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All of these are like -A technician noticed 10,000 nuclear bombs heading directly towards him that would detonate in 7 seconds -The entire USAF takes off and is ready to retaliate -A random bystander flew up in his commercial biplane and warned them it was an accident -The false alarm was caused by two pigeons procreating inside of a satellite dish
I like to imagine all of these things actually happened but time travel was used and somehow stopped all of those incidents from happening Imagine that
As often a Soviet man as anything. I hate what the Cold War did to perceptions of Russians to Americans. Whatever political actions their leaders take, it seems like the Russian people are absolutely amazing people. The story of Stanislav Petrov is one of my favorite stories of all time. It is a country I hope to visit one day.
@@oso1165 What fantasy ideas? When I was in college I was roommates with a foreign exchange student who was from the UK, but there was an entire foreign exchange program so all of the students there knew each other. I met quite a few people from around the world because of that, and the Russian ones were awesome people. Unrelated, but I liked the people from Lebanon as well. I think it's rather short sighted to not be able to see beauty in a culture. Especially one that Americans have been taught to hate for decades.
@@oso1165as a european who has been to both usa & russia & has manny friends in both country's i would advise you to travel and open your mind. Stop being a mindless puppet, go see and experience things for yourself instead of rechewing propaganda.
in this month there was cuban missile crisis, and risk of starting nuclear war had highest chances (there was no need to put their nuclear missiles in turkey)
Honestly, probably not a whole lot more than what we already know. The majority of incidents important enough to have had the potential to have sparked nuclear war often attracted enough media coverage or public interest to have either been well-documented at the time or at least been declassified by now. The last bits and pieces of Cold War actions that could've gone "hot" that we don't know about probably come in the form of US and Soviet navy submarines duking it out in the oceans and having confrontations that nearly went hostile. The US and Soviet navies, particularly those under the silent branch, are especially secretive about the business they did during the Cold War even in comparison to the other branches. The US Army, Air Force and Marines have pretty much declassified all of the confrontations they had with the Soviets back then. For example the catalogue of flights of U2 and SR-71 spyplanes are publicly available, and likewise you can read up Soviet documents about all the times they tried to intercept these flights.
But the activities of their submarines from back then are notoriously still largely classified. But from what we know it was extremely common for SSNs of either side to shadow and even play mock battles and war games with their opposite. There are numerous reports of Soviet and US Navy subs colliding with each other and submarine-submarine collisions are estimated to run at the dozens, with most of them still being classified. In 1970 the USS Tautog collided with the K-108 while both subs were stalking each other, and the only reason the public ever found out was because a bunch of civilian observers noticed that a part of the ship's bridge had been bent 2 degrees off from the usual and because her hull still showed the marks where a chunk of the Soviet submarine's propeller screw had lodged itself. There is also a declassified 1974 memo sent by the CIA to Henry Kissinger reporting about a collision between a Soviet sub and an American ballistic missile sub just outside of the Navy's base at Holy Loch, Scotland. Because the Navy has never declassified its files on it, this one CIA memo is the only proof it even ever happened. We still don't know how much damage was caused, or even just which subs were involved. Of course, few if any of these submarine incidents were likely to have escalated into nuclear war and most people involved knew it. Scratching your sub's hull on the hull of the enemy or spending weeks playing nuclear-tipped mind games with them was run of the mill business and not actually that dangerous. I just wanted to point out how little we actually know about what the Navy's submarines did (and still do).
And this list doesn’t even contain every known close call. For example Israel already gave orders in 1973 to shoot 13 nuclear bombs because they were losing the war. Nixon heard of it hours before the planned launch and promised Israel to provide them all the convention weapons that are needed to win the war if they don’t use the nuclear warheads.
Because, I've only played with the possibility of nuclear obliteration on my bad days but, now... I've seen humanity's failures and made the decision to will it into reality, there is only one thing you can do to change my mind; like my comment or, else. 💀
With the incident with Arkhipov, the Soviet chief of staff on board the sub telling them to chill, it was extremely lucky he was on board at all. Normally he wouldn’t have been, and the launch would have happened. But he was there as a guest, and because of the rank he held the protocol said he had to be involved in any potential launch decisions. Very lucky he was there at all!
On the other hand, it's probably because of him there that everyone on the sub got the big ideas. "That's why they ambushed us, now they're bombing us, this is an attack".
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I wonder if/how many Soviet incidents occured and were simply not reported due to fear of being fired or seen as incompetent. It’s strange to me that only two have been made public.
@@Paul_Sergeyev majority of these cases that had been reported were from the Western coalition. It’s obvious that the Soviets were under-reporting false alarms.
