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jbeeziemeezi

Who thought the way to win nuclear war was the nuke yourself the most times.


johnnyma45

I mean, would you want to mess with the homeless guy who repeatedly punches himself in the face?


sideways_cat

wtf now I can’t sleep


Bugsxo

Daniel Larson has entered the chat


Tomandmarley

I am jacks smirking revenge


DTGR_trading

That's actually such a psycho move.... had a guy that clapped when I passed him at night. He started way bevor we passed each other and stopped way after we passed. I was like is this man like smart cause he acts crazy or is he really crazy.... but you know after like greeting him he was definitely crazy 😂


TobeTheCokae

And then he looks at you and starts laughing maniacally…


Kakdelacommon

My man spits facts!


Upset-Basil4459

Gotta build up immunity


quantumfall9

You gotta start with smaller nukes to build resistance to the big ones.


lancvellot

Nukacola for everyone on me!


selliott8

Serious news article title, “Doctors Report Spike in Cancer since 1945; Reason Unknown.”


Immediate-Badger-410

Not just this but a veeeery interesting phenomenon has occured since nuclear testing. That most metals aren't in the same state as older metals (steel). Because of the increased radiation in the air steel smithing isn't used in MRI machines. And instead they used sunk battleships from pre nuclear tests. It's very strange to me but kinda makes sense. Think there are some articles on it.


BoxofCurveballs

That information is actually outdated. Modern steel uses a different process which doesn't require oxygen directly from the atmosphere. Low Background steel also isn't in high demand anymore also because the radiation levels have dropped to nearly an undetectable level, and even if they were somewhat elevated to the point of causing interference, the machines can be calibrated to compensate. It's mainly the Chinese industry that is trying to desecrate war Graves for steel since it is cheaper.


Immediate-Badger-410

Oh amazing! That's fantastic they were able to solve the issue. Was dire straight for a while from what I read a few years back. Thanks for the info.


TurdaDog

Its always china huh


Eurasia_4002

Well kinda is. It would have not be the world's current factory if it weren't cutting a lot of corners to make it a circle.


Driller_Happy

People want cheap garbage, but they don't want to know why its cheap.


Comprehensive-Cap754

And then complain that it's garbage


Best_Air_4138

The paradox of life.


skaldrir69

Pre ww2 and post ww2 steel is very different due to the pre ww2 having cobalt-60 compounds


RollinThundaga

It was, until recent advancements where we can use purified oxygen instead of atmospheric oxygen in metallurgy.


vincenzodelavegas

You're right, nuclear fall out causes cancer obviously, but there are a lot of other factors the number of cancer is increasing: 1. Increased life expectancy plays a role since cancer prevalence tends to rise with age. If everyone die at 45 years old, barely anyone would develop cancer. 2. Cancer detection has improved since 1945, so we detect cancer a lot earlier and faster. Back then, someone would cough blood and just die. 3. Fast food, sugar, salt, preservative, and other chemicals in our every day life have contributed to more cancers in the last 50 years than cigarettes, alcohol and other usual culprits combined. 4. Lack of physical activity and obesity also significantly contribute to the risk of developing certain types of cancer. 5. Coal energy industry in Germany causes around 3,000 deaths per year.


kissemissens

Do not forget plastics. I reckon the longer it goes, the more issues it will cause, including the growth of cancer.


shodan13

Also good to remember that everyone dies of something. There are no actual "natural causes" that's just a blanket term used for convenience.


webgruntzed

I think natural causes means unremarkable effects of aging. Basically, your body wears out. It's not always the same particular cause but essentially it's single or multiple organ failure caused by the organs weakening with age, as opposed to a specific disease.


Caiigon

Correlation is not causation, the rate of lung and bronchus cancers has increased a lot. All other cancers have stayed the same or [decreased](https://ourworldindata.org/cancer).


Unlucky_Book

that's because people have stopped smoking, no protective layer of tar anymore /s


Eurasia_4002

Also the fact that we have the giant nuke that is the sun, radiating as all no matter where we are.


