I've studied nuclear war for 35 years -- you should be worried. | Brian Toon | TEDxMileHigh
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- For the first time in decades, it's hard to ignore the threat of nuclear war. But as long as you're far from the blast, you're safe, right? Wrong. In this sobering talk, atmospheric scientist Brian Toon explains how even a small nuclear war could destroy all life on earth -- and what we can do to prevent it. A professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Brian Toon investigates the causes of the ozone hole, how volcanic eruptions alter the climate, how ancient Mars had flowing rivers, and the environmental impacts of nuclear war. He contributed to the U.N.’s Nobel Peace Prize for climate change and holds numerous scientific awards, including two NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He is an avid woodworker. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
"We're just one misunderstanding, one mistake, or one fanatic politician away from a nuclear conflict" hits a bit too close to home under current circumstances
Putin goes BRRRRR. But when we can deal with North Korea, we can deal with a dwarf who has a dream of a new USSR
I will say that even though the image of Russia has been embittered by the recent events, don't fear nuclear annihilation.
Remember that in history two Russian men, Vasily Arkhipov in 1962 and Stanislav Petrov in 1983 prevented WW3 from happening. I believe it's because their loyalty was with the human race and not their country.
You Finns could invade St. Petersburg with your hockey sticks.
@@DeepEye1994 the greatest heros nearly no one knows :(
Not happening :/ pffft unless other big 4 countries attack putin
Finally, something calm and relaxing I can watch.
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Thank god governments never get anything wrong…..
LMAO 🤣
Hillarious, bro!
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I’ve studied nuclear war for 5 minutes, and I already knew we should be worried.
Right? What a moronic title. Everything has to be click-baity. SO embarrassing.
Then again, this 5 minute study was propably atleast partially based on the information, that this guy and many others alike decades ago found out, after years of intense research... as the speaker said, he was one of those scientists back then, that got the current leaders to understand what they have in their hands... The reason of this being headlined like this right now, is maybe not only gettting views, but because seems like it is now more important in long time, again to raise awareness of this. Mentioned "35 years" means only, the guy really knows what he is talking about, even though the results and conclusions he and others made back then, are not so new info anymore...
I've studied it for 10-minutes I'm telling you It's twice as bad as you think!
Previously I had only seen videos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki so I thought nuclear war was great.
Three movies of the 80s (The Day After, Threads, and Countdown to Looking Glass) pretty much told me that nuclear war would not end well.
@@bigd3087 Yes and the movie Click told me I can control time with a remote control hahahaha
I’m 60 I’ve had 3/4 of my life, but just got my first born grandson- he deserves his time on earth 😢
So did the natives and blacks who died
@@LBJisBOULESPORTSANDPOLIT-tl3so
And the Palestinian, Iraqi, Libiyan vietnamese and Afghani kids.
@@LBJisBOULESPORTSANDPOLIT-tl3so Ok. So what is your point? This random stranger's grandkid should die because others did? This is something you and I both know you would never say to her in person. Punish yourself.
@@LBJisBOULESPORTSANDPOLIT-tl3so womp womp victim mentality
@@fudgesamrehwomp womp cry about it
My grandfather always compared the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war to two men in a pool of gasoline with lit matches held above their heads, daring the other to drop the match.
That’s a Carl Sagan quote your Grandpa must have been a fan. Or is your grandpa Carl Sagan?
Wait, don't gasoline vaporize? Then those lit matches would have blown everything up without being thrown anyways.
@@googooboyy then they dare each other to light the matches
@@googooboyy this may be how it is right now.
@@googooboyy I remember reading article in newspaper years ago… two boys about 14 … they got into some kind of warehouse and tipped over barrel/ container of gasoline and one of them struck a match…. probably assuming like in the movies that you have to drop said match on the ground…as you say Mar Larson the fumes catch fire in the air apparently. I think at least one of them lived … but truly horrific life changing injuries/burns.
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein
Oh right, that old quote again.
I’ve studied nuclear war for 35 years......sorry mate looks like you’ve wasted your time
That old quote is on point.
@@jamesgoodwin2450 no it wasnt, I bet he repents a looot ....
I just always wonder about WW V.
This suddenly pops in my timeline as Russia-ukraine conflict tension rises.
I know right?
@@servantofthemosthigh7443 biological weapon wud do efficiently.. Was covid virus just a test subject?
@@servantofthemosthigh7443 A nuclear winter would effectively destroy the Earth and the majority of the species on the Earth. Global warming wouldn't matter at that point since everything with life would already be dead.
Damn, same exact thing
Yikes, same here
I've been living with this for sixty seven years ... and have nothing to say.
Seems like you do
I do believe it will happen soon. We will enjoy the other side more so not to worry.
Me: reads news that Russia invaded Ukraine
TH-cam algorithm: You’d enjoy this Ted Talk too!
Damn
Us in 2 months:
I slept for 12 hours, where's the sun?
Same
exactly!
Frr
I'm still keeping an old school desk around just in case.
John Di Francisco underrated comment
you won't believe it..............I said the same thing on another site.
Duck and cover
Funny, but believe it or not, the old Duck and Cover would have saved countless lives if we were ever attacked and would still be useful to teach children today.
ForbiddTV um. Considering the nuclear power everybody has,
A desk is not going to protect an attack from even the smallest nuke.
Thank God I live in Australia, where we don't actually exist.
May I come "down under" with you?
Might want to read "On the Beach." Considering how much radioactive dust would be carried on the global winds, you wouldn't be safe.
Just sayin' -- we're all in this together, like it or not.
@@DionysusVoice considering australia doesnt exist there is no way i can read that book
DionysusVoice
everyone will be affected, how horrifying
ProgrammedForDamage can I come over?
thank you so much for this informative video! I’m gonna sleep so peacefully tonight.
Me too.😅😅
It is a good thing we had people like Stanislav Petrov. A man who may have saved the world in 1983.
It was his job to report if there was an attack on USSR. The system reported an attack and he didnt report to supervisors, due to thinking it would be an error of the system and it turnend out, it was.
The right man at the right place at the right time. Respect for this man.
And now you have Biden in US office who can mistake red button with something else.
