The Spanish flu hit during WW1, not after. It’s actually one of the reasons the war ended. The British quarantined sick soldiers to minimize the viruses spread which actually gave them an edge over the Germans who did not quarantine sick individuals and had to deal with uncontrollable spreading of the virus through their trenches.
Fun fact: It’s only referred to as the “Spanish” flu because the countries fighting each other during ww1 didn’t want to admit their infected and death toll publicly. Since Spain wasn’t fighting in the war, they ended up being the ones to first to publicly report and document the effects. It’s rumored to have actually started in the US but wartime censorship didn’t want to let newspapers report on it and they purposefully continued public events as to not “scare” the public.
American here. We still waiting for the British to thank us for world war I. That's the whole reason why the Spanish flu even got into Europe. American touchdown
Did you know that in our own galaxy, 1 supernova happens approximately every 50 years? That is 1 star going supernova, every 50 years, out of 200 billion. Wild stuff.
Captain Buzzkill reporting in! There was no agriculture or animal husbandry to lose during the Toba eruption. Those things wouldn't exist for another 60,000+ or so years. Also, the Toba population bottleneck hypothesis has fallen out of favor with most experts.
Funnily enough, in local tribes around lake Toba (former supervolcano), there is a folklore of the creation of the lake, and one scene did mention a curse because the main protagonist "not give thanks enough"
3:57 There some mistakes here actually. Humans didn't invent agriculture for at least 10.000 years ago. While Toba supervolcano eruption is estimated happen 74.000 years ago
1 Soviet in a Uboot refusing to put the key into the nuclear launchped control system and 1 Soviet thinking the Alarm system malfunctions..... God bless these 2, for they have saved humanity!!!!
0:00 The Spanish Flu 1:18 Mount Tambora Eruption 2:39 Toba Supervolcanic Eruption 4:35 Homo Erectus Stop Reproduction 5:37 Cold War Nearly Turns Into WWIII 8:11 Gamma Ray Bursts
My screen is a bit dirty so until you said that, I legitimately thought it was just a spec of dust that stood out more on the solid white background. Now I can't unsee it and it somehow bothers me more than actual dust on my screen does. (I did clean my screen after though.)
Id like to add one. Supernova. If 1 happened within 100 light years, we are as good as gone due to immense amounts of radiation and heat from the blast.
Social distancing was actually used rather extensively during the Flu pandemic. We just lacked most modern medical equipment and medicine needed to effectively combat the pandemic.
About Cuban missile crisis: There was a soviet nuclear submarine who's communication was cut and protocol said in this situation assume the war broke out. Fortunatelly protocol also required 3 key from 3 officer and one of them refused to launch the nuclear weapon
A video that went to 9:40 simply because it’s all that was needed is so GD rare on TH-cam. Most people would add 20 second extra of something just to get ads but not this. Give this video a like people
Thank you Stanislav Petrov for not panicking. Now, we can all relish in the fact a gamma-ray could pop up and turn us into bacon at any moment, hurray! 🎉 Thank you for posting another banger video as always Kelevin, looking forward to seeing what you’ll post next!
New fear unlocked: space lasers. Also what the actual f***, it's like nature has made it her duty to take us out. And well, we probably deserve it. We're like the cockroaches of the mammals or some shit. lmao
While on the topic of Cold War, you probably should have mentioned Vasily Arkhipov. Basically, he was on a submarine with some other people, and the US detected a submarine and started firing charges. What the US did not know was that the submarine they were looking for had a bomb, a nuclear one if I remember. The submarine couldn't communicate back to the motherland so they were under the assumption that they were being attacked. The 3 commanding officers there have the chance to launch their bomb, which would, just like the Stanislav situation, trigger a mass chain reaction that basically leads to a nuclear war. 2 of the commanding officers voted to launch the bomb. Vasily, on the other hand, decided not to launch it, since he felt like the charges were just warning shots, and he was right. Since all 3 officers were required to agree, and he didn't, the bomb was never launched. He singlehandedly prevented a nuclear war If I remember, that's how the story went, feel free to correct me, but yeah, the Soviets have, in a sense, prevented nuclear war and extinction TWICE!