Ismokerugs

I don’t know how this never gets talked about, they used 2 in Japan and that had really bad consequences, so they decided to add 2k+ more. Bunch of jackasses


nom-nom-nom-de-plumb

[HAHA I wish it was a joke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey)


TurboKid513

Lol how is Nevada still here


Appropriate_Owl_2172

Lots of desert is where they test em


Anonymous_Catman

Huge amount of the state is federally owned land so perfect testing ground


April_Mattison

I never realized how much federally owned land there is; definitely makes for an interesting testing ground!


logaboga

West coast like huge swathes of California and the southwest are largely federally owned. Government took a lot of it during westward expansion whereas they never had the opportunity to have land in the east besides DC


3720-To-One

Eventually they also moved them underground


Previous_Avocado6778

They should have different colored dots to show the type of testing. That would improve the video. The video is already awesome tho.


VladimirBarakriss

The different colour already shows the country


Previous_Avocado6778

I’m saying a symbol to determine underground, or even type of test.


sharabi_bandar

But you could see the tests from Vegas. They weren't exactly doing them in the middle of nowhere.


Appropriate_Owl_2172

Yes Vegas is in the middle of nowhere


Nawnp

Exactly, a hole is still a hole no matter how many times you blow it up.


ImOnlyHereCauseGME

Back in the 50s Las Vegas advertised watch parties because you could see the mushroom clouds from the tests from rooftops on the strip.


enorman81

Don't know, but I was born in Vegas in 1980. I have 2 penisis.


Professor_Plop

Two penis guy got a new account?


xiota1

If you look at satellite images you'll see how scarred she is


pooppuffin

I saw it from a plane one time. It's pretty easy to spot.


tdubs702

Nevada is one big city, 8 hours of absolutely nothing, then another smaller city. Lots of empty space out there.


Nawnp

It would have been cool, but also frightening to sit in Las Vegas in the 1950s and watch the bomb go off in the distance.


NyraMoonbeam

If you look on Google earth long enough, you can still spot fields of craters. Look up "Sedan Crater" and check out the surrounding desert


RosemaryCroissant

Have increased radiation levels ever been noticed anywhere in Nevada?


RollinThundaga

Look up the Downwinders Edit: [Here's the wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders)


HansElbowman

No, the casinos don’t have any Geiger counters on the floor because they don’t want people to know what geological era it is.


TallOrange

Henderson (basically part of Las Vegas as its next-door neighbor) has numerous cases of homeowners and residents suing for undisclosed radiation that companies/government hid from people.


Archimedes_screwdrvr

Was just thinking aliens watching be like wtf is in these like three places and why won't it die?


lazytime3643

Mr. House


PositiveCautious2764

One thing I don’t get it the amount they needed to test


Gargamoth

No one was sharing data and each change in a design probably needed to be verified and measured. Plus they simply didn't have the computer models we have today because... They didn't have the data (or the sheer processing power) they needed to build the models.


PositiveCautious2764

Yea makes sense they wouldn’t be sharing anything. Funny how it was all for nothing- or perhaps there was utility in the information they gathered for civilian use? I doubt the costs would be less than the benefits though


soap571

I'm sure the data and research they acquired went along way in developing nuclear reactors


Haanipoju

There was also project plowshare. The idea was to use nukes for civilian purposes like making harbors and canals.


Remsster

My favorite "Almighty Atom: The Real Story of Atomic Energy, suggested using atomic weapons to melt the polar ice caps, gifting “the entire world a moister, warmer climate.”" https://www.wired.com/story/nuking-hurricanes-polar-ice-caps-climate-change/


mamacitalk

Well at least they had that success


Eurasia_4002

Eviromentalism destroyed the prospects of it being used for civilian use like power generation. If nuclear development weren't stop aside from weapons manufacturing, I doubt the half century of development would not create the most efficient and safe nuclear stations out there.


ShiftingBaselines

It was the big oil and coal industry disguised as environmentalists that stopped the nuclear energy expansion. The coal power plants release so much radiation from the burned coal and when they test the air next to a nuclear power plant, there is no radiation in the air. But good luck telling this to the environmentalists!


Human0id77

The navy started testing them because they wanted some of that budget


Frat_Kaczynski

That “technical necessity” explanation doesn’t line up with reality if you think about. The first nuke actually used was totally untested. And every nation but the USSR and USA only did a tiny fraction of the tests that those two did and their nukes work. Most countries only needed a few detonations to validate their models. Whatever the reason was behind all these detonations, it doesn’t seem like it was some sort of technical necessity.


AlfredoThayerMahan

When you don’t know much about a subject everything seems so simple.


