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yeah there was a warning that the us was sending nukes towards them but petrov thought it was just a miscommunication/error and left it alone when he was ordered to also fire nukes.
@@connieleblanc6212 my understanding is now all the people that dont need to know what action they are carrying out are blocked out by design. that includes the operators, the people at the lower chain of commands, they just press buttons on a schedule or occasionally do surprise drills which they would have no way of knowing that the specific button sequence they put in just launched a nuke, a light at some dude's desk or did nothing at all.
Face Fish yup because in most Scenarios nuclear war would happen so it’s best that you just die immediately and not have to deal with radiation and fans of people trying to kill you every second
No, actually. Depending on the ambient conditions - mainly how clear and/or bright it is outside when the attack happens - flash blindness can affect people up to about 85 km away.
As a Japanese, i was taught that the survivors (but dying) of HIroshima and Nagasaki were ringing like bells because of the lots of pieces of glass in their bodies and they had their peeled skins in their hands. it is just terrifying.
@@mootssss Politics, everything to the end, meant that they would fight to the end, they were close to surrender, but most likely it would be followed by a month or more of war and there were over 200 thousand casualties, and the communists had to be shown that yes..
@@mootssss Incorrect, the leaders of the Japanese Military literally staged a coup to keep the war going Hiroshima. They were not even convinced it was nuclear and were going to fight till every last man. It was their written policy and doctrine. It wasn't until Nagasaki that the Emperor had to step in and agree to a total surrender. Every single documentation, account, and historian alligns with the fact that Japan was not going to surrender even after they had already been nuked once.
@ thats what i was inferring, and it will never happen sadly. we should be dismantelling the bombs and use the uranium, plutonium and other recources used for nuclear reactors, and produce energy with them
"We cannot change the fact that Hiroshima was the first atomic bombing site. However, it is up to us whether Nagasaki will be the last.'' As a Japanese citizen of Nagasaki, I will deliver these words to the world.
That's an interesting question. The general theory is that because the bomb exploded high in the air, more nuclear contaminants were dispersed into the atmosphere. Another cause is water being washed away by rain or the ground being filled in. On the other hand, the soil at Chernobyl and Fukushima contains a lot of nuclear contaminants. That's because they exploded on the ground.
@@ユーキ-q4s Apparently it was done to "maximise damage". It seems it only took a temporary toll I pray that no one has to witness nuclear bombings again, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
@@PianistifiedForYT Little Boy contained 64 kg of uranium, Fat Man only 6.4 kg of plutonium, and due to being air bursts the radioactive fallout was extremely fine dust carried to high altitude and dispersed. Chernobyl vomited several *tonnes* of radioactive material into the environment, and a large amount of it was in the form of larger particles and fragments that were deposited onto the immediate surroundings.
"few minutes later, those who survived will envy the dead" That's the scariest part for me. I'd rather evaporate in milliseconds than suffer next few hours.
This is nothing but fear propaganda nonsense. Nukes are fake af. If they were real, Nagasaki and Heroshima would be uninhabitable for 10,000 years.... THINK for yourself ffs.
Same. I'd consider myself luckiest in such a setting, when i'm caught in ground zero, as even being hundreds of kilometers away, free from whatever shit such an explosion would bring, there's still the fallout, radioactively, socially & politically, to deal with for years, if not decades, to come. Just about the entire world would be turned into a shithole within years, with the constant threat of yet another such explosion happening anywhere, anytime.
My grandfather lost his right leg in the war and was transferred from a hospital in Hiroshima to another hospital far away. If my grandfather's hospital transfer had been delayed, I wouldn't be here now. So what is said in this video is not someone else's problem for me. I hope that today's politicians and military do not make wrong or terrible choices for the sake of those who are yet to be born.
Good grief, this is wrong on so many levels. Your grandfather escaped a fire bombing. Hiroshima wasn't even in the top 20 most destroyed Japanese cities. How could that have happened with "the most destructive bomb in history"?? Because it was a propagandized fake.
More accurate version "Hey, that cloud looks like a car" "That one looks like a dog" "a- AAAA HELP I SAW A FLASH OF LIGHT NOW IM BLIND HELP HE- AAAAAAAAAA THE WINDOW SHATTERED THERES LOTS OF GLASS SHARDS STUCK IN MY BO- WAIT WHAT IM DEAF? I CANT HEAR ANYTHI- AAA ITS SO PAINFUL JESUS THERES A PUDDLE OF BLOOD UNDER ME IM GONNA DIE SOO- **passes out**" **dies moments after, later his body gets burned and turned into coal** **his friends that escaped start vomiting and die of radiation soon after their skin starts peeling away**
In pretty much all atomic bomb videos, I see people who say the Japanese deserved it. My retort is that there’s a difference between individuals (eg Japanese civilians, military personnel, government officials etc) and a collective (eg the Japanese people, the nation of Japan etc). Most Japanese civilians either just minded their own business or at most supported the war efforts within their own country like civilians in other countries that engaged in the war did during a time when information was not as freely accessible as in uncensored areas today. Mostly only some government officials and military personnel decided on and carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor and other atrocities during WW2. Since the majority of the blame should be on some of the government officials and military personnel, it would generally be unfair to say the Japanese civilians or civilians of any country deserved being nuclear bombed or have other atrocities committed against them. For the purpose of these types of discussions, it is overly simplistic and sometimes even hateful to just group the individuals into collectives like the Japanese, the Americans etc.
Correct. These statements you are talking about really only mean anything in a world where there is only collective agency. I don’t endorse a lot of my own nation’s foreign policy, so why ought I be culpable for their decisions?
The entrance to the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima clearly states the historical fact that the Japanese military invaded China and other countries. In other words, Japan is not unconcerned about its own crimes. I am saddened by the fact that the world's worst weapon was dropped on the heads of the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, regardless of what Japan did in the Pacific War.
Correction: the bombings of Pearl Harbor was not a simple act of war, since the bombings occurred mainly on weekends, the armed personnel were considered civilians as well. Hope this clears up any confusion about the Japanese civilians didn’t deserve this.
Except unless action was taken against the actual people, the government wasn’t going to stop, and there wasn’t any single government facility nuke site that would’ve convinced the Japanese to end the war, it’s of course heartless, but it saved thousands of American soldiers from going into a deadly ground war on enemy turf
Thank you for creating this educational video with such high quality and understandable script. It truly raises awareness of it, no matter how much or how little. I hope no one would launch any nuke ever again. 😢
I'm too busy appreciating how amazing this all is. Animation is amazing, information is amazing, and the fact that his voice isn't annoying as hell is amazing
@@makky6239 Kursgesagt is owned by a whole team of editors, and of course the voice actor. For every video they upload, they spend another couple of 100 combined hours in editing and finding information. These videos simply can't be made by a single human at this upload schedule. Too much in too little time.
I'm Japanese and a grandchild of atomic bomb victims. In Japan, all children learn about the real damage of nuclear weapons, but nowadays, atomic bomb victims are over 80 years old. So we are hard to know real voice of victim... I think this video can tell us the threat of nuclear weapons clearly. Thank you for making this video. I strongly want everyone in this world to know that nuclear weapons are not " just large bombs", they mean " literally the end of the world". I hope Nagasaki becomes the last place where was attacked by nuclear weapons.
Also the soundtrack. It's so intimately connected with the animation. Absolutely amazing. These videos must look simple on the surface but the production value is actually incredible.
Except that they didn't. It's easily provable that nukes are fake. Nagasaki and Heroshima weren't even in the top 15 most destroyed Japanese cities. It was a media/propaganda HOAX to scare the world into submission. And yes, the same people that control the USA control the rest of the world. Use some critical thinking, ffs.
WW3 is not happening if Iraq even is gonna retaliate on our retaliation for the things they did to us, then they’re up for some 52 air strikes(Representing the 52 American hostage they took years ago) And those sites won’t really kill civilians but kill off their abilities to cause damage to the U.S
You’ve got seconds to say goodbye to everyone and everything you’ve ever loved and worked for. You will never see them again, as you are already completely charred.