The culture of military secrecy especially around nuclear weapons is far stronger in Russia. Don't expect the government to release any info about possible nuclear close calls. The events we know about were told by the individuals themselves after the fall of the USSR
@@Paul_SergeyevWe know of a number of Broken Arrow incidents from the US, but of the reported ones around a dozen are still classified. I'm not sure a nuclear incident would go unreported in the US though.
@@Bloblom I'd somewhat agree, more out of pride and fear of being fired than a "culture of military secrecy". After all, if you're an airbase commander in the USSR, you've got it made. Why risk that position by reporting an accident or false scramble to the higher-ups?
I hate to say it but this very long list is not even complete. In 1973, Israel was losing an existential war and decided in the evening to launch 13 nuclear warheads in the next morning. Nixon heard of it during the night and came in last second and made a deal with Golda Mair that the US would immediately provide them all the needed weapons to win this war if they cancel the nuclear launches. It worked.
@@veryunusual126 considering the fact the alternative would be Cairo and Damascus becoming radioactive wastelands you should be thankful "shitrael" took the US deal lol
@@veryunusual126It was a war of Annihilation. Israel knew the end result of the destruction of the Israeli state would be the genocide of the Israeli people. Nuclear deterrence is Israel's way of ensuring that even in defeat, they'll make the enemy bleed. Every nuclear power has a similar doctrine.
It’s absolutely mind blowing that I was born 40 some years after these incidents and I had not known how dangerously close we came to pretty much human extinction. I knew about the cuban missile crisis and cold war but had no idea about any of this other stuff. Crazy that we survived on sheer luck and the patience of our enemies at times
Not all bombs. Only extremely high yield bombs have them to allow the aircraft that dropped it to escape the blast radius. Such is the case with the Tsar Bomba. Your average Megaton-yield bomb does not have a parachute because the aircraft is fast enough to escape.
TONIGHT, ON TOP GEAR *missile sound effect RICHARD ACCIXENTALY TRIGGERS WORLD WAR BY DRIVING A MINI INTO RUSSIAN TERRITORY *air plane fly by sound effect JAMES HIDES HIMSELF IN AN WINERY *klaxon siren sound effect AND I GET TO PRESS THE BIG RED BUTTON
@@sergeantglowstick1399there must be something deeper than this TH-cam channel doing lots of research on his videos making an at-least week ahead upload schedule 😂
It's actually very reassuraning that in every instance, the voice of reason always won out. The lone dude who always says "wait a minute somethings wrong, STOP" Was always heeded.
On one side I’m terrified at the sensitivity that triggers such incidents on the other I’m impressed by the USAs seemingly infinite protocols and procedures to conduct a nuclear response 😂
This video is absolutely eye-opening! I had no idea just how many times the world came so close to a nuclear conflict. The Suez Crisis Coincidences at the start really caught my attention-it's insane how a series of small missteps could have escalated into something catastrophic. The 1983 Soviet False Alarm at the end is chilling, especially knowing how close we came to disaster because of a technical glitch. It’s wild to think about how these events were mostly hidden from the public for so long. This video does a great job of laying out the historical context, and I feel like I just learned a ton about the fragile state of global politics during these tense times. Incredible research and storytelling-definitely subscribing for more!
Israel also were planning to detonate their nukes on their own land during the Yom Kippur war when they believed that they were loosing as an act of scorched earth. Somehow the most moral army thought
As there any proof of that? I know that Israel demonstratively put its ballistic missile launchers to firing positions to wary the US that it may be better to provide some help, but i have never heard that Israel planned to nuke itself.
5:06 but crazier than this is that the depth charges used to signal had in recent days, days after the submarine deeply submerged, changed their protocol. So whereas the protocol before hand was to drop say 2-3 depth charges for communication, now they would drop say 5-8 (I forget the real number here). Meaning that since the sub was submerged it had not gotten these updated procedures and because there were more depth charges used than what they thought procedure to communicate was, they assumed they weren’t used for communication but were hostile.
elon musk made an interesting proposition basically stating we're in a race between the colonisation of other planets and WW3, if WW3 happens first, nuclear war could be the end of civilisation as we know it, whereas colonisation will allow us to distribute our population and civilization more and therefore avoid total distruction if a war does happen
A good guideline that every nuclear power should follow is, do not launch a nuke until you have a confirmed nuclear explosion on your soil. Way too many close calls where just a few people could accidentally cause a nuclear war
If you have one detonation on your soil. You have over 1000. And a lot of those detonations will be over strategic points of interest (communication hubs, white house, bases that are known to havr response weapons) if you let all of these get destroyed before you launch your payload. You might not even be able to respond with nuclear weapons
Yes if they go into detail on everything that's done, the people and agencies who are notified, ect. The simpleton who first responded gets his info from movies.