In that bunker where Mr. Petrov saved the world, they needed a unanimous decision in order to fire back. Mr. Petrov was the only one in that room that said no.
The thing about a GRB that is the most terrifying is that there is no way to see it coming. Because it of course moves at the speed of light, and nothing can travel faster than light. I’m sure anyone outside would just instantly be vaporized like that scene in terminator 2.
Bruh u know how bad underpopulation is compared to overpopulation? and also, micro plastics are getting out of hands as many men and women are getting infertile which men of science worry that it may lead to underpopulation
@@legendaryboyyash only difference is we Chose to be a disease, we Could have made the planet better, and we didn't. Now the planet is becoming a dumpster fire.
I don't care what anyone says He's the son of salmonella academy anyone saying otherwise can fight me. Salmonella just hasn't come back with the milk yet.
Gamma Ray Bursts have gotten much more uncommon as time has gone on since the start of well, everything. I wouldn’t worry about one happening any time soon
Tbh, Petrov's case wasn't even the 2nd time that the world nearly went to war with each other over a nuclear apocalypse. In fact, THAT was the third. 1st and 2nd all happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis. So on top of what you said about the jostling of power between Khuruschev, Castro and JFK over the situation in Cuba, the US Navy had laid a blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviet Navy to supply the Cubans or place more weaponry in Cuba. However, the Soviet Navy didn't give a shit and ran submarine into the blockades and enter B-59. B-59 was a nuclear armed submarine capable of launching nuclear rockets as specified targets and the Soviet Navy sent the submarine to Cuba just in case they needed to launch nuclear missiles into America. They were spotted soon as they arrived into Cuba and the USN started to throw depth charges into the water to draw or destroy the sub. With it being pummeled, one of the commanders thought that the war had began and asked the commissar for permission to fire the nukes. B-59 was different as a normal Soviet nuclear-armed sub only required 2 officers to arm and fire the nukes but for B-59, it required 3 and here enters Vasily Arkhipov. Arkhipov was the officer for the brigade that houses crew of the B-59. Whilst the other 2 officers being the captain Savitsky, Stavka officer Ivan Semyonovich Maslennikov had decided to launch the nukes, Arkhipov protested and decided to veto against the other two officers but instead persuaded them to leave the area. However, the ship was malfunctioning and as they surfaced out of the war, they were immediately shot at by a USN destroyer and strafed by aircraft. After getting more messages from the Kremlin, they pulled out of Cuba and headed back to the USSR. Thanks to Arkhipov, WW3 was prevented.
A couple correction 1. B-59 was not armed with nuclear missiles. Only a single nuke was on board, and it was in a torpedo. 2. There are several stories. The US story is that the submarine was never attacked and low yield charges were used to signal the B-59 that they had been encircled and should surface. From the crew of B-59 however, I can find no stories that completely agree with each other. Some claim the submarine was fired on, some claim that the use of the nuke was never considered. Either way, the B-59 had to surface. They surfaced, radioed the US ships, and received orders to turn back.
Not so fun fact, in 83 there was another incident that almost caused a nuclear war. Code name Able Archer 83, was a NATO war game in Eastern Europe to that simulated heightened nuclear tension between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Well some members in the Soviet Politburo thought this was a ruse, and NATO was secretly preparing for a first strike. This caused the Soviets to ready their nuclear forces in Poland and East Germany, they loaded nukes in subs and bombers, and since we're still here luckily of unluckily the Soviets didn't go through with it
Because it happened DURING the war, but was not reported on to prevent the appearance of weakness- except in neutral Spain, hence being called the Spanish Flu, as for a long while, people thought it was only happening in Spain since they were the only ones talking about it. The warring powers feared that reporting on the flu would mean their enemies would launch offensives due to that news, and they couldn't risk that.
Oddly enough it was Nikita Khrushchev who was the calm voice in the meetings with Soviet military leaders. They were all ready and willing to go and launch. By military coup if necessary. It was Khrushchev who talked them out of it. Perhaps he knew something the military didn't. Like the fact they were NOT ready for a nuclear war. It was estimated that only a very small fraction of their nuclear weapons would actually get to their intended targets. About half probably would not even get out of their launch facilities. Half of those would not even make it to the USA. Half of those which did would not detonate for one reason or another. And half of those which did make it and did detonate would miss their intended target. Gotta remember, the Russians were still reliant of vacuum tube tech at that time. All in all, however, it probably would have better for everyone if we had duked it out with them back then. They have largely caught up with the West in that regard. So it will be much much worse today. OTOH, as we have seen from the Ukraine debacle the Russians are woefully unprepared for even a relatively small war with a neighbor country. Good old greed and corruption have take a massive toll on Russian's readiness.
