There's something fascinating about the whole idea of the Soviet Union and United States having to sit down together with the interest of asking the SCP Foundation to take ownership of something they created and can no longer control. It's like 2 children being called into the principal's office because they know they did something wrong.
"to get you up to speed, this SCP is designed to carry out the Soviet Union's final orders" "But the Soviet Union has been dead for 31 years" SCP 1984: "what" "oh shit"
Yeah, that’s how I thought the story would go. That the SCP would find out the USSR no longer existed and would interpret that as the right conditions to launch the missiles.
@@markfergerson2145 I got curious and read some about it. Very interesting history. Btw if you check the last paragraph of the Wikipedia article on one of Project Pluto's reactor, it says that "in 1998, an unidentified organization used it for a classified project". It made me chuckle :)
I named my dog Keter. Just because I did he ended up being a 110 pound pit bull who is the single biggest scared baby ever. I can't even go to the bathroom without him whining outside the door. He's scared to be alone.
There's a hypothesis that some scps contain true to life events, written with pseudonyms and such, as a way for people to blow a whistle and prepare the general public for the idea of the threat
This SCP definitely feels like a more messed-up version of Peace Walker. Both of them represent the theory of deterrence and how most humans with a moral fibre could never muster the courage to retaliate, and so something inhuman would be needed to ensure that MAD is followed through.
@@d00gz_ You'd be amazed what a man driven by rage, pride and retribution is willing to do in order to achieve his goals. People underestimate the capabilities of others but make no mistake: When a man has lost everything, the limit of "acceptable loss" only reaches so far. Humanity is its own worst enemy. We really aren't grateful for what has been achieved, it's only a matter of time before all of that is lost to human incompetence.
My understanding: people couldn't bring themselves to actually activate the counter attack nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear war, so they created an entity who would "want to do it", as in, would want to bring about the end of the world. They specifically created an artifical intelligence who wanted to end humanity. Side effect of this: the entity isn't just trying to activate the weapons in the event of a nuclear attack, it is actively trying to create a nuclear war because it hates humanity. Really neat concept. Great video!
I love how practical some of these SCPs are in concept, if not reality. A perfect dead man trigger, but one that doesn't know when or how to stop. This would be terrifying enough as an automated function, let alone an animated corpse with 'special' properties. Great work, once again! That model looks amazing!
"Would be". Are you aware that the 'Dead Hand' or, as it's known today, the PERIMETER system is a real life system used by the Russian Federation to automatically launch its nuclear missiles if the computer thinks Russia has suffered a first strike? It uses seismographs, geiger counters, and other classified parameters to determine whether or not Russia has been hit by a nuclear strike. So, it *is* a terrifying concept. Not would be.
Not self-destruct, but per the USSR and its nuclear arsenal...my late uncle had a friend who was a KGB Colonel in charge of a nuclear missile base in Moldova or Belorussia or somewhere similar. One day, out of the clear blue sky, he got the no-shit, we're-not-fooling, launch-all-your-missiles signal from the Kremlin. Nobody had heard anything about tension with the US, nothing of the level of imminent nuclear war especially. This guy had maybe 2 minutes to decide what to do. His missile base was obviously a key part of their nuclear response and if he failed to fire in the event of a real war he could, just conceivably, be part of the reason the Soviets would "lose" the war. If it was a real thing and he failed, then, he might be condemning the USSR to destruction at the USA's hands. In addition, he and his family would have been toast for treason, dereliction of duty, whatever. But if the signal was wrong and he launches, well, that's WW3 for no reason and bye bye, human race. He hedges, calls the Kremlin, and asks somebody what had happened that would cause the "FIRE EVERYTHING!!!" signal to be sent and apparently told my Uncle that he could "hear every officer in that room simultaneously shit themselves dead white." Turned out to be a computer glitch. Anyway, I'm not sure if this is the same guy who famously had this happen or if this was another such event, but I do know this guy was my late uncle's friend for a good 20 years after they met while my uncle was in the USSR selling them lasers his company made.
@@MrBrachiatingApe I can 100% see this happening. Computers are finicky at best, and at the Height of the Cold War, they were worse. But even today something like that could happen, because computers are not infallible.
@@MrBrachiatingApe There are I believe to be over a dozen instances of what I call "One Man moments" where due to circumstances caused the fate of the world to fall on a single man. One of them was prevented by an officer having a flat tire driving to work, others just simply didn't have the stomach to put their key in, some accepted the fate of their country dying and not making it worse. Nearly all of them were computer glitches or miscommunications. I'm not religious, but it does seem insanely improbable that nuclear war did not happen, and that God or a higher being made sure it did not result. Or maybe that there are millions of parallel worlds where that one officer did not have a flat tire that resulted in the death of our species, but we happen to be in the one that it doesn't happen. Either way, we should all be thankful the men on both sides that kept their humanity when faced with the unimaginable weight and threat of immediate nuclear war. Despite the odds, we exist.
