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Mutually assured destruction MAD is the only thing keeping nuclear war from happening.

@@isaacbarron5794 MAD keeps us afraid enough to not do it. However, should nukes fly, using your last minutes to ensure their destruction is petty and pointless. If nukes are headed your way, your best hope is to hope the survivors of the opposing side are so horrified by the holocaust they incurred they build a new society free of such weapons and policy. Once your destruction is assured, there is nothing to be gained by destroying them as well. May as well let them live and learn.

@Cows Against Capitalism that's not reality if it was we wouldn't have nukes now after what we did to the Japanese our nukes now makes those two look like little bugs and they destroyed a hole city. In reality we would die and the country that is left which would be China or Russia would become the most powerful country on earth. Which is why we have the nuclear triad of MAD and it is because the United States, Russia and China has such policy WW3 hasn't happened yet. However it is because of such policies that I know if WW3 happens WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

New Prime Ministers in the UK have to hand write four ‘letters of last resort’ for their nuclear submarine captains. The letter contains instructions on what to do if the government is eliminated in a nuclear first strike, or the country is gone. The contents are secret and personal, apparently they follow no set procedure. They write things like: retaliate with nuclear weapons, use your judgement, do nothing, place your submarine under the command of an ally. It is all very random and apocalyptic.

@@cowsagainstcapitalism347 I've always thought of it as a selfishness thing, Like we need to destroy the enemy so that we even out this score or get a last laugh and that's why we have Instructions for Retaliatory Strikes, so countries even out the score, lfie simply doesnt matter

Obviously, there was more than one shot that hit the ship Sherlock.

They're using Star Wars rules.

There would have been no turning back because MAD would have been carried out as only one silo didn't launch however our submarines other silos and bombers would have and that would be it.

It has happened for real, maybe not quite that close with keyturn but there have been false alarms including one like this with simulation in the computer they referenced in this scene/episode after the abort. Then there was that time soviet satellite saw sun reflecting from clouds and thought it was missile launch and one officer keeping his cool stop him from sending word down the chain towards counter launch he might not have been able to stop after finding out the truth. I believe either usa or ussr brought online an over the horizon radar once that gave out an alert after detecting the moon. Then there are the cases where they / at least usa have dropped live bombs on their own territory in bomber accidents.

​@@isaacbarron5794submarines would be slower to respons getting to launch debth etc. so if abort message reached someone in time it would be subs and planes ICBMs are the fastest to go as far as I know so if you stop those in time you most likely did stop all in time assuming no communications failures.

This very same thing nearly happened, in 1979!

@@isaacbarron5794no, what would have happened is they would have confirmed the launch tracking with other NATO tracking stations and seen it wasn’t real. So nothing Weill have happened

How about now 8 months later 😅😅😅

I never thought I'd ever hear fail-safe failed.

That is what is it called. It's well documented.

That is LITERALLY how it works. Three categories of options are given: Major Attack Options, Selected Attack Options, and Limited Attack Options. You then pick options in those categories to execute. You should educate yourself.

Can confirm that is what it is called. It's part of the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) that gives the president of the United states many options to use nuclear weapons

You need to educate yourself. That is how it works. The president is given 3 attack options and he/she can then choose.

The entire process depicted here takes place theoretically in 2 to 5 minutes.

I read somewhere Clinton leak the information from the time of order it should take approx 4-5 min so taken into account checking codes et I would say about 8-10 max for icbms and bombers to be lunched. But if the attack comes via submarines than it highly likely only the ones in the middle of the USA would be able to fire

Russian Hipersonic Missles are on planes only for now

Not to mention the ballistic submarines and B-2 spirit bombers.

@@ireallylikerobloxrally1451 Not to mention their lack of ability to disperse multiple warheads and actually being easier to intercept with modern systems than conventional ICBMs. Russians are a threat, but that's simply down to the number of their missiles, not how resilient each one is individually.

I disagree. This was more possible in the 80s...but not as likely anymore, especially with that thing called social media.

I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or not

@@itstaylor2137 me too

Man had to change names

Hahahahah

Right off the bat. "Yeah lets just launch a nuke to show them we got bigger balls than them." WTF are these people insane. First of all in real life this would not happen because both sides no matter how hawkish have nukes and could annihilate each other. That's why its called MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction). Unless someone invented some scifi laser cannon in space countries that have nuclear weapons won't fight directly with others that have them ala Ukraine War. Use Ukraine as a proxy sure but send American troops to fight directly with with Russian troops = End of the world.

That sounds about right

​@@williamblake8560 Fortunately there are 2 guys on the other side of the wall who also need to turn their keys. Still scary.

​@@cowsagainstcapitalism347 oh wow. Didn't know that.

@Theresa Robinson however that's just one silo what about our bombers submarines and other silos that didn't miss their key turn

@@isaacbarron5794 bombers wouldn't have gotten off the ground yet, and the submarines would need to get to launch depth and prep their birds/silos. as for the silos, it's not just one silo that decides to launch. a majority of the keys of the whole squadron have to select launch. that being said, that general wouldn't have been able to send an EAM message, but there would also be about a dozen other ways to confirm/disprove the Russian strike that this simulation wouldn't have control over.

That’s what I thought. Isn’t the 5th fleet deployed to the Middle East

Yes should be the 7th Fleet witch is deployed in Japan. Not the 5th Fleet.

@@midsue yep that one's in the Mediterranean.

It’s a tv show get over it

They gave no warning which they should have done, that’s an act of war it doesn’t matter where they are

@@matthewhunter3370 It's an act of self defense. You don't get to invade a country (which the US did in this scenario) and say "the other side started it first." If Russian warplanes flew over Andrews Air Force Base, you bet the US would shoot them down.

@@jyashin that’s different than entering territorial waters, also the Chinese navy has a duty to give fair warning before firing if they don’t it’s a hostile act.

@@matthewhunter3370 China already gave fair warning. You ever been near an army base before? Your very presence there is already an understanding that use of lethal force is permitted on any act of trespassing. You're THREE MILES from Hainan. What the US did is 100%, unequivocally, an invasion of a sovereign nation. When the Soviet Union shot down American U-2's, the US knew full well they got caught red handed. Likewise the US being three miles off Hainan gives China every right to shoot on sight. That's how sovereignty works. Indonesia has shoot on sight orders on any Vietnamese boat sailing within its waters. This is 10 times worse because not only are you within a nation's sovereign territory, you're also right next to one of the world's largest military command posts.