@@Xover112 same with Putin who think it’s powerful to doom himself (humanity )
@@theeelite8618 If Putin really wanted nuclear war he would just drop it on US for supplying weapons instead of warning them many times, but because US is provoking Russia every day, dont be surprized if Russia actually use nuclear bomb [maybe in smaller scale]
@@Xover112 for a cheese sandwich
He got fired for that.
I am 68. Former Navy. I'm not afraid to die. What makes me cry though is the thought of my children and my grand children may not get to live a full and worthwhile life.
I hear you Sailor but the world in it's entirety is basically blown to oblivion and you don't want them around worried about the "human beings" that remain. As a Navy man like myself, you know the arsenal we have on those SSBNs. It'll be OVER.
Yes I am worried about ne next generations too :(
They will be in good company, Jesus
Not very good world now.
I'm 73 former Navy. I'm still a little dicey on this dying stuff though,but I also have the same dread regarding the quality of life for my children and grandchildren nuclear war or not. "Carry on lad"
Alien 1: The humans have created nuclear weapons.
Alien 2: So they are intelligent?
Alien 1: I wouldnt go that far,, they have pointed them at themselves!
Arms industries want profits from making these.
Pål Henrik Velde 😂 haha yeh 😳
🤣🤣🤣Sad but true
@@markszlazak Yes sir ! EVERYTHING is about money and most of the pain and suffering in the world that the people endure is due to a paper product.
I have read this somewhere before.
Can we get this to be showed to these politicians 🙄 ..... this is very scary to think 😢
I’m praying like crazy that nothing like this happens especially with what’s been happening recently
Hearing how Putin is terminally ill and perhaps on steroids...Im slightly worried, hopefully his oligarchs have a plan to stop him! Suicidal senile man with nothing to lose...
Same
@@thegalhorowitz thats nonsense there is no proof he is.
Look now
@@thegalhorowitz TWO Senile men.
“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.” ~C.G. Jung
Jung wasn't even a good bodybuilder I'd take what that dude said with a pinch of herbicide
@@jjr1728 What does bodybuilding have to do with Jung? XD
@@wearejungians because he was an aspiring bodybuilder?
My mother always used to say, if there's a nuclear war I hope the first missile lands on my head.
I agree with your mother I rather be instantly vaporized than face the harrowing aftermath
wise lady
Me my balls they always itch
Same here with my Dad
Nuclear warheads generally detonate above the surface of the earth for maximum kill radius. In theory if you can be underground directly under the missile and can avoid being sucked up into the vacuum, you could in theory survive...But I doubt it.
Today.... This is scarier than EVER
I've studied education for the last 5 years, the idiots we are turning out worries me.
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” - John D. Rockefeller
@@wolfofautumnnight Can you work without thinking?
@@agracefulfox6252 yes, I've done it. The pack line at Amazon takes zero thought. One night I was already up over 24 hours before I stared my 10 hour shift. I was working hazmat singles which are small items, most of which THAT night fit in either A1 or A3 boxes. A manager gave me Amazon swag because I let him watch me package an order with my eyes shut. I only had to look to scan the item and put the SP00 on the side of the box. Most of the time spend that night was in a state of micro sleep with my eyes closed. Package 2000 packages a day for 3 years and your body can go on auto pilot while you get lost in your own head as well.
Anyway, that is not the point of the quote, to rephrase it into something that would more easily get his meaning across, you could say "I do not want a nation of intellectuals, I want a nation of laborers ".
@@wolfofautumnnight Okay I'm sorry
@@agracefulfox6252 seriously though, click the TH-cam link. It is a documentary called "inequality for all". IMO this should be required viewing your last year in high school. I would like to know what you think about the information it contains, information you can easily varify.
My dad was an NCO in the USAF. We lived in a trailer park outside Moody AFB GA. The Cuban Crisis of 1962 is the closest we ever came to nuclear war. He was on stand by and sleeping at the hanger for 3 days. It was a Russian submarine commander who during the fog of war with no communication decided to 'stand down' and await to see if the USA had really launched before launching on Miami.... that's how close....
Very smart decision. That commander was a hero that day by simply doing nothing.
I sometimes just think about the shear death... the monumental amount of innocent people killed in an instant, children, woman and men all the same... I almost break down into tears thinking about it.
Is that the K - 19 submarine ?
@@nodus7853 that's what the usa did in hiroshima and nagasaki
@@Francisco-FX last I checked Hiroshima was mostly Military personnel. (Please stop responding to this comment I was wrong)
It wouldn’t be so scary if weren’t for the fact that psychopaths are so good at reaching positions of power.
Russia secured its uranium stockpile from US sources. Does anyone care to ask Hilary how that happened? No, we take solace knowing that if we are annihilated it will be from our own nuclear materials.
It's not that psychopaths are good at reaching positions of power.
It's that positions of power are good at creating psychopaths.
@Daniel Morris nah, it's known that physopaths or sociopaths are good at obtaining high positions in power because of their manipulating ways. I've seen it my whole life and never understood, from presidents to bosses at jobs to principles at schools to celebrities to business owners, and I'm only 19. Seems like the world just kneels to people like that and let them do whatever they want until it's too late, then complain when they are way too far in power. Ever once in a while, you get some good ones, but the worst always seem to come right behind them.
@@SomeTH-camTraveler I don't think theres any evidence to claim that the positions of power are what create psychopaths. By that logic, everyone who gains power would become a psychopath and there have been plenty of people throughout history who had tremendous power and did amazing work with that power.
This bugs me to no end. But I do not blame psychopats really, I blame people. Superficial charm and offering of quick solutions coupled with hyperinflation of events and pseudoevents plus poor eduction on most subjects of the voters and there you have it, perfect storm.
I'm 23 years old. I hate the year 2024 because I lost my mom. She was very innocent, an angel. Now, I have nothing to look forward to in my life but regret that I didn’t take care of her well all these years. There is no love in this world as true as a mother's love. But if you're unlucky, you realize this too late.
I'm watching this on the eve of 2/23/2022. This has never been more real.
real
25
the day before the start of WW3!!
October 1962 was far more 'real,' due to the fact thta both the USSR and the US were openly talking about pressing the nuclear button. Coincidentally, that whole situation had its roots in US interference in another country's politics, along with the usual duplicity.
