Was Oppenheimer right? | What would happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped on a UK city?

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  • Опубліковано 2 чер 2023
  • It's a question that was once incredibly important, then became less relevant, but with current global politics has come back to the fore - What would happen after a nuclear strike?
    Mike Fernie investigates this brutally apocalyptic subject matter by visiting Scotland's secret bunker in the Kingdom of Fife, diving into the science and engineering behind both atomic and hydrogen weapons.
    Music: MB01WOVIHQAGMXK
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  • @offgrid7837
    @offgrid7837 11 місяців тому +954

    Building bunkers for the very people that start the wars is insanity. Putting our "leaders" in harms way and making sure they know they're the first to go is by far the best way of preventing any such conflict.

    • @al_kebulanolutosin2702
      @al_kebulanolutosin2702 11 місяців тому +20

      OFF-GRID MY FRIEND, LOUD & PERFECTLY CLEAR.
      BUT THERE LEADERS & LEADERS, THERE ARE FEW, VERY FEW WHO ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIFE FOR THEIR PEOPLE.
      " THAT IS WHY, "THE CHRIST" IS ETERNALLY OUTSTANDING!!!!!.
      HE DID NOT RUN FROM HIS ENEMIES ---- & HE MADE NOT A SOUND WHEN BEING CRUCIFIED ---- THE ETERNAL CONQUERER!!!!!!!
      I ADMIRE THE "IMMORTAL" NOT THESE PETTY MUNDANE RULERS!!!!!!!

    • @rgracia611
      @rgracia611 11 місяців тому +34

      That is one of the smartest things I’ve ever heard. I’m on board with that.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob 11 місяців тому +9

      How would putting the UK leadership in harm's way help prevent an attack by an adversary?

    • @offgrid7837
      @offgrid7837 11 місяців тому

      @@yuchoob I didn't specify just UK leadership. Wars are started by elites for their own benefit and pose no real risk of death to them. If they were the very first to be eliminated you can be sure there would be very few wars.

    • @al_kebulanolutosin2702
      @al_kebulanolutosin2702 11 місяців тому +2

      LOUD AND CLEAR!!!!!!

  • @laurelhardy4064
    @laurelhardy4064 Рік тому +895

    In the event of a nuclear explosion, I would like to be in the 3 mile zone area, so I would disintegrate ASAP.

    • @gilgammesh1
      @gilgammesh1 Рік тому +60

      Same, put me at the epicentre

    • @Xiph1980
      @Xiph1980 Рік тому +139

      And miss out on the finest radroaches, brahmin, and deathclaw recipes??

    • @RichieKeane
      @RichieKeane Рік тому +25

      That was the problem in UK/EU most countries just didn't bother because they needed too many bunkers and not much point in the end. But the swiss.. one place for every citizen in every town..

    • @bghoody5665
      @bghoody5665 Рік тому +8

      @@Xiph1980 Don't forget Mirelurks.

    • @dazzab111
      @dazzab111 Рік тому +16

      same, I've seen the movie Threads

  • @alanjames5586
    @alanjames5586 9 місяців тому +40

    Great video. However there is one additional aspect of a nuclear explosion that you didn't mention. After the initial flash followed by heat and then blast there is a fourth effect - it is called drag back. Once the force of the shock wave is over the air rushes back to fill the vacuum created by the shock wave. The drag back effect causes further catastrophic damage.

    • @alicianah8352
      @alicianah8352 6 місяців тому +2

      Additionally all power plants unmanned would overheat and explode adding further radiation for tens of thousands of years.

    • @stevenfries9007
      @stevenfries9007 5 місяців тому +1

      Yes-and you rarely see that effect on many nuclear videos.

  • @rbob1973
    @rbob1973 Рік тому +364

    As a kid in the 80's, my mother worked for the MoD within the Nuclear department. If an attack was imminent, she had a place in a bunker, but the family did not. And for the reason, that after many years going down bunkers for fire drills. The amount of video's and classified footage of the effects from these, she left the department and worked elsewhere. Her advice was that if one went off, she would just march us outside. I guess, because we would not feel a thing and would be the kindest thing to do for us all, rather than try and survive along with the cancer rate and other diseases within an apocalyptic world.

    • @stevenewton7787
      @stevenewton7787 Рік тому +17

      Lol yeah I say if one is coming for Manchester I'm watching it.

    • @FarterBoom
      @FarterBoom 11 місяців тому +5

      Its near!

    • @owthattickles8738
      @owthattickles8738 11 місяців тому +19

      Cancer would be the least of your problems

    • @FarterBoom
      @FarterBoom 11 місяців тому +6

      @@owthattickles8738 yeah, mutants and zombies must be the Worst

    • @ireneerrico4706
      @ireneerrico4706 11 місяців тому +5

      Famine

  • @ADF86123
    @ADF86123 Рік тому +310

    After the bomb goes off all we'll hear is Clarkson say "And on that bombshell"

    • @xXxlLEGENDZlxXx
      @xXxlLEGENDZlxXx Рік тому +32

      "HAAAMMMMMMOOONNNDDD!!!"

    • @WarButler
      @WarButler Рік тому +11

      It's time to end

    • @StaticSRR75
      @StaticSRR75 Рік тому +5

      What could go wrong?

