Full podcast episode: ua-cam.com/video/GXgGR8KxFao/v-deo.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: ua-cam.com/users/lexfridman Guest bio: Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.
There was another pod cast or interview on this matter but the pentagon guest wouldn't disclose or elude to classified technology that would be able to block part or mitigate most nuclear strikes. The pentagon's UAP or ARV tech is another reason for nondisclosure.
6 minutes, wonderful! That should give Biden enough time to piss twice, mention something unfathomable, inappropriate, creepy and/or unrelated to whatever is going on, so we MIGHT fire back, but the inbound missiles would be overhead by that time. I imagine though, if Biden gave the military ANY issues returning fire, someone would cap him and do it themselves, prior to forcibly acquiring his codes.
Nuclear winter,depending on the amount of materials injected to the atmosphere is a variable. Given enough preparation and luck,some will survive. If I knew I was unprepared,being at ground zero would be preferable to starvation and radiation sickness.
I live in New Zealand. So will be eating popcorn while you lot fry. It maybe radioactive popcorn but I'll survive several years longer as have a doomsday bunker
@@infiniteIntellectInferior YOU, ME, HIM we're dead, were all DEAD, cuz I know it happens, IT HAPPENS!!! Model patient. thanks for trading dialog, damn it, now I wanna watch T2
Most people will die from 3rd degree burns The rest will die of starvation caus the cant eat radioactiv food. Any survivors will die in the civil war for resources/food after the apocalyps If your not in a large Goverment Bunker Complex you cant make it. The earth will turn freezing cold for 3 years or decades. No food will grow. No Animals you can hunt.
Definitely, the billionaire's building luxury Bunker's, is definitely an example of rich people not understanding the aftermath! MY dad loaded nuclear bombs and missiles on aircraft in the 1960s, (Cuban missile crisis!) Then my brother worked Boomer's (nuclear missile subs) 1980s then spent 30 yrs testing them DARPA! Few military or scientists even know if most of these weapons will blow! 😅 💥🚀
I don’t know why this guest is getting dragged so hard in the chat. she has approached this issue earnestly and with great intellectual curiosity, and reported the results of her investigations and interviews with a great degree of journalistic integrity. thank you annie for a fascinating discussion.
Aside from the obvious answer (she is shedding light on a subject most people have no control over and would rather not think about if they can help it). I think the reason she rubs me the wrong way (and I only speak for myself) She seems to be using sensationalism to drive book sales. An example is when she contradcits herself by saying these nuclear submarines are virtually indetectable, yet she found documents mapping the locations of foreign nations subs off our coasts. All in order to illustrate how scary the subject is and how little control anyone has to prevent it. Just my $0.02
Comedian Spike Milligan wrote a poem in the 80s Ive never forgotten: "Man is a funny thing He wasnt here when the world began, But unless his agression diminishes, He'll be here when it finishes". Indeed.
@@thomastruong8382tbh war brings equality That's why the boomers enjoyed so much The time after war is the best time for ppl and countries to thrive Coz there's no corruption
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And really, it's just been since Biden took office. When Trump was in, there was zero talk about a nuclear war. We were friends with China, Russia and North Korea. Now in 3 short years, they all are unified against us and we have two regional wars with a third on the horizon that could set everything in motion.
My parents were prominent early futurists. We lived in Washington DC in the early 1960's, and at the time my father was with Institute for Defense Analysis. So they were well informed. My mother died recently at 92, and we had some interesting talks about this in her last year or so. All five of us kids were in elementary school or younger in 1963. I guess I was 9. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, they sat down and talked about whether they should load us all into a car and flee DC. Everyone in DC who knew anything thought nuclear war was imminent and all but certain. They decided, no, they wouldn't. It was their considered opinion that surviving the first strike would be worse than being killed. So we all stayed in town, and to the surprise of many, it blew over. In the words of Herman Khan, another futurist of the time, after a nuclear war "the living would envy the dead."
@@nacemoslibres I think you are missing Dr. Khan's point. BTW, the crazy obsessed title character in Kubrick's film "Dr Strangelove" is modeled on Herman Khan.
@@nacemoslibresuntil the fires reach wherever you’re hiding, or the food runs out, or the economy collapses, or… Anyone who survives a nuclear war will be living in a very different world than the one we have today. Even if the radiation doesn’t kill them it would be like stepping into the medieval period with little to no modern medicine. Hospitals will be overwhelmed if they were lucky enough not to be in the blast. Thousands, maybe millions of people suffering from burns, cuts, broken bodies, and radiation sickness. You think you’ll just be able to go to the clinic for an infection or injury? Most of our food is shipped to us and with that shipping cut off it’s a matter of time before supplies run dry and anyone without a garden/farm finds themselves with no food anywhere.
Everyone in the comments saying she's too animated in her speaking delivery can suck my bollocks, the importance of this conversation couldn't be more overstated, people should be appreciative that there are people out there keeping us in the know. Great podcast.
@@glib4233 agreed there is nothing new here. However, millennials and gen z 'rs are mostly post modernist. Even Tim Pool and his like, think you can survive nuclear war. Joe Rogan has also stated similar sentiments. He even stated, modern nukes don't leave fallout or radiate the land. Its indicative of modern day ignorance. Listen to Lex in the full podcast, he is surprised by all this info, which used to be common knowledge since the 60's.
They're just hating on her. Nothing new but, its great to get the message out to as many as we can who wouldnt otherwise know. That being said, she knows her shiet.
It is better to have 500 years of negotiations than one hour of nuclear war. Orginal quote: ‘It is better to have ten years of negotiations than one day of war’ Andrei Gromyko
The sad part if that we're going to take the wild kingdom with us when we go. In video's like this you never hear about what the cost of nuclear war would have on the Earth's other living beings. We're all about "us".
@@donkeyearrsI was just going to respond the same way (a day later than you). We have to be the most selfish inconsiderate species in the history of the world. Just imagine thousands of animals writhing and screaming in agony on every acre in every country throughout the entire planet, for hours upon hours after these bombs drop.
humanity only survived this long because of that same nature; remember that there were also other species of human that went extinct. We are a living catch-22.
@@omarlfacio exactly, how many bullets can a species dodge? All those nuclear close-calls we've had where basically one guy (usually Russian) decides to question authority or his radar screen.
Yup, I remember! I also remember how Reagan nearly started the nuclear war with a "joke" he thought was funny because his Alzheimer's was so advanced, and he scared the pants off the Russians. Yet the USA has learned nothing, and still sends madmen and aging infirm people with Alzhiemers to the Presidency.
"The Day After" 1983 and even better movie "Threads" 1984 shows most of what comes along with and after nuclear war. The second mentioned has a textual ending disclaimer before the end credits: "The film is fictional. The real-life outcome of a nuclear war would be much worse than the events portrayed onscreen".
I was a 15E10 Pershing Nuclear Missile Crewman in the US Army ... I was in Germany 79-82 and we had P1 Pershing Tactical Battlefield Nukes ... I was a Crewman who helped launch that Nuke if that call ever came thru. This lady knows her stuff 💯% .. it's better to be in Ground Zero once the flash goes off you just turn into instant carbon .. no way I want to survive this bs.
And your carbon instantly turns into carbon dioxide, which is really bad for the environment! Thanks for ruining our planet with your selfish CO2 inferno! 😂
My father-in-law died of cancer a year ago. After watching him suffer, and hearing him say “I wish I could take a pill and it was all over” I got scared about my kids or my family or myself having to go through this horrible experience. The nurses who came to his house to medicate him left two 500mls bottles of morphine after he died. Those bottles are my way of a painless exit at my doing. Not only are they a comfort in a cancer event, but in the event of nuclear war. 30 minutes after drinking 250mls (less than a cup) it’s all over. After living through the 60s 70s 80s, I think it won’t be something we see coming, it’ll come out of the blue by some madman. V P
@@paints_his_shirt_red .. In the very early 1960's my elementary school's hallways were lined with pegs for coats and small personal lockers in the walls. There were accordion type doors in the halls that would open and close to expose an entire classroom's pegs and lockers. Our nuke drill was to pack ourselves inside those accordion doors. I always felt sorry for y'all poor suckers who were doomed by hiding under their desks while we would be able to ride out the blast and fire storm in safety.
The most terrifying part isn’t the nukes themselves but our apathy towards them. Since the fall of the Soviet Union nuclear war has been put on the back burner and has left the public consciousness here in the West.
