I met a survivor of the atomic blast in Hiroshima. She was working underground at an ammo factory, less than 1000m from the epicenter. She spent two years in a hospital recovering and still has the radiation burns on her arms (called keloids). Every couple of years, her white blood cells would spike up to really high levels and she would get quite ill. Strangely, her daughter had a similar white blood cell spike every couple of years. Later, when I visited Hiroshima and looked at the shadows of people burned into stone and concrete, it really altered my world view.
What really shook me as a history student was learning that the Japanese were already trying to negotiate a surrender prior to the bombings. One of the only conditions they had was the emperor remain alive and in power. The US refused, saying unconditional surrender only. Yet in the end we let the emperor remain in power anyway.. However it's actually worse than that.. Even if no nuclear weapons were invented at all Japan was never going to be the massive bloodbath for the American military the way it was played up to be. The Soviet Union was already preparing a invasion of the main islands from the north and just prior to the bombs had steamrolled through Manchuria with some elite Soviet divisions. So it's pretty widely debated today that the real reason for the bombings were to demonstrate to the Soviets and the world that we were the pre emanate global power while also forcing the issue with Japan, preventing a north south split of Japan like just happened in east/west Germany. With those facts considered the bombing of civilian cities was one of the greatest crimes in history, and wasn't just a means to a end played off as saving lives and forcing the "fanatical" Japanese to surrender. People of my parents generation completely bought in to the taught narrative, that while it was terrible potentially many more people would have died in a grueling terrible ground war in Japan. Of course this is what was taught in grade school, and it's the narrative every TV news station broadcast (what few TV and radio stations there were back then) and coming from a atmosphere of celebration at defeating Germany it's a hard pill to swallow that we would do something fundamentally wrong, immoral, a massive war crime. We were the good guys after all right? Any debate of the issue was taboo, it was for decades a settled matter, but unfortunately history isn't so simple, and often has a very dark underbelly that is ignored. “History is Written by Victors.” after all.
The irony is that it is much better to be defeated by the USA than by the Soviets. Japan would be very different today if the Soviets had occupied it. My country was "liberated" by the Soviet Union and it fucked us for generations.
@@-Zevin- This is the absolute best/worst example of history being written by the victors and I can well believe it. After all, that is exactly what we have learned Vietnam was about as well. I don't mind admitting that my parents, who lived through WW2 in the UK (one as a child who lived in London through the Blitz and my father who was a navigator on Lancaster Bombers in the Air Force), brought me up with the understanding that "The Japanese were horrific to people during WW2", and being a young child, I accepted this as a fact until I got old enough to question things and motivations. Had I not rejected this stuff at face value and built my own opinions on what I have researched and learned about, I would probably have grown up in ignorance and developed the exact same institutionalized racist ideology that they and a vast portion of our society have today. Thats the scary bit right there....
Limiting the bomb also reduced fallout enormously. Replacing the uranium tampers with inert lead made it an extraordinarily fusion-heavy device. Combined with the necessary very-high air burst height, it was one of the lowest-fallout nuclear weapons ever tested. The full fat version... wouldn't have been.
The strange thing is that nukes and their ability to vanish the hall planet prevents us from the beginning or WW3 but there are some idiots out there that can find a way to make it happen.
@@DarkParagon they could have added a bigger parachute and a longer fuse ,but i get it tye shockwave of a nuke is supersonic so the bomber would not make it anyway
I'm older and grew up in a time when nuclear war was a very real possibility. Glad you took this topic seriously. Younger generations need to understand the impact, horror and outright futility of this madness.
@@mindofmadness5593 if you are far enough to not get most your skin instantly burned off and your eyes aren't blind and have enough time to duck and cover, it will probably help
That's the difference between the younger and older generations many of the younger generation see nukes and know we have not even reached a fraction of how powerful they can get simply because we stopped testing. Where you feel fear and existential dread we feel happiness and jubilation. Look at the power humanity wields and we haven't even started colonizing other worlds yet. Makes me feel like humanity can fight god and win. Makes me feel bored of human vs human wars we need to find something new and challenging to kill.
The Tsar Bomba was designed to be a 100 MT device, but even the developers were afraid of what would happen if it were fully fueled so they only half fueled it.
That's true because the developers were afraid that if they were to set this off that could actually throw off the ecosystem and the entire world there were afraid that it would end the world.
One of the best ways to describe the mutually assured destruction of nuclear weapons regardless of how many nukes each side has is the analogy of two persons standing in a room full of gasoline up to their waists. One person has 100 matches and the other 25. Who is more powerful?
Big cities and infrastructure plus many losses of lives. But both countries would survive, although in a precarious way. Did you check the maximum area of a nuclear explosion and then check the surface of even a small country like North Korea? Your entire arsenal would not even cover a county how about a country. Which talks a lot about the proud and stupid American propaganda how would they "obliterate" North Korea from the face of the the Earth with 4,000 nukes. Nuclear weapons are indeed very destructive and will be crucial in future wars but they are not even close to the power of annihilation that these people think. Earth is not a big place, but a very very big one. Too hard to entirely cover even a country. But very effective as defense for any armed formation who would enter your space. At least for now this is how things are.
@@wladdragwlya WTF are you talking about. I was making a general comparison of the proven idea of mutually assured destruction with so many powerful nuclear weapons.
I don’t mean to downplay any of corridors hard work, but this is BY FAR their best video. I’m glad wren wasn’t afraid to stop being light hearted. Because this most definitely isn’t a light hearted topic. Thank you for making this Wren
and they didnt even talk about Gnomon and Sundial, Gnomon which would be there just to set off Sundial, would be 1000 MEGATONS, in this video, look at what 1 megaton bomb did... oh, Sundial? 10 000 MEGATONS. For people who saw Oppenheimer, you remember the Teller guy that was obsessed with fusion bombs? Yea, credible scientists said that the world would be a better place without him. He was an absolute maniac, proposing even gigaton weapons, he left people absolutely speechless.
Unfortunately the data about countries reducing nuclear arsenals is wrong. All the major powers are increasing their nuclear arsenals at a record pace. We are a hair's breath away from nuclear WW3 with Russia, China and North Korea... All countries are now making Nukes as fast as possible because of how close we are to war. All the nuclear treaties have been thrown in the garbage... all bets are off. Before all countries agreed to not test nukes. Testing is back on. Even if they were allowed nuclear doctrines required all countries to notify other countries if and when they were doing test detonations or missle flight tests to avoid confusion/fears. That's off too. Nuclear planes and subs are already out on patrols from all major powers. Go to the search bar above. Type in "Canadian prepper" and watch the latest videos. Finland and many european countries are firing up their bomb shelters again. Do you even know where the nearest bomb shelter is near you in the U.S.? Has anyone talked about it? no... because the people pulling the strings of our government want us ignorant and fighting with each other over dumb Sh!t... they don't care if we die.
Wren, this is actually really important to show these simulations and the destruction. If you can simulate the gut-wrench feeling, then you can, on a mass scale, change the human consciousness for the better.
Been following the war happening in Ukraine, the amount of times I’ve seen Russia threaten to nuke everyone is just baffling. I really hate how they can just threaten millions of people and there’s nothing we can do.
Sadly our human history only got immensely better when we were able to individually empathy and visual all the horrors in the world. For better or worth of modern society if we didn't share all these realities we will continue to get people denying them. Hopefully we continue to keep the ability to cause pain out of reach out others (I know this is a stupidly wrong statement but one can aspire)
Except that detonating a ground burst nuclear weapon like he did in a city would do way less than his did as loads of the energy is eaten by the ground as well as a good amount of the energy is straight up absorbed by the concrete and steel buildings.
@@masterhacker7065although ground bursts create much worse nuclear fallout, that’s why Japan was able to rebuild so fast after they were nuked because it was an air burst, meanwhile Chernobyl will be uninhabitable for an estimated 20,000 years or something like that
@@hun1on138 CA is a huge piece of land, it's unfathomable what the destruction of just the publicly known US arsenal is capable of. If nuclear winter is no longer the consensus of a believed scientific concept, then what we face may be far worse in terms of living organic matter in the region. Entire ecosystems glassed, creating a chain-reaction of falling ecosystems int he surrounding areas.
It's even worse when you realize that those 650 nukes most likely won't all be used on 1 place. Rather you could choose up to 650 different targets (for example, 650 different cities around the world) to hit, and an opposing nation would do something similar in response. And that's before radiation comes into play. @@hun1on138
Wren, thanks so much for the NUKEMAP shout out. Trying to give that sense of scale was why I created it and why I continue to work on and improve it. I’m glad you found it useful and I was fascinated to see how the CC would approach modeling a nuclear detonation. I've learned a lot from this channel over the years and I'm glad I could "give back," in a way. (I put off watching this for two weeks because I couldn't bear the idea of getting annoyed with you if you did anything I really didn't think was correct, but all of my critiques ended up being in the category of "fairly minor nitpicks" in the end.)
Great work! Me and my son have used it to try to visualize the consequences of nuclear war, and it really put it into context for us. It's certainly a great tool that I hope more people take a look at.
Wren, you are the next David Attenborough, you're the next voice of not just this generation but many more. You're so engaging, enthusiastic, and wonderful at teaching. Props to you buddy, congrats and I hope you're rewarded for your efforts. TV shows, series, documentaries, everything. The world is your oyster.
This video seriously hit different. It went from fun exploding things to the reality of war so quick and so expertly handled. Stuff like this really makes you think about the state of humanity sometimes
When his face went dull from calculating the casualties from the bomb simulator, 3mil dead at the push of one button, n there r 650 of them in the US alone. Has Science gone too far?
I dunno, it felt like a bit of an afterthought given that the video then ends on "hey, you found those explosions _cool?_ Wanna explode your own cities?"
@@unvergebeneidplenty of Americans do seem to enjoy exploding other people’s cities though. Just helping out with the Ukrainian war, something that could easily bring Russian nukes into our own cities, seems to be an inevitability. I just don’t think America understands what it actually means to be a victim. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were followed by strong aggression towards those responsible - what about when you get hit so hard that you literally can’t fight back and/or you surrender? That’s what fighting Russia and China would be. My advise is to seek out politicians who have plans to negotiate and end to current wars - not politicians who promise to keep funding it.
The Halifax explosion in 1917 was the largest man made explosion at the time. It took out one town and the tsunami caused by the explosion took out another. I think this is a piece of history worth looking into and seeing the scale of this through VFX.
It was the largest man-made explosion *at the time* at an estimated 2.9 kilo-tons. Which is massively devestating, but only a bit over a 10th the strength of the manhatten project bomb.
@@artstruth3889 It is real. They have cameras poking out of bunkers miles away and use mirrors to get the footage from zoomed lenses miles away. It was actually a insane set up to be able to capture that footage.
@@artstruth3889 If you assume the cameras were just out in the open in tripods. Yeah, I understand why you would assume it's a miniature. But the camera were in specially constructed bunkers and using telephoto lenses.
The explosion at RAF Fauld in 1944 is probably the largest and latest pre-nuclear explosion. 4 kilotons of bombs, stored in tunnels under a hill. When they went off accidentally it turned that hill into a 40 meter deep crater. The scientists on the Manhattan Project even asked for details of the explosion.
To Corridor, I would like to let you guys know that this is the best and most educational and entertaining series that you have created. Ofcourse the biggest applause goes to Wren who makes these awesome videos one after one with such beautiful VFX and overall presentation with the sounds and a genuinely great script that it clearly shows how amazing he is as an artist as well as a member of this channel. I know just like me many of the audience are excited all the time for this series and click on these videos without wasting a single second after getting a notification. I congratulate you guys for this feat and wish you carry on this series as long as u can. Love from one of your long time subscribers.
@@artstruth3889I’m not sure but I’m guessing the camera was far enough away from the explosion with a huge zoom lens and fixed on a tripod or something, at least for the bus shot that could be an option. The following shot of the buildings could be vfx based on the other shots.
The footage shows the effect of the light hitting paint. The cameras would obviously be shielded from behind and are recording away from the direction of the light. They would not be directly affected. They were most likely inside some sort of fortified container to withstand the shockwave after.
@@artstruth3889he literally explained that the effect u see happens when the light from the blast directly touches something. By setting up a camera behind a shield of some kind, it would not be directly affected by this heat.
