Neutron Bomb: When The Nuclear Arms Race Got Out Of Control | M.A.D World | Timeline
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- The Cold War: When nuclear weapons kept the entire world on the edge of M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction. As Russia, China and the USA flex their military muscles on the global stage today, ‘M.A.D. World’ takes a close look at the last time we were threatened by the might of world superpowers: The Cold War.
In this episode:
- The first Marxist government to be democratically elected is thrown out by a military coup, plunging Chile into a brutal military dictatorship. There is no doubt now that the CIA played a role in supporting the actions of the military.
- After 10 years of fighting a proxy war, the US pulls its troops out of Vietnam and the North Vietnamese forces march peacefully into Saigon.
- The nuclear arms race is out of control as the superpowers build huge numbers of ever more sophisticated nuclear warheads. High level discussions begin to put the build-up of weapons into reverse.
- A war that could be worse than Vietnam breaks out in Angola as Portuguese colonisers leave and rival groups fight for supremacy. US and Soviet weapons flow into the country as well as a new trend in proxy wars - mercenaries.
- Talks to reduce nuclear arms stumble as the USA objects to huge numbers of Russian tanks on European soil and the soviets demand the Americans remove their nuclear weapons from West Germany.
- The most chilling weapon of the Cold War is tested in Nevada and sends headlines of horror across the globe. The Neutron Bomb uses an intense burst of radiation to maximise casualties while minimising damage to property.
- Against a backdrop of mass anti-nuclear protests, Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev meet in Vienna to sign a treaty limiting nuclear weapons systems to a total of 2400 each.
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Anything to do with the neutron bomb begins at 45:00
thank you.
I thought the whole thing was going to discuss it.
Thanks
I've learned about Chile and Vietnam so far and I'm like halfway through lol
And that anything is nothing. This title needs to be pulled stat.
This again has nothing to do with the title of the post.
Only the last seven minutes. What a joke!
At 45 minute mark now and they just started mentioning it.
Haha, no joke, it's still good but come on.
That’s what makes it fun
@@jamesnekechuk7830😂🎉🎉
The video should be titled " History of the cold war ".
Your comment here TILTED me.
@@phdtobe thanks. Corrected.
The real point of an enhanced radiation device is to take out a mass invasion force such as a lot of tanks. It works by causing ionization called proton recoil, and by inducing radioactivity ☢️ in materials. The radiation would make the tanks dangerously radioactive for several weeks afterwards, but newer DU armored tanks would undergo partial fission as well as activation so these would be dangerous for months afterwards. A neutron bomb has a lower but non-trivial blast yield of 0.8 to about 3kt.
Is true that the radiation from this device dissipates quicker than a regular nuclear bomb.
@@scarfo441 There is nearly no fallout because it is not detonated on the ground but high up in the air.
Like th one the Israelis dropped on Beiruit. Id say they will wipe out a load of cities in the west soon and blame Russia
@@scarfo441 The only known problems were Carbon 14, caused by neutron activation. Cosmic rays make that stuff naturally.
There are some small amounts of fission products.
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Facts behind several conflicts . Various U S Presidents reactions to the arms race . Excellent war footage .
But if you clicked on for the title . . . . . . .
45:30
I have accepted clickbait as a fact of life.
Yes, I'm a bit disappointed with the title vs. the actual content within
@@mikeFolco '"Folco Makes Shocking Statement!"
Thank you. I'm 43 seconds in and I knew it seemed off.
We are still paying today for the immense damage Jimmy Carter did to the world
And we will for years to come.
The future war between Israel & Iran & Israel & Egypt re all Carter's doing.
The future war of China vs the USA over Taiwan is completely Carter's doing & many more.
RUclips is forcing this History channel to blur out historic images, it's akin to historical revisionism
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
" He let out a bellow. I said easy big fella m
@@douglas69ification😂😂
@@douglas69ification then he went on the run but that weren't no fun said his son
I served as a NCO in the Norwegian Army in this crazy times. We always belive that the Bomb will strike us one day. I even visit the USSR as a Sail Ship Cadet Instructor in 1977.
