Oppenheimer's warning lives on

#Oppenheimer was right. Today, the world is closer to #nuclear ruin than at any time since the height of the Cold War. The #DoomsdayClock stands at 90 seconds to midnight.

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[IHaulBoxes]

Nothing like waking up in the morning and getting reminded about nuclear winter. Have a great day everyone!

[Threswyll]

In 1965, the U.S.A. lost a nuclear bomb near Japan (at the Philippine Sea). It was kept a secret and only revealed to Japan in 1989. That nuke was never recovered.
The wikipedia page is called "1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident".

[mbc]

It’s unlikely that the first use threat is going to come from a relatively stable state actor, but from a new or unknown nuclear armed entity that has been attacked with conventional forces.

[mb]

In my humble opinion, the biggest danger with nuclear weapons is that someone could misinterpret opponents move for an actual attack, or an accident causing a nuclear explosion. Then again, a world without nuclear weapons would be a lot less stable one. Imagine how close Soviet Union and USA got to a nuclear war. Now imagine what would stop then from an open war if mutual destruction was not on the table.

[hsatin]

At this point, I hate to say, with humanity's track record of well-established behaviors of self-destruction and selfishness, it is only a matter of time before these weapons are used. Especially with zealots in the mix.

[kabenitezguy]

“Neglect breeds peril. When caution falters, the instruments of death impose their ruthless resolve” my god what a bar

[mikeeB-mh]

Without yield restrictions it's still dangerous, less than 500 but has 10+ megatons yield is quite devastating.

[alexmcmillan]

Very important thing to note, the science of a nuclear winter is heavily disputed, there are many papers that compare the level of debris to major volcanic eruptions and they tend to find that it would be very unlikely for us to trigger a nuclear winter as even volcanic eruptions that spew much more debris don't always. But the scientific consensus is let people believe a nuclear winter is a guarantee so they dont use the bombs

[archingelus]

The doomsday clock does not exclusively track the severity solely on nukes threat… that is a misleading point right there

[Numba]

It's somewhat comical in a sad and dark sort of way just how much overkill there is in the quantity of nukes in the world. Thank you for another informative episode. Hopefully these terrible weapons will never be used.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️

[scottnunnemaker]

To get rid of nukes all together you’d have to get rid of every single reason anyone anywhere would want to go to war. Otherwise if there is any chance of any kind of armed conflict nations should be trying to build the best weapons to destroy their enemies with. That’s kind of how war has always worked. Even when there are treaties that limit certain types of arms in warfare, once a real war actually breaks out those treaties go out the window.

[gtdcov]

I had nightmares growing up during the Cold War. If you weren’t there you don’t know. The absurdity that we are closer now than ever before and it’s not on the societal radar says a lot about how our civilization sits on the fence. Go look at the pics from the Hiroshima blast and how the outlines from the shadows of the victims are still cast as if they are still standing there.

[perasima]

I think the alternative is much worse. Without nuclear weapons, major powers would trigger world wars probably every 20-50 years with their conventional armies clashing on the battlefield. And we already had a few of those before. Yes, one nuclear war would destroy our planet forever, but I think that the odds of that happening are much more slim than having a conventional world war every 20-30 years (in the absence of nuclear weapons). Which would probably mean that the world would lose around 300 million or more people every 3 decades. In the grand scheme of things, the loss of life would be much higher compared to a nuclear annihilation that would probably never come.

By owning nuclear weapons, conflicts between major powers are much smaller in scale and generally in the form of proxy wars, using third party countries. As a result, less people are dying and conflicts are generally confined in a smaller geographical area. I think WW3 would've already happened long time ago between the West and the Soviet Union, if they hadn't had nukes back then.

[HeisenbergFam]

Barbenheimer saying "I am death, destroyer of Barbie worlds" is so philosophical it changed my viewpoint on life and space

[mr.mercury]

I would like to say, everytime that a situation where nuclear war almost broke out, either by intention or through mistake, there has ALWAYS been at least one person unwilling to push the button. It takes multiple in order for nukes to be launched, and it seems that 1/3 of people have enough humanity in their hearts to not condemn the world to destruction.

[prim]

I think nuclear minimization is a great idea, honestly. It's resolved a lot of my uncertainty on whether it's better to abolish nuclear weapons, or keep them around as a deterrence

[shmeckle]

Warheads have gotten more accurate, thus warheads can be smaller. You no longer need an 800kt-10mt nuke that takes out a city to wipe out the airbase or factory near by.

So that’s good, though I suppose it makes them seem more practical, their use more “palatable” and reasonable since they have smaller “yields” and thus *appear* less “indiscriminate”.

[daheat]

Awesome video. This message needs to get out more. Thanks for the detailed analysis of a nuclear winter and the minimum necessary.

[Ganjor]

Take a step back and think about the fact that we are debating to wich capacity we can reasonably annihilate each other and when it "might get too far" if we take the planet down with us... and we can't even agree on that! I have no idea how we managed to survive this long xD

[impressand]

Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a 10:30