Best of The History Guy: Nuclear Accidents
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- Four classic the History Guy episodes on accidents with weapons of mass destruction. Nearly a full hour of the History Guy
00:00 - Missiles Over Mexico: A Cold War Story
16:25 - 1960 New Jersey BOMARC Missile Fire
29:47 - Able Archer and the World's Most Dangerous Year
45:30 - Fire at Grand Forks Air Force Base
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Best thing to enjoy my breakfast to. A 1hr History guy video.
It takes you an hour to eat breakfast?
Even if I've seen them you bet your ass I'll rewatch these
If it takes that long for breakfast you might be doing it wrong
@@ajax5622It sounds to me like he is doing it exactly right.
Way too long. No strong central theme 😢
The History Guy really makes me miss my dad. A huge history buff who fought in Korea, and also had a brother who flew over 50 missions in the Asian theater of WW2 (Distinguished Flying Cross).
Dad lost his vision kind of young, and wasted to much of his latter years getting angry listening to talk radio rhetoric, but i just KNOW how much Pop would have loved listening to you. He didn’t think much of the internet (except for moms genealogy pursuits) but I envision him on his lanai at night listening to your wonderful delivery of history.
I guess I share his fondness as I have ingested most of your videos by now, but I would have loved to have witnessed him devouring your videos.
This is the highest endorsement I may ever pay someone.
Thanks for a wonderful product
Everyone should have history teacher like You. Period.
We all do! Just have to find him on the TH-cam machine.
That's amazing how you wove Bombs over Bagdad and I can hear the music still playing!!
Thank you Lance once again, but you keep making me feel older and older, I’ve participated in a few able archers and some others, and can think of a few accidents that were missed. I was deeply involved with all this stuff my last few years in service. Thanks for recapping all this stuff, I think it’s time I hunt down some old colleagues and say hi
In Okinawa, in 1959 or 1960, a Nike Hercules with a nuclear warhead was accidentally launched horizontally at the Naha waterfront. The warhead ended up in the sea a few hundred yards away. If it had detonated, it would have destroyed much of the city. My father was the battalion commander at the time.
Regarding the BOMARK site…I toured the site around 2001 when I was stationed there. We were considering using the area for a training site and I was provided a number of USAF studies that included how contamination had gotten into the water table and lots of Lakehurst was impacted. Mostly underground TCE plumes. I have some great video and all the environmental docs showing the contamination areas as well as the original blue prints and maps of the of the site.
Its scary that accident in 1980 at GFAFB only 6 years after i released from service there. I was missile maintenance on AGM28 "Hound dog" missile which was replaced by the AGM69.
Yet another completely awesome episode of THG! Please, please, please, please, PLEASE... keep this great content coming our way!!! At least in my book, this one rated a 9.9 (I gave it this rating merely because "There ain't no 10's.")
The Bomarc site holds an interesting memory for me. I was stationed at McGuire in the early to mid 1980s as an Air Force cop. Some of our guys used to go to Bomarc to check the gate for signs of illegal entry, but that didn't fall into our job description. A few buddies of mine and I once went there while we were out tooling around after a day at the beach. We rolled up on the gate, found it locked, remembered it was supposed to be radioactive, so we left.
ººThere is no such thing as atomic weapons. They say it radiates the ground for thousands of years and nothing can live there and yet three days after the thousands of tons of dynamite or the so called A bomb was detonated in Japan businesses were reopened (It's all show and tell). Population of Hiroshima in 2019 is over 2,000,000. Population of Nagasaki in 2019 is over 411,000. It's only been 75 years since we dropped "The Bomb." What happened to all that deadly radiation ?
Why didn't the Japanese engage the Enola Gay or Bockscar (The B-29s) and how did the US know that they wouldn't ?
Of course we've all seen the burn victims but was their hair and fingernails falling off ? Were they throwing up ? No, There were no signs radiation poisoning. They showed us burn victims from the firestorm capital of the world. You can strike a match and get that mushroom affect. Bombs don't control people, fear does specially with imagery. On some of the iconic images you can tell that it's a cut and paste job. Think of how real the explosions looked on the movie "The Day After" but you know that they're not real.