Interesting
Everything i need to know about doomsday bombs, i learned from Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
What did they call it? "The Holy Hand Grenade" or something.
@@EdMcStinko i think it was just The Lord
If not for the Traitorous Democrats putting an arms & more importantly an ammunition embargo on South Vietnam they would've held their own by themselves.
@@EdMcStinkoYeah, The Holy Hand Granade.
@@EdMcStinko That's Monty Python
Great video very informative, I liked the whole ride very ken burns like was entertained through out the video thank you.
"The Neutron Bomb uses an intense burst of radiation to maximise casualties while minimising damage to property." this isn't why enhanced radiation weapons were developed. they were developed to be able to kill people in hardened vehicles.
Born in 59. I was never afraid, and am still not. We all die. Our planet will cease to exist. Face that head on.
If that's true, why wait then
@@jackasslawyer It can be true, and I need not be in a rush. Time flies as they say, also, I have family that would like me to hang around a bit longer.
Europe: "We don't want you to give us those specific weapons, but most definitely want you to come back the next time we need help being dragged out of a pit."
I love how, in contemporary times, they must blurr images of dead people in this 1970s documentary.
It's not modern times it's the algorithm.
If you want money you have to self-censor.
Hey free market capitalism and self regulation works... Except a corporation is making the laws effectively taking the place of the government.
Huh, well how about that...
I remember my consternation that any sane human being would propose a special weapon to protect structures while focusing on maximum human suffering and death. I thought I’d heard wrong.
We never should have given up on the neutron bomb.
We (82nd) were on the tarmac, waiting to go to Angola. It was called off. I was glad. I don't remember anyone being nervous.
The neutron bomb was made for tank formations in Europe
They were very low blast yield but would make the tanks and other hardened structures extremely radioactive from neutron activation
It is short lived and not used for cities as the blast was still in the range of the bombs dropped on Japan so it would destroy the city counter to these uninformed alarmists
Kind of. It would would generate a dense neutron flux but residual radiation would be relatively low level compared to fallout from big bombs.
@@seanwatts8342 your so wrong I don’t even know how to tell you how wrong you are
Fall out can happen with the smallest nuke
Fallout as it’s name implys FALLS OUT of the mushroom clouds updraft sucking dirt and whatever into close contact with the explosion
Air bursts are for various reasons but in a cities case EMP and blast effects would kill most and the lingering dead would die or live to get help.
You need to re read how neutron activation works
"your so wrong..."
All righty then. @@penroc3
@@penroc3stop using expletives
@@penroc3 The fission trigger for an ERW was very small but there were fission products present in the burst. Whether neutron activation of ground materials occurred depended upon burst altitude.
I feel this was a bait and switch. Granted the bombs were part of a worldwide conflict, but there's almost nothing here about the bombs themselves, their effect on military strategies, their yields and so on.
I remember Mad magazines Neutron bomb fold in "saves builings not lives."
I remember that fold out. Al Jaffe was responsible for those fold outs. He wanted to lampoon Playboy centerfolds.
Very interesting I had no idea this took place like this thank you
In one of Richard Rhodes' books, about the development of the hydrogen bomb, he mentions that as of the day the Cuban Missile Crisis started, the U.S. had over 31,000 nuclear weapons, all of which were "ready to go" as opposed to "down for maintenance."
lol
Cobalt!
Just add Cobalt and if you spread the fallout to just a few grams per square kilometer you render the area fatally uninhabitable for a little over 50 years!
Technically its never been "A Push of a Button"
The phrase is metaphorical.
@@harrietharlow9929 yes, but surely you acknowledge that there are huge swaths of people who believe it's that simple. Many think that the US President really just pushes a button contained in the suitcase.
