3 Times the World Almost Ended
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Mr. Beat looks at three times in recent history in which the world almost ended. Holy freaking crap.
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The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic metaphor that represents how likely it is that a human-made, worldwide disaster will kill us all. The closer it is to midnight, the closer we are to that actually happening. Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have been revealing how close we are to global destruction going back all the way to 1947.
Today there are an estimated 12,500 nuclear warheads still in existence.
Now, the fear is that if one government were to ever use a nuclear weapon, the government of the country hit by one would retaliate. The next thing you know, it could spiral out of control. Nukes dropped everywhere and we’re all dead. This fear was THE FEAR that was everywhere during the Cold War.
The end of the Cold War in 1991 got rid of much of those fears of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, though, the Doomsday Clock has been headed straight for midnight ever since. In recent years, the threat of nuclear war has returned, and it hasn’t been the ONLY thing the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have been worried about. They’ve also said the lack of support for taking action in response to climate change has led to the Doomsday Clock being closer to midnight.
But the thing is, there were times in recent history in which the Doomsday Clock actually would have arguably been…like…at ONE SECOND to midnight. We just didn’t realize it until later on.
And that’s what this video’s about.
Here are three times the world almost ended.
One crazy thing to think about is that you may be watching this video right now or listening…I do realize many of you don’t like to look at my face…whatever. But yeah, you may be consuming this video right now and there might be a nuke about to be launched. Did you hear that? A nuke possibly just almost got launched! And we won’t find out about this for a long time.
Chapters:
0:00 The Doomsday Clock
2:05 Nuclear weapons
7:25 90 Seconds to Midnight
8:38 Sponsor
9:46 3 times the world almost ended
9:59 October 27, 1962
12:28 September 26, 1983
14:38 November 7, 1983
16:54 Final thoughts
Edit: A really important point I should have brought up- the reason why Khrushchev sent nuclear missiles to Cuba was because the United States had nuclear missiles in Turkey near the Soviet border. This is context I should have brought up. I was trying to simplify the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I simplified it a bit too much.
How likely is it that nuclear war will happen in our lifetimes?
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We should elect leaders who will focus on ending the ongoing wars overseas and preventing wars from happening in the first place.
It won't happen in any democratic or first world nation. It'll only happen in a far right dictatorship and even then it's slim. Most leaders don't have the guts.
@@abrahamlincoln937 my dad said it would happen in 80 years
I think it would happen in 34 years
My dad said it would probably happen I'm 80 or 90 years
No mention of when my Roblox account was hacked? Weird.
It's a conspiracy!
@@iammrbeat I await your 30+ minute video on the subject with baited breath
@@iammrbeatMine too man this is ridiculous
Thats what you want us to think. For all we know, the “hackers of your Roblox account” could’ve been goons set up by you to stage a hacking.
@@officialAmpersand I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. But you better stop digging around. There’s things at play here beyond your comprehension. Just let it go.
Sometimes, the hero is the one making the decision to NOT do something.
*sometimes absolutely
Honestly, when it comes to nuclear warfare like this, the decision to not do something even if the reports were correct is still the right decision. It's not as if by retaliating you are saving any lives, just ending so many more.
@@wyattlewis4069 depressingly true
To quote WarGames: “The only winning move is not to play.”
@@wyattlewis4069 By not retaliating against somebody making a nuclear attack on you the only lives you would logically be saving would be your murderers leaving them alive to make a nuclear attack on somebody else. As an American soldier that makes no sense to me. If I'm going to die either way I want to take my murderers with me and think anybody disagreeing is an idiot encouraging foreign aggressors to have delusions about being able to survive making a nuclear first strike on America which they should never entertain.
It's weird how the US and Russia/USSR almost ended the world so many times
Yeah
I noticed that, too...
really makes you think about the term “super power”…
It also makes sense why the 1990s were the decade where the Doomsday Clock was at its lowest because the Cold War ended in 1991, and then the War on Terror began in 2001.
@@ThunderHOWL16 Uncle Ben's words come to mind
The thing is, I'm 65 years old, and if I stayed awake worrying about everything that could kill me, I'd never sleep again. In fact, I could walk outside right now and be hit by a meteorite - I told my husband that if that ever happens to me, he can sell it, and use part of the money to fund a scholarship for women to study astronomy. He said he'd tell the people at my memorial service, "She always said that was the way she wanted to go." So, I just look both ways before crossing the street and I follow traffic laws and watch other drivers, and I don't worry about it.
