Every Official "Broken Arrow" Incident
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- A video looking at the US Department of Defense's "Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving US Nuclear Weapons 1950-1980". Yes, there's quite a few, unfortunately.
"Broken Arrow refers to an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components that does not create a risk of nuclear war. These include:
Accidental or unexplained nuclear detonation
Non-nuclear detonation or burning of a nuclear weapon
Radioactive contamination
Loss in transit of nuclear asset with or without its carrying vehicle
Jettisoning of a nuclear weapon or nuclear component
Public hazard, actual or implied
Broken Arrow incidents
Main article: List of military nuclear accidents
The US Department of Defense has officially recognized at least 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents. Examples of these events include:
1950 British Columbia B-36 crash
1956 B-47 disappearance
1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision
1961 Yuba City B-52 crash
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash
1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash
1964 Bunker Hill AFB runway accident
1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
1966 Palomares B-52 crash
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, Arkansas
Unofficially, the Defense Atomic Support Agency (now known as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)) has detailed hundreds of "Broken Arrow" incidents."
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I know number 25 that happens in the lima 02 missile silo in south Dakota
kinda like the incident compilation ,i recomend doing it more often.
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Good video!
Gotta ask man, what happened to your drawings? I enjoyed them a lot and each one had a lot of personality. Such as Train Monkey.
I like to imagine that the strings of accidents in 1950 and 1958-59 were caused by just one really incompetent guy that they kept giving second chances to
I just love imagining how that must go
“Sir? it happened again”
“AGAIN? FUCKS SAKE HUMPHREY I SWE-Ah who am I kidding I can’t stay mad at you, have another go”
Looool
@@Dlúith president's son.
Gomer Pyle?
@@JohnDoe-ox5ni What in the Hell are you going on about? I'd say that this pretty much sums it up...
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"How was work today honey?"
"I accidentally nuked South Carolina but other than that not too eventful"
*walks into bathroom and nukes toilet*
Gone. The whole thing. Not too exciting
"i accidentally crashed the b-52 with 4 nukes in it while in a nuclear-free-zone"
"So a pretty boring day i see"
@Agent Tree As someone who also lives in South Carolina, I would say they nuked us twice.
Take a shot every time you hear “the high explosives detonated but there was no nuclear core inserted “
Wuluululuulul
Dallas is down
Pro tip don't do it with vodka.
@@undyinglich6326 aaaaaargg i neeeed a MEDIC BAG
@@undyinglich6326 I need a medic bag.
@LTrain45 45 he never said it incorrectly
That reminds me of an old joke:
Remote Arctic military airfield, heavy bomber slowly starting to gain speed on a single runway. Military personnel stand on the side overlooking the whole thing. Suddenly, as the bomber takes off, bomb hatch slips open and a large bomb falls of and start rolling towards officers. Everyone is so scared they instantly jump for nearest cover, some even slipping out of their boots. Only an old graying general stands still, smiling when the giant bomb rolls past him and with a falls into a ditch.
Young lieutenant peeks his head out of cover:
- S-sir, ww-hy didn't y-you run?
- Why bother, son? It's nuclear...
Ngl that's the type of guy who will 100% casually smoke in the face of danger and won't give a single flying f*ck about what's happening around him
That's fair, plus the size alone you absolutely can't outrun it so may as well
The scariest one for me is "Rogue Spear" which is a nuclear weapon in the possession of a non-governmental agency (i.e. Terrorists). Luckily its never happened but scary that the potential exists enough that it has a name.
I don't honestly know how much scarier a terrorist having a nuke is than a government having a nuke. Doesn't seem like much to me.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory terrorists have nothing to lose, and how exactly would a government stop or revenge on an attack, it’s like 911, 911 didn’t happen because of Russians, it happened because terrorists had nothing to lose
Nuclear Terrorism is truly one of my worst fears. An agency with no governmental identity having that kind of destruction is scary.
