The Fate of Dr Gerald Bull - Deadly Intelligence - S01 EP06 - True Crime

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  • Опубліковано 18 вер 2023
  • In a chilling episode of Deadly Intelligence, discover the twisted fate of Dr. Gerald Bull, a visionary engineer with a radical space dream. His ambition to create an unprecedented supergun entwines him with Saddam Hussein, triggering a web of intelligence investigations, and leading to a shocking assassination.
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  • @UguysRnuts
    @UguysRnuts 5 місяців тому +18

    Friend of mine bought the leftover elliptical section gun metal steel from Bull's "Supergun" for pennies on the dollar and used it to weave a sailboat shaped basket that he then covered with a concrete/acrylic mortar creating a 50' "ferro-cement" schooner which he has sailed twice to South America and the Caribbean.
    During haulout, the vessel slipped out of it's slings and dropped several feet onto a concrete parking lot. It broke the parking lot. Takes him an entire day to drill a 2" hole through the hull.
    The boat was chartered for the final scene of Mark Wahlberg"s "The Big Hit" where it can be seen sailing off into the sunset with Marky Mark at the helm, one arm around the leading lady, China Chow.
    He turned a Weapon of Mass Destruction into an environmentally friendly wind powered yacht.

    • @dmdebruijn
      @dmdebruijn 5 місяців тому +3

      Incredible tale

    • @UguysRnuts
      @UguysRnuts 5 місяців тому +2

      @@dmdebruijn I gotta million of 'em.

  • @user-rg9yz5ou4y
    @user-rg9yz5ou4y 7 місяців тому +20

    Jules Verne proposed this in a novel written in the late ninettenth century. He also predicted that the Americans would build the gun, and that it would be fired from either Texas or Florida.

    • @am2023
      @am2023 6 місяців тому +4

      Jules was surely a time traveler or did in fact had access to a chrnovisor it's simple too much of coincidence what he wrote about. Somehow he knew or had contacted someone from the future

    • @StoneInMySandal
      @StoneInMySandal 5 місяців тому +1

      @@am2023Jules Verne followed science publications closely. He received published scientific articles from all over the world and he wrote fiction based on what he read. It’s the same way Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park) got his inspiration..

    • @jerrylev59
      @jerrylev59 5 місяців тому +1

      @@StoneInMySandal Verne may have gotten the idea from someone else, but he clearly researched it and worked out some of the engineering calculations, published back in 1865 in "From the Earth to the Moon". Bull was apparently the first to try to physically build it, for which he deserves credit, but the idea was around about a century earlier.

  • @darkhorseman8263
    @darkhorseman8263 8 місяців тому +24

    With modern advanced meta materials, this tech would be viable for space launches.
    Guy was a genius, but he forgot the golden rule; leverage is the only real form of currency.
    If someone's at risk of taking you down, you need multiple redundant dead man switches so the people responsible can never recover from their act.

    • @Aaron-zu3xn
      @Aaron-zu3xn Місяць тому +1

      viable for cargo launches but not people and they literally just reused old oil pipes so it was easier on the budget

    • @darkhorseman8263
      @darkhorseman8263 Місяць тому +1

      @Aaron-zu3xn Cargo weight is the biggest cost expense for space travel.
      But yes, G forces would be bad for humans with current technological levels.

  • @wijpke
    @wijpke 7 місяців тому +53

    My uncle worked with Bull on the South African G5 cannon. Bull was brilliant sad that his technology could not be used to the benefit of all mankind....I think. his technology is much cheaper for putting stuff into space compared to rockets...RIP Gerald

    • @JohnDoe-vy5hh
      @JohnDoe-vy5hh 6 місяців тому

      @user-ol5sd9jl7v What do you care? You are a bully.

    • @ianrasmussen9203
      @ianrasmussen9203 6 місяців тому

      Yes ask Nobel how he felt 😮

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine 6 місяців тому

      @@user-ol5sd9jl7vIf someone claimed to have once taken a walk in the park you’d likely say “no, you didn’t.”

    • @wijpke
      @wijpke 6 місяців тому

      @@user-ol5sd9jl7v what do you know you South African?

    • @forexexe
      @forexexe 5 місяців тому

      First they lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to start a war. When the truth became obvious and no such weapons found in Iraq, they created another lie about a mysterious non existing super cannon. The truth is the West is the Empire of Lies.

  • @robert-trading-as-Bob69
    @robert-trading-as-Bob69 6 місяців тому +11

    The South African G5 and G6 still outperform similar 155mm cannons around the world today.
    Thanks to Gerald Bull, the cannons were instrumental in the Battle of the Lomba, which resulted in America being gifted a crucial piece of Soviet surface to air missile technology captured by South Africa.