Worrying about it won't solve anything, but neither will burying our heads in the sand. How can we move our societies towards a state where the risk is lower?
This is a great perspective. You are wise.
What a lovely way to avoid holding your government accountable for their actions.
yeah, but one thing is not worrying about the thing that can kill you. A very different one is not worrying about the things that can exint us all. Having enough capacity to extinguish all life on Earth, that´s pretty serious, and it should gide, i.e., your voting prefferences, your buying options.
@@conejeitor The thing is we honestly don't know how to avoid human extinction which without some miraculous new technological breakthroughs is as logically inevitable as death by old age. I have profound skepticism that human survival depends on our voting preferences or buying options which sounds like a con artist selling a magic potion that for all we know could just as easily be a poison or a placebo instead of the promised panacea.
You had me so interested in the history of nukes and the doomsday clock that I completely forgot that you were also going to tell me about 3 times the world almost ended.
lol yeah I had quite a long introduction there. I'm so glad you stuck around to watch!
"A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT."
- President Harry Truman, 8/6/1945
What a quote
I may be wrong, but I think Germany was thinking of building one, so if they did it first, we'd be f*cked.
Sadly, the Hiroshima (if that is true) was a sacrifice taken to keep the Earth afloat.
I mean, Britain maybe, but how would German bombers ever hope to get here to the US?
@@ComplexityUnleashed Not the US only. Germany would have used them as threats AND as attacks to ither countries, and it would have been a nuclear war.
@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 yeah, luckily they didn’t have any meaningful progress as much of their war effort by 1940 was put towards preparing for the Soviet invasion, resource problems starting to pop up, and the Battle of Britain
It's insane that most of us probably owe our existence to Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, yet almost nobody has any awareness of them and their heroic actions.
Hi, Mr Beat. I had a video idea.
How Presidents have decorated the Oval Office (and its predecessors) and how YOU would decorate it.
This is a brilliant suggestion.
I’ll add that the White House was not decorated well before Mary Todd Lincoln. It supposedly had old worn mismatched furniture and was considered more of a place of work rather than a fancy place.
Great idea. How did each president customize the White House to their liking?
Enamel pins of each state flag and something to do with that state.
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The September 1983 is the scariest one. A technological error almost starting a nuclear war can be very likely today.
Actually quite the opposite.
In regards to your START joke, as Homer Simpson once said, ‘NERD!’
lol
Speaking of The Simpsons I was expecting a reference to the “the goggles, they do nothing” when he referenced the school drills where kids got under desks in the event of a nuclear attack, because, well, reasons I guess 😂
@@NotMeNaNaNa but, duck and cover might work if there was just one bomb, and that bomb wasn't too big.
We live in an era where you can literally livestream or Tik Tok a War, Let that sink in
And that's how we know what's really happening in Gaza.
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I know a story from someone my family knew that was alive during the cuban missile crisis as a schoolboy. He was asked where his homework was in October 1962. He replied, "I haven't done it." when asked why, he said "because the world is going to end in a week's time anyway."
I can only imagine his huge relief yet slight annoyance when the world didn't end.
The movie Wargames came out just a few months before the Petrov incident. The plot of the film is eerie similar to the incident as well
I seriously almost mentioned this in the video!
@@iammrbeatI was waiting for the war games reference. This was still a good video but i was disappointed that one of my favorite films wasn't mentioned alongside this topic.
I feel like no one under age 40 remembers this very real fear; good for them . I sure did. I hope younger people realize how serious this threat was/is.
you say this as if young ppl are constantly exposed to all the horrible things going on in the world. 40 years ago you heard about these things on the news or in the paper now you see it sandwiched between a video of celebrities fighting at award shows and a woman telling you that you need to buy a cool new makeup product. young ppl grew up with images of 9/11 shoved in their face it’s apart of our culture to be terrified. why do u think we’re so miserable and “difficult to work with” imagine going to work at 15-25 after watching a video trying to educate yourself a little bit more on how terrifying the world is then seeing a comment telling them that their lucky cuz they don’t remember how scary things were. you wouldnt really feel motivated to show respect or to do anything at all would you? did you experience this? being constantly, every second, in schools on tv in books at the dinner table and on your phone, told how horrible the world is while also being told you don’t understand? every generation has its unique fears and issues but to say “good for them” towards a younger generation whose just starting adult hood under a video that literally says the dooms day clock is a 90 secs is crazy.