Might as well call it a day now
"Theres only one Thing worse than dying in a nuclear attack.. Surviving."-children of the dust 1986 Louise Lawrence
My biggest fear.
i wonder what japanese people think about that
profound wisdom here--
Yep...
This fear was unlocked for me today
Yep me too, I'm here because the rising tension between Russia-Ukraine.
Just hoping that war can be averted.
The pandemic already hit us all hard.
Stay safe my wife’s from Kiev and her parents in Crimea 🇺🇦
@@barriepentney2027 God speed to you! Stay strong, and stay safe💪 🇺🇦
-from a supporter in America ✌🏻🇺🇸
@@Pretermit_Sound thanks mate we are in 🏴
Oh will someone please just push the button and let the birds fly!?
@@bohemoth1 совершенно сумасшедший комментарий, мы все поджарены, если это произойдет🇺🇦
Imagine if we would concentrate all this knowledge into research for better future instead of destruction.
That’s sadly difficult and unrealistic just because of psychopaths and free will. But yah - it would be awesome if it were the case.
Just look at china. They are building infrastructure in many countries. Collaboration is key.
@@S_Shant Where's the free will.
We are flawed
@@alrent2992 Infrastructure made of tofu 😅
if theres ever a nuclear war, I just hope to die without feeling the pain. thats it.
Neisan Land that’s if it unfortunately gets me, but if there is one I’m instantly packing my things me and my gf are off to Africa or South America or News Zealand or Australia, I just hope a nuclear war never happens whatsoever, nuclear warfare is something that has a high price to pay, too high.
@@Toix if you were given a warning yes we would be packing and going, but if warning is not given we are all done for.
Unfortunately, it might be unlikely, unless you live near a high priority targeted city.
If you're not close enough to get vaporized by the blast, you'll be burned, blind, and then dying. That's if you're in the range of the shockwave, and initial flash.
If you're not, then you're likely to die a slow death of radiation poisoning, which is pretty horrible from what I've heard.
@@Arch3an yikes dude, thanks for the info of pain.
Be like Hitler's Generals and have a fast acting suicide capsule ready.
hopefully this isnt going to be something like bill gates talking about how there will be a pandemic soon 5 years before covid...
Excellent reply. Could have been "Thank god, Bill gates didn't predict this few years back" :)
Know the country bird? It was originally a Phoenix, but was changed after knowing they die and rise from the ashes as the Phoenix we know. That is how america is going down.
He didnt predict it, he created one.
Its just joke... right?
A pandemic will always be close by, that’s just the sad reality of nature, we should always acknowledge our primal fears for it can help us in the future.
@@brandonmotaramos5810 - genetic memory and evolution...
So, whoever drops one first, kills the enemy fast and themselves slowly.
yeah, that's the best way to put it. I love humans...
No, because pride dictates that "if they do that to us, we have to do it back".....hence the famous 4 minute warning from the cold war. You're statement would only be true if one side misses - which is unlikely. MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction.
Cristinia Sonia : lets get ready to rumble.
No if ruissia nukes Britain America will, nuke rusiia then every country get nuke launching then out earth its fu ksz
@@TheKoodus **your** statement.
“You should be worried” - Being worried helps nothing. We can’t do anything.
Only God........foretells the futher, a futher of destruction and doom. Nation against Nation........kingdom against kingdom.........may God have mercy over our souls.
China and Russia built nukepruf while internationalists signed contract(s) to shed most Americans from the planet. Praise bobear
@@CassidyPresley Amen, and Amen. If they think this would be bad for the Earth, wait until they see what Jesus is going to do to it... :)
@@marktinker9587 Jesus is already dead. He can’t do anything.
Yeah. If you're an ordinary citizen, paying taxes and abiding the law, you have no power to influence these decisions.
Millions of citizens, able to organize and willing to break some existing laws could perhaps do something in one country or another.
From pandemic to nuclear winter ..... Just when we thought it couldn't get worse
Or are you just now thinking it can't get worse. My guess is astroid attack or alien overlords arrive. Ha.
@@Am0ment0fB the alien overlords will either save us from ourselves or put us out of our misery.
@@drengr2759 there are no alien overlords it's operation bluebeam
@@Dancing_in_the_rain007 yeah, what the f£&k is going on… can’t understand what’s wrong with these people.
@@Dancing_in_the_rain007 Tingling with anticipation. It gets worse before it gets better they say.
Einstein said "Man invented the atomic bomb,but a mouse would never have come up with a mouse trap".
Because they are Not "smart" enough...
😂😂
Peter Green this is such a good point
@@frankfranksen7467 yeah we created nukes, because we are smart to doom us
Maybe because mice aren't humans..? This analogy is confusing.
All those years of playing fallout are about to pay off.
Lmao. I've played skyrim for a long times so I'm a davage with a bow ik how to make it
I don’t think the game gives a realistic view of what happens right after a nuclear attack.
Lorena .R That was a joke
Baby yoda lol
I've been saving up bottle caps for years!!
Nothing to FEAR
OR WORRY about
If it happens
We Will NOT FEEL A THING
Did you pay attention??
Depends...
I'm 44, I was a kid in the 80s. I spent an inordinate amount of time worrying about World War 3 and MAD as a child. I have three kids now, the eldest being 12, the youngest being 8. All three of them, for the first time ever, have asked me separately over the last five days if World War 3 is coming and will nuclear bombs be used. Thanks Putin. Just what I needed after Brexit and Covid.
It has really been a fuqed past couple of years...
Welcome to the next phase of the psychological operation of the WEF and pals :)
@@amateurs7814 what is WEF?
I have an 8-year-old son, and I graduated in 1995 and grew up by White Sands Missle Range. I was worried as a teen about WWWIII, then I thought we all understood the whole mutual destruction problem and kind of forgot about a nuclear war. Now not only have I had to explain 9/11, school shootings, drugs and homelessness, kidnapping and/or abuse, covid, riots, the attack on the capital, covid part II, remote learning, wearing masks 😷, wondering if he has a cold or covid leading to a large qtip being stuck up his nose, getting inoculated, learning how to interact with kids face to face again, why do billionaires want to go to space and is Russia going to use nuclear weapons, what will that do and getting to explain nuclear winter. Oops, I forgot the whole are aliens real in my tirade.
