Hey thanks for checking out my video! I agree with most of your nitpicks actually. It was a surprisingly large challenge to try and figure out how to explain some of these concepts in as simple a way as possible. So for the e=mc2 stuff I was mostly trying to explain the concept in general rather than the context of a nuclear explosion. And yeahhhhhhh there definitely wouldn't be a firestorm in most modern cities. I opted to keep it in there because it was a good segue to talking about the devastation in Japan and it's something most people have no clue was even a thing! Also, lowkey that B83 warhead might be one of the best VFX shots I've ever done hahaha :P
@kamransyed4548 The data scale video 100% had some errors that were in a pinned comment by Wren. I recall something being off with the math in the Universal logo video, but I think that was a plot point? Then they brought in Scott Manley, who had made a miscalculation? But that video also had to be recut due to copyright, and knowing them it was fixed if it was ever wrong. They are not dishonest, but rigor is becoming rare, and they occasionally put a bit too much stock into self-professed youtube experts. They're pretty good pop-sci, but it's pop-sci.
Great reaction! Its always nice to get some added context from someone who knows the physics when it comes to videos like this. Corridor crew is renowned for their VFX and that shot at 16:41 is a great example.
The best way to see the magnitude is to use NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein on your own / or nearby location and calculate how long you can stand outside without protection to receive a lethal dose of radiation, which is probably the worst way to die because it takes the longest (not taking in account starvation / dehydration).
The B-83 is a "dial a yield" weapon, with a range of yields to select from such that it is capable of use as a "tactical" weapon...it can be set for as little as 5 kilotons or less.
Mods of the B-61 (B-83s little brother) can actually go down to as little as 0.3 kilotons, although if someone is going as far as deploying a nuclear weapon I doubt this is the setting they'd use.
@@gregbarnes4083 I thought about mentioning that the newest gravity bombs in the US nuclear arsenal are the B-61 series, and that the new version can get down to sub-kiloton level yield...but I did not want to post too long a comment. Thanks for your comment. 👍
The targeting of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not targeting civilians per--se, but rather attacking their centers of manufacturing. People don't understand how ugly the war had gotten at that point. The US had just lost tens of thousands taking Okinawa and over 100k Japanese died in the battle. The bomb came at just the right time to prevent a land invasion of Japan, which would have likely cost upwards of 1 million American lives. Don't get me wrong though, there was the firebombing of Dresden which was the British intentionally targeting civilians as a big "F U" after the Germany spent months raining down missiles and bombs on London. My Grandfather was a Bombardier on a B-24 Liberator and every one of their 10 missions prior to being shot down were all targeting Germany's manufacturing centers, places like ball bearing factories and such. And if anyone is curious, I'm here typing this so yeah, most of the crew survived. They were interred in Germany and actually escaped, making it to the Swiss border who was a 'neutral' country. He was awarded a Silver star for that mission.
"It's the same principal as buoyancy" Exactly. You can make "cloud mushrooms" of air bubble in a pool if you go underwater, face the surface and blow a huge volume of air in a short amount of time. It takes a bit of practice, like rings of smoke.
20:18 - the person opposite Wren, Jan, is a cinematographer and semi-regular contributor to Corridor, as well as being sort of Wren's sitcom archnemesis; one of the early examples of their rivalry was when Wren made a video about mounting a Nerf gun on a drone and Jan challenged Wren that he could knock it out of the sky with an axe before it could shoot him, as well as one where made Jan (who is missing his left pinky) a prosthetic finger and later a finger that doubles as a Nerf gun. So having them with Nerf guns representing the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and eventually co-operating is a little goofy and saccharine, but if you know, you know. 😉
The most beautiful wave from a fission or fusion detonation is the precursor N wave, labeled here as the "stem wave" for the "cool sounding" factor. The combination of the N wave and P (primary) wave create the destructive S (secondary) wave.
Loved the video as usual. Would be curious to see the Corridor guys do a response/reaction to this themselves. Also I was wondering how many suggestions you get from people for a part of the game reactions series to do one for say the Markiplier video on the game "The Chernobyl Liquidators" or any of the videos of people playing the Chernobyl Liquidators Simulator Demo?