    • @Okurka.
      @Okurka. Рік тому +9

      Still, could be worse.

    • @hesky10
      @hesky10 Рік тому +4

      And on that terrible disappointment ... for you!

  • @LtNduati
    @LtNduati Рік тому +385

    Well this was unexpected lol

    • @koshintokoshinto
      @koshintokoshinto Рік тому +15

      No one expects the nuclear option!

    • @jcat96
      @jcat96 Рік тому +17

      ​@@koshintokoshinto nobody expected the Spanish inquisition

    • @jessandkaka
      @jessandkaka Рік тому

      That’s different.

    • @robertrico7598
      @robertrico7598 Рік тому +10

      Was this a whole video to show that Mike can’t pronounce the word Nuclear?

    • @imanidiot2904
      @imanidiot2904 Рік тому +2

      As long as its in the USA or the UK the world would be better off after

  • @chrisholland7367
    @chrisholland7367 Рік тому +49

    In 1984, the BBC produced a documentary drama,'Threads ' .It was made during the Cold War and was critically acclaimed. It was said this docu drama was the closest Britain came to nuclear war.

    • @odineproci2455
      @odineproci2455 Рік тому +15

      It was. In the present, Britain is edging closer to nuclear war than ever before. The main reason for this, apart from acting as a vassal to U.S. empire, is the unstable situation where a much larger and more powerful U.S./NATO now has enough hubris to no longer fear a nuclear confrontation with Russia. NATO is not a defensive alliance but a framework of U.S. empire. It is a tool designed to defend U.S. interests first and foremost, as its European members are even pulled into U.S. imperial wars that are detrimental to own interests e.g. the Iraq war (which led to terrorism, economic damage and refugee crises in Europe). However, NATO's expansion to former Warsaw pact and now ex-Soviet countries was always about weakening and isolating Russia, with a long view to disintegrate, disarm and ultimately plunder the former superpower. The main problem with this plan is that they are still armed like one. A large part of NATO, including Britain, does not posses adequate defence against Russia's modern nuclear weaponry. I believe our masters might be quite safe behind concentrated defences with their GMD, THAAD, Aegis, Patriots etc. But what about us? Our current leadership is convinced they can survive that, probably in some deep bunker. But what about us? When do we get to vote on all the incredible political stupidity that puts us collectively at risk? Oh yes, there is no vote on NATO. That sort of Brexit is not allowed. But the master did appreciate an economical Brexit from the EU, since a more divided Europe is easier to control and allows American businesses to make more profits here.

    • @alxgu198
      @alxgu198 Рік тому +13

      My uncle was in ‘Threads’. Well, his hands were lol, he was the milkman near the start of the film.

    • @chrisholland7367
      @chrisholland7367 Рік тому +1

      @alxgu198 lol 😆 oh dear, his fate was sealed the morning he went on his milk round.

    • @alxgu198
      @alxgu198 11 місяців тому

      @@chrisholland7367 😂👍

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 11 місяців тому +9

      @@odineproci2455 what is all this drivel? have you not got anything better to do or anything more worthwhile to contribute?

  • @AJ_UK_LIVE
    @AJ_UK_LIVE Рік тому +14

    I must congratulate your team on your cinematography. Top notch colour-grading here. A beautiful and interesting video. Well done.

  • @georgesmith3628
    @georgesmith3628 Рік тому +34

    Cant wait for the follow up video - James May Reassembles Thermo-Nuclear Bomb part 1

  • @gmark007isGianmarcoMaioli
    @gmark007isGianmarcoMaioli Рік тому +38

    The eeriness from watching this vid whilst on a casual walk in the neighbourhood is on another level.
    I started picturing what a nuclear mushroom would look like on the horizon.

  • @philcollinson328
    @philcollinson328 Рік тому +6

    This vid was amazing. Informative, very well presented and beautifully filmed.

  • @1958HHH
    @1958HHH 10 місяців тому +12

    Great job Mike. You need to do more of this type doc videos.

  • @WarButler
    @WarButler Рік тому +28

    You continue to surprise with both the quality and diversity of content on this channel. This was an excellent and chilling video. Expertly shot, delivered, and edited. Can't wait to see what's next!

  • @kal1mm
    @kal1mm Рік тому +68

    If you were in the bugout bunker kitchen i imagine you would be fine.

    • @Mazomania
      @Mazomania Рік тому +3

      🤓

    • @MillhouseSpeaks
      @MillhouseSpeaks Рік тому +4

      🧀

    • @gewglesux
      @gewglesux Рік тому +12

      but only if adequately supplied with lurpak.

    • @theog841
      @theog841 Рік тому +6

      ​@@gewglesux invented in 1901

    • @Okurka.
      @Okurka. Рік тому +3

      The council issued white bread stays fresh for decades.

  • @tspmcfarlane
    @tspmcfarlane 11 місяців тому +3

    Didn’t expect this video to be so close to home here in Glasgow. Brilliantly made and presented!

  • @XpunisherX8152
    @XpunisherX8152 11 місяців тому +31

    Imagine spending your life career as a physicist and you make history by splitting the atom but your government sees potential to use it as a form of world control

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 9 місяців тому

      Oppenheimer....odious criminal.

    • @Desert-edDave
      @Desert-edDave 9 місяців тому

      Imagine being so intellectually lazy as to think a single government can "control" the world.