@@andyenders5073 world economic forum
“I’ve studied nuclear weapons for 35 years, you could say that it’s taken up my half-life”
Hahahaha
😂
Wha wha wha whaaaaassaa!
funny haha
I see what you did there.....
What do you do? Nothing the average person can do, other than to minimize your daily stress over something you have no control over.
Not worth stressing over. You can literally die from anything at any moment.
Thank you sir...I hope your caution reverberates loudly, as yet now in 2022 'we' edge closer to such a costly 'fate'. I think I'm jaded because what touches a chord in me is that the innocent wild local metro sparrows and 4 squirrels I visit with for their 'snack-time' would suffer, as did the dinosaurs, due to no fault of their doing.
Why don't you make them a bunker then?
@@TheTnndsbrkdas I'm waiting for the squirrels to at least hibernate for this current season- their 'treats' are getting expensive. 😆 I'll suggest 'bunkering' to them
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
War Games is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for the quote.
MGTOW 😎😎😎
Or, your best 10 soldiers against his best 10 soldiers, in a paintball battle.
Of course there can be acceptable losses with a nuclear war, in other words we don't care for the consequences. It's just a war game right ? No winners no losers right?☢☢🙏🙏 Feb 2020
1.d4
One thing I learned last year; if I survive a nuclear war, I need to quickly stock up on toilet paper.
Nice bird.
@Darrin Nunyah haha 😂
Smirt
🤣😂🤣😂
Just get a bidet now! 🤣
this got recommended after the U.S and Irán incident
Beethoven 2.0 by TH-cam 😂
Same. This is fun.
Sadly it didnt make Cheeto Supreme's feed. He wouldnt be caught dead watching anything educational.
oh no
I hope NK and Iran won't sell their nuke technology for money. I'm so worried cause it seems like they really need money...
Everyone sweeps it under the rug because if it DOES happen, there is no hope anyways. Better to pretend it's not a problem and get on with our lives. But, people should be reminded of the potential danger every generation so we don't forget the power they hold and maintain responsibility throughout the future.
The only thing that worries me about nuclear war is the possibility of living through it.
I live in a city with Boeing. Pretty sure that’s Ground Zero
@@lavenderhearts101 we’re the lucky. I live manhattan. No more to be said 💀
I live 20 miles from D.C. I'll get to the hereafter WAY before anyone else.
Depending on where you live, you will more likely live through it...for a while. And then die horribly.
I'll say... don't look up what dying of radiation poisoning looks like... I'd kill myself before living through that horror.... if nuclear war happens, I'd hope to be in the blast radius to go quickly...
Look man I worry about literally everything I DONT NEED THIS IN MY RECOMMENDED
Okcurrr same lol 😂
LOL
Then we are 3 already 😂
Literally
Yeah..hear you
It's crazy how such destructive power belongs to just few people, and they can use it, just like that...
how many people you want such destructive power belongs to?
@@ishi4441 ideally, none
@@じゅげむ-s6b then your favorite country shouldn't have started ww2 with other countries
It’s scary really 😳
True
The amount of like-minded people watching this video in 2022 tells us all we really need to know. Stay safe folks.
God Bless you. I am praying you and your family. Please 🙏.
Gospode Pomiloi Amin
Imagine living with this same fear 40 years ago.....
Imagine being aware of this problem for over 40 years.
@@SexycuteStudios William...imagine living with a malignant narcissist for 40 years!!
I had no idea what a narcissist even was!
I am free BUT in shock, then Covid and now this.
I can see without a doubt Putin is a malignant narcissist and Pyschopath...I am scared to death of what he is capable of doing.
I can't watch anymore news...just experts on different topics.
No more crying soldiers wanting their mothers AND no more Ukrainians screaming for help as they die.
I do not want die and I am not afraid of death YET it seems to me that it is the only way for me personally to be at peace.
This world is horrific!
🌷🙏😔😢
@@kimkeck6266 I could have typed your comment and it would have personally applied 100%.. I started speaking to God and now nothing can shake me. Faith. Have faith ❤️
This is the closest we’ve been to a nuclear war since the 1980s. I had forgotten how nerve wracking a Cold War that could turn hot on a moment’s notice could be.
I feel safe because I live in the US, and no one would ever even want to nuke us, because we are the good guys. Plus, I’m sure everyone knows that if they did do that, they would only be hurting themselves, so it wouldn’t even make sense. I mean, just think about it. If all of us Americans were killed, then who would police the rest of the world?
I’m pretty sure none of the other countries actually think they could do as good of a job of being world police, and no one would ever want a huge responsibility like that, anyway, obviously. We don’t even like doing it, ourselves, but we still do it, though, of course, just because we know it’s much better that way for the rest of the world.
That’s just one of many examples of how kind and selfless we are as a nation, and it’s one of the main reasons why the whole world loves us. That’s why I feel so fortunate to be an American, and why I know I’ll never have to worry about things like having enemies, thank God. It’s too bad the rest of the world sometimes does things that other countries don’t like. They should all start being more like the US. It really sucks how every other country sucks so bad 🤷🏿♂️
At least as far as they've told you.. but then again, it took decades for them to finally admit the several times we came within a few seconds of full-blown thermonuclear warfare due to technical glitches.....
You slept right through it every time... What you don't know won't get you anxious... What you don't know won't make you spend your life in fear... And if you are the victim of a nuclear war, there's nothing you can do to stop it so just relax
@@chriswebster24 you might just be THE stupidest human being I've ever seen in my life... I would like to sell you an invisible diamond, one that is from outer space, which is why it's so expensive
Cuban missile crisis.
The US is currently at DEFCON II
@@StinkFinger2023 pretty sure he’s trolling
It's a good thing we have such stable leaders around the globe...
You are Jesting of course.
We do?
@@milkybar06 it's called sarcasm. Just like anyone with a brain calling dump a "stable genius".
Alina C well, he didn’t get collusion wrong for two years like you probably did so your qualifications for mocking others is falling flat
Yeah and the United States has a giant buffoon with the nuclear codes. How comforting.
We are very close to this, and it feels right now that it’s likely to happen😢
@Alexei Smirnoff I hope you are right, I have not done any studies on it, but rest assured that the Americans didn’t do this in WW2 in Japan, they made it and went and dropped it.
I bet that audience would even Crack a smirk if this was presented today.