Haha, right? Maybe they’re waiting for us to stop almost starting World War 3 before sending out the invites! 😅 But who knows-maybe they’re just observing and waiting for the right moment. Until then, we’ll keep our fingers crossed!
My grandpa used to tell me about his time in the Navy. He told me stories about how his ship would follow russian subs and try to get them to surface all the time, and that when they did, theyd both just swear at eachother and flip eachother off.
No one has been talking about this nuclear world war 3 happened in 2009 when an asteroid and they were planning to nuke the asteroid but russia thought a nuclear missile were heading twards russia but realized nasa was saving the world from an asteroid
The bear incident wouldn't have started the war because the fighters weren't going to find any targets to shoot down (an F-106 wouldn't find any bombers at its max combat radius because theyd have been over Canada) and once they were airborne they would've been quickly corrected by air command to stand down from engaging anything
Whoa, that's some serious history knowledge you've got there! The Seven Years War was definitely a global conflict that set the stage for future world wars. And you're right, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a super tense moment during the Cold War that could have easily escalated into a nuclear World War III. It's crazy to think about how close we've come to the brink of total destruction!
2:45 "Unintentionally" Yeah, for sure. A reconnaissance plane, during the cold war, from us to ussr, on multiple occasions, that's got to be an accidemt
You forgot to mention time traveling robots and Cuberdyne Headquarters mysteriously being blown up which resulted in Sky-Net being destroyed and Judgment Day being adverted. According to senior John Conner
Honestly the continued existence of Humanity despite all these incidents is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for quantum immortality, in my opinion. Basically the theory is that when you die your consciousness branches and stays on a timeline where you don't die and barely escape death. So on a macro scale this becomes us being in a timeline where miraculously despite all odds we escaped total annihilation each and every time. I guess we could also just be really lucky.
I think you are misunderstanding the DEFCON scale. 5 is the lowest and 1 the highest. So in the Japan incident the us wasn't "only" at DC2, since it was the highest it had ever been and was the highest to be to this day. And in the Able Archer incident, it was a trained ascend fom 5 to 1 not a descent. Other than that i really enjoyed the video. So many times we could have been fucked over, but someone always said "hold up, wait a minute" XD
This is just every time we know about! There's probably plenty of incidents that are still classified, especially in the nuclear countries that barely received a mention in this video! Hope that helps! 😅
If I had a krone for each time Norway was somehow involved in one of these incidents, I'd have two krones. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I just read a book that explained more about the able archer incident, it was actually a russian kgb officer who was working for mi5 (he defected to britain and then spied on kgb) who found out how seriously russia was taking the training exercise, and then they were able to tell america, who ended the exercise early, so he was pretty much responsible for stopping nuclear war… among many other things he did that helped Nato countries against russia, Oleg Gordievsky, check him out, the book was “the spy and the traitor” by Ben Macintyre
All of these are like: - Four idiot monkeys banded together to make the worst computer program ever. - the computer program was placed in charge of 8000 high yield nuclear bombs. - It rained over a satellite dish set off the computer program and all the bombs were set to launch. - the one guy in charge of clicking the button was asleep at the time and saved the world
I only know about the one where the soviet guy didnt acknowledge the radar confirmation, because there is an indie game called Cold Line inspired by it, in wich a nuclear attack is accidentaly launched at the usa and your job is to call the hotline from the soviet union and tell the usa to take it down, the plot twist is that you get awsnered by an eletronic secretary and you have 10 minutes to navigate the menus using commands like "press 1 to hear your verification code" and stuff like that until you can get in line with an actual human
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Insane you put it on the election day
11:22 Recofnize
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Why is Jeremy Clarkson on the thumbnail
no
All of these are like
-A technician noticed 10,000 nuclear bombs heading directly towards him that would detonate in 7 seconds
-The entire USAF takes off and is ready to retaliate
-A random bystander flew up in his commercial biplane and warned them it was an accident
-The false alarm was caused by two pigeons procreating inside of a satellite dish
True, but technically, that could happen.
the last one 💀
So two horny birds almost caused WW3?
I've just pissed my pants reading this
Dude
Jesus Christ, it’s a miracle that humanity is still here
it really is
I like to imagine all of these things actually happened but time travel was used and somehow stopped all of those incidents from happening
Imagine that
change the words "its a" to "its the", and you'll know the reason why
@@zharakov no way jesus identifies as an it now?
Don't jinx it 💀
60 year nuclear war edging streak...
Hope bro is not gonna blow it off on NNN (No Nuclear November)
“I’m…I’m….AUUG-🚨🚨🚨☢️🚨🚨🚨😫😫😫🚨🚨🚨☢️🚨🚨🚨”
Can't waiit for DDD
(Doomsday Destruction December)
Hell nah
@@HudsonDoesTH-cam AMBATUBLOW 😫🚨🚨🚨☢🚨🚨🚨😫😫☀☀
So often it's 1 guy saying calm down that saved us from nuclear war.