If anyone else had been in that bunker, they would not have taken the time to check to see if other chess pieces had moved on the strategic chessboard.
All it will take, is a Leader to be facing arrest or even their own Death from Natural Causes and be enough of a Narcissist to want to take the World with themselves. Way too many Leaders fit the Profile
@@stevengill1736your comments makes me wonder how much of this stuff stays in our subconscious, we all know about nuclear weapons growing up. Best not to think about it too much i guess
I've read this so many times and every time it hits me with the same question - why and how all the people who left after WW3 lost all the knowledge of how to create something so simple as gun powder. I've never found an answer to that question.
@@thenewexeptor this is not the first societal collapse. Look at the Bronze Age, which was mainly caused by famine. it took centuries for humanity to recover
She keeps referring to the ballistic missile has having “a warhead” whereas each missile has several warheads each capable of striking multiple targets, and she never mentions this.
Children do not have the necessary abstract concepts formed in their mind, nor do they have the mathematical knowledge to comprehend the numbers involved in this discussion, so there's no point in writing a book for them.
And that is a good thing. What are they supposed to do? Cry, lament, sprinkle ashes on their head and self-flagellate? Calmness and objectivity is the ONLY way to approach this subject. The facts are horrifying enough without theatralics.
What concerns me is the number of people wanting to go toe to toe with Russia. It's like politicians and the media don't consider the possibility. A lot of us grew up with the threat of nuclear war hanging over our heads.
I am terrified about this and every time I express that we want an end to that war since we should not allow humanity to end at no matter cost, they praise more and more our politicians fueling the war and talking about direct intervention from NATO in the war
I heard people in the internet saying that Russian nukes don't work. I heard Russians on the internet discuss how they would nuke that country or that country. I don't even talk about how upset some Russians are that Putin didn't nuke Ukraine to save lives of Russian soldiers
The truth is that russia has no nukes. Not anymore. While NATO's nukes will reach their targets minutes before ruskies can even launch. What you really need to warry about is the conventional war with russia and then china if putin is not stopped now as many American troops will be sent there to fight.
Putin and Trump both have the vainglorious personality to do it--even for sat. Giving up power. Or getting a fatal diagnosis and just saying "If I can't be here, no one can!" Jealous of life and willing to annihilate all humanity.
What's worse, is that these same crazy people are the only ones that are breeding at an alarming rate. Those crazy people are multiplying by the millions. That's a scary thought, right? Unfortunately we're pretty much doomed.
That's a scary interview. I grew up and served 20-years USAF during and just after the Cold War. I was interested in that stuff to the point that I wish I didn't know what I know. Nothing classified, all the material available at the library or bookstore. The true realization I got was when I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB ( now SFB), CA and saw some missle launches. Wow!
The book, Command and Control, is a must read that covers near disasters with nukes. The Damascus incident alone is the stuff of nightmares. The guys involved still break out into tears when they try to talk about it.
@@ebenezer6844 1980. A group of Titan II missile techs dropped a $6.00 spanner that bounced against and ruptured the missile case as it fell all the way to the bottom of the silo 50-60' below. The missile fuel oxidized as it contacted the atmosphere which in turn started a fire. Every nuclear bomb -- including thermonuclear ones -- start with a conventional explosion that "primes" the initial reaction. At a certain temperature the conventional explosive component of a nuke will cook off. So it was a horse race: would the conventional part of the Titan warheads blow up, thereby igniting all the thermonuclear warheads on the Titan? Or would the propellant explode first? Fortunately, the propellant in the Titan II ignited completely first. This blasted the heavily armored lid off the silo and scattered the Titan's MIRV warheads over several miles of Damascus, AR. We could have had a "dirty" bomb disaster or a multi-megaton thermonuclear detonation(s). Think about how close to a gigantic, god-awful tragedy we came-- over a $6 wrench that was accidentally dropped.
@@ebenezer6844 1980, Damascus/Arkansas: Explosion of a Titan III ICBM thanks to dumbassery while handling its fuel. The missile was armed with a 9 megaton nuclear warhead.
My formative years spent in the 70s and the 80s, a lot of this is hardwired into my brain from all the attention it was given during the height of the Cold War. Still, with these details your guest provides., it’s quite sober to hear.
Definitely, the billionaire's building luxury Bunker's, is definitely an example of rich people not understanding the aftermath! MY dad loaded nuclear bombs and missiles on aircraft in the 1960s, (Cuban missile crisis!) Then my brother worked Boomer's (nuclear missile subs) 1980s then spent 30 yrs testing them DARPA! Few military or scientists even know if most of these weapons will blow! 😅 💥🚀
Her voice isn't calming, it's disturbing. You don't know what you're listening to. That's the siren's song. She's a phone sex operator that's way the fuck out of her depth.
I’m not so sure that’s accurate. If several dozen ( much less several hundred) nukes head our way then the world is screwed whether we send back dozens of our own or not.
That's what I say. If I were president, and the enemy missiles were incoming, I wouldn't order a launch. What would be the point ? The only thing a retaliatory strike will accomplish, is more death and destruction, of another billion innocent people, with nothing to gain.
I’ve had dreams/nightmares of being in a nuclear blast. Panic and screaming and then see huge flash of light and then feel tremendous heat envelope and lift my body, then flying through the air, weightless and looking all around me at grey matter and rising up. Felt calm and no pain. So bizarre.
I had the same kind of dream last year. Wtf. I was walking on a sunny day nd then all of sudden a flash nd it all goes black grey. And I could feel the same pressure on my body as I was I a fighter jet pulling 25+g like
Yes so have I exactly the same. I have lived through really close calls especially in the 80’s they were issuing leaflets in the UK about “protect and survive” being nuclear war. I would dream of the missiles launching. Horrifying.
I seriously hope I’m among the first to go. Ive been living with the threat of nuclear war my whole life and I’m in no way designed for post-nuclear survival.
I lived through the "duck and cover" drills back in the 1950's. Now, If I get a warning that the missiles are on their way, I think I'll just go stand in the front yard to watch. Don't think I'd care to wait for the looters to burn me out when all the food is gone.
I used to study President Reagan for a living. The popular narrative was that he was a crazy warmonger, and that "star wars" was a crazy space missile scheme. The truth is he wanted SDI so bad because he realized the nuclear threat was madness and he wanted to stop it. He was willing to give up all nuclear weapons at Reykjavik if Gorbachev would work on SDI together. There was a lot wrong with Reagan, but in that way he was very sober and practical.
When it starts, it wont just be a blip on a radar screen. The first to launch will launch everything in their arsenal so you will see thousands of blips from different locations. In that sense it makes it a bit less likely that an accidental launch could take place
I along with everyone else of my generation have lived with this nightmare for 71 years. One my earliest memories is of our family evacuating due to a nuclear attack, fortunately this was a horrible dream. We lived 30 miles southeast of London, England. We only get a 4 minute warning there. Insane the whole thing, just insane.
No, no, no. In the event of a SARMAT 2 being launched, you have about 30 seconds before impact. You will not even have enough time to sound the alarms.
It's hard to sum up wisdom in clip form. Most UA-cam channels are intellectually challenged, so you can't expect much. If I've learned anything in my short 40 years, it's that the human condition is always disappointing! If for nothing else than the fact that we fall so short of what we are capable of!
Down at my work, the kids (young employees) were joking about how safe we would all be if there was a nuclear war. I'm a veteran of the Cold War and beyond, in the sand box. I shut them all up with the reality "There's a Boeing plant across the street. Preferably, we'll all be vaporized within minutes." The o'l man spoke - they all went back to work, quietly.
Big fan of Lex, always calm and chilled, asking honored guests, poignant questions, rendering them with ample mental space to elaborate; thoughtful, yet simple questions, no less shinier than the answers; his clips are like full episodes, for others; to top it off with burning passion and unwavering stamina!
Yes, he talks like a sloth walks - slowly, hand then leg and after some lengthy pause, another hand or leg but never both. Just one slow-moving limb after the other. It's incredible he has an audience. Perhaps they are bots or severe insomniacs... 🦥💤💤
I mean most of the people we elect lived through the Cold War so idk wtf you’re talking about…. And the trump comment is hilarious if true.. but I would be interested if it’s actually true..
I still don’t understand how you could possibly give that decision to a stale old fart from either one of the parties so out of touched with reality and the people that it would be funny if it wasn’t so egregiously upsetting
If the Bible says the world will come to an end (Armageddon) then what's the point of avoiding a nuclear war at all costs? To me a nuclear war sounds just like the prophecy being fulfilled.