  • @arunodg5536
    @arunodg5536 Рік тому +15

    1. lucy does a budget travel show
    2. james may promotes his new gin
    3. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF A NUCLEAR BOMB-

  • @myrants5836
    @myrants5836 Рік тому +17

    Thanks for this. Really interesting watch. Ive been to that bunker a couple of times. Always shocks me how long the ramp is down into it.

  • @jdnelms62
    @jdnelms62 Рік тому +6

    Great documentary! It's visually very creative and highly informative as well. What I love best is how it brings the world scale issue down to a human and local context, in this case Scotland.

  • @Graham_Wideman
    @Graham_Wideman 11 місяців тому +10

    Nothing says "expertise" like "nucular".

  • @stuartkseels
    @stuartkseels Рік тому +124

    Mike, as much as we all love you. There is only ONE 'U' in nuclear!

    • @405pugMi
      @405pugMi Рік тому +19

      Haha, yep. I immediately thought of Homer Simpson. "Nuculer. It's pronounced nuculer"

    • @fdsman
      @fdsman Рік тому +6

      You could make a drinking game out of it

    • @stuartkseels
      @stuartkseels Рік тому +1

      @@fdsman lol.

    • @Okurka.
      @Okurka. Рік тому +3

      @@405pugMi *pronounced
      Oh, the irony!

    • @405pugMi
      @405pugMi Рік тому

      @@Okurka. fat thumb syndrome strikes again..

  • @spiercephotography
    @spiercephotography Рік тому +12

    This.. is not what i expected when I clicked on the thumbnail, but ended up really cool and really informative too!

  • @weisswurster
    @weisswurster Рік тому +1

    This is a fantastic video, really well presented!

  • @chrisbaggieboy5656
    @chrisbaggieboy5656 Рік тому

    Well thanks for cheering my evening up you’ve been a great laugh.

  • @karlsilcock8727
    @karlsilcock8727 Рік тому +96

    I've always wondered what justification politicians used to justify their survival post apocalypse and the same goes for any nobility that would have been saved as well. Why save a group of people who's skill sets would in all honesty be quite useless and in fact are more likely to be a drain on whatever society would be left than any realistic benefit.

    • @nigelgribble8736
      @nigelgribble8736 Рік тому

      Absolutely, if politicians didn't have bunkers to hide on they would think twice about using nuclear weapons

    • @patriciarowe6685
      @patriciarowe6685 Рік тому +6

      Agreed 🤝

    • @sodium7127
      @sodium7127 11 місяців тому +1

      Money talks.
      Unless humanity launches dozens of nuclear weapons simultaneously and renders the world uninhabitable, the rest of the world outside the blast zone will still exist and money will still hold its value.
      That is what I assume at least.

    • @andyb.1026
      @andyb.1026 11 місяців тому

      Biological weapons are FAR more effective,, witness CoVid

    • @mikejung3908
      @mikejung3908 11 місяців тому +9

      I’m glad our leader get to survive, let them eat cockroaches and scorpions when they crawl out of their little hidi holes, let them enjoy the dark world where rotting flesh taints the air.

  • @MillhouseSpeaks
    @MillhouseSpeaks Рік тому +9

    Fascinating! From travel videos to this!

  • @moynur04
    @moynur04 Рік тому +64

    This was such an informative video. It is such a scary thought that any country in the world would even consider this in today's day and age.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 11 місяців тому

      Putin would....he's a narcissistic gangster living in his own psychotic bubble....he 'thinks' he'll live for ever. The 'creature' ruling North Korea would...

    • @chrisbagley8104
      @chrisbagley8104 11 місяців тому

      A certain country led by a lunatic might just press the button, wait and see. Look to the East.

    • @RandomWandrer
      @RandomWandrer 11 місяців тому +9

      An excellent video. It was only distracting hearing the guy say "nucular" instead of "nuclear" every minute.

    • @christian14329
      @christian14329 11 місяців тому

      You only need one lunatic on the trigger! Unfortunately, Putin is a lunatic!

    • @PeteCourtier
      @PeteCourtier 11 місяців тому +1

      That’s why we have our nuclear deterrent.

  • @JunkWaxSal
    @JunkWaxSal 11 місяців тому

    Great video. Very well made.

  • @richardreynoso91
    @richardreynoso91 Рік тому +5

    Unexpected but enjoyable. Nice one

  • @conelybiscuit4985
    @conelybiscuit4985 Рік тому +12

    rent would get affordable?

    • @gewglesux
      @gewglesux Рік тому

      Think BIG..... Mortgage!!

  • @mavrick1834
    @mavrick1834 11 місяців тому +2

    Mike, what an incredibly interesting and clear video. Thank you.

  • @LostInADV
    @LostInADV 11 місяців тому

    This is an award worthy production. Brilliant everything.

  • @Thisandthat8908
    @Thisandthat8908 Рік тому +7

    that's a change of pace.
    Also: When the Wind blows. Extremely impressive and haunting film on the topic. Despite (or because) it being quite funny as well.

  • @JG54206
    @JG54206 Рік тому +108

    I always found it interesting that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was designed specifically to withstand nuclear (thermonuclear I believe) weapons, but by the time construction was completed the thinking was that a direct hit would still be able to destroy it. It’s also fascinating to me that the only way a fusion reaction can be kicked off (with current tech) is by using a fission reaction. Simply incredible.

