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Nuclear Power Plants are honestly something that shouldn't be overlooked, or feared. Would save us from so much in terms of waste and gaseous byproducts.
@soulknife20 Nah, not just them, people just assume it'll break down and either explode or irradiate everyone, and don't realize that Russia and Japan had very isolated situations occur for them
There's actually some funny things coming from thoae who protested against nuclewr power in the 60s 70s and 80s now stating that they probably shouldn't have protested against it because compared to all the other Technologies we have nuclear is probably the best until we at least get Renewables fully up
@Real-Ruby-Red both now engineering issues... easily solved. With advances in battery tech that problem is less and less a issue. If we ever get room temperature superconductors then energy storage becomes a moot point.
Nuclear Power is crucial in the fight against climate change, it provides a critical base load that is always on, something that neither solar nor wond power can do.
If it's already in capacity tho. We won't fight climate change by switching to reactors that need 40 years to be constructed anew and that's not even with delays
@@lukasholtkamp7614 Better late than ever, simply put the need for power will only increase and thus focusing more effort on Nuclear would be beneficial nevertheless even if it takes time. Not everything can be so quickly done
13:00 - your friendly reminder that Uncle Sam has a plan to keep you safe in underground secure luxury shelters, that will have no negative consequences whatsoever, so even with the still present threat of total nuclear annihilation you can rest assured that you can enjoy a brighter future, underground. Brought to you by Vault-Tec.
You seem to be fixed on the old style Nuclear plants. The new ones are modular, built in factores, and can't melt down. As Japan disaster, it melted down because there was no power to the pumps.They were not allowed to use nuclear power plant to run its own pumps, insread it had to be external power, which was down. Also, the military and commercial companies have been using radiation to sterilize food for over 60 dears. They just don't want to talk about it. If you don't want to burn fossil fuels, nuclear power is the only reliable source.
Nuclear power is not the only reliable alternative source to fossil fuels. Wind in certain regions are just as reliable as nuclear and conventional fossil fuel power stations. Solar (I've worked for the past year modelling solar alternatives to steam boilers in Europe for industrial processes, not perfect but a good option for much of the year, and far cheaper than nuclear). The fuel everyone seems to ignore is biogas. Any source of organic material can be used as a feedstock, the infrastructure is already in place, and the burning of biogas is carbon neutral as the breakdown of organic matter naturally releases the same quantity of carbon dioxide. The issue with the nuclear argument is that people argue for it as a silver bullet, there is no simple, easy answer. To move away from fossil fuels, you need to utilise a range of alternatives for energy security.
Precisely! And in most of these bomb designs uranium and plutonium tampers and casings are designed to contribute significantly to the blast yield. In fact the 100 Mt proposed design of Tsar Bomba was designed for about half the blast yield to come from third stage fission reactions of its tamper, which was omitted from the bomb design to cut down on the yield for the test version. Even the term H-bomb is misleading since thermonuclear devices often include lithium for fusion fuel.
14:00 sadly we dont have a way of sustained nuclear fusion yet...if we figure that out, we won. almost infinite energy, no way for it to melt down, very little radiation.
The tech race is certainly on, it is possible that manmade fusion energy that is manageable will come before 2040. The US, China, EU and Britain are the leading figures in this tech race. Presumably within 20 years all of the mentioned above would have harness the actual power of the sun.
They didn't know what they're research would lead, alot of scientific breakthroughs are both good for civilian use and bad cause of military use. The good in this one is nuclear energy. It's a really efficient method to produce electricity for large areas of populations. The bad well the obvious, the bombs that are extreamly destructive and holds the wolrd in the MAD doctrine. Who knows when a country will break this doctrine and finally launch but it could soon, later or never. It truly is a maddening time we live in when whole nations can be wiped out in a blink of an eye and many nations have this power.
I just realized that Armchair Historian _hasn't_ actually done a full, dedicated video about nuclear weapons before, let alone nuclear technology at large, but now that they have, they've become death, the destroyer of history UA-camrs!