The craziest thing about this whole situation is that the people that make these decisions and push the buttons will be in a well stocked bunker with air filtration, gyms, cafeterias, and all the amenities. With their families. And all of us out in hell paid for it.
The absolute beauty of being over 70yrs is six min, one hr, 30 days... I know I'm gonna die anyways. So don't shit me, don't threaten me, don't even try to scare me. Life is precious, down to the last moment. Live it!♡
you are 70+ ! If I were 70 I would also think like you! A lot of the world is younger…has little kids…try to think outside of your own “lived” 70+ year mind.
Thanks for your kind thought about younger generations… And you wonder why people rag on boomers… You probably expected the world to shut down for you during covid I suppose…
It’s a crazy thought. As I see it for the old timers, you guys have seen the rise and fall of humanity, more so than anyone else in all of history. Boomers are truly a remarkable generation. And they currently hold all the control over civilization, and the future of it.
Well I am getting on myself a bit..I think of my young family every day I hear all this nuclear war balls ..mankind is gona destroy himself sooner or later..probably with Biden and putin or israel and Iran. .so fk it no more watching these youtube doom and gloom videos i intend to enjoy the life we have left. ..I put my own head away with them. So when we wake up dead then it's happened. .the young family I have and generations god bless you and all of us. We own this land we own that land load of balls ..know one owns fk all the lands were here here before man himself
Read her book yesterday. Chilling update to information I already had learned. At 71 I realized we have little hope at this time of our civilization of continuing humankind.
Yes but look at humankind. Look at the actual state of it. Look at the idiots in the street with the false lip implants and the eyelashes, ti the idiots in charge of the world governments. Look at the conflicts going on due to individual mad men. It’s actually time to press the button. All hope is lost.
I agree. 99% of people are walking around clueless. 30 yrs ago, at least everyone was aware. Now I’m told Russian rockets won’t fly straight. This is how it ends.
@@vandal1764tell that to the fox in the hen coup, or the cat and her regular doorstep offerings. Or the dogs that run off lead to disappear down badger dens. Don’t be fooled by the left id3ology that tells you humans are bad, humans are canc3r. Were no worse or better than the rest of nature.
The conversation has been had since the cold war. If it was news to you that nuclear war meant everyone = fucked, you can't be saved from yourself let alone a nuke
Lex, many thanks for this guest. I'm in Moscow now but returning to LA next month as an Emergency Math teacher of Algebra1 which is the foundation course for all subsequent college math and science courses that AI & Nuclear Engineering students need to understand and use correctly. CA allows K-12 retesting(unpaid for) but very few teachers want to spend 8 to 10 unpaid hours to regrade objective Unit retests like math & science or even more time for subjective Unit tests like history and English literature. I was told about this CA policy by our LA - MS White 7th Grade Guidance Counselor, not my other 3 unionized 8th Grade Algebra-1 teachers or our GC. My goal is no Fs for my Sept to June cohort, my school, and eventually all LAUSD Algebra1 classes by example and with adament parental support to demand retests at quartely PTA meetings. Bravo !
It is important to realize that the flight paths are over the polar caps, North and South, not across the ocean East/West. That is why the time is less than a half hour.
Geez mate, the beef is between USSR and USSR, I mean Russia. The United States SOCIALIST REPUBLIC and Russia. Who will shoot accross the southern ocean? The Northern Hemisphere Will be fucked, bit not the whole globe Unless people like you want to below up the whole world!!
The extraterrestrial beings stationed in Antartica - on the surface and beneath - might not like at all being disturbed by hundreds of ICBMs flying past in both directions and could neutralize all of them in an eye's wink...! Why not ?
when I read the title of the video. I didn't think it was something taken seriously. But after listening to them talk so seriously about the subject and with so much concern and information, I have changed my mind. Now the one who has been worried is me
What's Really irritating is, the rats have their plush bunkers stocked and ready for use. You'll know its coming when your "betters" suddenly all go on "vacation ".
Even those bunkers have a limited supply of food and water. Once they run out, they’ll die too bc everything on the surface will be a wasteland because of the nuclear winter.
Been sticking up on the goods underground bunkers so if we on the surface that’s l we all know where the food and water will be huh?..all you in your bunkers will need to be coming out sometime we will be waiting
This is why you have secondary confirmation, and that is why it is so incredibly dangerous for Ukraine to attack these early warning sites as they have in the last few days.
Why are we assuming it's other countries launching nukes at America. When history shows America are the first and only nation to drop an atomic bomb on a nation. Hypocritical much.
I was an 80’s kid, very interested in history and war. The last two yrs have taught me that very few in the west have spent anytime thinking about the risks. At least lately. This yr. I took the winter off and skied. We’ve never been closer to ending it all, and I’m told Russian rockets won’t fly straight. This is how it ends.
It seems like a wild nightmare that we actually live in a world where our state has, and can, use these weapons. How on earth did we allow them to get away with it?
It did not happen overnight. US and Nato have been expanding toward Russia for decades all the way to their borders. As well as making bases in Asia, where it could antagonize China. Fate will decide what will happen, but in war with weapons like these i think a lot of innocents would die everywhere.
Annie Jacobsen says the answer to avoiding nuclear war is communication. Anyone who has ever worked for or had dealings with the workings of government agencies knows good communication is ubiquitously poor among such entities.
The failure to communicate in the book is based directly on a failure to communicate in Ukraine. In real life, a Russian missile came very close to the Polish border and the US called up their Russian counterpart to ask if this was deliberate. They didn’t get an answer for three days. In the book, North Korea launches a strike on the US and America retaliates. The missiles have to fly over Russia to reach NK and so the US calls them up to let them know the nukes aren’t meant for them and not to launch a counter strike… the Russians never pick up the phone. This leads to Russia seeing the apocalypse coming over the horizon and launching a counter strike because, as far as they know, the US just got nuked and is going to destroy Russia in response. A failure to communicate leads to the end of the world.
She asked the former director of FEMA what the plan was for evacuating civilians. He told her that in the event of nuclear war, they wouldn’t even try to evacuate. The people needed to keep the government running and the nukes flying would be picked up in helicopters and (hopefully) flown to safety while the rest of us burned.
I lived through this in 80’s when we had drills at school hiding under desks - honestly did not think I will hear it all again. Those drills and propaganda with graphic photos never left my mind.
My father is a contracting acquisition guy for a joint defense company based out of the U.K. And he writes/reviews contracts for these satellites that are capable of tracking and essentially shooting missiles out of the atmosphere. The bad news is this technology is very early phase and they haven’t been deployed in mass yet. The good news is in 10 years nuclear war can be averted with laser weapons. Hopefully we make it that far.
Until we develop laser weapons to knock the laser satellites out before the launch, or an anti-laser coating on an ICBM, or some other defense mechanism. These weapons have been 10 years away since the Star Wars programs 40 years ago.
Land based missiles, sea-launched missiles, and bombers. The land-based are most accurate, as if that mattered, but they have fixed locations and can be tracked or targeted. Sea-launched are hard to find and target. Bombers take time to load and can be destroyed before they launch in the case of a sneak attack.
You have that backwards. Nuclear capable aircraft, depending on drop altitude, glide distance, ECMs, etc are generally the most accurate. SLBMs would be second, with the Trident II D5 having a published CEP of 100 meters, and upgraded minuteman 3 systems (land-based strategic deterrent) are last, with a published CEP of ~240 meters. Also, accuracy could matter a great deal depending on warhead/MIRV configuration, etc. But there are so many thinga wrong with what she is saying here that it is kinda besides the point.
When? Who would ACTUALLY launch a nuke? What nation? You are stuck in a Cold War mindset. Things have changed. People don’t even want to fight each other head on in Ukraine, it’s drone age.
Full podcast episode: ua-cam.com/video/GXgGR8KxFao/v-deo.html
Lex Fridman podcast channel: ua-cam.com/users/lexfridman
Guest bio: Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.
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Nice it's launch on sight if they see something when they admit there's uap's flying about. Sweet dreams guys
What kind of Meditation involves contemplating? Meditation is the science of clearing your mind and withdrawing from the senses.
@@MacfromwalesUAP don’t give the signature that a ICBM does (Burning Fuel). Unless you know something about UAPs I don’t.
There was another pod cast or interview on this matter but the pentagon guest wouldn't disclose or elude to classified technology that would be able to block part or mitigate most nuclear strikes. The pentagon's UAP or ARV tech is another reason for nondisclosure.