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No dragged intro..straight to the point. i respect that.
That's why I love this channel, and his jokes
How plagues should be :-)
That alone earned my like 🤣🤣
No begging to like and subscribe
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USA : we have nukes
Russia : we have more!
Indonesia : hold my volcanoes
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@@Ralzssuch an indonesian thing to type
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n then i have insane dreams and wonder why 💀
The Spanish flu hit during WW1, not after. It’s actually one of the reasons the war ended. The British quarantined sick soldiers to minimize the viruses spread which actually gave them an edge over the Germans who did not quarantine sick individuals and had to deal with uncontrollable spreading of the virus through their trenches.
Precisely!
And 50 million is the lowball some put it at 100 million+ 😅
Fun fact: It’s only referred to as the “Spanish” flu because the countries fighting each other during ww1 didn’t want to admit their infected and death toll publicly. Since Spain wasn’t fighting in the war, they ended up being the ones to first to publicly report and document the effects.
It’s rumored to have actually started in the US but wartime censorship didn’t want to let newspapers report on it and they purposefully continued public events as to not “scare” the public.
American here. We still waiting for the British to thank us for world war I. That's the whole reason why the Spanish flu even got into Europe. American touchdown
Scott idk what you talking about but based CSA pfp🔥
“117,000 years. that’s longer than most of us have been alive”
Most…
@@Acatithink yeah, I’ve been alive for 117,001 years
@cocopuff-muncher oh wow, how much groceries could you buy with a nickel back then?
@@D2attemp**speaks caveman** grocery is buy free!
You should also have added when i blasted my toilet that one time
Should have added me doing that currently while watching this video 🤌
Fr u heard that
We should do a group blastin and see if we can cause a supernova
GRB’s are estimated to occur every day. Meaning that somewhere in the universe, a supernova is happening every single day. Wild stuff.
If the universe is infinite, then every second multiple supernovas are happening right now
Did you know that in our own galaxy, 1 supernova happens approximately every 50 years? That is 1 star going supernova, every 50 years, out of 200 billion. Wild stuff.
@@thereynaldosan7695It isnt though
@@art1563How do you know this?
@@tdslayer9851 The burden of proof lies within the person making the claim, ask him to prove it
Captain Buzzkill reporting in! There was no agriculture or animal husbandry to lose during the Toba eruption. Those things wouldn't exist for another 60,000+ or so years. Also, the Toba population bottleneck hypothesis has fallen out of favor with most experts.
Ima touch you 😁🙏
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can I have 1 million dollars
With hyperinflation anything is possible.
yes
1 Million Dollars with value.@@haydenbeach2515
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
Perhaps
Okay so imagine being Petrov on acid and that thing starts beeping, new level of ego death
Let’s not forget that one time a USSR sub without communication thought the war started and 2/3 officers needed to launch the nukes agreed
which was during the cuban missile crisis
That is Stanislav’s story he was the officer that refused to fire
@@Idunnohowabout7364wrong guy, that's Vasily Arkhipov in the sub
ah yes, now i can stay up all night thinking about how some random galaxy can just destroy all of us instantly, thank you Kelevin.
Every time we know of*
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3:27 I’m guessing they didn’t thank the volcano enough
Funnily enough, in local tribes around lake Toba (former supervolcano), there is a folklore of the creation of the lake, and one scene did mention a curse because the main protagonist "not give thanks enough"
3:57 There some mistakes here actually. Humans didn't invent agriculture for at least 10.000 years ago. While Toba supervolcano eruption is estimated happen 74.000 years ago
1 Soviet in a Uboot refusing to put the key into the nuclear launchped control system and 1 Soviet thinking the Alarm system malfunctions..... God bless these 2, for they have saved humanity!!!!
