This is why the shady elite is building underground bunkers. Keep in mind that Putin is a buddy of Klaus Schwab who is also in good company with Angela Merkele and Justin Trudeau among many others. Yup! It's all a game that was planned decades ago.
Nuclear weapons are not as devastating as people think. I know that sounds crazy, but nuclear weapons are only world and humanity ending if thousands upon thousands are launched. A few nukes would absolutely be catastrophic, but the world would go on unless everybody panics like headless chickens. I'm not saying it would be nothing, there'd all kinds of consequences in the local area and wherever the radioactive by products went, but that's no where close to civilization ending. People forget that Russia and the USA have nuked themselves and others over and over and over again.
100 megatons.. twice as big as the tsar bomba.. They make it look so small because the public doesn't realize just how big a 100mt bomb has to be. It wouldn't be the torpedo. It would be the submarine. A kamikaze submarine lol There's no way in hell it could go 125mph underwater, though. It's a possibility, 20 years from now. Propaganda like this is what Russia used to convince their citizens to not rebel against them when they started the Crimea & Ukraine wars. But many Russian people don't even see their own governments propaganda, let alone news from anybody besides Russia. Much of Russia is basically similar to 1880's America, where people live in isolated farming towns and don't see anything besides MAYBE some Russia propaganda - and most of that is over the radio not even on the TV, and especially not on an internet device. When they do have actual internet devices, they still aren't able to receive the truth. They're only able to see what Russia allows them to see. Less than 10% of their country knows exactly what's going on in their war against Ukraine. Instead of seeing the reality, they only see Russian victories, and they think their country is winning absolutely, instead of seeing the failures.
this thing is a bigger danger to all marine sea life than humanity it'self, altho killing all fishes is going to be something devastating for all civilization.
I bursted out laughing whet I heard this "500m waves" claim. As a Russian guy myself, I can assure you that everything you hear on out TV is either EXTREMELY exaggerated so that politicians and CEOs can feel nice about themselves getting some more money to fund this wunderwaffel project before the hype goes down and it is quiet literally swept under the rug and everyone forgets about it. Fortunately so, if you ask me. Also, nice video. Really like new intro
I feel so bad for people like you and other russians who didn't ask for their country to be run by a cartoonish super villian who literally wants to destroy the world, meanwhile us Americans have to put up with our former and now once again new president trying to destroy the world through greed and incompitance -_- it's times like this I really envy the Swedish
Can confirm - I myself stopped watching TV a while back because of this exact BS. Fun fact for anyone reading: we actually have a term for these propaganda "news" anchors - пропагандон; a portmanteau of пропаганда ("propaganda") and гандон ("condom", but also used as an insult). Kiselyov (the one Qxir showed) is the prime example.
@@emile_jeanne Not to mention the people that were evacuated and STILL got irradiated by fallout raining down on them. At least the tests in deserts and tundras weren't destroying biodiverse ecosystems in moments...
Nobody even in Russia takes this guy seriously. Well, from the adequate audience (which, unfortunately, is not so large). There is a lot of obscenity happening on state channels in Russia. Oh well, my comments font became black… on a black themed youtube. What a futuristic design!
Also that Alaskan tsunami reached over 500m but as you saw with the animation, it's not like it was a 500m freestanding wave, it needed to "climb" a cliff and just reached that high when it ran out of energy for going up. And it had like 0.8 miles to go in the channel to the otherside, so basically no time at all to disipate the energy and EXTREMELY concentrated energy in a small area.
did you see the spell harry casted in prisoner of askban... its like pushed so much dementors away..... yes they are comparable because fantasy is fantasy.
The fact Russia has a TV station just to talk about nuking an opponent (And likely leading to M.A.D.) is nuts. Im hopeful that most citizens of Russia would rather not watch such a thing.
To be fair I’d rather the world believe that they are capable of upholding MAD doctrine. Even if the nukes aren’t being hurled at your country, that shit is very very bad news for everyone! I’m an American, and I definitely do not want this country to be able to have the power launch nukes without significant repercussions! If they could get away with it, they’d definitely turn against you guys in Europe. I mean the US hasn’t even fully signed any of the treaties and international peace organizations. Especially under our current -regime- leadership, the only thing preventing them from stabbing you guys in the back is the fact they couldn’t feasibly get away with it. I hope you guys over there always keep that in mind, because I dread the prospect of the US becoming the sole dominant power of the world.
Only a small group of desperate, insecure bullies would constantly threaten to use a superweapon in response to every petty "your mom" joke. If these fat cats in charge of Russia (not the Russian people) are so formidable, then why are they always brandishing the last resort? The psychology of it speaks for itself.
Geo strategically speaking We are the same country. Brits have the larger military, intelligence services that have infiltrated every single area of Irish public life, Irish gov administration etc. a permanent garrison in the North East , the Irish gov also likely signed that deal that basically gave over air defense to the British. Our police force is run primarily by Canadians Australians Kiwis and Brits (the higher ranks not the lower ranking Gardaí).
il be honest, the same goes for Americans and some British but yes... they don't consider them separate...especially not if you work in the near government..."sphere of powers"
I disagree. Russia would surely threaten everyone with a cobalt bomb if they possessed one. Edit: Actually Russia would threaten everyone with a cobalt bomb even if they didn’t possess one.
Very true, the funniest thing though is how poor their military has been proven to be second best army in the world my arse. With Ukraine occupying Kursk does Russia get to claim the spot for second best army in Russia, or maybe that should go to North Korea lol
@Alan_Watkin *small area of Kursk. The only reason why Ukraine still exists is because some our elites still believe it's not humane to level cities with airstrikes and artillery like Israel does.
@@derdoctor1895 So what about the towns/citys Russia has taken over so far... They're nearly all levelled to the ground, so thats not true, what about what they did in Syria, carpet bombing citys like Homs and Aleppo. What about all the documented cases of missiles and glide bombs being fired into residential areas in Ukraine. Stop watching Russian propaganda TV its filling your head full of lies. You can't fly your aircraft into Ukraine because 9 times out of 10 Ukraine shoots them down.....
@@derdoctor1895 Oh an one last thing, i don't support Israel i actually compare what they have done to Gaza to what Russia is doing to Ukraine. Thats not that i support Gaza either, Hamas are terrorists an they started the current conflict so in my opinion they are both as bad as each other.
@@derdoctor1895incorrect. The only reason Ukraine hasn’t leveled Russia is because the US elites (whom I’m assuming you are referring to by ‘our’) doesn’t want Ukraine to do anything non-defensive with the weapons they supply. Of course now they are beginning to ignore that and use the weapons (as they should, it’s about time they get to win the war they’ve already won). The best part is? The only reason the elites don’t want them to win is because of their investments in Russia and the war as a whole. The longer the war goes, the more military supplies they can sell to both the US to give to Ukraine and Ukraine directly. This isnt some global xenophobic conspiracy, it’s simply the infinite immoral greed of the Military Industrial Complex. And they are playing you like a fool.
Russia, please, plplease, please take us seriously, since forever! Russia, we lost 25 million people defeating Nutciz and now you think we'll allow nuclear missiles in a country we gifted as a border land 😅
If you're wondering why the nuclear detonation at Bikini Atoll looks like the one from SpongeBob, who lives in Bikini Bottom, boy do I have some lore for you to look up.