An interesting SCP. Especially the last part. I see it as a story of hope strangely. That even the most evil people the soviets could deliver to the project were unable to wipe out the human race if given the option, so they needed to create something so broken that it could do the one thing no one would be able to.
Exactly! This absolutely intrigued me most! No amount of human nature, pathology, or nurture/trauma could induce the scp to cooperate. Such unexpected hope for humanity. It was terrifying to think of what they did for “success.”
I read the last part of the document as the Soviet Union deciding to psychologically torture someone into being more than willing to launch a second strike, then killing them so they could be used to create SCP-1984
I don't know. The end goal was something that would initiate a second strike no matter what. It's treated as a necessary outcome, regardless of what happened to trigger activation. It's easy for someone to sign the death warrants of far too many if the pen was never in their hand, but that doesn't make them any less complicit nor does it do anything to remove their signature from the end result.
@@connorm7915 I read it in a similar way, but that the spirit or soul or whatever of the corpse is kept in torment perpetually, so that when released by media saying nukes are flying or whatever, they'd fire off all the nuclear missiles to end the world just so they would be at peace.
My first thought to prevent another breach would be to set up a second Faraday cage around the first one, but this time made of telekill alloy. Still, great job as usual.
And that’s why SCP writers stopped using telekill alloy lmao 😂 still, I gotta say that’s not a bad idea, maybe slap a couple’a Scranton Reality Anchors on top while we’re at it.
I love both those references my dude, it is rare to see fear talked about but I gladly got some old school games on steam to bring me back to my childhood - fear and the darkness
I love whole gist of Volgun’s SCP videos. it’s a great thing to have while waiting sitting on the bus or when I’m trying to fall asleep. They provide for some hella creepy dreams though.
Imagine being a super secret, super powerful organization manned by the best of the best think that you should redact the distance over the name of the area
Saw an SCP that was really cool that was based on the concept of all those "Man in the Mountain" trope characters or historical figures coming back around WW1 and it was implied they were meant to be summoned much later for a far greater danger and the system just misfired
You know it’s gonna be a good time when the containment procedures include something completely out of left field for a military operation like “trained actors”
Scientist: This is going nowhere! The only person who wouldn't hesitate to push the launch button would be a complete madman! Soviet Military: Hey comrade! Guess what we found!
This reminds me of various science fiction and tall tales of soldiers or AI continuing to fight a war that ended (or never began) in the distant past. The terrifying aspect is that’s not such a far fetched idea.
Makes me think of the stranded Japanese soldiers on islands around the Pacific being found years after WW2 ended but were still trying to set traps for American soldiers.
Nice timing on making the Dead Hand vid lmao. But what's scary about Dead Hand is the fact it's an unstoppable force that is made to shoot the rockets to end the world. Jesus.
Talk about a sword of damocles. you know my mom might like this one. she grew up in the sixties and she doesn't like military or scientific arrogance. like she saw the very first Doctor who.
"The USSR is planning to nuke the entire planet!" The Foundation: "lmao so?" "They're gonna do it with GHOSTS!" The Foundation: "SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING."
Something about this makes me think. Part of the SCP is to have people with at least “10 years of experience in Soviet Russian media” I tend to think that the containment will fail over time since the more time goes on the further removed people are from old Soviet Russia
Microwaves can disrupt radar because they are pretty much just electricity being made as static as possible by swirling electricity around in an insulated box so probably y they confuse this thing. Also microwaves are failed radar made by an inventor that didn't go to college.
This one always terrifies me. If the fact that is a global death sentence with all the compassion and forethought of a human with a spiky iron ball wasn't a dead ringer, it is one of the darkest reminders of the scars and fears of the Cold War. What makes this terrifying is that eventually, they will run out of people that can handle this thing. They will be forced to rerun old clips at the apparition might figure it out sooner rather than later. Unless they explicitly disconnect it from the arsenal, all hope is lost. Yes, it is fictional. But, the genuine sense of dread and suspicion you get from this one feels about as real as it can be
Fun fact: "Dead Hand" is a real world automatic nuclear launch program. Though there's no solid confirmation if it's truly automated or still needs some level of manual human activation. It was said to still be active, as of 2011. However, a Russian chief for the Missile Forces stated in 2018 that Dead Hand may now be ineffective since the US (immediately followed by Russia) withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Basically, they can just use short range missiles now, so no real reason to rush to the literal nuclear option or have an automated nuclear option.