I know, I’m sitting here wondering how arrogant they have to be to laugh at this. But then again, a lot has changed since this video was made
'wouldn't' not 'would'.
Fry the vaccinated
I bet there wouldn't even be an audience :)
"If theres a military base in your city, theres a bomb pointed at you"
Damn, I thought I was actually safe in the Carolinas
It's not the targeted locations which should worry...those areas will be converted to radioactive ash almost instantly. It's everywhere else--where the fallout and the polluted ash will fall, where the suffering will be.
Sigh.
@@bamahama707 exactly. My parents have a mountain house in western nc. It's definitely my SHTF house. However, a nuke hitting anywhere in the Carolinas would absolutely affect that.
As safe as in the earth's core or the vacuum of space. Stupidity is the prime weapon of WW3 and then comes the missiles.
Lol our own military has accidentally dropped a nuke on us before here in nc. We got lucky tho it didnt detonate. Some kind of malfunction in the plane when they were flying over.
NG Resonance wow we got one of the best airports around and Hanford not to far so I’m prob screwed
Well done humanity you never fail to disappoint we might all literally die, given the current cirvumstances
@Green Birb hopefully in the future
@Green Birb only peace we’ll get is after the nukes have dropped.
Peaceful World will only arrive without USA.
@@nelsonc3984 Have you heard of a place called Russia?
@@nelsonc3984 You can tell who the good guys and the bad guys are with which way refugees run. They ain't running towards Russia.
Well this video was 5 years ago. Turns out we are just fine, no threat of nuclear war at all.
Putin has threatened nuclear war several times.
one word... "Russia"
@TerdBerkly Well technically yes they are building weapons of mass destruction but we shouldn't be worried in 2024 about them - give it 5 years then we have both of them to worry about lmaoo
Iran have just threatened a nuclear war… you people asleep
So basically the world is at a stand still...
"Get rid of your nukes"
"You first"
"No u"
In fact the nuclear bomb gave us the longest time of peace.
@@fritzfux6135 kind of funny, sounds like a oxymoron
@@teamatfort444 nah, he's just a regular moron
@@user-zb8tq5pr4x He's not a moron, since the largest 44 economies of the world haven't battled each other since World War 2 and a major reason for that peace is due to nuclear weapons since Mutually Assured Destruction comes into play if anyone tries to start a war
@@asfmankey3672 you can't even be sure that MAD is a "major reason for that peace". The world after ww2 was fundamentally changed. The european union did more for peace than anything else. NATO, WTO, globalisation of the world and the internet, those are real reasons for peace. People don't want war anymore because they understand other people from other (first world) countries.
Imagine what would happen if we weren't in constant competition with each other and we used this nuclear research to better understand and optimize energy through nuclear fusion/fission. Nuclear research is one of the most fascinating things in the world. And I honestly believe it is our path to reaching the next level of understanding our universe. It's sad that competition and money has driven this research so far off course. Crazy thought, what if everyone just worked together to advance our species, rather than focusing so hard on competing with each other. It's kinda pathetic really to think about how much more advanced we could be without the needless competition.
It’s sad our species hasn’t evolved passed this animalistic behavior when we could all just be friends n live the one life we get.
Amen, everything starts off with good in mind then the arseholes use it for their own power needs
@@gabstacab7966 power is so dangerous it makes humans toxic and forget the meaning of life. The meaning isn’t dying bc of their power hungry bs narcissistic complex.
I've come to the realization that the nuclear deterrent posed by Putin currently (2022) is highly effective. He has scared everyone sh.. less and now we are helpless to help Ukraine. If we only fought by conventional means, NATO could have more easily defended Ukraine. It's a bizarre argument but let's ban nuclear weapons so at least we can fight fairly.
@@news2hedz227 I agree!!!
I've studied nuclear war for 3 days. you should be worried.
Well said but even three minutes is sufficient. When you look at the Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the amount of Nuclear weapons in the world that could be used at any second. Makes you not want to have kids.
@Martin Jansen power plants are significantly and exponentially worse than bombs thats why they take ridiculous impossible measures in conducting them. A bomb only has fuel for its explosion. Nuclear power plant core has enough fuel to burn for thousands of years
@@aldoard For me nuclear submarine are the worst. Nuclear propulsion, the nuclear arsenal in it, can only be use once (tacticly) and they can move all over the world!!! An accident waiting to happen anywhere in the world!
@@flyingpete73 anything involving the word nuclear is basically trouble lol. Whats crazy about all of this, the future of energy and the only barrier that stands between us and type 2 civilization is effective solar energy harnessing. Like yo, spend all of this crazy nuclear money in studying that instead...
@@aldoard It would not surprise me if they already know how to make free energy!
"What can you do to help? Talk to your politician..."
I didn't know this was a stand up comedy show!
I vote libertarian.
Yeah; that gave me a laff too. Might as well talk to my cat..........
That will probably get you shot if you live in North Korea.
Haha 🤣
Well you can talk to them, its just a matter of whether they'll listen or not.
After Putin's threat today, Im appalled how the world still allows countries to terrorize each other thru this means...This isn't just our world, we share it with tons of species! This just shows how sensitive life is...And how dangerous it is to give one man this much power!
Ms. Horowitz, With all due respect, you are "appalled because the world is made up of countries of people that terrorize each other..." I'm not sure to which countries you are referring? Do you not distinguish between countries which are free and governed by free people verses those who are govened by oligarchs, communist systems, warlords and dictators? You say, "This isn't just our world, we share it with tons of other speciies" I underatnd your heartfelt plee for species besides human. As humans, I believe , its our duty to care for all creatures on our earth. I buried my dog this week. It hurts. But if humans can get alone with each other first, the rest of the planet's species have no chance. I agree, "life is sensitive". Well said, I'd say fragile. However I disagree with you last comment, "...and how dangerous it is to give one man this much power" Which man? Whom has given power to him? By vote? By gun? There are 9 countries with nuclear weapons and leaders fequently change under various government systems. You make public statements that seem some group has given power to one man? All I can suggest is to get educated on how the current world works and various systems that operate. Your thoughts are genuine and heartfelt, but they don't align with present day mankind. Free people (particualarity those of whom have not been free) understand that to acheive peace, it must be through strength.