@@FoundingStockNZ Only 96% of the World knows that. Ironically, your post has "Translate to English" below it. I think it actually means "Translate to American". But it doesn't alter anything.
@@HubertofLiege That would be a US Gal (3.78L), an Imperial Gal (4.55L) is near spot on 10Lbs. That is, of course in pounds avoirdupois, not pounds Troy.
You are seeing the end product, missing the context. Actually the public mind was getting there slowly over the past several decades. Most notably through books, I’ve been coming across some of them, alt-history sci-fi, whitewashing of Stalin, mythos of WWII, revanchism over USSR, slavyanophilstvo, Russian exceptionalism. Dreadful hogwash, but remarkably abundant, with cheap paperbacks available to buy at every train station, making the low-wage welder Tolya feel smart and proud as he reads about how great his nation once was on his overnight ride. Then in-mid 2010s they all got smartphones and switched to audioversions.
Thanks. I get really tired if people overreacting to nuclear threats. It's one of those things where people snap back at you if you try to correct them. It's also difficult to get his and accurate information, especially without a lot of the worst case assumptions baked into some studies, and it's hard to wrap your head around.
The fact that it's hard to wrap your head around is part of why people think it's worse than it is. It's bad, for sure. No one is denying that. It's just that because most people don't have a proper scale of things besides hearing some numbers such as the power it has or the death count, and "big numbers sound big", they think that the scale is much larger than it is. And people in general are notoriously stubborn, so once they get an idea into their head, it's a lot harder to show them proper data to put things into perspective.
@ and that’s the rub my simple friend, its highly unlikely to be just a single one against an opponent with more or less the same capabilities so to “poo-poo” the very minor details of a weapon like that is kinda stupid…
@@marcusaetius9309 The discussion was in regards to a single such weapon though. This very video was in regards to the detonation of a singular high yield bomb. When most people discuss nuclear weapons, they tend to either discuss the devastation of a singular weapon, or they're aware that full on nuclear war would be effectively the end of the world as we know it. It's the destruction potential of a singular attack that is typically the point of contention as a result.
Your talent to present serious cases with 'tongue in cheek' delivery is superb. I have been to Ireland twice, lived in the UK, visited many countries in Eastern Europe. This particular video has not been on my mind but a QXIR video always catches my attention. Well done!
people forget that earthquakes are much more powerful than nuclear weapons. The explosion of a Tsar 2 bomba in the Mariana trench would be barely detectable.
@ what are instantaneous? Not earthquakes, faults rip at aroun 6- 10km/s. Nukes are a little faster, but not instant. Fission neutrons are pretty slow. Fusion neutrons are faster, but not one foot per nanosecond, which is the speed limit.
@@all3ykat79 It's hard to get links through the automated YT comment filter. That's why I just say, "Are We the Baddies?" and trust in you to figure out what to do with it ;)
been subscribed to you for a little over a year (maybe two, I'm old time makes no sense any more) I love your channel... the funny shit, the serious, strange, dark... all of it. Keep doing
Comment for the algorithm. Loved this one! Intro threw me off a little, it's not as "catchy", but it is cooler. Maybe keep your old "Qxir!" but keep the graphic?
I really liked the old intro, you do what you want with your channel but ill keep watching because of the effort you put into your channel, it just caught me off guard. Keep up the amazing work I look forward to watching your videos every time they come out
The world is also thankful that the NZ Government didn't deploy the equally devastating and superior weapon of war, the Bob Semple Tank in vast numbers during WW-2.
@@dekumarademosater2762 Yes they were indeed. I think a 2cm higher wave or something was sighted. But I'm sure they'd have figured something out if it continued on
Having grown up through the 70s and 80 in England the constant threat of nuclear war is nothing new. Almost everyone I know would prefer to go in a flash of blinding light rather than live on for a few weeks in a nuclear wasteland
HG Wells, stepping out of his time machine: What is happening in the inevitably utopian future in which I find myself? Me: Russia's broadcasting a moving picture of how they're going to send Poseidon to attack Britain. HG Wells, moon-walking backwards into the time machine: Understood, have a nice day.
Love theses videos, I'm not sure if you read these comments but could we possibly have a Christmas or new year's video about something crazy that happened at this time of year
Bruh. They didn't all decide 100 megatonnes was too much, it was the designer who had visions of totally destroying the world and a few days before the test, changed the uranium 238 cladding for lead and it still had higher yield than they were expecting
Pretty good video dude I like the fact that you’re doing the talking and the music is not so overwhelming. It distracts from what you’re trying to say.
Always loved Qxir and love that I'm here for the new era! Appreciate all the hard work you put into your content and love the new direction... but I do hope every now and then I get to see some hand drawn characters make their goofy faces 🤗😜🙃🤪
I can't believe people are complaining about the intro, it lasts for about one second. Blink and you will miss it. It's the informative entertainment that follows we are here for.
YEEHAW !! From snowy WV! 🤠 Love the video keep up the great content man i cant get enough of your videos! If you can possibly make more content i would watch every second !
as a fellow irish I must admit I would personally hate to be killed because my neighbor is getting into fights with people. It's bad enough having them next to us but getting killed because of them isn't very nice either.
*Nuh uh, my bomb’s bigger than yours, can travel underwater and also has a **_nuclear warhead!_* That’s what I would expect to hear from a from an arrogant 10 year old, or North Korea. But apparently *Russia’s* been playing the same game. *Ok, Putin*
The Operation Antler/Round 1 test by the British at the Tadje site in the Maralinga range in Australia on September 14, 1957, tested a bomb using cobalt pellets as a radiochemical tracer for estimating nuclear weapon yield. This was considered a failure, and the experiment was not repeated.[4] In Russia, the triple "taiga" nuclear salvo test, as part of the preliminary March 1971 Pechora-Kama Canal project, produced relatively high amounts of cobalt-60 (60Co or Co-60) from the steel that surrounded the taiga devices, with this fusion-generated neutron activation product being responsible for about half of the gamma dose in 2011 at the test site. The high percentage contribution is largely because the devices primarily used fusion rather than fission reactions, so the quantity of gamma-emitting caesium-137 fallout was comparatively low. A secondary forest now exists around the lake that was formed by the detonation.
Wait, so the cobalt pellets were at different ranges from ground zero, and acted like radiation ☢️ badge/film? Except this would be true nuclear film 🎥? Very cool.