They probably still have those intermediate range nukes in reserve anyway, cause I highly doubt they are all phased out completely. And the automated dead hand system is probably still a thing being developed, they're just keeping new information from getting out.
I cant watch right now but at least I know what I'm listening to before bed :) always excited whenever you upload bro. Looking to become a patron but need to see if I get this new job first 😅
This SCP exemplifies the fear during the cold war. It was not created with the idea of revenge in mind, but with the idea of nuclear deterrent. The belief that there is a chance for nuked destruction if the otherside realized that you are unwilling to press the button in retalliation. I see the SCP as something that the US is also willing to make as well, but the soviet did it first.
"No sane person would end the world after the war was already lost... so I decided to fix that and make something that would!" - Lavrentyev puts the MAD in mad scientist.
This SCP is unfortunately ruined for anyone who has even a marginal knowledge of actual recent history. The USSR did _not_ represent a nuclear threat during the Cold War. Their nuclear resources were miniscule and trivial, if they existed at all - this is now fairly well-known. The reason the US (who _had_ tons of nukes) continually instigated and escalated the situation was because of the "Red Scare," the nationwide American hysteria and paranoia that its people might learn of the overwhelming prosperity and successes of communism (yes, that's right, the USSR _thrived_ prior to Stalin's meddling) and that it would start to spread westward as people evilly conspired to live happy, fulfilled lives (this was not the case; the idea of a free working class that own their own labor, independent of parasitic state capitalists has _never_ been widely popular in the US).
@@Appz- Source? Citation? Anything other than your misguided opinion? This isn't just my personal view, it's recorded history - plain to see for all who care to look. I'd be happy to point you toward some reading on the subject, if you're interested.
@@Appz- Again, friend, you're talking about personal anecdotes and I'm talking about established historicity. So let's just say I believe you; let's say I _don't_ feel your views are misguided due to a lack of information; neither would alter the irrelevance of anecdotes here, nor would they rewrite recorded history. I apologize if that's upsetting.
An autonomous back-up trigger to ensure mutual destruction, ever listening for reports that demand it to serve its purpose. The idea of that trigger being an altered person who has no remorse is clever, but it having to actively run around to reach launch sites while it is also capable of telekinesis and projection is an odd feature.
It's because the real life Dead Hand requires people to do exactly that in the Russian Federation and in the USA's equivalent in order to launch a strike when missiles haven't actually been used. The horror here is that Dead Hand is real and is a thing most nuclear powers have or want to have
@@runningbetweenspaces This thing was made irl, and oddly enough these systems actually prevent false alarms. They do not launch sans human intervention save for a severe combination of specific inputs from a lot of different systems, otherwise you have to go to the location to launch in most cases. That's why SCP-1984 can't just launch them all at once; the real system won't go off unless we are absolutely all dead anyway from nuclear war or something worse. The only time we have been close to this kind of scenario, Dead Hand type systems prevented it or confirmed the suspicions of those that chose not to take action.
@@MalletFace9898 The real Dead Hand doesn't actually involve people. It launched a rocket which then transmits a signal to the missile silo's and automatically launches the remaining ICBMs. Supposedly the UVB-76 numbers station is connected to it.
@@dylansmit3883 I never suggested it did. I suggested that if there were no actual missiles in the air, then, like SCP 1984, you would have to do the in-person method, the apocryphal key-turn. I also suggested that it was so good at this that it caught errors in other systems and didn't launch. What are you even thinking I said?
I think I understand this scp from this reading far better than the previous times I've heard it. The use of spiritualism to generate a ghost that can operate nuclear facilities specifically to initiate a first strike should it appear either defeat or peace is eminent. Why it appears as women and children and not the soldier isn't really clear...
Can't this creature be made harmless by sabotaging the launch sites? I'm sure the foundation can plant in agents who'd tamper with the launch mechanism or the missiles themselves.
"Listen, this is a HOSTILE SCP."
*"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?!"*
the slightest idea**
"Sorry, That's all you get"
The littlest idea***
the incidentalest thoughtform****
the absolute minute conceptually perceptible amount*
There's something fascinating about the whole idea of the Soviet Union and United States having to sit down together with the interest of asking the SCP Foundation to take ownership of something they created and can no longer control.
It's like 2 children being called into the principal's office because they know they did something wrong.