I mean, you do realize that no matter what damage we cause to the earth it will never be enough to actually permanently damage the earth itself. Even a nuclear bomb is nothing compared to mother nature. Yeah we get to see the effects that are caused, and yes we can see the damage, but when we are all dead and the earth is still rotating, it will heal itself. You just won't see it. The way he said this statement is confusing, but only if you don't understand how the Earth's ecosystem works.
@Oscar Burner I know right, I mean don't get me wrong I know that even though nuclear weapons are the "most destructive force on Earth" it's really only temporary. Humans always seem to find a way to make things "bigger" or "better" or even make new technologies but in actuality they just digging their graves even further down. I mean don't get me wrong having technologies that will keep our enemies at bay is nice, but when you notice that is just a veiled threat of safety due to "mutually assured destruction" but really millions will die just by one bomb being launched. Cascade effect. I know I am going on a tyrade, but if we could just focus our scientific knowledge on improving how to better our lives, not destroy them, then I'll be very happy.
@@carbonasit’s semi-documentary British film from the 80s. It covers nuclear war during the Cold War and what happens after. It’s quite possibly the most depressing film I’ve ever seen, the scenes after the bombs are dropped just reek hopelessness.
Honestly, after watching this video, I feel deeply scared and overwhelmed by the immense power of nuclear weapons. It’s heartbreaking that the message in this video could be dismissed as merely someone else’s story. I sincerely hope that all countries, politicians, and soldiers today choose wisely and avoid making catastrophic decisions. No one in this world should ever have to experience such unimaginable devastation.
The Pentagon's plaza was nicknamed "Ground Zero" during the Cold War because of this. Also the Pentagon hot dog stand earned the nickname Café Ground Zero, the deadliest hot dog stand in the world.
@@cheesecake667 Both would survive, but the government, infrastructure and populations would be beyond repair. Tens to hundreds of millions will die on both sides, even in the best case scenario, it's a pyrrhic victory.
Look on the bright side, if it ever does happen and you're close enough to the blast zone it'll be the quickest death you could ever possibly hope for. I don't think you'd even have time to register the pain before you vaporise, let alone have the time to scream.
@@varangianguard7102 1... why the fuck are you replying to me about this? 2. Atomic bomb is the dated, and now colloquial term for Nuclear bomb, it was a revision of terms, they're the same thing. 3.. even if you were right, you'd be spliting hairs it's a virtually meaningless distinction, like saying "I didn't stab that guy with a spear! it was a Halberd!"
@@Omnipotentmonkey yo im so sorry i wrote this at like 11 pm and must have replied to the wrong comment, mb, not gonna get into an argument between the differences of nukes and atom bombs but you can if you want
@@varangianguard7102 hahah are you always this confused? here is from wiki article on atomic bombs but I could also provide scientific articles about names of nuclear atomic bombs , wiki: "A nuclear weapon (also known as an atom bomb, atomic bomb, nuclear bomb or nuclear warhead, and colloquially as an A-bomb or nuke)" sure they did drop, on an unarmed civilians, and nation thats already lost and couldnt fire back at them, very cowardly move done for sadistic pleasures
You'll be injured, likely severely, if you survived at all. There's no help coming, not for days or maybe even weeks. It's just a matter of what claims you first, at that point: your wounds, or the radiation. Honestly, if a nuclear weapon hits a city you live in or near, you'd have been better off just dying in an instant inside the fireball. At least that will be so quick your brain won't even know it's coming. I'd say it's better than suffering and dying years later from the after effects.
@@edgardo5049 especially in a case of nuclear total war, actuall blast kills relatively few people, more people die from radiation overtime, but most people are likely to dies from hunger and lack of basic medical care and drugs. In the worst case scenario nuclear winter will decimate even the regions that were not involved in nuclear war, not likely but there is a possibility this will lead to snowball earth, when entire earth is covered in thick layer of ice and snow 😉
Lol, old? No, it's not weird. 4 years is the length of HS. That is a long time for you. Now, at 43, 3-4 years feels like 1 used to. Seriously. You won't notice it much until about your mid 30s. Then ... ZANG!
Wow, I was older than u are now on 9/11. Sorry, I just can't sleep and was already ruminating about age and time, and your comment struck me as so innocent and sweet. You need not ever feel weird or defective or whatever over your own feelings. NEVER.
there's a book called "a song for Nagasaki" which near the end gives an account of a person living there when the bomb went off. It's so easy to just think "people were vapourized" and forget there is a destruction gradient. Some burnt people became instantly dehydrated, feeling an inmense thirst, asking for water while their skin was burnt off. Their skin peeled off, and their hands looked like they had gloves torn off them. Not pretty. It's still an amazing story about acceptance and forgiveness.
Basically the best two options are: Be the further possible to at least just get affected by part of the radiation. And the other is to get instant killed so you don't have to suffer to death :D
@@mikhilmuhuthan6903 Um no? That is from Wargames, not fallout nv. Both uses this quote, sure, but one was meant for one purpose and one was meant for another.
7:33 "It only takes a small group of people with power to go crazy or rogue to unleash a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions." Well, that was prophetic.
Rubixia I mean it is really. Then what is the point of using two different type of bombs? It is nothing but testing and showing how “strong” you are. Just use the same bomb you tested if it is not testing.
Murasaki Budou Japan always fought till the end no matter what they do. That’s why you don’t want to invade main land Japan it was a test and yes it was to show how strong they are but the war would just go on if we didn’t do that.
My grandmother saw the light of the atomic bomb in Okayama, next to Hiroshima. It took two hours by car from the hypocenter in Hiroshima to my grandma's house, which is about 135Km if you search on Google map. For me, I had never really felt how powerful it was, even though I had heard and seen it in classes and anime. It is very frightening to hear my grandma's story and to think that today's nuclear bombs may be more powerful than they were back then.
@@aaddiis45021 Fusion bomb is extremely difficult to make. So yeah. Since that would mean fusion energy is a thing. Atleast with that bomb, we won't have to deal with the radiation.
I grew up between 1957 and 1976, when I joined the Marines. I served during the Cold War. I remember there were these yellow and dark blue signs all over the place with a nuclear symbol imprint, and the words "Fallout Shelter" just above, or below it. These were usually found on schools, libraries, public buildings, police and fire stations, and college dormitories. These always made me feel safe in case we got into a nuclear war. I think about it now, and realize that, had a war like that come, those fallout shelters were going to be useless, and a total joke. But I got used to the idea of "being under the gun", so to speak. We all kind of took it for granted that we had nukes pointed at Russia, and they had nukes pointed at us.
The cities and most places outside of important installations would just face the concussive blast, which is why the famous "get under the desk even though you're going to be evaporated anyway" joke came from. if you didn't get in a fallout shelter yeah the nuclear fallout might cause quite a bit of damage if you were close enough but it would be p shortlived. A few weeks in your crazy dad's fallout basement and you'd be alright. The nuke in the video (and for good reason) is a bit blown up. The explosion they described would be from a very high yield bomb directly in the city, but the time of super-large high-yield bombs was fairly shortlived. In reality, it would be lighter nukes landing near military installations like airfields, known launch sites, and the like. I wouldn't bet on you though living in the early days of the cold war lol
I am only a little younger than you, but those shelters made me feel very UNsafe. I felt like any day the nukes would come down I grew up in Chicago, and we used to have "tornado drills" which were basically modified "duck-and-cover" drills. Every time we had a tornado warning the EMS signal shrieked over the Cubs game, I thought, "This is it. I'ma gonna die..." Any wonder us Boomers are so neurotic?
It was only an animation, but even the simple shapes of people suffering and the visceral descriptions of the effects made it really heavy and hard to watch. I really don't want to even imagine someone having to live through this.