@@DrDeuteron Australia and England was the first to do it. check out sir Mark Oliphant my grandfather who is 99 yrs old worked and was very good friends with mark. In 1932 and 1933, the scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory made a series of ground-breaking discoveries. Cockcroft and Walton bombarded lithium with high energy protons and succeeded in transmuting it into energetic nuclei of helium. This was one of the earliest experiments to change the atomic nucleus of one element to another by artificial means. Chadwick then devised an experiment that discovered a new, uncharged particle with roughly the same mass as the proton: the neutron. In 1933, Blackett discovered tracks in his cloud chamber that confirmed the existence of the positron and revealed the opposing spiral traces of positron-electron pair production.[28] Oliphant followed up the work by constructing a particle accelerator that could fire protons with up to 600,000 electronvolts of energy. He soon confirmed the results of Cockcroft and Walton on the artificial disintegration of the nucleus and positive ions. He produced a series of six papers over the following two years.[29] In 1933, the Cavendish Laboratory received a gift from the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis of a few drops of heavy water. The accelerator was used to fire heavy hydrogen nuclei (deuterons, which Rutherford called diplons) at various targets. Working with Rutherford and others, Oliphant thereby discovered the nuclei of helium-3 (helions) and tritium (tritons). Oliphant used electromagnetic separation to separate the isotopes of lithium. He was the first to experimentally demonstrate nuclear fusion. He found that when deuterons reacted with nuclei of helium-3, tritium or with other deuterons, the particles that were released had far more energy than they started with. Binding energy had been liberated from inside the nucleus. Following Arthur Eddington's 1920 prediction that energy released by fusing small nuclei together could provide the energy source that powers the stars,[37] Oliphant speculated that nuclear fusion reactions might be what powered the sun. With its higher cross section, the deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion reaction became the basis of a hydrogen bomb. Oliphant had not foreseen this development: ... we had no idea whatever that this would one day be applied to make hydrogen bombs. Our curiosity was just curiosity about the structure of the nucleus of the atom, and the discovery of these reactions was purely, as the Americans would put it, coincidental. In 1934, Cockcroft arranged for Oliphant to become a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, which paid about £600 a year. When Chadwick left the Cavendish Laboratory for the University of Liverpool in 1935, Oliphant and Ellis both replaced him as Rutherford's assistant director for research. The job came with a salary of £600 (equivalent to AUD$131,000 in 2022). With the money from St John's, this gave him a comfortable income. Oliphant soon fitted out a new accelerator laboratory with a 1.23 MeV generator at a cost of £6,000 (equivalent to AUD$1,310,000 in 2022) while he designed an even larger 2 MeV generator. He was the first to conceive of the proton synchrotron, a new type of cyclic particle accelerator. In 1937, he was elected to the Royal Society. When he died he was its longest-serving fellow.
@@DrDeuteron Manhattan Project At the University of Birmingham in March 1940, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls examined the theoretical issues involved in developing, producing and using atomic bombs in a paper that became known as the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. They considered what would happen to a sphere of pure uranium-235, and found that not only could a chain reaction occur, but it might require as little as 1 kilogram (2 lb) of uranium-235 to unleash the energy of hundreds of tons of TNT. The first person they showed their paper to was Oliphant, and he immediately took it to Sir Henry Tizard, the chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Warfare (CSSAW).[52] As a result, a special subcommittee of the CSSAW known as the MAUD Committee was created to investigate the matter further. It was chaired by Sir George Thomson, and its original membership included Oliphant, Chadwick, Cockcroft and Moon.[53] In its final report in July 1941, the MAUD Committee concluded that an atomic bomb was not only feasible, but might be produced as early as 1943.[54] A large oval-shaped structure The giant Alpha I racetrack at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, used for electromagnetic separation. Great Britain was at war and authorities there thought that the development of an atomic bomb was urgent, but there was much less urgency in the United States. Oliphant was one of the people who pushed the American program into motion.[55] On 5 August 1941, Oliphant flew to the United States in a B-24 Liberator bomber, ostensibly to discuss the radar-development program, but was assigned to find out why the United States was ignoring the findings of the MAUD Committee.[56] He later recalled: "the minutes and reports had been sent to Lyman Briggs, who was the Director of the Uranium Committee, and we were puzzled to receive virtually no comment. I called on Briggs in Washington [DC], only to find out that this inarticulate and unimpressive man had put the reports in his safe and had not shown them to members of his committee. I was amazed and distressed."[57] Oliphant then met with the Uranium Committee at its meeting in New York on 26 August 1941.[56] Samuel K. Allison, a new member of the committee, was an experimental physicist and a protégé of Arthur Compton at the University of Chicago. He recalled that Oliphant "came to a meeting and said 'bomb' in no uncertain terms. He told us we must concentrate every effort on the bomb, and said we had no right to work on power plants or anything but the bomb. The bomb would cost 25 million dollars, he said, and Britain did not have the money or the manpower, so it was up to us." Allison was surprised that Briggs had kept the committee in the dark.[58] Oliphant then travelled to Berkeley, where he met his friend Lawrence on 23 September, giving him a copy of the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. Lawrence had Robert Oppenheimer check the figures, bringing him into the project for the first time. Oliphant found another ally in Oppenheimer,[56] and he not only managed to convince Lawrence and Oppenheimer that an atomic bomb was feasible, but inspired Lawrence to convert his 37-inch (94 cm) cyclotron into a giant mass spectrometer for electromagnetic isotope separation,[59] a technique Oliphant had pioneered in 1934.[34] Leo Szilard later wrote, "if Congress knew the true history of the atomic energy project, I have no doubt but that it would create a special medal to be given to meddling foreigners for distinguished services, and that Dr Oliphant would be the first to receive one."[55]
@@DrDeuteron On 26 October 1942, Oliphant embarked from Melbourne, taking Rosa and the children back with him. The wartime sea voyage on the French Desirade was again a slow one, and they did not reach Glasgow until 28 February 1943.[60] He had to leave them behind once more in November 1943 after the British Tube Alloys effort was merged with the American Manhattan Project by the Quebec Agreement, and he left for the United States as part of the British Mission. Oliphant was one of the scientists whose services the Americans were most eager to secure. Oppenheimer, who was now the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory attempted to persuade him to join the team there, but Oliphant preferred to head a team assisting his friend Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley to develop the electromagnetic uranium enrichment-a vital but less overtly military part of the project.[61] Oliphant secured the services of fellow Australian physicist Harrie Massey, who had been working for the Admiralty on magnetic mines, along with James Stayers and Stanley Duke, who had worked with him on the cavity magnetron. This initial group set out for Berkeley in a B-24 Liberator bomber in November 1943.[62] Oliphant became Lawrence's de facto deputy, and was in charge of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory when Lawrence was absent.[63] Although based in Berkeley, he often visited Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the separation plant was, and was an occasional visitor to Los Alamos.[64] He made efforts to involve Australian scientists in the project,[65] and had Sir David Rivett, the head of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, release Eric Burhop to work on the Manhattan Project.[65][66] He briefed Stanley Bruce, the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, on the project, and urged the Australian government to secure Australian uranium deposits.[65][67] A meeting with Major General Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, at Berkeley in September 1944, convinced Oliphant that the Americans intended to monopolise nuclear weapons after the war, restricting British research and production to Canada, and not permitting nuclear weapons technology to be shared with Australia. Characteristically, Oliphant bypassed Chadwick, the head of the British Mission, and sent a report direct to Wallace Akers, the head of the Tube Alloys Directorate in London. Akers summoned Oliphant back to London for consultation. En route, Oliphant met with Chadwick and other members of the British Mission in Washington, where the prospect of resuming an independent British project was discussed. Chadwick was adamant that the cooperation with the Americans should continue, and that Oliphant and his team should remain until the task of building an atomic bomb was finished. Akers sent Chadwick a telegram directing that Oliphant should return to the UK by April 1945.[68] Oliphant returned to England in March 1945, and resumed his post as a professor of physics at the University of Birmingham. He was on holiday in Wales with his family when he first heard of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[69] He was later to remark that he felt "sort of proud that the bomb had worked, and absolutely appalled at what it had done to human beings". Oliphant became a harsh critic of nuclear weapons and a member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, saying, "I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use."[17] His wartime work would have earned him a Medal of Freedom with Gold Palm, but the Australian government vetoed this honour,[23] as government policy at the time was not to confer honours on civilians.[70]
UK has 500 nuclear warheads aboard all trident missiles active at any time. Little bunker gnome wouldn't risk it against one, let alone 500. All he can do is stomp his feet in his high-heels (since he is too scared to appear short and wears specially designed extra heels) and try to scare people with words.
