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

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  • @offgrid7837
    @offgrid7837 Рік тому +966

    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 Рік 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 Рік тому +32

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

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Рік тому +10

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

    • @offgrid7837
      @offgrid7837 Рік 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 Рік тому +2

      LOUD AND CLEAR!!!!!!

  • @alanjames5586
    @alanjames5586 Рік тому +41

    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 11 місяців тому +2

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

    • @stevenfries9007
      @stevenfries9007 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @laurelhardy4064
    @laurelhardy4064 Рік тому +908

    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 +62

      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 +26

      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 +17

      same, I've seen the movie Threads

  • @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 Рік тому +5

      Its near!

    • @FarterBoom
      @FarterBoom Рік тому +6

      @owthattickles8738 yeah, mutants and zombies must be the Worst

    • @ireneerrico4706
      @ireneerrico4706 Рік тому +5

      Famine

    • @bustbeel1
      @bustbeel1 Рік тому

      I recently secured a very well built Fall Out Shelter with Proper Ventilation Filters etc… I find it very pleasing!

  • @ADF86123
    @ADF86123 Рік тому +314

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

    • @xXxlLEGENDZlxXx
      @xXxlLEGENDZlxXx Рік тому +33

      "HAAAMMMMMMOOONNNDDD!!!"

    • @WarButler
      @WarButler Рік тому +11

      It's time to end

    • @FalconSRR75
      @FalconSRR75 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!

  • @chrisholland7367
    @chrisholland7367 Рік тому +48

    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 +14

      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 Рік тому

      @@chrisholland7367 😂👍

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Рік тому +10

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

  • @LtNduati
    @LtNduati Рік тому +384

    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

  • @XpunisherX8152
    @XpunisherX8152 Рік 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 Рік тому

      Oppenheimer....odious criminal.

    • @Desert-edDave
      @Desert-edDave Рік тому

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

  • @georgesmith3628
    @georgesmith3628 Рік тому +35

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

  • @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.

  • @gmark007isGianmarcoMaioli
    @gmark007isGianmarcoMaioli Рік тому +39

    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.

  • @1958HHH
    @1958HHH Рік тому +12

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

  • @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-

  • @boonedockjourneyman7979
    @boonedockjourneyman7979 Рік тому +3

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

  • @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 Рік тому +3

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

  • @karlsilcock8727
    @karlsilcock8727 Рік тому +95

    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.

    • @farmernige
      @farmernige 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 Рік 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 Рік тому

      Biological weapons are FAR more effective,, witness CoVid

    • @mikejung3908
      @mikejung3908 Рік 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.

  • @mr786xcx
    @mr786xcx Рік тому +63

    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 Рік 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 Рік тому

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

    • @RandomWandrer
      @RandomWandrer Рік тому +9

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

    • @christian14329
      @christian14329 Рік тому

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

    • @PeteCourtier
      @PeteCourtier Рік тому +1

      That’s why we have our nuclear deterrent.

  • @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.

  • @BlueShadow777
    @BlueShadow777 Рік тому +1

    12:33 “…it’s fair to say that the majority of Scottish people don’t want them there…” 🤔
    Where, exactly, is the evidence for that? Reference please!
    The majority of Scottish people (rightly) don’t even want so-called “Scottish independence”…!

  • @JG54206
    @JG54206 Рік тому +107

    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.

  • @philcollinson328
    @philcollinson328 Рік тому +6

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

  • @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!

  • @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.

  • @45H4W
    @45H4W Рік тому +65

    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 Рік тому +8

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

    • @neilarcher2551
      @neilarcher2551 Рік тому +8

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

  • @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 Рік 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!!!!!.

  • @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!

  • @Graham_Wideman
    @Graham_Wideman Рік тому +11

    Nothing says "expertise" like "nucular".

    • @yan24to
      @yan24to 11 годин тому

      It does in Scotland pal .

  • @stuartkseels
    @stuartkseels Рік тому +125

    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..

  • @Kevinfordsynthesizers
    @Kevinfordsynthesizers Рік 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..