If you ever want to know why generation X became what we are remembering how it was on the news when I was a kid and the people who were in the military who were in my family and friends family and the realization of what could happen at any time even though I was sheltered from most of it I was very aware of it all and my dad was a Korean War veteran who served in the Air Force and when he talked about it with me I understood a lot more than he thought I could but I was a very good listener even as a little kid and when he was drinking he said more than he remembered the following day. My best friend went into the navy at eighteen and he told me about his experience as a nuclear weapons specialist and I knew what MAD meant completely when I was twenty years old. When I remembered what my uncle who was in Vietnam told me about I was very well informed about what a war would be like on my twenty first birthday when my friend who was a marine in desert storm was talking about it to me and then I was watching the news when the Berlin Wall came down it was a relief that the Cold War was over and the thought of a nuclear war was over for me but it was still there in my mind and it would only take one person to push the button and end humanity and a collapsed Soviet Union might have been the way that the nuclear weapons could end up in the hands of a crazy person who would destroy the world
Those of us born in the 60s have also had this over our heads our whole lives. I was born in 1960. We were taught in school to hide under our flimsy desks.
Nukes did in fact end up in the hands of a crazy person in several cases. Many of them are in Putin's hands.
And a crazy Pakistani who worked for Russia stole plans and parts, and reassembled them for Pakistan. I assume they have built more too. I'm not sure how India got theirs. Or Israel. I highly doubt that any of the responsible nuclear countries sold them to those 3 places! Iran was also well on their way to having them, so needs to be be watched much more closely than they are!
Even South Africa had some. And that country is in real chaos now, so thank goodness they gave theirs up!
Who else has them? Who knows? Russia will probably break up soon. That is a great thing! It's badly needed! But it could become another free for all for a while, as far as their nukes go. We were lucky the result of the split of the USSR didn't yet yet cause a nuclear catastrophe, so I hope the coming breakup of Russia won't cause one either. I think Putin himself poses the most danger. Hopefully he will be eliminated soon.
Of course there will be a nuclear war some day, and dirty bombs will be used. We can only hope the impact is not too colossal.
@@cattymajiv Edit: At the end I mention Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. What was once Yugoslavia was much more violent than the dissolution of Czechoslovakia so I changed it to just Yugoslavia.
Russia doesn't need to break up. Russia just needs to stop being whatever it is right now.
I can't say the collapse of the Soviet Union was problem free, because Russia is exactly what it is right now. Additionally, there is a good argument that Yugoslavia would not have turned into a warzone if the USSR had not collapsed first.
The Slavic nations went through some extreme birthing pains at the start of the soviet union, along with all its other satellites, it could only end up being violent at the end of the USSR, it's almost like it had to happen that way unfortunately
Punctuation helps too ...
Agree. I remember my fear when the soviet union collapsed. Never been so afraid.
The El Teniente mine is still one of the biggest copper mines in the world.
It's a gigantic underground
operation, with much of the copper purchased by the US..MM
Anything to do with the neutron bomb begins at 45:00. I remember Mad magazines Neutron bomb fold in "saves builings not lives.".
Thank you very much for the upload.
As an American it's sad that we lead the world in humanitarian aid and it pales in comparison to the suffering we exported. At least we are learning to love our lesson
Quit crying about it. The world isnt black and white. As far as nations go the United States has done far more good for the world than bad .
Most of the time...
@@john2g1 _"we lead the world in humanitarian aid"_
Oh, so _THAT'S_ what you tell yourselves so you can get to sleep at night? Does it really count when you lead the world in evil and exploitation as well? Two illegal wars so far this century, which have killed at least 1 million people and displaced millions more; many of whom have ended up in countries who opposed your illegal wars, because you won't take responsibility for your actions, as usual. Actions like ... being the biggest junkies on the face of the planet, and instead of dealing with it yourself, allowing it to ruin huge swathes of South America, leading to people having to leave their homes, hoping to find a safe place to live, only to discover that the Orangutan you elected has built a wall to keep them out, because you don't want to take responsibility for your actions, as usual. What about when your rampant greed almost destroyed the world economy in 2008? You know, the way you do every 10-20 years because you refuse to implement regulations? That recession you dumped on us all was humanitarian aid was it?