And now the children are begging the principal to take care of their mess.
and even then the principle tends to not know what he's doing, but has to "Keep up the appearance" of knowing
"to get you up to speed, this SCP is designed to carry out the Soviet Union's final orders"
"But the Soviet Union has been dead for 31 years"
SCP 1984: "what"
"oh shit"
Lmao
😂🤣😅
Yeah, that’s how I thought the story would go. That the SCP would find out the USSR no longer existed and would interpret that as the right conditions to launch the missiles.
"Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to suggest that SCP-1984 could be neutralized by showing it the movie 'WarGames'."
I wish they’d do more “folly of man” SCP’s set in the Cold War era. Give me an insane American or British Created superweapon
A Cold War fueled, reality re-structuring eigenweapon.
Write some.
Project Pluto surely counts as insane if not anomalous.
Write it then.
@@markfergerson2145 I got curious and read some about it. Very interesting history. Btw if you check the last paragraph of the Wikipedia article on one of Project Pluto's reactor, it says that "in 1998, an unidentified organization used it for a classified project". It made me chuckle :)
Don't worry. Dead Hands are pretty easy to deal with. Jump attacks and frame perfect spin attacks make them trivial to kill.
A Biggoron Sword will make short work if it.
Lmao I had the same thought
Zelda?
Just ring Saraneth and Kibeth together in a figure-8 pattern. Usually takes care of things.
I named my dog Keter. Just because I did he ended up being a 110 pound pit bull who is the single biggest scared baby ever. I can't even go to the bathroom without him whining outside the door. He's scared to be alone.
Pretty sure that's every put bull. 😂 Sensitive babies ❤
aww what a little princess!
My favorite scp’s are ones that could conceivably exist, and if we could, we would have made things like the good sergeant during the Cold War.
Cold war scp's are some of my favorites. I only wish there were more defensive ones.
There's a hypothesis that some scps contain true to life events, written with pseudonyms and such, as a way for people to blow a whistle and prepare the general public for the idea of the threat
not you again
Euclid are some of the most interesting scps because they aren't actively trying to kill anything, they are just random and have no reason to exist.
@@left4twenty that's a hypothesis as old as fiction itself that has probably been proposed about every story with even a bit of realism
How is the desecrated corpse's screaming face the least terrifying thing about it?
Not being rude, but I think you may mean 'dessicated' like 'dried out' in this case
Because this SCP focuses a very real threat in a believable fashion, but with just enough sensationalism to remind you that it's fiction.
@@Afferodolor No, not rude at all, I think you’re right.
@@Afferodolor there's an argument for it being both.
@@Its_Pronounced_Heezee Yet the implications of this one still feel real considering how close to annihilation the world was at the time
"The only brodcasts allowed to reach SCP-1984 are those created by the Information Contol Team."
This is like Gearge Orwell's book, 1984.
LITERALLY 1984
Wow, much knowledge very literature.
Jor jorwell
Damn bro that's deep
Yep, that’s the reference
This is literally 1984
Nah - its literally 2022, mate.
@@Fanny-Fanny 🤓
Jor Jorwell
@@copyrightstrike4666 ich bin in nerd
@Ghoool, I see what you did there.
If Hideo Kojima were to still make Metal Gear games, this would definitely be up his alley.
They could somehow bring back "Lightning Boy" to the lore.
This SCP definitely feels like a more messed-up version of Peace Walker.
Both of them represent the theory of deterrence and how most humans with a moral fibre could never muster the courage to retaliate, and so something inhuman would be needed to ensure that MAD is followed through.
@@d00gz_ You'd be amazed what a man driven by rage, pride and retribution is willing to do in order to achieve his goals. People underestimate the capabilities of others but make no mistake: When a man has lost everything, the limit of "acceptable loss" only reaches so far. Humanity is its own worst enemy. We really aren't grateful for what has been achieved, it's only a matter of time before all of that is lost to human incompetence.
@@denver376 didn’t he become the Man on Fire and eventually die to Venom Snake
girls frontline would also be a good fit
Kinda funny how they call it “containment” even though half of their “detainees” can just leave at will but don’t feel like it most of the time
trick is to make them want to stay or not having a reason to leave.
@@lukasperuzovic1429 or making them believe they are contained
@@GODOFAWSOMENESS1 Yep, even if that containment is paper thin
@@lukasperuzovic1429 I can see it now an scp that believes that only paper can stop it so they have a room covered in layers of paper.
containment doesnt need to be by force. its an equally valid strategy, assuming its effective, to give it a reason to stay out, or ask nicely
My understanding: people couldn't bring themselves to actually activate the counter attack nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear war, so they created an entity who would "want to do it", as in, would want to bring about the end of the world. They specifically created an artifical intelligence who wanted to end humanity. Side effect of this: the entity isn't just trying to activate the weapons in the event of a nuclear attack, it is actively trying to create a nuclear war because it hates humanity.
