Nuclear Weapons: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- America has over 4,800 nuclear weapons, and we don’t take terrific care of them.
It’s terrifying, basically.
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00:07 "The threat of nuclear Annihilation. It's probably been a while since you thought about it." Oh, how I wish you were right, 2014 John.
The Ukraine aren't NATO allies. There won't be a nuclear holocaust over it.
Also, the US already reached their war goal. Now Europeans, especially Germany, has to buy expensive American liquid fracking gas instead of cheap Russian gas via Nordstream II.
And the Selensky-Kolomojskyj-Connection also reached the goal to destroy the diplomatic and also business connections between the West and Russia for a decade.
_Disclaimer: I'm not a Putin-fanboy and don't encourage the Russian military action against the Ukraine. People in the West tend to forget that this war is going on for eight years by now and that the Ukraine is not a Western democracy but a corrupt oligarch state._
yannick is the only one who liked his comment haha
Unfortunately the world will forever have a threat of nuclear war.
@@yannick245 Russia has been putting nuclear warheads on high alert. If God forbid that the US gets involved it could get nuclear if someone strikes first.
@@adamwest3637 I don't if you want to, I can raise it to two:
To be fair. "Oops, oh shit." Would be the most fitting statement to usher in the end of humanity I can think of.
Going into extinction Dr. Strangelove style.
“What does this button do?”
As long as we have time to watch the Martin Sheen Doomsday Video first.
Its okay I have a blanket to hide under
@@bernardschmitt6389 who needs blankets? Just lay on the ground and don't look at the mushroom cloud. You'll be fine.
We need a part two on this ASAP
Yeh, I just hope we're still here for it. Rewatching it though is giving me a small sliver of hope, if the US's nukes are this badly maintained then the Russians are going to be far worse given the state of their military.
@@davescott7680 hopefully
Thinking the same thing LOL
Should end every episode with "And if you're watching from the future, I fking told you so."
I'm not getting under the fkn table with a picnic blanket again to practice! I never got it in the 70s as a kid. Fortunately I live in the southern hemisphere, at the bottom half too! If our stupid PM doesn't annoy Putin as much as he has China for 8 weeks we should have a replacement government that's less stressfully reckless with everything!
It's VERY important that they use floppy discs. It may seem out-of-date, but they are virtually impossible to hack, and you don't want hackers getting into nuclear weapon launching software.
Uh you know malware have been passed through floppy disks back in the day? Also their OS running the program is probably an outdated proprietary crap long past EOL support. Security through obscurity is a terrible design goal. Their only strength is air gapping at best.
It maters that they hardware is either not networked, or at least incredibly isolated.
If the government of United States can’t afford cyber security for weapons capable of ushering in the Holocaust of all human life on earth, then we need to reconsider how the hell we’re running the numbers on these fucking things.
They could also make sure their silos are offline. That also works.
@@aerialdarkguy But wouldn't someone need to physically insert the floppy disk containing the malware in order for that to happen?
As a Montanan I feel reassured knowing that the pizza delivery guy will always be there to close the door
Makes sure pizza delivery boy name isn`t Hassan ! :))))
@@TheBluesSociety Why?
TheBluesSociety funnily enough Hassan means the person who makes things better,
I’d argue that’s exactly who you would need!
Karen Skinner either he’s being funny, or he’s genuinely racist, no way to tell for sure
He better not. door is tagged out because it's broken.
The fact that American Nuke systems still run on floppy discs brings me peace of mind...
It means they are hacker-proof.
+Saddam Hussein Hey, aren't you dead ?
+Saddam Hussein Ladies and gentlemen! Saddam Hussein!
+Sosuke Aizen America killed him, in other words he's not dead
+Muhammad Mirsab Genius.
+Saddam Hussein
Now I'm stuck in captivity
I wasn't even the real enemy
9/11 wasn't tied to me
And I never even made a WMD
Osama Bin Ladin's free
But they sent an army after me
Despite my gross iniquity
Iraq would be so empty without me
Seeing this video getting recommended after Putin invaded Ukraine is not exactly the kind of hope I was looking for youtube to give.
TH-cam / Hope lol
Same lmao
mood
Lmao me too
Big mood
Thanks to John, I always keep a picnic blanket with me just in case of emergencies!
Never go anywhere without your trusty towel
TIL that the whole picnic blanket thing was propaganda (kinda) Basically they wanted the world to know that "We and our people are ready for war if you dare to nuke us". Okay, maybe they also wanted Americans to be less concerned about them manufacturing nukes but still.
I've never laughed so hard yet be scared shitless at the same time!
My faces: X-D and D-X
Nice.
So you're the one who made a mess all over the kitchen. Bad Wood! Bad!
Not even when you heard about Trump?