Carl Sagan on the nuclear arms race: it's like two people up to their waists in gasoline competing on who has the most matches. One match, two matches, 100 matches... who cares? One is enough to ruin your day.
the best thing to do when you get inside go lowest remember the fallout will plate out on the roof what you want to do stay aslow as you canin the base ment get against the basement wall gosh I wish I could draw a picture of a house, when your'e against the wall sit on the floorremember the fallout is possibly on the ground out side even with the actual ground level getting below ground level is best.move beds into the basement,maybe I should do a video on what to do next: it's too much in formation to type in a comment space.
What is frightening is realizing that the nuclear weapons used to end WW2 were atomic bombs, which are significantly weaker than thermonuclear warheads. The yield (in tons of TNT) of the Fat Man bomb dropped by the US was a mere 21 kilotons. The largest Hydrogen bomb ever tested was Tsar Bomba, built by the Russians, sporting a yield of 50,000 kilotons. That is more than 2,300 times as powerful as the Fat Man bomb dropped by the United States. These modern thermonuclear bombs/warheads are essentially designed never to be used because the devastation would be unimaginable.
Yeah, really sends a shock up your spine when the realization hits that this could actually happen, and how likely you are to find yourself within these circles. The idea of being scorched by the thermal pulse is especially nightmarish to me, considering how the victims of Nagasaki/Hiroshima had their skin and clothes fuse together and then peel off, leaving their flesh directly exposed to the environment as they walked around in agony with death guaranteed and only minutes to an hour away.
Go check Mutually Assured Destruction. Any country that uses nuclear weapon risks being nuked itself. So while its true that if ISIS or someone thats just completely suicidal gets their hands on nuke would be bad, nukes are also what is stopping many wars from happening. US is never going to attack Russia with nukes because it would mean they are both going to get destroyed. Also people that are just batshit crazy aren't going to care about any agreement, they will build their own nuke if they want and then be the only ones with the nuke. This is just dumb in my opinion to get rid of them
The problem here, is the threat of mutually assured destruction is enough to stave off some who would otherwise be more inclined to drop them in the first place. This is why simply saying "Nukes are bad, destroy all of them..." doesn't work. If everyone agreed to do it, but then some of the more notorious leaders didn't, but everyone else did, there's no threat to prevent them from using them. Removing your strongest weapons from the table without being able to ensure everyone else actually does it to won't help anyone, it will lead only to destruction of those who follow it.
That's always been the issue among nations. Until nations put ink to paper for treaties and alliances, iron clad agreements of non-aggression, and work to maintain amicable relations, the threat of war is always there. It may be low in modern times, but it's a non-zero number. And given how tensions all across the world are rising, externally and internally, the idea of demilitarizing and denuclearizing is as unappealing as ever. We're on the cusp of a potential WWIII, everyone can see it. All it takes is that first spark. As the saying goes, it's better to have a weapon and not use it, than to need a weapon and not have it. And unfortunately, this is our best method of preventing WWIII.
@@vallahdsacretor4839 "iron clad agreements of non-aggression" - Unfortunately, this is never going to be possible. Even if you 'had' a treaty that forbade any kind of aggression on a global scale, it doesn't actually 'prevent' those things from taking place. Russia/Ukraine is a classic example. Russia has breached numerous geneva conventions, including attacking civilian medical facilties. But how do you enforce that, beyond through military force?
@@Grigeral You furthered your original point but likely not in the way you thought. The Ukrainians agreed to relinquish the Soviet-era warheads left on their soil after the USSR fell with the understanding that they would not face Russian aggression or have any chance of becoming a NATO signatory (to avoid encircling / threatening Russian territory). The West in the years since then actively screwed them over by continuing to make overtures and flirt with the idea of bringing them into the EU and/or NATO, and even had a hand in the 2014 coup that installed heavily anti-Russo politicians into power. While that doesn't excuse the invasion, it does show that giving up a potential nuclear deterrent paired with the manner of world policing statecraft that has become notorious over decades is a recipe for a nation caught in the middle to be at greater risk of attack.
@@The_Lucent_Archangel it was more a hypothetical argument I was making on how you enforce something when you have nothing to back it up. What you're raising is a whole other argument. My stance on that, would be that Ukraine is not a part of Russia. As such, Russia have zero say over who Ukraine have dealings with, be it NATO or otherwise, whether they like it or not. It might justify the war in the eyes of Russian officials, but that's pretty much it. They have no control over them, so have don't have rights like they seem to believe.
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@@scopex3592 exactly what that guy said!
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coming back to these nuke videos doesn't seem so fun anymore
yeah...
Nope it's even more scary now
@@czcrasto4301 enjoy the adrenaline in your blood
Well Putin just wants us to be more curious, that’s all
i know right, hearing the sounds of planes now scares me
Id like to take a moment to thank Stanislov Petrov, the soviet lieutenant who refused to launch nukes during the cold war when ordered to do so
yeah there was a warning that the us was sending nukes towards them but petrov thought it was just a miscommunication/error and left it alone when he was ordered to also fire nukes.
holy, that man saved everyone
Crazy to think about . Didn't they change guidelines because of it ?
@@connieleblanc6212 my understanding is now all the people that dont need to know what action they are carrying out are blocked out by design. that includes the operators, the people at the lower chain of commands, they just press buttons on a schedule or occasionally do surprise drills which they would have no way of knowing that the specific button sequence they put in just launched a nuke, a light at some dude's desk or did nothing at all.
don't forget about Vasily Alexandrovich Arkhipov too
Basically, being immediately evaporated is the best case
Face Fish yup because in most Scenarios nuclear war would happen so it’s best that you just die immediately and not have to deal with radiation and fans of people trying to kill you every second
Face Fish That is one way to see it
or not being in the explosion radius in the first place
Or being Switzerland
Hell yeah dude, if there's a nuclear war I want the very first bomb to fall directly on my head.
The power of the sun, forged into a weapon, in the hands of men.
I can't think of anything that frightens me more.
the power of the sun, forged into a weapon, in the hands of politicians
and from here, the famous quote: "Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"
swiming in the pool with your sock on seems 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙮 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙮
Then you're an idiot who is easily misled. Nukes are fake.
The friendzone
"Eliminating all nuclear weapons an vowing to never build it again"
Countries to each other: After you
South Africa would like a word there
Exactly...
no u
thanks for pointing out the issue with this, there's probably going to be that one country that refuses, and so nobody does anything.
“Cough cough” North Korea, Iran.…
"one moment you're on your way to work, the next you're on fire"
*Wow, that escalated quickly.*
such is life
:'(
Terrifying statement.
That's the point
Can you guys go on my yt and click on the video that says “get this video to 100k” it would really be appreciated
"It renders you blind for a few hours."
So I'm blind for the rest of my life?
True.
It’s hard to argue with his assessment
No, actually. Depending on the ambient conditions - mainly how clear and/or bright it is outside when the attack happens - flash blindness can affect people up to about 85 km away.
I feel a whoooosh
Nyann Cat I can feel it in the air...
As a Japanese, i was taught that the survivors (but dying) of HIroshima and Nagasaki were ringing like bells because of the lots of pieces of glass in their bodies and they had their peeled skins in their hands. it is just terrifying.
I'm sorry to all the civilians in Japan who went through this, but it seems like there were no analogues without fewer casualties, right?
@@bealet9357 Japan was already at their limit and about to surrender before the nukes were dropped anyway
@@mootssss Politics, everything to the end, meant that they would fight to the end, they were close to surrender, but most likely it would be followed by a month or more of war and there were over 200 thousand casualties, and the communists had to be shown that yes..
『はだしのゲン』見たけど本当に言葉が出ない。まるでゾンビだ
@@mootssss Incorrect, the leaders of the Japanese Military literally staged a coup to keep the war going Hiroshima. They were not even convinced it was nuclear and were going to fight till every last man. It was their written policy and doctrine. It wasn't until Nagasaki that the Emperor had to step in and agree to a total surrender. Every single documentation, account, and historian alligns with the fact that Japan was not going to surrender even after they had already been nuked once.