  • @user-nb5nb2cx8c
    @user-nb5nb2cx8c 7 місяців тому +10

    There's a movie. It stars Frank Langella.

  • @cogitoergospud1
    @cogitoergospud1 7 місяців тому +12

    Classic case of “f” around and find out …

  •  6 місяців тому +26

    He was not going to HIS apartment but his mistress's apartment. So much for journalistic integrity.

    • @plastique45
      @plastique45 6 місяців тому +16

      That doesn't make much a difference to the story, now does it?

    •  6 місяців тому

      Makes all the difference in the world. It says a lot about the man. Truth is in the details.@@plastique45

  • @Hannah-wv8xv
    @Hannah-wv8xv 8 місяців тому +19

    Mossad

  • @mike62mcmanus
    @mike62mcmanus 5 місяців тому +2

    He had a place in the Townships East of Montreal, the scar from cutting the trees up the side of a small mountain are still visible today...

  • @speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783
    @speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783 4 місяці тому +1

    An interesting psychological study in a way.. prohibition rarely solves things. If they would have let him build in America or Canada for research only, just the steel development alone is an amazing invention that can be used in anything to increase strength. I really want to know more about this steel!!!
    Prohibition only plows and fertilizes the land, now ripe for the black market.

  • @hennies9509
    @hennies9509 6 місяців тому +3

    Who had the most to loose killed him. A friend of mine developed the breechlock on the G5.

  • @franciscorompana2985
    @franciscorompana2985 5 місяців тому +6

    Iraq contracted with Gerard Bull to build three superguns: two full sized 'Project Babylon' 1000 mm guns and one 'Baby Babylon' 350 mm prototype. 😮
    Edit: The Tsar Pushka
    The highest-calibre cannon ever constructed is the Tsar Pushka (Emperor of Cannons), which has a bore size of 890 mm (35 in) and a barrel length of 5.34 m (17 ft 6 in)😅

  • @blinklost
    @blinklost 6 місяців тому +4

    This show is really awesome. I get to learn alot of histories about scientists n engineers and very smart people on this earth...love it ..

  • @Clash_CT_Rocker69
    @Clash_CT_Rocker69 7 місяців тому +31

    Just find out in which direction supergun was aimed, and you'll know who killed him..

  • @russellmcphee72
    @russellmcphee72 6 місяців тому +4

    22:00 "He successfully trades arms with South America" while talking about South Africa.

  • @HEH2U
    @HEH2U 7 місяців тому

    Great

  • @postmanlondon
    @postmanlondon 6 місяців тому +12

    It had to be Mossad

  • @RichartEgli
    @RichartEgli 6 місяців тому +3

    made in Switzerland...so much about our swiss "neutrality" :(

  • @williamrae9954
    @williamrae9954 6 місяців тому +4

    As usual, the little guy got held in jail...the truck driver!

  • @richardlawes2697
    @richardlawes2697 4 місяці тому +1

    The company I work for, made thousands of valves for his Supergun. They were stopped at the docks, before shipment

  • @watchgoose
    @watchgoose 5 місяців тому +7

    he was not "brought down by his deadly obsession". He was assasinated by other powers for their own reasons.

  • @afarroutkellydistribution.9718

    Great job guys. WMD were indeed found in the 2nd Iraq war and they were they remnants of Gerald Bulls Design. Shown as long metallic cylindrical tubes on news outlets.

  • @jamesgraham6122
    @jamesgraham6122 7 місяців тому +14

    The man was plainly a super genius when it came to physics.. Unfortunately, he was pathetically naive when it came to marketing. From the outset, he should have dispensed with the term 'SuperGun'.. Guns, not unnaturally are associated with death. His apparent aim (pun not intended), was to develop a low-cost launch system for satellites. Approaching the US and stating that this development was not in competition with rockets but simply allied to space ventures, a cost saving alternative, rockets being associated with space travel and unnecessarily expensive for a simple satellite launch; labeling it something along the lines of a Low Orbit Access Vehicle or LOAV.. he may have gained a more sympathetic hearing. I have to have sympathy with the man and disappointment with the lack of imagination demonstrated by his potential clients.

    • @bexhill8777
      @bexhill8777 5 місяців тому

      there is no "space"...

    • @notpurrfect6397
      @notpurrfect6397 3 місяці тому

      Yes. A less ominous name focusing on space would be better. It seems that everyonr else kept calling it a gun.

  • @wyckedsyndicate
    @wyckedsyndicate 2 місяці тому

    While I respect his work to a degree Bull knew the physics would never let them move anything substantial into space. His testing with the US got him 1/10th of the way up with funding which isn't even low Earth orbit. Yes, he made it to "space" but I think people forget the vast distances in the stratosphere. Not sure if people are ill-informed stating that his work could be feasible today but with reusable rockets and nothing indicating success with such a gun doesn't leave me with the same sentiments. Great watch though.