@@adamcrosley5304 really thought you had to write an essay to try and prove him wrong
Your statement should have a balance criticism, but you forgot West's atrocities around the world! Now a days, Poor Putin has become a villain to the world and forgot genocides and atrocities done by the West n Nato.
@@travelmood4543 ?
The worst part his power has no accountability, those who dare to speak against him , end up dead or spending their live in prison, Its a shame the world is not run by people will your attitude x
I’ve studied people for 50 years , and I already know we should be worried.
Do you know Peter griffin ?
It took you 50 years to get there? I knew that already when I saw the Chernobyl thing go up on TV at the age of 2...
Shut up Meg!!!!
If you not attack Russia you are safe.
😂😂😂😂😂
If it kicks off, I'm going to my hometown of Glasgow, as Trident is only 40 miles north, may aswell party, then dust.
Hopefully eating all those microwave dinners makes me immune to radiation
I also hope all those dinners made you immune to food and clean water, because there won't be any.
Don Miller You must be a lot of fun at a party
@@richter805 Ionizing vs. non-ionizing.
@@nickspinner1850 Nick Spinner yeah, but technicly they both are radiation, not like @mturner2003 said
By the year 2000 we have seen over 2200 nuclear explosions on Earth. So the 500 tests he talks about is 1700 short of the true number. Let me make this clear, "Two Thousand and Two Hundred Nuclear Tests".
The Russian war with Ukraine has to end. like all wars with great powers, the point where a country has nuclear power and is at the point of losing. losing its nation, or just losing in any small way, can easily be the same point a nuclear missle will be fired. Which always ends in retaliatory nuclear strikes and then ends in what this guys saying. Pray for peace!🙏🏻
Wars are always orchestrated, paid and bought by the elite who support both sides, with the innocent killed.
Where was the desperation and last resort excuse for the US bombing Japan?
It was just expedient supposedly to save lives of US soldiers but saving money was probably the real reason.
The cat is out of the bag because disarming doesn't mean the "bad guys" don't still have them.
Gun control just means the law abiding citizens don't have guns but the criminals do.
Two nuclear powers have never been in direct conflict with each other (India and Pakistan and even India and China have had border skirmishes ) and I'd rather not find out what might happen.
Perhaps there really is a deterrence value to nuclear weapons.
The nuclear winter argument is flawed because the US proved it could be done bombing Japan.
@Stephen B go put the tinfoil hat back on
I think instead of praying for peace we should actually do what this guy says and call our politicians
@@convidtruthshallout A nuclear war would not be of benefit to anyone.
If people are smart they will avoid nuclear war at all costs. cause their precious lifestyles will also be destroyed along with the rest of us.
people aren't smart
@@QuiteLiterallyTom Unfortunately you are correct.
Thats exactly why they wouldn't want it. For their own sakes. We are wonderful slaves to keep around. The real issue mostly is in accidental use.
@Michael Standing Quite so. Ironically, civilian nuclear is the only way to mitigate it. But the fossil fuel industries like to keep us thinking that civilian and military nuclear are inseparable, and far too many of the believers of the menace of carbon dioxide are helping the unbelievers and the coal barons by opposing nuclear, especially by wildly exaggerating its dangers.
@Michael Standing It might not take that long. It is reported that about a thousand years ago, Baghdad was a cradle of science and toleration of New Ideas, in spite of Islam being its majority religion. Neil deGrasse Tyson says that Imam Hamid al-Ghazali was a major force in destroying that, by his attack on mathematics in the name of religion.
I have seen some objections to blaming it upon Ghazali, but the fact that Islam was not then an obstacle to science, and swiftly after that became one, remains.
Man this aged well
like fine wine
I studied nukes for 1 hour a while ago, still terrified
Just spawn and deploy a God, and with the power of his turd which is the equivalent to 12321123324232423243223432657809 hiroshima bombs, then doomsday will come(jk xd)
@@moatasemkassab4517 that hurt to read
The human race has been around for mere seconds. We're here for a good time not a long time.
Tater Puddin George strait check it
Tater I’m tattooing this quote on my chest tmrw!!
@Tater Puddin nobody who really had that cavalier attitude would save up enough money to buy a gravestone.
ur a real G, cracking open another beer.
Ummm...can we do both? Good time and long time?
I remember when I was in High School during the 80s and someone doing a presentation on Nuclear War told us that in the event of an incoming Nuclear missile, we're supposed to go to the Yale football stadium and wait out the attack there.
I had to ask myself "How the heck is a football stadium supposed to protect me from the blast and the fallout? Yale football stadium has no roof. New Haven is as likely to be hit as New York City or Washington, DC!"
And then it dawned on me.
After a nuclear war, they're going to at least try to rebuild. One of the things they're going to have to do is get rid of all the bodies.
And wouldn't that be easier if all, or most, of the bodies were in one place?
Like, say, a football stadium?
Good observation🦊
How about that "duck and cover" film where the kid jumps off his bicycle and lies down in the gutter?
i never realized that, but you are correct. i always thought they told us that stuff just to try to give people some sense of protection and to keep us calm in the event of an attack. but i have to believe you are right.
Actually, depending on the strength of the building, it may have been the best building to survive a massive shockwave. Yes, nuclear fallout would be deadly, but most of the buildings on campus probably could not survive the initial shockwave.
JUST GO WAIT AT YALE !! THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT !! ITS THE GOVERNMENT !
It should be people like this man running nations not the clowns that are in power all over the world
Especially countries like China,Pakistan and Russia
And scientists should be in power
@@ayushmankumar1483especially india
This one hits a little different now under the circumstances than it did in 2018.
yeah and after Ukraine, NO one will be willing to give up their Nukes
@@johnhughes2124 they shouldn't. Nuclear weapons are saving many millions of people every century.
@@jamisojo 🤣
Yesh, but I remember during the Cold War they were always and forever thinking it was going to jump off. After 9/11...after Hiroshima/Nagasaki...
no it doesnt
This suddenly became closer to reality than expected
It’s fairly disconcerting isn’t it!?
I just keep praying for heavy chilly rain, continent-wide, that start the moment after he launches.
Wylldflower "after he launches"🤣🤣 as if NATO wasn't the first to mention / contemplate using nuclear bombs.🤣 France, UK and Stoltenberg himself thretened Russia to use them. What is Russia supposed to do, say thank you for the threats? Or defend its safety by switching to high alert?