6 minutes, that's barely enough time for congress to get their stock trades done.
Please, they made those trades days ago ;)
6 minutes, wonderful! That should give Biden enough time to piss twice, mention something unfathomable, inappropriate, creepy and/or unrelated to whatever is going on, so we MIGHT fire back, but the inbound missiles would be overhead by that time. I imagine though, if Biden gave the military ANY issues returning fire, someone would cap him and do it themselves, prior to forcibly acquiring his codes.
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It's automatic launch on site at the same time they tell us "There's uap doing hypersonic speeds in our atmosphere" guys. Sweet dreams 😂
@@johnjacobjingle846 lol so correct :)
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Nah, life is good dude!
I get what you're saying, but fuck it my man. Keep on keeping on live life.
Watch a neil breen film and have few beers.
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Nailed.
@@niallkennedy23it's launch on site when they tell us "There's uap doing hypersonic speeds in our atmosphere" so he's right
@@niallkennedy23I’m right there with you.. living life afraid is no life at all
She even sounds like Sarah Connor
Omg she does!!!😂
Damn bro I can't unhear it now😅
No Fate
“If you can hear this message, you are the resistance”
Truth! 😂
I was a kid of the 80's and I can tell you now.....I would rather go at the first blasts of nuclear bombs, then suffer nuclear winter.
Nuclear winter is ... well, scientifically unproven. I recommend looking into it. We know a LOT about smoke from the recent mega fires.
@JoeyVol at most it would be one season.
Nuclear winter,depending on the amount of materials injected to the atmosphere is a variable. Given enough preparation and luck,some will survive. If I knew I was unprepared,being at ground zero would be preferable to starvation and radiation sickness.
Why not just wait and see? If nuclear winter is too horible, you can end it all assuming you have a gun.
Because you can't go afterwards to MacDonalds? 😢
"If the probability of something happening is greater than ZERO, then the only other factor before it happens is TIME."
Bingo. And some use Probability of Detection in addition to Consequence. Both are going up rapidly so that the price paid is also increasing.
Murphy’s law man, anything that can go wrong eventually will
we running out of time. we should be disarming these nukes for future generations
Thems the stats. Might as well be a law of the universe.
We need to get these people out of power and put people in power that are so against nukes it's unreal
this video is 34 mins long and its crazy to think the world could be over in the short time it took to watch
Ohhh. Ok, that's an interesting way to make it a little more real.
I live in New Zealand. So will be eating popcorn while you lot fry. It maybe radioactive popcorn but I'll survive several years longer as have a doomsday bunker
@@brobinson8614 Enjoy 😂😂
@@brobinson8614did you ever watch "on the beach"?
Hahahahahaha
Her voice is so soothing I fell asleep to a nuclear nightmare description.
Personally I kind of like her hair😅
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Lol
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Same
"Anybody not wearing two million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day"
- Annie Jacobsen
Clearly, she likes the Terminator movies.
It happens!!! it happens!!!
100 % lol
@@infiniteIntellectInferior YOU, ME, HIM we're dead, were all DEAD, cuz I know it happens, IT HAPPENS!!!
Model patient.
thanks for trading dialog, damn it, now I wanna watch T2
Dreams Sarah, these are just dream!
To think we could go from everything being ok to the world completely destroyed in an hour is terrifying.
It only takes two people from opposite sides to unalives a billion more people.
It happened before.
We are not ok.
@rankalot Everything is not ok.
@@johnkelly3886 Sure it is. Relative to nuclear destruction things are fantastic!
I’m not afraid of death but watching my family die slowly from radiation poisoning is terrifying.
You're afraid of death and a liar
*BS''D it wont happen, BS''D don't worry*
Most people will die from 3rd degree burns
The rest will die of starvation caus the cant eat radioactiv food.
Any survivors will die in the civil war for resources/food after the apocalyps
If your not in a large Goverment Bunker Complex you cant make it.
The earth will turn freezing cold for 3 years or decades. No food will grow. No Animals you can hunt.
Especially when you know your hands are tied. What can you tell the loved ones.
Definitely, the billionaire's building luxury Bunker's, is definitely an example of rich people not understanding the aftermath!
MY dad loaded nuclear bombs and missiles on aircraft in the 1960s, (Cuban missile crisis!) Then my brother worked Boomer's (nuclear missile subs) 1980s then spent 30 yrs testing them DARPA! Few military or scientists even know if most of these weapons will blow! 😅 💥🚀
I don’t know why this guest is getting dragged so hard in the chat. she has approached this issue earnestly and with great intellectual curiosity, and reported the results of her investigations and interviews with a great degree of journalistic integrity. thank you annie for a fascinating discussion.
Aside from the obvious answer (she is shedding light on a subject most people have no control over and would rather not think about if they can help it). I think the reason she rubs me the wrong way (and I only speak for myself) She seems to be using sensationalism to drive book sales. An example is when she contradcits herself by saying these nuclear submarines are virtually indetectable, yet she found documents mapping the locations of foreign nations subs off our coasts. All in order to illustrate how scary the subject is and how little control anyone has to prevent it.
Just my $0.02
She's generally full of shit and presents things without context that makes the topic seem far more grave and less calculated than it actually is...
It lacks scientific merit.
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The answer to why anyone drags anyone online is usually the same all around.
Comedian Spike Milligan wrote a poem in the 80s Ive never forgotten:
"Man is a funny thing
He wasnt here when the world began, But unless his agression diminishes,
He'll be here when it finishes".
Indeed.
A nuclear war could wipe out humanity, but it would also have disadvantages.
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First comment I hope is a bot.
😂😂😂 gold star.
🤣😂🤣😂 Legend!
Minorities would be most affected.
It doesn’t matter how it starts.
What matters is how not to start it.
It takes a lot of foolishness from someone to launch a first nuclear strike. Someone like Annie Jacobsen maybe
@@thomastruong8382Look who the United States president is, anything can happen.
Now you know why the elites want to colonize mars?
@@thomastruong8382tbh war brings equality
That's why the boomers enjoyed so much
The time after war is the best time for ppl and countries to thrive
Coz there's no corruption
@@SilkSonic-c9zdon’t think that one applies to thermo nuclear war
1980s: Nuclear war must be avoided at all cost. 2020s: Meh
Its just a nuke bro
Jokin Cannibals Biden: My uncle Bozo suffered from cannibalism in the Civil War!!
The Jokin Joey Biden Administration, the Greatest Comedy Show in the history of mankind!
Literally sleepwalking us into conflict. Thanks Joe!
The value of society has lowered THAT much.
And really, it's just been since Biden took office. When Trump was in, there was zero talk about a nuclear war. We were friends with China, Russia and North Korea. Now in 3 short years, they all are unified against us and we have two regional wars with a third on the horizon that could set everything in motion.
My parents were prominent early futurists. We lived in Washington DC in the early 1960's, and at the time my father was with Institute for Defense Analysis. So they were well informed. My mother died recently at 92, and we had some interesting talks about this in her last year or so. All five of us kids were in elementary school or younger in 1963. I guess I was 9. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, they sat down and talked about whether they should load us all into a car and flee DC. Everyone in DC who knew anything thought nuclear war was imminent and all but certain. They decided, no, they wouldn't. It was their considered opinion that surviving the first strike would be worse than being killed. So we all stayed in town, and to the surprise of many, it blew over. In the words of Herman Khan, another futurist of the time, after a nuclear war "the living would envy the dead."
You can just leave DC and survive both the blast and the winter.
@@nacemoslibres I think you are missing Dr. Khan's point. BTW, the crazy obsessed title character in Kubrick's film "Dr Strangelove" is modeled on Herman Khan.
@@nacemoslibresuntil the fires reach wherever you’re hiding, or the food runs out, or the economy collapses, or…
Anyone who survives a nuclear war will be living in a very different world than the one we have today. Even if the radiation doesn’t kill them it would be like stepping into the medieval period with little to no modern medicine. Hospitals will be overwhelmed if they were lucky enough not to be in the blast. Thousands, maybe millions of people suffering from burns, cuts, broken bodies, and radiation sickness. You think you’ll just be able to go to the clinic for an infection or injury? Most of our food is shipped to us and with that shipping cut off it’s a matter of time before supplies run dry and anyone without a garden/farm finds themselves with no food anywhere.
Why i live now in Argentina❤
Everyone in the comments saying she's too animated in her speaking delivery can suck my bollocks, the importance of this conversation couldn't be more overstated, people should be appreciative that there are people out there keeping us in the know. Great podcast.