You fill me with hope for the future, and i actually learned from the video! I am a big fan of nuclear energy and its uses, and this video really shows that nuclear energy while dangerous it is just too good to be unused, thank you for making this video
Hey armchair historian I hope you see that I want you to do a serie about the arab spring in 2011 and all the civil wars and changes that happened in the arab world
I am a history professor, love your content! I just made a video a couple months ago on the Samson Option! I think many folks would enjoy learning about it.
We came a long way from those days and a miracle we lived through the Cold War without being blown to bits. Really a lot of nuts and bolts to figure out.
Doing a video on battle of cuito cuanavale would be very interesting it was one of the biggest battles in Africa between the South African armed forces and Cuba / Angola its hardly covered at all on UA-cam which is sad..
@@svenrio8521 Even with better batteries, to ignore such a powerful and efficient source of power is ludicrous especially in terms of other applications that mandate its use.
Yeah, he's basically skipped all of Tube Alloys/MAUD and then forgotten to mention that Britain just carried on with it's own research after the US terminated access in 1946.
"Mr. Oppenheimer the biggest bomb ever built that we've been working on for the past 5 years, the ricecooker 3000, has been dropped on japan" "NOOOOOOOO WTF HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?? I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF😭😭😭😭" seriously wtf was his problem? What did he think was going to happen?
My grandfather claimed that nuclear bomb saved his life. He was Polish volunteer serving on British destroyer during IIWW. When Germany fell, my grandfather was reassigned to the Pacific and he was freaking out. To him and his fellow crewmembers Pacific front was a meatgrinder, that this time they won't be so lucky... His fleet nearly arrived and suddenly war just ended. I felt really strange when I heard this story. I thought that nuking Japan was total overkill but its not that simple. Its bizzare how unpredictible consequences this invention had.
You forgot the fallout over the U.S.A. New Mexico and surrounding states. A movie, with John Wayne, called Genghis Kahn, I think. Most of the actors etc. died later of cancer related illnesses. Young woman, girls, that were playing outside, saw "snowflakes" falling on them. The "snowflakes", were nuclear fallout. I think it's important to give as many horrific situations, when it comes to weapons. I don't think you did forget or did research on these infamous situations.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 The movie tidbit is actually a common myth, however the young girls who were playing outside and were blanketed with Fallout is very true, it was during the Trinity test.
"This video was a fascinating deep dive into the history of nuclear technology! ☢ I learned so much about its evolution, from weapons to peaceful applications. The Armchair Historian always delivers top-notch content with great visuals and storytelling. 🙌 Definitely subscribing for more! 👍"
@@DaveyBones2376 Instead of quickly judging and saying this "reads like a school project for leaving comments on social media," pause for a moment and consider that there might be a deeper reason behind these words. Perhaps I am practicing expressing myself, maybe I want to improve my communication skills, or maybe I just want to connect with the world around me and have a small part in the conversations. Everyone enters this virtual world with a purpose, and mine is to learn and grow.👌👌
'In the Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu took on his four-handed form to impress the Prince Arjuna, as He said - I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds'
People look at Nuclear power as if they fear we are gonna end up like the Fallout universe post apocalypse. Where In reality we might get so advanced we might end up like the Fallout universe pre apocalypse.
Once more a lovely video as one truly knows you for. Just one teeny mistake at 10:41 . You used square-kilometers there to indicate distance, yet used the right unit when converting it to miles. I know a tiny bit nitpicking here, but just wanted to let you know.
The Nuclear Family by Ari Beser. Story of the author’s grandfather involvement in the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki as well as survivors accounts from the aftermath of the bombing.
I recommend Weinberg's _A World At Arms_ (single volume history of WWII) for a proper historical reckoning of the nuclear bombing of Japan if anyone is interested.
Why do people have a problem with nuclear plants in their town, but don't have a problem with sending their sons and daughters on nuclear powered ships in the military?
