This is a video about some of the many times we have nearly blown up the world. Make sure to add both the razor and the blades to your cart for the code to take effect.
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References:
List of Broken Arrows — https://ve42.co/AtomicArchive https://ve42.co/BrokenArrowsReport
Declassified Goldsboro Report — https://ve42.co/Goldsboro
Operation ChromeDome — https://ve42.co/OperationChromeDome
CIA website — https://ve42.co/CIA
Cataclysmic cargo: The hunt for four missing nuclear bombs after a B-52 crash — https://ve42.co/WoPo
THE LAST FLIGHT OF HOBO 28 — https://ve42.co/lastflight
The Voice of Larry Messinger is from this documentary — https://ve42.co/Messinger
Even Without Detonation, 4 Hydrogen Bombs From ’66 Scar Spanish Village — https://ve42.co/NYTPalomares
Decades Later, Sickness Among Airmen After a Hydrogen Bomb Accident — https://ve42.co/NYTPalomares2
Picture of ReVelle — https://ve42.co/JackReVelle1
Great NPR where the audio of ReVelle is from — https://ve42.co/JackReVelle2
CIA Website — https://ve42.co/CIA
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Directed by Petr Lebedev
Written by Petr Lebedev and Derek Muller
Edited by Peter Nelson
Animated by Fabio Albertelli, Jakub Misiek, Ivy Tello and Mike Radjabov
Filmed by Derek Muller
Produced by Petr Lebedev and Derek Muller
Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images and Pond5
Music from Epidemic Sound
Veritasium grown so much I believe it would be beneficial to have a discord server.
They are trying to tell us something. Be ready guys
My grandfather was in the air force and he was on one of the flights carrying H bombs, similar to the one over Spain. He described how the Russians shot at them and they feared for their lives. Even when he got extremely old and demented, this was one thing he remembered very clearly.
Those dudes be deploying bombs in atmosphere, but it’s my duty to repair ozone layer
Though very interesting I still don’t agree. This is just a case of poor thinking and a poor understanding of humanity. Once something like this is known and we have the technical skills to make one they will be made. Once made we have you use pragmatic understandings of humanity to deal with them. Like banning firearms, all you get is just criminals have firearms. If there wasn’t a real deterrence they would have been used. History is the record of evidence that once a weapon is invented it will be used – unless there is a good reason not to. Dereck is wrong – the real danger is not accident it is that from several points of view the use of Nuclear Weapons is perfectly reasonable. The same way on 9/11 flying jumbo jets into huge buildings full of innocents became reasonable.
Shows how far our race for power could’ve cost more than what we already have 🙁
cool and scary nukes and almost world-ending situations! thanks veritasium.
6:50 oh yeah, by the way . . . lol
nah, i feel like if a country was nuked, they would probably investigate, rather than just end the whole world…
Let’s not forget the bent spears and dull swords.