Pre-1990 US and USSR were a war-mongering mess...
OK, they are still a mess, but not world ending anymore.
Hopefully.
The concept of “mutually assured destruction” pretty much assured nothing would happen and still does
Here's the closest we've been to Nuclear War post-Cold War:
12th June 1999:
On the same day the Kumanovo Agreement ended the Kosovo War, Russian troops were being stationed in Prishtina Airport. Commander Wesley Clark ordered a peacekeeping force to take over the Russians. General Mike Jackson (not Michael Jackson) replied "We are not gonna start WW3 for you". James Blunt, (yes, the one who sung "You're Beautiful") was in that unit and he would've refused to obey an order had Jackson not blocked it.
micheal jackson
Ok I remember reading about this a long time ago but then forgot about it. This definitely deserves to be a separate video.
@@ortherner what
@@akonisho michael jackson
General Jackson’s doing it for the children
I feel like there needs to be SO MUCH MORE protest against nuclear weapons
There have been people protesting nuclear weapons in front of the White House almost every single day since the 1970s. www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/1/peace-activists-anti-nuclear-protest-outside-white-house-lasted-for-record-34-ye-764133
No way you posted a link without the comment getting shadowbanned
Putin is no longer dismantling nukes. Protests won't do anything.
"Feeling kind of stressed, what should I watch?"
*Sees video*
"Perfect!"
lol yeah sorry about that
" honey wake up , the world is about to almost end again for the 100th time. "
Are we that numb to it? I blame corporate news.
2 fun facts about the Tzar Bomba.
1: The bomb was intended to be about twice as powerful, but an enriched additional stage was removed and replaced with lead.
2: Due to that it was by far the cleanest (least fallout) nuclear weapon ever detonated. It was able to use a great percentage of the fissile material and didn't create as much secondary radioactive products.
The reason the Russian scientists decided to dial back the output from 100 megatons to around 50 megatons was that they became fearful of the long term effects the explosion would have on the Earth’s environment. They also knew that the chances that the crew of the aircraft that dropped the bomb would survive would be zero. When they lowered the bomb’s output, they gave the bomber crew a 50% chance of survival, which they luckily did.
@@thecraigster8888With the large parachute it was estimated they would be 45 miles away when detonation occured. I don't know what the altitude was at detonation but the plane definitely got hit hard by the shock wave. It dropped several thousand feet when it got hit. Fortunately the plane and pilots recovered from this. But that had to be terrifying.
Mr Beat nerdy dry humor always cracks me up
I am relieved to hear I'm not the only one who gets my sense of humor. :)
I like his sense of humor and entertaining aspects when he’s talking about history or in this case how close it came to the world to end many times. Like your sense of humor keep up the great work. 👍
It's almost British
Lucky, my cracks never dry from Mr. Beats humor
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It's amazing how we can look back at past wars, We could still so easily be right back in another
Every day is a gift.
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Great video, Mr. Beat. It’s up to our politicians and leaders to ensure that the world doesn’t even come close to ending, whether it’s nuclear war or not. The best thing that the United States can do right now in terms of foreign policy is ending the ongoing wars overseas and focusing on maintaining peaceful relations with Russia and China and to avoid wars when necessary.
Well put there, Lincoln.
Thank you! Hopefully you can reach 1 million subscribers within the next few months!
@@abrahamlincoln937I agree completely. No you aren't gonna be able to stop every conflict from occurring but i think as part of the world community we should do our part to deter wars from starting in the first place.
@@lightyagami3492 Absolutely.
I seriously love when you upload the answer to my homework as a video, dude. It's an experience that can't be BEAT
Can’t wait for more informative updates and content from this channel!!!
Thanks for the existential dread Mr. Beat you're a great educator 😊
I love the Terminator and Fallout
But some science fiction should REMAIN just Science Fiction
Agreed
Mr beat, I love your videos, they are very well done and the content is really interesting and informative. A hug from Brazil!!
