Grand Rapids for me did t even know we would be a target like... it’s depressing. Being in the military I can say if my hometown and friends and family we’re killed, idk if I’d even want revenge.
Tbh its better to be in a target city than in a city near it. If a nuclear bomb was dropped you'd die painlessly instead of living and suffering for the rest of your life
@@benjaminencarmine Even if it wasn't, being able to once again say "Yep" when the standard dullard and blowhard like you shows up to act superior is worth the comment alone. Amazing that you take the time to comment on a video you so obviously disliked instead of, oh I don't know, just moving on.
@@benjaminencarmine So which contents do you think are "good"? Non-shitty music with fast talking and real person acting? Go listen to a rap song instead. That's more suited for someone like you.
I know the subject matter is really sad and intense but your intro made me tear up. It was so serene and beautiful. Reminded me how incredible this species CAN be.
The thing I learned about Hiroshima, is that originally the Japanese officials refused to believe that 1 plane and 1 bomb managed to cause all the destruction. They refused this up until after the second bomb went off.
@@FREDDYHUNTER34isnotliquid69420 Japan was the last of the Axis powers to surrender and did so after the bombs. in my opinion, WW2 might as well start with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1937 or you could split the European and Pacific theater into two different conflicts as they kinda were.
For those who may not know, the United States bombed Japan. I'm just commenting this cause it never gets mentioned but as soon as he starts talking about nuclear prevention the US gets mentioned 3 times as a key member, while other countries as france and the UK play a role in that conversation that's equally as crucial. Always be critical when watching these kind of videos. Americans tend to be overly patriotic, take everything with a grain of salt and do your own research.
@@ld.117 What the fuck are you talking about? He literally spent a sizeable chunk of the video just looking at the death count of the American bombing of Japan.
@@AndrewJJ-0114 This guy is looking at the situation from a different perspective, albiet one of ridicules skepticism. I agree that persons of power should be monitored.
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary-- that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point! Fydor Dostoyevsky
@@Orandu "Fools have asked: Why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity? Other fools answer: Folly, pride or the worship of progress, as if these things alone had any meaning. The wise know that the answer itself is simple: Finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all of creation".
Extremely fascinating to me how not only can we see a spike in deaths during WWI & WWII, but the Vietnam and Korean war also have a spike, albeit smaller.
Denver and the rest of the front range would have been good targets. There are several air force bases (Buckley, the academy, Cheyenne mountain, peterson, and Schriever AFBs), one army base (fort carson), norad, us northern command (the hq for any military operations in north america), alternate command center, colorado national guard, and an army training center
Ever listened to a general counter? What is a normal background count? Ever been in a missle silo they are real. And the people that turn the. Keys are real.
I always fear the fact, especially with the era of new wars sprouting up everywhere now, that we may be in WWIII and not know it yet. Nobody knew WW2 was underway when Poland was Invaded, nobody knew when the USSR invaded Finland, etc... It was only after the battle of France and up to when the wars scale blew up in 1941-1942 people started saying it’s a “World War”, and even before Poland, regional wars like Japan’s invasion of Asia had already been going on for years. The current wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Africa, and possible outbreaks across Asia (India Pakistan China, etc) could just be the first steps of a wider conflict building up to total war in the future, and Historians in the future could say we already are in WW3.
When I was in high school in the 90's, I frequented my local library. One day while just browsing I found a voluminous non-fiction book about nuclear winter. If I recall correctly, I never checked it out at all. It might have been in the reference section (remember that?). Instead, I sat there all day reading it in the library, gripped with roughly equal parts terror and fascination. I went back day after day until I had read the whole book there in the library. It's one of those experiences that changes your perspective forever.
@@harrisonb9911 I believe it was Carl Sagan and a couple of other scientist that first proposed the nuclear winter theory. It has become a debated theory now.
How would syudents looking yet another propaganda piece "achieve" more? Do you even know what the word "achieve" means? Apparently not, you should look it up. What it doesn't mean, is blindly believing anything that shows on a screen, large or small.
@@ellawhite5167 Sure, if those maps were actually accurate. In reality these lists were only declassified because it made zero sense to target civilian centers with your nuclear arsenal. Almost no nuclear power has large population centers as targets for nuclear warheads these days.
@@alalalala57 that's plain wrong. The purpose of nuclear weapons is to attack strategic positions of military importance. Nuking population centers does not do anything.
@@Horible4 Still in the US military assets are sometimes very close to population centers. My city for example, was on the map and would of been nuked 3 times. 2 nukes at population centers, and 1 at the Nearby military base. But if 1 nuke were to land on that base, which would of happened in nuclear war i would be turned into dust. whether if they were meant to or not, nuclear weapons will still kill millions.
I don't know if "Bravo" is quite the word I should use here, so I'll just say this is one of the most powerful videos I've ever seen. Thank you for your astounding work Neil.
It should be 3 babies every 1.2 seconds but to round off the time scale they averaged the number. 3 babies every 1.2sec that’s alarmingly huge ! We are overpopulated
@Braininavatnow You think that child knew the consequences? Do you think that, in supporting his country, he and his family would be harmed in such a horrific way? Maybe that child could be replaced by you, as you supported your country.
@@recordkeepingandinformatio8206 I'm just thinking about every single piece of land being a target ,"the best way to save uygurs from the Chinese is by nuking them the Chinese can't kill them of they are already dead"-some American general probably
"Albert, when I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world." "I remember it well. What of it?" "I believe we did."
@@Nope-ik8wv I'm not too into politics but from what I've seen hes trying to stop Russias main ways of making money and trading etc. And this would work great, if they didnt trade with China however theres already plans for that. So o dont see it having a huge impact
@@Nope-ik8wv the fuck do you do research? Do you think it's a good idea for USA to help fight against Russia, a country not part of NATO??? If they did, the whole word is fucking nuke clearly you don't know the power and the ruthlessness of Putin's bumass
My wife's father was 20 when he was at Hiroshima. He worked in the defense industry and was reassigned to Nagasaki. One of the few to survive both bombings. He died recently at age 86.
I am so impressed with your work...recently discovered. As an advocate in a very small way to support the Culture of Peace, your work should be front page everywhere as a means to deter violence in any form! I will follow your postings and only wish I had been more informed years ago!
At first I cursed the algorithm for preying on my fears during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but I’m pleased to discover that this video is actually comforting me with well-researched optimism
You can find me in 5:30, yay! I'm in Nizhniy Novgorod. I'm not a red dot on a map. I'm not a target, neither are you. We are both humans. Remember this. Don't let the people with money and power turn us into such targets, and think why do people struggle here in the world. Also, nuclear winter seems to be wrong.
@@jonathanescamilla3659 nah, he massacred the Great Novgorod. Funny thing that Novgorod literally means "New city" and Nizhniy is just "Lower", so I'm kinda living in "New Folder (1)".
The idea that you should think deeply about the consequences before doing something is a fascinating and perhaps the most important thing. Rest in peace Vasily Arkhipov.
Each generation has to have that epiphany on its own. You can try to teach it, but every young generation thinks they know better than the wisdom of their forebearers. Only when they grow up do they realize that those who have lived it already were right.
I’m betting I’m not the only person now who is going to be recommended this video in the coming days. I’m officially watching this video now for the first time (at least I think so unless it was a while ago) on the 25th of February 2022. We all know why this video was released, and it really makes sense. A stern reminder of reality. Whether the worst case scenario will ever come to pass though, even with the barely concealed threat of it from Putin it’s still up for debate. One way or another, we may just have to call his bluff.
He will press the button from the safety of a bunker in eastern Siberia where there will be no targets. His people, and the people of the world, will pay the price.