I had a nightmare not long ago. I was on my way home after work then a nuke detonate in my city. I still remember that dream vividly. All I could think is my family wellbeing, because I saw the fireball near the area where I live. What do we do wrong? What have we done so we deserve a nuke in our city? My country don't even have a nuclear bomb. Everytime I see something or hear something about nukes, I remember that dream. I just hope that my country don't have to be a collateral damage between two or more warring nation
I similarly had a dream of my city being nuked. I’ve had several nightmares before but by far this was the scariest one. At the very least when I wake most my nightmares end there, but this? There’s always a chance of it actually happening in real life if war occurs
I also had a similar dream but it was years ago, yet i still remember it. It was just me playing at a nearby park when a massive explosion from far away in the distance, i was on a swing when it happened, i looked over to see a massive cloud of smoke in the air then desperately trying to run away while crying then the shockwave caught up to me and i woke up
ask this question to the Anglo-Saxon and American elite. What are they missing in life?? so many countries were bombed, involved in the war..... now Europe is being involved again. What do you think these people, the richest in the world, lack???? And what good have they done?? they only destroy . and it's still not enough for them. they don't need earth, apparently, because we have so many planets in the universe the same as Earth, only in buckets.
this type of informative and visual "documentary" is honestly my favorite. the numbers as well as the cgi is really interesting, and i wish there were more. keep up the good work Wren
Cities won't be hit with just 1... more like 8-10 from a MIRV. And it also won't be directly in the city center, but spread around over a 300 mile area.
The US doesn't currently deploy MIRV systems, in compliance with the "New START" nuclear reduction treaty. Minutemen III can carry up to 3 warheads but is only deployed with singles. Trident II has a ton of different configurations but is also allegedly deployed single-warhead. The Russians also signed New START, but are apparently taking a break from fully complying with it, and are continuing to develop new MIRV-capable vehicles. I'm not sure if anyone knows whether their arsenal is deployed in MIRV configuration or treaty-compliant singles right now.
@@JETZcorp The Trident SLBM's in the US arsenal are MIRV. Russia uses MIRV ICBM's. The book "Nuclear War" by Anne Jacobson discusses this in great detail.
Most missles are about 35 feet long and 5.5 feet wide. The average warhead is aboit 36 inches long and 18 inches wide and weighs about 300 pounds. These missles can easily carry four warheads . They are released on re-entry and have systems to guide them to pre- programmed targets. This shotgun blast of warheads can hit targets all around a major city. Targets such as international airports, oil refineries, military bases, communication centers. The overlapping coverage would be devastating to any city targeted.
Wren is the teacher we have always wanted and few of us actually had in the classroom. Fun, full of knowledge and able to make you think of the most serious topics as well.
Haha can you imagine him as a high school science teacher? He'd be the most badass teacher in school. At least right up until one of his students went home and answered their parent's "what did you do at school today?" with "we detonated a nuke in downtown LA!" 😆🤣
I had a lot of great science teachers. Though that may be becasue I was in a very wealthy public school district. Our public education sector in general, sucks. Thanks, republicans.
@@artstruth3889 The camera are under a bunker, what you are seeing is a concrete and metal pole holding up mirrors. Just like how they got pics of the elephants foot near the bottom of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Please get off the cospiravy theory sites and stop listening to Joe Rogan, those people are incredibly dumb and are lying to you.
Thank you for being so honest, informative, respectful and engaging. Not an easy thing to imagine, let alone explain so eloquently. May the worst parts of history never be repeated.
another horrific thing about the bombs. for the people close enough to the fireball... it was instant, at the temp and speed of the nuclear blast, their entire body was reduced to atoms, leaving nothing but a shadow behind, because with the sheer power of this type of explosion you aren't even dead, you just become physics and carbon
@@faegriffin1268 its just disturbing, the knowledge that you can just be alive one second and a fraction of a moment just not exist anymore as a human, your very atomic makeup stripped apart leaving you as nothing but soot
Every-time Wren makes one of these videos I’m truly blown away. The attention to detail, the information, the true emotion and scale of everything he explains. Every time I see these videos on my feed I instantly click because I know it’s going to be amazing. Well done again Wren!
Best channel on youtube. Btw at 1:14 on the computer we see the title says "VFX Artist Reveals The True Scale of Nuclear Explosions" But (In the actual title) the TRUE and NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS are in all caps and the word "The" starts with capital T when it is all lowercase. I'm such a friggin nerd guys... I'm not sponsored but buy Corridor merch! Trust me! You won't regret it!
“I don’t see a species trying to destroy themselves. I see a species with a reason to save themselves, and that gives me hope.” Damn. I love that. That gave ME hope.
heh... go to your search bar above. type in "Canadian Prepper" and tell me if you still think that after watching a few of his videos. Don't let the name fool you. He goes out of his way to get information directly from people in the military to back up his info. We're so close to Nuclear WW3 that it's laughable how ignorant the masses are on this... but I'm pretty sure that's intentional.
Eh. We live on a planet on which literally 100 or so people have the ability to incinerate and destroy you at will. This is pure psychopathy. If you think that arms reduction treaties serve humankind, go back to bed.
Ran into Wren on the streets of LA last month while on holiday and he told me he was working on this video - really excited to see it turned out great! Thanks again for taking a few minutes to chat to me :) - Tom from London
Meeting anyone else saying, "I'm working on nuking the city, where you're on vacation". Absolutely terrifying. Good thing you know the channel. Hope you had a great vacation.
That shots at 10:28 are incredible. I feel like you could talk for hours about the brilliancy of the camera angle, to the lights, to the expressions on their faces. Those few seconds speak volumes. Bravo 👏
Hi Wren, Pliny the Younger, a Roman writer in 79AD, describes the shape of the cloud created by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius by likening it to an Italian pine tree. Which has the shape of a mushroom with a very long stem. Just wanted to let you know :) Great video, keep it up!
Note the initial shapes in the testing videos released by the us gov. Show the initial reaction at detonation looking misshapen. almost like chemicals or alum crystals before a mushroom cloud can be seen a second later.
I love the fact that you guys just didn't make this a fun-to-watch segment. It took a serious turn , but ended on an optimistic note. Well done. Hope to see more ...
There really isnt any optimism. Russia just ended its signed treaty to lower its nuclear bomb stock. Basically, they are going to rebuild their arsenal.
China, North Korea, Sudan and I bet even Iraq and Iran would ally with them. Even though they would be wiped out they would probably launch missiles at us before they got killed. Its all kind of a huge mess yanno.@@Gino_567
@@IDNeon357lmao we’ve had these weapons for only 75 year hahahaha we are absolutely in the near future getting immolated in nuclear fire. What a dumb time to be alive lol
@@Lucky-sh1dm It wouldn't be the end of humanity, though. The end of civilization? Absolutely. But pockets of humans will survive in places that were too unimportant to waste a nuke on. Maybe some remote islands in the South Pacicific, or Indian Ocean. Large parts of Africa. And so on. The problem is with hundreds of nukes, you're going to have massive amounts of fallout on the entire planet. They wouldn't even be safe thousands of miles from a nuke. Winds would still blanket them with fallout eventually. Not to mention the risk of said fallout blocking out the sun and causing a nuclear winter.
@@IDNeon357 We'll stop acting all dramatic when our lives won't be a single bad decision away from being over. And trust me, we got VERY close WAY too many times. Like over a thousand times since the start of the Cold War where WWIII almost happened for a stupid reason. A few examples: - A single relay station running out of power disabled a whole region's communication when it was thought to be redundant; - A bear tried to climb into a US military base triggered the base's sabotage alarm but the general alarm the next base over; - A US ship dropped an exercise mine onto a Soviet submarine to scare them, 1 of the 3 officers required to launch a nuke refused (during the Missile Crisis of Cuba); - A system designed to detect incoming missiles thought the sunlight reflecting off of clouds was an army of missiles. I could keep going and easily excede the TH-cam Characters cap (5000 iirc).
VERY impressive!! thank you so much for illustrating the actual consequences of such madness.I had a sour belly (literally) half way through that lasted till the end, but it is this kind of awakening that we need in order to avoid this worst of all ends
This is by far the best of the countless awesome videos you’ve made. My dad spent the last few years of his military career and all of his post-military career in this field. I remember discussing things like this with him growing up and as a young adult. I don’t know that he ever truly made peace with that part of his life before he died.
Wren is my favorite creator at Corridor because of his videos like this. As a military brat during the Cold War and my old man being in the Navy, I was around the prime targets in the US and overseas. I came to terms that if there was WWIII my family wouldn't survive it. This actually brought me peace. We wouldn't be around to suffer through the aftermath.
Thank you for not "separating the science from the deaths". As an American who has lived in Japan and has been to Hiroshima, the Peace Memorial Museum and was afforded the incredible opportunity to speak with a survivor of the atomic bomb, I cannot make that separation. I only lived in Japan for a short time, but my visit to Hiroshima will stay with me for the rest of my life. The survivor we spoke with carried her experience with her every day as she battled just about every variation of cancer known to humankind. If I remember correctly, at that time, she claimed to have undergone something like 80 surgical procedures. The real world consequences of our actions were captured on film. The fallout, the human cost, the suffering was well-documented. And once you've seen it, it just cannot be unseen.
perhaps you should google what the japanese did to the korean comfort girls, what they did at nanjing and unit 731. It might make you reconsider about those nukes. And when you are done with that realize that the japanese have not once apologized (let alone pay reparations) and the extend of ww2 in their schools is something like "and then the americans attacked us"
@johndoe-jg7he in fairness, you're both right. The Japanese committed some terrible atrocities and arguably deserved to be punished and humbled for what they did. It also really helped end WW2. However many innocent people lost their lives. People that would have been perfectly ordinary people just going about their lives.
@@johndoe-jg7he pointing out that one horrific act was indeed horrific does not excuse others from also being horrific. A war crime or crime against humanity is exactly that. Japan has a long and violent history, much of which they still have yet to truly address in meaningful ways. And the same is very true of the United States, both domestically and internationally. By the time the US dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's navy and air power had already been decimated. In Operation Meetinghouse six months prior, the US firebombed Tokyo in what remains today to be the most destructive bombing raid in human history (yes, more than Dresden) killing estimates that range from 100-200 thousand mostly civilians and displacing over a million (although, some historians claim the death toll was severely underreported as the numbers didn't reflect the real world population density at the time). My point is that we should NEVER separate the science, the strategy, the politics, etc. from the death tolls, no matter the actors involved. Japan must come to terms with its history. I'm an American, and I think it's important that we stop perpetuating our own myths to justify our actions. It's debatable whether or not dropping the bombs was actually necessary. The excuse we use to justify it was a hypothetical about the costs of conducting a land invasion of the main Island. An objective truth is that the act was absolutely a geopolitical show of force establishing the first world superpower in the face of potential Soviet expansionism, who we knew was also developing the same technology at the time. In geopolitics, it's never just as simple as "It'll save Americans lives". That's just the propaganda campaign delivered to the public to justify mass killings.
@@johndoe-jg7he you're speaking as though you were on the committee of generals who decided that the bombing would go ahead. You're speaking as though you had to pick up a rifle and go to war. You weren't. You didn't. You're an ordinary person, just like the tens of thousands of ordinary people who were in Hiroshima. If you cannot separate ordinary people from armed forces and war criminals, I'm worried for you. If you are unable to do that, it must also mean that you hold every single person in the United States personally responsible for every single one of its own war crimes, its own human rights violations.
One dream that I vividly remember because I've seen it not once but 3 times is when just 15 meters outside of my house the fireball part of a nuclear bomb was just stuck there. Everything frozen in time the explosion stopped, still capable of moving around I took myself as close as possible yet the heat was reaching outside my dream. I woke up shortly after going near the fireball where I could feel the heat the most and still in the real world I was sweating because of the heat. If that's how my dream feels like, then I can only imagine how scary it can be in real life.
Tsar Bomba was scaled down to half to make it possible for the crew in the airplane that dropped the bomb to survice. Even with the scaled down version, the airplane had special paint on it to reflect as much direct radiation away as possible to not heat too much because of radiation.
Honestly Wren, I already adored CC content, but I wholeheartedly love and appreciate that your message was more about humanity than technology… PLEASE do this regularly! Future generations are counting on you. 😊
I was a kid in the eighties... we thought a LOT about nuclear war and nuclear annihilation back then. I saw so many nuclear holocaust movies my worst nightmares are still featuring nuclear explosions.
I live in Germany and there was a US military base just about 2 kilometers from my home. Back then they opened the 4 missile bunkers every 3 months for a brief test (no launch though). It was always a frightening view to see the silhouettes of four Nike Hercules missiles against the sky background. Fortunately they abolished that base with the end of the cold war.
