The Strange Way China Got its Nukes...

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ความคิดเห็น • 963

  • @havocgr1976
    @havocgr1976 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

    Your why question was oversimplified, after WW2 China wanted to take back Taiwan and it was stopped because the USA threatened to nuke em.That made it pretty clear that they d need nukes of their own.

    • @voidvector
      @voidvector 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Not just Taiwan, top Pentagon officials seriously considered it as an option during the Korean War, but it was opposed by civilian leadership. So much so it was one of the reasons that lead to firing of General MacArthur. (Ref: Wikipedia "Relief of Douglas MacArthur")

    • @hargydon
      @hargydon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@voidvector US also threatened to use nukes in Viet Nam too, but France (the formaer colonial power of that region) rejected the proposal.

    • @masterchinese28
      @masterchinese28 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@voidvector Yep. McArthur famously asked for 50 of them, after which his retirement ceremony was hastily arranged.

    • @havocgr1976
      @havocgr1976 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Oh yes, MacArthur really wanted it.@@voidvector

    • @JinghisKhan
      @JinghisKhan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@havocgr1976 A lot of military folks back then just saw the atomic bomb as another weapon in the arsenal, albeit a big one that did a magnitude more damage in one go. The concept of MAD and the reluctance to use nukes in general didn't come till the mid to late 70s when both the US and the USSR had ICBM arsenals that would render a nuclear war moot in terms of winners and losers.

  • @buckhorncortez
    @buckhorncortez 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    “Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.” - Frederick the Great. This has been a fact for thousands of years. Hyskos' invasion of Eqypt in 1630 BCE is only one example.

    • @ConnorNolan
      @ConnorNolan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      So basically acapella

    • @jfbeam
      @jfbeam 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have you ever gone mad _without_ power? It's boring. Nobody listens to you!

    • @billant2
      @billant2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Another good one is "Trust but verify!". ;)

    • @krashd
      @krashd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@billant2 I wish more people did that nowadays, on the right especially the new motto seems to be "Trust everything and spread it across social media".

    • @billant2
      @billant2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@krashd- Unfortunately it's both left and right nowadays.

  • @oorzuis1419
    @oorzuis1419 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    Simon's last words are memorable 'No one stupid enough,
    as we watch over how the world's politics change.

    • @SkepticalTeacher
      @SkepticalTeacher 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Oh yeah. Some people take that as a challenge! 😂

    • @billant2
      @billant2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm not so much afraid of "someone pushing the button" on purpose, as much as someone making a mistake. :(

  • @dergon4796
    @dergon4796 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    I’m incredibly happy that the audio normalization between videos has been fixed but the radio/tv segments really don’t work, especially for those of us that throw videos on in the background/primarily listen.

    • @matt3570
      @matt3570 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm pretty sure he's heard this complaint by now and is probably going to adjust, it's just that a lot of his content is also made months in advance. He likes to keep up a backlog of content, and this is one of the cons to that.

    • @dergon4796
      @dergon4796 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@matt3570 I understand all of the videos are long lead times, but two things, first, this comment was 2 weeks ago, and second their editing style has not changed for their recent situation room episodes which do not have long lead ups.

    • @matt3570
      @matt3570 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@dergon4796 1. You do realize months are longer than weeks right? I said most of these outside of situation room are filmed and edited a couple MONTHS in advance.
      2. Considering the last situation room was literally filmed in his hotel while on vacation and has never even used the stacked TV distorted audio effect in question, I think it's kinda hard to claim it has just the same style.

    • @jgs_gamestudio9096
      @jgs_gamestudio9096 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He needs to take breathes between sentences

    • @Panama_Red
      @Panama_Red 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, the sound quality changes and excessive cuts to get rid of natural pauses gets to be annoying.

  • @HyBr1dRaNg3r
    @HyBr1dRaNg3r 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

    If the nuclear age was a gigantic appendage measuring contest, the use of “dong” in china’s devices is hilarious to me😂

    • @BaneofBots
      @BaneofBots 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      This comment is gold

    • @YouTube_user3333
      @YouTube_user3333 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      China’s first nuke was called “Long dong” 😂
      (Probably)

    • @Therea1Stig
      @Therea1Stig 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Release the dongs!

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      some north korean ones, too. probably the funniest is the relatively tiny 1500km range nodong.

    • @tomsewell2462
      @tomsewell2462 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      "The Girls" I know in the Phippines have a joke about Xi-nese. They laugh saying; "Three minutes, three inches, Three thousand Pesos!