In my recommendation as well, but we've yet to see an article 5, yeah article 4 just passed but that's pretty a fancy way of saying all of NATO can get together and discuss topics.
Humans are smart enough to survive a nuclear bomb, provided they don’t die immediately from the explosion and the radiation. The question is not “Could you survive?”, the question becomes “Would you want to?”
@@Vysair like those would be as important as securing food and water. They would become the relics of the past only sought after securing your survival.
@@Vysair Even if infrastructure did not break down, society could not function. Radioactive dust and the nuclear winter would make it impossible to do natural agriculture, going outside for too long could result in radiation poisoning, and all water, except maybe that which falls out of the sky, would be irradiated. Rising sea levels, cities being left in ruin, power pretty much just disappearing etc. is just the icing on the cake.
Be best part is that there are several "one men", one who was in a missile detection center, another was in a submarine, another may have been a border guard, a dictator, a president, a general who was having a good day and could think clearly, a guy who spotted a malfunction in the detection systems, a lot of people could be considered a sigle man or woman who saved all of humanity, all of those definitely are the saints of our society, wether we know it or not
@@furinick I've been thinking the same too. Whenever I lose hope in humanity, I just remind myself that there are saints out there still saving the world without me knowing
Yes Arkhipov definitely helped, but It took more than 1 guy to avoid war....JFK, RFK, Stevenson, Scali, and even Khruschev, Mikoyan, Fomin also were factors. It was how the people above Arkhipov reacted that avoided, or would have caused war
I'd do chemical before the other two. Most chemical weapons are designed to break down when in contact with either water or sunllight after a few days or weeks. Biological can mutate and hang around for centuries while fallout from nukes is just nothing you want to play with.
@@sirethanthegreat4069 I didn't mean you should put them in order. I just meant that if I had to do it I'd engage in chemical warfare long before the others and do everything possible to avoid them because of how long the affects can hang around.
@@vernedictb.valentine2057 what do you think is UN's job? For me, it's to act as a diplomatic hub to promote diplomatic solution between states. But reading your comment makes me think you expect it to be something more powerful, and are upset because your expectations are not met. So, what do you think the UN should be and what are your expectations?
@@robopenguin5501 Absolutely horrible advice. Telling people to live for today and don't plan for tomorrow is pretty much the most immoral thing you could say to anybody. If they live for today and don't plan long term, they wont care about living long term. You're literally wrecking your own life because you got lazy and gave up. If you are like that, please don't drag other people down with you.
@@DesertStateInEU that is not what I’m saying at all, I’m just saying if you have things you want to do in life don’t wait for them to come to you, go do them while you still can. I’m not saying give up on your responsibilities or long term goals
Although the subject matter is disturbing, as an editor, this is one of the best produced videos I’ve ever seen. Informative, quantitative, outstanding visual motion graphics and animation. I can only hope my skill level gets to this point. Phenomenal job…subscribed and will be visiting your Patreon page to support your efforts. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
GambitKing 5150. Well said! I agree wholeheartedly. If we’re smart we will all support Neil’s quality work. Thanks GambitKing 5150 for speaking up. The world needs more people like you and Neil.
"War was about a quarter as likely to reoccur with peacekeepers present." That's because the opposite of war is not peace, it is strength. Not in your face strength, but just the understanding that, if we go back into a war, it would not be worth the sacrifices since the strength of the opponent would be devastational. It's kind of a bullying concept. If you're weak, enemies know that, and know they can take advantage. If you are strong, they will leave you be.
It's really scary when you visualize this scenario, so much death and destruction it's terrifying. It would set the human race back to the dark ages for years to come all that progress lost.
@@BlurryDoggo Up. Iceland is a good choice because of the vast geothermal energy. For example, the houses in Reykjavik are heated with stream from underground reserves. Greenhouses use the heat to grow vegetables. Plus the Icelanders are fishermen, amd the seas would have abundant life, for months. Just have a year's supply of food in your cellar. Plus the women are the most beautiful in the world. Fact.
sounds like a dream. It's a fact that the industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Going back to monke is good
Funny thing is that Soviet union had thousands nuclear shelters for general public but most of them are resting in ruins now so... I guess I'll just die while government is hiding in their hideouts. (I have a real life example where a huge shelter was turned into a shopping mall. But it was only a part where civilians were supposed to hide. While the part where politicians supposed to hide remained intact. That's very nice of government ain't it?)
Emo Nemo: Historically, total victory of one side completely dominated over another in a war is incredibly rare. Most likely two sides went to war, then very little territorial change was made, but countless lives had lost, property destroyed, and wealth wasted. Then they decided that peace was a better idea and stopped the war. Trade, lives soon returned but by perverse means, resentments kept on living, and they probably would fight another war in a generation or so.The resentment of defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War led to the eagerness to France to go into WWI against Germany. Germany defeat led to resentment against France and Great Britain, and the "stab in the back" Jews myth, and then WWII. Germany was totally defeated, a rarity in history, but currently, they are the de facto leader of Western Europe. Even the people defeated and lose their identities, and lands; most of the time, the dispersed and find new lives, in new lands, with new societies, cultures, and destinies. Stubbornly clinging to your identity or past grudges sometimes lead to greater humiliations. The Jews were rare for being able to maintain their identity for that long, even resurrecting a dead language, Hebrew. However, clinging to their identity did cause them to suffer immensely historically.
The deterrence of "mutually assured destruction" works only when everyone involved is always rational and competent. The reality of human nature of course is quite different.
And we're still here because?... Also the humans put in charge of the button are actually quite rational and competent. Go ahead and read up on some of the people who stopped nuclear war from happening for precisely that reason.
@@KickenItOldSchool this isn't the 1980s anymore. these days you can have crippling dementia and not even know where you are half the time and still be able to become president. Also tell that shit to Kim Jong 'launch O nuke' Un
I'm still skeptical of the effectiveness of peacekeepers, that correlation could have come about by a greater capacity of already deescalating conflicts to accept peacekeepers into the conflict zone.
He literally said "correlates" and then went off about how *some* policy makers don't believe in statistics like bro, you know full well that correlation != causation, thats like the number 1 rule in statistics. That was such a biased take on his part.
@@geetee2694 but they also don't exclude it. The guy who wrote "How To Lie With Statistics" spend his later years completely losing it and arguing that all statistics are wrong. He also testified before congress that cigarettes are harmless because the only proof of the damage they caused was statistics.
Me before watching this video: I can watch this then play some Defcon Me during the video: ...maybe I'll just play world of of warships Me after: ya know what I'm just gonna play minecraft
very good video, i really like how you visually portray the data in a way the audience can really conceptualize it accurately, also really liked the portrayal and break down of causalities in ww2 video you did
4:33 Just remember, that every dot doesn't mean the same yield nuke, on example Americans wanted to drop around 20kT nukes on cities with around 200k inhabitants and not being a west-east transit city, the main targets in Poland were the ones on Vistula and Oder rivers to slow down Soviet military movements.
This is so well put together, so thorough, and so timely. I applaud the time and effort you put into this, the results are magnificent. In addition, I must add that you're almost conducting a public service here. I am 48 years old, and for those of us that grew up with the Sword of Damocles perpetually hanging over our heads, this is but a sobering reminder of those beclouded days. The specter of nuclear holocaust has always been with us, lurking in the shadows, with an occasional scare or disaster to remind us how frail life is, now that we can fully eradicate our race. Beyond the Chernobyl and Fukushima events, we have had scarce few reminders of our precarious existence. It's a good thing that these younger generations that have known only sunny days know the shadow of fear as well; it is a deterrent in your own actions, and the most powerful reminder of mortality.