... Completely forgetting about the Faroe Islands, Iceland and most likely Norway, given the OMNI DIRECTIONAL nature of the device. Supervillain levels of toys. But does it work? (Not a gamble I'd like to make honestly 🤣)
@@Gojiro7I think people forget that nuclear weapons of this caliber are not created with the thought of ever being used. Their only purpose is to assure mutual destruction in the case of global conflict, so that no side will ever feel comfortable using nuclear weapons against anyone. Nuclear weapons are created solely to ensure nobody uses nuclear weapons.
I just watched a video of an Orca dropping a heap of cetacean crap in its tank and then splashing it all over the observing humans. This seems oddly relevant.
We would've known if they had tried it. This is just a scare campaign trying to come up with a new delivery (no matter how inaffectual) in hopes of spooking the west into inaction.
Good job Qxir pointing out the Omni-Directional nature of it. If Russia uses this they're probably going to have EVERYONE pissed at them. The Lituya bay wave was most likely that tall because of the rockslide. I can think of two weapon's WAY more scary and really feasible. But I won't even mention them. One was actually used in an old video game as a doomsday weapon.
I would have thought that to create that sweet 500m wave you would have to have say 10 of those 100mt drones spaced out over a wider area and then let them off at set intervals which would then create a far more devastating effect.
It'd be interesting to theorize about potential maximum wave heights you could achieve by leveraging constructive interference from perfectly timed detonations. Someone should do that.
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This is why the shady elite is building underground bunkers.
Keep in mind that Putin is a buddy of Klaus Schwab who is also in good company with Angela Merkele and Justin Trudeau among many others.
Yup! It's all a game that was planned decades ago.
Bring back the old intro!
@@ShihammeDarckeep the animation, but the old sound was soooo much better.
Nuclear weapons are not as devastating as people think. I know that sounds crazy, but nuclear weapons are only world and humanity ending if thousands upon thousands are launched. A few nukes would absolutely be catastrophic, but the world would go on unless everybody panics like headless chickens. I'm not saying it would be nothing, there'd all kinds of consequences in the local area and wherever the radioactive by products went, but that's no where close to civilization ending. People forget that Russia and the USA have nuked themselves and others over and over and over again.
Howard Ulrich and his kid survived the wave in Alaska while they were in a fishing boat . It's a great story.
Woah… I was NOT expecting that intro
This is a pretty cool, if not terrifying idea though.
Thought I took something without knowing lol
That’s how my lsd trips translate
100 megatons.. twice as big as the tsar bomba..
They make it look so small because the public doesn't realize just how big a 100mt bomb has to be.
It wouldn't be the torpedo. It would be the submarine. A kamikaze submarine lol
There's no way in hell it could go 125mph underwater, though.
It's a possibility, 20 years from now.
Propaganda like this is what Russia used to convince their citizens to not rebel against them when they started the Crimea & Ukraine wars.
But many Russian people don't even see their own governments propaganda, let alone news from anybody besides Russia.
Much of Russia is basically similar to 1880's America, where people live in isolated farming towns and don't see anything besides MAYBE some Russia propaganda - and most of that is over the radio not even on the TV, and especially not on an internet device.
When they do have actual internet devices, they still aren't able to receive the truth. They're only able to see what Russia allows them to see.
Less than 10% of their country knows exactly what's going on in their war against Ukraine.
Instead of seeing the reality, they only see Russian victories, and they think their country is winning absolutely, instead of seeing the failures.
@@spaghetti0356 Ah, reminds me of the good old days...
I'm coming off an acid trip, really fucking caught me off guard
Watching this in the future after Qxir was vaporized by Russia. God, I miss Qxir's videos so much... 😢
i still remember uk and eire
Well, he shouldn't have said what he said to the Belgians.
You're not watching anything. You're typing comments to look edgy. 😢
same...
Russia can’t vaporize its next door neighbor 😭 how are they going to get to Ireland
I love the fact that he is "in a bomb shelter" for this video. Top shelf production, friend. Kudos!
At first I thought that was just a cellar where he kept his whiskey and beer.
@@burningchrome70 why not both?
@@orektez Still irish after all 😅
A guess what is in the top shelf of an Irishman's bomb shelter.
Salted Cobalt sounds like one of those expensive chocolate flavours you get in Waitrose
Made with delicious cobalt chocolate.
Kind of crunchy. I prefer the strontium ones.
this thing is a bigger danger to all marine sea life than humanity it'self, altho killing all fishes is going to be something devastating for all civilization.
@@toninhosoldierhelmet4033 It would be truly a world ruining weapon.
@@toninhosoldierhelmet4033 Ah yes, Russia's true enemy. Spongebob Squarepants.
I bursted out laughing whet I heard this "500m waves" claim.
As a Russian guy myself, I can assure you that everything you hear on out TV is either EXTREMELY exaggerated so that politicians and CEOs can feel nice about themselves getting some more money to fund this wunderwaffel project before the hype goes down and it is quiet literally swept under the rug and everyone forgets about it.
Fortunately so, if you ask me. Also, nice video. Really like new intro
I feel so bad for people like you and other russians who didn't ask for their country to be run by a cartoonish super villian who literally wants to destroy the world, meanwhile us Americans have to put up with our former and now once again new president trying to destroy the world through greed and incompitance -_- it's times like this I really envy the Swedish
Russia really hasn’t done any good to its military industry by making all these extremely advanced weapons that they never produced….
Can confirm - I myself stopped watching TV a while back because of this exact BS.
Fun fact for anyone reading: we actually have a term for these propaganda "news" anchors - пропагандон; a portmanteau of пропаганда ("propaganda") and гандон ("condom", but also used as an insult). Kiselyov (the one Qxir showed) is the prime example.
wunderwaffel lol
have you seen Dr. Strangelove?
that movie is more important than ever
Ну так если ты русский, тогда нахрен ты за западных?
Idk I liked the simple fast old intro. This new one is cool tho. A different era
because of trump
@@absolutely1337 Huh? I meant the channel entering a new era, his bunker. This dudes Irish in Ireland.
@ trump 🤫
@@absolutely1337 people online trying to shut the hell up about politics for once (impossible)
@ France?
I like the new intro visuals but I much prefer the old digital voice saying QXIR
Same.
this
100%
Me too
same
aw man i liked the old intro
yeah it just works
new one will grow on us, give it a month
and if not he can switch out the audio and keep the cool animation
Same
This one seems a bit much
But it will probably grow like the old one did
It's an intro get over it
@@boldCactuslad I like the new visuals, I just prefer the old audio more.
I can't help but feel for the ecosystems that would be absolutely annihilated by this thing if it was actually employed.
Don't forget that it already happened at the Bikini Atoll, think off all the marine life that got vaporized and then later irradiated...
Pondscum are remarkably resilient. Sure they colonised most of the world at one stage.
@@emile_jeanne Not to mention the people that were evacuated and STILL got irradiated by fallout raining down on them. At least the tests in deserts and tundras weren't destroying biodiverse ecosystems in moments...
They were, just not the same kind.