    • @darrinnoble
      @darrinnoble Рік тому +4

      They say it's because of the rock that Cheyenne Mountain is made of. It creates a fused shield when exposed to extreme heat. It's also really obvious which mountain is Cheyenne. 😂

    • @JG54206
      @JG54206 Рік тому +2

      @@darrinnoble this is true lol. It’s not exactly hard to spot.

    • @bertram-raven
      @bertram-raven Рік тому +4

      Even during the design phase it was accepted a direct hit would destroy it. The belief of the time, now validated as true, was such levels of precision were not possible with initial guidance systems.

    • @bertram-raven
      @bertram-raven Рік тому +1

      @@JG54206 Not hard to spot, unless you are trying to calculate ballistics from a few thousand miles away using inertial guidance systems. Then it is very hard to spot.

    • @JG54206
      @JG54206 Рік тому

      @@bertram-raven I would imagine that scenario would add quite a bit of difficulty and complexity to the equation.

  • @gazwild438
    @gazwild438 Рік тому

    Excellent video, explanation was just perfect

  • @explorationsouthwest8851
    @explorationsouthwest8851 11 місяців тому

    Really well made vid! Very informative! 👍

  • @45H4W
    @45H4W Рік тому +66

    Some say it could actually improve some UK cities and towns and that the Co-op would still be open, even if it was directly below the detonation.

    • @Brian-om2hh
      @Brian-om2hh Рік тому +10

      This was Donald Trump's argument, when it was suggested that North Korea should be nuked. Trump didn't see why US taxpayers ought to fund infrastructure improvements in NK......

    • @richardmorgan5002
      @richardmorgan5002 Рік тому

      🤣

    • @richardmorgan5002
      @richardmorgan5002 Рік тому

      🤣

    • @michaelscott7166
      @michaelscott7166 11 місяців тому +8

      If it was dropped on Bradford that definitely would be the case.

    • @neilarcher2551
      @neilarcher2551 11 місяців тому +8

      You couldn't make Wolverhampton any worse even with a nuke.

  • @ravismcromarty5600
    @ravismcromarty5600 Рік тому +9

    I'm wondering what kind of damage a Scottish made 58 megaton nuclear warhead infused with Irn Bru would do.

  • @amcl7
    @amcl7 11 місяців тому +4

    Great video, thoroughly enjoyed! One small correction if I may, the RAF are no longer in Kinloss, the old base is now Army barracks. It’s nearby Lossiemouth and Leuchars that are still active 😃

    • @chunkymonkey3957
      @chunkymonkey3957 11 місяців тому +2

      One small correction to your correction, Leuchars is no longer an active RAF station either. The Army have control of what was RAF Leuchars now.

    • @timdeegan3753
      @timdeegan3753 6 місяців тому

      Somewhere else will certainly be the new equivalent

  • @JackB_Music
    @JackB_Music 11 місяців тому

    Great video, your narration style is spot on!

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob 11 місяців тому

      Except for the bit where he keeps saying "new-que-lar".

  • @cjjk9142
    @cjjk9142 Рік тому +8

    Last week: James May drinks some gin
    This week: *WHAT IF WE ALL DIE IN A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION*

  • @ITViking
    @ITViking Рік тому +28

    "We sent Lucy on the three cheapest flights possible to create a travel show in three days"
    "Next up, just how devastating is the hydrogen bomb?"

    • @crazoatmeal1854
      @crazoatmeal1854 Рік тому +7

      I originally subscribed for the Bugout Bunker, so we've kind of come full circle

  •  Рік тому

    Nicely done Video. When I saw it in the End Cards of the last car Video, I was quite surprised. But as a history nerd, I liked it.

  • @philipburrell9756
    @philipburrell9756 Рік тому

    Amazing video. Thank you.

  • @darrenmurray861
    @darrenmurray861 Рік тому +44

    I’ve just looked at the reaction of the thermonuclear fusion bomb and that is really very scary. Incredibly impressive that somebody came up with it, but crazily scary.

    • @robertokandal
      @robertokandal Рік тому +1

      it will not fall 1 ,
      but thoussands of them over uk,,, you ahve been warned.

    • @darrenmurray861
      @darrenmurray861 Рік тому

      @@robertokandal well; if the Russian aim is as terrible as your spelling and grammar I think we will be just fine thanks.
      Off you go now 😊

    • @jamesbarbour8400
      @jamesbarbour8400 Рік тому +8

      @@robertokandal that's what we get for sticking our nose into a War that has nothing to do with us -'we're like a subsidiary of the US in this Country. Everytime they say 'jump', we say 'how high' !?

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 11 місяців тому +2

      fusion bomb 'impressive'? The works of JS Bach are impressive, the works of Shakespeare are impressive , not fusion bombs.... fusion bombs are the stuff of nightmares.

    • @ivanexell-uz4mv
      @ivanexell-uz4mv 11 місяців тому

      @@jamesbarbour8400 and Belarus and Serbia? 😂

  • @seedless-bud
    @seedless-bud 11 місяців тому

    you took me on a ride in this one... what a great vid

  • @Cheiff117
    @Cheiff117 Рік тому

    oh its mike ! , another great video

  • @neilbowers6956
    @neilbowers6956 Рік тому +6

    I used to work in an R3 bunker during the 90's. The bunkers were so bad that it was said that a 1000 lb bomb could have taken it out. So, whether I'd have survived down there if the big one happened was doubtful.