As I see it the only way humanity will stop using Nuclear Power completely is to find a source of power that's greater and maybe safer. Also a little cheaper. But what that could be, I don't know. Nice video.
I suggest watching video titled "The Ant Walkers Of Hiroshima" with stories of nuke survivors. It describes those "normal" effects of using a nuclear weapon on a city. Little spoiler: conventional bomb don't deglove your skin and leave you alive.
India has few Thorium reactors, they have no risk of big boom, also thorium cannot be used in weaponry, now its the time for European countries to license Thorium reactor blueprints from India and solve our energy crisis oh wait nuclear energy bad crowd would ruin this.
@TheArmchairHistorian You are talking in the beggining of the video about "Nuclear fission". The bombs arent working with nuclear fission but with nuclear fusion
“My God, what have we done. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, well they’re just gone. The nuclear age has been unfurled. We have become Death. Destroyer of worlds.”
For those who think that nuclear weapons should be dismantled; a grim reminder that these weapons is what kept humans from wiping out themselves for 8 decades. Keep that in mind.
Yes, it has helped maintain relative peace through deterrence, but it is a peace achieved through fear. The very existence of nukes poses a threat to humanity's survival
Humans wouldn't wipe themselves out if we didn't have nuclear bombs. Because we wouldn't have the capabilities to kill the whole humanity. What could happen is that there could be more conflicts.
@@CrayonosaurusRex if anything, it's the fear of using them is what brought them such immense respect. That's what real power looks like. The simple thought of the aftermath use of such a weapon, where only eternal silence reigns in a dying world, is enough to make one's to crawl out of his own skin and scream his soul out of distress.
@@rdx2425 that's what I've been trying to say. Peace through strength. It's been part of mankind's chaotic and survivalist nature since we stepped outside the cave.
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How much effort do you put in each video?
@@ArpanDe Not much, because it id full of inaccuracies. Both Historical and Scientifical....
And Western Hypocrisy and BS.
Griffith we really need an evolution of canons video
Nuclear Power Plants are honestly something that shouldn't be overlooked, or feared. Would save us from so much in terms of waste and gaseous byproducts.
But nuclear scary because Soviets.
@soulknife20
Nah, not just them, people just assume it'll break down and either explode or irradiate everyone, and don't realize that Russia and Japan had very isolated situations occur for them
There's actually some funny things coming from thoae who protested against nuclewr power in the 60s 70s and 80s now stating that they probably shouldn't have protested against it because compared to all the other Technologies we have nuclear is probably the best until we at least get Renewables fully up
@@Shinzon23renewables are half the problem; each sharing a lot of problems. The main issue is storing the energy and being able to produce on demand.
@Real-Ruby-Red both now engineering issues... easily solved. With advances in battery tech that problem is less and less a issue.
If we ever get room temperature superconductors then energy storage becomes a moot point.
I'm gonna be honest i was expecting a HOI4 sponsorship with the new DLC release being so recent to this video lol
I was thinking the same thing.
Same here😂😂😂
they did that before twice. I *think* it was Finland and Ethiopia but not sure. Exact same pattern. I assume they just took the sponsor offering more.
Especially since the dlc adds so much nuclear stuff
Same thing, missed opportunity
You know it's going to be good when ArmChair Historians talks about bombs
Demoman: B O M B.
fr
Bombs just as large as large as how much his game bombed
@@marcomorgen300Damn did it really?
In the name of polish people, I congratulate to you for saying the full, the proper name of Marie Skłodowska Curie
She left her name when she married her husband.
@@alexysaintemarie4259 She used both names, check out the front page of her PhD (it's on wiki, A la faculte des sciences de Paris)
Nuclear Power is crucial in the fight against climate change, it provides a critical base load that is always on, something that neither solar nor wond power can do.
But nuclear power also poses a risk of being able to allow other countries to make bigger bombs.
@@Real-Ruby-Redthey're always sitting in there silo so no need to worry
@@Real-Ruby-RedNot if they're thorium reactors. You can't make a bomb out of thorium, and they're more efficient than uranium reactors anyway.