It’s never happened *that we know of*
@@daltongarrett3393 very good point, it's unlikely a government would admit to some terrorists stealing a bomb
*USSR:* Doesn’t drop nuclear warheads the US
US: *Fine.... I’ll do it myself*
USSR: Doesn't drop nukes on US allies
US:Fine... I'll do it myself
Still kinda wondering if the Georgia core might ever detonate in my lifetime
@@captainahab2711 Is your life expectancy several hundred years?
TBH, the USSR's probably fumbled a few nukes in it's day, they just didn't tell anybody.
@@Delta-es1lg Must be why they call it the nuclear football
“Uh sir... the nuke caught fire”
“God dammit Simon not again!”
Could you imagine being one of the firemen that has to actually run towards the burning atom bomb... with these 4 great outcomes
1) it goes off and everyone dies
2) the HE goes off and just kills you and your buddies
3) it doesn’t go off but you still get cancer (like the icelanders)
4) it only partially goes off and just burns the hell out of you in the resulting fireball (an airplane full of gas is on fire).
Nope nope nope nope nope
"Jeff call the hasbro fire department with fire truck included!"
Just get Alvin to deal with it
Make Danny deal with it, he'll get a chance to leave the basement
Can't even smoke in a stadium because of you simon!
Watching this from a town called "Broken Arrow" in oklahoma right now.
Are you ok though? D:
shout out oklahoma
I don’t like Oklahoman
@@Jack-ik8sn why not shrek
Speaking of broken arrow Nuke Accidents. I just had one in the local cornerstore restroom
There are 3 men whos names most will never know. These men, in their own separate incidents, stood, looked upon a nuke flash incident, and said. I call the Bluff. and we owe our lives to these 3 men.
huh?
@@hurricane3518 the guys who decided to not launch the nukes to end the world.
@@tigeritachi643 I know one of them was Stanislav Petrov, who were the other 2?
@@hurricane3518 Vasily Arkhipov, who talked down two other officers; unanimous consent was required of the three on board his submarine to launch their nuclear weapon. This happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I have no idea on the third.
@@tigeritachi643 they are made up stories believed by the gullible. No way in hell one guy is not only in charge of monitoring for attack but also in charge of arming and launching nukes. Lol
i love how Broken arrow has at least 2 meanings
1: the one you mentioned which is more common
2: a code phrase that a ground unit is facing imminent destruction from enemy attack and all available air forces within range are to provide air support immediately.
Im a tactical aviator and Ive never heard of that one. Interesting. Ya learn something every day.
Broken arrow I say again broken arrow
@@MattH-wg7ouI'm late to the party, but it's a military term. I only know bc I'm drowning in veterans
@@stldiva76 yea I thought the second one was a TIC or Troops In Contact and/or Emergency CAS if they dont have a JTAC imbedded. I had only ever heard the term Broken Arrow in the context of nukes.
@@MattH-wg7ou only time I've heard of it being used in that context is during the Vietnam war, and I happen to be drowning in Vietnam era vets, not to be confused with Vietnam vets.
Fun Fact:
B52's are so old that people who are manning them now had grandparents manning them. They are expected to continue in service till the 2050's. They are the oldest aircraft to continue in service.
i honestly thought you were talking about the band...
Idk what to think, either the planes are amazing or the government is cheap.
@@speedy01247 the planes are amazingly versitial and cheap to operate compared to modern stealth bombers.
Ha!
@@speedy01247 both. modern technology can get crazy expensive
Imagine being the guy who needs to tell they just let a weapon of mass destruction fall off the plane by accident.
"Hey boss, remember the nuke we had at the back of the plane?"
"Yes, what about it?"
"It fell..."
Boss: oh no what now Pilot: ah it’s just Dakota boss: oh fuck it I’ll give you a raise
"Yea it gone"
@@AmmyWulf mechanical failure I believe. Bomber air craft back then where prone to a issue like that one in a while.
@@ralfanater324 That's terrifying to think about...
@@tristanhuang3449 one of the pilots hit the wrong button and dropped the nuke
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Amen brother
Nothing beats a qixr vid in the last hour of work
I can agree
Kicks off the weekend!!
Agreeable, i just got back from martial arts training and im dead tired, a nice suprise
My great grandfather was part of the recovery in incident #29. His family didn't know anything about him, as it was a top secret mission.