Thank you so much buddy
Thanks for the great content
A little nitpick that my old high school history teacher also got wrong: duck and cover actually WOULD help if a nuke got dropped. Obviously if a bomb was dropped right on top of the school then you'd be screwed, but if it was dropped over a mile away then it would protect you against immediate thermal radiation of the blast.
I don't have the source off hand but I remember reading about a group of police officers in Nagasaki being taught to duck and cover after the Hiroshima bombs, and apparently a lot of them survived when the second bomb dropped because of what they learned
Another thing is that it would somewhat protect the children from falling debris if the structure of the building collapsed because of the blast
Duck and cover became less effective as the Soviet Union began deploying thermonuclear weapons which could destroy entire cities. It would not have helped against, say, the Tsar Bomba unless you lived relatively far from the target. That’s part of the reason why they stopped doing those drills.
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Holy crap, I love your stuff. It's quite unique and deep. It's so random to find out you watch my stuff as well!
Excellent video Mr. Beat.
thank you so much for everything you do, mr. beat, i love your videos so much.
It’s weird that people don’t usually mention the animals that died in nuclear tests. Because on top of causing humans problems, there’s a lot of death even in tests. So much suffering that we wouldn’t even know about.
What a delightful idea for a video.
Not anxiety-inducing at all!
10/10 video. Thank you. The final thoughts was the best part!
Your amazing mr. Beat! And your face is my 2nd favorite part, right after the sick info drop you make in my mind every video I watch.
The 4th time was the burrito supreme going down my pipes
Those dang burritos are dangerous
glad the US has been apart of it all - very main character of us
After being a fan for a few years I gotta appreciate that you're still making quality videos I still click on, thanks Mr. feet.
Hi Mr Beat, been watching for a couple years.
I watch all your videos with my mother and we love your videos- especially your presidential videos!
Much love from Cali (were watching this right now).
We're doomed as a species.
We’ve been saying that since the 40s pal
Technically just about all species are doomed.
In the words of George Carlin, "The planet is fine. The people are fucked!"
Mr beat, i have been a huge fan and this one was a really good video!. I would appreciate it if you start uploading more storytelling video like this
More to come!
Mr Beat never disappoints! Well done
Thanks Mike!
My gov teacher introduced me to ur channel, love your works, Mr Beat!!
please keep making videos I love them.
These videos are very interesting. Thanks
Mr Beat, we were hitting it off so well, I was telling you about my day, and then BOOM you just tell me the world is gonna end really soon? This is just too much
Stumbled across your channel and you earned a sub out of me - really interesting stuff and good video editing!
Mr. Beat with the best videos as always
Thanks for the kind words!
I would love you as a teacher. You're super chill and dorky (in a good way).
Mr beat I've been watching you for years. THANK you for your videos. -a history fan
Include some Iron Maiden if you do a part 2 lol. Excellent video, always top notch quality
Thanks man! Will use that in my MWH class when they learn about the Cold War. Appreciation from this student teacher!
Felt like it would 2020
Things have indeed calmed down...a bit...since then
Nothing happened in 2020 except the riots
Really cool video. If anyone wants to learn more about the last almost apocalypse mentioned there, it was an exercise called Able Archer, and there is a tv show about it called ‘Deutschland 83’
love your content mr beat. it has inspired me to make a video about the history of my city, Long Beach CA
coming this summer
Nearly a 10 minute contextual intro….masterful!
It's always a blast to hear Postal Dude talk about history and political facts and other related topics.
I recall the movie "War games" with the rogue machine W.O.P.R,a tribute to Burger King´s Whopper,greetings from Tenerife,Canary Islands
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Mr. Beat is my favorite channel on YT 🤘🏼
I wonder where all the nukes are kept here in the states
Re the Cuban Missile Crisis, you left this part out as to what really precipitated it: "...when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba" (Wikipedia)
Mr beat is literally my history dad
Great video Mr Beat.
I am ashamed to admit that the Playdoh joke got me though lol.
Hey Mr Beat, I'm not sure if you've done a video specifically on the atomic bombings of Japan but I think a video on it and the opposing views on whether it actually achieved a surrender or if it only served to kill hundreds of thousands of innocents could be a informative video.