You'd see all of the dolphins leaving earth singing "so long and thanks for all the fish"
How the hell did I end up on this planet. The local inhabitants are insane
Just wait until you hear about Florida
You know what you did in your previous life
@@1650th nah , we've been tricked to come back. it's a soul trap matrix
You could not exist otherwise, sir.
Why does Russia always embrace the role of full on Bond villain?
New intro: 8/10 cool
Old intro: 11/10 the bomb
I see what you did there
What they always conveniently leave out, is that shortly after this there would be nothing left of Russia either. They would do well to remember MAD.
Nobody even in Russia takes this guy seriously. Well, from the adequate audience (which, unfortunately, is not so large).
There is a lot of obscenity happening on state channels in Russia.
Oh well, my comments font became black… on a black themed youtube. What a futuristic design!
Ok so it isn't just me. Cheers!
And there are no hypersonic missiles, no biolabs in Ukraine, etc, etc.
There are more adequate people than not in Russia. Tho I doubt any of them even watch TV.
Also that Alaskan tsunami reached over 500m but as you saw with the animation, it's not like it was a 500m freestanding wave, it needed to "climb" a cliff and just reached that high when it ran out of energy for going up. And it had like 0.8 miles to go in the channel to the otherside, so basically no time at all to disipate the energy and EXTREMELY concentrated energy in a small area.
did you see the spell harry casted in prisoner of askban... its like pushed so much dementors away..... yes they are comparable because fantasy is fantasy.
Another interesting fact, only two people were killed by that tsunami, they were on a fishing boat in the middle of the bay.
This but its on another scale. Tsar bomba has half the yield at 50 megatons and the Shockwave made its way 2 times around the world. 😊
The fact Russia has a TV station just to talk about nuking an opponent (And likely leading to M.A.D.) is nuts. Im hopeful that most citizens of Russia would rather not watch such a thing.
Most citizenz of Russia, in fact, watch such things...
@@Profffesoryou'd be surprised that most Russians aren't even privileged enough to even worry about that
My grandparents in estonia watch it daily thru a vpn lmao
American reactionaries talk about "sitting on a throne of Chinese skulls" on television. Every country has its genocidal nutjobs.
@@Profffesorwow! Thank you propaganda bot! 😊
Russia vastly overstating their capabilities and desperately rattling the nuclear sabre? Surely not!
Nah just shills and slanderers, Russians are no dumb, the more of a threat Russia is, the more money for the American Military Complex.
To be fair I’d rather the world believe that they are capable of upholding MAD doctrine. Even if the nukes aren’t being hurled at your country, that shit is very very bad news for everyone! I’m an American, and I definitely do not want this country to be able to have the power launch nukes without significant repercussions!
If they could get away with it, they’d definitely turn against you guys in Europe. I mean the US hasn’t even fully signed any of the treaties and international peace organizations. Especially under our current -regime- leadership, the only thing preventing them from stabbing you guys in the back is the fact they couldn’t feasibly get away with it. I hope you guys over there always keep that in mind, because I dread the prospect of the US becoming the sole dominant power of the world.
Only a small group of desperate, insecure bullies would constantly threaten to use a superweapon in response to every petty "your mom" joke. If these fat cats in charge of Russia (not the Russian people) are so formidable, then why are they always brandishing the last resort? The psychology of it speaks for itself.
Considering the Russians have more nuclear weapons than the rest of the world combined. It's a bit more than sabre rattling.
I love the discourse between the old intro fans and the new intro enthusiasts
I wouldn’t have even noticed the intro was different had it not been for the people complaining about it in the comments.
"Show me that you're biased without telling me you're biased."
@ actually I personally have no opinion either way, lol. Just thought it would be fun to use fans and enthusiasts based on the comments I’m seeing
Old digital voice is iconic 🤞🏽
The audio of your new intro is worse than your old one. The graphics are good, but you should keep the static radio voice.
I like the new audio, I think the old audio wouldn't fit with the melting of the logo
Could be wrong but I think it's a green screen
@@tirushone6446 completely disagree. Its iconic and it should stay the same, maybe the new one could be in the outro
I don't think Russians realize that Ireland and Britain are not the same country
I'm pretty sure russians are better at geography than americans
Geo strategically speaking We are the same country. Brits have the larger military, intelligence services that have infiltrated every single area of Irish public life, Irish gov administration etc. a permanent garrison in the North East , the Irish gov also likely signed that deal that basically gave over air defense to the British. Our police force is run primarily by Canadians Australians Kiwis and Brits (the higher ranks not the lower ranking Gardaí).
il be honest, the same goes for Americans and some British but yes... they don't consider them separate...especially not if you work in the near government..."sphere of powers"
@@sirderikhave you... ever met an American? The American people tend to be a lot more anti-British and pro-Ireland than our government.
Care, not realize, the word you're looking for is care.
I disagree. Russia would surely threaten everyone with a cobalt bomb if they possessed one. Edit: Actually Russia would threaten everyone with a cobalt bomb even if they didn’t possess one.
Very true, the funniest thing though is how poor their military has been proven to be second best army in the world my arse. With Ukraine occupying Kursk does Russia get to claim the spot for second best army in Russia, or maybe that should go to North Korea lol
@Alan_Watkin *small area of Kursk.
The only reason why Ukraine still exists is because some our elites still believe it's not humane to level cities with airstrikes and artillery like Israel does.
@@derdoctor1895 So what about the towns/citys Russia has taken over so far... They're nearly all levelled to the ground, so thats not true, what about what they did in Syria, carpet bombing citys like Homs and Aleppo.
What about all the documented cases of missiles and glide bombs being fired into residential areas in Ukraine. Stop watching Russian propaganda TV its filling your head full of lies.
You can't fly your aircraft into Ukraine because 9 times out of 10 Ukraine shoots them down.....
@@derdoctor1895 Oh an one last thing, i don't support Israel i actually compare what they have done to Gaza to what Russia is doing to Ukraine. Thats not that i support Gaza either, Hamas are terrorists an they started the current conflict so in my opinion they are both as bad as each other.
@@derdoctor1895incorrect. The only reason Ukraine hasn’t leveled Russia is because the US elites (whom I’m assuming you are referring to by ‘our’) doesn’t want Ukraine to do anything non-defensive with the weapons they supply. Of course now they are beginning to ignore that and use the weapons (as they should, it’s about time they get to win the war they’ve already won). The best part is? The only reason the elites don’t want them to win is because of their investments in Russia and the war as a whole. The longer the war goes, the more military supplies they can sell to both the US to give to Ukraine and Ukraine directly. This isnt some global xenophobic conspiracy, it’s simply the infinite immoral greed of the Military Industrial Complex. And they are playing you like a fool.
Russia: We got a tsunami nuke
Also Russia: We're gonna take Ukraine in a few days
Russia, please, plplease, please take us seriously, since forever! Russia, we lost 25 million people defeating Nutciz and now you think we'll allow nuclear missiles in a country we gifted as a border land 😅
If you're wondering why the nuclear detonation at Bikini Atoll looks like the one from SpongeBob, who lives in Bikini Bottom, boy do I have some lore for you to look up.
Go on
People forget how fucking heavy water is.
1kg per Litre.
@@FoundingStockNZ Only 96% of the World knows that.
Ironically, your post has "Translate to English" below it. I think it actually means "Translate to American". But it doesn't alter anything.
@@CraftAeroeight pounds, so you know
@@CraftAerois litre French for Liter or something?