  • @conelybiscuit4985
    @conelybiscuit4985 Рік тому +12

    rent would get affordable?

    • @gewglesux
      @gewglesux Рік тому

      Think BIG..... Mortgage!!

  • @127cmore
    @127cmore Рік тому +1

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

  • @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.

  • @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 Рік 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 Рік тому

      @@jamesbarbour8400 and Belarus and Serbia? 😂

  • @chrisbaggieboy5656
    @chrisbaggieboy5656 Рік тому

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

  • @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.

  • @philhealey4443
    @philhealey4443 Рік тому +2

    Hearing "nucular " in the first minute means there is not a lot of point continuing. You'd think the presenter could get that bit right....

  • @richardreynoso91
    @richardreynoso91 Рік тому +5

    Unexpected but enjoyable. Nice one

  • @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 Рік 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

  • @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

  • @orourkeda
    @orourkeda 10 місяців тому +1

    This is probably a completely stupid question but here goes. If Nuclear bombs are so powerful then how did the cameras that filmed and the footage survive. Furthermore, who collected it from the site.

  • @FrankV10
    @FrankV10 Рік тому +30

    This is why I can’t wait to see Oppenheimer in theaters. As devastating as these weapons are, I find the history behind it fascinating. Should be a great film

    • @shannondore
      @shannondore Рік тому +2

      Me too! I love Cillian Muphy. It's going to to be an incredible film but also frighting cause it could all happen to us with a push of a button.

    • @hakaishinkage9899
      @hakaishinkage9899 Рік тому +2

      ​@@shannondore it takes a bit more than the push of a button but ik what u mean

    • @casinodelonge
      @casinodelonge Рік тому

      Oppy was treated really shoddily by the US authorities following the Manhattan Project.

    • @planeguy95
      @planeguy95 Рік тому

      It was alright (and I love Christopher Nolan)

  • @lester9448
    @lester9448 Рік тому +3

    The thermal nuke in the film terminator 2 is terrifying

  • @MillhouseSpeaks
    @MillhouseSpeaks Рік тому +8

    Fascinating! From travel videos to this!

  • @alanconroy7929
    @alanconroy7929 Рік тому +1

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

  • @100percentSNAFU
    @100percentSNAFU Рік тому +57

    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 Рік тому

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

    • @cbo9090
      @cbo9090 Рік 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.

  • @LostInADV
    @LostInADV Рік тому

    This is an award worthy production. Brilliant everything.

  • @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 Рік тому

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

    • @alexburt6995
      @alexburt6995 Рік тому

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

  • @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.

  • @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

  • @woesmaro
    @woesmaro Рік тому

    One of the best vids on the channel, very eerie

  • @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.

  • @weisswurster
    @weisswurster Рік тому +1

    This is a fantastic video, really well presented!

  • @williebauld1007
    @williebauld1007 Рік тому +5

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

  • @2112jonr
    @2112jonr Рік тому +1

    If it's Newport or Hull, we might not be able to tell.

  • @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

  • @JunkWaxSal
    @JunkWaxSal Рік тому

    Great video. Very well made.

  • @ItsToXxy
    @ItsToXxy Рік тому +4

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

  • @tubbs2132
    @tubbs2132 Рік тому +2

    The rest of the first world would sell out of party hats and noisemakers.

  • @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 Рік тому +4

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

    • @dwchester
      @dwchester Рік 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 Рік 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 Рік тому

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

  • @Mondeoman72
    @Mondeoman72 Рік тому +2

    Both Leuchars and Kinloss are no longer operational RAF Air Bases all RAF aircraft are now based in Lossiemouth

  • @GD2X
    @GD2X Рік тому +5

    Just in time for the Oppenheimer film

  • @mavrick1834
    @mavrick1834 Рік тому +2

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

  • @JackIsMe1993
    @JackIsMe1993 Рік тому +4

    Oh no they nuked Grimsby!
    Alexa play Mike Oldfield.

