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nato expansion in the 90s, wasnt as much as expansion as it was opening borders to refugees who were kicking the fence to get in with fear in their eyes
@@robgrey6183you know what's funny, we don't have to or want to defend our leaders unlike how russians have to defend their authoritarian "president". Unlike in Russia where elections are blatantly staged to enforce Putin's legitimacy, in the west for the most part, you just have to wait a few years for things to get better meanwhile in Russia, things haven't been good since the 70s. Oh and Biden might be an absolute nutcase, at least he isn't a midget who has to wear platform shoes to match the height of other world leaders due to his fragile ego. Biden just wears his fragile ego on his sleeves
"Comrade General, NATO have launched a first strike against us!" "What? What size? How many missiles are incoming?" "Just one sir. One really small missile. From Norway." "Go back to sleep you idiot"
Anyone who thinks a single missile being sent out would be a nuclear first strike should not have any seat of power frankly, I mean what's the one missile going to do? Incinerate once city? Hit the president? Hit a silo? There are backup systems and backup structures that would be missed and could easily continue functioning for retaliation. EMP? Russia's a massive landmass, even with a good burst it wouldn't reach the Siberian silos, or western Russia if vice versa. Absolutely bizarre logic some leaders come up with.
😂 Right? But the scary thing is that there was a completely shit faced drunk Yeltsin on the button. Almost as bad as a deranged Orange Orang-Utan having control of the US nuclear codes. Oh, wait...
It's chilling to know there were at least 8-10 times when we were minutes from nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis produced at least five such events. In one, a curious bear shook the fence of a US airbase in the middle of the night, triggering an alert. The alert system was connected to other bases, and the sirens went off in the entire state. At one base, the wiring was incorrectly connected. The warning light was supposed to indicate an intruder alert, but a different lamp lit up, indicating a nuclear attack. The base immediately scrambled nuclear-armed jets to attack Cuba. Only one officer didn't lose his nerve, and called the other bases to ask if they also received a nuclear attack alert. When he learned that they didn't, he rushed to the parking lot, jumped into his Corvette, and drove down the runway, blocking the takeoff route. This was the only way to stop the planes, as they turned off their radios to operate in complete secrecy. Now imagine if this guy parked the car in the far end of the lot, or his wife dropped him off on that day, or... yeah, scary. Brezhnev also saved us from a war once, however not in such a tight situation. When the Conrad spy ring, a group of US Army turncoats supplied the Soviets with the exact locations of the nuclear mine shafts on the inter-German border, they provided the Warsaw Pact with an enormous advantage in case they launched an attack on NATO. The mine shafts were secret locations where nuclear charges would've been placed in case of war, and detonated when Soviet troops crossed the border, creating a death zone by covering a wide area with radioactive dust. As the Soviets now knew where these were, they could've landed Spetznaz units to prevent their use, and thus open a passage for their tank armies. Brezhnev looked at it, and simply said: "nyet". It's just not worth.
even more fun to know then that chairman mao wanted to start a nuclear war with the west. famously mao said to stalin - we'd only loose 300m peasants and reset the west to even footing & then take over. even stalin found that a little bit much. freeman dyson also came up with "project orion" - a spacecraft that used nuclear explosions to get to space. as it needed a nuclear bomb to propel itself upwards - he came up with a novel solution to make many bombs on the cheap. its why its so heavily classified still to this day.
For me in the Cuban Missile crisis and noted in the movie 13 days when Kennedy got very angry, was the missile test launch from Vandenberg. America and everywhere else is in one piece because a Sov satellite had not come above the horizon yet. If they had detected it..well, we now know the missiles in Cuba were ready to launch.
It's quite hilarious (and scary) that both the Soviet Union and later Russian Federation have loads of events in history marked by "wierd coincidences". A mirror flight that happened due to similar geographical features in both directions, a mutiny that ended peacefully due to a delay in decision-making, and now the world coming close to nuclear war due a rocket that *just* so happened to fly in the direction of a Nuclear state's capital (at least for a while). I've been watching this channel for a while, and this might be the first video I've seen where you get into rocketry. I'd say keep it up; rockets and the history behind them are just as interesting as aircraft.
@@nneeerrrd the facist in Ukraine are real mind you they just died so early in the war because like so few of them actually existed and were a joke to ukrainian politics im sure some Ukrainian facist coward is hiding somewhere but they aren’t that many
I just watched the mirrored flight a few days ago, that was an insane amount of coincidences. The locations, the bodies of water, the fact that there happened to be an earth quake in that area at that time which is why they didnt get intercepted... the two soviet fighters chasing each other at the end because one of them forgot to update their IFF and they each thought the other was an enemy. That one made me laugh.
The attitude of Putin reminds me of a story from the Irish writer Paddy Crosby's autobiography. His mother intervened when she saw two little boys fighting and asked who started it? One of the little boys answered "He started it when he hit me back."
@@Archangelm127here 15:05 that's a typical russian "antifascist" for you. But remember, these guys are fighting against the mythical fascists in Ukraine😂
With time, people tend to forget and grow more accustomed to the horrors of the current day accepting them as something common, part of their everyday life which happens "somewhere there". Only by constantly reminding it is possible to keep the minds from growing ignorant. You are one of the few who keeps doing so. Thank you.
In fact, our government is incentivized to promote this process because it makes it look like they're actually solving problems that in reality, we're just getting bored with and moving on from. An added bonus is that a happier and comfortable population is more likely to spend money and feel free to waste their time and gains on frivolous interests and pursuits.
Minor nitpick about the Black Brant: it cannot in fact carry 400kg to 1500km. There are payload/altitude charts in the manual and it can only achieve that maximum altitude when flying with a minimum payload closer to 100kg. As you add payload, unsurprisingly, max altitude decreases. (Not that this impacts any real substance in your video, just thought I'd clarify)
@@mikeb3539the Black Brant (and most sounding rockets used up until today) is a really simple machine. Sans the payload, it's essentially a rocket motor with fins. That helps with the reliability 😊
@@dmacpher can't go wrong with drag staging... Ignition is computer-controlled, but separation is caused by aerodynamic forces. I love me some delayed ignitions!
The whole world knows Ukraine has openly professing "Nazi" units fighting for it. . Which makes it even more funny that the Communists in the US send money/arms to those Fascists to fight The Communists in Russia...LOL . fucking clown world.
Yeah the one that was on the Lolita express with epstien to his island multiple times was "funny president." god you people are far too forgetful about bad shit.
If I had a nickel for how many times Russians have almost brought the world to an end, while also saving it from said end, I would have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but its strange it happened that many times...