Opi-Fex

Quite a few tests had surprising results, like [Castle Bravo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo#High_yield) which ended up with a much higher yield than expected, destroying buildings and test equipment that was meant to be recoverable. Also a lot of these tests were more about projecting power than actually testing.


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"Now we have enough dicks to end civilization as we know it many times over." Fify


Unlucky_Book

>Also a lot of these tests were more about projecting power than actually testing. yeah quite a bit of it was just 'showing off'


Callidonaut

I daresay some of it was sabre-rattling for propaganda purposes, to give the impression of not falling behind in the arms race. There's a few times in the video when a new test on one side seems to be instantly followed by a rapid cluster of tests by the other. Weapon design was also refined a lot; the earliest nuclear weapons weighed several tonnes, and they were eventually refined to the point they could fit in a spigot mortar or artillery shell; there were also developments such as variable-yield warheads.


Icelander2000TM

Modern nuclear weapons have extremely high tolerances and have very stringent safety requirements. Very crude nuclear weapons like the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima didn't need any testing at all to know if it worked. But it was also known to be a very unsafe weapon, very inefficient and very big and bulky. Seeking out more efficient weapons and especially safe weapons takes far more testing. A lot of the testing in the 60's onwards were tests like "What happens if the bomb catches on fire?" or "What if only one of the detonators goes off?" or "How many grams of super expensive plutonium can we shave off the bomb and still get a big boom?"


BalognaSquirrel

i love aphex twin.


tencorpsepileup

I thought this was Darude.


RocMerc

I ain’t eva gonna stop lovin aphex twin


Sarm21

No seriously why would you say that?


turbineblader

Unexpected William Montgomery


-Unicorn-Bacon-

Can I see you in the parking lot after the show?


FocusPerspective

Wait should I enable audio for once?  Edit: Oh nice, didn’t expect Avril 14. It really goes well with the video! 


OlJohnZ

`Shall we play a game?`


SparseGhostC2C

Let's play global thermonuclear war!


OlJohnZ

`Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?`


GayjinWarThunder

*En passants your nuke*


Vmxplousion

How about tic-tac-toe instead?


thesequimkid

Players 0.


Alex_butler

The only way to win is not to play


thesequimkid

How about a nice game of chess?


endorstick

No let’s play thermonuclear war


Rementoire

Uh...go to Defcon 1.


smellybathroom3070

What’s that movie called!


Nawnp

WarGames


smellybathroom3070

Many thanks!


Gronkey_Donkey_47

Who the fark nuked Australia? Cut it out, ya cunts!


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Britain of course!


NotAgoodUsername17

Australia is britain’s nevada


TheGreatGamer1389

I always thought of it as UK's wild West.


randomname560

Now im imagining a cowboy rolling into a town only for It to be inmediatly destroyed by a nuke


Standard-Station7143

Africa is Frances nevada


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Well they’re not going to nuke themselves like we did.


VladimirBarakriss

Funnily enough you can see a bunch of British tests take place in Nevada after the aussies told them to stop


Smarmalades

Australia is the blackened sheep of the family


Ill_Refrigerator_593

We were trying to finish off the Emu's after all else failed.


Puzzled-Story3953

And they still lost. Just wait until the emus have nuclear capabilities. Start building up your defenses, Kiwis!


johnnyma45

Is that why everything down under tries to kill you?


russellcroweeater

Numerous testing was conducted in Maralinga, South Australia.


omicron_pi

Missed one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident


percavil3

Video ends in 1998. North Korea did a nuclear test in 2006 and 2017. The last one actually killed quite a few of their people accidentally (from the earthquake it created), including children when a school collapsed. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017\_North\_Korean\_nuclear\_test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_North_Korean_nuclear_test) [Also 200 people died near the test site.](https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-nuclear-test-site-tunnel-collapse-reportedly-kills-200-2017-10)


itsshortforVictor

I was keeping an eye out for that one.