  • @hikaruduthie6850
    @hikaruduthie6850 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +950

    Enjoying the video but can we stop the TV edit, it so bad

    • @sabadores
      @sabadores 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      Bro it lasted like 45 seconds 😂

    • @alanhelton
      @alanhelton 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Yeah 5:05… please just don’t. It’s worse than David talking.

    • @xyrt99
      @xyrt99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      It’s still annoying and bad

    • @PhreekPestilence
      @PhreekPestilence 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Agreed

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      simon not talking the way he does nowadays as opposed to his more normal speech in old videos would also be neat. I need to speed him up to at least 1.75x now to bear it. it's ridiculous, what does he think he is doing?

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    1:00 - Chapter 1 - Early years & soviet influence
    3:15 - Chapter 2 - Project 596
    4:50 - Chapter 3 - Evolution & expansion
    7:55 - Chapter 4 - Policy & doctrine
    9:20 - Chapter 5 - Technological advancements
    12:25 - Chapter 6 - Agreements & diplomacy

    • @bigchungus1513
      @bigchungus1513 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      whats the name of the song that played at the start of the video? ive heard it in all these history videos but they never list it anywhere.

    • @KristiyanKuilikov
      @KristiyanKuilikov 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, could somebody please tell.@@bigchungus1513

    • @DJP-ph7yj
      @DJP-ph7yj 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Chinese took over, version 2 of doctrine in effect....... your perspective is irrelevant

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@bigchungus1513 darude-sandstorm

    • @starraidz791
      @starraidz791 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why do they not use the sorting that TH-cam offers? Can’t they set their own descriptions for the time stamps? Linus and a bunch of other yts small and big do it. I guess they just don’t?

  • @therearenoshortcuts9868
    @therearenoshortcuts9868 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    @3:30
    that horse-mask is Fire LOL

  • @jeffputman3504
    @jeffputman3504 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    2 weeks after China's first nuke test in 1964, there was a snowfall in the USA. People were saying, "Don't eat the snow! It has fallout in it!" The actual level of radioactivity was too low to be measured.

    • @carbonized5114
      @carbonized5114 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ahah same thing in China when Japan released their filtered irradiated water. Men in black said it well, a person is smart but people, well people are panicky fools prone to believe whatever they are told.
      People used to believe Potatoes were poisonous, the reason was most likely idiots eating the stalk/leaves of the potato plant which is poisonous. So it took awhile for potatos to catch on in Europe.
      Crazy thing is I don't think China is a threat at all. There is a saying in China "If you can cheat, then cheat."
      It's ingrained in their culture, and shows in EVERY project they do, including military.
      Having a nuclear bomb doesn't matter much if you have no capability to make it land on another country.

    • @billant2
      @billant2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was a "puny" 20 kiloton fission device.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's because Americans, primarily right wing Americans, are terrified of everything. Every time there's a nuclear accident somewhere they think the sky is going to fall in on them and they start throwing the word boycott around.

  • @Joseph-z7s3b
    @Joseph-z7s3b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    Someday they'll do an episode of Megaprojects about Simon's arsenal of TH-cam channels. So very dangerous... accidentally mix any...Megablaze.

    • @ThePhysicalReaction
      @ThePhysicalReaction 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That would be megaproject would be master class in youtube

    • @masterchinese28
      @masterchinese28 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      lol

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cocaine

  • @Nathan-vt1jz
    @Nathan-vt1jz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I have a different perspective on major world powers all having nukes. I think it prevents broader wars between the major powers. Instead we get proxy wars, not a good thing but definitely better than large wars between superpowers. So far it has been worth it, but that’s the kicker - if war does ever break out between nuclear powers it will be really really bad.

    • @jedaaa
      @jedaaa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Border skirmishes aren't usually worth fighting over, the thing that really prevents major conflict is integrated economic interests and trade.

    • @Nathan-vt1jz
      @Nathan-vt1jz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@jedaaaI think they are both factors.

    • @jedaaa
      @jedaaa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Nathan-vt1jz Well China almost never steps beyond its borders historically, same with Russia, Britain and France have a much worse track record for that, the only Border dispute india has is with Kashmir and Pakistan can be so unstable and fractured internally they're more likely to nuke themselves than anyone else . The US has 700+ military bases all over the world already and has so many nations in economic strangle holds they have little incentive to upset the status quo .