"On that day, the fate of all mankind hinged on the decision of just one person: Russian president Boris Yeltsin." Me: * remembers that news about Yeltsin getting drunk in a state visit to the US and wandering onto the streets in his underwear, trying to get a pizza. *
*Remembers that Yeltsin coined a new term in Ireland because he was so drink while arriving by plane it had to circle the airport three times to give him time to sober up.*
I'm not surprised Yeltsin made the right choice. He did, after all, possess a healthy amount of common sense. But this story does elevate my opinion of him even higher than it was.
He was an alcoholic that ruined the nation's economy, shelled the parliament for making the “wrong” decision, enabled the rise of Putin and finished term with a hitherto unseen approval rating of 2%.
FANTSTIC editing and pacing, your videos only get better, you are a great story teller, thank you. Also, your choice of period video references is perfect.
I knew of this, but I didn't know the test rocket matched a D5 launch profile. That makes the Russian response a LITTLE more understandable. Not excusable, but understandable.
it didn't, only the launch site and initial course somewhat did. D5 has completely different staging and speed profiles for example, and a much flatter trajectory.
@@CativaCookie Yeah. Individual capability & grit has never been the Russian's problem, it's always been how they used it (or don't) and their incredibly messed up governments. "There are no bad soldiers, there are only bad officers". (Not 100% true, either, but descriptive to this situation)
I still think that Able Archer 83 was the most perilous moment. (This is also remarkable for combining a slow build-up with a very short actual decision span. It may be a coincidence or not that we don't hear much about this one and that NATO is still officially in denial of the implications.)
The Soviet armed forces never believed it was a nuclear threat, and they had the final say, so I don't think it was nearly as dangerous as those moments where one man had to make a very quick choice
@@jaspergood2091 Mind that in the GDR bombers were standing on the runway with running motors, ready to counter strike, and the response time was minimal. (About 2-3 minutes from detected launch to destruction.) Also, fleet and mobile forces had already moved into their assigned ready areas. (That NATO should have missed this, with all the tapped command lines, satellites, etc, is hard to believe.) This was the two blocks facing one another, both on high alert, NATO in its maneuver and the Warsaw Pact at DEFCON-1. NATO issued the nuclear strike command and it was on the Warsaw Pact side to decide in no time, if this was for real or really just a test (against all indications). This was not a lone data point or a single blip on a screen, this was based on general awareness. And it appears the RYaN model was fed somewhat deliberately: all stars seemed to align for the USSR's worst nightmare…
the Soviet armed forces in eastern Europe were well aware of that exercise, having been informed beforehand. So was the Soviet leadership. If some in the Kremlin chose to think that it wasn't an exercise, that too was nothing new. And it wasn't the exercise itself that caused the tensions around it, it was the Soviet actions prior to the exercise.
@@jwenting The point being that the USSR was pretty much expecting a Western strike to be started under the cover of a maneuver. Their scenarios pointed this way. And, as it happened, just then RYaN had predicted a Western first strike to be launched in the next few weeks, based on a variety of data, and there was a also a peculiar time window with the new missiles already in Europe, but still exclusively under US control. (And there was more, like a build up in mock attacks to test Soviet defenses, etc. And all this, while rhetorics were also building up. This was pretty much the hottest phase of the cold war - and the USSR was in panic.)
It confuses me why Russia was so surprised that east Europe turned away from Russia, even if they aren’t the same entities people are still going to see it the same
The west played them when they sided with them in WW2. Let them get away with murder (literal mass murder) then pulled the rug out from under them, lol. serves them right for trusting the west.
Russian elites are almost mirror of byzantine politics. They were not truly "shocked" they simply spun it that way to be viewed as victims instead of the transgressors they are. You should remember that to be a ln oligarch, Military officer, or even politician in Russian is considerably far harder than being an American Kingpin. The amount of acumen you need to survive as a local politician simply makes pentagon politics blush.
I am happy you did not end up deciding to hire some over the top American to mispronounce all these Russian names when you got some random comment about your accent 🙂 Love your storytelling, somehow with a personal touch
"For the Ukrainians, it's just another Tuesday" Great quote and sadly so true. Good video of a little known event. Might have wanted to include a few Americans in that clip about "crazy" leaders.
And the saddest part is...this is a reality. World wouldn end after nuclear strikes, just a new, much darker world will be born. No country will collapse, no leadership will disappear and no war will be ended.
Trump was surprisingly tough on Russia. He was the only US president in like 60 years who sanctioned use deadly force against Russians in Syria, where they wasted around 250 Russians. During Obama era, Russians learnt the US troops in Syria were ordered to just take it in the ass and retreat when fired upon, Trump chose not to appease Hitler... I mean Putin. Also, Putin called Trump a "gay clown", which got translated into "bright and entertaining" by an incompetent translator :D Trump now thinks Putin respects him, which is only half the truth, for Putin respects strength and the US military is that strength.
At the back of his mind, Yeltsin had to be asking himself what America's motivation could possibly be for launching an attack now? Thankfully, a bit of vodka might have also slowed his reflexes a bit lol.
I honestly think a nuclear attack could have taken place and Yeltsin's thought would have been "what's the point of fighting back now?" Putin could see a bird flying over the Norwegian sea on radar and think it's Armageddon. When it turns out to be a false alarm he'd probably have the radar crew assassinated and blame the whole scare on NATO in one big coverup. For a man as tiny as he is, he has one massive and fragile ego. Im sure according to him, he could never do anything wrong or ever possibly over react to anything.
Exactly. That's why this isn't actually as 'special' an event as it seems- it couldn't have been hard for any level-headed, reasonable person to think 'this doesn't make sense- there must be something wrong.' Just one rocket, when the Cold War is essentially over, and everyone seems to be getting along better than ever- what sense does it make for this to be a Trident, of all things?
@@thatguyoverthere9634I’ve asked myself this question many times in regards to other possible scenarios. Like, what if one of our allies accidentally launched a rocket at us? Would we, or even should we, accept an apology? Although I’m also making an assumption that said ally would have gotten to the point where institutional problems have gotten so bad that one misfired rocket almost triggers a nuclear response, and I cannot think of any of our allies as been on the same level as Russia, 90s or otherwise.
Yeah man we e missed a bunch actually. I forgot the name of this submariner who was told that an ICBM was being launched from the states and this guy was responsible for immediate response but when he looked at his readings and input, he had a gut feeling it was mistake and this was at the height of the Cold War and if he had authorized a launch , it would have triggered a M.A.D event
Fun fact, this is why the iconic red phone is on the presidents desk. There are similar ones in most nuclear powers offices. That way they can call each other and be like “hey dude! What the fucks going on? Please tell me some idiot didn’t inform us that you were doing tests?!”
The "iconic red phone" does not exist. It is an invention of fictional media meant to represent agreements and protocols to allow rapid communication between the leaders of nuclear states in an emergency.