Read a book. There's nothing new here.
@@glib4233 agreed there is nothing new here. However, millennials and gen z 'rs are mostly post modernist. Even Tim Pool and his like, think you can survive nuclear war. Joe Rogan has also stated similar sentiments. He even stated, modern nukes don't leave fallout or radiate the land. Its indicative of modern day ignorance. Listen to Lex in the full podcast, he is surprised by all this info, which used to be common knowledge since the 60's.
Mind Begs the Question:
- If those who defend Apartheid
- Possess Nukes,AI,Digital Money
- Police of World or Threat to World?
The people complaining about her voice took the time to listen.
They're just hating on her. Nothing new but, its great to get the message out to as many as we can who wouldnt otherwise know.
That being said, she knows her shiet.
It is better to have 500 years of negotiations than one hour of nuclear war.
Orginal quote:
‘It is better to have ten years of negotiations than one day of war’
Andrei Gromyko
That assumes that both parties want to negotiate.
History shows that's an incorrect assumption.
PUTIN IS COUNTING ON THIS
FEAR
RULES
SOOO IT IS BETTER TO HAVE TRUMP AS PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE WILL TALK AND BE ABLE TO BE TRUSTED AND TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE TO AND UNDERSTAND
Humanity has been diligently working on destroying itself from the beginning of man. One day we will succeed.
The sad part if that we're going to take the wild kingdom with us when we go. In video's like this you never hear about what the cost of nuclear war would have on the Earth's other living beings. We're all about "us".
@@donkeyearrsI was just going to respond the same way (a day later than you). We have to be the most selfish inconsiderate species in the history of the world. Just imagine thousands of animals writhing and screaming in agony on every acre in every country throughout the entire planet, for hours upon hours after these bombs drop.
humanity only survived this long because of that same nature; remember that there were also other species of human that went extinct. We are a living catch-22.
@@omarlfacio exactly, how many bullets can a species dodge? All those nuclear close-calls we've had where basically one guy (usually Russian) decides to question authority or his radar screen.
The human race will end when the last 2 humans murder one another over some trivial difference of a religious or political opinion.
Her voice is always so captivating. If she has books on tape and reads them too, I'm getting them all. She's a brilliant person.
There is an audiobook and SHE does narrate.
Get the audio book on audible. I fall asleep to it on a timer every night.
She does read her books on Audible. Including the Nuclear War one.
All you have to do is crawl under a desk and you’ll be fine. That’s what they told us in school about 55 years ago.
xD xD . . . good Joke xD
Ah, the magical school desks. We used the drills to have farting contests. Good times.
plastic and duct tape.
They don’t make those desks like they used too , so does that still qualify
Yup, I remember! I also remember how Reagan nearly started the nuclear war with a "joke" he thought was funny because his Alzheimer's was so advanced, and he scared the pants off the Russians. Yet the USA has learned nothing, and still sends madmen and aging infirm people with Alzhiemers to the Presidency.
"The Day After" 1983 and even better movie "Threads" 1984 shows most of what comes along with and after nuclear war. The second mentioned has a textual ending disclaimer before the end credits: "The film is fictional. The real-life outcome of a nuclear war would be much worse than the events portrayed onscreen".
Try finding the 2 season CBS series JERICHO
Yes and did a good job of creating fear.
I’ve seen both and Threads terrified me more. I had nightmares for years afterwards!
I think about Threads every day now.
We need a re make, right now.
I was a 15E10 Pershing Nuclear Missile Crewman in the US Army ... I was in Germany 79-82 and we had P1 Pershing Tactical Battlefield Nukes ... I was a Crewman who helped launch that Nuke if that call ever came thru.
This lady knows her stuff 💯% .. it's better to be in Ground Zero once the flash goes off you just turn into instant carbon .. no way I want to survive this bs.
I wan too I’m man enough bruh
And your carbon instantly turns into carbon dioxide, which is really bad for the environment! Thanks for ruining our planet with your selfish CO2 inferno! 😂
Yeah, let's get over this and be done with it.
@bruhbruhh5103 Bless your heart. Here's hoping you/we never have to find out just how wrong you are
@@bruhbruhh5103you a 304
My father-in-law died of cancer a year ago. After watching him suffer, and hearing him say “I wish I could take a pill and it was all over” I got scared about my kids or my family or myself having to go through this horrible experience. The nurses who came to his house to medicate him left two 500mls bottles of morphine after he died. Those bottles are my way of a painless exit at my doing. Not only are they a comfort in a cancer event, but in the event of nuclear war. 30 minutes after drinking 250mls (less than a cup) it’s all over. After living through the 60s 70s 80s, I think it won’t be something we see coming, it’ll come out of the blue by some madman. V P
That is private man. You don't share stuff like this on the Internet.
For your own sake and the safety of others, I recommend you dispose of that morphine.
My father worked with Nuclear Submarines munitions. Used to scare the hell out of us as kids in the early 90s.
This is what the 50’s was like in schools across North America
No, in the 50’s they taught kids that they would be OK if they got under their desks and covered their heads.
there is an awesome series of documentary on netflix,watched it last night. turning point
@@paints_his_shirt_red .. In the very early 1960's my elementary school's hallways were lined with pegs for coats and small personal lockers in the walls. There were accordion type doors in the halls that would open and close to expose an entire classroom's pegs and lockers. Our nuke drill was to pack ourselves inside those accordion doors. I always felt sorry for y'all poor suckers who were doomed by hiding under their desks while we would be able to ride out the blast and fire storm in safety.
that was terrifying as I recall.
WAIT!... THEY HAD LEX back THEN?!?
As Nicole Kidman said in "The Peacemaker" (1997): I am not scared of a country with hundreds of nukes. I am terrified of the man who only wants one.
You’re talking about a woman who eats bugs?
@@lhmomas1550get..a..life
@@lhmomas1550super relevant, good comment
Ohh the US, the most peaceful country ever. Why would you be scared of them? Just only addicted to weapons and violence.
@@drown_n irrelevant like the OG post
I lived through the Cold War. The threat of nuclear war is much higher now than it ever was in my opinion.
The most terrifying part isn’t the nukes themselves but our apathy towards them. Since the fall of the Soviet Union nuclear war has been put on the back burner and has left the public consciousness here in the West.
September 26, 1983 is a very good example of a likely scenario. Had Colonel Petrov been sick that night world history might've been different.
If anyone else had been in that bunker, they would not have taken the time to check to see if other chess pieces had moved on the strategic chessboard.
All it will take, is a Leader to be facing arrest or even their own Death from Natural Causes and be enough of a Narcissist to want to take the World with themselves. Way too many Leaders fit the Profile
Imagine they guy only going to toilet and someone else had to take his job for a couple of minutes.
I think Moscow double-checked any early warning signs just to make sure.
No longer existing until we relearn how to write again.
It's literally designed to be this way. You are supposed to be absolutely terrified of it. That's the whole point.
Didn't Helen Caldicott do the same narrative back in the 80's?
Yup it a classic narrative, she’s not the first to claim detaining the truth about Nuclear warfare to sell books and speeches.
@@bo1341your denial of basic facts has to make you a psyop operative. You can't be this naive.
I realized recently that some of the nightmares I had as a child were cold war related. Strange to think about it all these years later.. S.
@@stevengill1736your comments makes me wonder how much of this stuff stays in our subconscious, we all know about nuclear weapons growing up. Best not to think about it too much i guess
I can barely decide what to order on Uber Eats in 6 minutes.
Who else loves her voice? Very soothing and relaxing.
I like Kamala's laugh.
I like her voice but what she says is not relaxing its ..
Well..terrifying 😂
@@Skaggy2012 🤣🤣 for real! It's extremely terrifying!
Nah actually the exact opposite for me it annoys me
I think God made her voice so pleasant that it would catch the ear of all of us so we listen. And listen good!!!
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" -Einstein
I've read this so many times and every time it hits me with the same question - why and how all the people who left after WW3 lost all the knowledge of how to create something so simple as gun powder. I've never found an answer to that question.
@@thenewexeptor this is not the first societal collapse. Look at the Bronze Age, which was mainly caused by famine. it took centuries for humanity to recover
Amen
@@ronbloom7173 it’s not a prayer
@@thenewexeptor Do you know how to make gun powder? Do you have the machinery to make it yourself?
The severity of retaliation is not the deterrent. It's the certainty.