Beirut was given a yield of 500 ton TNT equivalent upper limit 1.1kt Larger explosions include the Halifax disaster at 2.9kt and the minor scale explosion at 4.2kt. What do you think of using nuclear weapons to deflect a meteor or comet?
Thank you, I was wondering about the nuclear fallout that was not much discussed in the original video. Radiation poisonning seems to be an insiduous problem for years after the bomb hit.
Yeah nuclear fallout is such a complex topic that I decided to not touch on it at all. People like Kyle Hill have already made lots of amazing videos covering it so I decided to stick to my wheelhouse
I recently got some trinitite sand and it’s only mildly radioactive since caesium-137 only has a half life of 30 years, even my Radiacode 103 struggles to get a reading, but it is able to detect the decay products given enough time
I do agree that we need to keep working towards a world where these will never be used again, but it is worth noting that the reason we have so many is not to use them all, but to ensure enough are available for each potential situation. Some are sheer redundancy for the risk of preliminary strikes against nuclear installations - if the enemy thinks they can disable your nukes first, there is no disincentive to them starting the war. There are also those that are designed to get around different enemy tactics, the "nuclear triad" of land, sea and air delivery mechanisms under the philosophy that the enemy can't create countermeasures for all of them so they will never feel safe starting the war. Third, there are tactical weapons which are designed so that we have an option below "total annihilation" if the enemy uses nuclear weapons in a limited manner. Finally, there is redundancy for maintenance. All those being decommissioned or replaced, along with their replacements and those that are having just routine maintenance are counted. Realistically, there is no scenario in which more than about 20% of weapons would ever see use even in a total war scenario because the rest would either be targets, or would not be deployable before the conflict is over. 20% is still the worst disaster in human history, but it also explains makes a lot more sense when you look at the reality that "mutually assured destruction" between two geographically sparse and massive nations implies.
For those wondering, while the US has it's traditional missiles hidden in silos, the most important nuclear weapons are aboard 18 Ohio Class Ballistic Missile Submarines. Each Submarine has 20 Trident II D5 Missiles and each of those contain 12 'multiple independent reentry vehicles' (MIRV) warheads, each having an explosive yield of almost 500 kilotons of TNT. So essentially, each Submarine can completely annihilate 244 cities the size of Los Angeles... and there are 18 of those submarines hiding around the globe.
A book written in 1962 called Thinking About The Unthinkable, by Herman Kahn put things in a different perspective for me. It described some scenarios that still seem terrifying. And today we have nations that continue to threaten others with these weapons.
Great insights and commentary. Often people bring up the bombing in japan and talk only to the devastation, and of course it was cataclysmic. It should be worth noting that millions of lives were saved on both sides from extending the war with a land invasion. D-day would have had to been repeated, only with the complications that occurred with the prior landings in the pacific campaigns. As for the loss of lives, I'm pretty sure the chinese can testify to the devastation of the japanese in nanking, without using nukes. Ironically, it seems the power and speed of vast death and destruction through nuclear weapons saved lives. Your channel does a fantastic job of putting to bed misinformation about nuclear energy. Michael schellenburger did a few ted talks comparing the use of nuclear vs renewables in france and germany. Maybe you can confirm if what he says is true?
It's not like Russia had a choice in terms of reducing its stockpile since after the fall of USSR the facilities and resources to maintain the stockpile was heavily diminished. Today it's unknown how many active nukes Russia has but it's probably much the same as its territory after the collapse. Why do you think they've sold so many? Recoup losses and not have to deal with housing and maintenance.
Many Japan cities were fire bombed by B29s. Many buildings made into ash. Japanese goverenment still did not surrender. Operation Downfall allies estimated 1 million dead or wounded and Japanese losses 5 to 10 million.
Potential energy has mass (or rather, ground states have negative mass). This is as true for chemical or gravitational potential energy as it is for nuclear.
Basically, other missiles are sent towards the nuclear ones. Their task is to deviate its course, or damage it. A damaged nuclear bomb is still dangerous, as it can spill radioactive material all around, but still better than letting it explode.
14:35 it doesn't take hitting an oil refinery or even a nuke to set off a firestorm with fire tornadoes. they happen in forest fires and the bombings of some cities with conventional weapons. heat rises pulling in more air from ground level, viola' all the conditions necessary for a vortex to form whether it be fire, water, or just air and debris. fire storms and their associated fire tornadoes have been known for awhile. dresden and tokyo are some historic examples.