8:24 i dont know why but these things in space like supernovas zombie planets grbs etc Facisnate me
0:00 The Spanish Flu
1:18 Mount Tambora Eruption
2:39 Toba Supervolcanic Eruption
4:35 Homo Erectus Stop Reproduction
5:37 Cold War Nearly Turns Into WWIII
8:11 Gamma Ray Bursts
One of my favorite TH-cams especially cause this guy actually uploads consistently
Crazy how we all survived all that throughout history
Close enough. Welcome back Sam O’nella
Hi! I have autism too! Its great to see other people like us spread awareness. Sending hugs! ❤
@ what
I can't focus on the video after realizing that your avatar against a white background has some black pixels in the upper right corner
After you pointed it out. I can't stop looking at it
damn im getting that fixed asap lmao
My screen is a bit dirty so until you said that, I legitimately thought it was just a spec of dust that stood out more on the solid white background. Now I can't unsee it and it somehow bothers me more than actual dust on my screen does. (I did clean my screen after though.)
@@Kelevinsplease bro
I hate you why did you point this out?
One point: Mount Toba erupted 70-75k years ago, but there was no farming or agriculture until 12k years ago. So, it wasn't quite there yet lol.
GRB's give me existential crisis on steroids
I love these types of channels
Thank you for mentioning Butter, subscribed
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Wait you are telling me ONE dude saved the word? That is mind blowing
YESSIR
look up Vasily Arkhipov
it was not the only time
one word can save the world: no
(world)
Bruh I made a typo get over it
Id like to add one. Supernova. If 1 happened within 100 light years, we are as good as gone due to immense amounts of radiation and heat from the blast.
wouldn't it take 100 light years to get here tho? maybe its already on its way
@@V3RAC1TY What a lovely thought 😃
i dont think we even have one that close. the closest one os 4 light years away
@chillgooberits 4 light years away
@@DJDanny23 sorry. i meant 4 light years away. even so, i dont think proxima centuari can go supernova.
Social distancing was actually used rather extensively during the Flu pandemic. We just lacked most modern medical equipment and medicine needed to effectively combat the pandemic.
About Cuban missile crisis:
There was a soviet nuclear submarine who's communication was cut and protocol said in this situation assume the war broke out. Fortunatelly protocol also required 3 key from 3 officer and one of them refused to launch the nuclear weapon
That was Stanislav Petrov. Mentioned in the video
@@BALKANcatW I thought about Vasili Arkhipov
@@BALKANcatWthere was another incident also
A video that went to 9:40 simply because it’s all that was needed is so GD rare on TH-cam. Most people would add 20 second extra of something just to get ads but not this.
Give this video a like people
Thank you Stanislav Petrov for not panicking. Now, we can all relish in the fact a gamma-ray could pop up and turn us into bacon at any moment, hurray! 🎉
Thank you for posting another banger video as always Kelevin, looking forward to seeing what you’ll post next!
New fear unlocked: space lasers. Also what the actual f***, it's like nature has made it her duty to take us out. And well, we probably deserve it. We're like the cockroaches of the mammals or some shit. lmao
All we need is 1 Kelevin for the world to end
While on the topic of Cold War, you probably should have mentioned Vasily Arkhipov.
Basically, he was on a submarine with some other people, and the US detected a submarine and started firing charges. What the US did not know was that the submarine they were looking for had a bomb, a nuclear one if I remember. The submarine couldn't communicate back to the motherland so they were under the assumption that they were being attacked. The 3 commanding officers there have the chance to launch their bomb, which would, just like the Stanislav situation, trigger a mass chain reaction that basically leads to a nuclear war. 2 of the commanding officers voted to launch the bomb. Vasily, on the other hand, decided not to launch it, since he felt like the charges were just warning shots, and he was right. Since all 3 officers were required to agree, and he didn't, the bomb was never launched. He singlehandedly prevented a nuclear war
If I remember, that's how the story went, feel free to correct me, but yeah, the Soviets have, in a sense, prevented nuclear war and extinction TWICE!
Nice video!
1:41:
Grim Reaper: "Excuse me sir, can I borrow that?"
Stanislav lowkey a chill guy
I have finally found New Sam O’ Nella to fill the hole in my heart/youtube watch time
You are a descendant of the ones that actually survived, act like it.