To this day, Palomares remains the most radioactive area of Spain due to 15% of the plutonium not being recovered
"Nuke accidents", two words that really go together very well
"Hm? so you mean there are free Nukes laying around."
If you can recover one, but I'm sure the government is keeping an eye on the areas where they were post. Probably easier to buy one from a former Soviet state. Some have been stolen and are currently unaccounted for...
Even if you got them, you'd still have to find a plutonium core
@@trezapoioiuy i wil just make in i mean how hard can it be
@@getcancer1542 insanely difficult to make a working plutonium core with enough yield to even constitute the bomb as a “dirty bomb”. You’d likely, as your name implies, get cancer in the process as well, for I assume the average person doesn’t just have ABG radiation-resistant equipment just laying around.
@@daikolirae155 Pulls out ABG suit you mean this suit
Qxir has such a depressing yet happy mentality
Nah just depressing
Nihilism!
His attitude is like.. The world is depressing, but that's no reason to be depressed. Lol
Same
In other words, he's Irish.
In an unrelated term usage of "Broken Arrow", it also means "Code phrase that a ground unit is facing imminent destruction from enemy attack and all available air forces within range are to provide air support immediately"
And during Vietnam war, this would usually TLDR mean "Napalm strike over my position"
That was actually what I was expecting. I was slightly dissapointed it wasn't what the video was about
Nah, that was just made up for We Were Soldiers. There's no such thing.
Also in Vietnam. It could be as a more extreme version of Danger Close, like. If you dont get to good cover. Youre fucked.
@@BLUEKOMMEH no it's also used in this connotation too. It wasn't made up. They used broken arrow multiple time in the korean war and ww2.
If I’m not mistake you’re actually talking about prairie fire
"123,000 pounds of high explosives detonate"
"Only 3 people suffer minor injuries"
holy shit, the furry memer?🤯🤯
@@helmit_kid9755 hi
10:30
Ah... the Goldsboro incident.
"Sir, we found the arm/safe switch"
"Good!"
"Not good... its on Arm"
Just so you wont sleep at night: There are almost definitely more accidents then listed.
OH NO
Anyway
Even worse the ones we don't know about are probably the most dangerous and the ones we should definitely be aware of
And even more that didn’t happen in America.
1950: ok we're gonna blow up multiple nuclear armed plans but wait this isn't gonna show up in the history books as negligence because they didn't have cores
0.102732029921%. That is the percentage of nukes lost out of the total amount of US nukes during the height of its arsenal (31,149).
Also, nukes literally cannot detonate without their cores. Without the core, a nuke is just a giant hunk of steel and uranium, nothing else.
@Dr. M. H. a “core” in nuclear weponry means the plutonium core. A chinch of uranium is unable to fission the uranium at critical mass with out the plutonium as a starter.
What I means by fission is wepon type fission. It is still radioactive. But you won’t lose a city if it explodes with out its core. You would just get a large amount of shrapnel and a area covered in radioactive dust
@Dr. M. H. I admit, I'm not well-versed on how nukes are built. It was mostly just a figure of speech. I'm just saying it's effectively inert without its core.
@@bluntcabbage6042 imagine they were armed though, imagine there was a plane zooming towards the soviet union and it went down like every other one of these planes. boom boom time
The A-4 one is straight nightmare fuel.
Imagine: you're a young naval flight lieutenant on his first tour and things are going great. You've always dreamed of traveling the world, meeting all kinds of people, and cruising the sky in the finest aircraft that mankind has to offer. Your wife just sent a letter saying that your son took his first steps and that she has another on the way.
You climb into the cockpit like any other day, nothing crazy, just a nuclear readiness flight.
You've strapped in and sealed the cockpit and look up only to notice a flash of terror in the eyes of the petty officer tending your aircraft.
*Flip, CRASH*
Before you can even register it, your aircraft has tumbled off the elevator and sunk beneath the deep blue Pacific crests.
Swirling deeper and deeper, you struggle against your restraints as the silhouette of your CV gets smaller, colder, bluer... 50... 100... 200 fathoms until
*CRUNCH*
Yeah, terrifying. Sad to think about what his last thoughts were of his family. The only silver lining is by the time of the crunch it was probably instantaneous.
