I actually know a guy, Roy Henderson, who was in the US Air Force during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was stationed at a nuclear missile silo and went through a similar scenario to Petrov's. At the time, they were installing a secondary communication system to add redundancy in case of a failure due to a nuclear strike. During this installation, the old comm line to the silo was accidentally cut... before the new one was properly connected. Now, in US military protocol, every silo is designed to be able to operate independently, in case of a nuclear strike on Washington D.C. and a subsequent complete and utter destruction of the central command. When the old comm line was cut, it triggered the alarm that is tied to this protocol, and completely locked down the silo; no one could get in or out. Also, the missile was automatically armed and primed for launch. Roy was the only guy in the control room at the time, and for a few minutes, he had complete control of that nuclear missile. Luckily, he was very much like Petrov. But unlike Petrov, he knew for certain that the alert was a false one. He figured that the construction crew accidentally cut the old line and he didn't fire the missile. Meanwhile outside, literally everyone, and I mean EVERYONE on the base got word of what happened and were screaming toward the silo in whatever they had -- jeeps, trucks, helicopters, you name it -- all in an effort to tell Roy that it was a false alarm. It was hands-down, one of the top 5 "Oh shit! Oh Fuck!" moments of all time for them. When he told my dad the story, dad told me that he turned pale. To have that kind of power, no matter what you know or don't know, is absolutely terrifying.
@Kar amacı gütmeyen kanal If you digged around enough in the DoD's records -and you had the proper authorization- you might find a report about the incident. All I am going off of is word-of-mouth from the guy himself, to my dad, then me.
@Oscar Leaving an ICBM completely unattended? That's very unlikely. But on the off-chance it did happen? The people on the outside would probably just have to slowly drill through the door.
That's not the first time we had an oh shit moment...... Once a bomber plane accidentally loaded up and carried three nuclear warheads across the country when they weren't suppose to..... And another time a live nuclear warheads was dropped out of a plane and nearly detonated on impact......
I couldn't find anything covering the incident, but I did find an obituary of a "Roy 'Tom' Henderson" who served in the Air Force from 1950 - sometime after 1973. That checks out with this story being during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Imagine being in Rome in the first century being like "yeah I just got this new vase, its yellow hue reminds me of the sun and it's even warm to the touch too" and dying in your mid-twenties.
Modern uranium glass glows but does not irradiate at all due to the ceramic layering above the glass. It's only if this layer were to be damaged is it dangerous. Not sure about ancient uranium glass though.
EmpLemon is seriously the most underrated Youtuber out there. His storytelling is on a whole different level and his editing is top tier. How does he not even have one million subs when he's producing content like this?!
like this belongs on TV, he should shoot a few emails to various media companies and see if they can work something out [and get the copyright deals and stuff in order]
I think it's the best video of his. It's so impactful at so many different moments. "I did what I was trained to do" is such a powerful moment, it really shows how lucky we are that Stanislav never thought that way.
Im worried about my home country(Slovakia) because our government yes-men agreed to become US military base, which would resolve in war dragging to Slovakia as well
I certainly hope this recent conflict does not escalate to a point where we will need another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov. Because I'm not sure anyone today would spare the world with the tensions rising now. Being in that hot-seat would be a hard place to be.
That’s why I’m back here too. Perhaps I’m reflecting our good boy Stan here across the whole Russian people, but even if it comes to destruction for all, I don’t believe the Russians will do it. Whatever I feel about the geopolitical climate, this video reminds me that we aren’t so different, what scares me is Hawaii man. If the end of the world comes, it will be on the shoulders of the aggressor, and I’m terrified it will be us, because we still as a nation don’t believe in peace.
the fact stanislov is so underground and unknown makes me sad he literally could’ve become the person with the highest kill count in history if he just picked up a phone
If I didn’t know the context, I probably would have found it fitting. This must be the mind of a YouTube Pooper, always thinking of ways to splice unrelated media together.
Stanislav is absolutely a hero! This video is so underrated and I feel like this story is one that many more people should learn from, but they simply haven't been exposed to it.