"Let's get rid of all nukes!"
"Okay, you first."
"Noooooo!"
But i dont want too unless you do!
That's kind of the issue, actually.
we are getting rid of them... the us and russia have been dismantling their arsenals slowly over the past 30 years. they just need to speed it up
@ thats what i was inferring, and it will never happen sadly. we should be dismantelling the bombs and use the uranium, plutonium and other recources used for nuclear reactors, and produce energy with them
@@8beef4u but are they really 🤔
Kurzgesagt last week: "Ants are cool aren't they?"
Kurzgesagt this week: " let's nuke a city"
Parkour
It was the ants that set off the bomb.
@@zs9652 the fuckers were behind it all along
Dardan Loshi stop making memes
HxH fans: "We are no different from the ants... no we are far worse"
“Bring a piece of sun to earth”
“Explode all nuclear weapons in Amazon”
Now this
Are you planning something
They’re totally not plotting a nuclear war so the birds can take over the planet or anything
You know too much...
“I am god”-Kurzgesagt 2019
@@ImReign quick, contact hq, he can't be left alive
Is that why the Amazon is on fire?
"We cannot change the fact that Hiroshima was the first atomic bombing site. However, it is up to us whether Nagasaki will be the last.''
As a Japanese citizen of Nagasaki, I will deliver these words to the world.
I have a doubt.
Chernobyl is now a wasteland which will not be inhabitable for over 4400 years. Why then are Hiroshima and Nagasaki not wastelands?
That's an interesting question.
The general theory is that because the bomb exploded high in the air, more nuclear contaminants were dispersed into the atmosphere. Another cause is water being washed away by rain or the ground being filled in.
On the other hand, the soil at Chernobyl and Fukushima contains a lot of nuclear contaminants. That's because they exploded on the ground.
@@ユーキ-q4s Apparently it was done to "maximise damage". It seems it only took a temporary toll
I pray that no one has to witness nuclear bombings again, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
@@PianistifiedForYT it also has to do with the amount of nuclear material present in a bomb vs in a nuclear power plant
@@PianistifiedForYT Little Boy contained 64 kg of uranium, Fat Man only 6.4 kg of plutonium, and due to being air bursts the radioactive fallout was extremely fine dust carried to high altitude and dispersed. Chernobyl vomited several *tonnes* of radioactive material into the environment, and a large amount of it was in the form of larger particles and fragments that were deposited onto the immediate surroundings.
Living in a small town suddenly doesn’t sound so bad.
Ikr? Lmao I’m safe
I live in El Salvador, so i am safe xD
Small towns usually have steel factories that the enemy would likely target. Lol nowhere is safe!
Jay Kingston Oh noooo 😂💀
@@raulmejia6953 no your not
using nukes follows a simple procedure... the one who shoots first dies second
MAD.
Underrated
r/i’mnot14butthat’sdeep
*USA and Japan have joined the chat*
@@HoangPham-wp9gu with modern nukes yes... the fallout dust and debrie would be big enough for global winter
"The Survivors lucky enough to be in metro tunnels"
Artyom: Oh yeah, it's all coming together
*cry in russian*
Ahhh yes
OH MY GOD YES
I just started playing this game, a very good game
just don't look at the kremlim
"You're the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves...and the world is not prepared."
The quote from the movie makes sense now...
Kurzgesagt last week: ants ants ants
Kurzgesagt this week:
haha jacksfilms antsantsantsantsantsantsantsants
@@dragonflies6793 ah, i see you're a man of culture as well.
Next week, Ants with nukes.
ANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTSANTS
I loved ant videos tho😂
"few minutes later, those who survived will envy the dead"
That's the scariest part for me. I'd rather evaporate in milliseconds than suffer next few hours.
If i survive , I will kill my self :/
That profile picture makes you look like a pedophile.
This is nothing but fear propaganda nonsense. Nukes are fake af. If they were real, Nagasaki and Heroshima would be uninhabitable for 10,000 years.... THINK for yourself ffs.
Or days or weeks or months ugh this made me so sad
Same. I'd consider myself luckiest in such a setting, when i'm caught in ground zero, as even being hundreds of kilometers away, free from whatever shit such an explosion would bring, there's still the fallout, radioactively, socially & politically, to deal with for years, if not decades, to come. Just about the entire world would be turned into a shithole within years, with the constant threat of yet another such explosion happening anywhere, anytime.
To quote from the movie “War Games”, “The only way to win is not to play...”.
You're already playing. Chess mate.
Andrew Rakos Check Mate
You can win a thermonuclear war, depending on what your goal is and who your enemy is.
@@pXnTilde chess mate
"Strange game...."
My grandfather lost his right leg in the war and was transferred from a hospital in Hiroshima to another hospital far away.
If my grandfather's hospital transfer had been delayed, I wouldn't be here now.
So what is said in this video is not someone else's problem for me.
I hope that today's politicians and military do not make wrong or terrible choices for the sake of those who are yet to be born.
Good grief, this is wrong on so many levels. Your grandfather escaped a fire bombing. Hiroshima wasn't even in the top 20 most destroyed Japanese cities. How could that have happened with "the most destructive bomb in history"?? Because it was a propagandized fake.
🤓
So what?
If your grandmother had been prettier, your grandfather would have come earlier and a different sperm would have reached the eggcell.
This is just rude.@@bigbupbear
@@nibble2911some people are rude, just ignore em
This channel never fails to throw me into an existential crisis, I love it
IKR
Good luck sleeping tonight!
I have channel whit do this but is better.
*Kurzgesagt uploads new video*
Me: "Aw shit, here we go again."
"Hey, that cloud looks like a car"
"That one looks like a dog"
"And that one looks like a mushroo-"
Actually that was pretty fun
HAHAHAH
Thats a good comment.
More accurate version
"Hey, that cloud looks like a car"
"That one looks like a dog"
"a- AAAA HELP I SAW A FLASH OF LIGHT NOW IM BLIND HELP HE- AAAAAAAAAA THE WINDOW SHATTERED THERES LOTS OF GLASS SHARDS STUCK IN MY BO- WAIT WHAT IM DEAF? I CANT HEAR ANYTHI- AAA ITS SO PAINFUL JESUS THERES A PUDDLE OF BLOOD UNDER ME IM GONNA DIE SOO- **passes out**"
**dies moments after, later his body gets burned and turned into coal**
**his friends that escaped start vomiting and die of radiation soon after their skin starts peeling away**
Username checks out
How to survive a nuclear weapon:
Be the cameraman
Androx that’s a noice from me
Skeleton Masher agreed that’s godly
Stonks
SleepyBoy CS lol
Skeleton Masher r/wooosh
In pretty much all atomic bomb videos, I see people who say the Japanese deserved it. My retort is that there’s a difference between individuals (eg Japanese civilians, military personnel, government officials etc) and a collective (eg the Japanese people, the nation of Japan etc).
Most Japanese civilians either just minded their own business or at most supported the war efforts within their own country like civilians in other countries that engaged in the war did during a time when information was not as freely accessible as in uncensored areas today. Mostly only some government officials and military personnel decided on and carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor and other atrocities during WW2.
Since the majority of the blame should be on some of the government officials and military personnel, it would generally be unfair to say the Japanese civilians or civilians of any country deserved being nuclear bombed or have other atrocities committed against them.
For the purpose of these types of discussions, it is overly simplistic and sometimes even hateful to just group the individuals into collectives like the Japanese, the Americans etc.
Correct. These statements you are talking about really only mean anything in a world where there is only collective agency. I don’t endorse a lot of my own nation’s foreign policy, so why ought I be culpable for their decisions?
The entrance to the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima clearly states the historical fact that the Japanese military invaded China and other countries. In other words, Japan is not unconcerned about its own crimes.