@@jt8162 I'm not so sure that is was that fast :/
I can't imagine that a plane desinged to hold pressure inside can withstand such big pressures as exerted by water on the outside.
I guess that it doesn't take long for water to force itself trough the seals on the glass or even the ventilation system.
I remember seeing footage of a similar accident on a British carrier. It's gruesome to see the rescue teams trying to open the canopy with the pilot trying the same before the aircraft slips beneath the waves, taking the pilot with it. That's gotta be one of the most horrifying ways to die
@@anscart2969 can you say what carrier it is please this sounds interesting I would like to fisn a video on it
@@yeetjones927 HMS Victorious I think
I respect the b-47 pilot, he didn’t know if he would survive the incident, yet still made sure to minimize any damage from a possible detonation, maybe even at the cost of his own life
The amount of "oops, it just fell off" is pretty funny.
It's like when your phone fails from your pocket while on a boat, but instead of a phone it is a literal weapon of mass destruction.
Nukes must have been literally everywhere in the 1950’s
In the 50s there was a chicken in every pot, car in every garage, and nuke in every crevice and corner
@@nick5422 The thing is they're even more common now. Once the cold war ended, there was a surplus of nuclear scientists with no jobs, and nuclear material on the black market. Back then it was only America and the other superpowers who had nukes, now any third world country with basic military infrastructure has nuclear weapons programs
There's a video somewhere on youtube where it shows the # of warheads in the world over time. Cold aware saw a big boom of these bad boys, no wonder we get to see so much negligence. These things were handed out to anyone that showed a bit of competence just in the case of war.
You had a 50/50 chance of surviving that year ☁👍😎👎♨
@@dinkledonker801 there are FAR less nukes now then there were back then, still tens of thousands, but not 50+ thousand.
Relatable, lost a couple hydrogen bombs a week ago.
Nothing to bad.
Yeah I lost mine while taking it out for a walk
That's why you get an extended warranty
I see. I just lost a couple of methane bombs a minute ago.
I feel you man. Had one, but it got stolen by an Asian man yelling something in Korean i think. Don't worry, the warranty should cover this
I've always known about these incidents, but hearing it from a gangly Irish man really made me realize how much had to have gone wrong for these things to have happen
He's got the gangle.
Dude I’m so happy I cam across your channel!! I like how unique your stories are instead of the usual crap people just re-heat over and over again. Look forward to more great content
The thing about the early fission devices is that the high explosive to compress the plutonium was a shock sensitive explosive. Meaning it would explode if something hit it hard enough, like the ground. They later developed more stable explosives and incidents of the high explosives in nuclear weapons detonating during broken arrows stopped.
And we're not talking about a few pounds of explosives here. The one that fell on the house in South Carolina (or was it North?) contained 2,000lbs of high explosives. History Guy recently did a video on it that was really good. I'd suggest looking it up.
So even though nuclear detonation doesn't take place because they have the presence of mind not to transport them while armed with the core otherwise, a nuclear detonation probably would have happened for every incident in which the high explosives were set off. Most devices were implosion type devices, these required that all 24 charges go off nearly simultaneously. With very little room for error. But even if a nuclear detonation doesn't happen in such a case, the effects of having a plutonium core blown up with 2,000lbs of high explosives would have the same effect as a dirty bomb. Spreading the plutonium around the immediate area and up into the air where the wind can carry it elsewhere.
I never want to hear the words “Nuke” and “Accident” used in the same sentence.
Or at least if they're gonna be, pronounce things correctly...
Not even "the world is now nuke-free by accident"?
(because we accidentally blew them all up at once)
Well, don't worry. We'll call them incidents instead.
@@electrogestapo well in that case were all fucked, so no, i really dont want to hear that. Fucked because of the ammount of radiation that would be spread over the globe and the nuclear winter, I would honestly rather just die in the initial explosion.
@@electrogestapo days since nuclear bomb related accidents in the workplace #?