@@HubertofLiege That would be a US Gal (3.78L), an Imperial Gal (4.55L) is near spot on 10Lbs.
That is, of course in pounds avoirdupois, not pounds Troy.
That guy discussing the total destruction of Great Britain with all the excitement of a toe jam medication ad. What the actual f*ck??
Ok bot. Its not that hard to comprehend
@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895
He's not a bot
@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 you sound like the bot, actually
You are seeing the end product, missing the context. Actually the public mind was getting there slowly over the past several decades. Most notably through books, I’ve been coming across some of them, alt-history sci-fi, whitewashing of Stalin, mythos of WWII, revanchism over USSR, slavyanophilstvo, Russian exceptionalism. Dreadful hogwash, but remarkably abundant, with cheap paperbacks available to buy at every train station, making the low-wage welder Tolya feel smart and proud as he reads about how great his nation once was on his overnight ride. Then in-mid 2010s they all got smartphones and switched to audioversions.
Someone hates the UK? that's diabolical, devilish, some would say lamentable, how could anyone say or do such thing for "no reason" 😱😱😱😱
I miss the old intro, the new one is great but it doesn't feel in line with the channel's vibe, S tier topic choice as always though
Cool new intro.
except for the thing where he says Qxirrrrrrr
kinda unnecessary
Nah
@ Narc.
Thanks. I get really tired if people overreacting to nuclear threats. It's one of those things where people snap back at you if you try to correct them. It's also difficult to get his and accurate information, especially without a lot of the worst case assumptions baked into some studies, and it's hard to wrap your head around.
The fact that it's hard to wrap your head around is part of why people think it's worse than it is. It's bad, for sure. No one is denying that. It's just that because most people don't have a proper scale of things besides hearing some numbers such as the power it has or the death count, and "big numbers sound big", they think that the scale is much larger than it is. And people in general are notoriously stubborn, so once they get an idea into their head, it's a lot harder to show them proper data to put things into perspective.
@@Gamer3427both sides have over 5k nukes, but its not as bad as it sounds….. fecken genius.
@@marcusaetius9309 I meant more in regards to a single nuclear weapon's detonation. If you add up all the nukes then yea, no shit.
@ and that’s the rub my simple friend, its highly unlikely to be just a single one against an opponent with more or less the same capabilities so to “poo-poo” the very minor details of a weapon like that is kinda stupid…
@@marcusaetius9309 The discussion was in regards to a single such weapon though. This very video was in regards to the detonation of a singular high yield bomb. When most people discuss nuclear weapons, they tend to either discuss the devastation of a singular weapon, or they're aware that full on nuclear war would be effectively the end of the world as we know it. It's the destruction potential of a singular attack that is typically the point of contention as a result.
I better prepare my surf board then!
I see you've watched Escape from LA 😂👍
@@jochenstacker7448 Yup
Even here, in Russia, propaganda on Russia-1 is considered to be unfunny joke.
These reporters are not in good terms with their heads.
Very unfully joke. That's why Putin has 80% support in Russia.
@@endcapitalism5274 You seem to be not aware that the usual support is around 146%. Look it up
Just how much LSD was ingested when that intro was made
Yes.
Love how all it takes to dispute a Russian news station is an Irish guy with a mike and some flashy editing
Your talent to present serious cases with 'tongue in cheek' delivery is superb. I have been to Ireland twice, lived in the UK, visited many countries in Eastern Europe. This particular video has not been on my mind but a QXIR video always catches my attention. Well done!
people forget that earthquakes are much more powerful than nuclear weapons. The explosion of a Tsar 2 bomba in the Mariana trench would be barely detectable.
Energy, absolutely. I don’t think they beat a nuke in power since nukes release that 100 MT in a microsecond. Quakes take minutes.
They are literally instantaneous @@DrDeuteron
@ what are instantaneous? Not earthquakes, faults rip at aroun 6- 10km/s.
Nukes are a little faster, but not instant. Fission neutrons are pretty slow. Fusion neutrons are faster, but not one foot per nanosecond, which is the speed limit.
The explosion of the bomb is not the worst effects it carries. You know, nuclear winter and all....
I’m all here for more videos. Glad you’re still uploading, and makes me giggle with how interesting your topics are
"I dunno Iwan, have you ever considered that maybe we are the baddies?"
"There's such a good view from this floor, come join me at the window."
What is that quote from lonestar?
@@all3ykat79 It's hard to get links through the automated YT comment filter. That's why I just say, "Are We the Baddies?" and trust in you to figure out what to do with it ;)
I love the fact you just keep going Qxir. You're such an awesome dude
HUZZAH!!
Missed your videos recently!!
You forgot the most fun art of it:
It was proposed by Saharov. That same Saharov that got Nobel prize for advocating against nuclear weapons.
I'd like to join the petition for the poticians to refrain from murdering us all with nuclear fire, please
Sorry, the liberals you’ve been voting for are actually war mongers. Psych!
been subscribed to you for a little over a year (maybe two, I'm old time makes no sense any more) I love your channel... the funny shit, the serious, strange, dark... all of it. Keep doing
Comment for the algorithm. Loved this one! Intro threw me off a little, it's not as "catchy", but it is cooler. Maybe keep your old "Qxir!" but keep the graphic?
I really liked the old intro, you do what you want with your channel but ill keep watching because of the effort you put into your channel, it just caught me off guard. Keep up the amazing work I look forward to watching your videos every time they come out
Here in New Zealand we tested a Tsunami bomb way back in the day. The government thankfully decided to not go ahead with it though
The world is also thankful that the NZ Government didn't deploy the equally devastating and superior weapon of war, the Bob Semple Tank in vast numbers during WW-2.
The NZ tsunami bomb was a bit poo, ineffective for the amount of explosive. (Citation- some tvnz doco back in the day.)
@@Kamina1703 They would've been game changers
@@dekumarademosater2762 Yes they were indeed. I think a 2cm higher wave or something was sighted. But I'm sure they'd have figured something out if it continued on
Idk bout that buddy
Having grown up through the 70s and 80 in England the constant threat of nuclear war is nothing new. Almost everyone I know would prefer to go in a flash of blinding light rather than live on for a few weeks in a nuclear wasteland
I think there was a Six Million Dollar Man episode that involved a salted cobalt bomb.
I have been asking metv for that and The Bionic Woman for years. I want to relive THE DEATH PROBE on TV again.
and russia 1 tv is not some alex jones shit, its their state television
Another banger, tho you had me worried for a bit there with the no uploads.
This guy is not bullshitting. He is already in his bunker.
That Russian narrator looks like Winston Churchill.
HG Wells, stepping out of his time machine: What is happening in the inevitably utopian future in which I find myself?
Me: Russia's broadcasting a moving picture of how they're going to send Poseidon to attack Britain.
HG Wells, moon-walking backwards into the time machine: Understood, have a nice day.
Love the new intro and awesome Tomie shirt
New into + old voice = perfection
Obligatory "I was used to the old intro"
Love theses videos, I'm not sure if you read these comments but could we possibly have a Christmas or new year's video about something crazy that happened at this time of year
sick Ito shirt, also sick intro
Dude that intro animation is absolutely slick! Have you been learning blender?