You heard him guys don't nuke people.
Yeah but it seems Russia are upscaling there nuclear programme kinda sad that these nations don't understand its also self destruction.
Mrkindalegal TheBagopaniest play fallout 76
Mrkindalegal TheBagopaniest do it!!!!!!!
Nuke The Whales!!
No, he's saying "do it, prove me right".
Toon and Roebuck changed US and Russian nuclear policy in the 1980s and helped end the nuclear arms race. They are legends.
"I dont know what will be used in WW3, but what do know is WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein
I dont think ww4 is possible or neccesary after ww3
World war 3 will destroy the technological world and 90% of the population... world war 4 will be what’s left of the humans fighting each other... so doomed.
@@emmablake8640 do you think the 10 % population is still interested in a war? 1. It is those blood oil and power thirsty leaders that wants war . Not the population.
2.Worldwars are existing after modern technology. Before 1915 there was no worldwars. Its impossible
Maybe einstein was good with math but he was no prophet nor an angel.
sport now no I think that they will kill to survive in the aftermath of the 3rd. Should their be any governing bodies you can guarantee they won’t be trying to unite people and lands in a common goal, they will be racing to kill any others that remain so they can gain lands/fuels and whatever else they want. Sad I have very little faith in humanity I know.
@@sportnow990 u r wrong..they will still kill..and go for war becoz many will rise as leaders ..but with less people more like clan wars
The fact that we have nukes as deterrents against each other, tells you everything you need to know about the human species.
Carl G are species is generationally psychotic
I'm sure ants would do the same if they were smart enough.
I bet that if I polled 7.5 billion people on this planet, 99% of the global population would be against nuclear weapons. Our species is being held hostage by the "legacy" of J.Robert Oppenheimer.
I think Taylor swift being as successful as she is is far more damning
Yes...that we are biological entities and prone to emotions and psychosis. It's when people start thinking of themselves and other humans as "special" or "more deserving than regular animals" or "destined for greatness" that you have problems (I'm looking at you, Monotheism!). Once you accept that you, everyone around you, the Earth, the solar system and even the entire Milky Way Galaxy are COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO THE UNIVERSE...your attitude towards life and what little time each of us has, will improve greatly.
In short, if 90% of humanity died, it really wouldn't matter one lick in the grand scheme of things. Life would go on. The earth would still rotate, the sun still shine, and flat earthers would still be the most entertaining people left on the planet. :)
....and that is why forgiveness, knowledge of truth, understanding, and empathy are our only hope.
As long as men exist war will keep happening. I forget where i see that quote.
That's why Elon Musk speed his rockets development. Because we can still have hope human can live interplanetary.
If earth does not survive, then Mars or Moon will become the new earth.
@@hervyakay4053 It's still easier to survive on earth during a nuclear winter than it would be on Mars.
@@johannn94 we have to start somewhere
@@hervyakay4053 They most likely won't and even if they are, it would only be a matter of time before we destroyed them too. Running away from the problem doesn't solve the problem.
This is why holding dark psyche's, predatorial people accountable, and not giving them power, and removing them from power is our only hope. Seeing behind their masks and not giving them power over us. Study predators now. It's not going to be a healthy minded person that sets off that bomb.
“We gotta wake them up before they sleep walk into a nuclear disaster” that aged well😂😂😂
Like milk
Putin hasn’t used nukes at all so Idk why y’all think this didn’t age well.. I think Putin knows already that if he used a bomb then WW3 is on the horizon and he understands the consequences that would bring.
I think WW3 is the only way my credit card debt will be erased.
No, they will announce a "reset" to sell their one world government. Nuclear war is not possible because nuclear warheads do not exist, they are just missiles.
HAHA dont count on it
maybe...but those student loans will still follow you!
in that case ask your local representative to do the next nuclear testing on wall street
They keep those records in a server on the moon
This is a very sobering presentation and should be seen by everyone in the world, especially all national leaders. These weapons should never have been built and some type of method should be found to get rid of them permanently. The problem is how do you verify that all nations have indeed gotten rid of them. This is a real serious issue.
While I do agree with you, the argument is that nuclear weapons deter nations such as the US and Russia from entering a war due to mutually assured destruction.
Pandora's Anarchist's Cookbook - now that they exist you can not and will not get rid of them, someone out there will always want to make it or something like it. Everybody wants to rule the world.
@@archiprintuk1149 ...and if even die in the pursuit of being able to 'rule' ... ultimately all for nought, zilch, zippo !
@@archiprintuk1149 ...and die in the efforts to rule ....all for zilch
@@archiprintuk1149 It's sad because there's so many planets and moons out there. Just build a rocket. Elon went full focus and did it in 20 years. Yeah its incredibly hard but it beats trading nukes for land. Imagine what an entire focused nation could do.
He may be right in saying , the younger generation didnt grow up with that that cold-war nuclear threat, and the concequences that it has. The awarenes of total destruction, might be absent to future leaders, and so make them more likely to contemplate a nuclear solution within a military conflict. This makes it apparent that history in general but also history lessons about the nuclear cold-war threat should be given to the young.
I've said this many times our society has gotten too civilized too advanced.....I grew up in the 80s and 90s there was still some remnants of the old mentality....our children have been spoiled and fed poison in the education system while most parents from my generation have been stuck working ourselves silly.....I am absolutely terrified especially with the incompetent inept leadership we have today
@@mattmelchiorre4790 why being too civilized and advanced is a problem?
@Hitogokochi Hard times create strong men , strong men create good times and finally good times create weak men?
exceptions are always...
We use to get under our desk Indian style, hands behind our heads, head down. Incase of Nuclear war. I always wonder who thought that up. I think it was Biden. That's another reason not to vote for that old goat.
It’s even crazier now cause their trying to control what can and can’t be taught in history classes. Which is crazy, because proper knowledge of past events it’s how we don’t do it again. Wild times for sure.
When I was a B-52 pilot in the early 1970’s, my target was Moscow with two nukes. We were committed to the mission, though we knew the odds of success was zero.
Are you ready to die? Have you made peace with your God? I have.
How can you even believe in God after carrying around a couple of nukes that you were about to drop on people?
Pompeii citizen one: Looks like Mt Vesuvius is blowing smoke again!