All of these insane war whores with nothing but control and power on their minds and after seventy-six years off insanity nobody has pushed the button. Hundreds on unaccounted for bombs and no one is using them ? All those "broken arrows" and nukes that was up for grabs then the Soviet Union dissolved, all those nuclear power plants and unclear submarine misshapes. Everybody's got or can easily get at a price nuclear bombs, missiles and motors. You can put them in a van or even a suitcase and after decades of hatred and not one explosion. Surly you can see the collaboration among so called enemies. They are just using fear tactics to control us.
They were so busy over sensationalizing their lies that they overlooked reality. The equivalency of a thousand tons of dynamite is a thousand tons of dynamite.
Every war is a civil war, it has always been man against man and not us against them. The only enemy that man has, are those that lead him into war.
ºHow can our leaders be so insane that they always have a dozen wars going on at the same time and yet they're sane enough not to use A-Bombs ? It's a collaboration. Who is going to win, what is going to be won, how much it's going to cost and how many will die is all decided by a few truly evil people well in advance.
Nuclear plants are nuclear fueled, instead of using wood, oil or coil, but it's good old fashioned steam power.
Inhaled alpha radiation is really the nastiest. It's a heavy Helium atom and does a lot of damage if taken internally. Totally different than gamma.
@@cheddar2648 Some radiation preserves us while others kill us.
Light is radioactive heat that you can see.
All atoms are actually alive, conscious and intelligent. They are lifetrons, life is indivisible. And Man is not based on '666' carbon 6 electrons 6 protons and 6 neutrons.
Science lies about everything.
Your friend Tritium
1983 was my last year of ignorant childhood bliss. It was a good year.. for me.
I spent 8 years of my life as a Pershing Electronics and Material Specialist - both in the Pershing 1A and Pershing 2 missiles. In all of that time, I'd never seen a test launch. That always disappointed me. I never wanted to see one fred in anger, but a test launch would have been neat to see.
Absolutely awesome video well done
Love history (history major). Love your channel. Thanks.
Wow, great video compilation! Definitely some scary situations. I really enjoy your videos & always learn something from them... 😊
Excellent show, thank you!
Excellent video. Thanks.
Fantastic telling of History. Thanks.
Another excellent presentation. Thank you
I truly love your channel I learn something new ever time I watch Thank You
Unreal!!! Another fascinating post from THG.. perspective is everything.
I enjoy your content. Thanks for your hard work.
You're the best history guy. 😍
Well thank you!
excellent!! ty
What isn't mentioned about Black Mesa is the test facility eventually become a government research facility and in 2001 staff there narrowly prevented a Resonance Cascade which would could have been a world ending disaster.
Yeah except for the fact that the combine used that fun little event to invade earth and take it over in a day.
So... they doomed humanity to extinction, from the no fertility field if nothing else
thanks--people need to know such stuff!
Excellent
Thanks!
Your videos inspire me. 🗽
Brilliant!
This is fascinating.
Why have we never heard of the late 1970’s crash of a b-52 at March AFB in Riverside Ca? The final approach path area was close to the public for months, yet all was hush hush. MAFB had four ready B-52’s and a bunker complex close by before downgrading to an ARB and C-17 transport wing years later
TGIF with THG...❤...However, did I miss reference to the 1980 Titan II Missile incident at Damascus, Arkansas?🤔
It actually didn't result in nuclear material being discharged
Oooh, it's going to be a good hour!
Excellent ☆☆☆☆☆.
I IMMEDIATELY got Chieftan vibes from this man
IYKYK, and IYK, greetings tanker.
The green river base is super cool! I have been there many times! Thanks for doing this story
There was a nuclear incident at a experimental small reactor west of Idaho falls that killed three military enlisted men. One man was actually stuck to the containment ceiling by a containment rod.
45:35 the tearing down of the Berlin Wallneeds more than this little mention... as there was more of a civil disobedience that tore it down than any official authorization, and once the civilians were having their party atmosphere tearing it down it was unstoppable.
God bless you sir. I love history and I first caught your show before I leave for work at 6:30 AM. If you pronounce It "Nuculer" one time I will forget I ever heard of you. 🤘😎
Your the Best !!
My stepmom, the former Betty Jones had her house in Brownsmills NJ. hit twice from the Fort Dix-McGuire practice range. They fixed it but she sold it before she married my Dad after my mom passed away. It’s history worthy of being remembered‼️
best thing to to before my sleep,1hr of history guy video😂😂😂
LOL Return of the Jedi - that is so ****ing hilarious
Bravo man!
love that thumb govna
Thank you, our weather history is often forgotten by all, except the survivors.