If it's already in capacity tho. We won't fight climate change by switching to reactors that need 40 years to be constructed anew and that's not even with delays
@@lukasholtkamp7614 Better late than ever, simply put the need for power will only increase and thus focusing more effort on Nuclear would be beneficial nevertheless even if it takes time. Not everything can be so quickly done
13:00 - your friendly reminder that Uncle Sam has a plan to keep you safe in underground secure luxury shelters, that will have no negative consequences whatsoever, so even with the still present threat of total nuclear annihilation you can rest assured that you can enjoy a brighter future, underground. Brought to you by Vault-Tec.
Based reference, preparing for the future with Vault-Tec.
Thanos: You’re a pencil pushing Terran who never learned to love his bomb.
Stalin: Does the “a” stand for atomic or a**?
oversimplified in a nutshell.
ERB mentioned 💯
You seem to be fixed on the old style Nuclear plants. The new ones are modular, built in factores, and can't melt down. As Japan disaster, it melted down because there was no power to the pumps.They were not allowed to use nuclear power plant to run its own pumps, insread it had to be external power, which was down. Also, the military and commercial companies have been using radiation to sterilize food for over 60 dears. They just don't want to talk about it. If you don't want to burn fossil fuels, nuclear power is the only reliable source.
Nuclear power is not the only reliable alternative source to fossil fuels. Wind in certain regions are just as reliable as nuclear and conventional fossil fuel power stations. Solar (I've worked for the past year modelling solar alternatives to steam boilers in Europe for industrial processes, not perfect but a good option for much of the year, and far cheaper than nuclear). The fuel everyone seems to ignore is biogas. Any source of organic material can be used as a feedstock, the infrastructure is already in place, and the burning of biogas is carbon neutral as the breakdown of organic matter naturally releases the same quantity of carbon dioxide. The issue with the nuclear argument is that people argue for it as a silver bullet, there is no simple, easy answer. To move away from fossil fuels, you need to utilise a range of alternatives for energy security.
16:16 u guys get the feeling that others contend that humanity should not rely on the assumption that everyone fears mutually assures destruction?
13:35 Wrong!
It relies on both, since you need the energy of a nuclear fission bomb to start the nuclear fusion bomb.
Precisely! And in most of these bomb designs uranium and plutonium tampers and casings are designed to contribute significantly to the blast yield. In fact the 100 Mt proposed design of Tsar Bomba was designed for about half the blast yield to come from third stage fission reactions of its tamper, which was omitted from the bomb design to cut down on the yield for the test version. Even the term H-bomb is misleading since thermonuclear devices often include lithium for fusion fuel.
🤓 "um actually that's wrong"
I am only joking but the way you said that sounded like 🤓
14:00 sadly we dont have a way of sustained nuclear fusion yet...if we figure that out, we won. almost infinite energy, no way for it to melt down, very little radiation.
Even expanding thorium technology will help immensely in making energy cheaper than dirt, and thus prosperity our destiny
The tech race is certainly on, it is possible that manmade fusion energy that is manageable will come before 2040. The US, China, EU and Britain are the leading figures in this tech race. Presumably within 20 years all of the mentioned above would have harness the actual power of the sun.
Anyone else noticed that they got rid of Oppenheimer on the thumbnail
It's kind of terrifying how little these early scientists knew about the horrors they were playing around with.
As Oppenheimer once said, "Now I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds".
@@azurehorizon6097animal mother said that too
So horrible how those scientists invented a bomb that would prevent massive wars several times over
Most of humanity discovering things is like that “lets find out”
They didn't know what they're research would lead, alot of scientific breakthroughs are both good for civilian use and bad cause of military use.
The good in this one is nuclear energy. It's a really efficient method to produce electricity for large areas of populations.
The bad well the obvious, the bombs that are extreamly destructive and holds the wolrd in the MAD doctrine. Who knows when a country will break this doctrine and finally launch but it could soon, later or never. It truly is a maddening time we live in when whole nations can be wiped out in a blink of an eye and many nations have this power.