I was standing at the wisdom tree in Griffith Park and realized I’d get 3rd degree burns (through every layer of skin) if a 5 megaton nuke hit downtown LA six miles away. China still has a few 5 megaton warheads on its old DF5 ICBMs, though those are being replaced by the newer DF-41 which likely has a few 150 kiloton MIRVs with many decoys.
@@BrownCookieBoy The Wisdom Tree has a clear view of downtown LA and a warhead comes in at 17,000mph, then air-bursts around 2,000 feet. The kinetic blast of the shockwave *might* make me go deaf or blow my flesh off my skeleton six miles away, even if I’m not instantly burned.
I've been watching you all for a while now and I love to see how much this channel has grown. Your delivery, your execution, and the way you're able to captivate your audience while keeping things educational is so nice to see. Please never stop doing what y'all are doing
This is such a difficult topic that you easily could have covered in such a way that it caused an uproar. However, you handled it with class, curiosity, and humility. Well done, fellas.
Its kind of bizarre how 99% of discussions and depictions are always just about the power of the bomb..I'm glad he addressed that. the horrific, nightmarish skin sloughing of the victims, bulging features, thousands of people walking in the river to cool off as their skin peeled away, clothing patterns fused to their skin itself Let alone how nagasaki was just dropped on a whim without even getting an order from the president The japanese empire was as bad as the Nazis, definitely, they were brutal, horrific, and butchered millions in asia. Definitely needed to be stopped..but there was no excuse to involve civilians, unlike Dresden this wasnt a justified military target. the nuke was 100% just a political weapon, we'd firebombed all their cities already, had them completely beaten and the soviets were about to mount their own invasion from Manchuria. It wasn't this war winning life saving thing its depicted as in the modern day. Sorry, just a PSA from a history major
Hey Wren, I'm glad you explained about the firestorm which, I feel, many videos on nuclear weapons tend to gloss over. I have spoken with and listen to the testimonies of several A-bomb survivors and they also stress this point - the fires that burnt people's skin away and turned the city into a blazing hell. People, some with their entire skin hanging off from their fingertips, were instantly dehydrated and desperate for water. It's a reason why many headed to the rivers, but once they drank water, it killed them.
There have been plenty of studies done on the effects of modern nuclear warheads on modern nuilding materials. The cities inthe west are far sturdier than the wooden cities of Japan during the 2nd WW.. The Energy required per square inch of modern building material to sufficiently scorch it is not met by the standard 750 kiloton warheads hat the russians use. Thus firestorms have been deemed as highly unlikely. There is so much misinformation floating around due to physicists speculating what would happen without actually having the tools necessary to simulate it. Nowadays we know for example, that there is no such thing as a nuclear winter. The energy of nuclear weapons is not enough to reach the upper layers of the atmosphere, and there is not enough dirt being kicked up because nukes are generally detonated as airbursts to maximize damage. A nuclear winter would require every nuclear bomb to be detonated at ground level with every one being stronger than the Tsar bomba. Not gonna happen. Whats going to kill the most people is the decimation of our infrastructure. The EMP´s generated by nuclear explosions in the atmoshpere, will completely shut down the Grid. It is estimated that around 250 million people would die from the direct impact and radation sickness of nuclear weapons. But around 1 billion would die from starvation within that same year. That is gonna be the real killer.
@@snakeace0 "..."? Nuclear winter IS a thing, but it would require the majority of the worlds nuclear arsenal to be detonated all at once, which isn't that unlikely considering mutually assured destruction and the timeframe that a nuclear war occurs on.
@@snakeace0 Just to quell the EMP scenario, there are protective redundant systems in place to replace power in that event. It's not even remotely an issue for at least the past few decades. Nuclear detonation will only effect the first few minutes of a blackout grid, and then be rerouted. Even cell towers use these redundant technologies. The biggest issue would be broken power stations and power lines for local grids. Places like hospitals that use underground power systems would pretty much not be effected at all. There are tons of servers and comms equipment underground and far under the ocean that will also be protected. You would be surprised by the redundant system we have today. No one that is an engineer working with these technologies are forgetting about the nuclear scenario. In fact, it's what has pushed so many redundancy technologies. Hell, we even have companies that can beamform cell data from sats in LEO now! Check out AST SpaceMobile, they just made a (2G/3GPP) cellphone call to the other side of the planet, only using one satellite! Next iteration will be using 4g and 5g suites of radio. So there is no need to be afraid of comms networks and electricity going down if you are not in the destructive blast wave. Grids are redundant and separated physically for that good reason (unlike Texas).
@@Nameless_Individual Nope, Nuclear winter was a hypothesized event in the 80s, that has long been disproven. There is no such possible thing as "nuclear winter". Fallout simply (and luckily) does not work like that). The initial study done by Carl Sagan and 26 other scientists from the Soviet Union and the US is based on wrong assumptions. The scientists involved had no experience with nuclear weapons or their effects. They made three wrong assumptions: -The mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion sucks up soot and debris and propels this into the stratosphere where it remains for years. In reality most nuclear weapons have a yield that is too low to produce a mushroom cloud that can reach the stratosphere. -All the soot produced by the fires of a nuclear explosion is sucked up by the mushroom cloud. In reality most soot remains in the destroyed buildings, it is pretty sticky stuff. -All the debris particles sucked up stay in the atmosphere for years. In reality the mass of most of these particles is too high, they fall back to earth within a week. In conclusion, nuclear winter is a myth. The really astonishing thing is that when Carl Sagan and his team made their study, they didn’t consult any of the official government studies which were already in the public domain. Had they simply read ‘The Effects of Nuclear Weapons’ by Samuel Glasstone, they would have realized their basic assumptions were wrong.
Trump is going to collapse the economy and start ww3. They proceed to collapse the economy and start ww3. Fyi how do those nuclear bombs help your climate change?
What an incredible video! A great combination between humor and seriousness. Not to much detail but enough context to know what you want to show with this video. Absolutely spot on. Well done.
This video gave me real chills, something stronger than what I felt even while watching Oppenheimer, which really says something about your talent, Wren. Corridor simply keeps getting better!
As great as that film is, Nolan did a terrible job showing the real destructive power, force, and scale of one of the smallest nuclear weapon detonations in history. Though he saved all of that for the verbal scientific side of scale and philosophy. Which is enough to make anyone with some basic understanding, horrific nightmares.
That was an amazing video. Absolutely the most 10/10 video I have ever seen on this website. The writing and visuals mixed with your enthusiasm and down to earth thinking within this topic really sets the nail in the coffin. Spectacular work Wren, you and your team outdid yourselves with this video.
Great work! You took the issue very seriously, but I don't think majority of the people that matter now understand the gravity of the situation. We need more of these to care more people about the impossibility of surviving these tools of mass destruction. We need the fear to avoid the deaths.
This is the first video of yours I've seen, man. You did an awesome job presenting such disturbing subject matter so respectfully. Not an easy line to walk. People like to remember certain tragedies. Others seem to be just too hard to handle. Nuclear weapons are the most diabolical shit ever invented. But I have faith we'll outdo ourselves.
We have ALREADY outdone ourselves via Quantum Dynamic Weapons which harness the virtual particle annihilation of vacuum-point/zero-point phenomena. The estimated size of an explosion from 1000 KG worth of full-scale Quantum Dynamic-based annihilation forces is about the size of the Black Hole in the centre of our galaxy so a few THOUSAND solar masses blowing up all at once! There are smaller versions of this weapon-type hidden 2000 feet (600+ metres) underground at China Lake Naval Airstation in California. It is a MAJIC-level top-secret where ONLY the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the weapon developers themselves (actually, they are merely the reverse engineers of the technology!), the DefSec, the Vice President and President know about it! The devices held down under severe lock-and-key at CL-NAS are "only" around 500 Megatons and go up into the low-Gigaton range so about the explosive energy of a Big Volcano such as Krakatoa! and NO! Don't even Ask! Just Don't! V
Wren needs his own solo channel. This was a great video, capped by the unadulterated display of humanity; it's important to re-sensitize people to what it really means to drop a bomb on a population. Great job, Wren!
Kyle Hill also did a video essay on nuclear bombs a while back, and I learned that even if a nuke was detonated in a random city, the knock-on effects on the global economy would be so catastrophic that the world would just break. It's an appalling defense strategy when, if by some miracle, you destroy your enemy before they launch one back, but it still spells the end of the very nation you're trying to protect.
@@jakeaurod *The global economy would collapse.* That's not something you just get over. That's the extinction of the human race type stuff. Try feeding the global population when there's no economy. How does anyone buy food if all money in the world suddenly has zero value? The global recession in 2008 was bad enough, imagine that times a million.
Most contries have them as a deterent, the actual use of these weapons would spell the end of human civilization. The few that survive will live in hell
Something you didn't mention that adds to awesome horror of nuclear weaponry is that the explosion will leave silhouettes of people and objects that get incinerated by the blast. There's a pretty terrifying picture from Japan where a silhouette is all that remains of a person who was sitting on a concrete staircase when one of the bombs went off.
i visited the hiroshima atomic bomb museum and they have the front portion of the bank across from the river when the bomb detonated, i think that's what you might be talking about. the shadow was still visible, though it wasn't particularly human shaped. i believe the man was waiting early for the bank to open and was the first person who died from the bomb, likely vaporized instantly before he'd be able to know there was an explosion.
I don't know if it was ever photographed but it was reported at the time that people far enough away from the explosions but close enough to be affected would have the patterns in their clothing "flashed" into their flesh.
@@MrTVintro There was a documentary (BBC I think) that had images of the cloth imprints on the skin and the shadows of the people burned into the bank, pretty savage stuff...
@@artstruth3889there’s whole documentary’s about how they got the cameras to get those shots. To be fair I’m not sure about the ones in this video, but regardless of checking there’s many like it that really are real. I recommend you do like 20 minutes of reading if you really want to start spreading information about it.
Hi from 🇯🇵 Thanks for making the video because I was born and raised in the prefecture right next to Hiroshima and since I was kid I heard and watched a lots of stories of the victims of the Day. It was really scary and still got me sort of trauma even though I am an adult. I believe giving people (especially in oversea) opportunities to imagine how nuclear weapon works and destroy our precious lives is very very needed now because it's no longer 0% possibility that Ukraine, Russia or any other major cities could be another Hiroshima. Anyway, Thanks for the video and I appreciate your activity. Let the world more peaceful and comfortable with our creativity together ☺
If usa democrats keep pushing for it, then soon this video will be a reality for Washington, New York, Los Angeles. Also let’s not forget that USA nuked Hiroshima, because EU representative said few day ago that Russia did it 🤦🏻♂️
My dear friend. There will be a WWIII. God's given dreams and visions to countless of His children. Definitely, the United States will be hit with numerous nukes, greater than the ones in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And in Europe against Russia. Once the US is down other countries may make move against their enemies. If you haven't known about Jesus I pray you do. This world war is closer than you think.
In the context of WW II, Atomic bombs were justified. We are not speaking of the same technology in a practical level. The Hydrogen nukes protecting Japan today are far much more destructive. We hope those who would want Japan to fall under their sphere of influence’ would take a moment to ponder. Nukes may be destructive, but the human desire to dominate other human beings has not changed since Adam.
Not the threat isn't still real, but the Millennials and Gen-Z have no clue how we were on the brink of it happening first in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis and again in 1983.
Wren you have become one of the world's best science communicators / educators. Congratulations A good teacher gives the best information available. A great teacher gives context. The best may as well be an artist. That's you
Hello! I am a theoretical physicist and am very impressed by the video! Very good to see how much time and focus is spent on the human consequences of an explosion like this. I do have to remark that the E=mc^2 bit isn't entirely applied correctly, as nuclear explosions don't consume all of the matter into energy, instead the energy released comes from the difference in the binding energy of the atoms before and after the reaction. I expect this was known to you but may have been too complicated to add to this video, and honestly I don't mind. If you ever need some help with theory stuff lemme know, I'd love to nerd out about the closest thing humans have ever come to manmade lovecraftian horrors.
We could just use a bunch of helicopters to pour water, dry ice, and stuff inside fire extinguishers all over the volcano. The volcano wouldn’t last more than 2 hours.
I like how you approached this video! People generally have no understanding of magnitude... (e.g. millions vs. billions), and your video puts that in perspective. Hopefully we can live in a world someday where the only "nuclear" is in energy generation.