I well remember headed to Biloxi MS, for hurricane Camille, driving south in a Duce and a half with medical supplies and a portable water tank in tow, we left Meridian MS around 1 AM, we got to Biloxi about daylight, it was surreal nothing was where I remembered it.
That started my first responder work. I can still see vacant lots where buildings used to be back in August 1969. The quiet was deafening. People that survived looked like they had been combat. By noon supplies were coming in to Keeseler AFB, after the Core of Engineers and Sea Bees had a runway cleared.field hospitals and morgues were filling up. I still have a piece of ceramic floor tile from the Richleu Hotel.
I had the chance to visit the titan missile museum in Az! Truly fascinating! And the Saturn! Just wow! Thanks for the history, history guy. 😁
Dixon bridge tragedy ...Have you ever did this one?
This video was the bomb!
Thank you. Just, thank you. You are bringing younger generations up to speed on our reality.
I was slightly part of Able Archer. I was a soldier assigned to an MI unit in the FRG. A handful of us young enlisted members were assigned to be something like message runners. We dressed in 1980s combat dress, including the steel pot helmet, and we carried our M16s. We were in a large room and the Powers that Be ran a simulated war game of sort. I was assigned to stand up against a wall and wait for someone to hadn me a message to run to some other Powers that Be. I didn't know what it was all about, and mainly I was bored out of my skull, such is army life. Those of us "selected" for the "field problem" all had the TSSC clearances, which in retrospect makes sense, It was decades before I even knew the term Able Archer. I rotated back to the States before Thanksgiving later.
Wondering if you could do a video on the Naval Accident of USS Bennington PG-4 where a boiler explosion killed and injured many of the crew. I read some of this incident first in a book "The History of Marine Engineering," and found it of interest.
While the main part of the air force base is in Burlington County, the Bomarc site is across the county line in Ocean County. I drive past it often. The tri-foil signs are fading but are still visible on the perimeter fence.
Looking at the title, I was expecting to hear about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima or the Fermi 1 accidents. I would suggest adding the word “weapons” to the title.
Nuclear is not all bad. I think the History Guy should do another story regarding the history of Nuclear power generation. I’d be happy to provide references.
One interesting fact I would include is that nuclear fission happened naturally on earth before man ever built a reactor. Scientists have concluded that a nuclear fission reactions have occurred on earth in numerous places. A Japanese physicist predicted their existence in the 1950’s. Google “Natural Nuclear Reactors”
In fact the natural nuclear 'fission' reactions are still happening deep within the earth's core. The heat in the earth's core is too hot to be caused by gravity alone and the fact that the earth has a magnetic field that protects us from solar radiation is due to the hot core that rotates within a ferrous mantle and creates a strong magnetic field that keeps our planet's atmosphere protected and makes life on earth possible. The planet Mars once had an atmosphere and liquid water but it is theorized that Mars lost its magnetic field when its core cooled and the solar radiation stripped away the atmosphere and that caused the temperature to plummet and what water was left was frozen or evaporated and the red planet became a desert with very little atmosphere.
Please read jefpanisi' comments above or Google "Humboldt Nuclear Accident" by Scott Rainsford. 39min video or 66min radio interview. Share if you like.
#389👍😤😀🎉A great group of lectures Professor!❤
fun fact, the gyroscope 5:08 developer/builder had a grandson whom was my best buddy back in the days. His mum knew quite a bit technical details about the system... even as an old lady, she had a very agile mind fully in the present. (yep, grew up in northern germany)
"What go's up must come down But thats not my Department say's Wernher von Braun."
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun.
📣Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!
The biggest shame of the US space program is that Wernher von Braun (and others) never faced the Nuremberg Trials
How about the fires at Rocky Flats? They almost gave Denver a generous dose on a few occaisions. Making those bombs and power plants could be very dangerous.
I was a Pershing missile crewman in the 1970s. Of course (or off course) the Mexico launch was common knowledge among us.
"That carried Americans to the moon, and beyond." That's a heck of a teaser. Where did we go beyond the moon?
The Cold part of Cold War is misleading because it was, indeed a war and had some very deadly consequences. For some of us old Cold War Warriors a couple of those "Forgotten History Lessons" aren't history, they're memories, frightening yet at the same time proud memories because my team came home alive, yet in other situations, not everyone made it. We remember and revere the fallen because only the dead have seen the end of war..
I don't know why, but I am fascinated by this subject. A full hour of this is like getting a nice big drug fix.