5:24 right.. MOST of us 🤣
USA: we have nukes!
Russia: we also have nukes!
Indonesia: hold my volcanoes 🗿
Space: hold my gamma ray bursts 🗿
every few years this video gets longer and longer I don't know what time I'm talking about
Hi Kelevin congrats on the 140k subscribers
In that bunker where Mr. Petrov saved the world, they needed a unanimous decision in order to fire back. Mr. Petrov was the only one in that room that said no.
Did you know that humans would not go extinct in your life time
The most comforting piece of knowledge is that the FDA is resisting the freedom of information lawsuit over pfizer by Texas. 😍
0:57
STOP TOUCHING NINJAS WITH YA HANDS!
Don't forget the 1815 eruption was coming right after the Napoleonic wars in Europe that had already devastated that continent.
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5:15 we share 99.9% of our DNA with Every Human, heck we share 60% with BANANAS 😭
I laughed way too hard at the word "Puh Tenshally"
other than having a new anxiety from lasers, fun video would recommend!
We should make a really big piece of glass or something to deflect a potential GRB tbh
my goat posted
What about Black Death?
That russian understood his instruments sucked XD
3:55 wasnt that eruption like thousands of years before humans learnt how to even farm?
The thing about a GRB that is the most terrifying is that there is no way to see it coming. Because it of course moves at the speed of light, and nothing can travel faster than light. I’m sure anyone outside would just instantly be vaporized like that scene in terminator 2.
A thousand, we were so close. Darn. Now it'll be Overpopulation and I'll take the caveman winter over soylent green/snowpiercer Any day.
Bruh u know how bad underpopulation is compared to overpopulation? and also, micro plastics are getting out of hands as many men and women are getting infertile which men of science worry that it may lead to underpopulation
@@DefileOdds bro will be the first to side with the aliens if they invade
@@legendaryboyyash that's, exactly why I support it. Humanity is a disease lol.
@@legendaryboyyash only difference is we Chose to be a disease, we Could have made the planet better, and we didn't. Now the planet is becoming a dumpster fire.
@@DefileOddsstart with yourself then
I don't care what anyone says He's the son of salmonella academy anyone saying otherwise can fight me. Salmonella just hasn't come back with the milk yet.
i think the guy is called sam o‘nella
@@ll.m1scha that is a fact
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Didn’t mention the time Soviets almost fired on a US nuclear sub but one guy objected so they didn’t 😔
Butter is an amazing metaphor frfr
Do you know that? MrBeast has more subs than 1K people that survived from volcano
The Toba bottleneck hypothesis has been more or less disproven. Good vid tho.
Our ancestors: "Where has the sun gone?
Modern man: "I am the sun."
wow thank you Petrov ❤
Gamma Ray Bursts have gotten much more uncommon as time has gone on since the start of well, everything. I wouldn’t worry about one happening any time soon
My dude forgor about the other russian dude that was a submarine where he refused to press the red button when I mone explode nearby
Can’t believe you didn’t talk about the time it rained for 1000000 years and wiped out 40% of life on earth.
notice how he put "human" in the title?, thats why he didn't include it
That was 1 billion years ago, the freaking earth was only 3 million years old
I love this channel
this channel loves you
That guy has GOT to be a timetraveler
Ok thats crazy 🤯
1:45 Australia and New Zealand: ah yes June - August my favourite season
*_Winter_*
Stanislaw indeed deserves a stachue. Man was equivalent to God at that moment.
The homie Kelevin dropped a new video, let's go
7:30
Bro really said "Nothing ever happens" 😭
As a dr of chaos, i approve of this video.
I wanna see the timeline where stanislav pressed the button
"That's longer than most people have been alive" you have secrets huh?
i shall be gts , to this video 🗣️🗣️
Fun fact: The Spanish flu wasn’t from Spain
Stanislav def thought if I don’t react humanity lives on
Sam o Nella at home
Tbh, Petrov's case wasn't even the 2nd time that the world nearly went to war with each other over a nuclear apocalypse. In fact, THAT was the third. 1st and 2nd all happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
So on top of what you said about the jostling of power between Khuruschev, Castro and JFK over the situation in Cuba, the US Navy had laid a blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviet Navy to supply the Cubans or place more weaponry in Cuba. However, the Soviet Navy didn't give a shit and ran submarine into the blockades and enter B-59.