4:20 that's a misleading statement, since a "1500km height" of that rocket is still a ballistic suborbital one, which is not directly comparable to orbital heights - because of very different kinematics, velocities and energies involved. But what's more relevant - a 1500km ballistic height is quite comparable to ones of ICBM trajectories.
I loved the ending of the video where you had the Reagan speech and talked about the modern political standings of the Right now a days. Me and my Father feel the same way. He was raised in the Cold War and believes strongly in kicking Russia in the teeth, but it’s hard now a days because our own political parties are now supporting Russia.
@@chesterhiggens Putin has been saying that NATO is his personal enemy for decades, you just don't understand Russian so you fall for propaganda in English.
The unfortunate truth is that the Republican party of old no longer exists. I've always been extremely liberal myself, but at least respected the ideology of the right up until the Obama era: at least I could tell that their ideals were always in an attempt to better the United States. The Republican party these days can't say that anymore. Moscow-funded politicians say and do whatever they can to get elected, so they can fill their pockets as much as possible before their term is up. Trump really was just the final nail in the coffin.
@@p_serdiuk Didn't he ask to join NATO a while back, only to get spitefully rebuffed and lied to about the continued expansion (with everyone but russia)?
My brain could not handle having computer chronicles at the beginning and it not actually being a computer chronicles video!! Can't wait for this one, always a pleasure watching your content! 🙂
There's different divisions amongst left and right leaning people. Right leaning people in one country, may have big differences to right leaning people in another, and the exact same applies to the left as well. So online statistics regarding left v right are, well, weird and not really reliable, especially since typically such media outlets just output whatever views are of their bosses, or the writers, which can skew things even further. Some people, from both sides, are incredibly susceptible to propaganda, not necessarily out of incompetence, but it could be anything, the desire to be 'different', something pathological, or even peer pressure, or because they are from the location of origin and want to fit in. All you can really do is just try to ignore everyone else's input and just analyse the hard facts as they are, try to think like a robot basically. I find that doing so, the whole left v right thing starts to fade away and you realise, actually, maybe these labels are just made up with the intention of dividing people.
Most of these events seem to be defused by MAI. Mutually Assured Incompetence. When Soviet belligerence creates a problem, the Soviet method of thorough incompetence created just enough balance to stop it from escalating too far.
It is not the fall of the Berlin Wall that launched the end of the east block... The collapse was already well under the way over one year already... The wall was just spectacular
Thanks Paper Skies, the quality of your videos is normally great, but this one was so insightful and analytical that I think you just raised the bar. Thanks
Missile fired 3 minutes away from the main Russian ICBM-bases around Murmansk. But what do I know, I only went to school with a member of the Norwegian team who launched the missile.
@@IvanDmitriev1 Afrikanda was an air defense base, along with Kandalaksha. I'm just a fountain of useless Cold War trivia. Or a fountain of something... But I think I know what you were going for; at one time between Murmansk and Archangelsk, that area was the HQ for the Red Banner Northern Fleet and concrete igloos all over the Kola held nuke warheads for the various shipboard systems. Then there's the SLBMs and their warheads so that the way I'd always heard it put, was the Kola was a super sensitive area to the Russkies, with the largest concentration of warheads in any one place. This probably wasn't exactly true either (define a "place"?) but you know how we Americans love our idioms, one liners and quips. It matches our short attention spans.
The clip of the concert (14:46) sent chills down my spine as an American. It’s an awesome song, to be fair, but it’s troubling that that sentiment probably persists to this day in the Russian national identity (particularly the one that continues to support Putin). Also, the sponsor was a 100% match for this video. High quality content, as always.
Same, it frustrates me how Russia can’t come to their senses man, we could’ve been such great allies like England and Canada, but every step of the way they’ve stepped on their toes. Now after this war in Ukraine, I’m certain that door has closed forever. What could have been 😒
this is literally no different to american shows on sports where they fly american flags / jets to showcase their pride to be citizens of their specific country, there is nothing bad about it
@@hollister2320 Get off your high horse , west isn't a saint and Russia isn't interested in being a puppet of US and handing their nukes so US could use them to strike Chinese.
I put it to you that there was ten years or so after 1949 when nuclear weapons were considered a part of any general war, rather than being a separate class of things put aside for a different type of war.
@@deathsheadknight2137 Not by some. All armies that had access to nuclear weaponry included it in their army: Heavy artillery with "special" ammunition on top of regular HE shells, short range mobile launchers with regular and nuclear warheads, ready to be swapped in minutes, nuclear AA missiles, chemical and nuclear warfare units to protect troops from weapon of mass destruction, modifications towards tanks and ifv`s to include filtration system, as well as radiation shielding...even more compact warheads that could be used by regular artillery or even by single person. These "more affordable nuclear options" were withdrawn very recently, and some might still be in service.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 if people ever think "Bah, they weren't planning on having ANYTHING be able to shoot nuclear weapons!" just remind them that the Davy Crockett was a thing.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 The US and Soviet navies fielded nuclear torpedoes for a while, to ensure the sinking of submarines that either side had trouble detecting as submarine technology got more and more advanced. The USN made 11 inch nuclear warheads that could be fitted to shells for the Iowa Class battleships' 16 inch rifles, just to bombard shores and inland installations with nuclear warheads. There were nuclear ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket) systems as well, to go with nuclear depth charges and nuclear air-to-air missiles meant for destroying nuclear strike bomber formations. The USA had most of, if not all of these out of service by the 70s, as by then technology had advanced to the point that the canned sunshine was only needed for a MAD scenario, and using it for anything less would have been exceedingly overboard.
To be fair, the "incompetence" cuts both ways. In 1962 US warships dropped explosive charges on a cornered nuclear-armed Soviet submarine which could not communicate with its HQ. That was dangerously stupid.
If you don’t value your brain cells, watch some Russian news stations. They are constantly advocating for nuclear weapons to be used on literally anything and everything that inconveniences Russia, from Kyiv to the White House to just demanding that the entire UK be tuned to glass.
I don't think it's a whole nation. One party rule means the government gets to pretend it represents the nation. We don't even know how many Russians support Putin. It could be a small number. Nothing that government reports should be treated as truth.
Missing the US Misisile Command incident where they played a war game tape by accident and no one told them- it is was very close to nuclear apocalypse
Well, that was a really great video in my oppinion, the hunt for the storozevoy was also a good one, but in a more funnier way, whereas this was is good while staying serious. I first heard about this story thanks to The History Guy channel, your videos complements it by giving hindsight into the state of Russia during the event. I am amazed by the quality of your videos, and I don't understand why RUclips doesn't support more good-quality content creators, it would improve the platform a lot I think. And it's such a shame that there ins't a comment section on Nebula, I find this platform way more convenient to find precise and good quality content thanks to it's simplicity, but it's a bit lacking in interaction with rhe audience in my opinion
The Man Who Saved the World (2013) I think, at least. There's text crediting the source in the lower right hand corner but due to the colour and opacity, it's hard to make out
The rocket shown at 10:11 is hilarious. Why bother building your own multi-stage rocket when you can just stack a bunch of military surplus rockets on top of one another?