@Xevil I suppose, but I find it hard to believe that anyone other the religious nutcases would take the Vatican state seriously in a matter of world War, I guess he has alot of power among those old fashioned god digging idiots, but that trend seems to be in decline here in Europe, at least here in Scandinavia. I hope I'm not proven wrong though, we've seen time and again how religious beliefs can corrupt even the smart poeple among us, I don't really mean to shit on peoples faith, but then again I do. because we should know better by now..
Sorry as the medievalist who loves your work I still would love to see you cover one of the worst events for humans ever - the Black Death (1348). The best numbers show that nearly half of England and europe died alone - and the impact on culture was massive (rise of Protestantism and emphasis on education and the printing press, long collapse of feudalism, massive shifts in economic culture, rise of ideas of workers’ rights - see Peasants Revolt of 1381). The accounts from eye witnesses are utterly horrifying and incredibly sad; they discuss how terrified parents abandoned sick children, how bodies were piled everywhere….in villages and cities alike… There were massive casualties through the spice trade routes. Writers like Boccaccio in Italy could see the plague heading for them in the most terrifying way…
Peacekeepers only work when they aren’t fighting for one side, but the problem is that the U.N. is usually one sided in each of the Civil War and more likely than not, goes against the ones rebelling against existing governments
What are you talking about? How could a peacekeeper fight both sides or neither side? The goal is peace and security of industrial/atomic weaponry NOT the freedom of those rebelling.
Peacekeeper can't prevent nucklear war as long as the nuclear still exist and produce. Imagine the Sum of the nuclear now more than Sum of city in the world. People getting angry by TRUSTING ISSUE, Jealousy, Buzzer who not responsibilitiy, and etc. The only key is to stop produce nuclear. This situation same like having gun, u don't want to use it but in any case u would force to use it. The only answer of this problem just to stop the produce of nuclear or destroy that
The thing that gets on my nerves is that these leaders would rather play chess with civilian lives then run and hide in their bunkers while the people they are supposed to be leading get massacred…. Let the leaders fight themselves and leave us out of it, how about that.
Well ppl should start disobeying them... They cant do anything without us but we are still going to war for them, we are financially supporting them and giving them all the power...
@@Jiggi040 we are on the edge of a disaster like mankind has never seen. My fear is that all these sanctions are backing Putin into a corner, giving him only one option. The lives of billions hang in the balance by the decisions of a few. Yes, there is nothing we can do
@@zojo1498 It’s not that simple, don’t you think the people who live don’t like their terrible leader? So, you’re asking why haven’t they rebelled? Think about what might happen to them if they did protest? The president would obviously send out his military to stop the fighting, then send those who were in the protest into a labor camp. Once your sent to a camp, you can’t legally get out and you’re stuck in a position worse than a slave for the rest of your life. If you don’t understand how bad it is, you can research (if your scared, then don’t I guess…) Worse part? In North Korea, not only you are sent to the camp but eight or seven generations of your family are just thrown in there, whether they helped you or not. In the us, there’s not stuff like that so you probably can’t imagine what it’s like; we know and have seen freedom and stuff. But in countries with bad dictators as North Korea, they don’t even know what freedom is, and can barely imagine what life would be like with feeedom. Great grandparents, grandparents, parents, they all have been oppressed their whole life, they don’t have stories of inspiration or feeedom to tell (yes, entertainment other than those that freaking worship the dictator are illegal). How and why would you fight for something you don’t know exists??? Knowing that, are YOU willing to go out and protest in countries like that? Are YOU willing to risk everything you have to go against a bad leader? Or the possible torture you might go through just for rebelling? If you don’t want to, then what about everyone else? You quite literally can’t overthrow a corrupt leader by yourself, you’d need enough people to go against the military the leader might send at you, and even so there’s gonna be a lot of deaths from rebellions. This isn’t like those zombie apocalypse movies or superhero kids movies, y’know…
I love these videos. I like the little music, the figures and the way it’s all explained. Honestly it’s perfect for any classroom and education in general
“In an hour, those of you left alive, will envy the dead”-John silver It’s incredibly scary how close we might have come to total destruction. Yal heard about the dude on a Soviet submarine who refused to launch nukes when a false alarm was raised? We need men like that.
Neil, thank you for your work. But there is the mistake on 7:33, you should draw Ukraine there too. Our country had nuclear weapon in 1991 - 1996, and voluntarily refused to have this weapon after Budapest memorandum.
I'm 3:40 in and I already appreciate the effort in research they did on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Many people count immediate deaths from blast and shockwave. Most people don't take into consideration the fallout and radiation poisoning that follow as well as burns from the massive amount of instantly spent energy from the blast. Those people won't necessarily die immediately and as stated in the video, it can take hours, weeks, months, or even years for those effects to kill you. It just depends on your radiation exposure, severity, and how well your body can fight it.
I was quite suprised to see the bomb didn't wipe the city off the map. Only a small area out of the entire city got destroyed. I was lead to belive that both cities were completly destroyed and that the bombs wiped them out entirely. but no, that is suprising
@@MNM-lq9te It's likely the the majority of the city will crumble. The pressure from the blast will bend steel frames and crack concrete, weakening the structural integrity of the buildings. The area inside the initial blast zone will either be vaporized or turned to dust while the rest of it get pushed outwards and shatters. During the initial blast, the edges of the effective blast zone and farther will have survivors but they are the unlucky ones. They still have to get out and make it as far away as they can upwind and hope the wind doesn't shift just to avoid the nuclear fallout that comes after.
“Well at least I live in a not so important part of Michigan”
*Gets a nuke dropped on my head*
LOL I thought the same too
Bitch YOU THOUGHT
Grand Rapids for me did t even know we would be a target like... it’s depressing. Being in the military I can say if my hometown and friends and family we’re killed, idk if I’d even want revenge.
I thought poor Mississippi was safe. Nah
We're not so different you and I........
Game: "would you press the nuke button on the submarine?"
Guy one: "yes"
Guy two: "yes"
Vasily Arkhipov: "no"
And that’s how he saved the world
Yup
That guy literally saved the world.
Also Cuba had 100 nukes and not 1. So invading Cuba would have been bad, sadly the USA never knew about the other 99 nukes
@@mt8956 Most of those nukes were short range. A shame short range in that context included Florida and much of the east coast, ha!
"The only winning move is not to play."
How about a nice game of chess
@@jonmarrie9469 or tic tac toe
But you keep on trying, mindlessly replying! You’ve been trolled you’ve been trolled have a nice dayyyyyyy
isnt that from war games
@@-Duck-71 yes it is
the visualization is stunning even after 5 years. Well done!
Great presentation is timeless
"The survivors of a nuclear war will envy the dead"
- Nikita Khrushchev
Funny soviet boi
That's a lie. He never said that.
Boo hoo hoo 😢
@@shy_dodecahedron he did
@@CanadioIsCool I think he did under the bunker with JFK and Fidel Castro when the zombie started invading
The editing and visuals for this were breathetaking. Unbelievable how moving the part with the red dots was.
TH-cam give us warning in nuke war in Ukraine in the future so TH-cam algorithms is very good for this video
Does anyone now, how These Animations were made?
@@KartoffelCrafter English not your fist language I’m assuming
SHIT......I THOUGHT THAT WAS WHERE THEY WERE GONNA BUILD THE NEXT LOTTA McDONALDS N K F C AND ALDIS...SO WHAT ARE YA SAYING...R WE IN THE SHXT .......
@@KartoffelCrafter Movie magic.
In an all-out nuclear war, someone is quoted of saying: "the living will envy the dead". Absolutely nobody wins at all.