*_HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!_*
The arrogance of you people would be funny if it wasn't so disgusting. You give about 30 billion with one hand - a PITTANCE for the richest country on Earth - and you STEAL back TRILLIONS with the other hand. Shove your _"we lead the world in humanitarian aid"_ BS where the sun don't shine, because no one outside America is buying it...
We the USA are a steaming pile 🤷♂️
it´s interresting how we humans are so focused on destryoing us selfes, we use huge amount of resources on building more and more destructive weapon systems, while there are million if not billions of people sufering from hunger, disease and lack of basic resources, but we still claim to be the top of evolution
We?
Well it's not my fault Michael ....😮
@@timramich yes we, that called, take responsebilety responsibility
Interesting, do you cover later developments such as the ENP warhead and the GRASER that were both developed by underground testing.
the years between ww2 to early 90s was a mad time, but we all live in the aftermath of the coldwar :/
@2:54 What model of Citroën 2CV is that parked on the corner ?
6:47 they didn’t mistake the camera, they knew it was a camera.
So, do you censor your videos with membership?
We have killed so many and abandoned so many and lost so many. How much was actually done to swindle syphon money out of the average persons pockets.
I can't stand it when images are blurred, presumably just to avert the eyes of so called "bleeding hearts" that would be "traumatized" by seeing such historic images. Timeline has done this repeatedly in many of their programs.
This is what disgusts me about America. Their paranoia leads them to think they have a right to interfere in the internal politics of a foreign country. This is not just part of our history, they are still doing it now! What part of 'mind your own business' do they not understand?
They allowed fascism to reign in Italy and Argentina
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Your point being?
@@Chris-hx3om just a few examples of USA paranoid schizophrenia displayed by the domino theorists
24:26 is not the American embassy! Again, perpetuating the lie that the 22 Gia Long (Pittman building) is the embassy:
_"The last American helicopter on the roof of the American embassy..."_
This footage is of intelligence assets and their families being evacuated from 22 Gia Long, which was the building housing the Deputy CIA Director. It was one of the pre-planned evacuation locations for CIA assets only. One of many.
I can't even remember how many times people have confused this rooftop for the emassy due to incorrect reporting or voiceover mixed with the wrong footage.
Have you done anything on "Backpack Nukes"?
President Carter was so underrated and I am glad that I served under his command
Nice fella, but couldnt run a country.
Seems like another internet fail. I'm over 60% through and absolutely no mention of the neutron bomb.
I think I might report this as misleading, since, it is.
The title is only justified by the last 5 or so minutes of this video. Nevertheless, it's a Good documentary on the Cold War up to 1980.
I enjoy your videos. I am disappointed when you don't post one. So, shorter better than none.
Chilie has an Air Force? What kind of planes do they have, the Wright Fliers or Sopwith Camels?
The aircraft you saw there, bombing the Presidential Palace, were Hawker Hunters, bought from the UK few years previously.
F-16s, C130s, E3s - they arent in the stone age homie
Very informative
Came here for Thermonuclear bombs… got a long lecture on how the US government notoriously abandons its allies when it cannot cover up its mistakes any longer…
I like how almost any video that pertains to nuclear bombs. Always shows FDR as if HE was responsible for the USE of the Atomic bomb. He authorized its research. Not it's use. That responsibility fell into Harry Truman's hands.
Truman didn't hesitate. FDR had reservations on the matter.
Should have been titled~”War Games”.
Honestly I am surprised we made it this far. This planet should have been turned into a vacant parking lot years ago.
Why are there ads in this, I pay like 14 a month to never see an ad and these videos have ads that are forced upon you it's honestly getting stupid why would I pay for this when youtube just won't block the ads
Amazing video
Joseph R. Wolfinger, the face of a man without face.
1:50 Dad how did you loose your nose in the war?
Anyone seen Miss Saigon? I saw it when I was on Broadway and that is the best thing I’ve ever seen on stage. What a performance! ❤️❤️
Workers MUST own and control the means of production.