As a physicist who has had a thing for nukes ever since he was a kid, this was mindblowing! I thought I knew all there was to know about nukes and nuclear history, but I've literally never heard of the "Mach stem". Great job!
Right. That’s the first time I’ve heard of it. But he did the explosion based on ground burst which is smaller (and dirtier) so i don’t think it would have that effect. It’s pretty wild to think of an explosion so powerful that it creates a mile wide void in the atmosphere.
If you think that's amazing, check out the physics behind the double flash property. The initial shockwave is so energetic that it rips atmospheric gases a new one to the point that it's ionized sufficiently to block the ridiculous light being emitted from the incandescent material behind it. As it expands and cools, it gradually becomes transparent again and so you get the double flash property. A brilliant flash, followed by a quick dimming and then a gradual increase again before it finally dims for good. Or, put another way, the initial shockwave is so ridiculously hot and powerful that it turns air opaque to light.
The lines you Delivered at the end; did not expect a vfx artist to be so philosophically illuminating and eye opening.... we need more of this ... that describes not what we did as nations but what we achieved as a species... Thank you so very much..❤ Wren
Well, I didnt think I'd be getting all emotional this morning. Thanks Wren. Great job on bringing not just the science to life, but the atrocity into perspective.
I grew up watching Bill Nye and no joke, your ability to anticipate questions and answer them but also not get bogged down is freaking next level science communication that would make even Bill Nye, Niel DeGrasse Tyson, and dare I say Carol Segan jealous. The perfect example is that hand wiggle and the face you make at 3:15. It's chef's kiss.
Been waiting for this to drop since Wren hinted at it like a month ago. PLEASE keep making these VFX artist reveals _ _ _ _ videos! They are always so well made and super interesting because of Wren's enthusiasm about the subjects.
This was an hella, best, educative, and gorgeous episode. Thank you Wren. And yeah, we try to not thank those things are real things that can happen to us at any time.
Seeing the kiddo in the rubble of Hiroshima... It's tough to put into words how terrible the power of a nuke is until you really get close to the individuals affected by it, so I'm really grateful Wren was willing to let this be more than just educational. Great video as always Corridor Crew.
it doesn't matter what people personally think of Japan regarding their warcrimes in Nanjing. The fact that civilians had to deal with the most of the conflict is really sad. Entire cities got destroyed, even if its only a 100 thousand deaths, that's still millions more in grief and pain of their loved ones passing.
I know its not exactly the Hiroshima explosion, but that photo just reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies, which for your emotional sake, you shouldn't watch without a bunch of tissues and a bottle of water. For an actual rendition of a nuclear explosion, I suggest Barefoot Gen :)
I really appreciate that you talked about the human impact of nuclear weapons, and still had a message of hope. I got chills when you showed the blast radius of the test bombs.
Not to rain on everyone's parade about that ending, but Russia is backing out of the deal and pursuing to expand their nuclear arsenal once again since their failed invasion of Ukraine... And their threats of using nuclear weapons on Europe ever since February 2022 even has its own page on Wikipedia...
@@Gabriel87100 My friend, relax. As someone who was born and lived under Putin all his life, I can tell you with certainty that this is just their crazy propaganda. Putin's propaganda is on TV every day about how they can destroy America if they want to, but it's all done for the people who watch this brainwashing TV. Putin will not use nuclear weapons against America and you know why? Because all his children and immediate family and friends live there! And also a lot of looted property from Russian citizens that Putin keeps in the same America.
Meanwhile: Communist China expanding their Nuclear arsenal x6 fold, building a new 1,000 warheads. As they prepare for war over their bloodlust to take Taiwan and all the islands in the Sout, East, Japanese, North Natuna and West Philippines Seas
Also, one overlloked aspect of MAD is that if too many bombs are used in short window, the climate impact will kill almost everyone, including in countries far away from any impact point.
@@Gabriel87100 Its the failed expansion of Nato that caused this, moving Nato closer to Russia means less time to react, more chance a mistake will happen. To rain on your parade, your narrative is the most irresponsible.
Wren's videos are the best on this channel. This video was really educative & touching at the same. You can tell a lot of work goes into making these videos & it's much appreciated.
@@nii_amart appreciation and most people just being generally creepy to strangers these days online are 2 different things. Dont worry tho, its not just you.
lol 650 B83 is not nearly enough ! actually you d need triple that amount to insure total destruction of both China and Russia if you want to minimize counterfire casualties you use two of them to destroy a single russian silo ! The video was kinda meh !
@@calgar42k you are the reason we got war, dont forget that in history only the u.s actually used nukes. Oh and in u.s war doctrine you can you nukes preemptively unlike russia and china that use it as last resort for defense, yea let it sink in. And before you blame me for rusbot etc, im Ukranian.
Wren, you are wonderful. This topic has played on my mind for years as I’m sure it has with millions of people, so your sentiment on humans finding reasons to save themselves rather then destroying themselves reinstated a much more positive state of mind and less depressing world view for me. Thank you for helping me think a little differently, your positive personality is truly inspiring, I thoroughly enjoy all of your and Corridor’s work and am always thrilled to watch your content.
@@SirWrenderYou certainly did well putting it all together, all of your videos on scale are incredibly fascinating. My wife (a high school special education teacher) showed one of her classes your video about Pluto and they loved it. Also, are you and Bowser gonna take home the gold again in the smash tournament this year or is Jordan going to give everyone trouble again?
This was a very good video. We need to spread awareness about the absolute insanity of the world we're living in. So many people have not a clue about the horrifying destructive power of nuclear weapons.
You prolly know this but nukes create a strong incentive for superpowers to resolve conflicts between other superpowers through diplomatic means, as engaging in a direct military conflict could lead to catastrophic consequences for all parties involved. MAD is diplomacy in it's core. Nukes serve as a powerful deterrent against potential aggressors. The fear of facing annihilation deters nations from taking actions that could lead to a direct confrontation, making wars less likely.
They don't want us to think about casualties, but it was pretty much in our faces during the cold war. I cried when the Berlin Wall fell because I had hope (albeit for an instance) that maybe, just maybe, humanity had come to its senses.
I like how "that would be too expensive" is the only reason seemingly preventing Wren from detonating a nuclear bomb in LS
😂 lol our man didn’t blink at the thought of instantly incinerating millions of people… just had a problem with cost haha
i was about to say that! 😂
In Los Santos huh
Trevor wouldn’t hesitate
Putin just activated the most expensive and most dangerous nuke in the world. Must not be too costly.
VFX artist reveals is honestly my favorite series on this channel
Agreed! Love the way Wren explains stuff
it’s literally the reason im subbed to this channel
hell its my fav channel on youtube
on youtube!
It’s like education done right.
I met a survivor of the atomic blast in Hiroshima. She was working underground at an ammo factory, less than 1000m from the epicenter. She spent two years in a hospital recovering and still has the radiation burns on her arms (called keloids). Every couple of years, her white blood cells would spike up to really high levels and she would get quite ill. Strangely, her daughter had a similar white blood cell spike every couple of years. Later, when I visited Hiroshima and looked at the shadows of people burned into stone and concrete, it really altered my world view.
Nuclear burns aren't the only way you get keloids.
What really shook me as a history student was learning that the Japanese were already trying to negotiate a surrender prior to the bombings. One of the only conditions they had was the emperor remain alive and in power. The US refused, saying unconditional surrender only. Yet in the end we let the emperor remain in power anyway.. However it's actually worse than that..
Even if no nuclear weapons were invented at all Japan was never going to be the massive bloodbath for the American military the way it was played up to be. The Soviet Union was already preparing a invasion of the main islands from the north and just prior to the bombs had steamrolled through Manchuria with some elite Soviet divisions. So it's pretty widely debated today that the real reason for the bombings were to demonstrate to the Soviets and the world that we were the pre emanate global power while also forcing the issue with Japan, preventing a north south split of Japan like just happened in east/west Germany. With those facts considered the bombing of civilian cities was one of the greatest crimes in history, and wasn't just a means to a end played off as saving lives and forcing the "fanatical" Japanese to surrender.
People of my parents generation completely bought in to the taught narrative, that while it was terrible potentially many more people would have died in a grueling terrible ground war in Japan. Of course this is what was taught in grade school, and it's the narrative every TV news station broadcast (what few TV and radio stations there were back then) and coming from a atmosphere of celebration at defeating Germany it's a hard pill to swallow that we would do something fundamentally wrong, immoral, a massive war crime. We were the good guys after all right? Any debate of the issue was taboo, it was for decades a settled matter, but unfortunately history isn't so simple, and often has a very dark underbelly that is ignored. “History is Written by Victors.” after all.
The irony is that it is much better to be defeated by the USA than by the Soviets. Japan would be very different today if the Soviets had occupied it. My country was "liberated" by the Soviet Union and it fucked us for generations.
@@-Zevin- This is the absolute best/worst example of history being written by the victors and I can well believe it. After all, that is exactly what we have learned Vietnam was about as well.
I don't mind admitting that my parents, who lived through WW2 in the UK (one as a child who lived in London through the Blitz and my father who was a navigator on Lancaster Bombers in the Air Force), brought me up with the understanding that "The Japanese were horrific to people during WW2", and being a young child, I accepted this as a fact until I got old enough to question things and motivations. Had I not rejected this stuff at face value and built my own opinions on what I have researched and learned about, I would probably have grown up in ignorance and developed the exact same institutionalized racist ideology that they and a vast portion of our society have today. Thats the scary bit right there....
@@JeffBarberDigideus do you know nanjing massacre?
worst thing is that the tsar bomba was only about half the size of what it could have been, but in order for the pilot to live they limited the bomb
Limiting the bomb also reduced fallout enormously. Replacing the uranium tampers with inert lead made it an extraordinarily fusion-heavy device. Combined with the necessary very-high air burst height, it was one of the lowest-fallout nuclear weapons ever tested. The full fat version... wouldn't have been.
The strange thing is that nukes and their ability to vanish the hall planet prevents us from the beginning or WW3 but there are some idiots out there that can find a way to make it happen.
The size was exactly the same, but the power was cut in half.
Even then, the pilot still only had a 50/50 chance of survival. They added a parachute to it JUST for that 50/50 chance.
@@DarkParagon they could have added a bigger parachute and a longer fuse ,but i get it tye shockwave of a nuke is supersonic so the bomber would not make it anyway
I'm older and grew up in a time when nuclear war was a very real possibility. Glad you took this topic seriously. Younger generations need to understand the impact, horror and outright futility of this madness.
Duck! and Cover! [[abd kiss your butt Goodby]] Even in the Diesr Grade I knew crawling under my desk wasn't gonna work.
It has become very real again since the war in Europe started
Ok boomer
@@mindofmadness5593 if you are far enough to not get most your skin instantly burned off and your eyes aren't blind and have enough time to duck and cover, it will probably help
That's the difference between the younger and older generations many of the younger generation see nukes and know we have not even reached a fraction of how powerful they can get simply because we stopped testing. Where you feel fear and existential dread we feel happiness and jubilation. Look at the power humanity wields and we haven't even started colonizing other worlds yet. Makes me feel like humanity can fight god and win.
Makes me feel bored of human vs human wars we need to find something new and challenging to kill.
The Tsar Bomba was designed to be a 100 MT device, but even the developers were afraid of what would happen if it were fully fueled so they only half fueled it.
I bet when they saw what appeared, the developers probably felt like they still added too much
That is absolutely insane I never knew that about tsar
I wonder what would Have happened if they have. I mean the tsar bomb blew windows out in another country so imagine that times 2
Unsurprisingly, they already had a 100 MT device ready to go but cancelled it after seeing what the 50 MT device did.
That's true because the developers were afraid that if they were to set this off that could actually throw off the ecosystem and the entire world there were afraid that it would end the world.
I adore that you didn't skimp out on the gritty reality of nukes and their real life toll. I have tremendous respect for you Wren.
One of the best ways to describe the mutually assured destruction of nuclear weapons regardless of how many nukes each side has is the analogy of two persons standing in a room full of gasoline up to their waists. One person has 100 matches and the other 25. Who is more powerful?
Big cities and infrastructure plus many losses of lives. But both countries would survive, although in a precarious way. Did you check the maximum area of a nuclear explosion and then check the surface of even a small country like North Korea? Your entire arsenal would not even cover a county how about a country. Which talks a lot about the proud and stupid American propaganda how would they "obliterate" North Korea from the face of the the Earth with 4,000 nukes. Nuclear weapons are indeed very destructive and will be crucial in future wars but they are not even close to the power of annihilation that these people think. Earth is not a big place, but a very very big one. Too hard to entirely cover even a country. But very effective as defense for any armed formation who would enter your space. At least for now this is how things are.