She keeps referring to the ballistic missile has having “a warhead” whereas each missile has several warheads each capable of striking multiple targets, and she never mentions this.
She mentions it in her book
This woman could voice an audiobook about nuclear war for children.
Children do not have the necessary abstract concepts formed in their mind, nor do they have the mathematical knowledge to comprehend the numbers involved in this discussion, so there's no point in writing a book for them.
@@User-jr7vfhey buddy, shut up
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@User-jr7vf are you trying to Rick Roll the rickroll? 😂😂😂
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The two of them. The tone of this interview is so calm and measured, it's like they're discussing a book about global economics.
And that is a good thing. What are they supposed to do? Cry, lament, sprinkle ashes on their head and self-flagellate? Calmness and objectivity is the ONLY way to approach this subject. The facts are horrifying enough without theatralics.
And global economics might be the cause of a nuclear war. LoL
Or how to achieve nirvana....
I fell asleep on three different plays of this, it wasn’t until my 4th play that I got through end to end without falling asleep 😅
She has a long interview w Shaun Ryan too. Equally chill and horrifying.
What concerns me is the number of people wanting to go toe to toe with Russia. It's like politicians and the media don't consider the possibility. A lot of us grew up with the threat of nuclear war hanging over our heads.
Yes, insane...some politicians basically saying... "don't worry about talk of nuclear war from the other side, we can't let that affect our approach."
I am terrified about this and every time I express that we want an end to that war since we should not allow humanity to end at no matter cost, they praise more and more our politicians fueling the war and talking about direct intervention from NATO in the war
I heard people in the internet saying that Russian nukes don't work. I heard Russians on the internet discuss how they would nuke that country or that country. I don't even talk about how upset some Russians are that Putin didn't nuke Ukraine to save lives of Russian soldiers
The truth is that russia has no nukes. Not anymore. While NATO's nukes will reach their targets minutes before ruskies can even launch. What you really need to warry about is the conventional war with russia and then china if putin is not stopped now as many American troops will be sent there to fight.
Putin and Trump both have the vainglorious personality to do it--even for sat. Giving up power. Or getting a fatal diagnosis and just saying "If I can't be here, no one can!"
Jealous of life and willing to annihilate all humanity.
Let’s hope and pray it never happens, but the way things are going it wouldn’t be surprising
Sorry bro, but these weapons are destined to be used. They were made, and we're all fools. There is no other conclusion.
Ok that’s enough internet for today 😮
Welcome to the 1980s
time for SpongeBob now 😂
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Hate to burst your bubble but this is not confined to the internet
Yesterday too !
They call me a minute man as well, but for a totally diffrent reason
Fellt,you are awful.
It’s the thought that counts.
😂😂😂
Must be because you write down what is said in meetings! :)
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It’s scary to know how many insane people there are in this world.
…and they’re running the world! 😮😢
What's worse, is that these same crazy people are the only ones that are breeding at an alarming rate. Those crazy people are multiplying by the millions. That's a scary thought, right? Unfortunately we're pretty much doomed.
At least we aint got no "MEAN TWEETS"
@@johnlevison9552he's also a Cia puppet .
Soon u all will understand
That's a scary interview. I grew up and served 20-years USAF during and just after the Cold War. I was interested in that stuff to the point that I wish I didn't know what I know. Nothing classified, all the material available at the library or bookstore. The true realization I got was when I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB ( now SFB), CA and saw some missle launches. Wow!
The book, Command and Control, is a must read that covers near disasters with nukes. The Damascus incident alone is the stuff of nightmares. The guys involved still break out into tears when they try to talk about it.
The Damascus incident???
@@ebenezer6844 1980. A group of Titan II missile techs dropped a $6.00 spanner that bounced against and ruptured the missile case as it fell all the way to the bottom of the silo 50-60' below. The missile fuel oxidized as it contacted the atmosphere which in turn started a fire. Every nuclear bomb -- including thermonuclear ones -- start with a conventional explosion that "primes" the initial reaction. At a certain temperature the conventional explosive component of a nuke will cook off. So it was a horse race: would the conventional part of the Titan warheads blow up, thereby igniting all the thermonuclear warheads on the Titan? Or would the propellant explode first? Fortunately, the propellant in the Titan II ignited completely first. This blasted the heavily armored lid off the silo and scattered the Titan's MIRV warheads over several miles of Damascus, AR. We could have had a "dirty" bomb disaster or a multi-megaton thermonuclear detonation(s). Think about how close to a gigantic, god-awful tragedy we came-- over a $6 wrench that was accidentally dropped.
@@ebenezer6844 1980, Damascus/Arkansas: Explosion of a Titan III ICBM thanks to dumbassery while handling its fuel. The missile was armed with a 9 megaton nuclear warhead.
Bioweapon was used in Syria (Damascus is the capital) by its own dictator President to kill an uprising, not too long ago.
Please further elaborate on that
My formative years spent in the 70s and the 80s, a lot of this is hardwired into my brain from all the attention it was given during the height of the Cold War. Still, with these details your guest provides., it’s quite sober to hear.
Definitely, the billionaire's building luxury Bunker's, is definitely an example of rich people not understanding the aftermath!
MY dad loaded nuclear bombs and missiles on aircraft in the 1960s, (Cuban missile crisis!) Then my brother worked Boomer's (nuclear missile subs) 1980s then spent 30 yrs testing them DARPA! Few military or scientists even know if most of these weapons will blow! 😅 💥🚀
@@j.dunlop8295 Agree,
“Dial a Yield” Tactical Gravity Bombs we “can’t” test.
Let’s put them on F-35s in Europe!
The hell is wrong with her forehead?
If you had to hear about armageddon from anyone, her voice is so calming it almost softens the topic to something trivial
Her voice isn't calming, it's disturbing. You don't know what you're listening to. That's the siren's song. She's a phone sex operator that's way the fuck out of her depth.
I disagree. Her calmness is based in resolve. Hysteria tends to be ignored.
The sad truth is that the best outcome would be not to retaliate.
And that would never happen
And then ? Eat it up and pretend it never happened? How do you imagine that?
I’m not so sure that’s accurate. If several dozen ( much less several hundred) nukes head our way then the world is screwed whether we send back dozens of our own or not.
@@PaperosMaperoscrazy how the point of the comment went over your head
That's what I say. If I were president, and the enemy missiles were incoming, I wouldn't order a
launch. What would be the point ? The only thing a retaliatory strike will accomplish, is more death
and destruction, of another billion innocent people, with nothing to gain.
I’ve had dreams/nightmares of being in a nuclear blast. Panic and screaming and then see huge flash of light and then feel tremendous heat envelope and lift my body, then flying through the air, weightless and looking all around me at grey matter and rising up. Felt calm and no pain. So bizarre.
I had the same kind of dream last year. Wtf. I was walking on a sunny day nd then all of sudden a flash nd it all goes black grey. And I could feel the same pressure on my body as I was I a fighter jet pulling 25+g like
Yes so have I exactly the same. I have lived through really close calls especially in the 80’s they were issuing leaflets in the UK about “protect and survive” being nuclear war. I would dream of the missiles launching. Horrifying.
You may be a reincarnated japanese experiencing a past life memory
I had the same dream in 1985.
So many people had similar dreams. Maybe there's something out there manifesting in dreams!
I seriously hope I’m among the first to go. Ive been living with the threat of nuclear war my whole life and I’m in no way designed for post-nuclear survival.
Spared the horror of surviving. I hope I’m at ground zero.
Definitely, the billionaire's building luxury Bunker's, is definitely an example of rich people not understanding the aftermath!
I lived through the "duck and cover" drills back in the 1950's. Now, If I get a warning that the missiles are on their way, I think I'll just go stand in the front yard to watch. Don't think I'd care to wait for the looters to burn me out when all the food is gone.
It's car on with the garage door closed time if I manage to survive the first day.
Your whole life? Damn, and for nothing!
I used to study President Reagan for a living. The popular narrative was that he was a crazy warmonger, and that "star wars" was a crazy space missile scheme. The truth is he wanted SDI so bad because he realized the nuclear threat was madness and he wanted to stop it. He was willing to give up all nuclear weapons at Reykjavik if Gorbachev would work on SDI together. There was a lot wrong with Reagan, but in that way he was very sober and practical.
List your top 3 things that you believe was wrong with Reagan.