We got a new Qxir intro before Gta6
Bruh. They didn't all decide 100 megatonnes was too much, it was the designer who had visions of totally destroying the world and a few days before the test, changed the uranium 238 cladding for lead and it still had higher yield than they were expecting
AHHH BRING BACK THE INTRO ROBOT VOICE AHH AHHH AHHH HUMAN VOICE AHH
How considerate of the stone cold bald guy to translate the vainglorious and righteous tidal wave height into freedom units for us.
new intro jumpscare 😭
Seeing Ivan use the word “probably” 1:06 (or somewhere near there) kinda made all his daunting and scary Rocky-villain look disseminate… lol
Happy Holidays from the US
its Merry Christmas not what ever clown crap you just said
@@xxdesertstormlol, lmao even
@@xxdesertstorm (psst. we have Jews. shh)
@@xxdesertstormwhat if I celebrated Hanukkah?
@@yaboiandrew2058then stop worshipping baal
Pretty good video dude I like the fact that you’re doing the talking and the music is not so overwhelming. It distracts from what you’re trying to say.
New intro feels like im boutta watch a top 10 gaming video in 2011
Nice new intro
If only people worked this hard to benefit mankind instead of trying to eliminate it.
James bond villain evil plan that's so dumb and deranged
No, the tidal wave 🌊 did not have sharks 🦈🦈🦈 with lasers surfing 🏄♀️ 🏄♂️ 🏄 in to finish everyone off.
Always loved Qxir and love that I'm here for the new era! Appreciate all the hard work you put into your content and love the new direction... but I do hope every now and then I get to see some hand drawn characters make their goofy faces 🤗😜🙃🤪
The idea behind the bombs radioactive spread is the scariest thing in this video
Not really, everybody who knows at least a little bit abozt physics knows that it is absolute bulls. From the russians!
Loved this video format! Keep up the awesome work!!!!!
I can't believe people are complaining about the intro, it lasts for about one second. Blink and you will miss it. It's the informative entertainment that follows we are here for.
I wasnt expecting a new very cool intro! But overall i hope your drawings still are the best.
*Russia* - There is no way to stop this underwater drone"
*America* - **Watches on with a smug smirk**
Cobalt you say 🤔
Nice new intro there, keep up the great work.
Best Irish UA-camr💯💯
Love your videos. Keep up the good work 👍👍
You should expand on this video & do all 6 of the doomsday weapons Putin reveled in 2018
YEEHAW !! From snowy WV! 🤠 Love the video keep up the great content man i cant get enough of your videos! If you can possibly make more content i would watch every second !
as a fellow irish I must admit I would personally hate to be killed because my neighbor is getting into fights with people. It's bad enough having them next to us but getting killed because of them isn't very nice either.
I like the cute sound of the old intro but love the new one too, it's very bold.
W intro
*Nuh uh, my bomb’s bigger than yours, can travel underwater and also has a **_nuclear warhead!_*
That’s what I would expect to hear from a from an arrogant 10 year old, or North Korea.
But apparently *Russia’s* been playing the same game.
*Ok, Putin*
The Operation Antler/Round 1 test by the British at the Tadje site in the Maralinga range in Australia on September 14, 1957, tested a bomb using cobalt pellets as a radiochemical tracer for estimating nuclear weapon yield. This was considered a failure, and the experiment was not repeated.[4] In Russia, the triple "taiga" nuclear salvo test, as part of the preliminary March 1971 Pechora-Kama Canal project, produced relatively high amounts of cobalt-60 (60Co or Co-60) from the steel that surrounded the taiga devices, with this fusion-generated neutron activation product being responsible for about half of the gamma dose in 2011 at the test site. The high percentage contribution is largely because the devices primarily used fusion rather than fission reactions, so the quantity of gamma-emitting caesium-137 fallout was comparatively low. A secondary forest now exists around the lake that was formed by the detonation.
Wait, so the cobalt pellets were at different ranges from ground zero, and acted like radiation ☢️ badge/film? Except this would be true nuclear film 🎥? Very cool.
@@DrDeuteron Australia and England was the first to do it. check out sir Mark Oliphant my grandfather who is 99 yrs old worked and was very good friends with mark.
In 1932 and 1933, the scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory made a series of ground-breaking discoveries. Cockcroft and Walton bombarded lithium with high energy protons and succeeded in transmuting it into energetic nuclei of helium. This was one of the earliest experiments to change the atomic nucleus of one element to another by artificial means. Chadwick then devised an experiment that discovered a new, uncharged particle with roughly the same mass as the proton: the neutron. In 1933, Blackett discovered tracks in his cloud chamber that confirmed the existence of the positron and revealed the opposing spiral traces of positron-electron pair production.[28]
Oliphant followed up the work by constructing a particle accelerator that could fire protons with up to 600,000 electronvolts of energy. He soon confirmed the results of Cockcroft and Walton on the artificial disintegration of the nucleus and positive ions. He produced a series of six papers over the following two years.[29] In 1933, the Cavendish Laboratory received a gift from the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis of a few drops of heavy water. The accelerator was used to fire heavy hydrogen nuclei (deuterons, which Rutherford called diplons) at various targets. Working with Rutherford and others, Oliphant thereby discovered the nuclei of helium-3 (helions) and tritium (tritons).
Oliphant used electromagnetic separation to separate the isotopes of lithium. He was the first to experimentally demonstrate nuclear fusion. He found that when deuterons reacted with nuclei of helium-3, tritium or with other deuterons, the particles that were released had far more energy than they started with. Binding energy had been liberated from inside the nucleus. Following Arthur Eddington's 1920 prediction that energy released by fusing small nuclei together could provide the energy source that powers the stars,[37] Oliphant speculated that nuclear fusion reactions might be what powered the sun. With its higher cross section, the deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion reaction became the basis of a hydrogen bomb. Oliphant had not foreseen this development:
... we had no idea whatever that this would one day be applied to make hydrogen bombs. Our curiosity was just curiosity about the structure of the nucleus of the atom, and the discovery of these reactions was purely, as the Americans would put it, coincidental.
In 1934, Cockcroft arranged for Oliphant to become a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, which paid about £600 a year. When Chadwick left the Cavendish Laboratory for the University of Liverpool in 1935, Oliphant and Ellis both replaced him as Rutherford's assistant director for research. The job came with a salary of £600 (equivalent to AUD$131,000 in 2022). With the money from St John's, this gave him a comfortable income. Oliphant soon fitted out a new accelerator laboratory with a 1.23 MeV generator at a cost of £6,000 (equivalent to AUD$1,310,000 in 2022) while he designed an even larger 2 MeV generator. He was the first to conceive of the proton synchrotron, a new type of cyclic particle accelerator. In 1937, he was elected to the Royal Society. When he died he was its longest-serving fellow.
@@DrDeuteron
Manhattan Project
At the University of Birmingham in March 1940, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls examined the theoretical issues involved in developing, producing and using atomic bombs in a paper that became known as the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. They considered what would happen to a sphere of pure uranium-235, and found that not only could a chain reaction occur, but it might require as little as 1 kilogram (2 lb) of uranium-235 to unleash the energy of hundreds of tons of TNT. The first person they showed their paper to was Oliphant, and he immediately took it to Sir Henry Tizard, the chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Warfare (CSSAW).[52] As a result, a special subcommittee of the CSSAW known as the MAUD Committee was created to investigate the matter further. It was chaired by Sir George Thomson, and its original membership included Oliphant, Chadwick, Cockcroft and Moon.[53] In its final report in July 1941, the MAUD Committee concluded that an atomic bomb was not only feasible, but might be produced as early as 1943.[54]
A large oval-shaped structure
The giant Alpha I racetrack at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, used for electromagnetic separation.