"One person has 100 matches and the other 25. Who is more powerful?" Wow! What a great analogy!
@@wladdragwlya WTF are you talking about. I was making a general comparison of the proven idea of mutually assured destruction with so many powerful nuclear weapons.
The one that has the key in their bum
That's a bad analogy though. You're implying that even one nuke can destroy the world. That's not how nukes work.
I don’t mean to downplay any of corridors hard work, but this is BY FAR their best video. I’m glad wren wasn’t afraid to stop being light hearted. Because this most definitely isn’t a light hearted topic. Thank you for making this Wren
and they didnt even talk about Gnomon and Sundial, Gnomon which would be there just to set off Sundial, would be 1000 MEGATONS, in this video, look at what 1 megaton bomb did... oh, Sundial? 10 000 MEGATONS. For people who saw Oppenheimer, you remember the Teller guy that was obsessed with fusion bombs? Yea, credible scientists said that the world would be a better place without him. He was an absolute maniac, proposing even gigaton weapons, he left people absolutely speechless.
POV: your Ukraine and Russia SFSR threatens you with nukes
Russia: HAHA NUKES GOOO BVRROOM BOOOOOOOM
I heartily second this.
Unfortunately the data about countries reducing nuclear arsenals is wrong. All the major powers are increasing their nuclear arsenals at a record pace. We are a hair's breath away from nuclear WW3 with Russia, China and North Korea... All countries are now making Nukes as fast as possible because of how close we are to war. All the nuclear treaties have been thrown in the garbage... all bets are off. Before all countries agreed to not test nukes. Testing is back on. Even if they were allowed nuclear doctrines required all countries to notify other countries if and when they were doing test detonations or missle flight tests to avoid confusion/fears. That's off too. Nuclear planes and subs are already out on patrols from all major powers.
Go to the search bar above. Type in "Canadian prepper" and watch the latest videos. Finland and many european countries are firing up their bomb shelters again. Do you even know where the nearest bomb shelter is near you in the U.S.? Has anyone talked about it? no... because the people pulling the strings of our government want us ignorant and fighting with each other over dumb Sh!t... they don't care if we die.
If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus Is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9
Wren, this is actually really important to show these simulations and the destruction. If you can simulate the gut-wrench feeling, then you can, on a mass scale, change the human consciousness for the better.
Been following the war happening in Ukraine, the amount of times I’ve seen Russia threaten to nuke everyone is just baffling. I really hate how they can just threaten millions of people and there’s nothing we can do.
Sadly our human history only got immensely better when we were able to individually empathy and visual all the horrors in the world. For better or worth of modern society if we didn't share all these realities we will continue to get people denying them. Hopefully we continue to keep the ability to cause pain out of reach out others (I know this is a stupidly wrong statement but one can aspire)
yes
The catastrophic Beirut explosion is enough to increase human awareness of nuclear dangers. Even though it's tiny compared to little boy
Nope, it doesn't work, but yes it helps to deter from capture. Iran would be like Iraq, Syria or Libia if haven't nuces.
This video series should be used in classes because they make learning stuff like this fun all the while keeping the seriousness of it.
Reminds of watching Bill Nye the science guy in elementary school!
Except that detonating a ground burst nuclear weapon like he did in a city would do way less than his did as loads of the energy is eaten by the ground as well as a good amount of the energy is straight up absorbed by the concrete and steel buildings.
@@masterhacker7065although ground bursts create much worse nuclear fallout, that’s why Japan was able to rebuild so fast after they were nuked because it was an air burst, meanwhile Chernobyl will be uninhabitable for an estimated 20,000 years or something like that
@@Ramen_66yeah but chernobyl wasnt a nuke it was a nuclear meltdown which releases more radiation then a nuke would
@@zaeisok yah your right, but still, a ground explosion is still at least worse nuclear fallout wise
Wren, honestly man, thank you for being a human. Thank you for educating. Thank you for being you.
It's so hard to comprehend how violent of a reaction it is, this was such a good visualization of what it's really like. Well done as usual Wren!
Simply the thought of complete annihilation to California itself sent chills through my spine
@@hun1on138 CA is a huge piece of land, it's unfathomable what the destruction of just the publicly known US arsenal is capable of. If nuclear winter is no longer the consensus of a believed scientific concept, then what we face may be far worse in terms of living organic matter in the region. Entire ecosystems glassed, creating a chain-reaction of falling ecosystems int he surrounding areas.
It's even worse when you realize that those 650 nukes most likely won't all be used on 1 place. Rather you could choose up to 650 different targets (for example, 650 different cities around the world) to hit, and an opposing nation would do something similar in response. And that's before radiation comes into play. @@hun1on138
Wren, thanks so much for the NUKEMAP shout out. Trying to give that sense of scale was why I created it and why I continue to work on and improve it. I’m glad you found it useful and I was fascinated to see how the CC would approach modeling a nuclear detonation. I've learned a lot from this channel over the years and I'm glad I could "give back," in a way. (I put off watching this for two weeks because I couldn't bear the idea of getting annoyed with you if you did anything I really didn't think was correct, but all of my critiques ended up being in the category of "fairly minor nitpicks" in the end.)
Wow i recognize that name anywhere, your site really made me realize how powerful nukes are many years ago
Great work! Me and my son have used it to try to visualize the consequences of nuclear war, and it really put it into context for us. It's certainly a great tool that I hope more people take a look at.
Nope, I was the one who created NukeMap...stop trying to steal my credit.
It’s a great piece of software! I live in NYC and have used to determine how survivable my home’s location is if the city was hit.
@@kidzbop38isstraightfire92 and who are you lol
Really dig Wren's more serious science vids. Facts + hope is a nice thing. This was another good one.
Wren, you are the next David Attenborough, you're the next voice of not just this generation but many more. You're so engaging, enthusiastic, and wonderful at teaching. Props to you buddy, congrats and I hope you're rewarded for your efforts. TV shows, series, documentaries, everything. The world is your oyster.
This video seriously hit different. It went from fun exploding things to the reality of war so quick and so expertly handled. Stuff like this really makes you think about the state of humanity sometimes
When his face went dull from calculating the casualties from the bomb simulator, 3mil dead at the push of one button, n there r 650 of them in the US alone. Has Science gone too far?
I dunno, it felt like a bit of an afterthought given that the video then ends on "hey, you found those explosions _cool?_ Wanna explode your own cities?"
@@unvergebeneidplenty of Americans do seem to enjoy exploding other people’s cities though. Just helping out with the Ukrainian war, something that could easily bring Russian nukes into our own cities, seems to be an inevitability. I just don’t think America understands what it actually means to be a victim. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were followed by strong aggression towards those responsible - what about when you get hit so hard that you literally can’t fight back and/or you surrender? That’s what fighting Russia and China would be. My advise is to seek out politicians who have plans to negotiate and end to current wars - not politicians who promise to keep funding it.
Yep. Obligatory sad face.@@unvergebeneid
@@unvergebeneid Agreed. There's no real benefit to 'pretending' that nukes are fun imo
The Halifax explosion in 1917 was the largest man made explosion at the time. It took out one town and the tsunami caused by the explosion took out another. I think this is a piece of history worth looking into and seeing the scale of this through VFX.
It was the largest man-made explosion *at the time* at an estimated 2.9 kilo-tons. Which is massively devestating, but only a bit over a 10th the strength of the manhatten project bomb.
@@artstruth3889 It is real. They have cameras poking out of bunkers miles away and use mirrors to get the footage from zoomed lenses miles away. It was actually a insane set up to be able to capture that footage.
^^^
@@artstruth3889 If you assume the cameras were just out in the open in tripods. Yeah, I understand why you would assume it's a miniature. But the camera were in specially constructed bunkers and using telephoto lenses.
The explosion at RAF Fauld in 1944 is probably the largest and latest pre-nuclear explosion. 4 kilotons of bombs, stored in tunnels under a hill. When they went off accidentally it turned that hill into a 40 meter deep crater.
The scientists on the Manhattan Project even asked for details of the explosion.
To Corridor, I would like to let you guys know that this is the best and most educational and entertaining series that you have created. Ofcourse the biggest applause goes to Wren who makes these awesome videos one after one with such beautiful VFX and overall presentation with the sounds and a genuinely great script that it clearly shows how amazing he is as an artist as well as a member of this channel. I know just like me many of the audience are excited all the time for this series and click on these videos without wasting a single second after getting a notification. I congratulate you guys for this feat and wish you carry on this series as long as u can. Love from one of your long time subscribers.
@@artstruth3889I’m not sure but I’m guessing the camera was far enough away from the explosion with a huge zoom lens and fixed on a tripod or something, at least for the bus shot that could be an option. The following shot of the buildings could be vfx based on the other shots.
The footage shows the effect of the light hitting paint. The cameras would obviously be shielded from behind and are recording away from the direction of the light. They would not be directly affected. They were most likely inside some sort of fortified container to withstand the shockwave after.
@@artstruth3889he literally explained that the effect u see happens when the light from the blast directly touches something. By setting up a camera behind a shield of some kind, it would not be directly affected by this heat.
They’re buried underground in containers and use mirrors to capture the footage. The camera is a rapatronic camera that is pretty amazing.
@@artstruth3889 look up "Fact Check - Surviving cameras do not prove nuclear tests are fake" , and don't believe everything you hear on Joe Rogan. 🙄
I had a nightmare not long ago. I was on my way home after work then a nuke detonate in my city. I still remember that dream vividly. All I could think is my family wellbeing, because I saw the fireball near the area where I live. What do we do wrong? What have we done so we deserve a nuke in our city? My country don't even have a nuclear bomb.
Everytime I see something or hear something about nukes, I remember that dream. I just hope that my country don't have to be a collateral damage between two or more warring nation
I hope so too buddy.
I similarly had a dream of my city being nuked. I’ve had several nightmares before but by far this was the scariest one. At the very least when I wake most my nightmares end there, but this? There’s always a chance of it actually happening in real life if war occurs
I also had a similar dream but it was years ago, yet i still remember it. It was just me playing at a nearby park when a massive explosion from far away in the distance, i was on a swing when it happened, i looked over to see a massive cloud of smoke in the air then desperately trying to run away while crying then the shockwave caught up to me and i woke up
ask this question to the Anglo-Saxon and American elite. What are they missing in life?? so many countries were bombed, involved in the war..... now Europe is being involved again. What do you think these people, the richest in the world, lack???? And what good have they done?? they only destroy . and it's still not enough for them. they don't need earth, apparently, because we have so many planets in the universe the same as Earth, only in buckets.
These are all visions of the future people. Stay on higher ground with radiation suit
Wren, you're quickly becoming one of my favorite science content creators! PLEASE keep it up! Maybe do some awesome collaborations!
Maybe with vsauce, that'd be cool
They keep looking because while this has some research to make a good video (which is nice!), this is by no means a science channel.
@@AlvaroALorite VFX is art AND science!
@@sqlevolicious no, it's not, if anything it is a technology (applied science), more akin to engineering.
this type of informative and visual "documentary" is honestly my favorite. the numbers as well as the cgi is really interesting, and i wish there were more. keep up the good work Wren
Wren sure knows how to take something really exciting and then flip the script in matter of seconds. I really appreciate that.
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o crap u got blue hair 🥴
You should give a try to Vsauce then
I think he missed the fact that at the moment blowing up California's major population centers would be a humanitarian act.
@AnkitSingh-wq2rk I actually have watched a couple of videos. It's been a minute, though, so I'll dive into it again. Thanks for the suggestion!
Cities won't be hit with just 1... more like 8-10 from a MIRV. And it also won't be directly in the city center, but spread around over a 300 mile area.
The US doesn't currently deploy MIRV systems, in compliance with the "New START" nuclear reduction treaty. Minutemen III can carry up to 3 warheads but is only deployed with singles. Trident II has a ton of different configurations but is also allegedly deployed single-warhead. The Russians also signed New START, but are apparently taking a break from fully complying with it, and are continuing to develop new MIRV-capable vehicles. I'm not sure if anyone knows whether their arsenal is deployed in MIRV configuration or treaty-compliant singles right now.
Maybe..I saw a website that puts 3 to 5 at least all in a few miles of each other...
@@JETZcorp The Trident SLBM's in the US arsenal are MIRV. Russia uses MIRV ICBM's. The book "Nuclear War" by Anne Jacobson discusses this in great detail.