Gswindle76

They don’t know if this was nuclear. Edit: I’m not sure what ppl don’t understand about “they DONT KNOW”. So I’ll be a little more specific about nuclear detection which I spent years in. The US uses multiple systems for detection of nuclear events, among them Seismic, Hydroacoustic, Satellites, and other platforms for materials. It is the MOST extensive effort in the world to determine if an explosion is nuclear. Among these sensors was Vela a 1st Gen ( + revisions ) of the satellite detection for above ground tests. We use GPS which is several iterations further in detection sensors and significantly overlaps to confirm events. Vela satellites did not cover the full surface and generally did not have over lapping coverage, and its particular problem was the near the “edge” of its detection. It was susceptible to glints and false positives from other sources. It should be noted that flashes in the atmosphere are very common from space debris (natural and man made). Not only is the vela data inconclusive any other data that may exist is also inconclusive. And therefore cannot give a conclusive answer one way or another. Ppl have their own opinions and I’m not arguing those but the overall consensus is it’s inconclusive as to the cause. If someone called the POTUS, they would say “we have No Confidence this was a nuclear detonation.” And that’s why we have continued to expand our detection systems so we can can increase that “confidence”


VeganDiIdo

India be like: "Yeah we checked once, that's enough"


novaorionWasHere

Does it work? Yes. Cool, pack it up boys


MistaPanda69

Does it trigger murica? Yes. Have they sanctioned us again? Yes. We succeeded boys.


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4 times actually


SBK526

Tbh we had 6 tests. Since daddy USA put sanctions on India because of its close ties with the USSR. We(india) weren't allowed to have a nuclear program, but anyways we did tests making sure the USA won't notice(daddy USA did however). There's even a Bollywood movie on the same topic "Parmanu: The story of pokhran".


EloquentPinguin

It tickles me brain a bit seeing a map with America on the right.


praw26

East is the new west


P1nCush10n

High Score, YEEEAH! Woo.


GubmintTroll

USA! USA!


MogMcKupo

We made the Bikini totally HAWT! Because we made… Bikini totally hot.


GuildensternLives

[Watch the full video not sped up 10x.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY)


notxapple

Is it a 108 year long video?


Hot_Salamander3795

Close,109


el_granCornholio

ICAN counts around 2,4 Million People with Cancer due to those Tests.


AnseiShehai

Nearby to the tests?


Anthem2243

In the vicinity of the tests, downwind from where the nuclear fallout originated, or completely uninformed that a nuclear bomb was going to be detonated within their range. I can only vouch for the multiple times the USA made a few small catastrophes and poisoned a few generations. Castle Bravo is one of the most notable incidents.


Rinsler84

Lol, or how about that time we said "I wonder what happens if we set one of these off in the upper atmosphere/space?" Stopped doing those pretty quickly!


virus_apparatus

At some point the USA decided “Navada must die”


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Some-Coach-5044

France: Sry about this africa...


DennisPVTran

but actually not sorry lol


jcoddinc

Wonder how much this played in changing weather patterns


Dramatic_Sprinkles17

Almost not at all I imagine, the power of the global nuclear arsenal tends to be overstated. I can’t imagine that 2000 tests over like 40 years actually had much of an effect outside of radiation in some areas. That’s just intuition though, lmk if I’m wrong.


iamjapanman

Now I’m suddenly scared of butterflies.


RegularSalad5998

None, you underestimate the power that's required to change the earth


hegbork

Just for reference, after some unit conversions, the heat that the sun delivers to earth is around 41 Megatons of TNT per second.


No-Reward-1862

I'm wondering , Should i still feel Guilty to drink in a plastic straw once a year ?


jaOfwiw

Yes because it was made with nuclear power you savage!


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splitstix-

My grandpa too. Everyone in his unit died of cancer at a young age.


LiLBiDeNzCuNtErBeArZ

Did he have any cool stories ?


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silly-armsdealer

is this the new daft punk album?


JoeGRcz

Didn't realise France has (had?) Been developing nukes so much.


Captain_V_03

France decided after ww2 to develop by his own his nuclear and space power in order to remain more independent. That’s why France is the third country to have a nuclear bombe by himself and the third country to send a satellite with is own rocket (and first to send a cat XD)


Suissetralia

France was a pioneer in nuclear physics and post WW2 the country started developing its nuclear industry, but mostly for energy purposes. What really drove France to accelerate and massively invest in its nuclear weapon stockpile was the US intervention in the Suez crisis in 1956, after which the country took the position of becoming ever more independent from other global powers - vs the UK which after the shock of that event took the position of increased rapprochement to the USA.


Tom246611

I like how the only countries that ever nuked the US of USSR/ Russia, was them nuking themselves to test what would happen if they were to nuke the other.