He could also have interpreted the "only 5 missile" as the only missiles the system were able to detect. This is the doomsday alternative universe he could have created
Stan singlehandedly saved humanity from complete destruction, only to be forgotten by it. Man, what a tragedy. I’ll always remember you Stan, even if it’s just me.
I don't think people tell you often enough just how phenomenal your use of sound is. You're damn good at editing your audio so that it really makes an impact
That is super true! The scene from this video that showcased the perspective of the Tsar Bomba explosion was definitely the most impactful part of the video.
I honestly love that little clip of Dunkey's voice over the bits of human history. Despite his words being meant for something completely different, it still captures the human experience at it's most raw: to conquer reality. The only difference between a game and real life is that when a game breaks, you can restart and apply your previous knowledge; but real life? When we break reality, there's no going back.
I've watched this video 5+ times and I can safely say it is my personal pick for the Apex of YouTube content. It may sound like I am exaggerating but this part of humanity's History (and, of course, of the one that most definitely saved us all) always brings a tear to my eye. I don't think it would have nearly as much of an impact if it wasn't presented in such a marvelous manner. Thank you, truly.
They only do true quality stuff like buzzfeed news about mansplaining,Justin beiber and his friends singing, great hosts like jimmy Kimmel talking about how Republicans are bad,and whatever people are offended by this week will always be what's on there. Totally important. I love seeing Ariana grande....talk about donuts?...uh...yeah...love YouTube trending -_-
@Friday Night Nicktoons Why are we still talking about political content like it's 2016? YouTube is a corporation. It's breeds lifestyle content to design lifestyle content to encourage more lifestyle content. The more people consume the more money YouTube makes. Money money money. That's what YouTube's about, that's what corporations are about. Seriously when was the last time man spreading or some shit has even been on the front page of YouTube?
The fact that some people in the comments say the video is biased in favor of the USSR and others say the video is biased for the US just proves how right he is
god, emp is just the king of these kinds of video essays. the writing is top notch, the editing, use of sound, the choices in footage, the wonderful transitions... you can not only tell the passion he has for telling these stories, but his mastery of how to tell these stories. keep it up, big guy.
I've known about Petrov for about a decade. During all this, the USSR was on high alert because the allies were doing a training exercise that involved their radiomen giving mock orders and reports. This included nuclear launch reports. The soviets believed that if an attack were to ever occur, it would be during one of these exercises, as they would be unable to tell what was really happening. It was like a real life 'War Games,' which had coincidentally just came out two months prior.
The fact that we are even here now given what happened during that early fall morning, is so implausible that it has lead me to believe that we were not allowed to be destroyed.
Chilling. I believed there was nothing else left to say at that point in the video, so the sudden realization of what that meant really hit hard. Amazing job on this.
Eh? There's nothing chilling about it. It's not like the guy was even close to being in the same position as Petrov. Hell, look up the NORAD computer glitch from 1979 if you want to see the reaction to a similar situation. All that guy did was send out a warning. You can be mad at him for fucking up and being wrong, but to act like it some kind of mindless drone because he did what he was trained to do in order to potentially save lives is absurd.
imagine being a time traveller in any given timeline, and standing outside of petrov's room: you know he has made a decision, and you don't know what the decision was, only time will tell. at that point, you're in the largest scale schrodinger situation humanity has ever faced, the world is both shattered to bits and perfectly fine at the same time
Well with the way the world is right now let’s pray there is another man like Petrov, because the alternative is something I don’t even want to think about.
This is outright my favorite video on YouTube perhaps, and it's really a bummer it didn't perform as well as the others because holy shit is Emp good at this type of thing.
Emp, gotta say, you may be the best creator on this site. Entertaining, highly informative, insightful, eloquent. Your videos are bona-fide professional works and you should be very proud of them
Over the past couple years I have come back and rewatched this video a few times. Truth is... This may be one of the best videos I myself have ever seen. The history of this obscure story, the implications of if it had gone differently, and the philosophical take on a lot of it (the idea of it being our great filter "judgement day" specifically...) All while having it remain grounded by focusing on the common person... It's phenomenal. It's frankly a work of art. The editing is superb, the sound design is excellent, and the overall composition is just brilliant. Fantastic job with this one Emp. You deserve every praise you get.