  • @derrick9635
    @derrick9635 3 місяці тому

    Obsessed rogue character.

  • @riaweekes6137
    @riaweekes6137 3 дні тому

    WOW this gun is like 15mins from my house!! I never knew the history behind it

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 7 місяців тому +1

    Fiddler on the flat Roof 🔭

  • @DJJ81
    @DJJ81 3 місяці тому

    Project Babylon has been declassified since the late 90s…I wouldn’t call that “newly declassified”

  • @suztjembijawatson3362
    @suztjembijawatson3362 6 місяців тому +2

    In my opinion, the son will never have his fathers brilliance no matter how much he wants it.

    • @iamblackthorne
      @iamblackthorne 6 місяців тому +4

      His son has greater brilliance. The son backed off and survived

    • @petepenn1
      @petepenn1 6 місяців тому

      @@iamblackthorne Agree, also his son did not have a mystery women to hold him in.

  • @pmajudge
    @pmajudge 7 місяців тому +6

    HMMMM !! PLAYING WITH FIRE !! MICHELLE BULL . SAD ABOUT YOUR DAD'S DEATH . R.I.P. TO A SUPER ENGINEER . MY THEORY U.S.A( C.I. A) / ISRAEL (MOD). FROM, U.K. (2023).

  • @terryboehler5752
    @terryboehler5752 6 місяців тому

    I watched video of it being disassembled as it was in place on the side of a hill.

    • @StoneInMySandal
      @StoneInMySandal 5 місяців тому +1

      That was the small, prototype version on the hill. The video you saw is from a 1994 HBO movie called Doomsday Gun staring Frank Langella.

  • @chriscuomo9334
    @chriscuomo9334 6 місяців тому +4

    Dr Bull was made a citizen by Act of Congress. Only Winston Churchill and Marquis de Lafayette (a true hero at only 19 years old) have also received this honor. Bull’s wiki page does not mention the fact of his American dual-citizenship. It was embarrassing to the USA to care so much for Bull’s citizenship, only for Bull unable to care less. Unfortunately, his chemistry and erector sets were likewise unable to keep him from the hand he’d bitten. G Bush wasn’t about to let Poindexter cut side deals with Hussein. It’s funny that his wiki page also suggests that his death was possibly robbery-related.
    Moral of the story: do not cross the CIA
    Honorable mention: an ordinary street kid from philiadelphia with an average IQ would have known not to try to sell tech to Hussein

    • @marcusaetius9309
      @marcusaetius9309 6 місяців тому

      It was Mossad that took him out not the CIA…

  • @requiscatinpace7392
    @requiscatinpace7392 7 місяців тому +4

    I wonder if he was just naive?

    • @franciscorompana2985
      @franciscorompana2985 6 місяців тому

      I remember that everybody knew from national TV. Why should he go to jail in the first place. Those people were already against him. Everybody was talking before he died. It was like they killed a genius the level of Dr. Wernher von Braun. Why?

    • @adelhartreisig9020
      @adelhartreisig9020 6 місяців тому

      Nah, he was simply a c..., a Canadian, they're all cu...

    • @StoneInMySandal
      @StoneInMySandal 5 місяців тому +1

      Yeah. His personal notes and court testimony are public domain. He was entirely disconnected from political reality and genuinely thought building weapons to fund his personal goal putting payloads in space was not a big deal.

  • @theknifedude1881
    @theknifedude1881 5 місяців тому +1

    Bull should have known the Israelis weren’t going to let him work for Saddam Hussain.

  • @damienluxford4480
    @damienluxford4480 7 місяців тому +2

    I understand that when someone checks your pulse to find out if you're dead what they're actually checking is whether or not your heart is still beating. If the heart stops there is no pulse, for some reason, and so the person can be pronounced dead.

  • @raymondyee2008
    @raymondyee2008 3 місяці тому

    I’m sure people who watched the movie “Doomsday Gun” would come here to watch this.

  • @robzilla730
    @robzilla730 2 місяці тому

    So... what about firing the gun left - right??

  • @ceefusjenkins2281
    @ceefusjenkins2281 Місяць тому

    Who aspires to build the worlds largest cannon??

  • @williamparker1085
    @williamparker1085 6 місяців тому +2

    he was incredibly naive and signed his own death warrant

  • @champeesand
    @champeesand 8 місяців тому +1

    สวัสดีค่ะ

  • @sylvesterconceicao3581
    @sylvesterconceicao3581 7 місяців тому +2

    Who ever did it, everybody benefitted.

