Nuclear Might: Ready but Safe (1965)
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Nuclear Might: Ready but Safe by Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, 1352d Photographic Group Publication date 1965
Special Film Project 1348 by the United States Air Force
That tall tail B 52 is a thing of beauty
No mention of the close call in Goldsboro, NC, of course. Classified at that time.
Is that when 2 25mt weapons creamed into the farmers house? Read that 3 out of 4 'safety' systems failed.
After viewing this, this seems to have been produced in response to the movies "Doctor Strangelove" and "Fail Safe." The Air Force was trying to say what was depicted in those films could never happen. But after the nuclear accident over Palomares, Spain, the Chrome Dome flights were stopped.
It's a miracle of biblical proportions that there hasn't been a accidental nuclear detonation.
Several tests of nuclear weapons have however produced a greater yield then expected (Castle Bravo being the worst) or have resulted in greater then expected fallout or related incidents (venting from undergound test for example)
No, it's extreme care, foresight, and technical proficiency
@@hckyplyr9285 You forgot dumb luck in one or two cases...
Maybe accidental launch but as far as detonation it is not a surprise at all. Many safeguards and things have to be lined up just right to set one off.
@@braddywarbucks are you kidding only a simple switch have prevented a detonation of one of the broken arrow incident the one where the bomb have landed close to an house
"Despite recent fiction"... I'm guessing they mean _Dr. Strangelove_
Excellent film.
Now all under the sea ..
Biden lost suitcase mixed in with his golf bags..
Or Fail-Safe. Both were released in 1964.
@@ericatkinson1412 Indeed, Kubrik did all he could to screw over _Fail-Safe_ 's release.
@don s I work for US Dept of Energy ..and am a EEOICPA victim.
Goofball...
@don s I still work in this field as an engineer on "devices" etc . Fermilab etc.
No war is possible using old fashion "devices"..
There are new one s like Samuel Cohen's neutron device..
Lets pray no more of this madness..
Military industrial complex is hungry for a new cold war 2.0 .
Quite obvious..
Be well Sir.
שלום
Opening sequence scene image !! Danger red tip heighten alert....
Very secure with 30 main accidents in 20 years you have been lucky to not being wiped out by your mighty weapons
Back in the good old days when America was still a great place to live unlike the disaster it now has become. I was born the year this film was released in 1965.
You've got a few years on me. But the '80s sure was a great time to be a kid. Of course, none of knew it was America's last hurrah.
Thanks !!
Dude sounds like he's sealed in a bunker. That's reassuring.....
This Videos released at 1965 but reuploaded now
hmmm i see the patern here
Did you guys see the black Captain in charge of nuclear missiles? Someone should do a series pointing out all the black leaders in these old military videos because I see them all the time but the narrative they are teaching people today is that the black man wasn't allowed to achieve in this country.
This is from 1965. The Palomares incident happened just a few months later (in January 1966). The cargo proved quite elusive till it was finally recovered.
And in 1957, a 10-megaton, Mark 17 hydrogen bomb was accidentally dropped east of Albuquerque, NM. The conventional explosives detonated and made a crater 12-feet deep and 25-feet wide. Only one head of cattle died...
Not talking about the crash in artic of the b52 and the loss of 2 bombs never recovered
@@badbotchdown9845 Yes, this was a 'Chrome Dome' crash in Greenland, which strained relations between the US and Denmark for a while.
@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424 danish civilians who was there have nothing as protection for recovering the crash site
Operation Chrome Dome... what could possibly go wrong?
Love that bomb! Yeah yeah
I got a strange love for that bomb!
Happy, safe, nuclear USAF world!
Yaaaay!
I think the bomb principally shown in the film is a B28RE, the RE standing for retarded external carriage. The B28 was the first family of bombs with myriad configurations for all manner of weapons carriage and delivery.
It was a B28RE although back in 1965 it was referred to as a Mk-28RE. The versions the B-52 carried were the B28RI and B28FI.
@@nicholasmaude6906 Yep. Much less aerodynamic for internal carriage. Has more fuzing options, the most important of which was laydown mode. The RE version could be carried externally and was more aerodynamic for supersonic applications, right?