M ,jfbsElf
Well i find this quite encouraging, it means even if an idiotic president tries to fire a nuke, there is a good chance, it wont work due to apparent incompetence.
incompetence breeds incompetence
no they work. they work just fine. the old technology is there for a reason.
sweiland75 What a charming man you must be
TheRetiredtrucker I NEVER said we should not have them. I just said i would rather they did not actually work.
TheRetiredtrucker Uh. WW2 was not exactly "conventional", seeing as it was declared "total war" on all sides, meaning the governments willfully declared their civilians as on equal status as soldiers. (basically declaring total war means you say that civilians will resist foreign soldiers on their soil)(tha's not conventional, ftr)
It gets worse when you hear that a former president kept this kind of stuff at his home/resort, in a desk, the pool house, and committed a crime to hide the fact that he had such documents when he shouldn't have.
Not to mention a STORAGE UNIT!!?
WHAT IF HE FORGOT ABOUT IT?? Huh?
"On this episode of Storage Wars.... Chrissy and Dan find.... Uhhhh Nuclear weapon launch codes and blueprints.... Y'know what? I'm done, I'm drawing the line at PRIORITY ONE BLUEPRINTS!! COME ON!"
"All New Storage Wars fallout edition, 9/8 Central. On A&E"
"ICBMs. Also what you would say if you saw one coming at you. A little joke for the gastroenterologists." This joke is way too good to ever exist.
"Okay. Alright. We nearly blew up one of the Carolinas but that's basically why we have two."
hahahahaha. I know. What a perfect line. He is a comedic genius .
The fact that one of the places we have nukes in is one of the two(2, count 'em) states named "Dakota" isn't very re-assuring...
Yeah but wrong one!!!
Lol
I live in nc and when he said that I was laughing for a solid minute
That recap of the chain of command was legendary.
Van Slam 😂 indeed
Classic. All clear to me now.
@@raenaldo ]
add Trump to it, it'll be become epic...lol
Not as legendary as the chain of command itself
"[SUBJECT]...... It's that thing you never think about, until I devote a segment to it." - Every John Oliver show before Trump and the pandemic
He should talk about these topics
And after..
Oh yeah, the before times, when we could just ignore most of the bad stuff. It’s weird now to think that we used to live like that tbh
Man it's crazy that back in *2014* we actually had a bunch of Homer Simpsons keeping our nuclear warheads "safe"
We need a John Oliver for every country in this world.
We sure do. But, realistically speaking, unfortunately, I don't think every country provides or protects its citizens Freedom of Speech & Press as much as the First Amendment does. Certainly not the countries where people like John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj and others are really needed like you know...
Singapore has democracy in its pledge and not much anywhere else
We got a Brazilian version of this show (called Greg news) doing a fantastic job. Maybe HBO could be persuaded to do the show in more countries
Philippines has a president who can kill you
@@gameovergaming9407 Well that's pretty much any countries president, isn't it?
I almost died when he brought up "meal team 6" 😂😂😂
Me too.
'Me'al too.
hahahaha
I'll show myself out
Still looks better than Seal Team on CBS. Meal Team would be WAYY more watchable.
I like boobies
Leon Kepp Russian la Quinta
Back in the late 80’s I worked at a “special weapons “ depot in West Germany and some of the things that went on there would make a grown man cry.
The cruelty or the stupidity?
Was it like this?
Medusa Gorgo 😲 plz tell me more...
We want details!
Such as? Don't leave us hanging like this.
Watched the video today. "It's probably been a while since you thought about it" yeah, well...
The biggest surprise in this story was that there is a casino in Iowa
Not to a Omaha, Nebraska native. Apart of the reason why casinos are so plentiful in western Iowa is because my home state's government has been against their construction for decades if not more. The casinos there have done very well over the years thanks to eastern Nebraskans with money to blow making the 20 - 40 min. drive to Council Bluffs, IA.
We have to take a break from starring at corn all day
+Thegnome King
I'M BEYOND DONE XD
To be fair ... they are barns with slot machines
ok ...they are barns with slot machines, where you can walk outside and see corn growing for as far as the eye can see
I'm kindof reassured they're still using ancient computers. They at least know all of the vulnerabilites of those, where more complex systems might be more easily hackable.
+tSp289 The major flaw is that you can't put any serious encryption on floppy information.
+David Tennant
You do not need to connect them to the internet in the first place...
+Crown-Prince Squirrel Thats what he is saying. The internet isnt hooked up to them, they are on their own closed connection system.
+David Tennant
"Like the internet but only connected to their nukes". That's called a local area network, or LAN.
Crap venue for a LAN party though. The nuke always wins.
'It's probably been a long time since you've thought about it'
Nope, John. Not that long.
Thanks YT for bringing this back in the loop
The dad putting his head under the newspaper to avoid the blast was gold.
LulzRoyce Depending on how far away you are, that could be the difference between severe burns and mild ones, or mild burns and no burns at all.