    • @Nathan-vt1jz
      @Nathan-vt1jz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@jedaaaI disagree with everything you said in that statement. I agree that economics is part of deterrence and am happy to agree to disagree agreeably about the value of nuclear deterrence.

    • @jedaaa
      @jedaaa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Nathan-vt1jz Well modern history agrees with me, the only 2 counties to make nuclear threats recently are North Korea to Japan and the U.S to North Korea and neither threat was border related and were also obviously just posturing .

  • @DaveNarn
    @DaveNarn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Someone once said.. "On the issue of peace, I am long past innocence and fast approaching apathy. It's all a game -- a paper fantasy of names and borders."

    • @bobdobbs6969
      @bobdobbs6969 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's certainly a fantasy when we have 8 billion people and counting. The laws of chaos and large numbers apply. We are battling against natural limits which, we will succumb to, in one way or another.

    • @Joseph-z7s3b
      @Joseph-z7s3b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Now that is weapons grade truth. That's why in 2024 I'm voting for the Gigantic Meteor/Massive Solar Flare ticket. Any vote is just a letter to Santa. There's really only 1 party, The Corporate Party. Now, please excuse me, I have to go back to my St. Vitus dance...

  • @wolfiemuse
    @wolfiemuse 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Guys remember these videos are produced months in advance. They may not have had time to stop doing the TV effect yet

  • @rjb10101
    @rjb10101 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    their missiles aren't pointy enough

    • @JohnMassey-q5l
      @JohnMassey-q5l 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol😅

    • @yurisv7315
      @yurisv7315 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Round isn't scary, pointy is scary."

  • @andreypetrov4868
    @andreypetrov4868 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The way you present your video is amazing. I am not even talking about how accurate and unbiased information provided in this video is.

  • @richardm2661
    @richardm2661 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    War….war never changes.

  • @jamesb.8146
    @jamesb.8146 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When investigating the human race as a potential threat to the universe at large the scout replied "Preemptive action is not necessary as the human race will most definitely destroy itself long before even coming close to developing interstellar capabilities." OUCH!

    • @Scion141
      @Scion141 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why do people always assume that aliens will always be better than us? These hypothetical aliens didn't develop interstellar tech without realising the weapons that they could also build, and I'm sure that they did. If they did, why can't we?
      Stop idealising hypothetical aliens

  • @TriphexCorporation
    @TriphexCorporation 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You know, I've always loved nuclear weapons documentaries, but I've never really looked into the history of the Chinese nuclear program. This was super interesting!

  • @ran0427
    @ran0427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Little intense on the old timey TV effect around 5:00 guys, otherwise thanks for the video!

  • @jakedee4117
    @jakedee4117 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    It's not a very strange way, is it?
    I thought you were going to do something about the Chinese scientists who worked in the USA including on the Manhattan project who wanted to return home after the revolution but were blocked from leaving. On version of that story I heard involved China trading American agents captured in Tibet for their release.

    • @lagrangewei
      @lagrangewei 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      the english history whitewash these fact.... but the world remembers....

    • @peteford7258
      @peteford7258 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You mean, Qian Xuesen, who was detained as a possible spy and returned in exchange for US pilots from the Korean War being held by China in 1955. Looks like he was a Communist spy the whole time.

    • @feamsr00
      @feamsr00 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yo @jakedee4117 you can't be sneaky about this. If you're not a troll drop the scientists names here or a project label and then @ the channel. Else you're stirring the pot for s&g.
      @lagrangewei the world remembers what it wants to remember. Figure out why that is. Then do something about it.

    • @pagelu-mt7rh
      @pagelu-mt7rh 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      China exchanged Qian for 11 American agents who had been arrested in connection with the plane accident. Qian later invented the Qian Xuesen Ballistic, making China the owner of the most difficult hypersonic missile to intercept.

    • @大魔王土豆-t1s
      @大魔王土豆-t1s 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The version circulating in China is that China exchanged American soldiers captured during the Korean War for Chinese scientists to return home.