That moment when a YouTube shitposter makes a more emotionally moving, well researched, and engaging mini-documentary than most multi-billion dollar media organizations.
Multi-million dollar media organizations are great! They work tirelessly to ensure the working man stands a chance in this world! Not to mention their determination to keep things fair and avoid operating in a manner than could be construed as manipulative. We're actually quite lucky because it could be much worse if they valued their profit margin higher than maintaining a strong moral foundation, and luckily they like to exercise being honest over on pushing any sort of narrative or agenda! Can you imagine?!
Titus Kent Is he really a shitposter anymore? I'm pretty sure at this point (based on his past NEVER EVER uploads) he's a firmly-established historian essayist.
The MSM organizations are the ones spearheading division and paranoia in the human race. In a manner of speaking, the vast majority of them would have no guilt in 'pushing the button' if it meant an end to their ideological enemies.
Folks like EmpLemon are the reason why the media you mostly see on TV is scared of YouTube. On YouTube you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want instead of being forced to watch one specific thing at a specific point in time on TV, depending on what channel you watch.
In fact, most of these multi-billion dollar organizations rely on boomers who still think TV is as relevant as it was decades ago. Meanwhile, slowly but surely TV's are becoming more and more like computers. There are TV's out there that can let you watch Netflix and other things through just a few button pushes. There is even an internet browser on some cases. These are the two main reasons why i think things like YouTube is going to replace Television.
@William Jordan And people that question the questionable aspects. That's what separates them from the others. They're allowed to debate and isn't considered stepping out of a line
@Gplgs Thank you for your feedback! It's very important to us here! I'm always honest about corporations because without them innovation would be impossible and we'd all be better off dead if the world were different! It's important not to think about it too much and just consume and engage with your favorite social medias for a happy, healthy future!
Breaks my heart to think that he does't get the recognition he deserves, if it weren't for him most of us wouldn't even be born, and the rest would most likely be dead.
The pairing of the Dunkee clip alongside imagery of the evolution of warfare eventually leading to nukes (so as to save the "player" from the frustration of the meta) was a God-Tier satirical analogy.
@Toronto Transit Channel I really like this format. Very few people do it because it is hard to do. I know a good portion of it but stil lwatch the video because it is so entertaining to watch.
Boy am I lucky to be taking strides to what I want to be. Probably because sooner or later...
My life could become one with the flowing air and ashes. Even if I don't get a nuclear warhead nowadays.
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A few fun facts about Tsar bomba to give people nightmares; -It was detonated around a mile off the ground, and STILL caused a medium-sized Earthquake -The plane that dropped it was physically incapable of getting away fast enough to escape the shockwave, which caused all the engines to malfunction, forcing a mid-flight repair -It was so bright that people over 65 miles away thought a second sun was rising seeing the blast -It was over a thousand times more powerful than Trinity, Little boy, and Fat man combined -It was only half as strong as it was supposed to be
Every once in a while I come back to this video. There's something about it all that makes it perfect. I say that this is EmpLemon's best video and is a masterpiece.
It's a shame this one of Emp's Never Ever series has the least amount of views, because in practice I think this is the best of them. There's something to be said on how he used YTP editing skills to instead highlight just how tense the situation was. Rarely do I feel such an emotional payoff in media, much less a documentary.
@Zaid Nava I certainly hope we can, as things are looking rather bleak at the moment. I'm still holding out hope that we'll realize the error of our ways before it's too late..
@Zaid Nava That is the tough part of this situation, which is why I mentioned that things are looking bleak. In fact, it might not happen in the next few years, which is the worrying part, as time is most critical.
This whole situation has been centuries in the making, with multiple factors leading us to this point. Of course, with those factors came decisions, some of which had no ideal solution; there would be conflict regardless of the decision.
