become the Manhattan Project. The USA could have done it without but this saved them several months of work in the early stages.