Really neat concept. Great video!
Thus they got sergeant chernikov, an unthinking man possessed of inhuman cruelty as the base subject.
Thank you for the explainer!
@@HeronSight Oh no, he's thinking.
He just doesn't give a shit.
It’s basically “what if humans were able to stop AM from ‘I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream’ before it nuked the world?”
I love how practical some of these SCPs are in concept, if not reality. A perfect dead man trigger, but one that doesn't know when or how to stop. This would be terrifying enough as an automated function, let alone an animated corpse with 'special' properties.
Great work, once again! That model looks amazing!
"Would be". Are you aware that the 'Dead Hand' or, as it's known today, the PERIMETER system is a real life system used by the Russian Federation to automatically launch its nuclear missiles if the computer thinks Russia has suffered a first strike? It uses seismographs, geiger counters, and other classified parameters to determine whether or not Russia has been hit by a nuclear strike. So, it *is* a terrifying concept. Not would be.
Given that the self-destruct systems at sites are often atomic in nature, it's a fair bet the 2008 breach must have been interesting...
Not self-destruct, but per the USSR and its nuclear arsenal...my late uncle had a friend who was a KGB Colonel in charge of a nuclear missile base in Moldova or Belorussia or somewhere similar.
One day, out of the clear blue sky, he got the no-shit, we're-not-fooling, launch-all-your-missiles signal from the Kremlin. Nobody had heard anything about tension with the US, nothing of the level of imminent nuclear war especially.
This guy had maybe 2 minutes to decide what to do. His missile base was obviously a key part of their nuclear response and if he failed to fire in the event of a real war he could, just conceivably, be part of the reason the Soviets would "lose" the war. If it was a real thing and he failed, then, he might be condemning the USSR to destruction at the USA's hands. In addition, he and his family would have been toast for treason, dereliction of duty, whatever.
But if the signal was wrong and he launches, well, that's WW3 for no reason and bye bye, human race.
He hedges, calls the Kremlin, and asks somebody what had happened that would cause the "FIRE EVERYTHING!!!" signal to be sent and apparently told my Uncle that he could "hear every officer in that room simultaneously shit themselves dead white."
Turned out to be a computer glitch.
Anyway, I'm not sure if this is the same guy who famously had this happen or if this was another such event, but I do know this guy was my late uncle's friend for a good 20 years after they met while my uncle was in the USSR selling them lasers his company made.
@@MrBrachiatingApe I can 100% see this happening. Computers are finicky at best, and at the Height of the Cold War, they were worse. But even today something like that could happen, because computers are not infallible.
@@MrBrachiatingApe good shit on that guy for calling it in before launching everything
@@ShadowReignhart like the Hawai incident lol
@@MrBrachiatingApe There are I believe to be over a dozen instances of what I call "One Man moments" where due to circumstances caused the fate of the world to fall on a single man. One of them was prevented by an officer having a flat tire driving to work, others just simply didn't have the stomach to put their key in, some accepted the fate of their country dying and not making it worse. Nearly all of them were computer glitches or miscommunications. I'm not religious, but it does seem insanely improbable that nuclear war did not happen, and that God or a higher being made sure it did not result. Or maybe that there are millions of parallel worlds where that one officer did not have a flat tire that resulted in the death of our species, but we happen to be in the one that it doesn't happen. Either way, we should all be thankful the men on both sides that kept their humanity when faced with the unimaginable weight and threat of immediate nuclear war. Despite the odds, we exist.
An interesting SCP. Especially the last part. I see it as a story of hope strangely. That even the most evil people the soviets could deliver to the project were unable to wipe out the human race if given the option, so they needed to create something so broken that it could do the one thing no one would be able to.
Exactly! This absolutely intrigued me most! No amount of human nature, pathology, or nurture/trauma could induce the scp to cooperate. Such unexpected hope for humanity.
It was terrifying to think of what they did for “success.”
I read the last part of the document as the Soviet Union deciding to psychologically torture someone into being more than willing to launch a second strike, then killing them so they could be used to create SCP-1984
I don't know. The end goal was something that would initiate a second strike no matter what. It's treated as a necessary outcome, regardless of what happened to trigger activation. It's easy for someone to sign the death warrants of far too many if the pen was never in their hand, but that doesn't make them any less complicit nor does it do anything to remove their signature from the end result.
The most unbelievable part of the story tbh, there would definitely be people capable of pressing the bottom but regardless, interesting.
@@connorm7915 I read it in a similar way, but that the spirit or soul or whatever of the corpse is kept in torment perpetually, so that when released by media saying nukes are flying or whatever, they'd fire off all the nuclear missiles to end the world just so they would be at peace.
