How A Nuclear War Will Start – Minute by Minute
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Mr. President! Nuclear missiles will strike our country in 14 minutes. I know it’s your first day in office so I’m going to walk you through it, but you’re the only one who can authorize our nuclear retaliation in response and you’ve only got a few minutes to make a decision!
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Holy shit, y’all were some of the first in a YouTube video🔥🔥🔥
@Mystic-Toons second?
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This was very informative and well done and I hated every single second of it.
This is a crossover I never thought I’d see
Hello man, love your vids
Me too
Discussing about nuclear war in a vacuum might be grim enough, but seeing it unfold moment to moment really puts into perspective how gut wrenching the whole ordeal is. The first person point of view really helps sell the effect, I have to say.
Nutshell inspires me.. My parents said if i get 50K followers They’d buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging…
@NAMANI’ve seen you before
Those of us close to the Ukraine war and who took the Russian warnings of using nuclear retaliation shall Crimea be recovered by Ukraine take it even _more_ seriously. Hah.
Yes, gripping to say the least.
There was also the time when the US missile detection system in Greenland went live. The rising Moon was interpreted as a missile attack. And possibly the only reason why USA didn’t “retaliate”, was because someone remembered that Khrushchev was in New York at the time. And it was considered unlikely that USSR would launch an attack while their leader was in USA.
Actually…. Two birds/One stone for a coup.
@jsl151850b if its a coup, then involving other country is just more problems to handle
@jsl151850b”Yay! We have now killed the leader of our country, and we get to rule. Aaaand we’re all dead.”
Not the most effective coup I can imagine.
“Considered unlikely” more like flat out improbable.
As someone who played Defcon, I had no idea ICBMs had many mini-warheads in them. In some way, I guess that explains why countermeasures fail in-game.
They were an innovation of the 60s, so if the game is simulating 50s ICBMs it’d be one warhead per rocket.
That’s part of why the space race pushed toward larger rockets — bigger payloads could launch cluster warheads as in the manner described in the video!
It’s called MRV (Multiple Reentry Vehicle) or MIRV (Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle)
I haven’t played Defcon, but perhaps you’d be interested in the game ICBM on steam
Yea the only way to defend from them is to shoot them down before they split
Which is mostly very unlikely due to lack of time
@Helikopter bojowy Ka-52especially since they “split” mostly before re-entering the atmosphere
The Vasili Arkhipov story is fascinating, a great wiki read for any interested. He was actually the regional commander of multiple submarines iirc, and because of this fact whatever submarine he was serving on was the _only_ one that needed 3 officers to sign off on, all the others only required 2. The circumstances are insane
Hearts pounding
Wow… humanity is so fucked up man.
To be completely honest, it can also be argued that the mutually assured destruction (MAD) nuclear weapons brought, has been responsible for the lack of world-wide conflicts we are experiencing right now.
no one wants to be responsible for ending the world as we know it
Deterrence is only one slip of a finger away from complete annihilation
Vasili Arkhipov wasn’t just an officer, but the head of the fleet; he had achieved fame previously during the “widomaker” incident.
I may be mistaken but pretty sure he didn’t even have to be on the submarine, like, it could’ve been possible that just the two officers and the nuclear option would’ve been used
@Alpal424it’s True
and it wasnt just because they didnt have contact with moscow but because US destroyers were dropping training depth charges on them.
@I Play Games And the sub’s air conditioning failed, the battery was low, and the CO2 levels elevated, making everyone on board absolutely panicky and giving them ONLY the options of “fire torpedo” or “surface/surrender” with no time to reason out the choices.
In fact, him being the head of the fleet is the only reason his authorization was required. Standard protocol only required two authorizations, the ship’s captain and the political officer. However, the fleet commander’s authorization was also required if they were aboard.
I found this surprisingly stressful to watch, but extremely informative.
Same
That was part of the point they wanted to make.
It’s actually so scary how easily our civilization could be detonated, especially considering the russian submarine incident, 2/3 people confirmed the launch, but only one person opposed them somehow…
There is a theory (although unconfirmed) that one of the three people that have to give permission on a Russian submarine to launch has a standing order to ALWAYS oppose the launch (or maybe unless there’s an order to launch from higher up the chain), no matter what, with the underlying idea being that the risk of a mistake in the manner barely avoided here would have been too high otherwise, and it’s better to effectively (secretly) neutralize the ship’s ability to launch. If so, it’s slightly less scary although still pretty far up the scale.
@Leyrann unless they knock the guy out
I just heard the 1 person had a lot of influence with the people. So his denial of the launching was taken more credible to the others
It is very unlikely that a single nuclear torpedo would have triggered a full blown counterattack without any attempt to clarify things first.