Not living too far from this place in Norway, I remember this. And I remember that from my parent's living room, the day after this incident, looking out towards the mountains which the Andørja rocket facility was behind the clouds above were formed as one giant mushroom cloud and I remember thinking to myself: "In a parallel universe..."
While I’m not downplaying that this was a serious incident, one thing I have not been able to find is an accurate and coherent timeline that shows: - launch time - first, second, and third radar station detections - stage separations that could have looked like MIRV (as reported by various reports, but more likely just looked like a trident stage separation - profile of which was reasonably well known, or at least assumed and would have been looked for by radar analysts) - discussion between radar stations - escalation time to command - notification to cheget holders - notification of “missile” path being harmless I’m sure that “some reports” did indeed say the Defence Minister wanted immediate retaliatory strikes - but why the hell would he have included Norway if they thought it was a US SSBN attack from international waters that just happened to be called “Norwegian sea”? Given the terrible state of military readiness at the time, any immediate discussion would have been “how many missiles are actually fuelled and ready to fly?” Ummm not many, the R36 was a massive bitch to maintain.
the rocket trajectory was also quite different from that of a Trident SLBM, being quite a bit more steep (SLBMs typically fly a relatively flat trajectory, trading altitude for range as range is obviously more important to them than altitude, while for these sounding rockets many flights want maximum altitude).
Norway did not store nuclear weapons, and the Russians knew that. Today, Russia most likely dont't have many working nukes Nukes needs something called Tridium, Tridium is very expensive to make, and it lose 5% potency every year. USA spends 10 million dollar maintaining each nuke every year. Russia today knows that nukes were not meant to be used, so Russia most lilely put money where it was mostly needed, on Yatch, and ground forces in Ukraine
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nato expansion in the 90s, wasnt as much as expansion as it was opening borders to refugees who were kicking the fence to get in with fear in their eyes
the fact that the entire world's fate was once put into the hands of the likes of Yeltsin proves this is a forgotten timeline
Just try to find some documentaries on Yeltsin and "his" era specifically. It's basically impossible.
I'm truly impressed that a briefcase guy found Yeltsin sober and conscious😂
Yeltsin may have been a drunk, but he didn't have dementia, and wasn't wearing a diaper, like the leader of the free world.
@@robgrey6183 what?
@@robgrey6183you know what's funny, we don't have to or want to defend our leaders unlike how russians have to defend their authoritarian "president". Unlike in Russia where elections are blatantly staged to enforce Putin's legitimacy, in the west for the most part, you just have to wait a few years for things to get better meanwhile in Russia, things haven't been good since the 70s.
Oh and Biden might be an absolute nutcase, at least he isn't a midget who has to wear platform shoes to match the height of other world leaders due to his fragile ego. Biden just wears his fragile ego on his sleeves
"Comrade General, NATO have launched a first strike against us!"
"What? What size? How many missiles are incoming?"
"Just one sir. One really small missile. From Norway."
"Go back to sleep you idiot"
EXACTLY.
In a sane world... In this world, however, it resulted in three Russian leaders on a teleconference discussing whether or not to end the world.
Anyone who thinks a single missile being sent out would be a nuclear first strike should not have any seat of power frankly, I mean what's the one missile going to do? Incinerate once city? Hit the president? Hit a silo? There are backup systems and backup structures that would be missed and could easily continue functioning for retaliation. EMP? Russia's a massive landmass, even with a good burst it wouldn't reach the Siberian silos, or western Russia if vice versa.
Absolutely bizarre logic some leaders come up with.
😂 Right?
But the scary thing is that there was a completely shit faced drunk Yeltsin on the button. Almost as bad as a deranged Orange Orang-Utan having control of the US nuclear codes. Oh, wait...
ah, comrade general! have you also played red alert games in the past? : D
It's chilling to know there were at least 8-10 times when we were minutes from nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis produced at least five such events. In one, a curious bear shook the fence of a US airbase in the middle of the night, triggering an alert. The alert system was connected to other bases, and the sirens went off in the entire state. At one base, the wiring was incorrectly connected. The warning light was supposed to indicate an intruder alert, but a different lamp lit up, indicating a nuclear attack. The base immediately scrambled nuclear-armed jets to attack Cuba. Only one officer didn't lose his nerve, and called the other bases to ask if they also received a nuclear attack alert. When he learned that they didn't, he rushed to the parking lot, jumped into his Corvette, and drove down the runway, blocking the takeoff route. This was the only way to stop the planes, as they turned off their radios to operate in complete secrecy. Now imagine if this guy parked the car in the far end of the lot, or his wife dropped him off on that day, or... yeah, scary.
Brezhnev also saved us from a war once, however not in such a tight situation. When the Conrad spy ring, a group of US Army turncoats supplied the Soviets with the exact locations of the nuclear mine shafts on the inter-German border, they provided the Warsaw Pact with an enormous advantage in case they launched an attack on NATO. The mine shafts were secret locations where nuclear charges would've been placed in case of war, and detonated when Soviet troops crossed the border, creating a death zone by covering a wide area with radioactive dust. As the Soviets now knew where these were, they could've landed Spetznaz units to prevent their use, and thus open a passage for their tank armies. Brezhnev looked at it, and simply said: "nyet". It's just not worth.
@@forbidden-cyrillic-handle"For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it." - Schopenhauer
It's scary and hilarious how we almost annihilate ourselves as a species.
even more fun to know then that chairman mao wanted to start a nuclear war with the west. famously mao said to stalin - we'd only loose 300m peasants and reset the west to even footing & then take over. even stalin found that a little bit much.
freeman dyson also came up with "project orion" - a spacecraft that used nuclear explosions to get to space. as it needed a nuclear bomb to propel itself upwards - he came up with a novel solution to make many bombs on the cheap. its why its so heavily classified still to this day.
Incredible write
For me in the Cuban Missile crisis and noted in the movie 13 days when Kennedy got very angry, was the missile test launch from Vandenberg. America and everywhere else is in one piece because a Sov satellite had not come above the horizon yet. If they had detected it..well, we now know the missiles in Cuba were ready to launch.
It's quite hilarious (and scary) that both the Soviet Union and later Russian Federation have loads of events in history marked by "wierd coincidences". A mirror flight that happened due to similar geographical features in both directions, a mutiny that ended peacefully due to a delay in decision-making, and now the world coming close to nuclear war due a rocket that *just* so happened to fly in the direction of a Nuclear state's capital (at least for a while).
I've been watching this channel for a while, and this might be the first video I've seen where you get into rocketry. I'd say keep it up; rockets and the history behind them are just as interesting as aircraft.