Man that last incident was truly terrible. Imagine having to live the rest of your life knowing that a wrench that you dropped ended up killing someone.
It truly would be a terrible thing to live with. If you're interested in nuclear accidents and Broken Arrows I'd definitely recommend Eric Schlosser's book "Command and Control", which is largely about the Damascus Accident, the same Broken Arrow you're talking about.
A guy dropped a tankers bar off a 1 ton onto a mechanic's Jimmy when I was at ft .carson . Never saw the mechanic again so always wondered how things went after .
If all sea animals ever start a war against humanity we're doomed, the posses huge amounts of nuclear weapons, lost at se
No, we wouldn't be. A bunch of inert bombs are useless without the specific detonator needed to set it off.
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One can only hope they do it’s their only hope of surviving humanity
Here is a Y and A I think you lost
@@toeknee3277 prob lost them at sea...
Imagine being in the heights of the cold war tension and the dude who incharge of the nukes says "Whoops"
1950's had an increase in mutated fish in the ocean. i wonder why?
Hmmmm
Do you want the o~fish~al version ??🐟♨
Any of them have three eyes?
You just have to go to the hanford site and the columbia river there, they used water from the river to cool the early reactors there without a secondary loop. The river water was used inside the core and then released back into the river, contaminating it.
Ironically downside the river the water was used for the public water supply.
@@simonm1447 wait I live by the Columbia river... Jesus, is there nowhere on earth without nuclear contamination at this point?
Over halfway through and still not out of the 50s
An irrational fear of flying is legit rational in the 1950’s 😂
Especially early gen jets, those fuckers crashed so much, like look at some of the first commercial jet airliners.
@Agent Tree True that. still better than late war Germany's jets tho.
@@Jonathan-fb1kj their fuel was so corrosive it dissolved a pilot who had a fuel leak when he had an accident.
@@TheUrbanEMT Hot damn, thats crazy.
@@TheUrbanEMT T Stoff and N stoff dont fuck around lmao
Hey Quixr! I really enjoy your videos! Great thing is that your humor doesn't get old like some posters and the videos aren't so long I need to look at them in 3 parts. Great job! Keep it up.
I remember hearing about a Russian radar showing an unidentified object/nuclear missle, which didn't actually exist, and the only reason he didn't end up igniting the flames of the cold war, was because he hesitated longer than he was actually supposed to.
Imagine getting the Russian version of this list.
Yes imagine that! Now one would have to take a stance that Russia is overly strict or incompetent you can't have both.
Well I can't imagine anyone from the public seeing that list without being silenced
They are out there, but mythical story.
@@a-takit9633 Even if there are overly strict rules people can still be incompetent lol
@l L exactly. I've had so many strict bosses who they themselves were highly incompetent.
The dislikes are from a couple of people that had something to do with the broken arrow incident
"How many nuclear accidents do you think the Soviet Union had?"
I would be surprised if there is a non-radioactive patch of soil in the whole of Russia tbh
Given the fact that every idiot doing something stupid like this probably would've been shot or send to the gulag I'd guess they had less such accidents than the US with their "Yippee Ay Yee" Attitude... After the collapse of the USSR there was a lot of nuclear material "disappearing" in the chaos in some of the brake off states (like Ukraine or Kazakhstan) though... And also: Russia isn't taking good care of nuclear material once it's out of use. I know of at least one nuclear fleet (not nuclear weapons but using nuclear engines) with submarines and ice breakers and stuff just letting to rust in a millitary habour somewhere near the polar region because correct disassembly would probably be to expensive...
@@SebastianHaban given that everyone that has ever died in the ussr was a slave owner, slave owners are not smart
@@thatromanfella8377 what
@@saltylungs something that always comes out of commies mouths so it must be true lmao
@@thatromanfella8377 what the fuck u mean by ur first comment
I like how it's generally unlikely to have your package lost while being shipped by plane, but when its a nuke, they seem to assign the most clumsy people to take care of it on their most dysfunctional planes
after accidentally dropping nukes in various places several times in a single year you'd think somebody would go "hey maybe we should stop flying these around, no?"