  • @thornbird6768
    @thornbird6768 Рік тому +16

    I watched Threads the British movie of a nuclear war , its horrific 😢 and knowing now the bombs are so much stronger , it would be quite easy to destroy the planet 😮

    • @al_kebulanolutosin2702
      @al_kebulanolutosin2702 11 місяців тому +1

      Thorm
      ONLY HE WHO MADE THE WORLD 🌎 CAN DESTROY IT!!!!!?
      THIS WORLD DID NOT MADE BY CHANCE OR BY GUESS!!!!!
      THE SEASONS COMES & GOES IN FAULTLESS ACCURACY, LIKE WISE THE SUN & MOON!!!!
      WHY DOUBT THE POWERS OF ----- THE ALMIGHTY!!!!!.

  • @woesmaro
    @woesmaro Рік тому

    One of the best vids on the channel, very eerie

  • @cptgrimm
    @cptgrimm 11 місяців тому

    Great video - I live in Edinburgh and visited this bunker museum when I was a kid! Would like to go back and you’ve inspired me

  • @fishinmalarkey9830
    @fishinmalarkey9830 Рік тому +3

    Thank goodness we're being softened with the idea before it all kicks off

  • @LordandGodofYouTube
    @LordandGodofYouTube Рік тому +27

    This is a great video and I hope you do more like this, and not just war stuff but random tech, engineering, and just any random interesting stuff. You did a really great job on this one, writers and editors pat yourselves on the back. It's sad that the people we put in power end up becoming power-crazed lunatics who would rather sacrifice thousands of their own countrymen than find a reasonable solution. So far thank the flying spaghetti monster none have used these bat$h!t crazy weapons since WW2. Hopefully, in the future, our descendants look at war as just a crazy part of the past.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 11 місяців тому

      The human species has always made war. Horrible species in that regard. it shows no signs of stopping. Putin invades a peaceful democratic neighbour and goes about demolishing and drowning it. Warlords fight with modern weapons in Sudan and, as the man said, 'so it goes'.

    • @AnarchAngel1
      @AnarchAngel1 11 місяців тому +3

      Keep hoping because that will never happen. War always has been and always will be a part of human civilization. To expect otherwise is naive

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 10 місяців тому

      Test y

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 10 місяців тому

      @@AnarchAngel1 yes you are all thinanadams sons

    • @LordandGodofYouTube
      @LordandGodofYouTube 10 місяців тому

      @@AnarchAngel1 a lot of things change. We used to do human sacrifice for the Gods. Capital punishment is slowly going away. To say war will always be a part of life is a bit pessimistic.

  • @Cadaver1actual
    @Cadaver1actual 11 місяців тому

    Great video. Very interesting topic

  • @Gazshadows
    @Gazshadows 11 місяців тому

    Great video 👍

  • @GD2X
    @GD2X Рік тому +5

    Just in time for the Oppenheimer film

  • @gewglesux
    @gewglesux Рік тому +3

    "Shall we play a game"

  • @JonMcG
    @JonMcG 11 місяців тому

    Great vid 👍

  • @katiekemp5582
    @katiekemp5582 11 місяців тому

    Excellent I learnt a lot, Thank you

  • @williebauld1007
    @williebauld1007 Рік тому +5

    I tell you what would happen, we would be mildly miffed!

  • @Kevinfordsynthesizers
    @Kevinfordsynthesizers 8 місяців тому +4

    Over 30 years ago I supplied valves and other plant controls. Many nuclear shelters were still in operation at the time and I visited a couple under the strictest security. The air filtration plants would fail regularly - usually every fortnight- and as I was informed by one of the engineers, in the event of nuclear attack one of the personnel who would not be permitted in the facility at that critical time would be the engineers..

  • @thecosmoscorner
    @thecosmoscorner 11 місяців тому

    Excellent video 👌🏼😃

  • @alanconroy7929
    @alanconroy7929 Рік тому +1

    I really needed cheering up. Thanks for this. 😂😅

  • @JackIsMe1993
    @JackIsMe1993 Рік тому +4

    Oh no they nuked Grimsby!
    Alexa play Mike Oldfield.

  • @aceundead4750
    @aceundead4750 Рік тому +6

    During the description of what'll happen during the explosion of the bomb he Mike failed to mention most of us will be out of a job.

    • @elhasmusic
      @elhasmusic Рік тому

      And jobs would still be forced necessary.

    • @gilesfarmer5953
      @gilesfarmer5953 Рік тому +1

      .. and that 3 million people in the UK will die.......... unemployed!
      Credit to NTNOCN

  • @IHazPeppers
    @IHazPeppers Рік тому

    Very well done.

  • @3enLiamMichael
    @3enLiamMichael 11 місяців тому

    Fantastic video this.