Most missles are about 35 feet long and 5.5 feet wide.
The average warhead is aboit 36 inches long and 18 inches wide and weighs about 300 pounds.
These missles can easily carry four warheads .
They are released on re-entry and have systems to guide them to pre- programmed targets.
This shotgun blast of warheads can hit targets all around a major city. Targets such as international airports, oil refineries, military bases, communication centers.
The overlapping coverage would be devastating to any city targeted.
@@JETZcorp no such treaty exists anymore
Wren is the teacher we have always wanted and few of us actually had in the classroom. Fun, full of knowledge and able to make you think of the most serious topics as well.
Haha can you imagine him as a high school science teacher? He'd be the most badass teacher in school. At least right up until one of his students went home and answered their parent's "what did you do at school today?" with "we detonated a nuke in downtown LA!" 😆🤣
Few of you had teachers like Wren because your government is spending all your money on nukes instead of education :D
@@aalever and now they're sending it all to Ukraine.
I had a lot of great science teachers. Though that may be becasue I was in a very wealthy public school district. Our public education sector in general, sucks. Thanks, republicans.
@@artstruth3889 The camera are under a bunker, what you are seeing is a concrete and metal pole holding up mirrors. Just like how they got pics of the elephants foot near the bottom of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Please get off the cospiravy theory sites and stop listening to Joe Rogan, those people are incredibly dumb and are lying to you.
Thank you for being so honest, informative, respectful and engaging. Not an easy thing to imagine, let alone explain so eloquently. May the worst parts of history never be repeated.
LA being ended would be a good thing
another horrific thing about the bombs.
for the people close enough to the fireball... it was instant, at the temp and speed of the nuclear blast, their entire body was reduced to atoms, leaving nothing but a shadow behind, because with the sheer power of this type of explosion you aren't even dead, you just become physics and carbon
@@vanillaicecream2385 The words "you just become physics and carbon" hit me way harder than it should
@@faegriffin1268 its just disturbing, the knowledge that you can just be alive one second and a fraction of a moment just not exist anymore as a human, your very atomic makeup stripped apart leaving you as nothing but soot
This was not the worst part of history. Not even close, compared to what japan did all around Asia
Every-time Wren makes one of these videos I’m truly blown away. The attention to detail, the information, the true emotion and scale of everything he explains. Every time I see these videos on my feed I instantly click because I know it’s going to be amazing. Well done again Wren!
Haha, blown away
The term your looking for is over produced
Best channel on youtube. Btw at 1:14 on the computer we see the title says "VFX Artist Reveals The True Scale of Nuclear Explosions" But (In the actual title) the TRUE and NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS are in all caps and the word "The" starts with capital T when it is all lowercase. I'm such a friggin nerd guys... I'm not sponsored but buy Corridor merch! Trust me! You won't regret it!
“I don’t see a species trying to destroy themselves. I see a species with a reason to save themselves, and that gives me hope.”
Damn. I love that. That gave ME hope.
heh... go to your search bar above. type in "Canadian Prepper" and tell me if you still think that after watching a few of his videos. Don't let the name fool you. He goes out of his way to get information directly from people in the military to back up his info. We're so close to Nuclear WW3 that it's laughable how ignorant the masses are on this... but I'm pretty sure that's intentional.
With whats currently happening in Europe, this just sounds like wishful thinking to me. 🙁
Eh. We live on a planet on which literally 100 or so people have the ability to incinerate and destroy you at will. This is pure psychopathy. If you think that arms reduction treaties serve humankind, go back to bed.
If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus Is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9
I wish I could agree with feeling like that. Sadly I don't 😢
Ran into Wren on the streets of LA last month while on holiday and he told me he was working on this video - really excited to see it turned out great! Thanks again for taking a few minutes to chat to me :) - Tom from London
Meeting anyone else saying, "I'm working on nuking the city, where you're on vacation". Absolutely terrifying.
Good thing you know the channel.
Hope you had a great vacation.
That's so wholesome! Live interactions like this
Tom Scott?
I always love Wren's science based videos. But this one was really top notch. Never stop doing these.
That shots at 10:28 are incredible. I feel like you could talk for hours about the brilliancy of the camera angle, to the lights, to the expressions on their faces. Those few seconds speak volumes. Bravo 👏
Hi Wren,
Pliny the Younger, a Roman writer in 79AD, describes the shape of the cloud created by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius by likening it to an Italian pine tree. Which has the shape of a mushroom with a very long stem.
Just wanted to let you know :)
Great video, keep it up!
which is why the largest FAE bombs are not normally fielded; they are big enough to look like nukes when they go boom.
Pliny is my G. The father of cartography right there.
Note the initial shapes in the testing videos released by the us gov. Show the initial reaction at detonation looking misshapen. almost like chemicals or alum crystals before a mushroom cloud can be seen a second later.
I love the fact that you guys just didn't make this a fun-to-watch segment. It took a serious turn , but ended on an optimistic note.
Well done.
Hope to see more ...
great balance!
There really isnt any optimism. Russia just ended its signed treaty to lower its nuclear bomb stock. Basically, they are going to rebuild their arsenal.
@@linksmusic2060yeah and since US and Russian relations are becoming worse ( specially after Ukraine ) things have a real possibility to escalate.
Scary @@razorback8300
China, North Korea, Sudan and I bet even Iraq and Iran would ally with them. Even though they would be wiped out they would probably launch missiles at us before they got killed. Its all kind of a huge mess yanno.@@Gino_567
"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, and the other with five." - Carl Sagan
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." -War Games.
@@DonVigaDeFierro Which is the point; so stop acting all dramatic
@@IDNeon357lmao we’ve had these weapons for only 75 year hahahaha we are absolutely in the near future getting immolated in nuclear fire.
What a dumb time to be alive lol
@@Lucky-sh1dm It wouldn't be the end of humanity, though. The end of civilization? Absolutely. But pockets of humans will survive in places that were too unimportant to waste a nuke on. Maybe some remote islands in the South Pacicific, or Indian Ocean. Large parts of Africa. And so on. The problem is with hundreds of nukes, you're going to have massive amounts of fallout on the entire planet. They wouldn't even be safe thousands of miles from a nuke. Winds would still blanket them with fallout eventually. Not to mention the risk of said fallout blocking out the sun and causing a nuclear winter.
@@IDNeon357 We'll stop acting all dramatic when our lives won't be a single bad decision away from being over. And trust me, we got VERY close WAY too many times. Like over a thousand times since the start of the Cold War where WWIII almost happened for a stupid reason. A few examples:
- A single relay station running out of power disabled a whole region's communication when it was thought to be redundant;
- A bear tried to climb into a US military base triggered the base's sabotage alarm but the general alarm the next base over;
- A US ship dropped an exercise mine onto a Soviet submarine to scare them, 1 of the 3 officers required to launch a nuke refused (during the Missile Crisis of Cuba);
- A system designed to detect incoming missiles thought the sunlight reflecting off of clouds was an army of missiles.
I could keep going and easily excede the TH-cam Characters cap (5000 iirc).
VERY impressive!! thank you so much for illustrating the actual consequences of such madness.I had a sour belly (literally) half way through that lasted till the end, but it is this kind of awakening that we need in order to avoid this worst of all ends
This is by far the best of the countless awesome videos you’ve made. My dad spent the last few years of his military career and all of his post-military career in this field. I remember discussing things like this with him growing up and as a young adult. I don’t know that he ever truly made peace with that part of his life before he died.
Wren is my favorite creator at Corridor because of his videos like this.
As a military brat during the Cold War and my old man being in the Navy, I was around the prime targets in the US and overseas. I came to terms that if there was WWIII my family wouldn't survive it. This actually brought me peace. We wouldn't be around to suffer through the aftermath.
Thank you for not "separating the science from the deaths". As an American who has lived in Japan and has been to Hiroshima, the Peace Memorial Museum and was afforded the incredible opportunity to speak with a survivor of the atomic bomb, I cannot make that separation. I only lived in Japan for a short time, but my visit to Hiroshima will stay with me for the rest of my life. The survivor we spoke with carried her experience with her every day as she battled just about every variation of cancer known to humankind. If I remember correctly, at that time, she claimed to have undergone something like 80 surgical procedures. The real world consequences of our actions were captured on film. The fallout, the human cost, the suffering was well-documented. And once you've seen it, it just cannot be unseen.
perhaps you should google what the japanese did to the korean comfort girls, what they did at nanjing and unit 731. It might make you reconsider about those nukes. And when you are done with that realize that the japanese have not once apologized (let alone pay reparations) and the extend of ww2 in their schools is something like "and then the americans attacked us"
@johndoe-jg7he in fairness, you're both right.
The Japanese committed some terrible atrocities and arguably deserved to be punished and humbled for what they did. It also really helped end WW2.
However many innocent people lost their lives. People that would have been perfectly ordinary people just going about their lives.
@@johndoe-jg7he pointing out that one horrific act was indeed horrific does not excuse others from also being horrific. A war crime or crime against humanity is exactly that. Japan has a long and violent history, much of which they still have yet to truly address in meaningful ways. And the same is very true of the United States, both domestically and internationally. By the time the US dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's navy and air power had already been decimated. In Operation Meetinghouse six months prior, the US firebombed Tokyo in what remains today to be the most destructive bombing raid in human history (yes, more than Dresden) killing estimates that range from 100-200 thousand mostly civilians and displacing over a million (although, some historians claim the death toll was severely underreported as the numbers didn't reflect the real world population density at the time). My point is that we should NEVER separate the science, the strategy, the politics, etc. from the death tolls, no matter the actors involved. Japan must come to terms with its history. I'm an American, and I think it's important that we stop perpetuating our own myths to justify our actions. It's debatable whether or not dropping the bombs was actually necessary. The excuse we use to justify it was a hypothetical about the costs of conducting a land invasion of the main Island. An objective truth is that the act was absolutely a geopolitical show of force establishing the first world superpower in the face of potential Soviet expansionism, who we knew was also developing the same technology at the time. In geopolitics, it's never just as simple as "It'll save Americans lives". That's just the propaganda campaign delivered to the public to justify mass killings.
@@JesseArt It's hard to ponder the consequences of my ancestors actions while the victims deny theirs
@@johndoe-jg7he you're speaking as though you were on the committee of generals who decided that the bombing would go ahead. You're speaking as though you had to pick up a rifle and go to war. You weren't. You didn't. You're an ordinary person, just like the tens of thousands of ordinary people who were in Hiroshima. If you cannot separate ordinary people from armed forces and war criminals, I'm worried for you. If you are unable to do that, it must also mean that you hold every single person in the United States personally responsible for every single one of its own war crimes, its own human rights violations.
One dream that I vividly remember because I've seen it not once but 3 times is when just 15 meters outside of my house the fireball part of a nuclear bomb was just stuck there. Everything frozen in time the explosion stopped, still capable of moving around I took myself as close as possible yet the heat was reaching outside my dream. I woke up shortly after going near the fireball where I could feel the heat the most and still in the real world I was sweating because of the heat. If that's how my dream feels like, then I can only imagine how scary it can be in real life.
Write a book. Maybe you could be like Arthur c clarke
It is crazy that the Tsar Bomb wasn't even tested at its full potential and was capable of going to 100MT
They had to neuter it to move it.
It was too heavy for transport, so they halved it, and disintegrated an island.
Check out the Poseidon…..different bomb….but 200MT
I mean, some may argue it'd be crazier to do so.
Take myself for instance.
We need less of all of this...
Tsar Bomba was scaled down to half to make it possible for the crew in the airplane that dropped the bomb to survice. Even with the scaled down version, the airplane had special paint on it to reflect as much direct radiation away as possible to not heat too much because of radiation.
@@MikkoRantalainen That paint melted
Honestly Wren, I already adored CC content, but I wholeheartedly love and appreciate that your message was more about humanity than technology… PLEASE do this regularly! Future generations are counting on you. 😊
I was a kid in the eighties... we thought a LOT about nuclear war and nuclear annihilation back then. I saw so many nuclear holocaust movies my worst nightmares are still featuring nuclear explosions.
I live in Germany and there was a US military base just about 2 kilometers from my home. Back then they opened the 4 missile bunkers every 3 months for a brief test (no launch though). It was always a frightening view to see the silhouettes of four Nike Hercules missiles against the sky background. Fortunately they abolished that base with the end of the cold war.