One such decision (or in this case, conflict) was the civil war. No matter the victor, we would find ourselves in a conflict such as the one we're facing now. Since the union won in our timeline, the former confederates felt oppressed, so that added a bit of fuel for the equal rights conflicts of the next century, and the following few decades leading up to the present. If the confederacy had won (factoring out the socioeconomic/political differences brought on by a confederate victory), there would have, inevitably, been some form of conflict between the confederate government/population and the enslaved African Americans. Of course, there's no way to know that, as it's alternate history theory, but I can make a guess, as baseless as it could be.
As Emp discussed in the video, one contributing factor (debatably) may be the lack of a major threat to our nation (in regards to the ability to completely destroy our nation from the outside), which (debatably) may have caused our internal conflicts in our own nation in order to keep that momentum of fear or anger going that was built up during the course of the cold war.
Finally, things are especially tense this year as it's an election year, with both major parties having (in my opinion) a rather poor choice of candidate (also in my opinion, the larger of the smaller parties (the green party and the libertarian party) also have lame candidates). Because we're at a periodic point in our nation's calendar (deciding how the country is going to be run), both sides of the polarized groups are rallying behind their party's candidate. Because both parties are the textbook definition of polar opposites and make up a majority of the United States population, no matter who wins or who loses, a major group of people will be uncontrollably upset.
So what can be done to get back onto the right track? I don't think many people will take the time out of their day to read this far, they probably quit out when I brought up the civil war. But to those who read on, I have some major pieces of advice. First, vote for who you believe fits your values best, regardless of party alignment, but don't be upset if your choice doesn't win. At the end of the day, we need to make the best of the hand we're dealt, regardless of if it's a bad hand or a royal flush. Second, don't separate your fellow countrymen into categories like party alignment, race, sex, etc., rather think of them as Americans. We're all under the same flag, so we need to do our best to work together to make it work. Third, listen to other people's opinions and weigh them against your own. You don't have to agree with them, but hear them out regardless. Fourth, if someone is gloating or attempting to incite anger out of you, don't take the bait. Keep a calm, collected, and most importantly, positive attitude towards the person doing the gloating/goading. This will cause them to feel like their boastful nature is having little effect on the people around them, causing them to question the effectiveness of such actions and/or thinking. Finally, and this is the most important part, hatred is a terrible thing to feel, and you shouldn't feel any form of hatred towards anyone, regardless of anything they stand for, anything they do, and most importantly, anything they are.
Make of this what you will, as I'm just a faceless person leaving a comment on a platform that's known for untrustworthy comments on a video that isn't seen by even a majority of the people on earth.
@Zaid Nava Bit by bit. Learning. Emotional intellect needs to be trained. Say hello to someone you see but never say anything. Maybe stick around for a few seconds to hold a door open for someone. Ask if someone's got something on they're mind if you're gonna be strangers in close proximity for a while. Non-PAC volunteer services. Talk to the guy/lady you've seen quite a few times now, but never got time to perhaps get a coffee;, like Nardwuar says ad nauseam: _the strongest method of persuasion--JUST ASK. •́ ‿ ,•̀ It's legit advice, and can't emphasize how far its help. I am glad I knew about this fella when my father died. Helped alot of perspective..
I feel like I've always learned something and grown as a person after watching one of your videos. Like I've been enlightened one lesson at a time. Thank you.
Using a Dunkey reference to explain how it's human nature to take what at the time seems as a simplistic finding to the natural endgame of trying to harness it's power in order to essentially change the way the "game" is played to better favor the player is actually incredible in its comparison and articulation.
This video and it's creator are the absolute pinnacle of YouTube. Nothing surpasses emplemon's prowess. If I could choose any editor in the world to work for me, it'd be my boy emp.
Fantastic video but there is one thing I disagree with. Petrov followed his training. He said so himself in an interview. It was in his training where he learned that in case of a nuclear launch the US would launch hundreds of missiles. So he deduced correctly. Yes, a degree of his individual self also played a part. Nevertheless, the man should have a statue both on Washington and Moscow.
The Tsar Bomba edit dropped my soul. I knew all the stories before this video, but the video made me feel like I never did. I think people would care more about history if people told it like this video. With Passion.