I'm sure there's a few whacky stories along those lines from any military if you look. I'd love to hear them all. :D
@@nneeerrrd the facist in Ukraine are real mind you they just died so early in the war because like so few of them actually existed and were a joke to ukrainian politics im sure some Ukrainian facist coward is hiding somewhere but they aren’t that many
I just watched the mirrored flight a few days ago, that was an insane amount of coincidences. The locations, the bodies of water, the fact that there happened to be an earth quake in that area at that time which is why they didnt get intercepted... the two soviet fighters chasing each other at the end because one of them forgot to update their IFF and they each thought the other was an enemy. That one made me laugh.
There have been several close calls with the US nuclear arsenal as well. There is a book, Command and Control, about the topic.
@@KannabisMajorisThanks, I'll check it out!
The attitude of Putin reminds me of a story from the Irish writer Paddy Crosby's autobiography. His mother intervened when she saw two little boys fighting and asked who started it? One of the little boys answered "He started it when he hit me back."
That is such a guy thing to say 🤣
@@Archangelm127woman, this is such a sexist comment. Typical ruZZian
@@Archangelm127here 15:05 that's a typical russian "antifascist" for you. But remember, these guys are fighting against the mythical fascists in Ukraine😂
Thankfully Putin is currently the best leader in the world.
@@chesterhiggens I wouldn't go that far. But, he doesn't have dementia, and doesn't wear a diaper, like Biden.
That's not nothing.
PaperSkies. My guy. You are on that grind! Absolute banger yet again.
Thoughts on F-102?
CIA agent
@@stellviahohenheim The Wind Moves Softly Through The Reeds
With time, people tend to forget and grow more accustomed to the horrors of the current day accepting them as something common, part of their everyday life which happens "somewhere there". Only by constantly reminding it is possible to keep the minds from growing ignorant. You are one of the few who keeps doing so. Thank you.
In fact, our government is incentivized to promote this process because it makes it look like they're actually solving problems that in reality, we're just getting bored with and moving on from. An added bonus is that a happier and comfortable population is more likely to spend money and feel free to waste their time and gains on frivolous interests and pursuits.
@@tommytwotacos8106 It is a good thing, though.
Society shouldn't live like a military or prison camp. You get NOTHING out of it.
Minor nitpick about the Black Brant: it cannot in fact carry 400kg to 1500km. There are payload/altitude charts in the manual and it can only achieve that maximum altitude when flying with a minimum payload closer to 100kg. As you add payload, unsurprisingly, max altitude decreases.
(Not that this impacts any real substance in your video, just thought I'd clarify)
That is an impressive failure rate though, especially for the technology of that era.
@@mikeb3539the Black Brant (and most sounding rockets used up until today) is a really simple machine. Sans the payload, it's essentially a rocket motor with fins. That helps with the reliability 😊
@@alienbeef0421still impressive considering it’s multistage! Most recent one can have up to 5 stages
@@dmacpher can't go wrong with drag staging... Ignition is computer-controlled, but separation is caused by aerodynamic forces. I love me some delayed ignitions!
100 kg is still enough to launch any of my exes into space.
I'm surprised that a briefcase guy found Yeltsin sober and conscious😂
15:05 that's a typical russian "antifascist" for you. But remember, these guys are fighting against the mythical fascists in Ukraine😂
If it weren't for his ineptitude we probably wouldn't have the problem of Putin. To think this habitual drunkard was a credentialed civil engineer...
@@nneeerrrd Spam
The whole world knows Ukraine has openly professing "Nazi" units fighting for it.
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Which makes it even more funny that the Communists in the US send money/arms to those Fascists to fight The Communists in Russia...LOL
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fucking clown world.
Ahhh, the 90's. When both Russia and the United States had "fun" presidents.
Yeah, bl*w jobs in the Oval Office.
Now, all we have is diapers and pudding.
yeah I'd like to see a mashup of Bill Clinton playing the saxophone and Yeltsin dancing. I miss them both.
@@lashlarue7924 Throw a party. Yeltsin could bring the booze and Bill can bring the floozies.
I'd like to see Monica "playing" the skin flute...
Yeah the one that was on the Lolita express with epstien to his island multiple times was "funny president." god you people are far too forgetful about bad shit.
If I had a nickel for how many times Russians have almost brought the world to an end, while also saving it from said end, I would have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but its strange it happened that many times...
To be fair the Cuban missile crisis was the US fault. It should be called the Turkey missile crisis after all. So just 2/3 which is still too much.
3 that were declassified
Cuban, this video's. What's the third one? Checkpoint Charlie?
@@copter2000 Vasili Arkhipov in the cuban missile crisis, Stanislav Petrov and this video.
I could say the same about the US or the times they lost their atomic bombs.
Whaaaat? The norwegian rocket incident is FINALLY getting attention???
"On that day, the fate of all mankind hinged on the decision of just one person: Russian president Boris Yeltsin."
Me: * remembers that news about Yeltsin getting drunk in a state visit to the US and wandering onto the streets in his underwear, trying to get a pizza. *
*remembers that time Yeltsin got pulled out of a river after falling in blackout drunk, by a local homeless man*
That local homeless man: a drunk Boris Yeltsin
*Remembers that Yeltsin coined a new term in Ireland because he was so drink while arriving by plane it had to circle the airport three times to give him time to sober up.*
Never has a world leader been that relatable
I'm not surprised Yeltsin made the right choice. He did, after all, possess a healthy amount of common sense. But this story does elevate my opinion of him even higher than it was.
He was an alcoholic that ruined the nation's economy, shelled the parliament for making the “wrong” decision, enabled the rise of Putin and finished term with a hitherto unseen approval rating of 2%.
We all made fun of him back then, but just look at the douchebags we have running both sides of the globe, now.
the guys was an idiot and incompetent president, this event is just a broken clock moment
Yeltsin was the crazed grandpa everyone thought weird and senile but now misses
@@DogeickBateman Not everyone.
Damn so that’s why Belka detonated seven nukes on their own territory?
FANTSTIC editing and pacing, your videos only get better, you are a great story teller, thank you.
Also, your choice of period video references is perfect.
so this proves that yelstin, though a blind drunk, could take good decisions under stress
@paperskiesaviation, you are a really smart guy.
Respect, and best regards from Lithuania 🇱🇹
Slava!
Thanks!
Thank you for your support!
This added another dimension to the Yeltsin era in Russia. I particularly appreciate the way you ended the episode.
Wow, just realized Paper skies is technically Ukrainian channel, Thanks for your videos!
This is a Ukrainian channel? Cool!
I knew of this, but I didn't know the test rocket matched a D5 launch profile. That makes the Russian response a LITTLE more understandable. Not excusable, but understandable.
Well that's what they say- I'd be surprised if it were true. Remember, Russians lie. About everything.