  • @ukdroneking
    @ukdroneking Рік тому +4

    Excellent ! Well done mike 👏

  • @ClellBiggs
    @ClellBiggs Рік тому +8

    The worst of it will be for the people farther away from the blast. Those that are close will die quickly. Those farther away will have severe injuries and radiation sickness. Most of them will still die, but it will be over a long and excruciatingly painful period of time. These weapons should have never been created. I know it didn't appear so at the time, but the losses taken invading Japan would have been preferable to the looming destruction and suffering we face today. Murphy's law will eventually get us.

    • @rain-cy6ve
      @rain-cy6ve Рік тому

      I agree, better more loss of human lives then than this monstrousity threatening the very existance of our world as it is now. I think somebody took the wrong decision and they didn t have much forsight to see what would happen.

    • @ian323183
      @ian323183 11 місяців тому

      Depends on the wind direction, most will probably starve if there is a nuclear winter.

    • @alexburt6995
      @alexburt6995 11 місяців тому

      Someone was going to develop them eventually. I'm glad it was the US to do it first rather than certain other nations.

  • @MikeJackson690
    @MikeJackson690 11 місяців тому

    Amazing video. All I could think, however, was, "What have we done? 🤦‍♂️"

  • @captaincat1743
    @captaincat1743 9 місяців тому

    Brilliant video, I wasn't subscribed but I am now. I know it is very difficult to condense such complicated information into a short, easy to understand video but for anyone interested -when an atom undergoes fission and splits apart it is not smashed apart in the conventional way like a bullet would smash an egg apart. The atom actually absorbs the neutron and then it vibrates, becomes unstable and pops apart. (This all happens in fractions of a billionth of a second) Both pieces of the atom have a net positive charge and it is that electrostatic force of two positives that makes the two pieces fly apart at high speed. Contrary to normal intuition the faster a neutron is travelling, the less likely it is to make the atom break apart because it will more likely bounce off instead of being absorbed. That is why water and graphite are used in nuclear reactors - to slow the neutrons down.

  • @ukrobbo
    @ukrobbo Рік тому +4

    Very cool that there were enough bunkers in this country to house anything up to about 1000 of the entire population.

  • @Buckblacket
    @Buckblacket 11 місяців тому +3

    I've been inside the bunker at Kelvedon Hatch. Like the one in this video, as you go below ground, there is a very long corridor leading to the blast door around the corner at the end of it. It's obviously a common feature to aid in the defence of these bunkers.

    • @TheGonzogibby
      @TheGonzogibby 11 місяців тому

      We had raves in the “secret bunker” back in 2002-2004 - Bangin’ indeed.
      Ffs I’m old now.

    • @davetdowell
      @davetdowell 11 місяців тому

      The Blast Doors are deliberately placed at right angles to direction the blast would come from, to reduce the impact to the door.

  • @goflyfpv2798
    @goflyfpv2798 11 місяців тому

    Well presented

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob 11 місяців тому

      Except that he can't pronounce "nuclear" correctly, throughout the whole thing.

  • @fluffyspit
    @fluffyspit Рік тому

    Thanks that was really comforting 😂

  • @inelegy
    @inelegy Рік тому +9

    So, we've just given up and are now just gonna say "newkuelar" and not " newclear"?

    • @SunTzuMedia
      @SunTzuMedia 8 місяців тому

      Right?! Lol embarrassing

  • @lester9448
    @lester9448 11 місяців тому +3

    The thermal nuke in the film terminator 2 is terrifying

  • @GioMarron
    @GioMarron Рік тому +13

    Kept that bunker a secret when I visited Anstruther.
    Honestly, though, there’s far more to worry about from the nuclear bomb than there is the nukelar bomb because, and this is true, nukelar bomb doesn’t exist 😉
    Worked on Britains nuclear deterrent in Faslane and Coulport.
    The v-boats were fascinating as were the trident ICBMs. If they weren’t so ch a horrendous weapon of destruction (and also housed so f king close to Glasgow), the technology behind them is incredible. Everything from how, on launch, they clear the water to allow the sun launch, to how it travels, all the way to it travels 1,200 miles up and reads the stars to to locate itself and its target

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 10 місяців тому

      all those who are righteous will increase
      And all those wicked will act in righteousness in order that they will not be cut off
      As wicked does not support those righteous
      They will lie down and not get up.+They will be extinguished, snuffed out like a burning wick.
      How have the anointed shown themselves to be people for the name today
      To worship and serve Jehovah accept
      Those who are not spiritual how was this foretold in bible
      End the son of man ? For angels , to separate
      The sons of the kingdom
      Look! I am doing something new;
      I will make a way through the wilderness
      The wild beast of the field will honor me,
      The wild beast of the field will honor me,
      For I provide water in the wilderness,
      For the ostriches
      For my people to drink
      I formed for myself
      The people
      Who grew
      You have not called me
      I have bought
      And I have not compelled
      I am the one bring me
      Prove me your right side
      The one for my sake
      Taken from my own body
      For her sake
      - Bring me a gift

  • @boonedockjourneyman7979
    @boonedockjourneyman7979 8 місяців тому +1

    The ignorance of a generation that has never known war is astounding.

  • @bghoody5665
    @bghoody5665 Рік тому +3

    "War never changes."

  • @DrKrapulax
    @DrKrapulax Рік тому +7

    I wonder why ~50% of english speakers can't pronounce new-clear and says nukular instead...