I am saddened by the fact that the world's worst weapon was dropped on the heads of the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, regardless of what Japan did in the Pacific War.
Correction: the bombings of Pearl Harbor was not a simple act of war, since the bombings occurred mainly on weekends, the armed personnel were considered civilians as well. Hope this clears up any confusion about the Japanese civilians didn’t deserve this.
Except unless action was taken against the actual people, the government wasn’t going to stop, and there wasn’t any single government facility nuke site that would’ve convinced the Japanese to end the war, it’s of course heartless, but it saved thousands of American soldiers from going into a deadly ground war on enemy turf
The problem is, most of japanese military and gonverment personel died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And civilians were just another cost.
"You wouldn't die of anything, per se, you'd just stop being biology and start being physics."
Chill out there Dr. Manhattan.
felt that
Only if you are lucky enough to be close enough. Otherwise, you are for a slow-painful death.
everybody gangsta until you start breaking down at the molecular level
I see you know XKCD
“Nuclear weapons are about you”
Yes of course I can’t think of anything else more personal and heartwarming
It's heartwarming in the sense that, briefly, your heart will be near the temperature of the sun...
EXTREMELY heartwarming
@@someoneelse878 actually your heart will be around 10,000x the surface temperature of the sun
@@3User What's the average on core temp?
@@someoneelse878 Why are you in the fireball of the nuclear detonation? Were you standing on top of a nuclear silo or something?
“World leaders threatening each other with the destruction of civilian’s lives”
A classic
I could only count 2, and gladly one is no longer "world leader"
Why not just have them (the leaders themselves) fist fight?
Well said
USA did it. The only country that did it.
Thank you for creating this educational video with such high quality and understandable script. It truly raises awareness of it, no matter how much or how little.
I hope no one would launch any nuke ever again. 😢
Can we take a moment to appreciate how amazing the voice actor at his job
Nah, i'm too busy appreciating how amazing the animators are at their job
I'm too busy appreciating how amazing this all is. Animation is amazing, information is amazing, and the fact that his voice isn't annoying as hell is amazing
Wait, he isn't the owner of the channel? My life is a lie
@@makky6239 Kursgesagt is owned by a whole team of editors, and of course the voice actor. For every video they upload, they spend another couple of 100 combined hours in editing and finding information. These videos simply can't be made by a single human at this upload schedule. Too much in too little time.
Mr Pupp is this the same guy who pronounced tornadoes correctly but not hurricanes?
I don’t know why, but Steve Taylor’s voice is really soothing even when talking about detonating a nuke in a city
Ikr. I actually fell asleep last night while hearing his soothing voice.
100th like
Same with the codefusion channel guy
Yesss. I enjoyed it.
B6
Me: eating dinner
Kurzgesagt: here is your daily dose of anxiety
And fear
Thank you Kurzgesagt,Very cool!
+ depression
I mentally read that in the voice and tone of the Kurzgesagt narrator. It's funny, but do not recommend directly after watching this.
same
I'm Japanese and a grandchild of atomic bomb victims. In Japan, all children learn about the real damage of nuclear weapons, but nowadays, atomic bomb victims are over 80 years old. So we are hard to know real voice of victim...
I think this video can tell us the threat of nuclear weapons clearly. Thank you for making this video.
I strongly want everyone in this world to know that nuclear weapons are not " just large bombs", they mean " literally the end of the world".
I hope Nagasaki becomes the last place where was attacked by nuclear weapons.
Can we just take a moment and appreciate the animation. Brilliant.
indeed
Also the soundtrack. It's so intimately connected with the animation. Absolutely amazing. These videos must look simple on the surface but the production value is actually incredible.
@@SmigGames So true
ikrrrr
I mistakenly read, "Can we just take a moment to appreciate the annihilation."
And I was like, _Excuse me?!_
Short answer: They die.
Long answer: They all die.
Short answer: death
Long answer: deeeeeeaath
Very long answer: They will friken dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Longer answer: nuclear weapons have prevented WW3 due to MAD.
Even longer answer, they’ll all die at some point
Longest answer:
TTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHEEEEEEEYYYYYY AAAAAAARRRRRREEEE DDDDDDEEEEEAAAADDD
It is absolutely mind-boggling that mankind can invent something that is hotter than the sun.
Except that they didn't. It's easily provable that nukes are fake. Nagasaki and Heroshima weren't even in the top 15 most destroyed Japanese cities. It was a media/propaganda HOAX to scare the world into submission. And yes, the same people that control the USA control the rest of the world. Use some critical thinking, ffs.
Just the power of what makes a atom a atom
It is a miniature sun
@jasonlee148 I totally understand that our sun is a small star compared to other's, but it's...STILL THE SUN!!! ☀️😳
No only the surface
Kurzgesagt: “What if we...”
Everyone not wanting an existential crisis: “ *N O* “
Kurzgesagt is a German word
LETS NUKE ANIME FANBOYS SICK OF ANIME PFP AND AHEGAO SWEATERS, LETS NUKE WHO EVER MADE MANGA AND ANIME
LET USE ALL OUR NUKES TO NUKE JAPAN, ITS WHAT THEY DESERVE FOR MAKING ANIME
lol
@@fichcaksksks2704 Hot take incoming: Anime would never exist if Japan wasn't nuked in WW2.
Interesting how this popped up on reccomended the day the ww3 fears surged
I hope all the 2019 kids die
@@childdestroyedchilddestroy4554 :0
WW3 is not happening if Iraq even is gonna retaliate on our retaliation for the things they did to us, then they’re up for some 52 air strikes(Representing the 52 American hostage they took years ago) And those sites won’t really kill civilians but kill off their abilities to cause damage to the U.S
Aqua is the best waifu it's Iran 🙄
Evan Pineda thanks for the correction
The voice over is so matter of fact. “You’re on fire”.
@@timothydorfman8425 @Ordackque The weirdest thing is I can hear that coming from the Narrator's voice perfectly.
You’ve got seconds to say goodbye to everyone and everything you’ve ever loved and worked for. You will never see them again, as you are already completely charred.
Statistically speaking, he's not wrong.
@@GravityGuava ME TOO
@@timothydorfman8425 oof
After seeing Oppenheimer I can truely understand why he was so devastated
“What if we nuke a city”
Japan: we know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two
Underated
DARK
Zombie Hunter seen a thing or *2*
We are The U S, bum parum pum, pum pum pum!!!!
the word ''or'' makes it like they've not decided it yet
"What if we nuke a city?"
Everyone: "How about we don't."
no no i like this idea
America: How about let nuke TWO cities!
North Korea: How bout I do anyway
tel aviv
How about we do!? Fucken pussy!! 👍
Kurzgesagt: The forces of man are laughable compared to the forces of nature.
Also Kurzgesagt: A nuclear bomb is every natural disaster combined
XDDDD
... for a small surface on Earth. If the scale is Earth sized everything is microscopic
I mean, you do realize that no matter what damage we cause to the earth it will never be enough to actually permanently damage the earth itself. Even a nuclear bomb is nothing compared to mother nature. Yeah we get to see the effects that are caused, and yes we can see the damage, but when we are all dead and the earth is still rotating, it will heal itself. You just won't see it. The way he said this statement is confusing, but only if you don't understand how the Earth's ecosystem works.
@@LeviathanTechWiz very well said
@Oscar Burner I know right, I mean don't get me wrong I know that even though nuclear weapons are the "most destructive force on Earth" it's really only temporary. Humans always seem to find a way to make things "bigger" or "better" or even make new technologies but in actuality they just digging their graves even further down. I mean don't get me wrong having technologies that will keep our enemies at bay is nice, but when you notice that is just a veiled threat of safety due to "mutually assured destruction" but really millions will die just by one bomb being launched. Cascade effect. I know I am going on a tyrade, but if we could just focus our scientific knowledge on improving how to better our lives, not destroy them, then I'll be very happy.
After watching oppenhiemer this hits 4 times harder
Don't watch Threads then...