I mean, the radar operators did a stellar job, not their fault no one told them about the rocket launch.
it didn't, only the launch site and initial course somewhat did.
D5 has completely different staging and speed profiles for example, and a much flatter trajectory.
@@jwenting Oh. Then they were still panicky idiots then?
@@CativaCookie Yeah. Individual capability & grit has never been the Russian's problem, it's always been how they used it (or don't) and their incredibly messed up governments.
"There are no bad soldiers, there are only bad officers". (Not 100% true, either, but descriptive to this situation)
its always nice to just open youtube to find a Paper Skies video, keep it up bud!
I still think that Able Archer 83 was the most perilous moment.
(This is also remarkable for combining a slow build-up with a very short actual decision span. It may be a coincidence or not that we don't hear much about this one and that NATO is still officially in denial of the implications.)
The Soviet armed forces never believed it was a nuclear threat, and they had the final say, so I don't think it was nearly as dangerous as those moments where one man had to make a very quick choice
@@jaspergood2091 Mind that in the GDR bombers were standing on the runway with running motors, ready to counter strike, and the response time was minimal. (About 2-3 minutes from detected launch to destruction.) Also, fleet and mobile forces had already moved into their assigned ready areas. (That NATO should have missed this, with all the tapped command lines, satellites, etc, is hard to believe.)
This was the two blocks facing one another, both on high alert, NATO in its maneuver and the Warsaw Pact at DEFCON-1. NATO issued the nuclear strike command and it was on the Warsaw Pact side to decide in no time, if this was for real or really just a test (against all indications).
This was not a lone data point or a single blip on a screen, this was based on general awareness. And it appears the RYaN model was fed somewhat deliberately: all stars seemed to align for the USSR's worst nightmare…
Who knows. Crazy training operation in crazy times. It was blunt, and IMHO stupid to pull this off.
the Soviet armed forces in eastern Europe were well aware of that exercise, having been informed beforehand. So was the Soviet leadership.
If some in the Kremlin chose to think that it wasn't an exercise, that too was nothing new. And it wasn't the exercise itself that caused the tensions around it, it was the Soviet actions prior to the exercise.
@@jwenting The point being that the USSR was pretty much expecting a Western strike to be started under the cover of a maneuver. Their scenarios pointed this way. And, as it happened, just then RYaN had predicted a Western first strike to be launched in the next few weeks, based on a variety of data, and there was a also a peculiar time window with the new missiles already in Europe, but still exclusively under US control. (And there was more, like a build up in mock attacks to test Soviet defenses, etc. And all this, while rhetorics were also building up. This was pretty much the hottest phase of the cold war - and the USSR was in panic.)
17:15 Great video and outstanding quote sir. I should have found that clip on my own.
It confuses me why Russia was so surprised that east Europe turned away from Russia, even if they aren’t the same entities people are still going to see it the same
The west played them when they sided with them in WW2. Let them get away with murder (literal mass murder) then pulled the rug out from under them, lol. serves them right for trusting the west.
Russian elites are almost mirror of byzantine politics. They were not truly "shocked" they simply spun it that way to be viewed as victims instead of the transgressors they are.
You should remember that to be a ln oligarch, Military officer, or even politician in Russian is considerably far harder than being an American Kingpin. The amount of acumen you need to survive as a local politician simply makes pentagon politics blush.
Thanks for the vids man!
No problem Mr woodwelder
Yes the former Russian president Boris and his rendition of the dance move known as The Twist😂
I am happy you did not end up deciding to hire some over the top American to mispronounce all these Russian names when you got some random comment about your accent 🙂
Love your storytelling, somehow with a personal touch
"For the Ukrainians, it's just another Tuesday" Great quote and sadly so true. Good video of a little known event. Might have wanted to include a few Americans in that clip about "crazy" leaders.
And the saddest part is...this is a reality. World wouldn end after nuclear strikes, just a new, much darker world will be born. No country will collapse, no leadership will disappear and no war will be ended.
Yeah, agreed
Trump was surprisingly tough on Russia.
He was the only US president in like 60 years who sanctioned use deadly force against Russians in Syria, where they wasted around 250 Russians.
During Obama era, Russians learnt the US troops in Syria were ordered to just take it in the ass and retreat when fired upon, Trump chose not to appease Hitler... I mean Putin.
Also, Putin called Trump a "gay clown", which got translated into "bright and entertaining" by an incompetent translator :D
Trump now thinks Putin respects him, which is only half the truth, for Putin respects strength and the US military is that strength.
At the back of his mind, Yeltsin had to be asking himself what America's motivation could possibly be for launching an attack now? Thankfully, a bit of vodka might have also slowed his reflexes a bit lol.
I'm surprised that a briefcase guy found Yeltsin sober and conscious😂
I honestly think a nuclear attack could have taken place and Yeltsin's thought would have been "what's the point of fighting back now?"
Putin could see a bird flying over the Norwegian sea on radar and think it's Armageddon. When it turns out to be a false alarm he'd probably have the radar crew assassinated and blame the whole scare on NATO in one big coverup. For a man as tiny as he is, he has one massive and fragile ego. Im sure according to him, he could never do anything wrong or ever possibly over react to anything.
@@thatguyoverthere9634that's hilarious, I love it.
Exactly. That's why this isn't actually as 'special' an event as it seems- it couldn't have been hard for any level-headed, reasonable person to think 'this doesn't make sense- there must be something wrong.' Just one rocket, when the Cold War is essentially over, and everyone seems to be getting along better than ever- what sense does it make for this to be a Trident, of all things?
@@thatguyoverthere9634I’ve asked myself this question many times in regards to other possible scenarios.
Like, what if one of our allies accidentally launched a rocket at us? Would we, or even should we, accept an apology?
Although I’m also making an assumption that said ally would have gotten to the point where institutional problems have gotten so bad that one misfired rocket almost triggers a nuclear response, and I cannot think of any of our allies as been on the same level as Russia, 90s or otherwise.
1995, fond memories, life was simple and peaceful.
Didn't know we narrowly missed a nuclear war.
Yeah man we e missed a bunch actually. I forgot the name of this submariner who was told that an ICBM was being launched from the states and this guy was responsible for immediate response but when he looked at his readings and input, he had a gut feeling it was mistake and this was at the height of the Cold War and if he had authorized a launch , it would have triggered a M.A.D event
I like how the thumbnail depicts an S-125 surface to air missile system for a video that's talking about nukes
Fun fact, this is why the iconic red phone is on the presidents desk. There are similar ones in most nuclear powers offices. That way they can call each other and be like “hey dude! What the fucks going on? Please tell me some idiot didn’t inform us that you were doing tests?!”
The "iconic red phone" does not exist. It is an invention of fictional media meant to represent agreements and protocols to allow rapid communication between the leaders of nuclear states in an emergency.