On the edge of a blast, the biggest risks are debris from the pressure wave (especially glass) and burns from the “flash” which even thin fabric or paper can protect against to some degree.
That's why I'm proud to be a Canadian!
+WasabiPie:P The nuclear fallout doesn't give a fuck about borders. If tragedy strikes, you will feel it. There are Silos in North Dacota.
lol as if the blast will not get you for being canadian
+crewmate you misspelled Dakota so... Canada would be fine with that spelling
+WasabiPie:P No, you wont be soon...If Trump wins that is...Guess whos going to become head of energy bureau including take carer of USA nuclear weapon arsenal?...Yes Sarah world ender fucking Palin...Now what could possible go wrong with this one?
+Christian Sosa nah blast isn't the problem, regina is the closest major city to north dakota, 273 km. fall out is the problem. Luckily i live 1400km from the border so I'm relatively safe
My civics teacher played the Duck and Cover video in 2015. He wasn't trying to teach us about the era with it, he was genuinely trying to inform us about proper safety procedures.
US: "Nukes are sensless now!"
V. Putin: "Hold my beer!"
Russia's nuclear preparedness is in even worse condition than the U.S. They can't even invade Ukraine without running out of fuel.
@@valoredramack9117 Thats true. Probably...
@@Blues666 - Thankfully it has been proven true…
To think this Earth still exists because one day long ago one Russian soldier ignored his training and orders and didnt launch when the computer told him that he should...
What were you talking about here? Sorry for the late reply.
@@Kingofcheese184 the russian missile detection system showed missile launches from the usa. This guy was in charge that day, and he knew he would now have to retaliate in only a couple minutes time.
he chose not to, and his instinct was right - the american missile attack turned out to be some clouds that fooled the sensors.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
In Soviet Russia...the people are even more incompetent as the USA regarding to nuclear weapons. Why is there no Russian John Oliver who tell that the Russians?
@@Kingofcheese184 a time during cold war where soviet satelite detect abnormality in the atmosphere for a nuclear attack from the US, a soviet officer decided to ignore their detection warning from retaliating with nuclear launch, believing that must be a mistake, turns out, he was right and quite literally, avoiding nuclear war from happening back then
@@steffenreimann2854 gulag
Greetings from the year 2017, where this video is approximately 45 times more terrifying.
Timber Ridge And '18. Where I'm starting to not mind that prospect as long as it means I'd be dead and Trump/Pence isn't our administration
Timber Ridge
2018 and terrified.
Midway into 2018. Still terrified.
2018 not looking any better
2018 Trump will soon meet his boss Putin in Helsinki for his annual review. Just the two of them and their interpreters. History will never record what they said.
Europe, today : So my TH-cam decides to play first the episode about Putin, then this one... Okay 2022, calm down.
When my week is going well, I like to remind myself of what life really is like by watching old episodes of last week tonight
I wish I hadn't done that to myself, because now I'm horrified and can't even eat breakfast
To be fair, that old equipment is probably not hackable since it's so old. I could just imagine a windows blue screen on one of those machines.
I agree, its all analog and virtually unhackable. But the lack of physical security and cheating has no excuse.
Well, who needs hacking when you can walk in dressed as the burrito guy?
***** Windows? Too old to even run DOS.
First thought that popped into my head to
***** The other advantage is that modern equipment would not be user serviceable and inspectable by soldiers in the silo. The old equipment can be inspected by eye to determine that is has not been tampered with, and you can actually read a core dump from them and actually tell if the software is correct. New stuff is just way too complicated to be properly inspected by human eyes, you need automated tools for it.
to be honest, the fact that these silos are floppy disc operated is probably the safest thing about them. i wouldnt want someone with a fucking iphone entering launch codes via an app.. worse yet, apples involvement. yes, please keep the floppy. or better yet, make it punch cards.
See there's allowing the technology to be antiquated to a certain level on purpose for security reasons and then there's needlessly outdated technology.
In countless cases companies were hacked by infected USB flashdrives lying around in a parking lot. Modern technology in combination with incompetent staff is not a good combination, and I can guarantee you that at least a few people in every nuclear base are stupid enough to fall for this. Also, last year a couple of ATM machines were hacked via USB ports, something that you wouldn't expect to be possible.Experience has shown that the majority of people greatly overestimate their technical knowledge and abilities, and in general IT security is *never* up to date except everybody involved does their job really well and has the necessary budget.
Oh, and one more example: The computer virus which destroyed Irans nuclear centrifuges was deployed via USB flashdrives too. Nobody noticed for months. Using remotely modern technology would be plain stupid imho, it's too complex.
Perhaps someone has mentioned this but the #1 reason our defense forces use that "outdated" technology is because it is the only thing capable of standing up to the radiation and EMPs of keeping and using nuclear weaponry. Even NASA still uses "old" tech on spacecraft for the exact same reason. Modern microprocessors are easily wiped out by the high energy particles present outside our atmosphere.