Full annihilation would be worse than a nuke by about 4 orders of magnitude. Nukes are really stronger because of the strength of the strong nuclear force holding atoms together, not because of matter to energy conversion any more than chemical explosives.
The Tsar bomba was actually the start of another interesting method of nuclear delivery that would be hard to intercept, known as the "Backyard bomb" You built the nuclear bomb so big it was hard to move to the target, but because of the fallout from said explosion, you could set it off in your "backyard" instead and the fallout would drift over to the enemy. Now to be fair, the only ones with a big enough backyard would be the Russians though.
Saw a pretty cool video that you might enjoy. "Here's what it looks like inside a nuclear power plant" by CBC News. It's "Pickering nuclear generating station"
Sir these types of youtubers are ready to make anything god is having mercy on us because mr.beast doesn’t have that money to buy a nuke... he would’ve blowed us up
What I found far more shocking is how pathetic they sound in reality. The sound is always dubbed and always realiged in time. There are rare unedited shots though and the bomb goes off with a 'crack' and then a rolling rumble. Not what you would expect. Not the big bang from the movies.
The Czar Bomba was for propaganda purposes and you'd never see something this ever being used in a real war.... Putin: Hold my beer! Lemme introduce you to Poseidon, a 200 megaton cobalt 59 jacketed nuclear powered drone torpedo that has just completed sea trials and will enter service very soon.
Why you reacting on other people and not creating content instead? Don't want to put in the work? You are just generating money for free, lazy reactors...
Hey thanks for checking out my video! I agree with most of your nitpicks actually. It was a surprisingly large challenge to try and figure out how to explain some of these concepts in as simple a way as possible. So for the e=mc2 stuff I was mostly trying to explain the concept in general rather than the context of a nuclear explosion. And yeahhhhhhh there definitely wouldn't be a firestorm in most modern cities. I opted to keep it in there because it was a good segue to talking about the devastation in Japan and it's something most people have no clue was even a thing!
Also, lowkey that B83 warhead might be one of the best VFX shots I've ever done hahaha :P
hey Wren! ur great.
That's all.
All hail Sir Wrender🙏
lol he even said "its a good replica"
Love your content, Wren! You and the rest of the crew all deserve the success you have.
@@JunkyardBashSteve no u
Yes! You finally got to Corridor Crew. They might not always be the most accurate, but they do try, and their visualizes are awesome.
wait really? i thought they were always accurate, can you tell me sometimes they were off?
@kamransyed4548 The data scale video 100% had some errors that were in a pinned comment by Wren. I recall something being off with the math in the Universal logo video, but I think that was a plot point? Then they brought in Scott Manley, who had made a miscalculation? But that video also had to be recut due to copyright, and knowing them it was fixed if it was ever wrong.
They are not dishonest, but rigor is becoming rare, and they occasionally put a bit too much stock into self-professed youtube experts. They're pretty good pop-sci, but it's pop-sci.
Yeah.. they are amazing ❤
The Einstein comment about special relatives is so underrated 😂
what about his brother Frank
@@MarkoDash he's definitely special, too
16:48 I guess they fooled you with their preem VFX 😎
Also, great reaction! Love your channel and been watching Corridor Digital since 2012.
Yeah that's not a replica haha
Wren is such a cool dude. Awesome to see his work appreciated.
Great reaction! Its always nice to get some added context from someone who knows the physics when it comes to videos like this. Corridor crew is renowned for their VFX and that shot at 16:41 is a great example.
I've been hoping to see a reaction to this! Glad it's finally here
great video mate. explained things very clearly and concisely great pacing with the reaction too.
I haven't ever come across your channel before, but I've been a Corridor fan for several years. I loved listening to your feedback - thanks for this!
The best way to see the magnitude is to use NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein on your own / or nearby location and calculate how long you can stand outside without protection to receive a lethal dose of radiation, which is probably the worst way to die because it takes the longest (not taking in account starvation / dehydration).
I feel like you saying "A nuclear bomb detonating on the ground will throw up some debris" sounds like a bit of an understatement. 😂
The B-83 is a "dial a yield" weapon, with a range of yields to select from such that it is capable of use as a "tactical" weapon...it can be set for as little as 5 kilotons or less.