Jeez, you’d think the USA would learn to stop shipping nukes via airplane by 1957
Or even by the end of 1959 lol
Hi! :) This is a really cool video, but I have a quick correction to make: the wreckage of the first ever Broken Arrow, the B36 that crashed in 1950, was found not on Vancouver Island, where it might have been expected to land, but on Mount Kologet in northern B.C. It's a real mystery as to how it got there, but one theory is that the last crewman left aboard realized that the plane was too far over the designated drop zone for him to be rescued, so he turned it around and tried to fly it back to their base in Alaska (from which they had come), to no avail. I work in a museum in B.C. where a turret and propeller from this plane are displayed, and it's a really fascinating story that gets a lot of attention from tourists (especially Americans!).
Ive got another: 7:49 he misspelled south Carolina as "south caroina"
The Broken Arrows sounds like a particularly bad air display team.
I wasn't really that far off, was I? Dear god, it's a miracle we survived the 1950s!
Your one of the few lads on this planet that can make me lol consistently. Congrats mate!
I LOVE qxir, every vid and compilation all the time. Please, please. Give "new-clear" a ramble in one video
Dude people always mistake my name for “The Broken Arrow” This incident is what I wish to do to them
Ok the broken arrow.
Ok the broken arrow
Ok the broken arrow
Ok the broken arrow.
Ok the broken arrow.
Whoever came up with seperatable nuclear cores should be rewarded a Nobel peace prize.
Whoever came up with seperatable nuclear cores should be rewarded a Nobel peace prize.
Whoever came up with nuclear cores should be awarded a prize.
Who came up with a Nobel peace prize.
*s u s*
Whoever came up with the Nobel peace prize should be awarded a seperatable nuclear core
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” `Albert Einstein
And that's probably the truth, if there's anything left.
My future plan: make a fortune by selling the new government assault sticks and assault stones.
Have you never played any of the Fallout games?
@@citymorgue8462 Actually I haven't. It's on my list of "to be played".
@@PowerTrain611 Please do I would recommend playing Fallout New Vegas first, it's what got me into the Fallout games
You’re good at presenting stuff, keep up the good work!
Nice presentation, I liked this especially the humour
Qxir looking mighty fine these days ngl
True
Someone's been hit by the gay bomb...
My man dripped out
Man's looks good all the time
He looks quintessentially Irish, as if he's been chiselled out of a beautiful Irish rock.
I definitely would love to see this made into a series where you delve into the specifics of each story. I think that would be very interesting. Love your videos by the way! Keep it up!
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but it definitely won´t be with nuclear weapons because we have managed to lose them all.” `Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". Is what Albert Einstein said.
@@carsonblonds2915 oops! You missed the joke!
-albert Einstein
@@alexanderthegrrrreat6727 oops shity joke
- Nikola Tesla
@@carsonblonds2915 war, war is like an onion, it has layers
-metal gear guy
@@carsonblonds2915 both tesla and einstein were weirdos lel
on the one hand it's quite unsettling how often there were accidents involving nukes, on the other hand it's reassuring that the safeties worked every time.
If these nuclear shenanigans draw you interest and you want more, I recommend reading: Command & Control, Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser. Concerning nuclear history in general try any of James Mahaffey's three books: Atomic awakening, Atomic Accidents, Atomic adventures respectively are great reads. they all have good audio versions on Audible if that's your preference.
Love this channel by the way.
I second the book recommendations. Very entertaining and informative reading.
Imagine that moment when you're flying and you look over your shoulder and the nuke isn't there.
"Shitshitshitshitshit..."
"Hey Billy is the core in the nuke in the back?" "Uh yeah William why?" "SHIT SHIT SHITBSSHITSHIT"
I have three points to make about this video:
1 - Some time back i have read these documents, and now you make a video of it.
2 - Awesome Video.
3 - Congrats from Brazil !
It seems like a lot of these where just drunk guys failing to nuke Canada lol
I mean can you blame them for trying?