As often a Soviet man as anything. I hate what the Cold War did to perceptions of Russians to Americans. Whatever political actions their leaders take, it seems like the Russian people are absolutely amazing people. The story of Stanislav Petrov is one of my favorite stories of all time. It is a country I hope to visit one day.
@@Alexander_Grant you should visit it soon! Perhaps you wouldn't have such fantasy ideas about the place
@@oso1165 What fantasy ideas? When I was in college I was roommates with a foreign exchange student who was from the UK, but there was an entire foreign exchange program so all of the students there knew each other. I met quite a few people from around the world because of that, and the Russian ones were awesome people. Unrelated, but I liked the people from Lebanon as well. I think it's rather short sighted to not be able to see beauty in a culture. Especially one that Americans have been taught to hate for decades.
Except the French which seemed dedicated on their own until their own incompetence catches up to them.
@@oso1165as a european who has been to both usa & russia & has manny friends in both country's i would advise you to travel and open your mind. Stop being a mindless puppet, go see and experience things for yourself instead of rechewing propaganda.
The bear incident would have been the most hilarious but dumbest way to cause WW3 lol
Fr💀💀💀
The fact that the brown bear is associated with the ussr makes it more of coincidence
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Extra credits mentioned this
@@Bodhitree7Definitely a coincidence.
Bro, october 1962 needs to chill
in this month there was cuban missile crisis, and risk of starting nuclear war had highest chances (there was no need to put their nuclear missiles in turkey)
A year later wasn't so hot either
Cuban missile crisis, the closest the world ever got to WW3, for 13 days grueling days, the world watched not knowing if they would wake up tomorrow.
@@user-hq2zr(nor was there a reason for Nuclear weapons to be in cuba either)
@@JesuMont it was reponse for putting nuclear missiles in turkey
The worst part is - Those are just the very known incidents, who knows how many there actually were
Yeah it’s just the American DECLASSIFIED ones. Theres probably a ton more classified and plenty of ones by the russians
Imagine the unclassified documents when we're the boomers of our time
Honestly, probably not a whole lot more than what we already know. The majority of incidents important enough to have had the potential to have sparked nuclear war often attracted enough media coverage or public interest to have either been well-documented at the time or at least been declassified by now.
The last bits and pieces of Cold War actions that could've gone "hot" that we don't know about probably come in the form of US and Soviet navy submarines duking it out in the oceans and having confrontations that nearly went hostile. The US and Soviet navies, particularly those under the silent branch, are especially secretive about the business they did during the Cold War even in comparison to the other branches.
The US Army, Air Force and Marines have pretty much declassified all of the confrontations they had with the Soviets back then. For example the catalogue of flights of U2 and SR-71 spyplanes are publicly available, and likewise you can read up Soviet documents about all the times they tried to intercept these flights.
But the activities of their submarines from back then are notoriously still largely classified. But from what we know it was extremely common for SSNs of either side to shadow and even play mock battles and war games with their opposite. There are numerous reports of Soviet and US Navy subs colliding with each other and submarine-submarine collisions are estimated to run at the dozens, with most of them still being classified.
In 1970 the USS Tautog collided with the K-108 while both subs were stalking each other, and the only reason the public ever found out was because a bunch of civilian observers noticed that a part of the ship's bridge had been bent 2 degrees off from the usual and because her hull still showed the marks where a chunk of the Soviet submarine's propeller screw had lodged itself.
There is also a declassified 1974 memo sent by the CIA to Henry Kissinger reporting about a collision between a Soviet sub and an American ballistic missile sub just outside of the Navy's base at Holy Loch, Scotland. Because the Navy has never declassified its files on it, this one CIA memo is the only proof it even ever happened. We still don't know how much damage was caused, or even just which subs were involved.
Of course, few if any of these submarine incidents were likely to have escalated into nuclear war and most people involved knew it. Scratching your sub's hull on the hull of the enemy or spending weeks playing nuclear-tipped mind games with them was run of the mill business and not actually that dangerous. I just wanted to point out how little we actually know about what the Navy's submarines did (and still do).
And this list doesn’t even contain every known close call.
For example Israel already gave orders in 1973 to shoot 13 nuclear bombs because they were losing the war.
Nixon heard of it hours before the planned launch and promised Israel to provide them all the convention weapons that are needed to win the war if they don’t use the nuclear warheads.
"But an order to stand down was given on the advice of... Henry Kissinger" I didn't expect that to actually happen
Of all people.
Didn't know he was chill like that
Is this a fever dream?