  • @leakoe3797
    @leakoe3797 Рік тому +1

    Well we should bunkers and underground shelters like Norway Sweden Denmark Switerland Finland they started building these end of WW2 for every resident !

  • @SirZanZa
    @SirZanZa Рік тому +13

    Actually Britain jumped on it first with operation tube alloys, before handing the research off to the Americans in the joint US/UK and Canadian Manhattan project. the British did the groundwork and the initial research into making a fissile bomb. Scottish independence isn't going to happen, look at the SNP and there is more need to be protected by Trident now than there has in the last 40 years. it is the only reason we have been able to resist Russian nuclear threats.

    • @petewatson9866
      @petewatson9866 Рік тому

      There are a lot more countries that do not have nuclear weapons SO Russia will take them over??😂

    • @ajkgordon
      @ajkgordon Рік тому

      @@petewatson9866 Ukraine?

    • @SirZanZa
      @SirZanZa Рік тому

      @@petewatson9866 well..... look at Ukraine...Georgia.. Syria obviously that can happen Russia is one of the most aggressive and expansionist countries in human history how much have you had to smoke???? i'm guessing a lot with that hair brained reply. Britain is the corner stone of NATO's Nuclear deterrent and would be first to reply in a nuclear exchange. it Guarantee's a swift nuclear response if Russia invades a NATO nation or launches a nuclear strike. without Nukes the United Kingdom would be a sitting duck, it isn't fair to let the United States provide NATO with all of it's nuclear deterrence. other countries have to pull their weight. every country that isn't the United States, United Kingdom France or Poland should be doing more.

  • @milesmcclure3485
    @milesmcclure3485 Рік 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

  • @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 Рік 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 Рік тому

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

    • @paulbrouyere1735
      @paulbrouyere1735 Рік тому

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

    • @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK
      @CHRIS_HITCHCOCK Рік тому

      @@yuchoob I am internally grateful for your reply.

  • @petercollins7848
    @petercollins7848 Рік тому +2

    Everybody dies anyway sometime, so no need to worry. I just get on with my life.

  • @plektosgaming
    @plektosgaming Рік тому +27

    What's interesting is that every major power in WWII tried to make a version. In Germany and Japan's case, we hit their research facilities without even knowing it during normal bombing raids. In Germany's case, their only way to obtain enough power to refine the uranium was by keeping the facility next one of their larger hydro-electric dams. They went from under a year to starting from scratch. In Japan's case, we firebombed Tokyo and their research was being done at the university there. They also were under a year from a prototype. Everyone saw it as just another weapon to develop at the time and issues with radiation and fallout were unknown or ignored. Even during the Cold War, the number of countries that almost got their hands on it was quite large. There was simply no lack of desire to use it until well in to the 80s for most of the world. We collectively dodged about half a dozen incidents as well in that time.

    • @contingency9
      @contingency9 Рік тому +1

      Yes, Japan were under a year to develop a nuclear weapon in WW2! What nonesense 😆 At that time they must of been making the Choe Mein Bamboo Bomb 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @plektosgaming
      @plektosgaming Рік тому +1

      @@contingency9 Mind you at the time nobody knew the secondary results and it was just considered normal weapons research. Japan's problem was a near lack of uranium, though. Germany in fact had sent uranium oxide to Japan near the end of the war (or attempted to, as the sub was captured). My point was that all sides were more than willing and trying. We just finished our program first.

    • @chrisbagley8104
      @chrisbagley8104 Рік тому

      Cuba October 1962, mankind stood on the edge.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Рік тому

      "They went from under a year to starting from scratch."
      What does this mean? How can you go from "under a year"? And if they went to starting from scratch, then that sounds like they were going backwards.

    • @xRhamnusia
      @xRhamnusia Рік тому +1

      @@yuchoobBecause of the firebombings, how is that difficult to comprehend? They were close to finalising a weapon of the sorts yet, due to the city being firebombed, had to start from zero.