Mods of the B-61 (B-83s little brother) can actually go down to as little as 0.3 kilotons, although if someone is going as far as deploying a nuclear weapon I doubt this is the setting they'd use.
@@gregbarnes4083 I thought about mentioning that the newest gravity bombs in the US nuclear arsenal are the B-61 series, and that the new version can get down to sub-kiloton level yield...but I did not want to post too long a comment. Thanks for your comment. 👍
The targeting of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not targeting civilians per--se, but rather attacking their centers of manufacturing. People don't understand how ugly the war had gotten at that point. The US had just lost tens of thousands taking Okinawa and over 100k Japanese died in the battle. The bomb came at just the right time to prevent a land invasion of Japan, which would have likely cost upwards of 1 million American lives.
Don't get me wrong though, there was the firebombing of Dresden which was the British intentionally targeting civilians as a big "F U" after the Germany spent months raining down missiles and bombs on London. My Grandfather was a Bombardier on a B-24 Liberator and every one of their 10 missions prior to being shot down were all targeting Germany's manufacturing centers, places like ball bearing factories and such. And if anyone is curious, I'm here typing this so yeah, most of the crew survived. They were interred in Germany and actually escaped, making it to the Swiss border who was a 'neutral' country. He was awarded a Silver star for that mission.
"It's the same principal as buoyancy"
Exactly. You can make "cloud mushrooms" of air bubble in a pool if you go underwater, face the surface and blow a huge volume of air in a short amount of time. It takes a bit of practice, like rings of smoke.
15:15 Yes! Yes! It was a city made entirely of wood. 😊😊
Corridor Crew is great, and Wren is just so likable and entertaining.
20:18 - the person opposite Wren, Jan, is a cinematographer and semi-regular contributor to Corridor, as well as being sort of Wren's sitcom archnemesis; one of the early examples of their rivalry was when Wren made a video about mounting a Nerf gun on a drone and Jan challenged Wren that he could knock it out of the sky with an axe before it could shoot him, as well as one where made Jan (who is missing his left pinky) a prosthetic finger and later a finger that doubles as a Nerf gun. So having them with Nerf guns representing the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and eventually co-operating is a little goofy and saccharine, but if you know, you know. 😉
The most beautiful wave from a fission or fusion detonation is the precursor N wave, labeled here as the "stem wave" for the "cool sounding" factor. The combination of the N wave and P (primary) wave create the destructive S (secondary) wave.
Day one of saying your content is amazing
Loved the video as usual.
Would be curious to see the Corridor guys do a response/reaction to this themselves.
Also I was wondering how many suggestions you get from people for a part of the game reactions series to do one for say the Markiplier video on the game "The Chernobyl Liquidators" or any of the videos of people playing the Chernobyl Liquidators Simulator Demo?
Beirut was given a yield of 500 ton TNT equivalent upper limit 1.1kt Larger explosions include the Halifax disaster at 2.9kt and the minor scale explosion at 4.2kt. What do you think of using nuclear weapons to deflect a meteor or comet?
Nukes don't work very well in space, it would basically have to be a bunker buster type and be used as a very very violent thrustwr
@@embersaffron5522 That is a good idea. A nuclear multi stage bunker buster space defence system.
@@dand8538 yeah, basically you have 2 options
Impactor or thruster
A bigass Armor piercing nuke would kinda be two for one
11:30 Heh, actually _this_ one is a really good example of the effect of the inverse square law ;)
Almost to 80k Subscribers!!
"It's hot but not that hot" Ok so I can go outside with Factor 50 Suncream! Cool man good to know!
Cool!
Thank you, I was wondering about the nuclear fallout that was not much discussed in the original video.
Radiation poisonning seems to be an insiduous problem for years after the bomb hit.
Yeah nuclear fallout is such a complex topic that I decided to not touch on it at all. People like Kyle Hill have already made lots of amazing videos covering it so I decided to stick to my wheelhouse
I recently got some trinitite sand and it’s only mildly radioactive since caesium-137 only has a half life of 30 years, even my Radiacode 103 struggles to get a reading, but it is able to detect the decay products given enough time
Yeah. The point of Hiroshima being made of wood is really important. It is the same reason the 1922 Kanto earthquake was devastating as well
12:35 i remember the video called "the house in the middle" where they tested houses in different levels of upkeep vs an atomic bomb.