I’ve always viewed this SCP as a cautionary tale of politicians not watching their mouth when it comes to consequences on the world stage
The thumbnail is going to give me nightmares now. Jokes aside this model looks amazing yet disturbing as all hell.
My first thought to prevent another breach would be to set up a second Faraday cage around the first one, but this time made of telekill alloy. Still, great job as usual.
And that’s why SCP writers stopped using telekill alloy lmao 😂 still, I gotta say that’s not a bad idea, maybe slap a couple’a Scranton Reality Anchors on top while we’re at it.
This is like a weird mixture between F.E.A.R. and Metal Gear and honestly, I'm about it.
Fuck yeah dude
I love both those references my dude, it is rare to see fear talked about but I gladly got some old school games on steam to bring me back to my childhood - fear and the darkness
00:27 *Special Containment Procedures* - 02:11 *Description*
05:42 *Recovery Log* - 07:33 *Incident Report*
11:03 *Project December* - ✉11:57 - 📝13:14 - 🔍15:36 - 📓16:59 · 19:05
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00:00 Title screen
00:11 *INTRODUCTION*
00:27 *SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES*
00:53 containment cell
01:19 Information Control Team
02:11 *DESCRIPTION*
02:54 Sgt. Marat Chernikov
03:21 dormancy & manifestation
04:23 secondary abilities
05:18 hostility & vulnerability
05:42 *RECOVERY LOG 1984*
06:29 increasingly beyond control
07:10 containment
07:33 *INCIDENT REPORT 1984-1*
08:07 Researcher's Note
08:19 breach
09:19 information control broadcast
10:21 recontainment
11:03 *RECOVERED PROJECT DECEMBER DOCUMENTATION*
11:57 FRAGMENT 2.c - Memo from Dr. Lavrentyev
12:14 + _second-strike_
13:14 FRAGMENT 12.w - Notes on Dr. Clark's experiment
13:33 + _"Mr. Smith"_
14:43 + _knock twice for yes_
15:36 FRAGMENT 21.x - Psychological evaluation
15:49 + _Sgt. Chernikov_
16:59 FRAGMENT 29.b - Diary of Dr. Lavrentyev
17:07 + _March 21, 1981_
17:38 + _June 19, 1981_
18:03 + _July 13, 1981_
18:24 + _October 29, 1981_
18:41 + _November 5, 1981_
19:05 + _December 13, 1981_
19:37 + _December 24, 1981_
20:01 + _February 11, 1982_
20:17 + _February 27, 1982_
20:29 + _March 3, 1982_
20:49 *OUTRO*
21:01 Credits & Special Thank You
22:16 End screen
Living in Europe and the timing (which i assume is intentional) really make this hit different. Been a while since an SCP filled me with actual dread.
“Mr. President, I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens……”
'Animals would be bred and *slaughtered*. . .'
"We'll, meet again, don't know where, don't know when"
Love the 3d render. Also loving the idea the failsafe for Russia was just a humanoid reciever
I love whole gist of Volgun’s SCP videos. it’s a great thing to have while waiting sitting on the bus or when I’m trying to fall asleep. They provide for some hella creepy dreams though.
Imagine being a super secret, super powerful organization manned by the best of the best think that you should redact the distance over the name of the area
Saw an SCP that was really cool that was based on the concept of all those "Man in the Mountain" trope characters or historical figures coming back around WW1 and it was implied they were meant to be summoned much later for a far greater danger and the system just misfired
You know it’s gonna be a good time when the containment procedures include something completely out of left field for a military operation like “trained actors”
Scientist: This is going nowhere! The only person who wouldn't hesitate to push the launch button would be a complete madman!
Soviet Military: Hey comrade! Guess what we found!
This reminds me of various science fiction and tall tales of soldiers or AI continuing to fight a war that ended (or never began) in the distant past.
The terrifying aspect is that’s not such a far fetched idea.
Makes me think of the stranded Japanese soldiers on islands around the Pacific being found years after WW2 ended but were still trying to set traps for American soldiers.
2:00 I heard you breaking character with that slight giggle in your voice
Nice timing on making the Dead Hand vid lmao.
But what's scary about Dead Hand is the fact it's an unstoppable force that is made to shoot the rockets to end the world. Jesus.
Keep up the good work. Just think 4 years ago you thought it odd to read SCPs as written. Love your content!
Ooh that's a good one, haven't read it before, as always the great render and delivery made this even more creepy
My gut reaction occasionally is “ugh, ANOTHER keter”, but you always pick the right ones 🤍
The content is always amazing
Talk about a sword of damocles. you know my mom might like this one. she grew up in the sixties and she doesn't like military or scientific arrogance. like she saw the very first Doctor who.