Happy to help out! (And way better for you than most drugs)
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As a cold war kid obsessed with model rocketry I had high flying models of various "winged missiles" including the Martin Matador and the MX-1599 Bomarc. I was upset that my Jr high shop teacher didn't chose my project for the hallway showcase. Found out he had lived in Jackson twp. Well within the radius of emergency alerts from the nearby base. That's ok, because my Nike model was selected for competition that year, as it was 2 stage and a much more challenging build. (Plus there was a Nike launch base within 5 minutes of the school and the community was quite proud of their "secret" weapon.)
I like all your videos but I love when you do an hour long video. I like long videos
Very Respectfully. This 1 might of been worded wrong. I never seen no The Best Of A Nuclear Accident myself.
What’s so scary is there are so many nuclear weapons now and by many different countries that don’t have the safety precautions that the US has
What's most concerning, is the USAF having a rubber stamp made, especially to routinely stamp ESTIMATED IMPACT AREA on a map of Mexico.
On a nw 747 that was 15 minetes behind 007 by 15minuits that plane. We spent hours in the air and we got to japan . It was a reserive two week deploiment. Wow. The reds wehe nutts!
I was born in Minot in 82'... but I lived in GF and moved back and forth between GF and Minot.
Have you done a compilation like this of all "Broken Arrow" events in U.S. history? If not, would you consider doing so? I know the public details of a few, but there's more I have heard about.
I have talked about many, but by no means all such events. th-cam.com/play/PLSnt4mJGJfGi-qJ9yauSq1ugvddQZoyQQ.html
@The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered thank you!!
42:00:00
Image of the NIKE Missile site in Marin County protecting San Francisco Bay.
I would appreciate any information that anyone can provide about a particular incident.
In 1968, USS Long Beach successfully engaged MiGs over North Vietnam with Talos missiles on 2 occasions. In 1972, USS Little Rock also shot down a MiG with a Talos.
US cruisers also used a Talos variant in the surface-to-surface role to attack radar sites.
These were, of course, armed with conventional HE warheads. Some variants of the Talos had nuclear warheads. A later variant, Talos-E, had interchangeable conventional or nuclear warheads, to save magazine space.
In the mid 1980s, I read a publication from SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, detailing all known nuclear weapons accidents. It included information about an unverified incident in which a Talos was fired by a US cruiser at a MiG over Hanoi. This was the Talos-E variant, and was supposed to have a conventional warhead, but as the story went it was accidentally launched with a nuclear warhead, a fact realized while the missile was in flight, and it was immediately destructed. Imagine the consequences if we had accidentally detonated a nuke over Hanoi.
Unfortunately, I have long ago lost that publication, and cannot find anything at all online about the incident.
Having served in a nuclear-capable unit myself, I fail to see how this could possibly happen, but then that could be said about a lot of our "little mishaps". SIPRI is a reputable organization with assets to do significant in-depth research, and I do not believe they would ever publish such a story without looking into it very closely, so unverified or not, there must have been some basis for the origin of this account.
Again, if anyone can shed any light on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
I watched and listened until 8 minutes and 19 seconds. I'm gonna finish ur video but you said "Nuclear Warhead". Much respect dude but I was waiting for you to say the word. ✊😆
Oh, I know what an LGM stands for, but what does the nomenclature MGM stand for? Oh, I was up at GFAFB during the transition from B52s to B1s. Nothing like watching that last alert take off of all the tankers and bombers!
HAAA😂 I remember when little pieces of the Berlin Wall were the hottest souvenir to have!
Spent almost 3 years in a Pershing 2 Unit. After SALT 2 I got to watch Soviet inspectors come to our sites.
Lotta vodka shared?
Why have Cobalt 57 in the Athena rocket? What would it be for?
I could only the chaos was going on
I would expect the History Guy to know that Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged in the 1990's - so referring to Lockheed Martin in the Project Hermes times is anachronistic. "History Deserved to be Remembered (accurately)"
Nitpicking for no reason. I'm sure you have better things to worry about. I mean, really.... NBC😱
Keep in mind that this fire at Grand Forks AFB in 1980 was only a year after the accident at Three Mile Island in PA.
which was a non-event blown way out of proportions by incredibly stupid public relations officers.
Ok, I'll be sure to do that.