Mouse GrayEagle I don't think that's the reason, all the nuclear controls are probably underground and shielded anyways. And if a nuclear blast can wipe modern computers, floppy disks and old harddrives don't have a chance either.
Ah, a great time for a refresher!
Yupp !
If the US is taking care of their nukes that badly, I can't even imagine what, if anything, Russia is doing with theirs.
Somehow i dont think it could get worse. Russia (well Putout) probably wants to actually use them.
Lets just hope if they do, it makes a sad "wop wop wop woooooop" sound
If I recall from an article I read decades ago, when the USSR folded there was a bunch of nukes "lost".
My hope (both because it would save the world and because its hilarious) would be that, in a nuclear war, the US and Russia would turn the key... only for nothing to happen. The nukes, due to poor maintenance, wouldn't function and the world would be saved by incompetence.
Pretty sure they take better care of their nukes. Given the fact that it‘s an autocratic country where failure can mean execution, meanwhile in America, failures get a cushy job in another facility.
@@RodneyG669
The US lost nukes too…
The big floppy disc got my laughing. Maybe that is good. Maybe nobody can hack it if it only runs on DOS?
petro062 Russians be like “we almost hacked their nukes, but then it crashed because apparently our spyware is to demanding for their launch computers”
It's not about how hackable it is, it's about how reliable it is. When you are 100% sure the old system has no bugs or flaws, why risk re-coding everything?
Also, maintenance must be simpler on those things. Maybe you don't want the whole system to be down for hours if it crashes ^^
Nobody can hack it because it's on a closed system. Why would you ever plug your nuclear system into the internet, that's literally what made War Games' plot work.
I mean, you can get access to systems multiple ways. There was a virus the US made a long time ago that was able to get access to Iran's nuclear reactors via an employees computer.
"The software is outdated too" *shows outdated hardware*
At least with that level of outdatedness, our nukes are NEVER going to be hacked.
@@sagesheahan6732 Well, as long as you don't give the systems internet access they still won't be hackable
@@presidentbanana4536 Implying that it's internet compatable.
Sage Sheahan I thought that was the reason they didn’t upgrade the system, so it could never be remotely hackable
But those are the soft floppies *haha funny joke*
6:54 this would make a better comedy than most that have been produced - plus, it would have the “based on a true story” tag too. This NEEDS to be a movie.
10:22 : Alan: " Charlie, I seem to be forgetting something "
Charlie : " If you don't remember it, it wouldn't be important "
The thing they forgot: *nuclear warheads*
“Yep, you dropped an armed nuclear bomb on your own country”
They dropped one on Spain too
Source: oversimplified
@ImAProudIndian I hope America doesn’t fail art school
Real quick, what is the equal and opposite reaction to detonating multiple nukes for decades?
Perhaps an increase in cancer or maybe adversely mess up the delicate 20 degree tilt of the planet.
Even in a flat Earth on a matrix the consequences would have to be simulated.
@@allabraun5133 the tilting is not a problem since even the strongest of nukes pale in comparision to volcanoes and earthquakes in amount of energy relased. On the other hand, the increase in cancer levels is quite possible, although the global impact seems negligable, there has been an reported increase in birth defects and cancer in areas adjoint to nuclear testing grounds.
@@thorvanheghe4023 Don't google "broken arrow" or "bent spear". Just don't.
How the fuck do you ACCIDENTALLY LOAD A NUCLEAR WARHEAD ON A PLANE?! How the fuck does that even happen? Like, I can't even wrap my head around that. Was it just like "alright, let's grab those incendiaries from that massive, important-looking vault over there -- whoops! Turns out that those were NUCLEAR FUCKING WARHEADS.
Put a warhead into an airbomb.
aegideus well you can have missile/bomb that is only a regular explosion or you could have that same missle/bomb loaded with a nuclear warhead, how this mix up was possible in the first place I don't know
Just shows how incompetent Obama is. this guy has no oversight.
Sunflower Sunshine Obama wasn't even president in 2007
Putin was.
My family is from the goldsboro area. I was back visiting relatives who were alive when it happened, and none of them knew about the incident. they didn't even believe me until i took them out to see the sign and pulled up modern news stories about the incident.
I wonder if these guys are high alert right now
"Oops, aw shit."
The story of my life
So I could walk into a rocket silo while the guards are sleeping fill in the "Rocket silo 101" test with answer sent to me by my friends and then throw a socket into the silo to start WW 3?
Don't forget they would probably still accept you even if you were a radical islamist chopping off the heads of your instructors.