This is one of the (now few) SCPs that give me goosebumps lmao
"The USSR is planning to nuke the entire planet!"
The Foundation: "lmao so?"
"They're gonna do it with GHOSTS!"
The Foundation: "SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING."
Something about this makes me think. Part of the SCP is to have people with at least “10 years of experience in Soviet Russian media” I tend to think that the containment will fail over time since the more time goes on the further removed people are from old Soviet Russia
12:36 I'm pretty sure there's plenty of people who'd push the button and consign humanity to oblivion. Some people just want the world to burn.
This reminds me a book 1984 by George Orwell, I never read it, but I imagine this is what the book is like
If indeed there is such a book, this is definitely what it would be like.
1984 is more of a social commentary book.
This one hits very different in 2022...
Dude..
Your accent control has gotten so good.
Thanks, as always.
Microwaves can disrupt radar because they are pretty much just electricity being made as static as possible by swirling electricity around in an insulated box so probably y they confuse this thing. Also microwaves are failed radar made by an inventor that didn't go to college.
I’d love to see this thing during the Broken Masquerade or a K-Class “screw it, we’re dead anyway” scenario.
You are the best SCP reader on the youtubes
I remember fighting that thing in Ocarina of Time.
This one always terrifies me. If the fact that is a global death sentence with all the compassion and forethought of a human with a spiky iron ball wasn't a dead ringer, it is one of the darkest reminders of the scars and fears of the Cold War.
What makes this terrifying is that eventually, they will run out of people that can handle this thing. They will be forced to rerun old clips at the apparition might figure it out sooner rather than later. Unless they explicitly disconnect it from the arsenal, all hope is lost.
Yes, it is fictional. But, the genuine sense of dread and suspicion you get from this one feels about as real as it can be
Oh my god, this is literally 1984.
It's just a theory...
A GAME THEORY!!!
-The Game Theorists
Aaannd-- (intelligible) cut
Fun fact: "Dead Hand" is a real world automatic nuclear launch program. Though there's no solid confirmation if it's truly automated or still needs some level of manual human activation. It was said to still be active, as of 2011. However, a Russian chief for the Missile Forces stated in 2018 that Dead Hand may now be ineffective since the US (immediately followed by Russia) withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Basically, they can just use short range missiles now, so no real reason to rush to the literal nuclear option or have an automated nuclear option.
They probably still have those intermediate range nukes in reserve anyway, cause I highly doubt they are all phased out completely.
And the automated dead hand system is probably still a thing being developed, they're just keeping new information from getting out.
Hot take: This is just a metaphor for the Russian Federation itself.
Thanks for the content! Amazing, as always. :D
Fantastic video as always man I love watching these whilst making dinner, do you think you'll ever do one on SCP-513?
Cold war era SCPs? 🎶99 Keter Luftballons🎶
I always love your models
this is just like the famous novel written by george orwell
Animal Farm?
1969?
The Man with the Golden Gunk?
One of my favorite objects, thank you for doing it!
You think a requirement for joining the chess master force would be you having to be a chess master?
I cant watch right now but at least I know what I'm listening to before bed :) always excited whenever you upload bro. Looking to become a patron but need to see if I get this new job first 😅
I see a new video from TheVolgun, I stop what I am doing and enjoy
Almost sounds like they were using the soul extractor, between the sparse notes and the variance between visual manifestations.
Having to read Russian names in an American accent
Literally 1984
consider this. if the manifestations were housed within 1984, perhaps some telekill alloy would assist with containment?
Great video man! I only wish there was more of them lol.
This SCP exemplifies the fear during the cold war. It was not created with the idea of revenge in mind, but with the idea of nuclear deterrent. The belief that there is a chance for nuked destruction if the otherside realized that you are unwilling to press the button in retalliation. I see the SCP as something that the US is also willing to make as well, but the soviet did it first.
What's really scary is if you change hand to hard and show it to a killer.
Nice, new vid! Thank you Volgun :>
Reminds me of wall rider from outlast
7:42 Foundation director: Goddamn it, Reagan!!! Did nobody tell his senile ass about this?!
this was great keep up the good work
these are always great
"No sane person would end the world after the war was already lost... so I decided to fix that and make something that would!" - Lavrentyev puts the MAD in mad scientist.
Got a SCP related ad before this vid... Nice.
So torture a ghost until it wants to end the world? Jeesh.
I haven’t read 1984, but if I had I bet this would be a lot like that.
Not even close. The only particular similarity is that both contain subtextual criticisms of the Russian government.