    • @cjjk9142
      @cjjk9142 Рік тому +1

      Not sure on 50% as I say it as new clear . Not to mention it’s literally English and you’re complaining English saying English wrong

    • @theheadone
      @theheadone Рік тому +3

      Unfortunately, it's likely because of The Simpsons.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob 11 місяців тому +1

      The weird thing is he can say "nucleus" correctly (he doesn't say "new-que-lus"), but he does say "new-que-lar". I would agree that it's at least 50% of British English speakers say "new-que-lar". It dates far before the Simpsons; most of my school friends used to say it and now so do almost all the politicians and journalists. And yet, most of them don't say "skelington" or "Specific Ocean".

  • @milesmcclure3485
    @milesmcclure3485 11 місяців тому +1

    I don't see why people think Faslane poses a threat to Glasgow, Its the largest population centre in Scotland. I think if a full scale nuclear conflict kicked off, the people of Glasgow would find it very hard to worry about the bombs headed for Faslane while they're staring at one falling on George square

  • @slappybagOG
    @slappybagOG Рік тому +1

    Brilliant stuff. Wasn't a nuclear bomb but I recently read about the Dresden bombings in WW2. War is so awful, I hope the worlds nukes never get used.

    • @tjmac7
      @tjmac7 11 місяців тому

      To be fair, over 2000 bombs have already been detonated, above ground, underground, under the ocean, in the atmosphere, you name it. We are living in a post nuclear environment. Makes you wonder doesn't it.

  • @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK
    @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK Рік тому +16

    Allow me to be the one to point out that it is pronounced Nuclear not Nucular. Next you’ll be axing questions.

    • @paulbrouyere1735
      @paulbrouyere1735 Рік тому +1

      Especially with the subject of nuclear It is best to not allow misunderstandings or dyslexia.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob 11 місяців тому +1

      @@paulbrouyere1735 This isn't dyslexia. This is a bizarre mispronunciation of a word by a significant number of people. And it's not even consistent: He doesn't mispronounce "nucleus" as "new-que-lus", so why does he insist on saying "new-que-lar"? Does he also say "skelington"?

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob 11 місяців тому

      Next he'll be axing questions about new-que-lar skelingtons in the Specific Ocean.

    • @paulbrouyere1735
      @paulbrouyere1735 11 місяців тому

      @@yuchoob oh great, you found a way to train spelling control😂

    • @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK
      @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK 11 місяців тому

      @@yuchoob I am internally grateful for your reply.

  • @brenner7308
    @brenner7308 Рік тому +9

    The Simpsons references start at 00:17 😄

  • @Balafoutre
    @Balafoutre 11 місяців тому

    I am in awe!!!

  • @127cmore
    @127cmore 11 місяців тому +1

    Raf Leuchars and Kinloss are closed now. Only Lossiemouth in Scotland operates as an air force base

  • @digitalfootballer9032
    @digitalfootballer9032 Рік тому +59

    Like with so many other things, we opened Pandora's box when we made the first nuclear bombs. In an ironic twist, it became so the only way to ensure none would be used against you was to have your own so you were equally as threatening to your enemy. I fear the AI revolution that is taking off now will be the next problem like the nuclear arms race was. Because don't kid yourself, AI will absolutely be used, or at least be available to use, as a weapon of mass destruction, and quite possibly it may very well reach a point where we are no longer controlling it.

    • @stevezodiac491
      @stevezodiac491 Рік тому +2

      We didn't Oppenheimer did.

    • @jamesbarbour8400
      @jamesbarbour8400 Рік тому +1

      @Terminator- ha you beat me to it - I was going to reference the Terminator movies. Oh well - great minds obviously think alike 🤣

    • @tadhggoreyoneill13666
      @tadhggoreyoneill13666 Рік тому +5

      ​@@stevezodiac491oppenheimer couldn't look himself in the mirror ever again after Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 11 місяців тому

      @@tadhggoreyoneill13666 He was the lowest of the the lower... using a brain smarter than the average for evil.

    • @cbo9090
      @cbo9090 11 місяців тому

      @@stevezodiac491only because Werner Heisenberg was attempting a nuclear weapon for the Nazis. They actually had a several year head start but the program was vastly underfunded. The Americans didn’t know how far along they were with it though.

  • @ItsToXxy
    @ItsToXxy Рік тому +4

    If Europe gets nuked, can we still watch Lucy Brown travel the apocalyptic wasteland?

  • @paulylah
    @paulylah 4 місяці тому

    Great content! Just want to let you know the simpsons was joking when homer said “It’s pronounced Nucular”

  • @cdeford
    @cdeford 11 місяців тому +14

    People who lived through the Cold War understand the real risks. Younger people don't feel it at all and are in denial that it could ever happen.

    • @water4826
      @water4826 11 місяців тому

      I am a younger person I don’t understand what ur talking about I understand all the risks and possibilities and how devastating it is and I am in no denial at all

    • @cdeford
      @cdeford 11 місяців тому

      @@water4826 I'm glad you say that but I think you are the exception rather than the rule, judging by the average comment by peopl on the internet in the West.