I just realized that Armchair Historian _hasn't_ actually done a full, dedicated video about nuclear weapons before, let alone nuclear technology at large, but now that they have, they've become death, the destroyer of history UA-camrs!
L comment
I don't think anything else fascinates me more than nuclear physics & engineering. Thanks for covering this topic!
You fill me with hope for the future, and i actually learned from the video!
I am a big fan of nuclear energy and its uses, and this video really shows that nuclear energy while dangerous it is just too good to be unused, thank you for making this video
Hey armchair historian I hope you see that I want you to do a serie about the arab spring in 2011 and all the civil wars and changes that happened in the arab world
You know the sight was good when you use the word awesome on a formal document.
Here comes the sun, dodo doo
Doo
history channels closely observe paradox's release schedule, every expansion drives interest in a new topic.
HOI4 just released a new "Gotterdamerung" expansion today, perfect timing!
I'm starting to see a pattern with youtube videos, most of them are about nuclear bombs and they correspond with this current global issues we have.
15:49 the US alone had more than 4200 nukes in 2012 this is completely inaccurate there was nearly 20,000 nuclear weapons still in service.
I am a history professor, love your content! I just made a video a couple months ago on the Samson Option! I think many folks would enjoy learning about it.
I also made a video on the Manhattan project and a movie review of Oppenheimer
@@HistoryfortheAgesalready subscribed.
Maybe with enough videos a whole history of the world could be assembled.
For some reason yesterday I was reading about nuclear power weapons etc…. And today you posted a video about it…. Man I love you 🖤
I’m going to use this to study my chem test
We came a long way from those days and a miracle we lived through the Cold War without being blown to bits. Really a lot of nuts and bolts to figure out.
Doing a video on battle of cuito cuanavale would be very interesting it was one of the biggest battles in Africa between the South African armed forces and Cuba / Angola its hardly covered at all on UA-cam which is sad..
Always been interested in nuclear physics but I'm not much of a math genius to figure it all out
Great video man
Excuse me good sir you put that original thumbnail back to its glory
We need more nuclear power
we don't need nuclear bros
@@FlagAnthemuntil we get better batteries, yeah we do
Yay, nuclear power ☢️😎✨⚡️
@@svenrio8521 Even with better batteries, to ignore such a powerful and efficient source of power is ludicrous especially in terms of other applications that mandate its use.
2:32 Chicago Pile 1 definitely did not generate electricity!
“Britain was able to draw from its involvement in the Manhattan project”
Yeah, that project we started that the Americans then froze us out of.
Yeah, he's basically skipped all of Tube Alloys/MAUD and then forgotten to mention that Britain just carried on with it's own research after the US terminated access in 1946.
I have become death, destroyer of worlds. - Robert.J.Oppenheimer
The overall quality of this video, very well done.
Still having nuclear weapons while almost "banning" nuclear reactors caused by environmentalist is a big tragedy for humanity.
"Mr. Oppenheimer the biggest bomb ever built that we've been working on for the past 5 years, the ricecooker 3000, has been dropped on japan"
"NOOOOOOOO WTF HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?? I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF😭😭😭😭"
seriously wtf was his problem? What did he think was going to happen?
oppenheimer 🔥
“And now I am become death, destroyer of worlds”…
My grandfather claimed that nuclear bomb saved his life. He was Polish volunteer serving on British destroyer during IIWW. When Germany fell, my grandfather was reassigned to the Pacific and he was freaking out. To him and his fellow crewmembers Pacific front was a meatgrinder, that this time they won't be so lucky... His fleet nearly arrived and suddenly war just ended. I felt really strange when I heard this story. I thought that nuking Japan was total overkill but its not that simple. Its bizzare how unpredictible consequences this invention had.