By far, volgun scps best most realistic
SCPs sometimes incorporate real events into the story. So I'm wondering if what Reagan said really happened?
Yes, it did. It wasn't intended to be broadcast and was just intended to be a joke while the cameras were off, except they weren't.
@@talideon Thank you! I thought as much. Kinda tasteless now in hindsight but oh well
This SCP is unfortunately ruined for anyone who has even a marginal knowledge of actual recent history. The USSR did _not_ represent a nuclear threat during the Cold War. Their nuclear resources were miniscule and trivial, if they existed at all - this is now fairly well-known.
The reason the US (who _had_ tons of nukes) continually instigated and escalated the situation was because of the "Red Scare," the nationwide American hysteria and paranoia that its people might learn of the overwhelming prosperity and successes of communism (yes, that's right, the USSR _thrived_ prior to Stalin's meddling) and that it would start to spread westward as people evilly conspired to live happy, fulfilled lives (this was not the case; the idea of a free working class that own their own labor, independent of parasitic state capitalists has _never_ been widely popular in the US).
@@Appz- Source? Citation? Anything other than your misguided opinion? This isn't just my personal view, it's recorded history - plain to see for all who care to look. I'd be happy to point you toward some reading on the subject, if you're interested.
@@Appz- Again, friend, you're talking about personal anecdotes and I'm talking about established historicity.
So let's just say I believe you; let's say I _don't_ feel your views are misguided due to a lack of information; neither would alter the irrelevance of anecdotes here, nor would they rewrite recorded history. I apologize if that's upsetting.
Imagine if SCP-1984 found out about the Russo-Ukraine war and the Belarusian-Polish tensions
ah it's kinda like, the wandbearer idea, from the three body problem
An autonomous back-up trigger to ensure mutual destruction, ever listening for reports that demand it to serve its purpose. The idea of that trigger being an altered person who has no remorse is clever, but it having to actively run around to reach launch sites while it is also capable of telekinesis and projection is an odd feature.
It's because the real life Dead Hand requires people to do exactly that in the Russian Federation and in the USA's equivalent in order to launch a strike when missiles haven't actually been used.
The horror here is that Dead Hand is real and is a thing most nuclear powers have or want to have
@@MalletFace9898 and remember the amount of false alarms if this thing was made
@@runningbetweenspaces This thing was made irl, and oddly enough these systems actually prevent false alarms. They do not launch sans human intervention save for a severe combination of specific inputs from a lot of different systems, otherwise you have to go to the location to launch in most cases.
That's why SCP-1984 can't just launch them all at once; the real system won't go off unless we are absolutely all dead anyway from nuclear war or something worse. The only time we have been close to this kind of scenario, Dead Hand type systems prevented it or confirmed the suspicions of those that chose not to take action.
@@MalletFace9898 The real Dead Hand doesn't actually involve people. It launched a rocket which then transmits a signal to the missile silo's and automatically launches the remaining ICBMs. Supposedly the UVB-76 numbers station is connected to it.
@@dylansmit3883 I never suggested it did. I suggested that if there were no actual missiles in the air, then, like SCP 1984, you would have to do the in-person method, the apocryphal key-turn.
I also suggested that it was so good at this that it caught errors in other systems and didn't launch.
What are you even thinking I said?
I think I understand this scp from this reading far better than the previous times I've heard it. The use of spiritualism to generate a ghost that can operate nuclear facilities specifically to initiate a first strike should it appear either defeat or peace is eminent. Why it appears as women and children and not the soldier isn't really clear...
Its giving me 'I have no mouth and I must scream' vibes.
Anyone else getting a Kickstarter add for SCP books? I keep getting this add and I don't know why, and if it's to do with the trade mark guy.
Thanks for this.
a nuke ghost who really, really, *really* wants to end the world. nice
I dig this one i remember it was the first one i read about when i was 17...damn now i feel old😆
Yippee a new video 😌 just in time for my lunch break
Love these vids
Literally SCP-1984 dude!
Ever notice when there is an anomaly set in Russia or from Russia there’s a 70-30 chance the name Alexie pops up is it just that common?
Literally SCP-1984
No way. This is literally 1984.
Project December, Ezra. If the author person hasn't read/listened to 'The Pantheon Saga' books that's one hell of a coincidence.
Damn I haven't seen any of these is a long time
Can't this creature be made harmless by sabotaging the launch sites? I'm sure the foundation can plant in agents who'd tamper with the launch mechanism or the missiles themselves.
Replace the nuclear warheads with a dud, and full it with sand so the weight is the same.
SCP 1984-1, designated Jazz Hands