I wondered about that. It reassures me.
4:20 that's a misleading statement, since a "1500km height" of that rocket is still a ballistic suborbital one, which is not directly comparable to orbital heights - because of very different kinematics, velocities and energies involved. But what's more relevant - a 1500km ballistic height is quite comparable to ones of ICBM trajectories.
Operation Able Archer in the early 80's almost kicked it off too!
I love your work man! Thanks for all these great videos
4:23 The ISS orbits at 250 miles, GEO is at 22,000 miles. Well within normal orbit ranges but still quite high for a broomstick.
This is such an excellent channel, I hope you continue making videos about aviation but also go beyond with more nuclear and near-miss videos!
I loved the ending of the video where you had the Reagan speech and talked about the modern political standings of the Right now a days. Me and my Father feel the same way. He was raised in the Cold War and believes strongly in kicking Russia in the teeth, but it’s hard now a days because our own political parties are now supporting Russia.
Russia is not our enemy and never has been that Cold War mindset is because of the military industrial complex brainwashing you.
@@chesterhiggens Putin has been saying that NATO is his personal enemy for decades, you just don't understand Russian so you fall for propaganda in English.
Yep that’s weird. I can’t quite comprehend it. People want peace by telling people to stop defending themselves
The unfortunate truth is that the Republican party of old no longer exists. I've always been extremely liberal myself, but at least respected the ideology of the right up until the Obama era: at least I could tell that their ideals were always in an attempt to better the United States. The Republican party these days can't say that anymore. Moscow-funded politicians say and do whatever they can to get elected, so they can fill their pockets as much as possible before their term is up. Trump really was just the final nail in the coffin.
@@p_serdiuk Didn't he ask to join NATO a while back, only to get spitefully rebuffed and lied to about the continued expansion (with everyone but russia)?
My brain could not handle having computer chronicles at the beginning and it not actually being a computer chronicles video!! Can't wait for this one, always a pleasure watching your content! 🙂
There's different divisions amongst left and right leaning people.
Right leaning people in one country, may have big differences to right leaning people in another, and the exact same applies to the left as well.
So online statistics regarding left v right are, well, weird and not really reliable, especially since typically such media outlets just output whatever views are of their bosses, or the writers, which can skew things even further.
Some people, from both sides, are incredibly susceptible to propaganda, not necessarily out of incompetence, but it could be anything, the desire to be 'different', something pathological, or even peer pressure, or because they are from the location of origin and want to fit in.
All you can really do is just try to ignore everyone else's input and just analyse the hard facts as they are, try to think like a robot basically.
I find that doing so, the whole left v right thing starts to fade away and you realise, actually, maybe these labels are just made up with the intention of dividing people.
Most of these events seem to be defused by MAI.
Mutually Assured Incompetence.
When Soviet belligerence creates a problem, the Soviet method of thorough incompetence created just enough balance to stop it from escalating too far.
Дякую за чергове професійно зроблене відео, друже!
Slava Ukraïni! 🇺🇦🔱🇺🇦
How’s avdiivka going?
@@chesterhiggens Just fine, little troll.
@@chesterhiggens Certainly not well for the Russians, I know that
@@chesterhiggens а тьі для кого интересуешься, шваброид?
@@candiman4243 really? Cause ukraine is surrounded and running out of soldiers. 😂
Such things happen when you are capable to see a missile, but your uncertainty in it's position is some 200+km...
It is not the fall of the Berlin Wall that launched the end of the east block... The collapse was already well under the way over one year already... The wall was just spectacular
We really came close to an "IT'S TIME" moment there
The Norwegians would have suffered some initial setbacks, but I think they would have beat the Russians.
"That's what the V2 is for."
Very nice video! Maybe next time you can tell the story about that German guy who landed a Cessna in the red square! Cheers
Thanks Paper Skies, the quality of your videos is normally great, but this one was so insightful and analytical that I think you just raised the bar. Thanks
Missile fired 3 minutes away from the main Russian ICBM-bases around Murmansk. But what do I know, I only went to school with a member of the Norwegian team who launched the missile.
whoah
What are you trying to say?
With a little more effort, you certainly can express your train of thought - if it hasnt derailed already.
There's no ICBM's on the Kola Peninsula. Murmansk is a Naval Base and Polyarnii is their strategic missile carrying submarine base.
@@IvanDmitriev1 Afrikanda was an air defense base, along with Kandalaksha.
I'm just a fountain of useless Cold War trivia. Or a fountain of something...
But I think I know what you were going for; at one time between Murmansk and Archangelsk, that area was the HQ for the Red Banner Northern Fleet and concrete igloos all over the Kola held nuke warheads for the various shipboard systems. Then there's the SLBMs and their warheads so that the way I'd always heard it put, was the Kola was a super sensitive area to the Russkies, with the largest concentration of warheads in any one place.
This probably wasn't exactly true either (define a "place"?) but you know how we Americans love our idioms, one liners and quips. It matches our short attention spans.
The clip of the concert (14:46) sent chills down my spine as an American. It’s an awesome song, to be fair, but it’s troubling that that sentiment probably persists to this day in the Russian national identity (particularly the one that continues to support Putin).
Also, the sponsor was a 100% match for this video. High quality content, as always.
Same, it frustrates me how Russia can’t come to their senses man, we could’ve been such great allies like England and Canada, but every step of the way they’ve stepped on their toes. Now after this war in Ukraine, I’m certain that door has closed forever. What could have been 😒
As Russian I think that it's cringe. Many talented artists had to leave the country
Also what is this nazi ass band at 15:07? 😂
this is literally no different to american shows on sports where they fly american flags / jets to showcase their pride to be citizens of their specific country, there is nothing bad about it
@@hollister2320 Get off your high horse , west isn't a saint and Russia isn't interested in being a puppet of US and handing their nukes so US could use them to strike Chinese.
Great video Paper Skies. Im a big fan of your videos, thank you for sharing these interesting stories!
Disarray is a very generous word to describe complete corruption and ineptitude.
I put it to you that there was ten years or so after 1949 when nuclear weapons were considered a part of any general war, rather than being a separate class of things put aside for a different type of war.
considered by some
@@deathsheadknight2137 Not by some. All armies that had access to nuclear weaponry included it in their army: Heavy artillery with "special" ammunition on top of regular HE shells, short range mobile launchers with regular and nuclear warheads, ready to be swapped in minutes, nuclear AA missiles, chemical and nuclear warfare units to protect troops from weapon of mass destruction, modifications towards tanks and ifv`s to include filtration system, as well as radiation shielding...even more compact warheads that could be used by regular artillery or even by single person. These "more affordable nuclear options" were withdrawn very recently, and some might still be in service.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 if people ever think "Bah, they weren't planning on having ANYTHING be able to shoot nuclear weapons!" just remind them that the Davy Crockett was a thing.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 The US and Soviet navies fielded nuclear torpedoes for a while, to ensure the sinking of submarines that either side had trouble detecting as submarine technology got more and more advanced.