Great video guys! Superb job in maintaining a neutral view in showing the pros and cons of nuclear science ❤
You forgot the fallout over the U.S.A. New Mexico and surrounding states. A movie, with John Wayne, called Genghis Kahn, I think. Most of the actors etc. died later of cancer related illnesses. Young woman, girls, that were playing outside, saw "snowflakes" falling on them. The "snowflakes", were nuclear fallout. I think it's important to give as many horrific situations, when it comes to weapons. I don't think you did forget or did research on these infamous situations.
I think thats kinda debunked. The famous gus on that is a chronic smoker.... a stable example of coalation does not mean causation.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 Oh. I understand and agree. It's just, I've heard this on other channels etc. Thank you.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 The movie tidbit is actually a common myth, however the young girls who were playing outside and were blanketed with Fallout is very true, it was during the Trinity test.
I‘d love to see more Historical Videos on scientific topics!
8:10 what is bro doing here he's supposed to be conquering the Earth
"This video was a fascinating deep dive into the history of nuclear technology! ☢ I learned so much about its evolution, from weapons to peaceful applications. The Armchair Historian always delivers top-notch content with great visuals and storytelling. 🙌 Definitely subscribing for more! 👍"
This reads like a school project for leaving comments on social media
@@DaveyBones2376 Instead of quickly judging and saying this "reads like a school project for leaving comments on social media," pause for a moment and consider that there might be a deeper reason behind these words.
Perhaps I am practicing expressing myself, maybe I want to improve my communication skills, or maybe I just want to connect with the world around me and have a small part in the conversations.
Everyone enters this virtual world with a purpose, and mine is to learn and grow.👌👌
@@time_warriors It still reads like a school project for leaving comments on social media.
@@DaveyBones2376 Oops, I guess I got a little carried away playing the literature teacher and forgot this is the real world! 😅
'In the Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu took on his four-handed form to impress the Prince Arjuna, as He said - I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds'
Bet she was into that
Early viewers knew the person on the thumbnail was Oppenheimer before it got changed.
Me with the new hoi4 dlc:
I have become death destroyer of worlds
Armchair Historian, please create a video on the mentioned Marshall Islands.
Peaceful video with peaceful comment's 😊
Greetings from Los Alamos, New Mexico!
Woah
4:07 skłodowska was not french-polish, she was a fully polish scientist
Exacly, she was just married to a french man, but was fully polish
She was a naturalised-Frenchwoman
People look at Nuclear power as if they fear we are gonna end up like the Fallout universe post apocalypse. Where In reality we might get so advanced we might end up like the Fallout universe pre apocalypse.
17:41
Well a steam engine with extra steps
Turning a wheel with extra steps
I support nuclear energy. Bring it back. Humanity has learned.
Marie Curie did this in France with her French husband Pierre Curie (also a genius, often forgotten).
very cool video, your animation only gets better and better
Now I wanna see him do like a 60 seconds animations or stm like that
Remember that before the USSR had the Tzar-Bomba, the US already had the project "Sundial"; though never realized of course!
Oppenheimer:"Now l am become death,the destroyer of worlds".
“Shimmyashimmyyayayayay-“
Falalal
Tf was the point of this comment lmao 4:17 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭
@@PalmettoOP Relax relax
Was waiting for this comment 😂
Once more a lovely video as one truly knows you for. Just one teeny mistake at 10:41 . You used square-kilometers there to indicate distance, yet used the right unit when converting it to miles. I know a tiny bit nitpicking here, but just wanted to let you know.
The threat of nuclear power is not nuclear power itself, but the untrustworthyness of mankind.
The Nuclear Family by Ari Beser. Story of the author’s grandfather involvement in the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki as well as survivors accounts from the aftermath of the bombing.
I recommend Weinberg's _A World At Arms_ (single volume history of WWII) for a proper historical reckoning of the nuclear bombing of Japan if anyone is interested.
Remember americans warned the japanese it's their fault not taking seriously
Nuclear Energy is the future of power.
I really hope we don't live through a nuclear apocalypse
Why do people have a problem with nuclear plants in their town, but don't have a problem with sending their sons and daughters on nuclear powered ships in the military?