  • @jackson857
    @jackson857 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    16:39 That's not very reassuring because as Albert Einstein said, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

  • @Raz.C
    @Raz.C 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Important Note:
    A nuclear reaction is NOT an "explosion." A nuclear reaction generates a LOT of light and heat. On earth, that heat gets absorbed by the atmosphere, superheating the air. Since cooler air is more dense and warmer air is less dense, superheated air is "explosively" less dense than air at standard temperatures and pressures. This outwards rush of superheated air and excess heat causes a shockwave in the atmosphere, which propagates outwards from the source of all that heat.
    Alternatively, in a vacuum, like space, a nuclear reaction has no air to heat up. It still generates all that light and heat, but with no atmosphere to absorb the heat, it doesn't travel very far. In fact, you could be just a few meters from a nuclear detonation in space and never notice it. Of course, you'd die soon enough from all the radiation, but there would be no explosion from a nuke in space. Conversely, since conventional explosives operate by combusting solid matter into gases, which then expand rapidly, conventional explosives are MORE effective in space, than they are on earth, while nukes are largely useless. It's because of this distinction, that I feel that it's misleading to call a nuclear reaction/ nuclear detonation an "explosion," since it's not a combustion reaction that produces expanding clouds of gases, but instead will heat any gases that are already present.
    Ps: It's possible that there are some Smart-Pantz-Clever-Heads among you, who are asking - "But Raz... Doesn't the bomb casing of a nuke-in-space vaporise, thereby becoming a gas?" And they'd be correct. A space-nuke will indeed vaporise all the solid components of the bomb/ missiles/ whatever and that vapour will absorb so much more energy, that it will ionise into a cloud of plasma. However, there will be so little of that plasma cloud and it will be so diffuse, that it cannot be made to do any useful work. So unfortunately, movies and tv shows that feature exchanges of nukes in space as well as the ill-conceived Project Orion, are nothing more than a comical misunderstanding of real-life science.

  • @edenkom
    @edenkom 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

    The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance. It's obvious we are headed for inflation,it is always the poor who take the hit.

    • @Brenda_woe
      @Brenda_woe 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The wisest thought that is in everyone's minds today is to invest in different income flows that do not depend on the government, especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in gold, silver and digital currencies (BTC, ETH.... stock,silver and gold)

    • @CalderonStemper
      @CalderonStemper 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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      @Kiyanabray 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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    • @Merrigani
      @Merrigani 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm Canadian, how can I get in touch with Mrs Tara Elizabeth Stewart?

    • @serlevcm
      @serlevcm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​Yeah, Bitcoin. Ha.

  • @rhondasisco-cleveland2665
    @rhondasisco-cleveland2665 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all treated each other with respect and kindness? We wouldn’t need, or want, horrible weapons to hurt each other with.

  • @richardcontinijr9661
    @richardcontinijr9661 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Putting Kazakhstan and Ukraine in the same category as South Africa is dumb.
    Kazakhstan and Ukraine did not make their own nuclear weapons. They didn't maintain them. They didn't even control access to them.
    Those weapons were made by Russia and Russian troops controlled them. Kazakhstan and Ukraine didn't have the ability to maintain or deploy them. A nuclear weapon is not only useless but a tremendous liability if you don't have a capacity to maintain or use them.
    South Africa on the other hand made their own bombs. They had complete control of their bombs. South African troops were the ones who would deploy them. By giving up its nuclear weapons South Africa did what no other country has ever done.

    • @ProckerDark
      @ProckerDark 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The whites is south Africa didn't want the blacks to have nukes

    • @seansimms8503
      @seansimms8503 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol, South Africa is a majority black country...they were pressured into giving them up😅Europe and America said get rid of em before the majority gets control of the government😅😅they went about it on their own and gave em up just before Mandela got his hands on them😅

    • @richardcontinijr9661
      @richardcontinijr9661 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@seansimms8503 yet somehow you couldn't refute a single thing I said. All you did was show the entire world how dim you really are.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Informative episode about Chinese atomic Arsenals...

  • @andrewdubose9968
    @andrewdubose9968 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Asianometry covered this topic way better

  • @kylemaolinson9417
    @kylemaolinson9417 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    can you do china's space program?

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    "Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror." -- George Wald

    • @Sniperboy5551
      @Sniperboy5551 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      But it’s also still balance 😉

    • @johngriffiths118
      @johngriffiths118 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes ,but now what ?

  • @kkloikok
    @kkloikok 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    NFU isnt "no first use". It means "No, fuck U *launches nukes*"

    • @smalltime0
      @smalltime0 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Okay General Ripper

  • @kennethnielsen3864
    @kennethnielsen3864 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @sydryi3086
    @sydryi3086 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember whilst learning about the cultural revolution in China during college that the red guards nearly got their hands on active Nuclear weapons, fortunately they never made to the bombs.