The arsenal of Megadeth 🤘🤘🤘
You take a mortal man...
Deth O' Mega
I wonder what label people would put on me since I think that we should all share fairly in our society. There should be no cast system that places us above or below each other. We should seek peace rather than war. I am my brother's keeper. So what would you call me?
A McCarthy grave turner.
a fool who espouses an impossible utopia as if it were realistic.
@@Itskahuna Your own words condemn you
@@Itskahunaimpossible? What about the U.K. welfare state?
The problem begins with ideology, Capitalism versus Marxism. Neither ideology should attempt to impose itself by force onto any country. Let the people of any country decide which system, or hybrids thereof, they prefer. If Capitalism proves to be the most effective system for most people then the people will choose that system and if Marxism or hybrids prove to be the most effective for the most people then the people will choose that system.
You have literally no clue what your implying will lead to.
@@xprettylightsx3781 Oh, wise one, please elaborate.
Marxism leads to tyranny which leads to lack of choice for the people. You can't have a state control and freedom at the same time.
Therefore, if we don't choose capitalism we will eventually lose our freedom to choose, which is why the only choice is capitalism
But the capitalist do not want any nation to have a choice except if your choice is capitalism . The Chileans chose Ayede ( a Marxist) , look how it turned out.
People seem to not be worried about nuclear weapons now despite the situation being 10 x more unstable than back then.
To busy with other things like just stop oil and so on
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Very informative documentary, but FYI the first mention of the Neutron Bomb is 45 minutes in 😂
24:42 Afghanistan withdrawal? I thought this was about Vietnam.
The Boeing air launched cruise missile the foremost American nuclear deterant !! Obviously just for defence 😅
Thanks!
Advertise at the end of each documentary 😢 time is of the essence.
Regarding the proxy war in Angola: U.S. lost that one also. Presently, Russia through the mercenary services of Prighozin and Wagner group effectively dominates mining throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
South Vietnam would've Never fallen if not for the Democrats stopping all weapon & mostly ammunition supplies to the South on purpose.
Your comment didn't age well...
I wonder what the cover of MAD magazine would've looked like when covid hit? That's if the magazine was still around.
You think that something like a magazine is permanent, when it has only the life that men give it, and we age. Our humor is even wiped away. History books remind us, and they are not funny. Ironic but not funny.
@@TranscendianIntendor How true this is. We just need to find the humor elsewhere. Have a good day 😊
Enhanced radiation makes the most of your bang. Its really the only way to ensure your enemy goes down with you.
Historical news in hindsight after everything comes into better focus, and some of the truth finally surfaces, makes me seriously question which of the empires is the evil empire. But deep down inside we all knoe the truth is... all of them.
People really pressed they're being encouraged to learn some real uncomfortable history.
CONTEXT my dudes. The title literally references the nuclear arms race which was driven entirely by *drumroll please* POLITICS.
Like; given our current geopolitical global state y'all might be wise to pay attention beyond the boom bits before they make a special tour to a city near you.
Skip the first boring 44 minutes if you just want to hear about the Neutron bomb.
A quarter of this video was an ad, by the time I clicked out.
Now I get and understand the min man program
Please stop blurring the screen. Just put a disclaimer at the beginning.
What does Salvador Allende have to do with the ERW? So he won an election. Markus Wolf, former head of the DDR's external intelligence service, congratulated himself on evacuating "specialists" from the DDR after Pinochet took over. People who bolstered Salvador Allende to build socialism. Specialists from East Germany, Cuba and other places.
Pinochet was not a good person. Was he better or worse than Fidel Castro?
Is a neutron bomb just the trigger for a fusion bomb?
I believe it's that the Atomic bomb is the trigger for the Hydrogen bomb.
The US and USSR main concern to becoming sophisticated to nuclear arms control and sharing this control as individual nations is the concern of the black market's freedom to distribute illegal material in the world, as the pirates to North Korea, making it look legal.
The world wide local Police were attempted to be put out of having the ability to keep up with their local colleges and the work places they promote?