Great Britain was at war and authorities there thought that the development of an atomic bomb was urgent, but there was much less urgency in the United States. Oliphant was one of the people who pushed the American program into motion.[55] On 5 August 1941, Oliphant flew to the United States in a B-24 Liberator bomber, ostensibly to discuss the radar-development program, but was assigned to find out why the United States was ignoring the findings of the MAUD Committee.[56] He later recalled: "the minutes and reports had been sent to Lyman Briggs, who was the Director of the Uranium Committee, and we were puzzled to receive virtually no comment. I called on Briggs in Washington [DC], only to find out that this inarticulate and unimpressive man had put the reports in his safe and had not shown them to members of his committee. I was amazed and distressed."[57]
Oliphant then met with the Uranium Committee at its meeting in New York on 26 August 1941.[56] Samuel K. Allison, a new member of the committee, was an experimental physicist and a protégé of Arthur Compton at the University of Chicago. He recalled that Oliphant "came to a meeting and said 'bomb' in no uncertain terms. He told us we must concentrate every effort on the bomb, and said we had no right to work on power plants or anything but the bomb. The bomb would cost 25 million dollars, he said, and Britain did not have the money or the manpower, so it was up to us." Allison was surprised that Briggs had kept the committee in the dark.[58]
Oliphant then travelled to Berkeley, where he met his friend Lawrence on 23 September, giving him a copy of the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. Lawrence had Robert Oppenheimer check the figures, bringing him into the project for the first time. Oliphant found another ally in Oppenheimer,[56] and he not only managed to convince Lawrence and Oppenheimer that an atomic bomb was feasible, but inspired Lawrence to convert his 37-inch (94 cm) cyclotron into a giant mass spectrometer for electromagnetic isotope separation,[59] a technique Oliphant had pioneered in 1934.[34] Leo Szilard later wrote, "if Congress knew the true history of the atomic energy project, I have no doubt but that it would create a special medal to be given to meddling foreigners for distinguished services, and that Dr Oliphant would be the first to receive one."[55]
@@DrDeuteron On 26 October 1942, Oliphant embarked from Melbourne, taking Rosa and the children back with him. The wartime sea voyage on the French Desirade was again a slow one, and they did not reach Glasgow until 28 February 1943.[60] He had to leave them behind once more in November 1943 after the British Tube Alloys effort was merged with the American Manhattan Project by the Quebec Agreement, and he left for the United States as part of the British Mission. Oliphant was one of the scientists whose services the Americans were most eager to secure. Oppenheimer, who was now the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory attempted to persuade him to join the team there, but Oliphant preferred to head a team assisting his friend Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley to develop the electromagnetic uranium enrichment-a vital but less overtly military part of the project.[61]
Oliphant secured the services of fellow Australian physicist Harrie Massey, who had been working for the Admiralty on magnetic mines, along with James Stayers and Stanley Duke, who had worked with him on the cavity magnetron. This initial group set out for Berkeley in a B-24 Liberator bomber in November 1943.[62] Oliphant became Lawrence's de facto deputy, and was in charge of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory when Lawrence was absent.[63] Although based in Berkeley, he often visited Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the separation plant was, and was an occasional visitor to Los Alamos.[64] He made efforts to involve Australian scientists in the project,[65] and had Sir David Rivett, the head of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, release Eric Burhop to work on the Manhattan Project.[65][66] He briefed Stanley Bruce, the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, on the project, and urged the Australian government to secure Australian uranium deposits.[65][67]
A meeting with Major General Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, at Berkeley in September 1944, convinced Oliphant that the Americans intended to monopolise nuclear weapons after the war, restricting British research and production to Canada, and not permitting nuclear weapons technology to be shared with Australia. Characteristically, Oliphant bypassed Chadwick, the head of the British Mission, and sent a report direct to Wallace Akers, the head of the Tube Alloys Directorate in London. Akers summoned Oliphant back to London for consultation. En route, Oliphant met with Chadwick and other members of the British Mission in Washington, where the prospect of resuming an independent British project was discussed. Chadwick was adamant that the cooperation with the Americans should continue, and that Oliphant and his team should remain until the task of building an atomic bomb was finished. Akers sent Chadwick a telegram directing that Oliphant should return to the UK by April 1945.[68]
Oliphant returned to England in March 1945, and resumed his post as a professor of physics at the University of Birmingham. He was on holiday in Wales with his family when he first heard of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[69] He was later to remark that he felt "sort of proud that the bomb had worked, and absolutely appalled at what it had done to human beings". Oliphant became a harsh critic of nuclear weapons and a member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, saying, "I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use."[17] His wartime work would have earned him a Medal of Freedom with Gold Palm, but the Australian government vetoed this honour,[23] as government policy at the time was not to confer honours on civilians.[70]
my comments keep geting removed
Whoa did you get an editor? This whole video looks sick.
UK has 500 nuclear warheads aboard all trident missiles active at any time. Little bunker gnome wouldn't risk it against one, let alone 500. All he can do is stomp his feet in his high-heels (since he is too scared to appear short and wears specially designed extra heels) and try to scare people with words.
With that top speed, this sounds like the military equivalent of Plankton shifting into maximum overdrive.
... Completely forgetting about the Faroe Islands, Iceland and most likely Norway, given the OMNI DIRECTIONAL nature of the device. Supervillain levels of toys. But does it work? (Not a gamble I'd like to make honestly 🤣)
whether it works or not, that would still generate a massive environmental hazard that Russia would refuse to take responsibility for causing
@@Gojiro7I think people forget that nuclear weapons of this caliber are not created with the thought of ever being used. Their only purpose is to assure mutual destruction in the case of global conflict, so that no side will ever feel comfortable using nuclear weapons against anyone. Nuclear weapons are created solely to ensure nobody uses nuclear weapons.
a bunch of old men bragging about how they can wipe each other of the face of the earth is quite a sad site
I just watched a video of an Orca dropping a heap of cetacean crap in its tank and then splashing it all over the observing humans. This seems oddly relevant.
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Orcas know what's up
Link?
@@HubertofLiege ua-cam.com/video/H176YgMZF88/v-deo.htmlsi=jti3w3TMQM8M8I12
Russian military watching the movie 2012: "WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!"
commenting before watching: they probably tried it and realized that using a nuke normally is better than creating a tsunami with it
We would've known if they had tried it. This is just a scare campaign trying to come up with a new delivery (no matter how inaffectual) in hopes of spooking the west into inaction.
Good job Qxir pointing out the Omni-Directional nature of it. If Russia uses this they're probably going to have EVERYONE pissed at them. The Lituya bay wave was most likely that tall because of the rockslide.
I can think of two weapon's WAY more scary and really feasible. But I won't even mention them. One was actually used in an old video game as a doomsday weapon.
I would have thought that to create that sweet 500m wave you would have to have say 10 of those 100mt drones spaced out over a wider area and then let them off at set intervals which would then create a far more devastating effect.
It'd be interesting to theorize about potential maximum wave heights you could achieve by leveraging constructive interference from perfectly timed detonations. Someone should do that.
100 or so , possibly
fancy seeing you again!
love the new intro intro
I'll be missing the old intro :/
Also, don't make death threats to the entirety of the Irish people. They know a thing or two about causing trouble.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"