No! It will just result in nuclear leak like fukushima ...
you can't launch the warhead....without the codes and for safety the guidance.targeting systems are kept disassembled. In addition the nuke warhead and rocket body are also kept disassembled not only for safety but for maintenance and its contentions requires its to be stored in its own special place i.e. radioactive
BUt close enough for it to assembled and ready to launch within an hour.......
remember.......these nukes aren't the first ones used........the first ones take off from our submarines and warships....faster delivery
Correct
How would blowing up your own country start WW3? You'd just kill a lot of animals(including humans) and ruin a lot of land.
First off it wouldn't leak like fukushima. There is a very significant difference between a working reactor and a nuclear warhead. While the warhead hasn't reached critical mass it's pretty dormant when it comes to radiation. Also i'm sorry but nuclear missiles are not stored disassembled. Even the earliest models only needed to be fueled. Since hypergolic fuels as well as solid fuels were invented it became possible to store the rockets in a ready to launch condition. And it's been done so ever since. If it comes to war those missiles will be launched at the same time the subs launch theirs. There is no "second strike" in nuclear war because with every missile you don't fire you risk the enemy being able to launch another one of theirs.
Apart from the "office" where the officers that turn the keys sit the silos aren't even manned. There would be noone there to assemble the rockets.
We need a 2022 edition
Hide under your desk! The desk and plastic chair will really help seal in the flavor.
I'm grateful that these are uploaded to TH-cam, so that I don't have to bum my sister's HBO Go password to watch it.
Hah, it's you. Fucking weird seeing someone from PS2 randomly here.
ha "bum my sister"
Adam Ryan
To bum = to borrow.
Nukes....they take all the fun out of going to war.
+DAK454 you mean war games? sure you don't mean killing and invading other countries is fun in the real world?
It was a joke calm down
+Aiden Nelson Thank you
+DAK454 That's actually a huge political point, we'd probably be having world wars every 20 years if it wasn't for nukes making us all think twice about large scale warfare
+DAK454 I always thought about it in the opposite way. Nukes are the logical conclusion of war and embody it better than any metaphor could. People don't like nukes because people don't like war. The only ones who do aren't those who've been through it, but the generation after looking back and romanticizing on their predecessors' accomplishments.
Small correction on the first bit. If you're outside the immediate blast area, which means you're very dead regardless, then yes, being covered by a blanket will help protect you from the flash that would otherwise cook your skin.
The whole story about the general in Russia at the restaurant is fucking hysterical; I absolutely loved it!
Imagine being an American Tourist in Russia you decide to go to a Mexican restaurant in red square only to find out there is two star American general on a drunken bender
7:10 sounds like an awesome night to me to be honest
Remember when drunk and caught messing up in a Casino was bad?
Those were the days
This entire video is a giant "hold my beer" moment, isn't it? Ohhh just you wait John Oliver... just you wait.
I saw that this was made in 2019. Welcome to 2020.
@@flamethatsings-witchcraft5893 welcome to 2022. Jesus fuckin Christ :/ I’m getting scared by the day now
Watching this in March 2022, too nervous to even laugh at this point
Old Hardware is often much Safer and less prone to glitches. Nasa for example only uses decades old Chips for their rovers because they are much more reliable and resistent against glitches from high energy particles.
Yes! Analog tech is so much more reliable than digital. NASA has it right. I also don't like everything be wireless, like the Russians hacking the gas pipe earlier this year. Use a private cable transmission and local server that has no internet connection. It's scary how much critical infrastructure is connected to the internet.
I hope no one is stupid enough to connect any part of nuclear missiles to the internet...
The idea of duck and cover was to avoid fallout or debree if you are lucky enough to be far enough to not instantly become a tumor grenade.
"Tumor Grenade" is my next favorite metal band.
Or a lit matchstick
Exactly people are taking this out of context. I mean it's clearly meant as an infomercial targeted for children. It will not help you if you are directly under the airblast center... but then again nothing will.
It's like earthquake drills in Japan... sitting under the desk will shelter you from the ceiling light crashing down and windows break... It won't help you if the entire building collapses.
Or become gas
No way to avoid the radiation if you are close enuff to receive falling debris. You're a tumor grenade even if you only show up in the area where the blast radius caused falling debris years after the blast itself itself was long gone. Just ask the Japanese who lived anywhere Hiroshima the past 70 years.
"Go ask them if i can play guitar"
plays air bass.
"Let's recap, in the last six months we were in a situation where in the event of us launching a nuclear strike, the president's command would have gone through a man gambling with fake poker chips who would have then tried to call a drunk guy wrestling with a Russian George Harrison who have then called someone with a bag full of burritos to wake up an officer and tell him to go grab an LP size floppy disk and begin the solemn process of ending the world the world as we know it." Priceless.
It's 12 months not 6
vs Putin having all the world's nukes (Oh, that's right Putin failed to get Le Pen as his Puppet in France, so there would be some western nukes in france).
This is now my winning hand with Cards Against Humanity
That is even more insane than the story of Dr Strangelove and that was considered a satire at the time! Real life is even worse than that...
"we have the best military in the world"
Almost nukes itself...