Imagine if he had a few drinks. “Go ahead for Pyongyang off the map”
Idk if it would have started WW3 , the implications would be far reaching
@@tristenthomas7352 a rumor is that he acted insane so china etc wouldnt dare him
Henry Kissinger saving the world was something I never expected to see...
If anything it's very likely only due to knowing WWII would mean the end of his gravy train.
@@iamjacksennui LMAO
Rarely is a thing so bad as to never do good…
How tf are we even still alive
Nukes are fake
cause even though most americans are incompetent, some are still somewhat competent
because somehow not even military personnel woudln't believe that we're dumb enough to end this world so they keep delaying everytime xD
Because, I've only played with the possibility of nuclear obliteration on my bad days but, now... I've seen humanity's failures and made the decision to will it into reality, there is only one thing you can do to change my mind; like my comment or, else. 💀
Because humanity is persistent.
I love how half of these happened during the cuban missile crisis
Someone was trying, and someone was stopping them
@@ryanfarrelly4647now this sounds interesting
@@ryanfarrelly4647 Oy vey! Stop noticing!
Kissinger NOT making a problem worse is extremely out of character
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Narrow Self-interest.
With the incident with Arkhipov, the Soviet chief of staff on board the sub telling them to chill, it was extremely lucky he was on board at all. Normally he wouldn’t have been, and the launch would have happened. But he was there as a guest, and because of the rank he held the protocol said he had to be involved in any potential launch decisions. Very lucky he was there at all!
Goodness gracious, we ALL owe him our lives🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇
On the other hand, it's probably because of him there that everyone on the sub got the big ideas. "That's why they ambushed us, now they're bombing us, this is an attack".
4:35 the time travel guy what we sent to prevent the WW3 had a very busy week
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Uploading this on election day is crazy 💀
I know, right?! The timing is insane! 😱 But hey, what better way to distract ourselves from the stress of election day than with some intense history about almost-nuclear disasters, am I right? 🙌🔥 #historybuffs #electiondaydistraction
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Perfect comedic timing.
SHOCKING
He fucking knows
I wonder if/how many Soviet incidents occured and were simply not reported due to fear of being fired or seen as incompetent. It’s strange to me that only two have been made public.
Same with american ones
@@Paul_Sergeyev majority of these cases that had been reported were from the Western coalition. It’s obvious that the Soviets were under-reporting false alarms.
The culture of military secrecy especially around nuclear weapons is far stronger in Russia. Don't expect the government to release any info about possible nuclear close calls. The events we know about were told by the individuals themselves after the fall of the USSR
@@Paul_SergeyevWe know of a number of Broken Arrow incidents from the US, but of the reported ones around a dozen are still classified. I'm not sure a nuclear incident would go unreported in the US though.
@@Bloblom I'd somewhat agree, more out of pride and fear of being fired than a "culture of military secrecy". After all, if you're an airbase commander in the USSR, you've got it made. Why risk that position by reporting an accident or false scramble to the higher-ups?
I hate to say it but this very long list is not even complete.
In 1973, Israel was losing an existential war and decided in the evening to launch 13 nuclear warheads in the next morning.
Nixon heard of it during the night and came in last second and made a deal with Golda Mair that the US would immediately provide them all the needed weapons to win this war if they cancel the nuclear launches.
It worked.
What the fuck???!???
Shitrael
@@veryunusual126 considering the fact the alternative would be Cairo and Damascus becoming radioactive wastelands you should be thankful "shitrael" took the US deal lol
@@veryunusual126
Isnt it the same doctrine for every nuclear armed state?
@@Spectification f**k atomic bombs, man❗
@@veryunusual126It was a war of Annihilation. Israel knew the end result of the destruction of the Israeli state would be the genocide of the Israeli people. Nuclear deterrence is Israel's way of ensuring that even in defeat, they'll make the enemy bleed.
Every nuclear power has a similar doctrine.
A bear almost caused most of us to not exist ...
Goes to show how dangerous bears are.
Do not feed the bears, they said.
i love how most of these are stopped by one dude who thought about it lol
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10:38 nexon was drunk nuking
It reminds me of the end scene of Genesis' Land of Confusion music video
It’s absolutely mind blowing that I was born 40 some years after these incidents and I had not known how dangerously close we came to pretty much human extinction. I knew about the cuban missile crisis and cold war but had no idea about any of this other stuff. Crazy that we survived on sheer luck and the patience of our enemies at times
It's mind-blowing that you call yourself 💩💩💩barack💩💩💩
i don't believe humans would extinct from nuclear warfare, lol
the fun part is that if you see a nuke with a parachute, it isnt trying to save it, its trying to detonate.
Not all bombs. Only extremely high yield bombs have them to allow the aircraft that dropped it to escape the blast radius. Such is the case with the Tsar Bomba.
Your average Megaton-yield bomb does not have a parachute because the aircraft is fast enough to escape.