B-59 was a nuclear armed submarine capable of launching nuclear rockets as specified targets and the Soviet Navy sent the submarine to Cuba just in case they needed to launch nuclear missiles into America. They were spotted soon as they arrived into Cuba and the USN started to throw depth charges into the water to draw or destroy the sub. With it being pummeled, one of the commanders thought that the war had began and asked the commissar for permission to fire the nukes. B-59 was different as a normal Soviet nuclear-armed sub only required 2 officers to arm and fire the nukes but for B-59, it required 3 and here enters Vasily Arkhipov.
Arkhipov was the officer for the brigade that houses crew of the B-59. Whilst the other 2 officers being the captain Savitsky, Stavka officer Ivan Semyonovich Maslennikov had decided to launch the nukes, Arkhipov protested and decided to veto against the other two officers but instead persuaded them to leave the area. However, the ship was malfunctioning and as they surfaced out of the war, they were immediately shot at by a USN destroyer and strafed by aircraft. After getting more messages from the Kremlin, they pulled out of Cuba and headed back to the USSR.
Thanks to Arkhipov, WW3 was prevented.
A couple correction
1. B-59 was not armed with nuclear missiles. Only a single nuke was on board, and it was in a torpedo.
2. There are several stories. The US story is that the submarine was never attacked and low yield charges were used to signal the B-59 that they had been encircled and should surface. From the crew of B-59 however, I can find no stories that completely agree with each other. Some claim the submarine was fired on, some claim that the use of the nuke was never considered.
Either way, the B-59 had to surface. They surfaced, radioed the US ships, and received orders to turn back.
Fluflay would’ve been funnier than a flu pie
Some of us were alive during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Not so fun fact, in 83 there was another incident that almost caused a nuclear war. Code name Able Archer 83, was a NATO war game in Eastern Europe to that simulated heightened nuclear tension between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Well some members in the Soviet Politburo thought this was a ruse, and NATO was secretly preparing for a first strike. This caused the Soviets to ready their nuclear forces in Poland and East Germany, they loaded nukes in subs and bombers, and since we're still here luckily of unluckily the Soviets didn't go through with it
4:42 my dirty minded friend just yelled: HOMOPHOBIC ERECTIONS!
How would we know there was only 1280 people, if that doesn’t make any sense
So odd how Spanish Flu is never talked about.
Maybe because it's not that deep
Because it happened DURING the war, but was not reported on to prevent the appearance of weakness- except in neutral Spain, hence being called the Spanish Flu, as for a long while, people thought it was only happening in Spain since they were the only ones talking about it. The warring powers feared that reporting on the flu would mean their enemies would launch offensives due to that news, and they couldn't risk that.
Bro forgot the Black Death 💀
It really is a miracle that we exist as a species today considering all the planet's and the cosmic chaos that happened and still happen
This feels like a bad stand up comedy
YAAAYYYY SPACE EVENTS :D
One addition: The Black Death/ Bubonic Plague
One of the few if not only times post civilization the population decreased
Oddly enough it was Nikita Khrushchev who was the calm voice in the meetings with Soviet military leaders. They were all ready and willing to go and launch. By military coup if necessary. It was Khrushchev who talked them out of it. Perhaps he knew something the military didn't. Like the fact they were NOT ready for a nuclear war. It was estimated that only a very small fraction of their nuclear weapons would actually get to their intended targets. About half probably would not even get out of their launch facilities. Half of those would not even make it to the USA. Half of those which did would not detonate for one reason or another. And half of those which did make it and did detonate would miss their intended target. Gotta remember, the Russians were still reliant of vacuum tube tech at that time. All in all, however, it probably would have better for everyone if we had duked it out with them back then. They have largely caught up with the West in that regard. So it will be much much worse today.
OTOH, as we have seen from the Ukraine debacle the Russians are woefully unprepared for even a relatively small war with a neighbor country. Good old greed and corruption have take a massive toll on Russian's readiness.
woah human population as low as 1k ppl for over 100k years erm what