@@DanubeRS wat dat
@@carbonasit’s semi-documentary British film from the 80s. It covers nuclear war during the Cold War and what happens after. It’s quite possibly the most depressing film I’ve ever seen, the scenes after the bombs are dropped just reek hopelessness.
“What if we nuked a city?”
10 minutes later:
“How to unpress charges against you”
How to get off watchlist
10 minutes later
“What if FBI is on our channel?”
First, a flash, everyone in this channel have a a massive bang from their door.
Meaning everywhere your house is now filled with armoured men.
I guess that person is paying all the Insurance to $900,000,00
Just by doing it
Me: Sunday morning, rain is fallin--
Kurzegeagt: Yeah but what if it was black rain
Ozzy is fine
Hey, Vsauce....
lol well done
This is scarier than any horror movie I’ve ever seen.
Same bro, it's because this is real
Tyler Pierson All to real.
This is satisfying not scary
@@jasonspike8308 oh yeah bro geting evaporated in a fraction of a second mmmmmmmm satisfying
@@typ6896 yup very satisfying
Honestly, after watching this video, I feel deeply scared and overwhelmed by the immense power of nuclear weapons. It’s heartbreaking that the message in this video could be dismissed as merely someone else’s story. I sincerely hope that all countries, politicians, and soldiers today choose wisely and avoid making catastrophic decisions. No one in this world should ever have to experience such unimaginable devastation.
"The lucky ones are at ground zero" was a common phrase during the cold war as the US and USSR rattled nuclear sabers at one another.
Yup. I've been saying this for 35 years.
The Pentagon's plaza was nicknamed "Ground Zero" during the Cold War because of this. Also the Pentagon hot dog stand earned the nickname Café Ground Zero, the deadliest hot dog stand in the world.
@@corvus1970 You've been wrong for 35 years.
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
― Carl Sagan
One of the better quotes of our time
Thats a good quote
Had to go quite far down the comments for some rationality. Thanks.
That is actually bullshit. America would survive a nuclear attack on russia if they don't return the favor
@@cheesecake667 Both would survive, but the government, infrastructure and populations would be beyond repair.
Tens to hundreds of millions will die on both sides, even in the best case scenario, it's a pyrrhic victory.
Can‘t believe that this kind of weapons are really allowed to exist and to be available for many countries …
ikr
USA are to blame for such a weapon existing.
I think only 9 countries have nukes and yet that's probably enough to destroy humanity
@@metroidprime3863 true but it would've been created eventually. humans are to blame
@@metroidprime3863 Well I'm pretty sure germany was trying to make nukes before the US until the allied said hi
I learn so much more from these 20 minute videos than weeks in school.
Go to a better school, you are being cheated out of an education
Waiter: Sir, your serving of existential fear is ready.
Me: Ahhh, finally.
mere seconds later : *Screaming sounds*
Nothing like a discussion about the effects of a fatal dose of instant sunshine to make you bright and chipper in the morning.
Replace easier with TH-cam
Yeah kurzgesagt is good at that lol
Look on the bright side, if it ever does happen and you're close enough to the blast zone it'll be the quickest death you could ever possibly hope for. I don't think you'd even have time to register the pain before you vaporise, let alone have the time to scream.
can we nominate the animation team for this one for some kind of emmy or whatever award we can?
this is stellar work.
@@varangianguard7102 1... why the fuck are you replying to me about this?
2. Atomic bomb is the dated, and now colloquial term for Nuclear bomb, it was a revision of terms, they're the same thing.
3.. even if you were right, you'd be spliting hairs it's a virtually meaningless distinction, like saying "I didn't stab that guy with a spear! it was a Halberd!"
@@Omnipotentmonkey ngl you are more fucked if it's a halberd
@@varangianguard7102 only nation in history which used nuclear bomb on a population, is still usa
@@Omnipotentmonkey yo im so sorry i wrote this at like 11 pm and must have replied to the wrong comment, mb, not gonna get into an argument between the differences of nukes and atom bombs but you can if you want
@@varangianguard7102 hahah are you always this confused? here is from wiki article on atomic bombs but I could also provide scientific articles about names of nuclear atomic bombs , wiki: "A nuclear weapon (also known as an atom bomb, atomic bomb, nuclear bomb or nuclear warhead, and colloquially as an A-bomb or nuke)" sure they did drop, on an unarmed civilians, and nation thats already lost and couldnt fire back at them, very cowardly move done for sadistic pleasures
I’m glad you included the idiots who’s first thoughts are to take photos
What else am i gonna do? Save the city?
It is not stupid... That's ten best thing you can do for information etc... To show it to the rest of the world
I mean it would be a historical event so why not
Death is inevitable. Why not record it for future generations?
Yeah lol I would hide behind a concrete wall or anything sturdy
I Must say, the music really helps to show just how terrifying such a scenario is.
Me: Kurzgesagt, you doin' okay?
Kurz: *long drag on a cigarette* What if we NUKED A CITY?
Japan: *looks away*
Lol
*T R A I T O R!*
joker reference?
Amazing. Best post
“What if we nuke a city?”
Short answer: *Don’t*
Golden Hardt America: Hold my beer 🍺
Why not two?
Insightful
@@Mettaworldj i think you mean
*hold my hamburger*
Sad thing is that certain humans did...
"OH cool, a new Kurzgesagt video!"
9 mins later: "I need to hug my children."
Ely Sanchez What children? They were sacrificed to appease the nuke gods and save us all
Nihilism and Existentialism is all part of the process of the ubermench
@@FeydHarkon666 dude Wtf lmao
Ely Sanchez fuck I made the same joke sorta :(.
Ely Sanchez excuse me, you are an introvert at 3AM watching a kurzgesagt video on nukes, I know for a fact that u do not have children
This was really well made, thank you for the great content!
Narrator: The city is blown up and turned to ash, now lets talk about what happens next.
Me: *THERE'S A N E X T??*
Emz The next is arguably the worse part when it comes to nukes.
You'll be injured, likely severely, if you survived at all. There's no help coming, not for days or maybe even weeks. It's just a matter of what claims you first, at that point: your wounds, or the radiation.
Honestly, if a nuclear weapon hits a city you live in or near, you'd have been better off just dying in an instant inside the fireball. At least that will be so quick your brain won't even know it's coming. I'd say it's better than suffering and dying years later from the after effects.
@@edgardo5049 especially in a case of nuclear total war, actuall blast kills relatively few people, more people die from radiation overtime, but most people are likely to dies from hunger and lack of basic medical care and drugs. In the worst case scenario nuclear winter will decimate even the regions that were not involved in nuclear war, not likely but there is a possibility this will lead to snowball earth, when entire earth is covered in thick layer of ice and snow 😉
“One moment your on your way to work, the next moment your on fire.”
Guess I’ll die.
Thats why im unemployed
Solution: don't work.
YOU ARE
NOT
YOUR
"This is Fine"
-Dog
also, you're*
Select weapon:
Tank
Airplane
[ Extinction ball ]
Pacific showdown
Fatality
FINISH HIM
Nagasaki- extinction ball 2: electric boogaloo
I see what you did there :)
Can't believe it's been 4 years since this gem... is it weird that that makes me feel old? XD (I'm soon to be 18 at the time of writing this)
Lol, old?
No, it's not weird. 4 years is the length of HS. That is a long time for you. Now, at 43, 3-4 years feels like 1 used to. Seriously.
You won't notice it much until about your mid 30s. Then ... ZANG!
Wow, I was older than u are now on 9/11. Sorry, I just can't sleep and was already ruminating about age and time, and your comment struck me as so innocent and sweet.
You need not ever feel weird or defective or whatever over your own feelings. NEVER.
there's a book called "a song for Nagasaki" which near the end gives an account of a person living there when the bomb went off. It's so easy to just think "people were vapourized" and forget there is a destruction gradient. Some burnt people became instantly dehydrated, feeling an inmense thirst, asking for water while their skin was burnt off. Their skin peeled off, and their hands looked like they had gloves torn off them.