Don’t worry friend it will be instant but it will probably not hit you unless you live in Damascus. You have time to repent
Oh yes…The Day After Tomorrow…man that terrified me as a kid.
Perhaps it was due to where you lived at the time.
I was a kid in the eighties too. I did not think about it a lot. When I learned 'duck and cover', it was about tornadoes.
This narration/script/VFX/etc. works great. It captures a lot of important stuff
Wren does such a phenomenal job on these videos! It’s like vsauce meets VFX.
Oh man Vsauce/Veritasium with VFX 🤤
I was standing at the wisdom tree in Griffith Park and realized I’d get 3rd degree burns (through every layer of skin) if a 5 megaton nuke hit downtown LA six miles away.
China still has a few 5 megaton warheads on its old DF5 ICBMs, though those are being replaced by the newer DF-41 which likely has a few 150 kiloton MIRVs with many decoys.
Unless 1 single building stands between you and the bomb.
Dude how are you this cool?
@@BrownCookieBoy The Wisdom Tree has a clear view of downtown LA and a warhead comes in at 17,000mph, then air-bursts around 2,000 feet. The kinetic blast of the shockwave *might* make me go deaf or blow my flesh off my skeleton six miles away, even if I’m not instantly burned.
@@tayzondaywhat if you were in a building??
@@anrealnub2686you would become a pancake a very messy one
It would blow your mind to know a Japanese man was at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the nukes were dropped. And he survived both detonations.
who?
Who?
@@bmk48Andrew tate
Yup he survived the first but still decided to go to his work place day laterwhere the next dropped.
@@bmk48 Tsutomu Yamaguchi
great conclusion! i just found your channel and I've been watching all morning.
I've been watching you all for a while now and I love to see how much this channel has grown. Your delivery, your execution, and the way you're able to captivate your audience while keeping things educational is so nice to see. Please never stop doing what y'all are doing
This is such a difficult topic that you easily could have covered in such a way that it caused an uproar. However, you handled it with class, curiosity, and humility. Well done, fellas.
@@calgar42knukes of love you mean
@@geno7462 nono good modern thermonuclear warheads ,the kind that vaporize your carbon content on the wall behind you before it blows up !
@@calgar42k nooo no.. no more plz no more. No lemon fresh
@@geno7462 flagged em for promoting terrorism
Its kind of bizarre how 99% of discussions and depictions are always just about the power of the bomb..I'm glad he addressed that. the horrific, nightmarish skin sloughing of the victims, bulging features, thousands of people walking in the river to cool off as their skin peeled away, clothing patterns fused to their skin itself
Let alone how nagasaki was just dropped on a whim without even getting an order from the president
The japanese empire was as bad as the Nazis, definitely, they were brutal, horrific, and butchered millions in asia. Definitely needed to be stopped..but there was no excuse to involve civilians, unlike Dresden this wasnt a justified military target. the nuke was 100% just a political weapon, we'd firebombed all their cities already, had them completely beaten and the soviets were about to mount their own invasion from Manchuria. It wasn't this war winning life saving thing its depicted as in the modern day.
Sorry, just a PSA from a history major
Wren’s work is astonishing. It’s beautifully done and it always makes you think. I’m delighted to be here to witness it
This is an amazing and frightening video, especially in light of the world’s situation right now. Definitely worth sharing ❤
Hey Wren, I'm glad you explained about the firestorm which, I feel, many videos on nuclear weapons tend to gloss over. I have spoken with and listen to the testimonies of several A-bomb survivors and they also stress this point - the fires that burnt people's skin away and turned the city into a blazing hell. People, some with their entire skin hanging off from their fingertips, were instantly dehydrated and desperate for water. It's a reason why many headed to the rivers, but once they drank water, it killed them.
There have been plenty of studies done on the effects of modern nuclear warheads on modern nuilding materials. The cities inthe west are far sturdier than the wooden cities of Japan during the 2nd WW.. The Energy required per square inch of modern building material to sufficiently scorch it is not met by the standard 750 kiloton warheads hat the russians use. Thus firestorms have been deemed as highly unlikely. There is so much misinformation floating around due to physicists speculating what would happen without actually having the tools necessary to simulate it. Nowadays we know for example, that there is no such thing as a nuclear winter. The energy of nuclear weapons is not enough to reach the upper layers of the atmosphere, and there is not enough dirt being kicked up because nukes are generally detonated as airbursts to maximize damage. A nuclear winter would require every nuclear bomb to be detonated at ground level with every one being stronger than the Tsar bomba. Not gonna happen.
Whats going to kill the most people is the decimation of our infrastructure. The EMP´s generated by nuclear explosions in the atmoshpere, will completely shut down the Grid. It is estimated that around 250 million people would die from the direct impact and radation sickness of nuclear weapons. But around 1 billion would die from starvation within that same year. That is gonna be the real killer.
@@snakeace0 "..."? Nuclear winter IS a thing, but it would require the majority of the worlds nuclear arsenal to be detonated all at once, which isn't that unlikely considering mutually assured destruction and the timeframe that a nuclear war occurs on.
@@snakeace0 Just to quell the EMP scenario, there are protective redundant systems in place to replace power in that event. It's not even remotely an issue for at least the past few decades. Nuclear detonation will only effect the first few minutes of a blackout grid, and then be rerouted. Even cell towers use these redundant technologies. The biggest issue would be broken power stations and power lines for local grids. Places like hospitals that use underground power systems would pretty much not be effected at all. There are tons of servers and comms equipment underground and far under the ocean that will also be protected. You would be surprised by the redundant system we have today. No one that is an engineer working with these technologies are forgetting about the nuclear scenario. In fact, it's what has pushed so many redundancy technologies.
Hell, we even have companies that can beamform cell data from sats in LEO now! Check out AST SpaceMobile, they just made a (2G/3GPP) cellphone call to the other side of the planet, only using one satellite! Next iteration will be using 4g and 5g suites of radio.
So there is no need to be afraid of comms networks and electricity going down if you are not in the destructive blast wave. Grids are redundant and separated physically for that good reason (unlike Texas).
@@Nameless_Individual Nope, Nuclear winter was a hypothesized event in the 80s, that has long been disproven. There is no such possible thing as "nuclear winter". Fallout simply (and luckily) does not work like that).
The initial study done by Carl Sagan and 26 other scientists from the Soviet Union and the US is based on wrong assumptions.
The scientists involved had no experience with nuclear weapons or their effects. They made three wrong assumptions:
-The mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion sucks up soot and debris and propels this into the stratosphere where it remains for years. In reality most nuclear weapons have a yield that is too low to produce a mushroom cloud that can reach the stratosphere.
-All the soot produced by the fires of a nuclear explosion is sucked up by the mushroom cloud. In reality most soot remains in the destroyed buildings, it is pretty sticky stuff.
-All the debris particles sucked up stay in the atmosphere for years. In reality the mass of most of these particles is too high, they fall back to earth within a week.
In conclusion, nuclear winter is a myth. The really astonishing thing is that when Carl Sagan and his team made their study, they didn’t consult any of the official government studies which were already in the public domain. Had they simply read ‘The Effects of Nuclear Weapons’ by Samuel Glasstone, they would have realized their basic assumptions were wrong.
I chuckled when you said "are you scared yet?" My man, I was raised in the 80's. I've been scared of this stuff my whole life.
How old are you
50?
Trump is going to collapse the economy and start ww3. They proceed to collapse the economy and start ww3. Fyi how do those nuclear bombs help your climate change?
@@Bigchickenburger Does it really matter? His point remains
@@Bigchickenburger im 52 and we had drills in school on what to do if Russia launched a nuke.....and it was just hide under our desk
What an incredible video! A great combination between humor and seriousness. Not to much detail but enough context to know what you want to show with this video.
Absolutely spot on. Well done.
Hands down the best representation of Nuke power that I have ever seen. Kudos to the production team.
This video gave me real chills, something stronger than what I felt even while watching Oppenheimer, which really says something about your talent, Wren. Corridor simply keeps getting better!
As great as that film is, Nolan did a terrible job showing the real destructive power, force, and scale of one of the smallest nuclear weapon detonations in history. Though he saved all of that for the verbal scientific side of scale and philosophy. Which is enough to make anyone with some basic understanding, horrific nightmares.
U.S. and Russia dismantling nuclear arms in mutual trust… in steps China 😅
The amount of effort you put into your videos is insane, Respect
build air defence and dont afraid
That was an amazing video. Absolutely the most 10/10 video I have ever seen on this website. The writing and visuals mixed with your enthusiasm and down to earth thinking within this topic really sets the nail in the coffin. Spectacular work Wren, you and your team outdid yourselves with this video.
Great work!
You took the issue very seriously, but I don't think majority of the people that matter now understand the gravity of the situation. We need more of these to care more people about the impossibility of surviving these tools of mass destruction.
We need the fear to avoid the deaths.
Thanks Wren and the corridor crew. Very thought provoking and educational all at once.
This is the first video of yours I've seen, man. You did an awesome job presenting such disturbing subject matter so respectfully. Not an easy line to walk. People like to remember certain tragedies. Others seem to be just too hard to handle. Nuclear weapons are the most diabolical shit ever invented. But I have faith we'll outdo ourselves.
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Ah, yes, we have an optimistic pessimist here, folks😂.
We have ALREADY outdone ourselves via Quantum Dynamic Weapons which harness the virtual particle annihilation of vacuum-point/zero-point phenomena. The estimated size of an explosion from 1000 KG worth of full-scale Quantum Dynamic-based annihilation forces is about the size of the Black Hole in the centre of our galaxy so a few THOUSAND solar masses blowing up all at once!
There are smaller versions of this weapon-type hidden 2000 feet (600+ metres) underground at China Lake Naval Airstation in California. It is a MAJIC-level top-secret where ONLY the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the weapon developers themselves (actually, they are merely the reverse engineers of the technology!), the DefSec, the Vice President and President know about it!
The devices held down under severe lock-and-key at CL-NAS are "only" around 500 Megatons and go up into the low-Gigaton range so about the explosive energy of a Big Volcano such as Krakatoa!
and NO! Don't even Ask! Just Don't!
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@@StarGateSG7 Man, how sweet of the president and vice president to lend you this little top classified national super secret. ☺️☺️
Wren needs his own solo channel. This was a great video, capped by the unadulterated display of humanity; it's important to re-sensitize people to what it really means to drop a bomb on a population.
Great job, Wren!
He does however he doesn't post on it much. It's sirwrender
Amazing video, amazing message! Love from Serbia! ❤️
Kyle Hill also did a video essay on nuclear bombs a while back, and I learned that even if a nuke was detonated in a random city, the knock-on effects on the global economy would be so catastrophic that the world would just break. It's an appalling defense strategy when, if by some miracle, you destroy your enemy before they launch one back, but it still spells the end of the very nation you're trying to protect.
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I remember making arguments like that in College Debate. Realistically, everyone would adapt and it'd just be a blip.
@@jakeaurod *The global economy would collapse.* That's not something you just get over. That's the extinction of the human race type stuff. Try feeding the global population when there's no economy. How does anyone buy food if all money in the world suddenly has zero value? The global recession in 2008 was bad enough, imagine that times a million.
Most contries have them as a deterent, the actual use of these weapons would spell the end of human civilization. The few that survive will live in hell
We already did nuke not one, but two cities. And yet, the world economy did not break.
Something you didn't mention that adds to awesome horror of nuclear weaponry is that the explosion will leave silhouettes of people and objects that get incinerated by the blast. There's a pretty terrifying picture from Japan where a silhouette is all that remains of a person who was sitting on a concrete staircase when one of the bombs went off.
i visited the hiroshima atomic bomb museum and they have the front portion of the bank across from the river when the bomb detonated, i think that's what you might be talking about. the shadow was still visible, though it wasn't particularly human shaped. i believe the man was waiting early for the bank to open and was the first person who died from the bomb, likely vaporized instantly before he'd be able to know there was an explosion.
I don't know if it was ever photographed but it was reported at the time that people far enough away from the explosions but close enough to be affected would have the patterns in their clothing "flashed" into their flesh.
@@MrTVintro There was a documentary (BBC I think) that had images of the cloth imprints on the skin and the shadows of the people burned into the bank, pretty savage stuff...
It's called a nuclear shadow and if you google that, you can see some images that take your breath away, and not in a good way.
@@artstruth3889there’s whole documentary’s about how they got the cameras to get those shots. To be fair I’m not sure about the ones in this video, but regardless of checking there’s many like it that really are real. I recommend you do like 20 minutes of reading if you really want to start spreading information about it.