Can they give this guy a Pulitzer?... a really good award of some sorts. Great efing job!
Agree. An Emmy, at the very least. John Oliver's vids on TH-cam actually make me look forward to Monday, which is an award-worthy achievement in my books.
Yuppi Sevenuppi Yeah, they should definitely make that a thing. Who do we talk to to get this thing made? =D
The story about that drunk general was so weird and terrifying at the same time.
_"Until at least 2021"_
Damn that sounds like the fut--- oh wait...
So... TH-cam algorithm... Any reason you recommended this?
We might as well be the kids next door. Heck they're a better organization
Hell yeah they are. 😎
Codename: Marky Mark
Albert Einstein once said that "World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones," implying the purportedly imminent World War III would be so devastating that it would send us back to some primordial sort of antediluvian age. If he were still alive, I think that Einstein would revise his claim to utter extinction, given our world's overwhelming capacity for self-destruction and our seemingly complete disregard for caution. There is this riddle in astrophysics about potential reasons why we haven't discovered intelligent alien life, and this riddle (Fermi's Paradox) posits that it may be in the very nature of intelligent life to self-destruct. Maybe we're nearing the end of our road...
Fermi's Paradox has already been solved by the Corliss Resolution.
From what I've unearthed, that's just a potential explanation and not a case-solving proof. The nature of the paradox asserts that we do not know why, but these are our best guesses. Key word: guesses.
Fgermay are you sure that was Einstein?
vicator5 Yes, I just double-checked to make certain. This is the verbatim quote: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Ironically (or hypocritically) he helped invent that destruction.
hello from 2022...
hello im from the next day of 2022
Extremely relevant today. Please do a Part 2 of this topic. Thank you!
"Weapons-grade stupidity" should not be a thing.
And yet, it apparently is.
If the US COVID-19 response is anything to gauge the response to using nuclear weapons - the Fallout series of video games is looking more likely
Not only is it a thing, it's also something you can have while still being elected President. Because MURRICA!
“Weapons grade stupidity” might as well be the tagline for this country
This should be a sitcom. Group of idiots and military drop-outs, and maybe one competent fellow all living together in a nuclear silo, let shenanigans ensue.
Chuck Lore is pitching this to CBS and NBC as we speak
My dad who budgets military stuff told a story of how people at his base accidentally sent nuclear codes to south Korea by accident its insane.
This whole episode is just "writers just discovered Cards against humanity" "hey guys it's like mad Libs. But fun! And no shitty newsprint!"
Oh to be in 2014 where the ending joke of "if humanity is going to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon, let it be intentional with a US President riding a nuclear missile with his middle finger raised to the sky..." Not so funny now.
Don't tell Trump. Oh god that would be right up his style.
FUCK YOU EVERYBODY! TRUMP IS SHUTTING THIS SHIT DOWN....
A M E R I C A F I R S T
Russia has dropped the largest bomb.
@@tm13tube : What's amazing about the test-detonation of the Tsar Bomba is that it was actually DROPPED from a plane, rather than placed atop some test stand in the middle of nowhere.
@@tm13tube Making weapons big though is not very efficient.
@@rogermwilcox it was also designed be up to twice as powerful as it was when it was tested
So I've been binge watching Last Week Tonight clips for the last couple days, and I can't help but feel helplessly confused at how amazingly stupid the people leading the world seem to be. We pass bills that let us keep nuclear warheads, even though they are literally of no use in these quantities. Sure, keep like 10 if you absolutely positively have to feel like you could pulverize your enemies if you wanted to, but 4800 is just so damn many, it doesn't make any sense.
Meanwhile, bills that enable donations of food that would otherwise be thrown in the garbage are completely rewritten to the point that they have nothing to do with food donations anymore. Restrictions and removal of lead in households is being pushed aside. We complain that we don't have the money to change anything, yet we spend ridiculous sums of money on shit we don't actually need. So many things that seem so blatantly obvious, yet for some reason, the people who have the power to change them seem to be completely oblivious to them.
Also don't forget the rampant corruption, the terrible state of infrastructure, de-regulation of sectors allowing for companies to do whatever they want, terrible justice system, and so on.
And the more I watch this show, the more I look to my country and say, "Wow, you're not nearly as bad actually."
***** Yea, it's a nice country. But honestly, I wouldn't really want to.
C. Phil Moore No, I mean, I wouldn't really want to stay in Japan. I've been there for a couple of times and yes, the people are really polite. But I just have this mindset where, "Yes, this is a good place to live in, but you know what, I feel most comfortable in Indonesia." Like seriously, we might have a lot of problems here, like religious and racial discriminations (mainly from some fanatical idiots who don't know wtf they're talking about; recently this one guy said, "We want a Muslim native Indonesian to be our President." OUR INCUMBENT PRESIDENT WAS BORN TO NATIVE INDONESIAN PARENTS IN INDONESIA AND HE PRACTICES MUSLIM, YOU TWAT), corruptions, severe environmental, education, population, economic, and infrastructure issues, as well as several political bullshits. But things are looking up. So I'm fine where I am.