Those were tiny model houses
@@WeirdSmellyMan I know
Why everyone is ignoring the fact that he's mystically looking like CG Matter!
I do agree that we need to keep working towards a world where these will never be used again, but it is worth noting that the reason we have so many is not to use them all, but to ensure enough are available for each potential situation. Some are sheer redundancy for the risk of preliminary strikes against nuclear installations - if the enemy thinks they can disable your nukes first, there is no disincentive to them starting the war. There are also those that are designed to get around different enemy tactics, the "nuclear triad" of land, sea and air delivery mechanisms under the philosophy that the enemy can't create countermeasures for all of them so they will never feel safe starting the war. Third, there are tactical weapons which are designed so that we have an option below "total annihilation" if the enemy uses nuclear weapons in a limited manner. Finally, there is redundancy for maintenance. All those being decommissioned or replaced, along with their replacements and those that are having just routine maintenance are counted. Realistically, there is no scenario in which more than about 20% of weapons would ever see use even in a total war scenario because the rest would either be targets, or would not be deployable before the conflict is over.
20% is still the worst disaster in human history, but it also explains makes a lot more sense when you look at the reality that "mutually assured destruction" between two geographically sparse and massive nations implies.
Agree......we have to ensure that the proliferation of nukes doesn't reach the Martian Congresional Republic and Outer Planets Alliance.
For those wondering, while the US has it's traditional missiles hidden in silos, the most important nuclear weapons are aboard 18 Ohio Class Ballistic Missile Submarines. Each Submarine has 20 Trident II D5 Missiles and each of those contain 12 'multiple independent reentry vehicles' (MIRV) warheads, each having an explosive yield of almost 500 kilotons of TNT. So essentially, each Submarine can completely annihilate 244 cities the size of Los Angeles... and there are 18 of those submarines hiding around the globe.
14 of those subs with nukes not 18 but still moot point. For reference 4 of the subs were converted to carry cruise missiles.
A book written in 1962 called Thinking About The Unthinkable, by Herman Kahn put things in a different perspective for me. It described some scenarios that still seem terrifying. And today we have nations that continue to threaten others with these weapons.
Great insights and commentary.
Often people bring up the bombing in japan and talk only to the devastation, and of course it was cataclysmic. It should be worth noting that millions of lives were saved on both sides from extending the war with a land invasion. D-day would have had to been repeated, only with the complications that occurred with the prior landings in the pacific campaigns.
As for the loss of lives, I'm pretty sure the chinese can testify to the devastation of the japanese in nanking, without using nukes.
Ironically, it seems the power and speed of vast death and destruction through nuclear weapons saved lives.
Your channel does a fantastic job of putting to bed misinformation about nuclear energy.
Michael schellenburger did a few ted talks comparing the use of nuclear vs renewables in france and germany. Maybe you can confirm if what he says is true?
16:52 is not actually a replica, its just vfx!
It's not like Russia had a choice in terms of reducing its stockpile since after the fall of USSR the facilities and resources to maintain the stockpile was heavily diminished. Today it's unknown how many active nukes Russia has but it's probably much the same as its territory after the collapse. Why do you think they've sold so many? Recoup losses and not have to deal with housing and maintenance.
Many Japan cities were fire bombed by B29s. Many buildings made into ash. Japanese goverenment still did not surrender. Operation Downfall allies estimated 1 million dead or wounded and Japanese losses 5 to 10 million.
Even after the 2 bombs there was a coup happening to keep the war going.
Can you do a video on the difference between Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs and the difference in the radiation they produce if any
Potential energy has mass (or rather, ground states have negative mass). This is as true for chemical or gravitational potential energy as it is for nuclear.
So what you’re saying is to avoid those big Bucce’s gas stations if a nuke goes off 😅
California: "Well fuck us I guess."
18:33 How do you intercept a nuclear missile? Do you blow it up mid-air?
Basically, other missiles are sent towards the nuclear ones. Their task is to deviate its course, or damage it. A damaged nuclear bomb is still dangerous, as it can spill radioactive material all around, but still better than letting it explode.