  • @gazwild438
    @gazwild438 Рік тому

    Excellent video, explanation was just perfect

  • @inelegy
    @inelegy Рік тому +9

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

  • @amcl7
    @amcl7 Рік 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 Рік 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 11 місяців тому

      Somewhere else will certainly be the new equivalent

  • @ChristopherAKennedy
    @ChristopherAKennedy Рік тому +2

    I had to tap out of this after 3 minutes. He can’t say Nuclear…

  • @DrKrapulax
    @DrKrapulax Рік тому +7

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

    • @theheadone
      @theheadone Рік тому +3

      Unfortunately, it's likely because of The Simpsons.

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Рік 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".

  • @seedless-bud
    @seedless-bud Рік тому

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

  • @daniel.4343
    @daniel.4343 Рік тому +11

    Today I saw the movie Oppenheimer. It was impressive, tense, and difficult in terms of making such a decision that would destroy "our enemies" in a blink of an eye, and then the consequences of those who survive the explosion will last for decades.
    On one hand I have admiration for these incredibly intelligent men, yet they build is "a massive destruction weapon" that put an end to WWII. It is said that in love and war everything is possible. Yet I wonder how these people could live the rest of their lives knowing what they did. It is insanity to think of a hydrogen bomb that literally would destroy the world as we know it. and then what... Why instead we find a way to live in peace and help one another like brothers and sisters around the world.
    Why humans are so unkind and want more and more power to control the world?
    Will this even come to an end?

    • @ednammansfield8553
      @ednammansfield8553 Рік тому +2

      Probably never. As long as their are human beings on this planet of ours there will always be power mad people who would use these weapons. Mankind will be responsible for its own destruction.

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Рік тому

      What is an en i i this is 1 I o v e e uominogOdreewater is on the first day and the second day there shall be light

    • @Desert-edDave
      @Desert-edDave Рік тому +1

      There is no hope for the Godless.

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Рік тому

      @@ednammansfield8553 Man will be brought low,
      And if the righteous man is being saved with difficulty,
      what will happen to
      That is why all hands will go limp, And every man’s heart will melt with fear.
      What is mortal man that you keep him in mind,
      a son of man that you take care of him?
      Only when a wild donkey can give
      birth to a man.
      As one would between a man and his fellow
      in mind, And a son of man that you take care of him
      and the young man became like one of his sons.

  • @Chris-dm1je
    @Chris-dm1je Рік тому +2

    I suppose it depends which city it went off in. I've been to some UK cities where it wouldn't make much difference.

  • @cdeford
    @cdeford Рік 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 Рік 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 Рік 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 Рік тому

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

    • @water4826
      @water4826 Рік тому

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

    • @cdeford
      @cdeford Рік 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.

  • @twotone1a
    @twotone1a 11 місяців тому +1

    "US jumped on it first" ... not so much, check out the British "Tube Alloys" project, started before the Manhattan Project.

  • @Buckblacket
    @Buckblacket Рік 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 Рік тому

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

    • @davetdowell
      @davetdowell Рік тому

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

  • @Cheiff117
    @Cheiff117 Рік тому

    oh its mike ! , another great video

  • @brenner7308
    @brenner7308 Рік тому +9

    The Simpsons references start at 00:17 😄

  • @MikeJackson690
    @MikeJackson690 Рік тому

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

  • @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 Рік 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 Рік 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 Рік тому

      Test y

    • @davidantonucci1161
      @davidantonucci1161 Рік тому

      @@AnarchAngel1 yes you are all thinanadams sons

    • @LordandGodofYouTube
      @LordandGodofYouTube Рік 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.

  • @miscbits6399
    @miscbits6399 Рік тому +1

    nulcear weapons destrictiveness hows up with the volume of a cube - 4/3*pi*(r^3)
    a 5Mt weapon is only a few times larger radius, despite being 500 times larger than hiroshima (most bombs these days are in the 50-150kt range and large thermonuclear weapons have been rare since the end of the 1960s)
    Tsar bomba is about as large as can be built. Larger than that increasingly vents most energy out into space

  • @gunnyd9282
    @gunnyd9282 Рік тому +3

    It's NUCLEAR, not Nucular.