  • @tishasolomon6173
    @tishasolomon6173 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    If the world was not trying to kill each other and just work together as a planet we would have been so far a head technically and solve world hunger and other issues 😊

    • @samanthajones4877
      @samanthajones4877 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The only way for that to happen is if there is one world leader controlling all pieces of land as one country.

    • @samanthajones4877
      @samanthajones4877 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Back in the day, china was always at war within itself until one emperor fought and won which United the country.

    • @MAGAMike827
      @MAGAMike827 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'll disagree, historically war has brought our biggest leaps forward when it comes to technological advances..

  • @shilohlee4332
    @shilohlee4332 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the Video

  • @bskittles7015
    @bskittles7015 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Way to throw in French Guiana to give South America some nuclear street cred

  • @michelvondenhoff9673
    @michelvondenhoff9673 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Once you know on how to make one you can't unlearn...

    • @jakedee4117
      @jakedee4117 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not actually true, check out the story of the nuclear weapon component codenamed "Fog Bank"

  • @yakacm
    @yakacm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    South Africa is highlighted on the map of countries posses atomic weapons, but Simon didn't list them as a nuclear power. They have always denied they had a nuclear program. Israel are the same, they have never confirmed having nukes, and have never tested a nuclear bomb.

    • @shihtzu291
      @shihtzu291 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      South Africa did test Nuclear weapons on an island with collaboration with Israel on an island in the Indian ocean but they were and the Ukraine the only countries to volunteer to abandon them. 🇬🇧

    • @geraldlekhowane8736
      @geraldlekhowane8736 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shihtzu291 There's no evidence whether they gave up all Nukes that's why Obama wanted South Africa give up their Program plant to the Atomic energy agency for further investigation..South Africa refused

  • @williamlee7672
    @williamlee7672 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No nukes equals being dominated by other nations with nukes.

  • @garyshan7239
    @garyshan7239 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    first off China doesnt even have an air craft carrier-they bought an outdated and decades old one that last was a floating casino. They used that to build a replica to learn how to make one-only know are they building an actual carrier-given their lack of technical manufacturing capability it remains to be seen how good a ship they can build and their pilots and planes are subpar so even if its more advanced than a US one its will still function well below a US one-They also don't have the escort ships to protect it so its again SUBPAR

  • @DrunkASMR
    @DrunkASMR 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    05:02 please stop these edits! Mess my hearing aids right up!

  • @jesseDelisle
    @jesseDelisle 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Only purpose I can think where the use of Nuclear weapon would be justified would be in defending the entire planet from say an asteroid like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.

  • @kitsunenoir87
    @kitsunenoir87 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    America " let's call this test upshot knothole" china " this is nuke test 15 we will call it .... Test 15".

  • @1970DAH
    @1970DAH 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1:46 What a weird way to style that caption.

  • @MonsieurPhilippe1
    @MonsieurPhilippe1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It was Mao's "Who cares about a few million Chinese?", that got Chruschtschew to split with him.

    • @chatter4427
      @chatter4427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Who? Lol

    • @theangryotaku3361
      @theangryotaku3361 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@chatter4427 Nikita Khrushchev

    • @jameswilson5165
      @jameswilson5165 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and yet the Russian people have Putin. "Who cares about a few million Russians?"

    • @nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988
      @nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      why? sounds perfectly communist to me

    • @MonsieurPhilippe1
      @MonsieurPhilippe1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Even old Nikita realized, Mao was beyond any and every human morale or sanity.
      Problem is:
      Xi Jinping is following the "Great Chairman".

  • @davidbennettracing538
    @davidbennettracing538 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This would be the same nukes that have water in their fuel tanks right?

  • @The_ZeroLine
    @The_ZeroLine 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    BTW, zero chance the Donfeng-5 had a CEP of 100-200 meters (circular area of probability).

  • @gaoxiaen1
    @gaoxiaen1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Once it is known that a technology works, it's easier to repeat.

  • @Wayne-cj7fn
    @Wayne-cj7fn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "DEVELOPING NATION" MY AR*E.

  • @theBlankScroll
    @theBlankScroll 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    6:20 you cannot call something shaped like this a "dong", China.

  • @willemstrydom6281
    @willemstrydom6281 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don't hate on the TV switch over at 05:05 . I could be completely wrong, but It's the words that are said. When distorted it's more difficult to pick up. For example, try using Shazam in traffic. I assume its the word with the second letter in the alphabet that is the issue.

  • @thirteenthandy
    @thirteenthandy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Woah. I never realized that Canada doesn't have any nukes. I always just assumed they did.