I'd like to say that videos like these done by anyone else would often leave you with a sense of dread and fear that a crisis like this would come up again. But Emp really turned it around, especially towards the end, by pointing out how much thinking for ourselves is powerful.
7:03 This gave me goosebumps, sent chills down my spine and gave me anxiety all at once. 1) This is a masterpiece EmpLemon very great! 2) The very threat of nuclear annihilation looms over our very being and we need to take action.
Don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but I’ve seen some of the most creative youtubers on this platforms blossom, and you my good sir are one of them. Phenomenal audio choices and timings, from music to voice and clips from all the way back then. The visuals itselfs are amazing and on-track, waving through each image/video like the quietest but most smoothest rube goldberg machine.
This is further elevated by half of the audio clips you use, being from some of the YouTubers I watch on the daily. Adding that layer of connection takes your videos to a whole other level, and I have no doubt this series will become a staple soon enough. Keep up the good work!
Whether it’s intentional or not, I noticed that out of all the “Never Ever” episodes, this is the only one where the title says “There MAY never…” instead of “There WILL never...” Perhaps to highlight how there just might be someone with enough power to end the world, once again. But I don’t know, it could just be a simple error.
Thank you for this video. I've lived my life drunkenly telling everyone I can about Stanislav Petrov and have constantly experienced frustration at the lack of credit this man has received. I appreciate this video more than you know.
bringing it full circle with the hawaii false alarm and the man responsible saying he was doing what he was trained to do is genius directing. that part gave me chills.
This is one of the only videos that constantly bring me close to tears with just how real it can sometimes feel. One of the best videos that I feel can not be shared enough. Thank you EmpLemon.
Watching this made me realize: There will never ever be another comic book like Watchmen. For a couple reasons: 1. Watchmen was a product of its time, and without the threat of nuclear annihilation, no series can carry that sense of existential weight. 2. Attempts at adaptations, sequels, spin-offs and crossovers could not re-capture what made the series so good in the first place. 3. Alan Moore has not topped himself since writing the series.
There are probably other reasons, but I think Watchmen would very much deserve an entry in the Never Ever series. I have faith in you, Emp!
We all need to take a second to admire the integration of dunkey talking about difficulty in video games to describe the increasingly sinister nature of warfare. Goddamn genius
I was living in Honolulu when the false alarm happened. I slept through it. I was supposed to work that morning and I was late to work. My dad was also living there at the time and he said people were running trying to find shelters and bunkers to go to and people were screaming like their lives were going to end. Imagine the fear those people had in those moments, being on an island almost 3000 miles away from the nearest continent, almost certain that your life is going to end and that you can’t do anything about it…
You’re views on Kamikazi are very simplistic. Most kamikazi pilots were forced into it. Many were college students that had no military experience. They were not jumping at the chance to kill themselves. The Japanese were extremely fearful of being captured because they had been led to believe through propaganda that US soldiers would rape, torture, and kill soldiers and civilians they captured. Many women and children were killed hiding in caves at Iwo Jima because they were so terrified of being captured.
I can believe Kamikaze pilots being forced to become suicidal because of the society they are raised in. Of course most people wouldn't want to kill themselves for the sake of their country, but in those times, I think they would rather die than face the enormous shame and punishment that Japanese society will impose on them.
You do such a good job of building importance before getting to the point of the story. Engaging the viewer with knowledge and context to up the effect of the video.
Damn, you really made me tear up a little at 39:32.. Amazing video, thank you for this documentary, and keeping the name of the man who most of us have to thank for our life... alive.
That edit of the bone from 2001 into the nuclear weapon (I think) instead of the spacecraft gave me chills. I'm blown away by how excellent your videos are.
These videos are the height of documentary youtube work. So much so that I think it should be submitted to actual film festivals. You are amazing at story telling and insightful review. Keep on trucking my dude.
I would like to see EmpLemon do a video on Joachim Ronnenberg, the Norwegian resistance fighter and his group who helped stop the nazi heavy water experiment. Watching the atomic bomb backstory part reminded me of him, and it would be neat for him to do a video on him.