10:17 bro I thought that was Jeremy clarkson
jemery clamsin caused word war 3
TONIGHT, ON TOP GEAR
*missile sound effect
RICHARD ACCIXENTALY TRIGGERS WORLD WAR BY DRIVING A MINI INTO RUSSIAN TERRITORY
*air plane fly by sound effect
JAMES HIDES HIMSELF IN AN WINERY
*klaxon siren sound effect
AND I GET TO PRESS THE BIG RED BUTTON
*World ends*
“Still, could be worse”
@@AeroAdventuresFlying is that Clarkson commenting himself?
@@AeroAdventuresFlying oh no! anyways
This is how dangerous the miscommunication is
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100% a time traveller prevented these
No time traveler, God prevented these incidents
God is a time traveller
God did!!!!
Jesus is coming look busy 😊@@morrismusic7331
Nah, LeBron James did.
the theory of the great filter i think we got through
Don't speak too soon, if anything the more time passes the closer we get to messing up completely
@@mos4434Yeah, when the possibility of something occurring is above 0% it's simply a matter of time.
@@aegaeon117low chances are just the universes events waiting in line -person whose name I can’t remember
@@aegaeon117this is what fears me the most
The first great filter we know of (:
4:28 Jesus Christ we’re lucky that the officer was able to get the fighter pilot’s attention and stop WW3 from happening 😧
they knew what they were doing uploading this on election day
Yep, they uploaded a video on history. They also knew what they were doing, posting every other video on their respective upload date
@@sergeantglowstick1399there must be something deeper than this TH-cam channel doing lots of research on his videos making an at-least week ahead upload schedule 😂
Soviet Union and the US edging each other to end humanity.
It's actually very reassuraning that in every instance, the voice of reason always won out. The lone dude who always says "wait a minute somethings wrong, STOP" Was always heeded.
On one side I’m terrified at the sensitivity that triggers such incidents on the other I’m impressed by the USAs seemingly infinite protocols and procedures to conduct a nuclear response 😂
Yeah they will find any reasons to call Russia the agressive ones and justify a nuclear strike against them
14:28
Yeltsing: Good lord what is happening in there!
🇳🇴: Aurora borealis?!
A- Aurora borealis?! At this time of year at this time of day in this part of the world localized entirely within a nuclear flight path..
Yes!
@@windwind3170 may I shoot back?
This video is absolutely eye-opening! I had no idea just how many times the world came so close to a nuclear conflict. The Suez Crisis Coincidences at the start really caught my attention-it's insane how a series of small missteps could have escalated into something catastrophic. The 1983 Soviet False Alarm at the end is chilling, especially knowing how close we came to disaster because of a technical glitch. It’s wild to think about how these events were mostly hidden from the public for so long. This video does a great job of laying out the historical context, and I feel like I just learned a ton about the fragile state of global politics during these tense times. Incredible research and storytelling-definitely subscribing for more!
For China, the 3 nuclear bombs were almost eye opening for them..
the internet is empty and we emptied it
Radar was fooled by the moon.. that's interesting
the 60s were wild cant lie long
Fr Bro, i just thank God cause he didn't let it to happen
Yeah and that’s only the declassified ones there were probably plenty more
Israel also were planning to detonate their nukes on their own land during the Yom Kippur war when they believed that they were loosing as an act of scorched earth. Somehow the most moral army thought
As there any proof of that? I know that Israel demonstratively put its ballistic missile launchers to firing positions to wary the US that it may be better to provide some help, but i have never heard that Israel planned to nuke itself.
Just like Belka from Ace Combat Zero
If the USA had invaded the Soviet union and was near Moscow I can assure you they would have also nuked their own land lol
Israel doesn't have nukes. Atleast not officially...
That sounds like something straight out of Ace Combat 0 where the Belkans used nuclear weapons on their own soil lmao
Norway: we’re launching a rocket
Russia: ok, cool
Norway: launches rocket
Russia: AAAAAH THEY’RE NUKING US!!!!1!
HE SAVED THE world 5:20
2:30 Oh no! The 24th of Novernmner disaster!
Your drawings are getting better and better
5:20 Can we appreciate how Vasily Arkhipov is absolutely mogging us in that photo. 🗿
5:06 but crazier than this is that the depth charges used to signal had in recent days, days after the submarine deeply submerged, changed their protocol. So whereas the protocol before hand was to drop say 2-3 depth charges for communication, now they would drop say 5-8 (I forget the real number here). Meaning that since the sub was submerged it had not gotten these updated procedures and because there were more depth charges used than what they thought procedure to communicate was, they assumed they weren’t used for communication but were hostile.
this is so crazy one day we will not be so lucky, it is only a matter of time when our luck runs out and it is going to run out
elon musk made an interesting proposition basically stating we're in a race between the colonisation of other planets and WW3, if WW3 happens first, nuclear war could be the end of civilisation as we know it, whereas colonisation will allow us to distribute our population and civilization more and therefore avoid total distruction if a war does happen
Edgy
no more Cold War, china and USA not so trigger happy, it’s gonna be war of non-nuclear ballistic missiles now if it happens
"This is so crazy, one day there will be global nuclear war." Bro chill tf out 😂
Yea imma lock you out the bunker first mate. Keep your "optimism" out my shelter.