  • @pauljohnson4948
    @pauljohnson4948 Рік тому +1

    The way things are going ,we will soon find out.

  • @ragnarironspear1791
    @ragnarironspear1791 Рік тому +5

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

  • @RISTARDWEST
    @RISTARDWEST 11 місяців тому +1

    The day the world went Nuclear nothing left if a war happens 😢

  • @Taylor___
    @Taylor___ Рік тому +12

    Biggest bomb these days is 1.2 megatons. They realised it’s more efficient to fire multiple smaller warheads from the same ICBM rather than one big one.

    • @DontBeAWollyy
      @DontBeAWollyy Рік тому +1

      Nope 50MT is the biggest, The Tsar Bomba

    • @darkmatter1152
      @darkmatter1152 Рік тому

      ​@@DontBeAWollyythat was 62 years ago. Todat nukes are 1.5 to 2 megatons each.

    • @bobthebomb1596
      @bobthebomb1596 Рік тому

      @@darkmatter1152 Trident is variable, up to 400kt.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 Рік тому

      @@DontBeAWollyy That's on you tube.... not the real thing! just a video.... terrifying as you would expect

    • @DontBeAWollyy
      @DontBeAWollyy Рік тому

      @@daydays12 it was the real footage lol

  •  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.

  • @Roger1111000
    @Roger1111000 Рік тому +4

    it's Nuclear, not Nucular as you persistently mispronounced.

  • @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 Рік 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.

  • @happisakshappiplace.6588
    @happisakshappiplace.6588 Рік тому +8

    Question is, if the nukes were to fall. Does anyone want to survive to witness the appaling aftermath? Total breakdown of society, the food chain stops, no medicine, law and order ends, people reduced to the level of stone age. If the nukes come I hope i'm right underneath one and its quick. No suffering for me or anyone I know and love.

    • @slavik0369
      @slavik0369 Рік тому +1

      Yeah. And even those, who will try to sit out in bunkers won't be much safer, they'll just die later.

    • @HALLish-jl5mo
      @HALLish-jl5mo Рік тому +1

      Depends on the scale of the nuclear exchange. If I was Japanese in 1945 id want to survive.
      A full on exchange of 10,000 nukes though? Nah.
      We don't really know how large a nuclear exchange would be. China has 410 bombs. A war of the UK, US and Australia vs China would result in very few if any bombs landing on the UK.
      A full on NATO vs Russia exchange would be a very different story

    • @galaxspace1
      @galaxspace1 Рік тому

      How is this even an argument? The other choice is literally dying, of vourse you want to survive. If you are so affraid of living then carry a gun and you can die at your command.

    • @thatlonewolfguy2878
      @thatlonewolfguy2878 Рік тому

      @@HALLish-jl5moYou know at least 10 to 20 would detonate in the UK, enough to reduce London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Salisbury etc to ash, we would be reduced to a country of nomads trying to survive in an apocalyptic wasteland, they would only need like 5 to 10 to hit Australia and detonate then the other say 390 would be targeted at the US in this scenario, even then they only need between 20 to 30 to successfully detonate in the States to be effective to reduce the american population and military strength by at least 60% probably more

    • @plektosgaming
      @plektosgaming Рік тому +1

      And yet, life goes on. Someone has to pick up the pieces and start a new government. So bunkers still exist. Well, for the important people. You and I? Yes, might as well have it go off overhead. I have zero illusions about the worth of some random teacher. Lol. Yes, it's grim, but it's what we all lived through in the 70s and 80s.

  • @JackB_Music
    @JackB_Music Рік тому

    Great video, your narration style is spot on!

    • @yuchoob
      @yuchoob Рік тому

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

  • @ukdroneking
    @ukdroneking Рік тому +4

    Excellent ! Well done mike 👏

  • @indridcold8433
    @indridcold8433 Рік тому

    Fun fact:
    Electrons are regarded as fundamental particles that can not be broken down further. Two up quarks and one down quark comprise a proton. Two down quarks and one up quark comprise a neutron. Thus, electrons can not be collided and caused to bond.

  • @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.