Where's that from? Something like that is said in the 'Mad Max' game intro.
@@miguelbombas4000 I am paraphrasing here, don't remember exactly the actual source; those words are not mine.
similar quote from Dumbledore
Yeah. All sides know that.
That's why no nuclear war has occurred yet.
Another quote I heard: “We unlocked a 23rd century in the 20th century, We should treat them as such”
The fast that this video was from almost 8 years ago and IS in my recommendation list, God...
Almost 7 years*
ah yes i love to learns about various fast's lol
i feel as if china is going to invade taiwan in december
Everyone gangsta until you see your city as a target
Until you also realize the target city is already destroyed by others.
Tbh its better to be in a target city than in a city near it. If a nuclear bomb was dropped you'd die painlessly instead of living and suffering for the rest of your life
Laughs in Ohio
@@user-om9cf2tl8k but Ohio was hit?
@@NightCat28 nah Ohio isn’t that important
I'm 2 minutes in and massively impressed by the production quality.
Animated graphs, slow talking and shitty music is enough for you to think the production quality is good?
@@benjaminencarmine Yea, lovely graphics.
@@benjaminencarmine lmaoo shut the fuck up nd watch the fucking video, if you dont like it go find a different one u fucktard
@@benjaminencarmine Even if it wasn't, being able to once again say "Yep" when the standard dullard and blowhard like you shows up to act superior is worth the comment alone. Amazing that you take the time to comment on a video you so obviously disliked instead of, oh I don't know, just moving on.
@@benjaminencarmine So which contents do you think are "good"? Non-shitty music with fast talking and real person acting? Go listen to a rap song instead. That's more suited for someone like you.
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading." --Unknown
General James Longstreet I have a feeling it’s a video game character
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Very true
It’s Thomas Jefferson, he said the quote...
Stealing this! Thank you
I know the subject matter is really sad and intense but your intro made me tear up. It was so serene and beautiful. Reminded me how incredible this species CAN be.
The thing I learned about Hiroshima, is that originally the Japanese officials refused to believe that 1 plane and 1 bomb managed to cause all the destruction.
They refused this up until after the second bomb went off.
The war was already over by the time the bomb dropped
@@MASTEROFEVIL ww2 was not the Pacific war I think
@@FREDDYHUNTER34isnotliquid69420 WW2 includes the pacific campains.
@@8is yes but I dont think the Pacific war ended during the bombs, I think it was just D day, idk I'll search it up
@@FREDDYHUNTER34isnotliquid69420 Japan was the last of the Axis powers to surrender and did so after the bombs.
in my opinion, WW2 might as well start with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1937 or you could split the European and Pacific theater into two different conflicts as they kinda were.
I have the upmost respect for you, and what you are trying to achieve.
Keep at it, looking forward to the next episode!
For those who may not know, the United States bombed Japan. I'm just commenting this cause it never gets mentioned but as soon as he starts talking about nuclear prevention the US gets mentioned 3 times as a key member, while other countries as france and the UK play a role in that conversation that's equally as crucial.
Always be critical when watching these kind of videos. Americans tend to be overly patriotic, take everything with a grain of salt and do your own research.
@@ld.117 What the fuck are you talking about? He literally spent a sizeable chunk of the video just looking at the death count of the American bombing of Japan.
@@AndrewJJ-0114 This guy is looking at the situation from a different perspective, albiet one of ridicules skepticism. I agree that persons of power should be monitored.
This channel will become big one day!
The animations are very well done and very detailed.
I love the way you present the story. Great work !
Damn, 3 years later. I didn’t realize I had all these likes, as well as a creator like. Thanks y’all!
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary-- that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point!
Fydor Dostoyevsky
Eeeey, wargames reference
@@Orandu bro how does this only have 3 likes…..
@@omrr2096 because not many people read Dostoyevsky anymore…
@@Orandu "Fools have asked: Why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity?
Other fools answer: Folly, pride or the worship of progress, as if these things alone had any meaning.
The wise know that the answer itself is simple:
Finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all of creation".
Extremely fascinating to me how not only can we see a spike in deaths during WWI & WWII, but the Vietnam and Korean war also have a spike, albeit smaller.
4:49 holy moly the soviets really hate denver
who dosent
National Military Command Center is located in Colorado.
Yeah but it’s also home to the NORAD hq Cheyenne Mountain Complex
Denver and the rest of the front range would have been good targets. There are several air force bases (Buckley, the academy, Cheyenne mountain, peterson, and Schriever AFBs), one army base (fort carson), norad, us northern command (the hq for any military operations in north america), alternate command center, colorado national guard, and an army training center
"Target-rich environment" is an accurate description, I believe
I just realized that the red dot clicking sounds are actually representing the radiation measured by a Geiger-counter. Impressive and haunting.
That’s not what a counter sounds like.
caitlyn better
@@benwebb7988 I agree bro rn she is
bro think this is modern warfare 🤡
Ever listened to a general counter? What is a normal background count? Ever been in a missle silo they are real. And the people that turn the. Keys are real.
"Uhhh france what do you got there?"
"A smoothie"
Lmao
"Un Baguette..."
@@jesusofbullets une*
most number of battles and most number of battles win in the world and you ? :)
@@dumasrodolphe7412 I am 40% french :)
I always fear the fact, especially with the era of new wars sprouting up everywhere now, that we may be in WWIII and not know it yet. Nobody knew WW2 was underway when Poland was Invaded, nobody knew when the USSR invaded Finland, etc... It was only after the battle of France and up to when the wars scale blew up in 1941-1942 people started saying it’s a “World War”, and even before Poland, regional wars like Japan’s invasion of Asia had already been going on for years.
The current wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Africa, and possible outbreaks across Asia (India Pakistan China, etc) could just be the first steps of a wider conflict building up to total war in the future, and Historians in the future could say we already are in WW3.
When I was in high school in the 90's, I frequented my local library. One day while just browsing I found a voluminous non-fiction book about nuclear winter. If I recall correctly, I never checked it out at all. It might have been in the reference section (remember that?). Instead, I sat there all day reading it in the library, gripped with roughly equal parts terror and fascination. I went back day after day until I had read the whole book there in the library. It's one of those experiences that changes your perspective forever.
Wish i had those experiences, all im doing to change my perspective a bit is just thinking hard
What was the book called?
@@harrisonb9911 I’m afraid I can’t recall
@@harrisonb9911 I believe it was Carl Sagan and a couple of other scientist that first proposed the nuclear winter theory. It has become a debated theory now.
@@bobbywise2313 whats the books name?
If classes were taught this way students would have achieved a lot more.
Fabrice Izzo yes a great video no political bias
Fabrice Izzo no
That’s why i love neutrality.
It’s the best way to document cruelties around the world, since there is minimal political bias present in it.
How would syudents looking yet another propaganda piece "achieve" more? Do you even know what the word "achieve" means? Apparently not, you should look it up. What it doesn't mean, is blindly believing anything that shows on a screen, large or small.
Donkey Slayer dude in the video is literally speaking facts tho, you really don’t have to stress this hard in some TH-cam comments bruh
It chilling to see your city have ten nukes on top of it
I actually find it relieving because if nuclear war happens you would want to be killed instantly
@@ellawhite5167 Sure, if those maps were actually accurate. In reality these lists were only declassified because it made zero sense to target civilian centers with your nuclear arsenal. Almost no nuclear power has large population centers as targets for nuclear warheads these days.
@@Horible4 There is zero purpose for a nuclear weapon _other_ than targeting large population centers.
@@alalalala57 that's plain wrong. The purpose of nuclear weapons is to attack strategic positions of military importance. Nuking population centers does not do anything.