Pompeii citizen two: Don’t worry, it’s done that all my life! Nothing ever happens!
titanic passenger 1 : is there something wrong with the ship ?
titanic crew, no, it's impossible, just go and enjoy the buffet
Who's watching this as Putin's threatening the world with nuclear destruction? Scary times . Too real 😔
If we r nuked... Please god let me be in the blast zone... I don't want to die from the lingering radiation fallout
Dr. K But only about 1% of the populous of say DC would perish immediately from a Japan sized air-burst nuke. It's easy to protect yourself if you understand about how various types of radiation travel and how to protect yourself from it. Brian Toon has shown how he is a fear monger.
ForbiddTV but the nukes today are nothing like the h bombs dropped on Japan, they are 100 times more deadly
Dr. K But what all the fear mongers fail to point out is that bombs "100 times more powerful" does not equate to 100X more destructive force. The power curve is not a straight line graph. Due to the earth's atmosphere, weather and other conditions, what they found is even as the bombs got "bigger", the destructive force actually tapered off rather quickly.
me2
The thermal radius is what scares me. Someone drops a bomb 11 km from my house and I'll die slowly of third degree burns. It's insane how powerful modern nukes are.
"Worrying is paying a debt you don't owe" What's worrying about it going to do? If it happens it happens.
There is an indescribable pain in seeing someone give so much effort to something so noble, and yet so in vain. The Greeks had no idea when they wrote of Pandora's Box that such a thing could ever exist. There is no going back, so superior diligence is needed to keep them as confined as possible.
🤡 world. It's actually easy when you don't want to work
@@billhundreds8762 What are you talking about? Nukes and lazy don't go together!
Or maybe they did know one day there will be one 🙄
Well, the multi-megaton nukes have already been rendered obsolete and removed from service, because they were a lot like trying to kill a cockroach by dropping a boulder on it-hit it with something so big you can't possibly miss. The problem with that strategy is that it's a lot easier to make the target survivable than it is to keep increasing the size of the weapon to attack it. Militarily, it was more effective to improve the guidance systems instead of building a nuke so big you can destroy the target even if you're off by several miles.
Anyone else here because they're worried about the situation in Europe?😔
Yep
Yes 😞
I am here worried about the world and my life…
"Europe first"
Nope. I'm here because I'm pissed that Europe is interrupting the situation in Canada
"War....war never changes."
Sadly, I don't think Fallout was correct in that some people would survive. It sounds like in an actual Nuclear War, especially of the size in Fallout, humanity, and life on the planet would end.
@@nathangehman7018 you dont know the history of fall out. Look it up its a good story.
I will be honest. I don't know too much of the story. But some did survive. The ghouls I believe. I could be wrong-- Again, I don't know much.
But I will try to look it up. Any suggestions on what of it to read/watch? I prefer videos, but a well written article/essay can also be good!
@@nathangehman7018 vault Tec is the reason why there's people in the wastelands
I thought most or all of the vaults were just for human experimentation?
The Hegelian Dialectic:
Find your goal>
Create a problem in opposition to the goal and advertise it>
Offer the common people the solution to the created problem>
Control the solution to the problem.
With the current events in Ukraine, the risk of this is the highest its been in decades. My city is considered a top 5 target and the Russians use 25 Megatons for strategic strikes. Just used Nukemap simulating a 25mt airburst over my city. I'm well within the guaranteed third degree burn with fire radius.
Back then, the precision of Russian missiles were not as good as US missiles, the Russian solution were to build larger nukes (i.e., a hit off target is still a hit).
@@campingalbertacanada248 Hiroshima Nagasaki never happened i guess
@@campingalbertacanada248 Is the earth flat though?
@@pocnit Shill.
@@campingalbertacanada248 Ah let it be Nuclear or not but if the destruction is at the same level which the " Nuclear Weapons " claim to do happens , it won't do good . I'd have gone through the studies now for the topic if Nuclear Weapons do exist or not but i have My Semesters day after tomorrow , and got no time . Thank you .
I studied nuclear war in the last 10ish minutes. You should be worried.
Honestly, as a Millennial I'm terrified. I hope I get to raise my kids and see them flourish. 🙏
The world may be teetering on the brink of nuclear war because of madmen like Putin n KJU.
It's surprising that the left is generally against them, especially since the former was a KGB agent, his father was a cook for Stalin n Lenin, is an anti-American n a plutocrat, n wants to restore the Soviet Union, n the latter is an out-n-out communist n is also an anti-American n a plutocrat.
Same, to damn I'm only 35
🙏
@@poptasticanimation55 I just turned 36, but I’ve had enough bad experiences and suffering throughout my life that I feel like “I’m already 36, I need a way out” lol
But that’s cool you still feel young, some people can feel young until like 50-70 even. Even my grandma is like almost 90 and she’s moving around better than me overall. Age is really just a number sometimes.
I mean, you guys are terrified of going on a date so I imagine it must be a horrific time for you.
Thank you kindly; I’ll make sure and worry.
Please no war, we have a great opportunity for our children to really do amazing things.
What a sad world we live in.
They should nuke the world to save it again
Right and people still don’t believe there is a God. This is all written.
Sad Europeans killed millions of Africans
@@razorraysolarsavings70 they will when they see death , but who is god Jesus or the one who created Jesus
More relevant today than anyone born after the early 80s has experienced.
Hate to say it, but I think it's coming. There is something wrong with Putin and Xi...these are not normal people.
Looking at social media comments it shows.
@@tracytobias9367
Im scared
We are and we have been worried for decades now!
Funny how politics can wipe this world clean off life, just because a few people cant get along. Crazy
Bernard None dropped since 1945. Pretty good run I would think.
@justin foad I'll bet you $5,000 we will go another 70 years. 😁
That speech seems so actual today...
Guess the russian-ukranian war peaked both of our interests in this video today. Lol It's definitely a time to be alive...
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Oh yeah for sure! I wanted to study nuclear war for 35 years too, except there haven't been any.
YT algorithm at it's finest. The AI knows humanity well... :D
We've come a LOT closer than this though. World War III could have started no fewer than 4-5 times during the Korean War. There were classified incidents of UN aircraft accidentally strafing Soviet airfields on the North Korean border, and engagements with aircraft that flew too near the war zone. It is frightening times we're living in, though.