    • @water4826
      @water4826 11 місяців тому

      @@cdeford I have had many conversations with friends and people about my age tho who do also understand

    • @water4826
      @water4826 11 місяців тому

      @@cdeford tho I do understand that there are some people that definitely have no idea what it’s capable of

    • @cdeford
      @cdeford 11 місяців тому

      @@water4826 I think it's more that people who lived through the Cold War believed in nuclear war as a real possibility, but in the safe (for the West) unipolar world we've had since 1991 that possibility has become too remote. People in the West have become used to running the world and ordering everything for their benefit. They can't imagine things not always going their way.

  • @jameslewis8227
    @jameslewis8227 Рік тому +23

    Dear Mike, this was a great video, but I have to admit that I’m not bothered at all by the possibility of a “nucular” war happening, but I do find the possibility nuclear war terrifying, whether fusion or fission bombs were to be used.

    • @jenncross4139
      @jenncross4139 11 місяців тому +4

      Yeah, the nookyoolar really undermines the severity of the threat.

    • @dwchester
      @dwchester 10 місяців тому +4

      I agree. I hate to be sour, but the repeated use of the wrong word really detracts from what was otherwise a fine, informative article.

    • @pwcinla
      @pwcinla 10 місяців тому +2

      Exactly. You cannot speak with authority if you keep saying "new killer." Plus the constant cut-away shots where he's no longer talking to us but someone off camera (who?) is so jarring.

    • @anthonydoyle7370
      @anthonydoyle7370 8 місяців тому

      Also Apparently, there is no fallout from an air burst weapon.

  • @Nando_Florist
    @Nando_Florist Рік тому +4

    I don't have a nuclear bunker, but I'll be fine, as I can just hide in my Volvo.

    • @greggi47
      @greggi47 Рік тому

      Isn't there a movie or TV show with that scenario?

  • @stevestruthers6180
    @stevestruthers6180 9 місяців тому

    Years ago, I toured the bunker at what used to be Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Carp, which is located about 20km west of Ottawa, Canada's national capital. It was originally built to be a communications facility for the Canadian military, and as a place where Continuity of Government (COG) operations could be conducted during a nuclear attack. In wartime, the Prime Minster and his Cabinet would be housed there.
    Built in the late 1950s, it was part of a network of similar government and military bunkers that were located throughout Canada on military bases and in or near major cities. The CFS Carp facility was nicknamed 'The Diefenbunker', as John Diefenbaker was Prime Minister at the time. Like the facility in Scotland, it could accommodate about 300 people. The bunker also featured a vault where Canada's central bank, The Bank of Canada, could store some or all of its gold reserves.
    At the time it was built, it could withstand the blast and heat generated by a five-megaton bomb landing five miles (8km) away, but not a direct hit. The facility quickly became obsolete with the advent of much more accurate ICBMs. The Diefenbunker was decommissioned in 1994, and today, it functions as a Cold War museum that is run by a non-profit organization. Parts of the facility were used to film the movie The Sum of All Fears. While I toured the facility, it was interesting to note that some areas were off-limits. Who knows what mysteries they held?

  • @timofthomas
    @timofthomas Рік тому +7

    Let's add one significant correction - The US pursued the bomb to it's conclusion first - but they did so off the back of all the UK University of Manchester and University of Oxford research that had already been done, and components already made in a tunnel in North Wales which were shipped across to them as part of the agreement between Churchill and FDR and to prevent the Germans getting their hands on the research in the event of successful invasion of Britain. That work formed a nucleus of the start of what went on to become the Manhattan Project. The USA could have done it without but this saved them several months of work in the early stages.

  • @ragnarironspear1791
    @ragnarironspear1791 Рік тому +5

    Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds', Oppenheimer's

  • @geordieian3266
    @geordieian3266 Рік тому +4

    Don’t you find it strange the government making all phones have this ‘emergency’ warning now with all what’s happening in Ukraine

  • @aaronkoch77
    @aaronkoch77 11 місяців тому

    I love the fact that What Next has become “Whatever we feel like talking about today.”

  • @bristolsonic
    @bristolsonic Рік тому +1

    If a nuke was dropped on Bristol it would cause about a hundred grand's worth of improvements.

  • @iKvetch558
    @iKvetch558 Рік тому +14

    OK...it is not a big deal, lots and lots of accents lead to it being pronounced "nucular" instead of "nuclear"...just like he did repeatedly starting at 0:17...but ever since Baby Bush said "nucular" SO many times during his presidency with possible weapons in Iraq and actual weapons in North Korea, I cannot help but get a flashback to him saying it whenever I hear it. I know it is such an easy word to mispronounce, and there are lots of videos about that, but it is just really funny to my ear...anybody else get that?

    • @arconcritter
      @arconcritter Рік тому +2

      Yeah it’s kind of annoying that the host of an episode specifically about nuclear weapons can’t get the word right.
      Small detail maybe but imagine doing an episode about a car and referring to it as a Frahree 😂

    • @ronjohnson5070
      @ronjohnson5070 Рік тому +1

      President Jimmy Carter, a nuclear expert in the Navy consistently said “ newcular” it drove me crazy

    • @Okurka.
      @Okurka. Рік тому +1

      Simpsons did it!

    • @baconwizard
      @baconwizard Рік тому

      How do you pronounce “psychiatrist”?

    • @who-asked613
      @who-asked613 Рік тому +1

      @@arconcritter it kind of isn't a small detail. The premise of the episode is detailing the use and aftermath of a nuclear device. Pretty central if you ask me.