@@Horible4 Still in the US military assets are sometimes very close to population centers. My city for example, was on the map and would of been nuked 3 times. 2 nukes at population centers, and 1 at the Nearby military base. But if 1 nuke were to land on that base, which would of happened in nuclear war i would be turned into dust. whether if they were meant to or not, nuclear weapons will still kill millions.
I don't know if "Bravo" is quite the word I should use here, so I'll just say this is one of the most powerful videos I've ever seen. Thank you for your astounding work Neil.
“We are gaining 2.5 people per second.”
*baby comes out with half of its body*
baby comes out with 2 heads
Underrated
It’s happening. Hemihyperplasia.
And thalidomide.
@@whereswaldo5740 Whats that
It should be 3 babies every 1.2 seconds but to round off the time scale they averaged the number. 3 babies every 1.2sec that’s alarmingly huge ! We are overpopulated
The Japanese kid carrying his burnt little brother hit me hard.
Sins of the fathers paid for by the sons...
@@braininavatnow9197 so what? That boy didn't killed them, we must not blame innocents for the deeds of evil.
@@braininavatnow9197 how have you even arrived at this thought
@Braininavatnow You think that child knew the consequences? Do you think that, in supporting his country, he and his family would be harmed in such a horrific way? Maybe that child could be replaced by you, as you supported your country.
@@mwnciboo usa criminal war
targets that russia picked, me "wow thats pretty crazy"
United states targets on russia "HOLY CRAP!!?"
Russia is much bugger so of course the targets would be more spread out.
The really interesting part is that targets within East Germany were on the Soviets' list apparently (Chemnitz).
Keep in mind this was their 1956 targets, hence so little Chinese ones... Imagine now
@@recordkeepingandinformatio8206 I'm just thinking about every single piece of land being a target ,"the best way to save uygurs from the Chinese is by nuking them the Chinese can't kill them of they are already dead"-some American general probably
@@KikogamerJ2 US general Macarthur wanted to nuke the NK-China border so that Chinese couldn't help north Koreans during the Korean war
"Albert, when I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world."
"I remember it well. What of it?"
"I believe we did."
Oppenheimer
@@tanaykothapalli9870 Ah so a Marvel movie
"5 years ago I lost 50,000 men in the blink of an eye, and the world just fucking watched"
sheperd right?
"Tomorrow there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots."
@@i_am_bored7719 yeah
Lmao yes but your pfp doesn't fit but I love it because it also feels like he would say something like that
@@jmango3267 “ I hope you understand”
This video doesn’t seem too unreal today. Let’s hope it stay’s a “what if”
Russia invaded Ukraine so USA gunna get involved this is the closest to ww3 yet
@@carterh1812 nah we won’t get involved or do shit with the idiot we have in office he’s letting everyone die before he ruins his image
@@carterh1812 what will they do? We xan Hope this will end with ukraine thats all
@@Nope-ik8wv I'm not too into politics but from what I've seen hes trying to stop Russias main ways of making money and trading etc. And this would work great, if they didnt trade with China however theres already plans for that. So o dont see it having a huge impact
@@Nope-ik8wv the fuck do you do research? Do you think it's a good idea for USA to help fight against Russia, a country not part of NATO??? If they did, the whole word is fucking nuke clearly you don't know the power and the ruthlessness of Putin's bumass
Wow... Can't believe I've never seen this until now. The quality of this video is phenomenal, applauds to you sir!
This creator is amazing. You should check out their "The fallen of WW2" video
funny how the youtube algorithm works
I just found this today 3/3/2022.
I shall take your recommendation and do that, thanks!
Every think he said it was all a long on the web side
Look under who own the world
And nuclear weapons
These are insanely high quality.
You are a great artist.
Why'd you use chatgpt and bard and dalle e to make a you tube comment lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
@@internet_userr Lol, only children use emojis like you.
5:02 As a UK resident living in the countryside, I am still screwed in case of Nuclear War.
it's terrifying seeing your city, and 5 others surrounding it being named as targets. pretty much anyone living here in the UK is absolutely fucked.
I am also fucked, here in Hamburg Germany 😂
As i’m in London, I know I’m 100% fucked
basically everyone is fucked lol
Im in South Wiltshire.... boom!! 🙄
"A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties." -Marko Ramius, Commanding officer, Russian ballistic missile submarine Red October.
I also have this written somewhere
My wife's father was 20 when he was at Hiroshima. He worked in the defense industry and was reassigned to Nagasaki. One of the few to survive both bombings. He died recently at age 86.
That math doesn’t add up, unless recently was a decade ago?
@@brianduffy1995
Idk maybe they meant 96
Me lying on the internet for fun:
@@tekashiii na I’m sure he meant to put 96 lol
Man, he propably made fun of all of you lol
I am so impressed with your work...recently discovered. As an advocate in a very small way to support the Culture of Peace, your work should be front page everywhere as a means to deter violence in any form! I will follow your postings and only wish I had been more informed years ago!
At first I cursed the algorithm for preying on my fears during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but I’m pleased to discover that this video is actually comforting me with well-researched optimism
hello. im just too afraid to watch the video. can you please summarize it? thank u
@@jackfrost7296 what the fuck is wrong with you? i didn't even talk to you. mind your own business. jeez.
@@jackfrost7296 you're*
learn how to type first.
@@jackfrost7296 i don't even understand you
@@jackfrost7296 were*
i'm not even a native. i just know the rules. this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. good night.
The Manhattan project was literally the opening of Pandora's box and once it's been opened it can not be closed.
A divided humanity will not survive the era of nuclear weapons.
Either we live together, or we die together.
And don’t forget the last thing that comes out of Pandora’s box is hope.
@Amadeus Gaming but it might ironically cause people to be more cautious leading to further steps in ensuring war does not occur
@@DonVigaDeFierro humanity becoming unified is one of the most unlikely things ever.
@@Po1lux yeah I have to agree. The pandemic has made it exceedingly obvious that people would rather die than be inconvenienced for the greater good.
You can find me in 5:30, yay! I'm in Nizhniy Novgorod.
I'm not a red dot on a map. I'm not a target, neither are you. We are both humans. Remember this. Don't let the people with money and power turn us into such targets, and think why do people struggle here in the world.
Also, nuclear winter seems to be wrong.
Privet, tovarisch
Ain’t that the city that Ivan Massacerdd
@@jonathanescamilla3659 nah, he massacred the Great Novgorod.
Funny thing that Novgorod literally means "New city" and Nizhniy is just "Lower", so I'm kinda living in "New Folder (1)".
@@strakhovandrri lmao
You can find me here 4:45
i watch yt 4-5 hrs a day and it has been months if not years since i last saw such a beautifully animated video
The idea that you should think deeply about the consequences before doing something is a fascinating and perhaps the most important thing.
Rest in peace Vasily Arkhipov.
We should have a memorial on every country dedicated to him.
Each generation has to have that epiphany on its own. You can try to teach it, but every young generation thinks they know better than the wisdom of their forebearers. Only when they grow up do they realize that those who have lived it already were right.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 amazing way of saying it, people are born arrogant and are to grow to become a decent neighbor.
I'm an atheist but sometimes I wish God existed just so he could reward Arkhipov in his afterlife with an eternal paradise for saving humanity.
Wait he is dead?
Who the hell created this graphics?? The artist had an amazing imagination¡¡
the guy narrating it
I’m betting I’m not the only person now who is going to be recommended this video in the coming days. I’m officially watching this video now for the first time (at least I think so unless it was a while ago) on the 25th of February 2022. We all know why this video was released, and it really makes sense. A stern reminder of reality. Whether the worst case scenario will ever come to pass though, even with the barely concealed threat of it from Putin it’s still up for debate. One way or another, we may just have to call his bluff.