As RUclips's FBI Documentary on Willow Springs, Il helps show a near support small town Government to Cicero having Chicago river ties that easily lead to the Mississippi River and the Gulf (a oil spam area of email inheritance promises by now if it works out out to help them claim their money, etc... - family problems???) had the Washington Post trying to disrupt the FBI's involvement for the County Sheriffs Office for the crime scene security of gathering evidence, not a local paper - or how are these things a secret if they are so exposed was the plot of the video by the bad guy's demands.
Lets add for the honest Russian people living in the US and vice versa, is the logic if your in the US, your in the US and if in Russia your in Russia, just as if in Africa, your helping their lives, so be honest doing so.
Note how the meaning of the word itself, communist, in thought meaning a sharing ability, and with common grounds, finding of the rich man's approach, is like maybe in the past some royalty decision decided to separate human man and woman from being seen as homonized (misspelled), and instead made heterosexuals' to all the special of animal life. Simple things that are going wrong if going wrong, and always with a friendly start in search to contractions.
Its like giving someone like that a license to run a store in the area that builds familiarity of the community and known promises!
Thanks for keeping me safe you tube.
How does this site merit five million subscribers?
I didn’t know much about the coup in Chile except that women started disappearing.
Jump to 43:45 for the actual Neutron Bomb part.
Megiddo looks like it might be a tactical neutron bomb strike. ethermail
Other than the fact that Russia is nuclear capable and with the recent debacles in Afghanistan and now Ukraine you have to wonder, was the U.S.S.R. or Russia ever really a "superpower"??? Their naval capabilities are lackluster at best and the amount of greed and lack of leadership makes it a viable question!
Russia is a resource rich third world nation with nukes, ICBMs and submarines. Reality is their economy is poor, their technology is poor. The education and stealing of technology is good. It could be great but has suffered under the Czar, Communism and now the Putin dictatorship.
Awesome.
I really wish this documentary had more skip ads.
there are browser extensions that suppress them. there is also an extension that allows skipping to the highlight where it actually talks about the subject. saves a lot of time.
LOL I forgot I have a trial of RUclips premium. It's going to be a sad day when my trial runs out...
It's almost worth the price of admission.
@@NoHandleToSpeakOf Are you referring to Sponsorblock? It is similar, it skips all in video sponsors/promotions, etc.
@@hotbam37 yep, that is it
This might be a foretaste of what is to come
Abel Archer in 1983 in Germany. So close to the brink
Yes, far more closer to nuclear war in 1983 than 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis. I was only 7 years old in 1983.
Don't get me wrong I'm not ghoulish but when it comes to showing the horror of war it should not be blurred and sanitized. Get real RUclips we are not children!
41 min into a 50 min video, and I have no idea why this is called a video about a neutron bomb, except for 10 sec at the beginning. Thanks. You stole more than half an hour from my life for nothing.
I love how they clickbait you with the Neutron bomb only to talk about the US coup against Allende & Chile. It may seem as unrelated to the Neutron bomb but in reality it represents the level of physcotic bloodthirst that was within the highest levels of US govt that were doing anything they deemed necessary to strengthen and maintain US hegemony at the time. We are in similar times now where the US has even blown up their own allies pipelines and coup their partners that do not fall in line against Russia, the Empire gets deadliest when desperate
I know I'm just stating the obvious, but what kind of leader attacks his own people??
Wanna end wars? Give every legitimate nation-state a few nukes... Can Nukes also save humanity?
I thought this was about neutron bombs, turned out to be 50 minutes on anti American, anti capitalism BS.
What is anti-american here? Criticism.
God I hate that broadcast tv is to graphic for RUclips . . . when did ppl become so weak
It's a timeline people. Of course they're gonna only mention the neutron bomb at the end.
When are the nukes going to in this documentary.
How many videos do you have titled neutron bomb but have nothing to do with a neutron bomb?
A bowl of chili 😅😂
MAD is an honest assessment.
I see what you did there... I hope... I pray... Please tell me that was a pun. 😬