10:25 Those are some weird looking F-4s.
Jokes aside, great video as always!
There's been a few close calls for sure. Let's hope nothing too bad happen. WW3 is one of the last things we need right now
Imagine how many of these incidents that happened in the Soviet Union are still classified
12:15 I just want to say how amazing this visualiser is
A good guideline that every nuclear power should follow is, do not launch a nuke until you have a confirmed nuclear explosion on your soil. Way too many close calls where just a few people could accidentally cause a nuclear war
If you have one detonation on your soil. You have over 1000. And a lot of those detonations will be over strategic points of interest (communication hubs, white house, bases that are known to havr response weapons) if you let all of these get destroyed before you launch your payload. You might not even be able to respond with nuclear weapons
@ Yeah I get that point so I guess that’s why it is the way it is
But then again, nuclear submarines exist
But I don’t think we’re ever really going to have a nuclear war
@@ryandono5721 welp better for one side to win than everyone dying idk?
@somedesertdude1308
Not really. Retaliatory strikes can take out enemy nukes yet to be launched, saving civilian lives.
i wonder how long we would avoid WW3. With so much conflict in middle east and russia and asia, ww3 doesn't seem too far. hopefully I'm wrong
8:27
Don't you know how the defcon system works? Defcon 2 is the highest possible alert and defcon 1 is a state of war
Thus not at war, and decided not to launch?
Defcon 1 is not exactly war yet, it’s the stage when the war starts but can still not be launched
One of the cooler videos on youtube, good job dude!
This really goes to show how easily a false alarm could result in a nuclear war
All this proof to me is that we should not be trusting radar as much as we do
Yeah it is fooled by sun and the moon
Half of these happened within a week of each other in October 1962💀
Would there be enough content to make a video out of Explaining all 5 stages of DEFCON?
It's pretty common sensical:
Defcon 1: 👍👍all good.
Defcon 2: 👍alert but, still good.
Defcon 3: 😒uh-oh
Defcon 4: 😨Defcon 5
Defcon 5: ☢️☣️☠️🔥🚀
@@aegaeon117Other way, defcon 5 is lowest readiness and defcon 1 is the worst case scenario.
Yes if they go into detail on everything that's done, the people and agencies who are notified, ect. The simpleton who first responded gets his info from movies.
Anyone notice around the 2:00 mark November is really misspelt
Novermner (I died)
bro there are so many misspellings its a nightmare to know how read
Me clicking on the 2:00 hearing “astrephy” over and over again
the fact that most of them happened in a a 1 month time span is crazy
I wish more declassified documents from both the US and Russia would be released, I'm always fascinated by these close calls.
Subscribed. Great video
We wonder why aliens don’t invite us to their club…
Haha, right? Maybe they’re waiting for us to stop almost starting World War 3 before sending out the invites! 😅 But who knows-maybe they’re just observing and waiting for the right moment. Until then, we’ll keep our fingers crossed!
Honestly, instant sub just for not having an intro and getting straight into the video. You know us TH-cam fiends all have terrible attention spans 😂
"NORAD got something wrong and almost ended the world" the video
Man, early 60's were wild. 🤘
My grandpa used to tell me about his time in the Navy. He told me stories about how his ship would follow russian subs and try to get them to surface all the time, and that when they did, theyd both just swear at eachother and flip eachother off.
1:38 buff? how did you get in here
Franklin did it
your artstyle has improved a LOT!! i love it
10:25 Those are some funny looking phantoms
it's f-16s
@@user-hq2zr no shit sherlock
No one has been talking about this nuclear world war 3 happened in 2009 when an asteroid and they were planning to nuke the asteroid but russia thought a nuclear missile were heading twards russia but realized nasa was saving the world from an asteroid
Remember, these are only the ones WE know about, the Soviets more then likely made most there mistakes classified.
True, but that’s only because this video pointed out a lot of American problems more.