This video on my recommendation too
He will press the button from the safety of a bunker in eastern Siberia where there will be no targets. His people, and the people of the world, will pay the price.
In my recommendation as well, but we've yet to see an article 5, yeah article 4 just passed but that's pretty a fancy way of saying all of NATO can get together and discuss topics.
God bless us all 🙏
Putin told his nuclear department to stay on high alert today.
This video was made 5 years ago, and today nuclear war is closer than it has ever been since the Cuban missile crisis .
It's not
@@smit17xp don't lie to yourself
Really? It has been 1 year since the Ukraine war broke out, and nuclear war is still on the horizon? No one even cares abou tUkraine anymore.
American can not allow to lose world leading position of a bully so Nukes are final option.
@@jordanoliveto5863 It's really not.
"World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones."
- A. Einstein
Maybe he was talking about civilians not having guns rebelling against the government
@@kingswayoflife3948 dude you good bro? That was definitly not what he meant..
@@phosphorius7537 there would be underground bunkers with weapons. So no world War 4 won't be fought with stick and stones
@@kingswayoflife3948 He was extremly pacifistic. He was surely talking about the degeneration of mankind after the use of WMD
IV=4, he probably meant that WW3 would destroy so much that we’d only have sticks and stones left
I just wanted to say it was pleasure to be here with ya all
Humans are smart enough to survive a nuclear bomb, provided they don’t die immediately from the explosion and the radiation. The question is not “Could you survive?”, the question becomes “Would you want to?”
The real problem is the destroyed infrastructure. There's so many fragile system that required most of its cog to function in order for it to work
Fallout games
@@Vysair like those would be as important as securing food and water.
They would become the relics of the past only sought after securing your survival.
@@Vysair Even if infrastructure did not break down, society could not function. Radioactive dust and the nuclear winter would make it impossible to do natural agriculture, going outside for too long could result in radiation poisoning, and all water, except maybe that which falls out of the sky, would be irradiated. Rising sea levels, cities being left in ruin, power pretty much just disappearing etc. is just the icing on the cake.
The question is not “could humans survive?” Because that’s obviously a yes, the question is “could *you* survive?” And that is much less likely
This was incredibly moving, depressing, and terrifying all at once.
The god of youtube uploads again!
true
can't believe how this guy only has 33k subs, when is content is better than almost any other channel i've seen.
Alex Marian There is much info and effort he puts into 1 video that its worth waiting for 1 video/year.
This video is really wonder but There is no god but Allah.
One guy literally saved the world from destruction, the saint of his era
Be best part is that there are several "one men", one who was in a missile detection center, another was in a submarine, another may have been a border guard, a dictator, a president, a general who was having a good day and could think clearly, a guy who spotted a malfunction in the detection systems, a lot of people could be considered a sigle man or woman who saved all of humanity, all of those definitely are the saints of our society, wether we know it or not
@@furinick I've been thinking the same too. Whenever I lose hope in humanity, I just remind myself that there are saints out there still saving the world without me knowing
Yes Arkhipov definitely helped, but It took more than 1 guy to avoid war....JFK, RFK, Stevenson, Scali, and even Khruschev, Mikoyan, Fomin also were factors. It was how the people above Arkhipov reacted that avoided, or would have caused war
I wonder if there was ever an American who refused to turn the key
@@AgentSmith911 i dont think so they train their entire life just to do that a failure would be unthinkable, they just were never ordered to do so
One of the most satisfying visuals I’ve seen in MONTHS, this is literally MAGIC
needed some dread while rolling up in the studio and i gotta say, the sound design on this video is so well done.
I would rather a conventional war over nuclear, chemical, or biological.
Ikr
Well lucky you if the world will ever have another war they’ll refrain from using wmds
I'd do chemical before the other two. Most chemical weapons are designed to break down when in contact with either water or sunllight after a few days or weeks. Biological can mutate and hang around for centuries while fallout from nukes is just nothing you want to play with.
@@ADobbin1 I’m not doing specific order I’m just listing the ones I don’t want to happen. But you got a good point.
@@sirethanthegreat4069 I didn't mean you should put them in order. I just meant that if I had to do it I'd engage in chemical warfare long before the others and do everything possible to avoid them because of how long the affects can hang around.
"Peacekeepers are essential to lasting peace"
Me: *D* *E* *C* *I* *S* *I* *V* *E* *V* *I* *C* *T* *O* *R* *Y*
Peacekeepers :oh have you really won? (Proceeds to arm radical rebels)
@@KikogamerJ2 Can't arm rebels if there's no one left to rebel!
@@orzorzelski1142 outstanding move
Ugh fine...I don't believe in the UN yea sure they have a good message but they still weak and incompetent at everything else
@@vernedictb.valentine2057 what do you think is UN's job? For me, it's to act as a diplomatic hub to promote diplomatic solution between states. But reading your comment makes me think you expect it to be something more powerful, and are upset because your expectations are not met. So, what do you think the UN should be and what are your expectations?
This is an instrument of peace.
👍
To secure peace, is to prepare for war
Incredible motion design 🫡
This decade is cursed, a pandemic used to be the worst thing, not this. My advice: enjoy it while it lasts!
My reasoning 6 days ago: "God we probably won't see anything as bad as Covid for another few decades"
Putin: "hold my vodka"
enjoy what? ;-;
@@aei1773 do what you have always wanted to before it’s too late
@@robopenguin5501 Absolutely horrible advice. Telling people to live for today and don't plan for tomorrow is pretty much the most immoral thing you could say to anybody.
If they live for today and don't plan long term, they wont care about living long term. You're literally wrecking your own life because you got lazy and gave up. If you are like that, please don't drag other people down with you.
@@DesertStateInEU that is not what I’m saying at all, I’m just saying if you have things you want to do in life don’t wait for them to come to you, go do them while you still can. I’m not saying give up on your responsibilities or long term goals
Australia, still the place to be in a Nuclear Winter
If Australia ever gets nuked, one good thing will be that there will be significantly less spiders in the world.
Australia is part of NATO and allied with the US.
RIP
@@ls200076 Australia is not part of NATO.
@@ls200076 North Atlantic Treaty Organization..... North Atlantic...
Hell no. The politics would kill you.
Although the subject matter is disturbing, as an editor, this is one of the best produced videos I’ve ever seen. Informative, quantitative, outstanding visual motion graphics and animation. I can only hope my skill level gets to this point. Phenomenal job…subscribed and will be visiting your Patreon page to support your efforts. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
GambitKing 5150. Well said! I agree wholeheartedly. If we’re smart we will all support Neil’s quality work. Thanks GambitKing 5150 for speaking up. The world needs more people like you and Neil.
Chatgpt and bard users
We also ft
shut up mom , i told you to wait in the car
I recommend Lemmino, they also have a great editing and storytelling teams.
Hope you’re doing fine! Have a great career.
The production value of this video was damn impressive
"War was about a quarter as likely to reoccur with peacekeepers present." That's because the opposite of war is not peace, it is strength. Not in your face strength, but just the understanding that, if we go back into a war, it would not be worth the sacrifices since the strength of the opponent would be devastational. It's kind of a bullying concept. If you're weak, enemies know that, and know they can take advantage. If you are strong, they will leave you be.
The only foolproof way to avoid war is if all countries are equally powerful which is obviously impossible.
@@nerdienew911 no it's not some of them would team up etc....
@@nashviperthe4th66 and some of them will betray
Well, if you agree to disarm *both, sides, you will remain on the same power level with less devastating effect
@@neyte7313 Yes but it will make it easier for some third party which will arm in secret to defeat both of these disarmed ones.