Don Korb while I agree most of the people leading our countries seem to be incompetent. There is no one on any youtube, or any other, comment section that knows more than 1% of what being a leader of these countries entails. There are probably innumerable different issues about things we have no idea about that happen every day. There could be hundreds of terrorist threats stopped every week that don't get media attention to avoid scaring the shit out of everyone. Look at what happens when one person gets shot in some made up racial issue. Imagine what would happen if there were this many terrorist threats and people knew about them all.
Tldr: I'm not saying I know anything about any of these issues, I'm just saying that no one else does either.
This has aged very well for a time. Then, it aged like milk.
It aged poorly at the time. Anyone who actually knew anything about defence knew those nukes were necessary. And remember, this aired AFTER Russia invaded Crimea, and WHILE Ukraine was fighting Russian backed separatists in the Donbas.
But this aired during the period where the Left was extremely week on defence, and the Right, for all their other faults, at least got that correct.
This remains my favourite episode because I remember listening to it from outside my legendary grandparents' bedroom as they watched it on TV and it was so funny that I remembered it specifically despite the fact that they watched John regularly. They both passed away recently at the ages of 94 and 102 and left a legacy in me of enjoying Last Week Tonight and life-long learning. My grandma was a human encyclopedia who read books every day on every topic under the sun and would have conversations with my engineer grandpa, one of the first people to view Sputnik 1 from a telescope, about politics, economics, physics, you name it. My grandma would also listen to far-right radio like Rush Limbaugh and John Savage and one day my mom asked her why and she said because she "wanted to know what the enemy was saying" 😂
You're telling me America almost detonated a nuclear weapon on itself! Wtf is wrong with this country and how is this something I never learned about?
+Boba Vhett It's not a problem with the country, it was more so human error.
TheKyleDavid I know but still it's the humans in this country. And just, just... I don't know it's the scariest and most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
+Boba Vhett dude at one point there were talks of detonating one on the moon...
There's more times than that. The Minute Men program used to be set so that if it wasn't canceled every 8 hours or so they would be launched. There were quite a few times they almost missed the deadline. They didn't teach us that in America either but we sure heard about how bad Russia was.
Read the book Command and Control
"I know not the weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
And floppy disks
Big floppy disks :D
and many bones will be broken
Well said, Winston Churchill.
Einstein said that
"Nuclear annihilation. It's probably been a while since you thought about it."
Oh how blissfully relaxed we were 8 years ago.
Fun fact: that "Nuclear mishap" sign is in my parent's old front yard.
ICBM. I see BM. I see bowel movement.
Wow that took me forever to get it. Slightly more sophisticated than ICUP.
Funny colors..
Might result in an incontinent bowel movement lol
bm means bad manners
I-I see...oh shit!
Intercontinental Bowel Movement, because the entire world will collectively shit itself upon hearing that nukes are dropping left and right.
once they update the silos with modern software and technology... we're all fucked
Closed system.
skynet or decepticons
If they ever do, I half expect them to add a feature that automatically posts missile status updates on Twitter.
+maximum988
@Missile1 is bored
@Missile2 wants to start a war #setitoff
Oh my god.
This aged beautifully lol
Watching this today... y'know... just 'cause.
People make fun of the whole "duck and cover" thing but even a thin layer provides significant protection against the thermal blast from an atomic bomb. There are several examples of people from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who suffered severe burns on exposed skin while areas covered by clothing were mostly left intact. It seems laughable but "duck and cover" does significantly increase the chance of survival for people more than a couple miles away from ground zero.
+MrClickity Then the radiation will get you because thermal energy and radiation are entirely different things and nothing short of a lead suit will protect you if you are in range. Prevention of burns versus slow death from radiation poisoning.
RainbowHanryu The initial gamma ray burst has a much smaller lethal range than you might think because it rapidly disperses over a large area and doesn't significantly increase with a larger explosive yield. Most of the people who suffered radiation poisoning did so from cumulative effects of the fallout. After all, the air and water was contaminated with radioactive dust for a long time afterward. If you get out of the area quickly (preferably going upwind) you're relatively safe from that.
To give you an idea: with a 20 kiloton bomb (the yield of the Nagasaki bomb) you'd suffer a fatal dose of radiation at anywhere less than 1.8 miles from ground zero but you'd suffer 3rd-degree burns within a 2.5 mile range. Increase the yield to 50 megatons and the gamma burst's effects are negligible because anyone close enough to suffer radiation poisoning from it would be burned to a crisp or completely obliterated by the blast.
Finally, somebody else that gets it.