Not pretty. It's still an amazing story about acceptance and forgiveness.
Im making a book called "a song for Detroit". About how nuclear devastation is a blessing compared to goblins.
@KINDLY HELP ME REACH TO 100K SUB Shut up
Forgiveness from who? Japan should be grateful that the US didn't continue nukeing them, they deserved it
That's an opinion, much the same way some extremists might say the US deserved 9/11
@@Ryan-eu3kp the Japanese government deserved it not the Japanese citizens.
*“This item was too Overpowered to be in the game, so we removed it.”*
VenularSilver this comment right here officer
Notch apples lul
R.I.P Fallout 76! The 76th game in the franchise. Died from script kitties and try hards nuking new players. OOF
tierzoo is that you?
nice lol
I'm not worried, I own a fridge.
Bas Waaijer Indiana Jones?
@@meikelwupp7044 Yes!
I thought this was a fallout 4 reference about billy the kid ghoul.
ControllerLoner That stemmed from Indiana Jones
Bas Waaijer I also do
Greenland 🇬🇱: My capital is Nuuk.
North Korea 🇰🇵: DID YOU SAY NUKE?!
You know Kurzgesagt is being super serious when there's no sapient ducks.
I just noticed😳
Stolen.
TheOne RedLegend
Stolen from...?
@@varanus_basileus Welcome to TH-cam
Cool
Basically the best two options are:
Be the further possible to at least just get affected by part of the radiation.
And the other is to get instant killed so you don't have to suffer to death :D
So either hella far or hella close
If nuclear war breaks out, I'm heading straight to ground zero. No need to delay the inevitable.
Remember the golden unironic advice: run into an open field and hope you evaporate quickly.
Yeah better to be exactly were the nuke explodes so I could dissapear in the same mili micro second LOL
This also affects the atmosphere if it were a nuclear war
5:50 That helicopter is the best animation model you have ever made
Jack we just gonna ignore the fact that they made an effort to animate people limping
The entire animation in general was amazing the animation team really stepped up their game and did an incredible job
Wow didn't notice that the first time watching, that is damn impressive
Thank you for telling that! It seemed to have a lot of effort in it.
SH-3 Sea King Search and Rescue Helicopter
Coming back to this video every now and then... it's more terrifying each time I watch.
"The only way to win is not to play" - Joshua
War games?
@@johnennis4586 Yeah. Dr. Falken.
This a fallout nv queote
@@mikhilmuhuthan6903 Um no? That is from Wargames, not fallout nv. Both uses this quote, sure, but one was meant for one purpose and one was meant for another.
My name was called.
“The survivors lucky enough to have been in metros”
Ah yes, spartan.
The Metro is a lie!
Hi Cheeky Bum
Its only us! Nothing else
@SpinazFou Metro 2033, I guess. I live close enough to Moscow subway system, so I may be one to experience such thing in the future.
Artyom! Wake up Artyom!
*8 year old me not understanding a thing about nukes* :
"i bet i could survive that"
Plot twist, you're cursed and never can actually win a bet
@Aloush 8 years old commenting on a 8 years old commenting on a 8 year old joke
If ur the machine fron fallout 4
survive that as an evaporated chemical
😂😂😂😂
Imagine you left that city with your family, days later, you turn on the TV and realize how *fucking insane* your luck was.
Even if we nuke the city ,the cameraman will still survive
The cameraman *always survives.*
But not unless it’s a movie
@@otokonara706 no there isnt
What an original joke. Haven’t heard this one before.
bruhtastic give it a rest dude TH-cam is full of unoriginal comments. People are just joking around
“One moment you’re on your way to work, the next moment you’re on fire.”
Do I still have to go work tho?
yes, all wagies must report to their cagies
@@mistaowickkuh6249 you are fired
Mr. CU NT If you work in Japan then definitely.
@@PeachDragon_ well played Commissar... well played.
@@mvuto137 uzah! A man of quality, you see what i did there didn't you?
them running away from the center point of explosion
*me running towards the center for less misery*
I'll be running with you
Same here
I’d follow
I would just shoot myself.
you can just shadow through everything mr. zed
I'd be haunted if I was Oppenheimer
7:33 "It only takes a small group of people with power to go crazy or rogue to unleash a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions."
Well, that was prophetic.
Nah, it’s just obvious, in all humanity history there is at least one crazy person to start a war.
kind of looks like crimeea region ..... :|
Putin
Why
@@surfalcatraz9770 USA
My city has just been nuked.
Facebook friends be like - “Sending hugs hun”.
Wouldn’t have happened if the city had a gun!
Sending positive vibes
Thoughts and prayers.
@@justin8910 If that gun was a CIWS youre right :P
Tik Tok would probably start a trend out of it
“What if we nuke a city”
Japan: If?
This is worse. The little boy and fat man were sloppy and were literally just
“We have big bomb we want test it”
Gray Lindblad I mean not really. More like we don’t want to invade mainland Japan.
Rubixia I mean it is really. Then what is the point of using two different type of bombs? It is nothing but testing and showing how “strong” you are. Just use the same bomb you tested if it is not testing.
Japan: First time?
Murasaki Budou Japan always fought till the end no matter what they do. That’s why you don’t want to invade main land Japan it was a test and yes it was to show how strong they are but the war would just go on if we didn’t do that.
My grandmother saw the light of the atomic bomb in Okayama, next to Hiroshima.
It took two hours by car from the hypocenter in Hiroshima to my grandma's house, which is about 135Km if you search on Google map.
For me, I had never really felt how powerful it was, even though I had heard and seen it in classes and anime.
It is very frightening to hear my grandma's story and to think that today's nuclear bombs may be more powerful than they were back then.
They are more powerful. Hiroshima's bomb power was 15 kilotons, an average US warhead nowadays is about 200 kilotons.
nope better try megatons and they are mutable warheads not single.@@arnold3768
Kurzgesagt: **makes an interesting video**
Also Kurzgesagt: Let's make everyone feel uncomfortable
You should feel uncomfortable about nuclear weapons.
Everyone murders descendant in USA...
Aniexity channel published a new video
@@DevenTalks
...
...
_daga, kotowaru_
It s a real threat to humanity. We should feel uncomfortable.
I'd rather be evaporated instantly
rather than experiencing the other following phases which are practically torture
Mean you would like fusion bomb
@@aaddiis45021 yea...
"The living will envy the dead", Nikita Khrushchev
@@aaddiis45021 Fusion bomb is extremely difficult to make. So yeah. Since that would mean fusion energy is a thing. Atleast with that bomb, we won't have to deal with the radiation.
I'd rather be in a different city far far away.
I grew up between 1957 and 1976, when I joined the Marines. I served during the Cold War.
I remember there were these yellow and dark blue signs all over the place with a nuclear symbol imprint, and the words "Fallout Shelter" just above, or below it. These were usually found on schools, libraries, public buildings, police and fire stations, and college dormitories. These always made me feel safe in case we got into a nuclear war.
I think about it now, and realize that, had a war like that come, those fallout shelters were going to be useless, and a total joke.
But I got used to the idea of "being under the gun", so to speak. We all kind of took it for granted that we had nukes pointed at Russia, and they had nukes pointed at us.
Mark L I would love to hear more stories
The cities and most places outside of important installations would just face the concussive blast, which is why the famous "get under the desk even though you're going to be evaporated anyway" joke came from. if you didn't get in a fallout shelter yeah the nuclear fallout might cause quite a bit of damage if you were close enough but it would be p shortlived. A few weeks in your crazy dad's fallout basement and you'd be alright.
The nuke in the video (and for good reason) is a bit blown up. The explosion they described would be from a very high yield bomb directly in the city, but the time of super-large high-yield bombs was fairly shortlived. In reality, it would be lighter nukes landing near military installations like airfields, known launch sites, and the like.