During the cold war the planes with nukes were needed to be kept in the air
Because if russia was able to destroy America's main airports they would be unable to fight back as they wouldn't have an airforce
So a lot of planes were overused and pilots exhausted
Therefore a lot more mechanical issues and pilot errors would happen than usual
And some would be over Canadian land
(Just saying I did know it was a joke
I just thought it was some interesting info)
We should have never let you folks land here on September 11th, 2001.
@@haroldbalzac6894 shows how much of a failure the US was even back then eh 🙃
@@haroldbalzac6894 Im from Canada. No I don't blame them 🤣
Imagine going to the effort of making this whole video about nuclear weapons without actually learning the word "nuclear".
lol. Mr. Ggggfhhfxc Hhbbbddd
Number 32 is a wild story. I listened to a podcast about it, but I can't remember what podcast it was. The three men who were doing the maintenance went to their commanding officer and at first denied knowing what happened, then they started sobbing and confessed. Maybe they were sobbing first, but these three grown men were sobbing trying to explain what happened.
"Officially recognizes"
Nothing to calm the nerves on a Friday afternoon like hearing about all of the missing nukes yet to be found 😎
Know I can sleep soundly knowing the official broken arrow incident
My favorite channel!
"Whoops! Jerry! I accidentally loaded 6 nukes onto a B-52 stratofortress!"
I'm currently in works with the un to create my country, I was planning on hitting North Korea up for nukes but I think I'll just go scuba diving in the ocean.
Just buy one in eastern europe. After the collapse of the USSR some stuff "disappeared" and people are trying to cash in... You'll probably even get free shipping...
cool man whats it called, also you can get an SS-18 without a warhead (but there are places you can get enriched uranium)
Oi Qxir you should consider doing a video on one of the first b52* test flights. Windsheers took off parts of the ailerons, rudders, and stabilizer but they managed to successfully land. Pretry crazy story.
I don't recall the year, but I heard one from an Officer stationed at Loring AFB in the early 90's. He told us that he'd been on base when a Broken Arrow occurred. Seems a B52 was returning from the Polar Express route and suffered a failure in the bomb-bay. The weapon apparently fell straight through the bomb bay doors and into the night... The deep forests of Northern Maine swallowed it up and, like many of those stories, the weapon was never recovered. There are several aircraft crash sites in the vicinity of the AFB, as well, due to malfunctions on take-off or landing.
I find it hard to believe that these "accidents" just stopped happening all of a sudden, one day, years ago...
Thankfully, all these incidences involve "nucular" weapons and not the "nuclear" type.
Not all of them... Seems to be about half and half...
Shut up.
I love everything this lad does but that is getting my hackles up, can't help it.
@John Cliff
I shit you not boys, he addressed this in a video just today.
@0:20 here:
ruclips.net/video/ml0sDovEwiM/видео.html&ab_channel=Qxir
He says it like George Bush lol
If you included the events of the metal gear series this video would be and hour long
“Boss, the mujuhadeen just somehow got access to nuclear weapons. good luck.”
Number 32 happened in my home state of Arkansas, pretty interesting to see something important that happened in my state. Sad schools here never even mention it.
Imagine just chilling and a nuke falls on your property out of nowhere
Yo it would be killer if you did an episode on Number 24 if you can get enough info on it. By the way I just found your channel last night and have been binge watching like a complete mad man. Good stuff! 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
"They'll be no ww3"
2022: hold my beer
Fun drinking game:
Take a shot of Fireball every time Mark four or 1950~60's is mentioned
Take a shot of Fireball every airplane crash
Take a shot of Fireball time contents are never found or recovered
Take a shot of Fireball every time one of these happen in the us
Take two shots of Fireball everytime one happens outside of the us
:)
Take a shot of jack Daniels every time the HE exploded on impact
I don’t think you know how drinking games work. This is just constant drinking.
@@Adumb_ Yes.
Fireball for obvious reasons
I tried this, and by the next morning, somebody had apparently set off a nuke in my intestines. I'm pretty sure my bathroom mutates people now...
I like his pessimism. So heartwarming.
And his offhand comments are cool too..... The main reason I keep watching.
Your shirt did a small switcheroo at 4:20… nice
Nuckin futs mate... I had to replay this video 3 times cause I kept staring at that shirt! Absolute madness and I ❤️ it.