  • @vishnupundle9321
    @vishnupundle9321 6 місяців тому +1

    Other countries like north korea, pakistan, and china should have taken his help.

  • @RegalMe91
    @RegalMe91 4 місяці тому

    South Africa was not fighting communism in Angola but killing Namibians fighting for our independence. I don’t feel sorry for him at all. What did he think would happen building a weapon like that?

  • @jonathanroberts7108
    @jonathanroberts7108 7 місяців тому +1

    The first Canuck in history, to be genius level at his craft, yet too intimidated by the language barrier or too greedy to understand that his skill would have been better and more safely utilized in Hong Kong.

  • @benderbendingrofriguez3300
    @benderbendingrofriguez3300 5 місяців тому +1

    Fun Fact: The teacher of Gerald Bull at the University said he was not a very brilliant guy, and who graduates with "Strictly average" grades.

  • @margaretgreenwood4243
    @margaretgreenwood4243 5 місяців тому +1

    So, Was the Iraq war, weapons of mass destruction etc really about this gun? Iraq’s intentions

    • @FA-Q20-1
      @FA-Q20-1 4 місяці тому

      No the supergun happened in 1990 when bull was killed. 😊

  • @user-vj1kg6kt4u
    @user-vj1kg6kt4u 7 місяців тому

    Dangerous dream that lead to death

  • @federalagenciesarecourtesans
    @federalagenciesarecourtesans 4 місяці тому +1

    Panhandler

  • @terryboehler5752
    @terryboehler5752 6 місяців тому +1

    And "smart people" say there was no WMD.

    • @michal31131
      @michal31131 5 місяців тому

      Operation Opera
      They were really close to having nuclear weapons until the IAF stopped it.

  • @helloworldRR
    @helloworldRR 3 місяці тому

    Bull = Horns, MOSSAD .

  • @davidjma7226
    @davidjma7226 7 місяців тому +6

    Yeah, i always carry £20,000 around with me on my person......

  • @Dreddwinner
    @Dreddwinner 6 місяців тому

    🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

  • @am2023
    @am2023 6 місяців тому

    Why 22k on him?

  • @user-vn4wx9xg9r
    @user-vn4wx9xg9r 6 місяців тому +2

    If he had only used his fantastic clever brain for something else that could of benefitted mankind in a peaceful way, why is fighting always so vital to mankind

  • @muddgeeser
    @muddgeeser 5 місяців тому

    I was told the C I A whacked him

  • @Samariapain
    @Samariapain 6 місяців тому

    SCRFE habitat

    • @Samariapain
      @Samariapain 6 місяців тому

      Ian Fleming tho 😏

    • @Samariapain
      @Samariapain 6 місяців тому +1

      Shaken not stirred

  • @jasrob009
    @jasrob009 4 місяці тому

    Almost all these episodes allude to possible Israeli involvement in assassinations of scientists, inventors or anyone else aiding a country they had issues with.

  • @johncox2865
    @johncox2865 7 місяців тому +3

    0:20
    When you say “over 500 feet”, do you mean 599, or 501?
    500 feet is NOT two football fields. Do the math. 100 yards = 300 feet.
    Get it right, or be quiet about it.

  • @kimmccabe1422
    @kimmccabe1422 7 місяців тому +4

    What a dumb invention and waste of mind. Did he really have to be warned?

  • @angelamccrackin5243
    @angelamccrackin5243 7 місяців тому

    If you deal with weapons expect to get shot with your own gun....in every sense of the way...

  • @sunrayisdown1690
    @sunrayisdown1690 6 місяців тому

    Murdered by MI5.

    • @marcusaetius9309
      @marcusaetius9309 6 місяців тому +1

      Mossad

    • @bernienicol5669
      @bernienicol5669 6 місяців тому

      MI5 only deal with internal UK security matters, MI6 deals with UK security matters abroad

    • @sunrayisdown1690
      @sunrayisdown1690 6 місяців тому

      Ssshole. England is not international!

  • @jhonkallum1177
    @jhonkallum1177 4 місяці тому +1

    Not brutal as Americans and isreal

  • @furbabe
    @furbabe 17 днів тому

    With zero mobility, Baby Babylon would have become the most useless and laughable super giant weapon. The brilliant scientific mind definitely is infested by craziness.

  • @robsting5414
    @robsting5414 7 місяців тому +2

    how booring is the show man male it interesting stretching and steching it's disgusting wasting peoples time like this

    • @adelhartreisig9020
      @adelhartreisig9020 6 місяців тому +1

      You must've found school boring as well, your English is ret....., you c...

    • @Northcountry1926
      @Northcountry1926 4 місяці тому

      don’t watch