    • @vaughnmaycock4504
      @vaughnmaycock4504 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As a member of NATO , they can be there overnight. Canada just sees no scenario where an independent use of them is justified. Had the technology to do it, for 70 years.

    • @李小白-x4v
      @李小白-x4v 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @vaughnmaycock4504
      If the United States violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,Let Canada have nuclear weapons.
      Russia and China can do the same thing.

    • @ToshiroMcphony
      @ToshiroMcphony 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Canada has technology and know how, if she wants Nuke she can make them.

  • @noelogara1
    @noelogara1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Possession of a nuclear arsenal is like having a box of geiligníte stored in your home. It can only lead to your own destruction. One way or the other.

  • @JohnnysChingaderas
    @JohnnysChingaderas 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    People complain about the audio in ads, you can blame Google, the same thing happens on tv networks so don’t blame the channel they have no control over it

  • @ProfessorSprouts
    @ProfessorSprouts 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well. I like the TV edit.

  • @Ass_of_Amalek
    @Ass_of_Amalek 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    15:05 I guess whatever source your writer looked at didn't have belarus under "former nuclear weapons states" because it supposedly now hosts russian nukes, and the writer didn't bother to find a source that specifically refers to states disarming rather than currently disarmed states. but belarus was the fourth soviet republic left with a (comparatively very weak) arsenal of 81 single-warhead nuclear missiles after leaving the union, which it finished handing over to russia in 1996, thus becoming a fully nuclear-disarmed formerly nuclear-armed state.

  • @bobdobbs6969
    @bobdobbs6969 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah, unfortunately, anybody that studies probability understands that as long as these weapons are being produced, there is an INCREASING likelihood that they will be used. In fact, simply because they haven't been used in 78 years means there's a greater probability of their use today. Nuclear weapon proliferation will likely continue until they are used in conflict.
    Yes, we could potentially change this trajectory, but the fact that we haven't as of yet, does not bode well for the future.

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No.
      "The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the incorrect belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past, it is less likely to happen in the future (or vice versa), when it has otherwise been established that the probability of such events does not depend on what has happened in the past. Such events, having the quality of historical independence, are referred to as statistically independent. The fallacy is commonly associated with gambling, where it may be believed, for example, that the next dice roll is more than usually likely to be six because there have recently been fewer than the expected number of sixes."
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      South Africa, Belarus, Khazakstan, and Ukraine all once had nuclear weapons but gave them up. The latter three had inherited them from the Soviets, but South Africa had a long-running program. South African president F.W. de Klerk had wanted to get rid of them for years.
      "South African forces feared the threat of a "domino effect" in favour of communism, represented in southern Africa by Cuban forces in Angola, aiding Angolan Marxist-Leninist revolutionary groups against rivals supported by South African forces, and threatening Namibia. In 1988, South Africa signed the Tripartite Accord with Cuba and Angola, which led to the withdrawal of South African and Cuban troops from Angola and independence for Namibia. The pre-emptive elimination of nuclear weapons was expected to make a significant contribution toward regional stability and peace, and also to help restore South Africa's credibility in regional and international politics. F.W. de Klerk saw the presence of nuclear weapons in South Africa as a problem. F. W. de Klerk disclosed the information about his weapons to the United States in an effort to get the weapons removed.[41]"

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm not saying that the status quo is acceptable, but your reasoning is faulty. Moreover, IMHO there is reason to believe that North Korea will eventually collapse. When that happens, its weapons will likely be taken by China and/or destroyed.

    • @buckhorncortez
      @buckhorncortez 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "In fact, simply because they haven't been used in 78 years means there's a greater probability of their use today." That's not how statistics work. The longer something doesn't happen won't make it more likely to happen.

    • @bobdobbs6969
      @bobdobbs6969 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@buckhorncortez War can be modeled as a Poisson process, so the likelihood that a weapon will be used in war is modeled the same way. The time between events is a decaying exponential function.
      "The Poisson process is one of the most widely-used counting processes. It is usually used in scenarios where we are counting the occurrences of certain events that appear to happen at a certain rate, but completely at random (without a certain structure). In practice, the Poisson process or its extensions have been used to model
      − the outbreak of wars;
      "Let’s use statistics and parts of the Poisson distribution formula to see if our intuition is correct. I won’t go into the derivation (it comes from the probability mass function equation), but the time we can expect to wait between events is a decaying exponential. The probability of waiting a given amount of time between successive events decreases exponentially as time increases."
      builtin.com/data-science/poisson-process

  • @Therea1Stig
    @Therea1Stig 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    China naming their Ballistic missile "Dong Fang" is hysterical

    • @silafaupaulmeredith7251
      @silafaupaulmeredith7251 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The DF 27 is hypersonic and speed between Mark 10 to 15 no one is for sure but tested recently No match in the west maybe Russia but smaller payload. Dong Fang I think means East or Eastern Wind in Manderin not quite sure

    • @dawuid1491
      @dawuid1491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It's hysterical because you are only capable of perceiving other linguistic convention through English framework?