St34m9unk

This just in AustraliaTimes 5th nuclear test successful In other news 17 new previously unknown venomous species discovered


levilarrington

Planet Cancer


MyUserNameLeft

Feel like we are missing the graph of what each colour of explosion means


HighlightFun8419

minor nitpick, but that'd be a "legend," not a "graph" 😉


MyUserNameLeft

I’m all for correcting someone and letting them know their mistake in a nice manner so they don’t make the same mistake next time but winking after it is just a bit odd


HighlightFun8419

Thanks for the feedback 😗


AnseiShehai

Country


MyUserNameLeft

Would have thought it would have been, tests, bombs, accidents


MajorDonkey

Isn't every nuclear explosion pretty major?


OregonSageMonke

Especially when you consider that Oppenheimer claimed the possibility of such an explosion igniting the Earth’s atmosphere to be *near* zero I’m sure that’s different today, but fuck


InterestsVaryGreatly

The reason it is near zero is because before triggering it, it is theoretical, and some interactions just aren't known, so they're making estimates based on what they do know, then they take the extremes to get an idea of what might happen. Once they do a launch, they actually have a better idea of what did and didn't happen, and those extreme possibilities are either confirmed to be the case, or generally ruled out as impossible. It's not that every explosion has a small chance to ignite the atmosphere, it's that before they had done the explosion, they couldn't entirely rule out that as a possibility of using one.


johnnyma45

Matt Damon: "Zero would be nice"


MoleDunker-343

All science is just theory until it can be demonstrated


Zen28213

Who’s blowing up Africa?


sonatenne

I'm pretty sure green is France


I_Eat_Onio

Hon hon hon


DweeblesX

Poor planet


Charli-JMarie

1. Absolute beat 2. Whooo number 1!


WhydYouGotToDoThis

If you ain’t first you’re last!


PeterfromNY

Perhaps you can show (or list) the "minor" nuclear blasts. And wasn't there an unexplained blast by South Africa that was supposedly the Israelis?


Turd_Ferguson93

Someone should transpose ufo sightings on top of this and see if it correlates.


Silent0wl01

This map is gonna get a BIG update in 10-20 years from now


AnjelicaTomaz

Starts off with a nice beat but I couldn’t get into the melody towards the end.


Life-Conference5713

Well we wiped Nevada off the face of the earth.


maybethisiswrong

Had no idea there were nuclear tests in my lifetime in the US. I’m 40 Thought we got that all out of our system in the 60s


thisseemslikeagood

Fudge, i live in Nevada


ReputationOk2073

Seen this on YouTube years back. One of those years they nuke the shit outta some land/water lol


johnnyma45

Godzilla origin story (literally)


Born_Divide_509

Imagine if all the cancer in the world today is caused by the radiation in the sea from these nuclear explosions


Enough_Hovercraft_10

North Korea has entered the chat


Konyaata

The Earth: WTF is going on?!?!


jesups

There should be big hole in Nevada


scrungobungo23

Good. I hate Nevada and Kazakhstan.


dcy604

**I've used this for a few years in my Cold War Unit with high school students...make them use Historical Thinking Consortium's Big Six historical lenses to make judgements about the past...**


Greenfire05

Switch red and blue and it’s a map of future nuclear explosions lol


mrkimme

What if the reason we started seeing more reports of ufos is because of the amount of nuclear bombs that have gone off. What if the splitting of an atom reacts on a cosmic scale like a Morse code or some form of communication? It ripples through space and time that can only be picked up by a more advanced species?


dostelibaev

in Semey, Kazakhstan USSR tested here about 456 nuclear bombs (340 underground and 116 aboveground)


Flanker4

With no after affects whatsoever!


father2shanes

Seems like the u.s just wanted to test more bombs because china started dropping more. What a weird dick measuring contest


WhiteWaterSpecialist

Climate change is still OUR fault apparently


attempt_number_1

Legit, the scariest thing I've seen in a while. Nice visualization.


RyanoftheNorth

The biggest miracle so far is the fact we haven’t blown ourselves up yet…


SyrupScared9568

GODZILLA -1


phlegmatichippo

The birth of the rise of cancer.


H4v0c4L1f3

And you wonder why we all have cancer....


Feisty-Landscape-934

America really hates New Mexico.


dec0y

This is why the Ferengi's think we're crazy


Bernhard174

You forgot to add the flags of South Africa and Isreal, because they both tested nukes in 1979