14:35 it doesn't take hitting an oil refinery or even a nuke to set off a firestorm with fire tornadoes. they happen in forest fires and the bombings of some cities with conventional weapons. heat rises pulling in more air from ground level, viola' all the conditions necessary for a vortex to form whether it be fire, water, or just air and debris. fire storms and their associated fire tornadoes have been known for awhile. dresden and tokyo are some historic examples.
Full annihilation would be worse than a nuke by about 4 orders of magnitude. Nukes are really stronger because of the strength of the strong nuclear force holding atoms together, not because of matter to energy conversion any more than chemical explosives.
As soon as I saw the big explosion in Bayroot (sorry, I have adhd and dyslexia) I knew it was Ammonium nitrate by the Colour of the cloud
my favorite measurement of prompt critical is F your Couch
8:43 - Wow, it's already done? So, the explosion is just reality catching up to what fission has already left behind. Sheesh.
The Tsar bomba was actually the start of another interesting method of nuclear delivery that would be hard to intercept, known as the "Backyard bomb"
You built the nuclear bomb so big it was hard to move to the target, but because of the fallout from said explosion, you could set it off in your "backyard" instead and the fallout would drift over to the enemy.
Now to be fair, the only ones with a big enough backyard would be the Russians though.
5:02 There was a unit missing. I'm triggered.
I farted thousands of times watching this video. Mind AND bowels blown!
15:00 one thing to note is that nagasaki and hiroshima had a LOT of wooden buildings and structures, which made the fires much worse
He misspelled Kilotons!!!!
I'm all for nuclear arms proliferation. How else are we going to fight off the aliens? USA! USA! USA!
You should try the game NUKE MAP
I’d love for him to react to the atomic breath scenes from Godzilla Minus One.
Saw a pretty cool video that you might enjoy. "Here's what it looks like inside a nuclear power plant" by CBC News.
It's "Pickering nuclear generating station"
Coat your bomb in a bomb in a cobalt casing. BEWM...and the fallout....sweet baby jesus the fallout!
"Who does like LA?" Should be the question. Living under a rock?
React to: "CG short film on the extinction of the dinosaurs | "Dinosaurs: The true story" - by P-L. Aeberhardt" ? :)
Lighten up man. You take things too literally. You'd make a great nuclear engineer.
Sir these types of youtubers are ready to make anything god is having mercy on us because mr.beast doesn’t have that money to buy a nuke... he would’ve blowed us up
You look a lot like Niko
- "If you are inside of this fireball, you'll get deleted from existance"
+ "You would, but it that fireball isn't THAT hot"
LOL
and from what I hear Russia might have taken to rearming in recent months
It’s a very dated movie. But The Day After was an insane movie for its day and the early vfx made my young heart freak out.
I was 8 when that movie came out. It gave me a nightmare
Just out of curiosity do you actually have an engineering degree and are you a PE?
Yeah, the nerf guns followed by the fist bump really took away from the serious tone of the ending 😆
The biggest bomb? It is a toy. Space has the real bombs. Lets make sure they stay up there.
can't blow up LA... bit tight on cash
What I found far more shocking is how pathetic they sound in reality. The sound is always dubbed and always realiged in time. There are rare unedited shots though and the bomb goes off with a 'crack' and then a rolling rumble. Not what you would expect. Not the big bang from the movies.
right now russia is building nuclear bombs , china , north korea
People like this needs to go live in Cuba or Russia they appreciate what the military might USA have done for their lively hoods.
Makes you appreciate just how much power God has.
Giggle haha, they make a joke so I take it literal cuz lols. End my life.
My god this is bad...
Corridor have a bias against nuclear energy so I wouldn't be surprised if they inflated the numbers somewhat
Well this is simply completely false...
The Czar Bomba was for propaganda purposes and you'd never see something this ever being used in a real war....
Putin: Hold my beer! Lemme introduce you to Poseidon, a 200 megaton cobalt 59 jacketed nuclear powered drone torpedo that has just completed sea trials and will enter service very soon.
Eating up more propaganda I see.
Why you reacting on other people and not creating content instead? Don't want to put in the work? You are just generating money for free, lazy reactors...