Hi from 🇯🇵
Thanks for making the video because I was born and raised in the prefecture right next to Hiroshima
and since I was kid I heard and watched a lots of stories of the victims of the Day.
It was really scary and still got me sort of trauma even though I am an adult.
I believe giving people (especially in oversea) opportunities to imagine how nuclear weapon works and destroy our precious lives is very very needed now because it's no longer 0% possibility that Ukraine, Russia or any other major cities could be another Hiroshima.
Anyway, Thanks for the video and I appreciate your activity.
Let the world more peaceful and comfortable with our creativity together ☺
If usa democrats keep pushing for it, then soon this video will be a reality for Washington, New York, Los Angeles. Also let’s not forget that USA nuked Hiroshima, because EU representative said few day ago that Russia did it 🤦🏻♂️
My dear friend. There will be a WWIII. God's given dreams and visions to countless of His children. Definitely, the United States will be hit with numerous nukes, greater than the ones in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And in Europe against Russia. Once the US is down other countries may make move against their enemies. If you haven't known about Jesus I pray you do. This world war is closer than you think.
✌️well said
In the context of WW II, Atomic bombs were justified.
We are not speaking of the same technology in a practical level. The Hydrogen nukes protecting Japan today are far much more destructive.
We hope those who would want Japan to fall under their sphere of influence’ would take a moment to ponder.
Nukes may be destructive, but the human desire to dominate other human beings has not changed since Adam.
It‘s a shame USA did never apologize for this war crime. One of the reason I hate this war adicted nation.
Absolutely fantastic video, I was always curious what it would look like.
This is probably off topic but you're the reason why I watch corridor. Your videos are always very thoughtful and educational.
Former Ammo troop for the USAF.
Loaded Nukes on Bombers in the Late 80s,early 90s.
Excellent VLog.
Well done, and succinct.
Thank you for making this.
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Not the threat isn't still real, but the Millennials and Gen-Z have no clue how we were on the brink of it happening first in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis and again in 1983.
@@fp5495 and all while having to cross a mountain with 5 feet of snow just to get to school!!
@@Ragnaroz6000 Uphill, headwind, while simultaneously fighting wolves and bears!
@@fp5495 Able-Archer 1983 was a fun time to be alive. And living in West Germany, as it was.
Wren you have become one of the world's best science communicators / educators. Congratulations
A good teacher gives the best information available. A great teacher gives context. The best may as well be an artist. That's you
Wren's mum?
Hello! I am a theoretical physicist and am very impressed by the video! Very good to see how much time and focus is spent on the human consequences of an explosion like this. I do have to remark that the E=mc^2 bit isn't entirely applied correctly, as nuclear explosions don't consume all of the matter into energy, instead the energy released comes from the difference in the binding energy of the atoms before and after the reaction. I expect this was known to you but may have been too complicated to add to this video, and honestly I don't mind. If you ever need some help with theory stuff lemme know, I'd love to nerd out about the closest thing humans have ever come to manmade lovecraftian horrors.
Would you all create a similar recreation for what could happen if Yellowstone decides to "pop?"
That would be huge.
West coast would be gone
Well, if worst comes to worst, it has been predicted that it can cause damage similar to The Rock™ that perma banned the dinosaurs.
@@sigma_wolf2026 minus the Yellowstone region and every state directly around it, the East Coast would arguably fare worse
We could just use a bunch of helicopters to pour water, dry ice, and stuff inside fire extinguishers all over the volcano. The volcano wouldn’t last more than 2 hours.
@@blackirontarkus3156I don't think that you know what Yellowstone really is...
This was beautiful, the end was so... damn Wren, please continue to make these VFX artist reveals 🖤
Wren's educational videos are legitimately some of the best content on this channel, I thoroughly enjoy these!
I like how you approached this video! People generally have no understanding of magnitude... (e.g. millions vs. billions), and your video puts that in perspective. Hopefully we can live in a world someday where the only "nuclear" is in energy generation.
As a physicist who has had a thing for nukes ever since he was a kid, this was mindblowing! I thought I knew all there was to know about nukes and nuclear history, but I've literally never heard of the "Mach stem".
Great job!
Right. That’s the first time I’ve heard of it. But he did the explosion based on ground burst which is smaller (and dirtier) so i don’t think it would have that effect. It’s pretty wild to think of an explosion so powerful that it creates a mile wide void in the atmosphere.
Maybe he just made it up
If you think that's amazing, check out the physics behind the double flash property. The initial shockwave is so energetic that it rips atmospheric gases a new one to the point that it's ionized sufficiently to block the ridiculous light being emitted from the incandescent material behind it. As it expands and cools, it gradually becomes transparent again and so you get the double flash property. A brilliant flash, followed by a quick dimming and then a gradual increase again before it finally dims for good. Or, put another way, the initial shockwave is so ridiculously hot and powerful that it turns air opaque to light.
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@@barthchris1: Bingo! :) Also, I'd love that reply, but the best I can do is like it.
The lines you Delivered at the end; did not expect a vfx artist to be so philosophically illuminating and eye opening.... we need more of this ... that describes not what we did as nations but what we achieved as a species...
Thank you so very much..❤ Wren
Well, I didnt think I'd be getting all emotional this morning. Thanks Wren. Great job on bringing not just the science to life, but the atrocity into perspective.
Congratulations on the tone of the video. Very difficult but you nailed it
Wren! Stunning episode, so much detail, love your solo videos the most! keep it going brother!
Imagine a Sick Individuals Corridor collab! Thatd be awesome!
Well done Wren and team! These educational VFX vids are some of my favourites on TH-cam. We the people demand more!
The CGI of that bomb @ 8:33 is insane. Your insane wren
Well this was surpisingly deep and cathartic. Thank you
I grew up watching Bill Nye and no joke, your ability to anticipate questions and answer them but also not get bogged down is freaking next level science communication that would make even Bill Nye, Niel DeGrasse Tyson, and dare I say Carol Segan jealous. The perfect example is that hand wiggle and the face you make at 3:15. It's chef's kiss.
0:12 "That would be too expensive".... uhhhhh
Mom pick me up I'm scared
We need to figure out how to make nuclear weapons affordable.
@@earthwormandruwno, he needs to pay for the damages (maybe) and the missile/bomber remember?
Mr beast is getting ideas as we speak…
Been waiting for this to drop since Wren hinted at it like a month ago.
PLEASE keep making these VFX artist reveals _ _ _ _ videos! They are always so well made and super interesting because of Wren's enthusiasm about the subjects.
yes, this
I've been asking for it for almost two months now. Its finally here
Man good fkn video people with a range like you have are what we need to make a difference and come together as people not as nations
This was an hella, best, educative, and gorgeous episode. Thank you Wren. And yeah, we try to not thank those things are real things that can happen to us at any time.
"An hella", Clarkson?
Seeing the kiddo in the rubble of Hiroshima... It's tough to put into words how terrible the power of a nuke is until you really get close to the individuals affected by it, so I'm really grateful Wren was willing to let this be more than just educational. Great video as always Corridor Crew.
I was silenced after reading "Hiroshima Diary." Good, sobering book.
The photographer: “Okay… that’s good, wait no, a little to the left please. Never mind, here let me just…. ah. That’s perfect, this will show them.”
it doesn't matter what people personally think of Japan regarding their warcrimes in Nanjing. The fact that civilians had to deal with the most of the conflict is really sad. Entire cities got destroyed, even if its only a 100 thousand deaths, that's still millions more in grief and pain of their loved ones passing.
I know its not exactly the Hiroshima explosion, but that photo just reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies, which for your emotional sake, you shouldn't watch without a bunch of tissues and a bottle of water.
For an actual rendition of a nuclear explosion, I suggest Barefoot Gen :)
They should of bombed unit 731 instead.
Hats off to the camera man, like how’d he survive multiple close range nukes and walk away like nothing just happened
I really appreciate that you talked about the human impact of nuclear weapons, and still had a message of hope. I got chills when you showed the blast radius of the test bombs.
Not to rain on everyone's parade about that ending, but Russia is backing out of the deal and pursuing to expand their nuclear arsenal once again since their failed invasion of Ukraine... And their threats of using nuclear weapons on Europe ever since February 2022 even has its own page on Wikipedia...
@@Gabriel87100 My friend, relax. As someone who was born and lived under Putin all his life, I can tell you with certainty that this is just their crazy propaganda. Putin's propaganda is on TV every day about how they can destroy America if they want to, but it's all done for the people who watch this brainwashing TV.
Putin will not use nuclear weapons against America and you know why? Because all his children and immediate family and friends live there! And also a lot of looted property from Russian citizens that Putin keeps in the same America.
Meanwhile:
Communist China expanding their Nuclear arsenal x6 fold, building a new 1,000 warheads.
As they prepare for war over their bloodlust to take Taiwan and all the islands in the Sout, East, Japanese, North Natuna and West Philippines Seas
Also, one overlloked aspect of MAD is that if too many bombs are used in short window, the climate impact will kill almost everyone, including in countries far away from any impact point.
@@Gabriel87100 Its the failed expansion of Nato that caused this, moving Nato closer to Russia means less time to react, more chance a mistake will happen. To rain on your parade, your narrative is the most irresponsible.
Wren's videos are the best on this channel. This video was really educative & touching at the same. You can tell a lot of work goes into making these videos & it's much appreciated.
I agree. But falling in love with people on random videos is not the way.
@@avistryfe4534 falling in love? What are you on about? 🤣 Can't appreciate his hardwork anymore? Cmon bro
@@nii_amart appreciation and most people just being generally creepy to strangers these days online are 2 different things. Dont worry tho, its not just you.
THIS is what makes the Corridor Crew so good at what they do - they actually take the time and care to study in detail what the real world is like!
lol 650 B83 is not nearly enough ! actually you d need triple that amount to insure total destruction of both China and Russia if you want to minimize counterfire casualties you use two of them to destroy a single russian silo !
The video was kinda meh !
@@calgar42k you are the reason we got war, dont forget that in history only the u.s actually used nukes.
Oh and in u.s war doctrine you can you nukes preemptively unlike russia and china that use it as last resort for defense, yea let it sink in.
And before you blame me for rusbot etc, im Ukranian.
@@svarog8253furst off "im ukrainian" is what a rusbot would say......also wtf are u going on about 🤣
@@svarog8253 no people like Obama, Biden, Hillary, Shwab, WEF, Club of Rome, Jews owning Central Banks, Military Industrial Complex, are the reasons
@@calgar42k bruh if even half of those nukes exploded you probably wouldn't wanna live on earth anymore
Thank you for being so respectful in this Video
Wren, you are wonderful. This topic has played on my mind for years as I’m sure it has with millions of people, so your sentiment on humans finding reasons to save themselves rather then destroying themselves reinstated a much more positive state of mind and less depressing world view for me. Thank you for helping me think a little differently, your positive personality is truly inspiring, I thoroughly enjoy all of your and Corridor’s work and am always thrilled to watch your content.
Thanks for the kind words! I’m very happy that it changed your outlook! It was a huge challenge figuring out how to navigate writing this video
@@SirWrenderYou certainly did well putting it all together, all of your videos on scale are incredibly fascinating. My wife (a high school special education teacher) showed one of her classes your video about Pluto and they loved it. Also, are you and Bowser gonna take home the gold again in the smash tournament this year or is Jordan going to give everyone trouble again?
0:06 it's horrific that only money stops Wren from nuking LA
have you considered donating?
Have you considered buying merch?
This was a very good video. We need to spread awareness about the absolute insanity of the world we're living in. So many people have not a clue about the horrifying destructive power of nuclear weapons.
Eh anyone over 45 probably has a damn good idea
You say insanity.... you mean humanity?
You prolly know this but nukes create a strong incentive for superpowers to resolve conflicts between other superpowers through diplomatic means, as engaging in a direct military conflict could lead to catastrophic consequences for all parties involved. MAD is diplomacy in it's core. Nukes serve as a powerful deterrent against potential aggressors. The fear of facing annihilation deters nations from taking actions that could lead to a direct confrontation, making wars less likely.
@@matdan2 I bet that ~25 years would suffice.
You don't have to worry about anything like this cause the world has become soft with feelings and pronouns
Brilliantly made video. Fascinating and frightening in equal measures
They don't want us to think about casualties, but it was pretty much in our faces during the cold war. I cried when the Berlin Wall fell because I had hope (albeit for an instance) that maybe, just maybe, humanity had come to its senses.