The USN made 11 inch nuclear warheads that could be fitted to shells for the Iowa Class battleships' 16 inch rifles, just to bombard shores and inland installations with nuclear warheads.
There were nuclear ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket) systems as well, to go with nuclear depth charges and nuclear air-to-air missiles meant for destroying nuclear strike bomber formations.
The USA had most of, if not all of these out of service by the 70s, as by then technology had advanced to the point that the canned sunshine was only needed for a MAD scenario, and using it for anything less would have been exceedingly overboard.
@@Mr-Trox
"Canned sunshine"
Heh, dark humor at its finest
Thanks
Thank god we got more Salma Hayek
Great video as always. Hope you are staying safe!
Such a great channel. The stories are excellent
Everybody is bashing Yeltsin around here but mind you he has a far capable leader than most of the leaders of nowadays
If i remember right this just happened to be one of the few times Yeltsin was sober, and thank f**k he was.
To be fair, the "incompetence" cuts both ways.
In 1962 US warships dropped explosive charges on a cornered nuclear-armed Soviet submarine which could not communicate with its HQ. That was dangerously stupid.
"A whole nation wickedly urging nuclear war." What??? That's absurd.
If you don’t value your brain cells, watch some Russian news stations. They are constantly advocating for nuclear weapons to be used on literally anything and everything that inconveniences Russia, from Kyiv to the White House to just demanding that the entire UK be tuned to glass.
Is it?
I don't think it's a whole nation. One party rule means the government gets to pretend it represents the nation. We don't even know how many Russians support Putin. It could be a small number. Nothing that government reports should be treated as truth.
Missing the US Misisile Command incident where they played a war game tape by accident and no one told them- it is was very close to nuclear apocalypse
Never heard of the norwegian incident till now. Wow!.
It seems Boris was at least on this day sober, luckily for us!
I actually find it reassuring that even in situations like this humanity chose not to kill itself.
You know how you can get water on your phone and it will think your touching it, good thing he didnt spill his drink on the nuclear briefcase screen
6:30 bro is waving those sticks like it determined whether or not he went to the gulags
that is one clean ad transition
8:20 uf, that quote goes hard
Well, that was a really great video in my oppinion, the hunt for the storozevoy was also a good one, but in a more funnier way, whereas this was is good while staying serious.
I first heard about this story thanks to The History Guy channel, your videos complements it by giving hindsight into the state of Russia during the event.
I am amazed by the quality of your videos, and I don't understand why RUclips doesn't support more good-quality content creators, it would improve the platform a lot I think. And it's such a shame that there ins't a comment section on Nebula, I find this platform way more convenient to find precise and good quality content thanks to it's simplicity, but it's a bit lacking in interaction with rhe audience in my opinion
13:39 Tony Soprano was operating in the shadows during this event.
Easily one of my favorite youtube channels
Not everyday you see your birthday in the thumbnail of a video, that's a sign that I must watch it. 😂
Congrats on not using 99 Luftballons meme
8:55 Where is that clip from? Looks familiar but I can't place it.
The Man Who Saved the World (2013)
I think, at least. There's text crediting the source in the lower right hand corner but due to the colour and opacity, it's hard to make out
@@TrinSpin Nicely spotted. No way I could see that on my phone. It's easier to see now on the PC.
Wooo new paper skies post!!!
VERY smooth transition into sponsor.
Well played
J...just another Tuesday?....
*snaps to attention*
I'll follow you anywhere, that's a vibe I can live by!
15:15 He looks like reenacting 1930ies fashion.
The red button setting off the sparklers was more than a little unsettling.
can we get the names and artists of the songs being used? Just linking the website isn't really helping to find the music.
Uhm....why?
I'd argue Able Archer 1983 was closer than the 1995 event.
2:52 Looks like old Billy boy might of shared one too many with Yeltsin
The rocket shown at 10:11 is hilarious. Why bother building your own multi-stage rocket when you can just stack a bunch of military surplus rockets on top of one another?
1983 was a year when we were really close a couple of times too.
clinton in the "Ushanka" caused me a cognitive dissonance.
i definitely know this man, but why does Jeltsin have an unfamiliar face?
Keep up great work!
Top content as always. Your channel is the reason I signed up for Nebula. Lietuva stands with Ukraine till the end!
Same here!
I have been watching your videos for some time now, Your English is improving. Great video very informative. Keep up the great content.
Watched this video's thumbnail change 3 times before watching it
I really enjoy your videos and I hope you will continue to make them!
3:15 - Gerald Bull siting?
Couzin ~ WE want more aboot the Snake Dancing Lady !🇨🇦
Not living too far from this place in Norway, I remember this.
And I remember that from my parent's living room, the day after this incident, looking out towards the mountains which the Andørja rocket facility was behind the clouds above were formed as one giant mushroom cloud and I remember thinking to myself: "In a parallel universe..."
It all could have been over in the blink of an eye….
While I’m not downplaying that this was a serious incident, one thing I have not been able to find is an accurate and coherent timeline that shows:
- launch time
- first, second, and third radar station detections
- stage separations that could have looked like MIRV (as reported by various reports, but more likely just looked like a trident stage separation - profile of which was reasonably well known, or at least assumed and would have been looked for by radar analysts)
- discussion between radar stations
- escalation time to command
- notification to cheget holders
- notification of “missile” path being harmless
I’m sure that “some reports” did indeed say the Defence Minister wanted immediate retaliatory strikes - but why the hell would he have included Norway if they thought it was a US SSBN attack from international waters that just happened to be called “Norwegian sea”? Given the terrible state of military readiness at the time, any immediate discussion would have been “how many missiles are actually fuelled and ready to fly?” Ummm not many, the R36 was a massive bitch to maintain.
the rocket trajectory was also quite different from that of a Trident SLBM, being quite a bit more steep (SLBMs typically fly a relatively flat trajectory, trading altitude for range as range is obviously more important to them than altitude, while for these sounding rockets many flights want maximum altitude).
Norway did not store nuclear weapons, and the Russians knew that.
Today, Russia most likely dont't have many working nukes
Nukes needs something called Tridium, Tridium is very expensive to make, and it lose 5% potency every year.
USA spends 10 million dollar maintaining each nuke every year.
Russia today knows that nukes were not meant to be used, so Russia most lilely put money where it was mostly needed, on Yatch, and ground forces in Ukraine
Opening with the Computer Chronicles as your period reference was perfect.
Excellent analysis! Respect!
Just the fact that Salma Hayek jumped to fame in the 90s makes that decade the pinnacle of civilization
I love your work. Cheers from Chicago