    • @williamlee7672
      @williamlee7672 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I assume can only speak one language. That’s hysterical.

    • @蓝蓝路-y2i
      @蓝蓝路-y2i 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      not "Dong Fang".China named the missile "Dongfeng" because of a poem by Mao.The Chinese word "dongfeng" literally means "wind blowing from the east". Quite romantic, isn't it?

    • @劉韋綸
      @劉韋綸 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Haha foreigners speak weird, am I right

  • @Omnitaku7
    @Omnitaku7 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now i want to know how India became nuclear powered country. Please make a video on this topic.

  • @zer0hero95
    @zer0hero95 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You forgot the most important figure, Qian Xuesen.

  • @dufushead
    @dufushead 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The only thing that stands between us and 6000 nuclear warheads is the level heads in the Soviet millitary.

  • @an0mndr
    @an0mndr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Not gonna lie, clicked the video immediately because of the oddly unique wrinkle shape on Simon's forehead in the thumbnail. I love those Simon faces

  • @isaacyoder4137
    @isaacyoder4137 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how the top 2 comments are just complaints about the TV audio bit lolol

  • @Hillbilly001
    @Hillbilly001 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    They got them from the Lizard Overlords. Cheers

  • @vornamenachname3373
    @vornamenachname3373 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @3:20 + 😍 just poetic!!!

  • @pixelnazgul
    @pixelnazgul 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes, you gave it to them.

  • @kushagrabhardwaj1
    @kushagrabhardwaj1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:30 Got to be the most funny thing 😂

  • @ChristianRehtorik-je1sd
    @ChristianRehtorik-je1sd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    China is collapsing from within 😂

  • @ekscalybur
    @ekscalybur 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No one will be stupid enough to push the button so long as someone else also has a button.
    Disarmament will never happen. It CAN'T happen.

  • @robinfrost5561
    @robinfrost5561 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh its simple and very strange indeed. They begged for them. They begged the
    Soviets for Nukes. This is the long story short

  • @theskintexpat-themightygreegor
    @theskintexpat-themightygreegor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some treaties are great. The problem is that The US, Russia and the PRC are completely unreliable with regard to promises. All three have broken their promises, even in the case of treaties, over and over again. Treaties are no longer very assuring, if they ever were.

  • @RandallSpangler
    @RandallSpangler 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Please STOP with the switching to a louder all-midrange voice mid-stream to pretend you're a 40-year-old TV. It's very grating to those of us with sensitive ears, and at that point I have to stop watching the video. I don't know why you started doing this.

  • @kengrimsley4172
    @kengrimsley4172 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I watch these videos as I drift off to sleep. Lose the screechy, unintelligible nonsense - or I'm listening to 'Faughty-two' from now on!

  • @blacksmoke9419
    @blacksmoke9419 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What if the one of the subs sinks and the Nukes go boom 🔥

  • @dennisstorie4604
    @dennisstorie4604 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I imagine that China will use a container ship to slip into American waters and launch cruise missle before we knew what happened.

    • @Joseph-z7s3b
      @Joseph-z7s3b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'm fairly certain that a certain hunter would know. Some say that he's the smartest person they've ever known....

    • @vivecald-vehk6978
      @vivecald-vehk6978 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Joseph-z7s3bhur durr dur hur hur hunter Biden laptop bad Trump 2024 good durr hur hur

    • @jameswilson5165
      @jameswilson5165 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And who would they sell all their crap products to?

    • @tomte47
      @tomte47 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why would they need to use a container ship ? That is the sort of thing terrorist groups or tiny backwards countries would use because they have no other option. An ICBM launched from China will take 30 min to reach mainland USA, They reach 15,000 miles per hour making them very hard to shoot down. The Nuclear game have since the 60s been about deterrence and mutually assured destruction. There is no real way to defend against an all out attack so both sides developed a second strike capability to deter the opponent from launching in the first place.