@@fredray40He doesn't like Cheerios
When it starts, it wont just be a blip on a radar screen. The first to launch will launch everything in their arsenal so you will see thousands of blips from different locations. In that sense it makes it a bit less likely that an accidental launch could take place
I along with everyone else of my generation have lived with this nightmare for 71 years. One my earliest memories is of our family evacuating due to a nuclear attack, fortunately this was a horrible dream. We lived 30 miles southeast of London, England. We only get a 4 minute warning there. Insane the whole thing, just insane.
No, no, no. In the event of a SARMAT 2 being launched, you have about 30 seconds before impact. You will not even have enough time to sound the alarms.
The USA has five minutes because of the Atlantic Ocean IF you are in DC. Canada has less.
I love how lex "clips" are longer than most UA-cam videos 😂
Her books must be like a set of Encyclopedia Britannica's. From 1983.
Underrated coment 😂
They are both speaking sooo slowly, I'm not surprised this 'clip' is very long.
@@DW-dd4iw Normal… calm down
It's hard to sum up wisdom in clip form. Most UA-cam channels are intellectually challenged, so you can't expect much. If I've learned anything in my short 40 years, it's that the human condition is always disappointing! If for nothing else than the fact that we fall so short of what we are capable of!
Annie is the only one that can make nuclear war sound soothing!
you're good!
Atomic Annihilation ASMR
The scariest book I've ever read. All leaders should read this book it makes everything else seem very insignificant.
Down at my work, the kids (young employees) were joking about how safe we would all be if there was a nuclear war. I'm a veteran of the Cold War and beyond, in the sand box. I shut them all up with the reality "There's a Boeing plant across the street. Preferably, we'll all be vaporized within minutes." The o'l man spoke - they all went back to work, quietly.
had a similar conversation at work. i remined them there is a huge BAE shipyard a couple kilometers away.
@@easterworshipper5579 Boom! No doubt
All I get in retort is “OK, Boomer!”
@@LLUN-i5ucats are known for their skepticism.
@@DogBeast221 Fk 'em
Big fan of Lex, always calm and chilled, asking honored guests, poignant questions, rendering them with ample mental space to elaborate; thoughtful, yet simple questions, no less shinier than the answers; his clips are like full episodes, for others; to top it off with burning passion and unwavering stamina!
Yes, he talks like a sloth walks - slowly, hand then leg and after some lengthy pause, another hand or leg but never both. Just one slow-moving limb after the other. It's incredible he has an audience. Perhaps they are bots or severe insomniacs... 🦥💤💤
@@alerotyafamily302or perhaps, adults
@@rare6499 More so pretentious adults that conflates unnecessary dramatic pauses with gravitas
The problem is that most of the slugs we vote into power no longer know what a nuke actually does.
You’re right
The Squad will be bitching about all the minority cities destroyed while Biden can't make a simple decision. Yeah, we'll be screwed.
@michellebrown4903 when did he say that. Do you have the EXACT quotes?
I mean most of the people we elect lived through the Cold War so idk wtf you’re talking about…. And the trump comment is hilarious if true.. but I would be interested if it’s actually true..
I still don’t understand how you could possibly give that decision to a stale old fart from either one of the parties so out of touched with reality and the people that it would be funny if it wasn’t so egregiously upsetting
Annie has such a soft and calming voice, it’s such a dichotomy to the subject she is discussing!
Sarah Connor once said. 3 billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day!
If the Bible says the world will come to an end (Armageddon) then what's the point of avoiding a nuclear war at all costs? To me a nuclear war sounds just like the prophecy being fulfilled.
2019 , past or future . P.K.D.
The lesson is,
Never delegate nuclear deterrence to AI.
We're not gonna make it are we?
@@eamoc we will
if lex and annie had a kid, that kid would have the most soothing voice of all time and certainly make billions in the audiobook reader industry 😂
It wouldn't cry, it would sigh.
The irony is that she has such a soothing voice describing the end of the world in the most devastating way.
I know I couldn’t be more relaxed !!
She lovely.
The craziest thing about this whole situation is that the people that make these decisions and push the buttons will be in a well stocked bunker with air filtration, gyms, cafeterias, and all the amenities. With their families. And all of us out in hell paid for it.
And? After war they are nobodys , president? President of who?😂
Pretty much how,some governments are already to their people,short changing them or making them live a iron cage lifestyle.
The absolute beauty of being over 70yrs is six min, one hr, 30 days... I know I'm gonna die anyways. So don't shit me, don't threaten me, don't even try to scare me. Life is precious, down to the last moment. Live it!♡
you are 70+ !
If I were 70 I would also think like you!
A lot of the world is younger…has little kids…try to think outside of your own “lived” 70+ year mind.
Thanks for your kind thought about younger generations… And you wonder why people rag on boomers… You probably expected the world to shut down for you during covid I suppose…
How do you make that heart 💙 in your comment? In that font
It’s a crazy thought. As I see it for the old timers, you guys have seen the rise and fall of humanity, more so than anyone else in all of history. Boomers are truly a remarkable generation. And they currently hold all the control over civilization, and the future of it.
Well I am getting on myself a bit..I think of my young family every day I hear all this nuclear war balls ..mankind is gona destroy himself sooner or later..probably with Biden and putin or israel and Iran. .so fk it no more watching these youtube doom and gloom videos i intend to enjoy the life we have left. ..I put my own head away with them. So when we wake up dead then it's happened. .the young family I have and generations god bless you and all of us. We own this land we own that land load of balls ..know one owns fk all the lands were here here before man himself
Read her book yesterday. Chilling update to information I already had learned. At 71 I realized we have little hope at this time of our civilization of continuing humankind.
Yes but look at humankind. Look at the actual state of it. Look at the idiots in the street with the false lip implants and the eyelashes, ti the idiots in charge of the world governments. Look at the conflicts going on due to individual mad men. It’s actually time to press the button. All hope is lost.
I agree. 99% of people are walking around clueless. 30 yrs ago, at least everyone was aware. Now I’m told Russian rockets won’t fly straight. This is how it ends.
Is that really such a bad thing? We are the only animal on earth that is actually cruel... No other animal acts like us
@@vandal1764tell that to the fox in the hen coup, or the cat and her regular doorstep offerings. Or the dogs that run off lead to disappear down badger dens. Don’t be fooled by the left id3ology that tells you humans are bad, humans are canc3r. Were no worse or better than the rest of nature.
Capitalism
Over the years I’ve listened to hours of this legendary lady speak on this stuff.
Much appreciated 👏🏻👏🏻
To have the discussion that no one wants to have is brave and commendable. I salute you!
brave? lol
The conversation has been had since the cold war. If it was news to you that nuclear war meant everyone = fucked, you can't be saved from yourself let alone a nuke
@@Martinsamuelsson-s5y Do you have any idea how moronic that "lol" suffix makes you sound? Apparently not.
Lex, many thanks for this guest. I'm in Moscow now but returning to LA next month as an Emergency Math teacher of Algebra1 which is the foundation course for all subsequent college math and science courses that AI & Nuclear Engineering students need to understand and use correctly. CA allows K-12 retesting(unpaid for) but very few teachers want to spend 8 to 10 unpaid hours to regrade objective Unit retests like math & science or even more time for subjective Unit tests like history and English literature. I was told about this CA policy by our LA - MS White 7th Grade Guidance Counselor, not my other 3 unionized 8th Grade Algebra-1 teachers or our GC. My goal is no Fs for my Sept to June cohort, my school, and eventually all LAUSD Algebra1 classes by example and with adament parental support to demand retests at quartely PTA meetings. Bravo !
Okay, bot.
It is important to realize that the flight paths are over the polar caps, North and South, not across the ocean East/West. That is why the time is less than a half hour.
Geez mate, the beef is between USSR and USSR, I mean Russia. The United States SOCIALIST REPUBLIC and Russia. Who will shoot accross the southern ocean?
The Northern Hemisphere Will be fucked, bit not the whole globe
Unless people like you want to below up the whole world!!
The extraterrestrial beings stationed in Antartica - on the surface and beneath - might not like at all being disturbed by hundreds of ICBMs flying past in both directions and could neutralize all of them in an eye's wink...! Why not ?
It depends if it’s shot by submarines
when I read the title of the video. I didn't think it was something taken seriously.
But after listening to them talk so seriously about the subject and with so much concern and information, I have changed my mind.
Now the one who has been worried is me
What's Really irritating is, the rats have their plush bunkers stocked and ready for use. You'll know its coming when your "betters" suddenly all go on "vacation ".
I was in the Army Engineers. All bunkers can and will be breached.