@@RainbowHanryu "range" for a lethal dose of radiation is very short because inverse-square be like that. Most of the people affected by a nuclear blast won't receive a lethal dose of radiation.
i once dropped gravy on my cat
Did it explode and take out half the country?
Johan Hoekstra sounds like that cat ate some bad Mexican food to me.
I spat on a cat from a third story balcony.
garfoonga1 Did it explode and take out half the country?
Johan Hoekstra
No, but someone pet the cat and screamed in horror, I guess my loogie got on their hand.
"You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square." ~Air Force General Michael Carey
It actually makes a lot of sense to use some amount of archaic technology because, to some extent, it's basically unhackable.
Absolutely. Modern digital tech is so unreliable. Analog is the way to go for critical tech. Someone will eventually be dumb enough to modernize and install and internet connection...
... and the mishaps he's mentioning are the one's we know about. I'm sure there have been some cover ups far more serious.
jep, during operation Chrome Dome the US dropped a total of 14 Nuclear Bombs - 6 in the US, 4 in Spain, 4 in Iceland.
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@@unitedspacepirates9075 That video was stolen. And it wasn't real either.
He's just mentioning the funny ones! There are books about this. Apparently it's possible for a crashed atomic weapon to just BURN, (full of high explosives) and make an ungodly mess, THAT has to be a ton of fun to clean up!
@@moreno4821 infact audio was real...
2014: nowadays we worry less about nuclear annihilation
2018:laughs in atomic devastation.
2020:laughs in real life fallout
2020: *screams*
@@leeladavie9820 Here's to hoping we make it to 2021!
Covid19 : I must protect the Earth from these retards !!
I watch this now and in context with everything thing else I have one thing to say.
WE ARE FUCKED!!!!
that's the same thing...
‘Drunk Mexican food listening to Beatles in Russia’… wouldn’t be my worst night
John Oliver only you can present that story inglorious humor cheers
My stepdad worked in that silo in Little Rock... A Titan II missile that nearly blew up the entire state of Arkansas
isn't that information supposed to be confidential?
+Christian Sosa well if it's been over 50 years or so the. he's fine.
TheataGamer oh, nevermind then
Christian Sosa
Well it does depend on weather or not he signed himself to total secrecy or if he signed a temporary security paper and what the expiration date on his secrecy contract was
TheataGamer oh ok, thanks for the info.
I am now thoroughly convinced mankind will destroy itself soon and it will be documented through memes...
Omfg, this comment existed before the WW III memes. Are you a fucking time-traveller?
documented by martians*
J V I think that humanity has about fifty years at most probably much Less time before they Destroy it’s self through ignorance and stupidity with a healthy Dose of arrogance thrown in for good measure
That's probably true.
I am convinced The USA will have something to do with it.
This whole episode sounds like a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Absolutely nuts.
The genius reference in John Oliver's show about the danger of nuclear weapons to the classic Stanley Kubrick movie, "Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb," was just perfect. I'll never forget the scene where Chill Wills rides the bomb down to earth like he's on a bucking bronco. Awesome.
If you have enough of these things to utterly devastate the entire planet, which I'm guessing couldn't be more than 500 of the biggest ones, why, in the name of all rationality, would you KEEP BUILDING MORE?!?
Surely you only need to be able to render the entire planet uninhabitable ONCE.
***** It's also because nukes are absolutely not the same today in terms of power.
Also, even with modern day nukes we couldn't blast all of earth, sure we can spread a lethal dose of radiation to every inch of the surface but the blast itself isn't that huge, well, multiplied by the amount of bombs that exist, it isn't enough to cover the whole surface, far from there.
Ethics aside, it doesn't make rational or economic sense: If you can kill every person on the planet, you can stop making the things, right?
I honestly doubt they are making more, but they are developping new ones I guess. Which could be a good thing or not depending on what they are looking for, if they are trying to make cleaner bombs, same blast radius with less after effects, I guess it's a good thing, kind of.
Though they really could start to get rid of a lot more of them, at the moment only two entities are a menace to most of the world, ISIS and North Korea, though ISIS is far from getting any long range weapons, nuclear or not, and we don't really know about N korea, they claim to have a lot of things but it's very doubtfull. Considering this, a country really only needs 15 or 20 nukes max; more will never come to use, if 15 ever do.
I have to add that I don't know anything about the process of disasembling safely and storing the parts of a nuke, it probably is a very complicated process and may take a lot of time.
The computers are running really older versions because of a lack of tools to hack into them.
Bingo
but it probably would help if they use something ab bit more safisticated then floppy disks
Peter Zwegert Agreed..............
+pie pies why hack into it when you can just walk in through the front door with the kind of security and mishaps shown in the clips?
+Hai Nguyen yup definitely delivering tacos, yup, not coming to blow up the world
It’s been exactly 10 years since the article at 1:39 was published.
Amazing how this dated so quickly, we may need them quicker than we thought...
Not 4800