The Cold War sounds like an absolutely terrific time to live in
The Cuban Missile Crisis just sounds like the U.S., Cuba, and Russia pranking each other
The bear incident wouldn't have started the war because the fighters weren't going to find any targets to shoot down (an F-106 wouldn't find any bombers at its max combat radius because theyd have been over Canada) and once they were airborne they would've been quickly corrected by air command to stand down from engaging anything
Bold of you to assume i’d listen
@f-106deltadart how very specific of a reply from a specific plane
Shoutout the one Russian sailor who decided to double check before flipping the switch to launch a nuke and ended up saving the world
Just happened to search for videos about nuclear weapons to learn more about it. Found this video. Very well done. You've earned a new subscriber.
Technically the Seven Years War was global from North America to India
So WWII was WWIII
And my mind immediately thinks of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Whoa, that's some serious history knowledge you've got there! The Seven Years War was definitely a global conflict that set the stage for future world wars. And you're right, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a super tense moment during the Cold War that could have easily escalated into a nuclear World War III. It's crazy to think about how close we've come to the brink of total destruction!
If you’re counting the 7 year war you should at least count the napoleonic wars
@@Tarquinthetyrant And if you're including the 2 of those, then you gotta include the Crimean War too
@@maregondrakodon't forget the boxer rebellion.
The Thirty Years' War was pretty much WW1 if we consider Europeans had already colonized the new world.
2:45 "Unintentionally" Yeah, for sure. A reconnaissance plane, during the cold war, from us to ussr, on multiple occasions, that's got to be an accidemt
You forgot to mention time traveling robots and Cuberdyne Headquarters mysteriously being blown up which resulted in Sky-Net being destroyed and Judgment Day being adverted. According to senior John Conner
Honestly the continued existence of Humanity despite all these incidents is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for quantum immortality, in my opinion.
Basically the theory is that when you die your consciousness branches and stays on a timeline where you don't die and barely escape death. So on a macro scale this becomes us being in a timeline where miraculously despite all odds we escaped total annihilation each and every time.
I guess we could also just be really lucky.
Can you do a part about "all scp's explained"?
A man of culture i see
Good idea but theres just so much to cover
I appreciate how they misspelt recognise 👍🏼 11:22
They misspelled on purpose to get you to comment. Its a way to boost engagement and manipulate the algorithm.
This video should have ended with "to be continued".
5:20 bro saved and mogged the world. 🔥🔥🔥
I saw a lot of spelling mistakes in this video
A bunch of information was presented incorrectly, misleadingly, or straight up wrong as well
@ editor lacking fr
Crazy how paranoia over potential conflicts has almost gotten us closer to war than actual conflicts themselves
DEFCON 5 is peacetime.
DEFCON 1 is nuclear war.
You give the impression you've got it wrong, like most non-military people do.
13:32 i think he does
He said that they were put into DEFCON 1 during the excercises
or rather provocations
I think you are misunderstanding the DEFCON scale. 5 is the lowest and 1 the highest.
So in the Japan incident the us wasn't "only" at DC2, since it was the highest it had ever been and was the highest to be to this day.
And in the Able Archer incident, it was a trained ascend fom 5 to 1 not a descent.
Other than that i really enjoyed the video.
So many times we could have been fucked over, but someone always said "hold up, wait a minute" XD
We really just had a bad week in the 60s
The amount of incredibly close calls that were averted is insane! It's like someone was watching over us each time.
Bro, what about the time in bangledash with the typhoon? You forgot that one
Why not tell the story then?
The bhola cyclone almost caused ww3? Lmao wtf
This is just every time we know about! There's probably plenty of incidents that are still classified, especially in the nuclear countries that barely received a mention in this video! Hope that helps! 😅
2:11 he spelled November wrong
Out of all Your videos. This one is simply terrifying.
Tankman!? 2:52
Please just shut up my guy
If I had a krone for each time Norway was somehow involved in one of these incidents, I'd have two krones. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Here we go again...
I just read a book that explained more about the able archer incident, it was actually a russian kgb officer who was working for mi5 (he defected to britain and then spied on kgb) who found out how seriously russia was taking the training exercise, and then they were able to tell america, who ended the exercise early, so he was pretty much responsible for stopping nuclear war… among many other things he did that helped Nato countries against russia, Oleg Gordievsky, check him out, the book was “the spy and the traitor” by Ben Macintyre
All of these are like:
- Four idiot monkeys banded together to make the worst computer program ever.
- the computer program was placed in charge of 8000 high yield nuclear bombs.
- It rained over a satellite dish set off the computer program and all the bombs were set to launch.
- the one guy in charge of clicking the button was asleep at the time and saved the world
I only know about the one where the soviet guy didnt acknowledge the radar confirmation, because there is an indie game called Cold Line inspired by it, in wich a nuclear attack is accidentaly launched at the usa and your job is to call the hotline from the soviet union and tell the usa to take it down, the plot twist is that you get awsnered by an eletronic secretary and you have 10 minutes to navigate the menus using commands like "press 1 to hear your verification code" and stuff like that until you can get in line with an actual human