Yeess..I know ppl from here in Louisiana, went to Minnesota its a big group of ppl having bunkers built close to Canada's border
Even those bunkers have a limited supply of food and water. Once they run out, they’ll die too bc everything on the surface will be a wasteland because of the nuclear winter.
@@nevink4717Not as long as they develop their Vaults and maintain a sustainable life within the vaults like vault 66 👍
Been sticking up on the goods underground bunkers so if we on the surface that’s l we all know where the food and water will be huh?..all you in your bunkers will need to be coming out sometime we will be waiting
Who’s here after Putin’s ICBM was fired.
Don't let politics divide you... Divided we fall... The world needs good people to unite for good, planning and responding
We need the people united but the politicians divided
What if the satellite glitches a fake warning?
That actually happened once in the Soviet union. 1983 iirc. Nearly ended the world.
it has many times
99 luft ballons,Nina I had a teen crush on her.
This is why you have secondary confirmation, and that is why it is so incredibly dangerous for Ukraine to attack these early warning sites as they have in the last few days.
@@olafstelling1752 Ukraine is attacking satellites?
The existential gravity of these types of conversations make my head hurt, bro.
Same…. Same
Why are we assuming it's other countries launching nukes at America. When history shows America are the first and only nation to drop an atomic bomb on a nation. Hypocritical much.
Some would say that is why the US is a prime target
Ask North Korea and Russia
Wonderful episode to view before bed!?!
Pray we can all coexist in a positive and peaceful manner
One man can give the command to launch Nuclear weapons.
Think of the countries with Nuclear weapons that have a mad man in charge.
or a doddering old fool who doesn't know where to walk half the time, and can't talk without a teleprompter
They’re all nuts.
Or a dementia patient
Sounds like America.
Men in dresses decorated as 4 star generals.
There's really only. one country with a mad man in charge, North Korea. Every other nuclear power has too much to lose.
I was an 80’s kid, very interested in history and war. The last two yrs have taught me that very few in the west have spent anytime thinking about the risks. At least lately. This yr. I took the winter off and skied. We’ve never been closer to ending it all, and I’m told Russian rockets won’t fly straight. This is how it ends.
Everybody can feel It coming, even the algorithm can tell
It seems like a wild nightmare that we actually live in a world where our state has, and can, use these weapons. How on earth did we allow them to get away with it?
Stop the controllers....but most can't see them..
It did not happen overnight. US and Nato have been expanding toward Russia for decades all the way to their borders. As well as making bases in Asia, where it could antagonize China. Fate will decide what will happen, but in war with weapons like these i think a lot of innocents would die everywhere.
bigger question is how could we ever have stopped them, and how we ever will?
......Get away with what?? 🤷
@@501sqn3 see 1st sentence
As crazy as it may sound to some, not launching on warning greatly reduces the opportunity for reponse and this policy creates a strong deterrent
Don't be afraid. We're all in this together.
There's no reason to be afraid because there's absolutely nothing the average person can do about it.
Annie Jacobsen says the answer to avoiding nuclear war is communication. Anyone who has ever worked for or had dealings with the workings of government agencies knows good communication is ubiquitously poor among such entities.
The failure to communicate in the book is based directly on a failure to communicate in Ukraine. In real life, a Russian missile came very close to the Polish border and the US called up their Russian counterpart to ask if this was deliberate. They didn’t get an answer for three days. In the book, North Korea launches a strike on the US and America retaliates. The missiles have to fly over Russia to reach NK and so the US calls them up to let them know the nukes aren’t meant for them and not to launch a counter strike… the Russians never pick up the phone. This leads to Russia seeing the apocalypse coming over the horizon and launching a counter strike because, as far as they know, the US just got nuked and is going to destroy Russia in response. A failure to communicate leads to the end of the world.
Interesting how difficult eye contact is while discussing such a subject.
I heard just the audio first and I swear I thought it was Linda Hamilton.
Yes. I hear it too. It’s possible she knows that and plays to the gallery.
The issue with the 6 minute warning is the American people would never be informed or warned.
Exactly. The people find out when bombs start detonating.
Yep - unless you live near a launch site, you’ll know when you phone stops working from the EMP
Ergo, don’t put off enjoying that great microbrew.
She asked the former director of FEMA what the plan was for evacuating civilians. He told her that in the event of nuclear war, they wouldn’t even try to evacuate. The people needed to keep the government running and the nukes flying would be picked up in helicopters and (hopefully) flown to safety while the rest of us burned.
We have a president who would have no idea what he is being told and couldn’t possibly make a decision
Good to know how we’re going out, thanks Lex 😊
Go to the islands😮
I lived through this in 80’s when we had drills at school hiding under desks - honestly did not think I will hear it all again. Those drills and propaganda with graphic photos never left my mind.
May be that should show it to the neocons.
In the ‘50s, we used the time beneath our magical school desks to have farting contests. Good times. “This is a test. This is only a test…”
That didn't happen in America
Under the desk drills in the 80's? Where did you grow up? Those stopped in the mid 60's.
@@joannadziaduch2138 those were in the 1950’s and ‘60’s. We used the drills as an opportunity to have farting contests. Good times.
It could also start with Poseidon instead of a launch.
Hi there from fantasy Island UK 🇬🇧
Nothing fails to stop wars like deterrence.
My father is a contracting acquisition guy for a joint defense company based out of the U.K. And he writes/reviews contracts for these satellites that are capable of tracking and essentially shooting missiles out of the atmosphere. The bad news is this technology is very early phase and they haven’t been deployed in mass yet. The good news is in 10 years nuclear war can be averted with laser weapons. Hopefully we make it that far.
silver coating ...
"silver bullets killing werefolves" now has a meaning ...
dangerous part about this is once laser weapons invalidate the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, some nations may start nuking other nations
Many of us have such misplaced faith and belief in technology to save us. Takes only a few ICBM with MIRVs to destroy a country.
Until we develop laser weapons to knock the laser satellites out before the launch, or an anti-laser coating on an ICBM, or some other defense mechanism. These weapons have been 10 years away since the Star Wars programs 40 years ago.
Good content as always. Think this episodes going to blow up!
😂
Production value is sky high
“Most people didn’t think about nuclear war on a daily basis”
Should I see a doctor?
He’ll take your guns away.
Dr Strangelove is taking appointments. 👍😎🌞
@billdailey6315 I live in Scotland Nate unfortunately I don’t havs any guns to take 🙁
Her problem is that you haven't bought her book
@@hardboiledaleks9012 don hv to buy the book, if it happened it happened. Even we can recite the book, is there any help? Is the last book i will buy.
In case you missed it, she wrote a book!
I don’t know why, but I’m 100% certain that I am going nowhere for sometime, and if I am going nowhere, then you’re going nowhere too.
You never know what tomorrow brings. Don’t be so naive
the only way you'd be so certain is if you were holding yourself to such a notion
This brought me some peace and for that I thank you
its just depressiojn
With what's going on in Israel with Iran and them drone attack might not be far off
I thought the Triad was: 1) Land Launched 2) Air deployed and 3) Submarine Launched?
Yes, that's the idea. She is assuming how war will start and from there. She is actually off on the shakedown of how it will go down.
Land based missiles, sea-launched missiles, and bombers. The land-based are most accurate, as if that mattered, but they have fixed locations and can be tracked or targeted. Sea-launched are hard to find and target. Bombers take time to load and can be destroyed before they launch in the case of a sneak attack.
I thought that's what she said? And then separately there's strategic nuclear arms?
You have that backwards. Nuclear capable aircraft, depending on drop altitude, glide distance, ECMs, etc are generally the most accurate. SLBMs would be second, with the Trident II D5 having a published CEP of 100 meters, and upgraded minuteman 3 systems (land-based strategic deterrent) are last, with a published CEP of ~240 meters.
Also, accuracy could matter a great deal depending on warhead/MIRV configuration, etc. But there are so many thinga wrong with what she is saying here that it is kinda besides the point.
@@queenvrookthe US used to have a number of nuclear armed B-52s circling around the Arctic at all times
Its gonna be weird just standing there seeing the nuke blast and feeling the heatwave coming
Don’t stand by a window 😂
If you can see the light and you're within the thermal radius, you're fucked. It's gonna be a very short weird time.
Dont worry it’s not gonna happen. People have been worried about this for many decades.
When? Who would ACTUALLY launch a nuke? What nation? You are stuck in a Cold War mindset. Things have changed. People don’t even want to fight each other head on in Ukraine, it’s drone age.
Get into the nearest fridge