It was okay to level Germany, but not Japan? Double standards much?
Yea it weird tbh I guess people think Japan are less evil or something (which it isn't at all they are much worst imo)
@@noktinnkynoktinnky1329yhea because they manage to Hidden to the people their attrocites on the War
And also thanks to japan soft power
"Now I become death the destroyer of worlds I suppose we all thought that one way or another"- Julius Robert Oppenheimer father of the atomic bomb
As someone from Hiroshima, I cannot express how often I get asked if Hiroshima is safe like I literaly just told you I lived there??? Also the G7???
"Whoops"
-Nuclear Scientist
Even though the Cold War ended almost 30 years ago Nuclear Weapons are one thing that shouldn’t be messed with even to this day.
One step closer to the Grim Dark Future.
now i am become a commenter, trying to get likes
Just like me
As I see it the only way humanity will stop using Nuclear Power completely is to find a source of power that's greater and maybe safer. Also a little cheaper. But what that could be, I don't know. Nice video.
We got the history and science all in one video. Learned something new today: mother of radium!
Fallout/S.T.A.L.K.E.R Referencia.
This wouldve been great if this was released during the release of fallout tv show
been to hiroshima ground zero. that building with the broken dome roof is still there; taken over by nature. u can see lots of birds next there now
I thougt you would go into more details about chernobly
Very interesting
BARBENHEIMER
Could you do some wars from Southeast Asia or pre-Columbian America?
Hey armchair historian make your amazing UA-cam videos on famous war hero’s like Desmond Doss and Louis zamperini SGT stubby and so many others
Stuff like this makes us think to this day what would happen if AI gets there hands on this and what would happen then?
You might consider the Baltic wars of Independence, for a future video. ^^
I suggest watching video titled "The Ant Walkers Of Hiroshima" with stories of nuke survivors. It describes those "normal" effects of using a nuclear weapon on a city.
Little spoiler: conventional bomb don't deglove your skin and leave you alive.
India has few Thorium reactors, they have no risk of big boom, also thorium cannot be used in weaponry, now its the time for European countries to license Thorium reactor blueprints from India and solve our energy crisis oh wait nuclear energy bad crowd would ruin this.
@TheArmchairHistorian You are talking in the beggining of the video about "Nuclear fission". The bombs arent working with nuclear fission but with nuclear fusion
18:05 The Ukraine and Belarus were part of the USSR, this map is wrong
The radiation poisoning was only (mostly) from the immediate area of the atom bombs. People still live there to this day with no issues.
“My God, what have we done. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, well they’re just gone. The nuclear age has been unfurled. We have become Death. Destroyer of worlds.”
And this came right after the new Kurzgesagt video on nukes too!
Awesome video as usual Grif
Least self-destructive human invention (so far)
In an ironic way...yeah. The fire bombing of Tokyo resulted in more fatalities than both atomic blasts combined.
For those who think that nuclear weapons should be dismantled; a grim reminder that these weapons is what kept humans from wiping out themselves for 8 decades. Keep that in mind.
I agree, as I learned more about them, the more I disliked them, but I like the peace that they've brought allot more
Yes, it has helped maintain relative peace through deterrence, but it is a peace achieved through fear. The very existence of nukes poses a threat to humanity's survival
Humans wouldn't wipe themselves out if we didn't have nuclear bombs. Because we wouldn't have the capabilities to kill the whole humanity. What could happen is that there could be more conflicts.
@@CrayonosaurusRex if anything, it's the fear of using them is what brought them such immense respect. That's what real power looks like. The simple thought of the aftermath use of such a weapon, where only eternal silence reigns in a dying world, is enough to make one's to crawl out of his own skin and scream his soul out of distress.
@@rdx2425 that's what I've been trying to say. Peace through strength. It's been part of mankind's chaotic and survivalist nature since we stepped outside the cave.
So in a carbon bomb, the 60th neutron radiates from the isotope uranium and is subsequently absorbed by the coat of carbon 59.