It's really scary when you visualize this scenario, so much death and destruction it's terrifying. It would set the human race back to the dark ages for years to come all that progress lost.
Nope. Billiins would survive.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 what are you on about?????
@@scottslotterbeck3796 what about the nuclear winter?
@@BlurryDoggo Up. Iceland is a good choice because of the vast geothermal energy. For example, the houses in Reykjavik are heated with stream from underground reserves. Greenhouses use the heat to grow vegetables. Plus the Icelanders are fishermen, amd the seas would have abundant life, for months. Just have a year's supply of food in your cellar. Plus the women are the most beautiful in the world. Fact.
sounds like a dream. It's a fact that the industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Going back to monke is good
Politicians who started the war in their Nuke bunkers: Sounds like a “them” problem.
Funny thing is that Soviet union had thousands nuclear shelters for general public but most of them are resting in ruins now so... I guess I'll just die while government is hiding in their hideouts. (I have a real life example where a huge shelter was turned into a shopping mall. But it was only a part where civilians were supposed to hide. While the part where politicians supposed to hide remained intact. That's very nice of government ain't it?)
What an incredible video!
I am a simple man. I see a war, I want peace.
Some times its better to accept death while standing on your feet, then to accept peace on your knees. Peace at any cost, no thank you.
Emo Nemo peace at any cost? Yes, beacause there's literally nothing worse than a nuclear war.
Emo Nemo:
Historically, total victory of one side completely dominated over another in a war is incredibly rare. Most likely two sides went to war, then very little territorial change was made, but countless lives had lost, property destroyed, and wealth wasted. Then they decided that peace was a better idea and stopped the war. Trade, lives soon returned but by perverse means, resentments kept on living, and they probably would fight another war in a generation or so.The resentment of defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War led to the eagerness to France to go into WWI against Germany. Germany defeat led to resentment against France and Great Britain, and the "stab in the back" Jews myth, and then WWII. Germany was totally defeated, a rarity in history, but currently, they are the de facto leader of Western Europe.
Even the people defeated and lose their identities, and lands; most of the time, the dispersed and find new lives, in new lands, with new societies, cultures, and destinies. Stubbornly clinging to your identity or past grudges sometimes lead to greater humiliations. The Jews were rare for being able to maintain their identity for that long, even resurrecting a dead language, Hebrew. However, clinging to their identity did cause them to suffer immensely historically.
I am a confused man. I see peace, I want war.
peace is for pussies. cant make gains without conflict
I don't know how many will die, but the luckiest is those who die first.!
That’s true and depressing
'I know not what weapons will be used in WW3, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones!'
@Man Lamancha much worse than covid
@Man Lamancha but you don't know what's written
@Man Lamancha ?
The deterrence of "mutually assured destruction" works only when everyone involved is always rational and competent. The reality of human nature of course is quite different.
And we're still here because?... Also the humans put in charge of the button are actually quite rational and competent. Go ahead and read up on some of the people who stopped nuclear war from happening for precisely that reason.
@@KickenItOldSchool this isn't the 1980s anymore. these days you can have crippling dementia and not even know where you are half the time and still be able to become president. Also tell that shit to Kim Jong 'launch O nuke' Un
And you trust Joe Biden 😂
Gorgeous video! I love your efforts and I know many others do too. You deserve so much more exposure!
Just found this, 3 years later. Stunning animations, stunning content. Sadly no follow up :(
Insane animation work
“Peacekeepers help prevent war from occurring”
Myanmar: What are peacekeepers???
Yeah the UN just sits there braindead doing nothing
And when the Civil War ends the UN will proclaim themselves as saviours
@@deeperthantheabyss624 well I mean the UN is kinda cannot do anything unless the 5 permanent member agree to send peacekeepers
@@deeperthantheabyss624 i mean UN did take a country back
@@biodidu25 peacekeeping instills a stalemate condition in most circumstances, what is needed is a victory condition
never 4get the bosnian war
un "peace"keepers did nothing useful
One of the best visually made videos I’ve ever seen. Like wow.
What a visualisation. Really impressive, how much time did it take to make all of this. Bravo
I'm still skeptical of the effectiveness of peacekeepers, that correlation could have come about by a greater capacity of already deescalating conflicts to accept peacekeepers into the conflict zone.
Plus peace keepers don’t exactly have respect for other’s rights either
If you ask me peacekeepers only serve the people when it benefits geopolitical interests
He literally said "correlates" and then went off about how *some* policy makers don't believe in statistics like bro, you know full well that correlation != causation, thats like the number 1 rule in statistics. That was such a biased take on his part.
@@bobbobert9379 have you read the great classic book How To Lie With Statistics?
Even in maths, you have 'correlation does not imply causation '.
@@geetee2694 but they also don't exclude it. The guy who wrote "How To Lie With Statistics" spend his later years completely losing it and arguing that all statistics are wrong. He also testified before congress that cigarettes are harmless because the only proof of the damage they caused was statistics.
Me before watching this video: I can watch this then play some Defcon
Me during the video: ...maybe I'll just play world of of warships
Me after: ya know what I'm just gonna play minecraft
Wanna play defcon later lmao
@@finmueller7827 Fallout?
Perhaps
@@finmueller7827 defcon is big sad
Or just play a nice game of Pac man or tetris.
very good video, i really like how you visually portray the data in a way the audience can really conceptualize it accurately, also really liked the portrayal and break down of causalities in ww2 video you did
Just completely mesmerizingly beautiful graphics and presentation.
4:33 Just remember, that every dot doesn't mean the same yield nuke, on example Americans wanted to drop around 20kT nukes on cities with around 200k inhabitants and not being a west-east transit city, the main targets in Poland were the ones on Vistula and Oder rivers to slow down Soviet military movements.
My favorite part is that it’s the 1% who determines what happens to the rest of us
Yes, even less than the 1%! Its just a bunch of men sitting in an office.
People like the owner of bank of new York mellon
Or that the tool of peace are the MIC and "peacekeepers".
Yea, and it's not the people we voted for that much is obvious.
@@alejandroruiz87get a woman on that board at that time of the month and the world is over
This is so well put together, so thorough, and so timely. I applaud the time and effort you put into this, the results are magnificent. In addition, I must add that you're almost conducting a public service here. I am 48 years old, and for those of us that grew up with the Sword of Damocles perpetually hanging over our heads, this is but a sobering reminder of those beclouded days. The specter of nuclear holocaust has always been with us, lurking in the shadows, with an occasional scare or disaster to remind us how frail life is, now that we can fully eradicate our race. Beyond the Chernobyl and Fukushima events, we have had scarce few reminders of our precarious existence. It's a good thing that these younger generations that have known only sunny days know the shadow of fear as well; it is a deterrent in your own actions, and the most powerful reminder of mortality.
Wars have always existed. The technology to wipe out over 90% of humans never existed. Now, both exist
thank you youtube for recommending this, makes me very optimistic
The production value on this video is absolutely through the roof. I’m just blown away by it. Well done!
The algorithm’s got a sick sense of humor for recommending this now
I love that Vatican city was on the 'not nuclear' list, would be scary if the pope had a missile program
They're not in UN
@@chronological3957 obviously😅
@Xevil I suppose, but I find it hard to believe that anyone other the religious nutcases would take the Vatican state seriously in a matter of world War, I guess he has alot of power among those old fashioned god digging idiots, but that trend seems to be in decline here in Europe, at least here in Scandinavia. I hope I'm not proven wrong though, we've seen time and again how religious beliefs can corrupt even the smart poeple among us, I don't really mean to shit on peoples faith, but then again I do. because we should know better by now..