@@jwenting can't have anything nice, smh
How about a segment about the (grim) SL-1 (Stationery Low Power) reactor accident in 1961, near Idaho Falls, Idaho.........
The threads of cultural memory are distressingly short. It used to be routine to mention Ralph Lapp, who had departed from the US Govt nuclear weapons technical scene shortly before the Goldsboro N.C. accident. He still had good contacts with those involved, and held a media confab saying that of the 7 safety devices on the bomb that was recovered, 6 had failed. The USAF triumphantly rejoindered that no, only 5 had failed. This was not so reassuring as the USAF heavies had hoped!
The Air Forcer removed massive amounts of radioactive waste from McGuire AFB. Where did they put that waste which was better than leaving it on site? .....to a site where people can't find it?
New Jersey is basically all nuclear waste
probably to a storage facility where other nuclear waste is also stored. And if they're smart (which they were at the time, not so much now) they'll have used cleanup techniques similar to those employed at major chemical spills to concentrate the contaminants out of the bulk of the soil so as to reduce the volume that needs to be stored securely.
Such waste storage sites and procedures are well established, not just for nuclear power stations and things like that but laboratory waste, industrial waste, and yes, cleanup from accidents as well.
7:30 black mesa? what timeline is it? xD
I remember in grade school doing duck and cover drills.
That fking turtle...
Fuck the Russians drills
I lived on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, and we had Soviet subs spying on us all of the time. Sea Air Rescue would bomb the decks with flour sacks to make their cameras sticky and a mess. Then after a year of that it surfaced in the lagoon looking south. Trying to outsmart us, but so happened the Coast Guard was there to trade out radio men on the Loran station. Trapped the sub in the coral and caused much mashing of the gums. Washington never responded and the sub got testy and shot a torpedo through the sub net used to trap them. The Coast Guard backed off and let them go still light on instructions. But from what we heard the sub seemed to stop coming. So, it worked out after all.
Those Ruskies are always trying to trick us
ca. 27:00, the Bomarc incident. "Alpha" radiation is the least harmful form of it, and generally is not a major concern, as it does not even penetrate the skin more than a layer or two, so has little long-term effect. By contrast, old tube-TVs emitted Alpha radiation routinely.
As to the overall risk at the end, without digging deep into the actual paperwork, my own bet is that much, if not all, of the cleanup efforts were probably useless, pointless, and a waste of money. The quantity and concentration of radioactive material was likely far lower, even if left entirely en situ and allowed to disperse, than the routine exposure of people in Denver, CO, due to cosmic rays @ ca. 5000f elevation. There's a tendency to vastly overreact to the word "radiation", usually by people who think an electron is about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
Note: Not saying it WAS vastly overblown. Just that's the way to bet lacking greater evidence than you could practically provide in this video. ;-)
Poor Speedy Gonzalez!
There were no fires nor explosions in the most recent, and perhaps more upsetting, "accident" where nuclear weapons were flown aboard a B-52 from Minot down to my neighboring city unbeknownst to anyone until they were discovered on the ramp later. That demonstrates such a gross degradation in adherence to procedures and safeguards by numerous personnel in a row that I wonder what the next incident _with fire and explosions_ would look like.
just watched this video and noticed the TARDIS again along with Robbie the Robot :)
well, he's a well rounded geek; what's wrong with that?
@@DDlambchop43 nothing, I used to watch Dr. Who back before it became popular in the US and I've seen numerous movies with Robbie in them
Rocky Flats!
Okay, so just looking at the timestamps, I gotta say you're missing my favorite one. Palomares
What font is that?
First, I am a fan of the channel and both enjoy and respect all that you do. Having said that, not meaning to criticize, I just feel the need to note, at 17:09 should be...
"The bombers targets would be destroyed" not "The targets bombers would be destroyed." Just sayin' L8R G8R :-)
1980s Onwards..
5am ist on Tuesday 15th August 2023,
33rd week of the year 2023 , First Day Of The Week as Sunday..
These are all good stories in their own right but there is something to putting these together that goes beyond just repackaging old content. Told separately, these are just interesting stories. Told together it raises questions about how we handle Nuclear weapons and tells a fuller story about how dangerous it was for us to develop and learn about nuclear weapons and the costs we paid to develop them.
Nuclear weapons serve a purpose but stories like these warn us that they are, no matter how much we have learned, very dangerous and should be respected.
Speaking of nuclear. Just watched about Camp Century. Good night
There it is again. 17:58. Nuclear. 😁