    • @Joseph-z7s3b
      @Joseph-z7s3b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jameswilson5165 The post apocalyptic mutant cockroaches,who/what else? Surely you don't want them to do without iPhones built by the finest child labor communism can enslave... I mean provide... I mean buy. Besides, our future mutant roach overlords aren't savages...

  • @bjornodin
    @bjornodin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great video as usual.
    But I feel one issue needs to be clarified; Elon Musk will walk on Mars before China can field a stealth bomber capable of reaching the US mainland and deploying nukes, while remaining unharmed by US defenses.

    • @statementleaver8095
      @statementleaver8095 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That defence is Uranium shelled!!!!
      Plutonium , Lithium & Uranium mixed together = BIG BOOM!!
      = Nuclear Weapons cannot be shot down

  • @DriveLaken
    @DriveLaken 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:02 fall out ☢️

  • @timothymatthews4564
    @timothymatthews4564 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a yes or no question.

  • @marcusstenberg6062
    @marcusstenberg6062 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ... "Wielding a shadow"?

  • @Mark-rm2fp
    @Mark-rm2fp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They always had them.

  • @JimSchoenwetter
    @JimSchoenwetter 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You missed a few!

  • @RobbyHouseIV
    @RobbyHouseIV 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Israel has nukes too.

  • @ClayGreen
    @ClayGreen 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aliens gotta come save us this time…
    Let’s go Martians- come smack the silly humans hands and teach us to live in abundance!

  • @lordcarnorjax8599
    @lordcarnorjax8599 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Most countries give their models of miltary gear interesting or fearsome names, nope not China. Here's our baddest submarine, the type 094.

    • @lordchickenhawk
      @lordchickenhawk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ...a case of "crouching tiger, hidden submarine"... keeping your most powerful abilities on the down low.

    • @JoshuaTootell
      @JoshuaTootell 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Americans typically name their boats and ships after the first in its class. Iowa class battleship and Gerald Ford class carrier for example.

  • @CherryChen-kz9hd
    @CherryChen-kz9hd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I didn't see anything to do between the video content and the title, as I didn't see anything 'STRANGE'.

  • @abdulganiyuali8475
    @abdulganiyuali8475 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You should do India and Pakistan also

  • @33-117
    @33-117 หลายเดือนก่อน

    THERE SHOULD BE AN AVOID SIMON WHISTLER OPTION MAN DOES THE SAME THING ON LIKE 4000000000000000000000000 CHANNELS

  • @federicoxcc4966
    @federicoxcc4966 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    NFU = No Duck You

  • @TheAdrianFlo
    @TheAdrianFlo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nuclear Pakistan is actually a much more interesting story

  • @katcaparula7898
    @katcaparula7898 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This beginning of this video was the same as ze end of ze world.

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How did they get cheap plastic to explode? They sent it to America! Bada boom

  • @axenik
    @axenik 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The map shows more than 9 countries 🤔

  • @patrickaussieMilartry
    @patrickaussieMilartry 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The CIA HAD DEVELOPED THE PHOTOS BEFORE THE CHINESE THEM SELVES.MAKE NO MISTAKE.

  • @Eric-kn4yn
    @Eric-kn4yn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And nth korea 😂 they didnt get their nukes under the xmas tree 🌲

  • @herknorth8691
    @herknorth8691 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know nothing about Chinese so please forgive what might be a silly question but: why do those Chinese missiles have markings in Latin characters on them? Is the Latin alphabet commonly used in China for things like that?

    • @wunianzhi6475
      @wunianzhi6475 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Latin letters are generally used in China to represent numbers. It is hardly used in other aspects.

    • @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj
      @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We have Hanyu pinyin. Google that

    • @herknorth8691
      @herknorth8691 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj Interesting, thanks!

  • @ncander64
    @ncander64 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    UGH!

  • @bbrenddon
    @bbrenddon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That map was so inaccurate

  • @Mrgunsngear
    @Mrgunsngear 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    🇺🇸

  • @TooLazyToFail
    @TooLazyToFail 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the channel, but these low-fi audio segments... they hurt, guys. They're not pleasant at all.

  • @mrglasecki
    @mrglasecki 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As Russia runs out of tanks it's horses or nuclear weapons 🤷‍♂️ like potatoe

  • @brendenporter3390
    @brendenporter3390 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is that a song or sound clip that starts at 58 seconds?