Found out, hatred about religion!.. Pope dont stayed forever as Pope!.. Different person!..
"Judgement day bitches"
Sorry as the medievalist who loves your work I still would love to see you cover one of the worst events for humans ever - the Black Death (1348). The best numbers show that nearly half of England and europe died alone - and the impact on culture was massive (rise of Protestantism and emphasis on education and the printing press, long collapse of feudalism, massive shifts in economic culture, rise of ideas of workers’ rights - see Peasants Revolt of 1381). The accounts from eye witnesses are utterly horrifying and incredibly sad; they discuss how terrified parents abandoned sick children, how bodies were piled everywhere….in villages and cities alike… There were massive casualties through the spice trade routes. Writers like Boccaccio in Italy could see the plague heading for them in the most terrifying way…
Peacekeepers only work when they aren’t fighting for one side, but the problem is that the U.N. is usually one sided in each of the Civil War and more likely than not, goes against the ones rebelling against existing governments
what are you talking about, UN support many governments that rebelled against the current one
The UN = pointless.
What are you talking about? How could a peacekeeper fight both sides or neither side? The goal is peace and security of industrial/atomic weaponry NOT the freedom of those rebelling.
Peacekeeper can't prevent nucklear war as long as the nuclear still exist and produce. Imagine the Sum of the nuclear now more than Sum of city in the world. People getting angry by TRUSTING ISSUE, Jealousy, Buzzer who not responsibilitiy, and etc. The only key is to stop produce nuclear. This situation same like having gun, u don't want to use it but in any case u would force to use it. The only answer of this problem just to stop the produce of nuclear or destroy that
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 didn't get through the entire video?
The thing that gets on my nerves is that these leaders would rather play chess with civilian lives then run and hide in their bunkers while the people they are supposed to be leading get massacred…. Let the leaders fight themselves and leave us out of it, how about that.
We the citizens of all these diverse countries have more in common with each other than we do with any of our leaders
Well ppl should start disobeying them... They cant do anything without us but we are still going to war for them, we are financially supporting them and giving them all the power...
The funny thing is theres no other option i guess cause "them" are just us ...
@@Jiggi040 we are on the edge of a disaster like mankind has never seen. My fear is that all these sanctions are backing Putin into a corner, giving him only one option. The lives of billions hang in the balance by the decisions of a few. Yes, there is nothing we can do
@@zojo1498 It’s not that simple, don’t you think the people who live don’t like their terrible leader? So, you’re asking why haven’t they rebelled?
Think about what might happen to them if they did protest?
The president would obviously send out his military to stop the fighting, then send those who were in the protest into a labor camp. Once your sent to a camp, you can’t legally get out and you’re stuck in a position worse than a slave for the rest of your life. If you don’t understand how bad it is, you can research (if your scared, then don’t I guess…)
Worse part? In North Korea, not only you are sent to the camp but eight or seven generations of your family are just thrown in there, whether they helped you or not.
In the us, there’s not stuff like that so you probably can’t imagine what it’s like; we know and have seen freedom and stuff. But in countries with bad dictators as North Korea, they don’t even know what freedom is, and can barely imagine what life would be like with feeedom.
Great grandparents, grandparents, parents, they all have been oppressed their whole life, they don’t have stories of inspiration or feeedom to tell (yes, entertainment other than those that freaking worship the dictator are illegal). How and why would you fight for something you don’t know exists???
Knowing that, are YOU willing to go out and protest in countries like that? Are YOU willing to risk everything you have to go against a bad leader? Or the possible torture you might go through just for rebelling?
If you don’t want to, then what about everyone else? You quite literally can’t overthrow a corrupt leader by yourself, you’d need enough people to go against the military the leader might send at you, and even so there’s gonna be a lot of deaths from rebellions. This isn’t like those zombie apocalypse movies or superhero kids movies, y’know…
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war"
No shit sherlock
@BTK M&G nah but what's a gardener gonna do, plant a fucking hedge at them?
Its better to be a garden gnome in a garden
@@andrewblythe3896 man you just LOVE ruining everything don’t you
@@andrewblythe3896 if I could describe you in one emoji I’d be this one 🤡
Watching in June 2023 and this hits DIFFERENT 💀
july 2024 enters the chat
December 2024
The Fallen of WWII: *exists*
Reaction Channels: *_it’s free real estate_*
You could say the same for Bill Wurtz history videos
Ari Donn oh we can say the same for all videos
Ari Donn why is it always black people reacting I’ve seen a lot of reaction channels with a majority of them being black
Any idea why ?
@@noblenormie1179 Uhhh, I dunno what you're watching but most I've seen are enthusiasts and historians.
@@AVGyerra22 youre delusional just check it out
I love these videos. I like the little music, the figures and the way it’s all explained. Honestly it’s perfect for any classroom and education in general
TH-cam recommending this right now is just pure evil 😂
“In an hour, those of you left alive, will envy the dead”-John silver
It’s incredibly scary how close we might have come to total destruction. Yal heard about the dude on a Soviet submarine who refused to launch nukes when a false alarm was raised? We need men like that.
It’s actually amazing how well made this video is.
Just how great all these graphics are really really well designed!
You can notice how much time and effort they put really impressed!
Neil, thank you for your work. But there is the mistake on 7:33, you should draw Ukraine there too. Our country had nuclear weapon in 1991 - 1996, and voluntarily refused to have this weapon after Budapest memorandum.
Сдалась кому-то ваша Украина, никогда страной не были, так и нечего начинать. Идите лучше дальше море копать.
Его декоммунизировали. Оно было советским.
Но не расстраивайся, к 2014-му его всё равно раз десять успели бы продать, а бабки распилить.
I don’t speak Russian so I don’t know if their cussing u out cause they Russian and hate Ukrainians or if they are Ukrainians agreeeing
South Africa, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus all had nuclear weapons and successfully implemented complete disarmament.
There reason for it is they didn't build there own they just got it from Russia south Africa built there own
Let's give this video some credit for the stunning visuals it features.
I'm 3:40 in and I already appreciate the effort in research they did on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Many people count immediate deaths from blast and shockwave. Most people don't take into consideration the fallout and radiation poisoning that follow as well as burns from the massive amount of instantly spent energy from the blast. Those people won't necessarily die immediately and as stated in the video, it can take hours, weeks, months, or even years for those effects to kill you. It just depends on your radiation exposure, severity, and how well your body can fight it.
I was quite suprised to see the bomb didn't wipe the city off the map. Only a small area out of the entire city got destroyed. I was lead to belive that both cities were completly destroyed and that the bombs wiped them out entirely. but no, that is suprising
@@MNM-lq9te It's likely the the majority of the city will crumble. The pressure from the blast will bend steel frames and crack concrete, weakening the structural integrity of the buildings. The area inside the initial blast zone will either be vaporized or turned to dust while the rest of it get pushed outwards and shatters. During the initial blast, the edges of the effective blast zone and farther will have survivors but they are the unlucky ones. They still have to get out and make it as far away as they can upwind and hope the wind doesn't shift just to avoid the nuclear fallout that comes after.
Me and the boys going to Switzerland : laughs in netrual
Everybody gangsta until the Soviets/Americans miscalculated and the nuke hit Zurich
Switzerland has a law that requires that there be enough nuclear shelters for the entire population too making it even more safe
Switzerland is close to one of the strongest superpowers, and Russia doesn't seem to have enough good relations with the EU
@@23fgoq46 Switzerland is not in the EU
@@romanwolfli6273 oh thank you for correcting me
This gives me a sense of dread, and a sense of hope at the same time.
Excellent narration!