You and Cody releasing videos with similar topics
Total coincidence
l just realize that lol
Thank you Mr beat.
Well thanks for watching!
Ahh, the fear of death, what a great way to start off the month.
Hi Mr Beat, I’d love a video of you discussing the pros/cons of the Patriot Act and the ripple effect that came from it since its inception
Great googly moogly! Please Mr. Beat tell me that was a Phineas and Ferb refrence!😂
I’m gonna stick up for hiding under your desk here. While it won’t stop the shockwave or protect you if you are directly under the bomb, the main point is that having anything between you and the radiation greatly reduces your exposure and risk of radiation poisoning or other complications
Yeah I know. I was trying to be funny.
wow very eye catching video Mr. Music Beat.
that kitten was so cute awwwww
Vasily #1!
and I thik the other guy who did that too
Vasily and Stanislav are so cool!!!
omg he's talking about Petrov!!!
Given the back and forth of the last few months, it would be cool to see a video on government shutdowns. What they actually are, their history, etc.
Ya know, I've been meaning to do this for a very long time now.
7:00 at least the under-of-the-desks weren't segregated.
I love the random dinosaur sound whenever Mr. Beat says anything sinister
The clown mushroom cloud is a forever classic 💯
As much as I loved my ap history and government teachers. Rip mr Patrick. I would have loved to have Mr Beat as a teacher
During the Cuban missile crisis , we had drill at school : the kids went into the halls and sat on the floor with backs to the walls .
We lived in Huntsville, Ala. , the home of the Army Missile Command .
Three times the world almost ended; one of those times was when Mr Beat made videos about Prager U. 😂😂😂
lol
I was stationed in Hawaii when the NK missle scare happened. My wife and son were asleep and I assumed the alert was a mistake, but just in case, I decided it was probably best not to wake them up ha
This video should have included the 1979 NORAD false alert. A training data tape reel ended up with the blank reels used for recording the main NORAD data got uploaded to main NORAD control.
This incident was the inspiration for the movie War Games.
Six days old and the NATO map is already out of date. Things are moving fast these days. Great video, thanks!!
In 8th grade, I watched the day after and it scared the crap out of me. This would’ve been in 2019. Crazy that a single movie had such a huge impact on the whole world.
Im old enough to remember needing black blinds to use at night so no light would attract plane attacks, and hiding under your class desk to save yourself from a nuclear attack. Which made no sense as Mr. Beat so eliquently put it.
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Technically, a more recent example would be the false missile strike alarm in Hawaii a couple of years ago, by the same circumstances as the second example.
Will you ever do a video on presidential doodles?
Babe, wake up. New Mr. Beat just dropped
When are you going to release your video for election 2024? Also, if it goes the way the numbers are predicting will it be as terrible as I've been led to believe? I commented on your 2020 election prediction video, but considering it's from three years ago, I wasn't sure if you'd respond. So, here I am again. I appreciate your content and value your opinion. Any insights on this would really help ease my anxiety.
The fourth time will be when Mr. Beat stops uploading
As horrible as a nuclear war would be, none of the weapons in any country’s arsenal is even close to the strength of tsar bomba. The nukes we have now are still terrifyingly powerful but anything above a couple megatons are considered too impractical to actually use
0:03 I’ve been drilling in holes into tables to install bolts in exploring tech
Sounds like a party!
WOOO! 90 seconds! Don't need to go to work on Monday.
I was way too young when they aired The Day After. That night marked the first of my night time panic attacks. I was 10. I am in my 50s now and still have them. It affected so many of us and made us fearful of nuclear power in general.
Hiding under your desk. Ha Ha. Meanwhile the entire school disintegrates around you. Like taking the brace position when the plane is flying full speed into a mountain.
It depends. If your school is a few miles from ground zero it may suffer damage but still be intact. Brick structures will likely still be standing at about 3 miles. They will likely suffer severe damage and all windows will be gone though. Beyond 10 miles most structures will suffer damage but will likely remain standing. At 15 miles only minor damage is likely.
The duck and cover will not work if you are close to ground zero. If you are a few miles away it could prevent cuts, trauma and flash blindness.
My hometown Warrensburg MO was also in the movie "The Day After". It was only in the day before part (Whiteman AFB is only a few miles away).