I wouldn't bet on you though living in the early days of the cold war lol
there's literally a nuclear shelter 10 feet from my house
Thank you for your service
I am only a little younger than you, but those shelters made me feel very UNsafe. I felt like any day the nukes would come down
I grew up in Chicago, and we used to have "tornado drills" which were basically modified "duck-and-cover" drills. Every time we had a tornado warning the EMS signal shrieked over the Cubs game, I thought, "This is it. I'ma gonna die..."
Any wonder us Boomers are so neurotic?
One of the best and important videos I have ever watched
It was only an animation, but even the simple shapes of people suffering and the visceral descriptions of the effects made it really heavy and hard to watch. I really don't want to even imagine someone having to live through this.
Then pray you're near ground zero, should such a weapon ever hit. Vaporization is a quick way to go.
Yeah I don’t think I’d want to be anywhere else
Try watch Barefoot Gen
Don't worry you wouldn't last long
true, id nvr wish this upon anyone ever
“There’s a visceral joy in blowing things up” - Kurzgesagt writers at least once per video.
Carl Sagan on the nuclear arms race: it's like two people up to their waists in gasoline competing on who has the most matches.
One match, two matches, 100 matches... who cares? One is enough to ruin your day.
* kill you, most of people in your country and completely disrupt the biosphere leading humanity to slowly starve over a few generations.
wow I just read that in his voice...that was chilling man.....
I would try to drown in that waist deep gasoline.
and 100 are enough to ruin your life
Damn, he kinda right doe if a nuke would drop in my city my day would be ruined too ngl
Brilliant video. Insightful and terrifying at the same time well done.
the best thing to do when you get inside go lowest remember the fallout will plate out on the roof what you want to do stay aslow as you canin the base ment get against the basement wall gosh I wish I could draw a picture of a house, when your'e against the wall sit on the floorremember the fallout is possibly on the ground out side even with the actual ground level getting below ground level is best.move beds into the basement,maybe I should do a video on what to do next: it's too much in formation to type in a comment space.
The fact that this has actually happened is so fucking crazy. I need to sleep and forget it forever.
I now have trust issues because of people launching weapons
What?
What is frightening is realizing that the nuclear weapons used to end WW2 were atomic bombs, which are significantly weaker than thermonuclear warheads. The yield (in tons of TNT) of the Fat Man bomb dropped by the US was a mere 21 kilotons. The largest Hydrogen bomb ever tested was Tsar Bomba, built by the Russians, sporting a yield of 50,000 kilotons. That is more than 2,300 times as powerful as the Fat Man bomb dropped by the United States. These modern thermonuclear bombs/warheads are essentially designed never to be used because the devastation would be unimaginable.
@@PersonalAccountIndeed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
@@dylanhenry3310 yes but why tf research them lol, someone is gonna use them
the title is kinda hilariously translated to my language, it basically says: "A nuclear weapon falls into a city. So what?"
What language o.o
"Who even cares" lol
@@EagleZH23 Finnish
@@nukecorruption Classic Finnish attitude...
@@nukecorruption Oooh, noice
Tis was genuinely terrifying despite the animated style
Yeah, really sends a shock up your spine when the realization hits that this could actually happen, and how likely you are to find yourself within these circles. The idea of being scorched by the thermal pulse is especially nightmarish to me, considering how the victims of Nagasaki/Hiroshima had their skin and clothes fuse together and then peel off, leaving their flesh directly exposed to the environment as they walked around in agony with death guaranteed and only minutes to an hour away.
@@canidaeSynapse true. However the modern nuclear weapons gets stronger daily and the Nagasaki ones are almost nothing compared to the ones today
Inspite*
@@dhoxin A thermal pulse is still a thermal pulse, the only thing that changes with the power is what the range is.
At first I was enjoying it then in the middle of the video I just thought : "What if a bomb exploded right now near me" quite scary.
I’m loving how this was narrated.
“What if we nuke a city”
U.S. : “Funny story...”
But todays nukes are much stronger than those used against Japan.
@@Herr.P and?? 😂 how does that disregard what happened to japan
@@alamsas2 It doesn't. But it does make it non-applicable to the topic of this video.
@@alamsas2 What do you mean disregard?
@@reichrunner1 non-applicable in what way? I'm certain the video exactly represents what happened with Japan back then (regardless of the strength)
“It only takes a small group of people with power , to go crazy or rogue , a small mistep or simple misunderstanding to unleash all hell “
Damn
Old and rude start wars.
Young and stupid fight them.
yep
Dr. Strangelove is a movie demonstrating this with black comedy.
sorry for starting a war in the comments. Just don't use nukes!
@@topazprism77 if anyone starts a nuclear war its gonna be america and you know it
How many existential crisis videos do we need?
Kurzgesagt: Yes
also cgp grey with humans need not apply
Kurzgesagt: Alle
This is not existential video, more like disaster preparedness and advocacy.
fear mongering
Go check Mutually Assured Destruction. Any country that uses nuclear weapon risks being nuked itself.
So while its true that if ISIS or someone thats just completely suicidal gets their hands on nuke would be bad, nukes are also what is stopping many wars from happening.
US is never going to attack Russia with nukes because it would mean they are both going to get destroyed.
Also people that are just batshit crazy aren't going to care about any agreement, they will build their own nuke if they want and then be the only ones with the nuke.
This is just dumb in my opinion to get rid of them
The problem here, is the threat of mutually assured destruction is enough to stave off some who would otherwise be more inclined to drop them in the first place.
This is why simply saying "Nukes are bad, destroy all of them..." doesn't work. If everyone agreed to do it, but then some of the more notorious leaders didn't, but everyone else did, there's no threat to prevent them from using them.
Removing your strongest weapons from the table without being able to ensure everyone else actually does it to won't help anyone, it will lead only to destruction of those who follow it.
I think it's actually impossible to get rid of all nukes. people don't trust each other at all to not have them.
That's always been the issue among nations. Until nations put ink to paper for treaties and alliances, iron clad agreements of non-aggression, and work to maintain amicable relations, the threat of war is always there. It may be low in modern times, but it's a non-zero number. And given how tensions all across the world are rising, externally and internally, the idea of demilitarizing and denuclearizing is as unappealing as ever. We're on the cusp of a potential WWIII, everyone can see it. All it takes is that first spark.
As the saying goes, it's better to have a weapon and not use it, than to need a weapon and not have it. And unfortunately, this is our best method of preventing WWIII.
@@vallahdsacretor4839 "iron clad agreements of non-aggression" - Unfortunately, this is never going to be possible. Even if you 'had' a treaty that forbade any kind of aggression on a global scale, it doesn't actually 'prevent' those things from taking place.
Russia/Ukraine is a classic example. Russia has breached numerous geneva conventions, including attacking civilian medical facilties. But how do you enforce that, beyond through military force?
@@Grigeral You furthered your original point but likely not in the way you thought. The Ukrainians agreed to relinquish the Soviet-era warheads left on their soil after the USSR fell with the understanding that they would not face Russian aggression or have any chance of becoming a NATO signatory (to avoid encircling / threatening Russian territory).
The West in the years since then actively screwed them over by continuing to make overtures and flirt with the idea of bringing them into the EU and/or NATO, and even had a hand in the 2014 coup that installed heavily anti-Russo politicians into power. While that doesn't excuse the invasion, it does show that giving up a potential nuclear deterrent paired with the manner of world policing statecraft that has become notorious over decades is a recipe for a nation caught in the middle to be at greater risk of attack.
@@The_Lucent_Archangel it was more a hypothetical argument I was making on how you enforce something when you have nothing to back it up.
What you're raising is a whole other argument. My stance on that, would be that Ukraine is not a part of Russia. As such, Russia have zero say over who Ukraine have dealings with, be it NATO or otherwise, whether they like it or not.
It might justify the war in the eyes of Russian officials, but that's pretty much it. They have no control over them, so have don't have rights like they seem to believe.