4:50 damn, I never heard of that, and I live there (in Quebec, not right next to the st-lawrence but like 25 minutes away)
btw, the way you pronounced "Québec" was pretty much spot on, it's pretty rare to see English speakers pronounce it correctly
The one in 1980 was at Little Rock Air Force Base. There was a lot more to this accident. When we had silos along the state borders in the mid west that's where the nukes were stored and shipped from. I lived in Kansas City in the late 70's. Imagine flying in a small air craft and seeing the many many silos. Kinda creepy.
OMG it's "new clear" as in nucleus.
It's surprising how there hasn't been a bomb that accidentally detonated over a major city yet.
It's not surprising at all, actually.
There has never been a single accidental nuclear detonation in human history. So no it isn't surprising.
@@knurlgnar24 w/ all these broken arrow incidents, it's also surprising that there has never been a single accidental nuclear detonation in human history
Most nuclear sites in the US (except Alberquque,New Mexico) are located about tens or hundreds of miles from any major city
@@jezrielbaquir3237 wasn’t there one in Nevada
thanks for the 2 year late recommendation yt! what a sweet early birthday gift!
Him saying the entire planet deserves to ‘go to hell’ with that choice of shirt is a little too fitting.
There's a saying; "A person is smart, people are stupid" Qxir is a person, he ain't people.
If that saying isn't the officially recognized motto of 2020, mister, then it damn sure should be!
He does say, “nukular” repeatedly though.... there is that.
@@glenrussum9863 Q boi is an international treasure
My Branding Is Bad ... Yeah, that’s true. I’m just an arse with one pet peeve
@@glenrussum9863 Albeit a valid one... Kinda kills credibility factor dunnit
it's funny sometimes to hear pronunciations like "mary-land" rather than "m-air-lan" 11:47
He's Irish brother give him a break it does a great job dude and I love his cartoons but have a great day bro I hope you do God bless your family I'm going through a lot myself right now I'm sorry I just don't want to see others you know hurt others that's all try to be nice can't we all just get along LOL
Yalls I’m just _waiting_ for a time when some random divers just _find_ sunken nuclear cores and bombshells deep underwater among plane wrecks.
If you think random divers could find a lost nuclear weapon better than the US government, you don't understand either. For all you know, the weapons were recovered, and the story is a ruse.
@@GeorgeBurdell-f4m Relax bozo I was presenting the scenario as a highly unlikely random event for comedic effect.
#12 7:24 Documents Later de-classified indicated there was a core present. They did some calculation that indicated it was buried in the silt of the delta sounds. Wild. Love your channel BTW!!
A year or two ago, or something like that I told you that you would be making the big bucks.
And here we meet again.
Good job
Ahhh, the B-47
The aircraft that spends more time being on fire than on the air.
The 50's must have sucked military wise.
Safety standards back then were very low compared to today. A crash rate comparable to the 50s would be not acceptable today.
@@simonm1447 yeah this was when America was going through a massive refitting transistioning into the new Jet Age of warfare. From the Prop plane generation of WWII, we were just now trying to find our footing. So lots of experimenting through trial and error 😬
The Morale of the story...
Never get on a plane that begins with the letter “B”.
Unreliable is an understatement! 😲
I’m curious to know if any Irish or uk viewers hear nuc-u-lar? I’m a Brit and I hear nuc-le-ar, so I’m wondering if it’s because I’m used to the accent (there are a lot of Irish folk in London 😁💚). Is it just me? Actually... given the amount of grumpy comments, it might just be 😆
Anyway, does it really matter, people?! If it bothers you that much, mute the audio and read the captions. He’s doing all this work for us, give him a break!
Qxir, I’m a new subscriber and have binged nearly all your videos in the last 24 hours. Ok so that’s partly because we are in Tier 4 now and my Christmas plans are cancelled, but it’s also because you’re funny as hell and have really interesting content. Bravo, good Sir!
If I remember correctly, nuclear bombs don’t usually go critical unless all the surrounding explosives are detonated at once, if one side detonated a few milliseconds before the other then the bomb probably wouldn’t go off