Thanks for the comment not a lot of people with knowledge of nuclear weapons these days.
Any idea why both external carried B28 versions and the B43 were developed? They both have about the same weight, yield options, fuzing options, etc? I know the B43 could be carried externally by the Hustler, and was the only bomb that bird could so carry, aside from its huge principle drop tank/weapon. Maybe specifically for that?
@@hckyplyr9285 "Any idea why both external carried B28 versions and the B43 were developed?"
The external variants of the B28 (The EX and RE) were designed for tactical fighter-bombers that could only carry special-stores externally such as the F-100,F-101, F-104 along with the F-4 amongst other such aircraft as for the B43 it was only designed for external carriage. One last point the warhead component of the B28, the BA28, was also used as the warhead in the MGM-13 Mace and AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missiles.
@@nicholasmaude6906 The B43 was also carried by fighter bombers. In fact it is described as the bomb carried by the widest variety of platforms in the US arsenal. I still don't understand why both were made for essentially identical purposes. But I appreciate your response. Maybe I'm missing something. One was a hedge on the other failing? Both were very widely produced.
@@hckyplyr9285 I'm not certain why the B43 was developed after the B28 was (The B28 was developed in parallel with the UCRL B27) but the B28 seemed to been more versatile as the W28 physics package in addition to being made for external and internal carriage using different forebodes and aft-bodies was also used as a missile warhead. The W43 physics package IIRC was considered for use as a missile warhead but wasn't in the end.
9:37...' i caught my missus in bed with my best friend and now i want to destroy all civilization '...the other guy... ' yeah mate not before we get you checked out by the doc'
That was thirty years before safety was invented. 🧐
Fast forward to 1996....& bam!
Broken Arrow
17:46 - No Lone Zone. Well it could be titled "Loners will be shot";).
just remember Duck and dive....
The narrator sounds like he might have been Mike Wallace (RIP)
Hoax
@@johnrogan9420 Ignorant comment.
Safe? Had a nuke drop near my hometown in 1958 a few miles from house.
And it almost blew up.
@@__...Michal...__ Almost? Either it did or it didn't, if it didn't it's because the failsafes worked.
@@ToreDL87 Only one of failsefes worked that day.
@@__...Michal...__ thats comforting to know. Thats not a way i would have wanted to go. Lol
And it detonated and you're dead...?
Hello
Tell that punk to get his hands off our junk!
Open key untedt stets
Hardinsberg, Goldboro, Palomares and Thule not withstanding of course 😑 Jeez
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There have been accidents involving nuclear weapons, but as yet no accidental detonations. 1945 through 2023 is nearly eighty years - doesn't lack of accidental explosion illustrate that such safety procedures and mechanisms that there have been and are continue to be effective?
More vital is surely the controls that exist to prevent inappropriate deliberate use of these weapons by the senior military commanders responsible for them or the person, like the US president, who is the ultimate arbiter of their use authorising such use inappropriately. I worry that an individual like Trump/Putin had/has such power. I suspect that they don't.
Algorithm.
No aproval for eny flags
While they compare notes 🇺🇸 will be blasted into oblivion...
It was good while it lasted.
Only luck has saved the US so far. At least one accidental drop did arm as it fell. At a rate of more than 1 accident a year it was not the smartest idea to run around with live nukes.
Less than one accident per year. Since 1950, there have been 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents.
The deterrence missions were dangerous but necessary.
Wow! The movie they're evidently referring to has to be Dr.Strangelove lol!!! I guess it really hit home to have a worst case scenario and the what if's occur??? SMFH! Propaganda machine saves the day and makes everyone happy and feel comfy cozy Huh? At the moment in 2022 we have just this scenario and a useless broken down corrupt government that could make this all happen unfortunately. Let's hope it doesn't! "Let's Go Brandon" All the Way!
Truthful and accurate propaganda.
Any THINKING person would much rather have Biden in charge of the nuclear football than Trump or any of his ilk. Don was very kind in his reply to your comment.
@@booklover6753 Man, what a self-refuting statement. You are a fucking idiot.