Just rewatching this today, I noticed something subtly striking about this video... it's currently the only Never Ever episode that says "there may Never Ever"... not, "there will Never Ever"... of all the historically amazing people and events the series has tackled, this is the one that "may" never ever happen again... just shows how horrifying the nature of it all is.
Still, I remain cautiously optimistic that Stanislav Petrov will forever remain an example to follow, and not a lucky fluke.
@Sara Skyline kinda, two of the three commanding officers already approved the launch of missiles (keep in mind they were underwater and had no communications with the outside world) but Arkhipov still refused to approve to nuclear launch
@Alpha Lax it's terrifying because it we know that's what most ppl would have done. If that was the man instead of stanislav you most likely wouldn't exist
The most powerful people in the world got there by not being petrov. But there are Petrovs in the world they are just always in a low scale environment.
Nobody has to be alive for nukes to fire. On either side. Final say is in the hands of a machine. If no human response is detected and all sensors point towards nuclear annihilation. Do you think this system once in a while burps up like a copy of windows Me? You bet it fucking does! Despite mountains of poopy panted officers who had their Stanislov moment along the way....those systems are still in place. Fucking pray they dont go BSOD suddenly.
We are an absurd species. The traits that are most harmful to the community are the traits that are flaunted in public as the most desirable. That takes a special kind of stupid.
Would you rather he just ignore the alarm next time? It's not like he was in charge of firing off nuclear missles like Stanislav Petrov. He was thinking about others too.
It can be argued that the US had plenty of Petrovs/Arkhipov in the 1960s when they had the great idea to fly armed bombers with nuclear warheads 24/7 just to be ready for a nuclear retaliation. I'm not even joking, this was a real thing (look up Operation Chrome Dome). I'm surprised we even made it through that decade tbh
Just rewatching this today, I noticed something subtly striking about this video... it's currently the only Never Ever episode that says "there may Never Ever"... not, "there will Never Ever"... of all the historically amazing people and events the series has tackled, this is the one that "may" never ever happen again... just shows how horrifying the nature of it all is.
Still, I remain cautiously optimistic that Stanislav Petrov will forever remain an example to follow, and not a lucky fluke.
I just realized something... At 19:15, Emp shows a scene from TF2's Meet the Spy. For context, the characters shown are Blue Spy(The guy that gets shot), Blue Scout(Left), Blue Soldier(Middle), and Blue Heavy(Right). They are informed that a Red Spy is impersonating one of them. I think each of the characters symbolizes someone. Soldier(McCarthy) shoots the Blue Spy(Innocent person) because he suspects Red Spy is disguised as Blue Spy, when in reality, Red Spy is Scout. Best part is that the colors match up, Blue for US, Red for USSR
At The same Time - he really just did his Job. Petrov Was right with his decision but he disobeyed orders. I dont think Person who pushed Information about missle in hawaii is to blame, they paid him to do this and fired him when he did.
Don’t forget the Tsar Bomba was halved in explosive size because the pilot wouldn’t survive and testing it anywhere at that size would cause too much damage for a show of force.
Remember though, the soviets really couldn’t have cared less if a pilot died. It would of done better because killing off the pilot would have done the soviets a plus by killing off the only true witnesses of the test.
@Jam _ ah yes, thank god that the pilot survived to tell the tale of the time they discreetly tested a bomb that was so large it caused tremors to echo through the world multiple times. That pilots testimony was really the only way we would have ever found out about such a top secret test that definitely wasn't done intentionally to intimidate the USA.
@Jam _ ah yes, the pilot was the only one who knew a nuclear bomb of that magnitude was detonated. Thank god he didn't die and if he did the secret of the tsar bomba would never be unearthed!!!1!!1!1!
@Sakboi2012 he might be wrong on the fact that no one could tell what happened but that piolet is eating dirt the moment he come ack to the hanger
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it was more a matter of its creator fearing the effects of a 100 MT bomb exploding on the north of Russia more than anything so he halved the capacity with lead.
@Ben Siener it was actually only cut by 1/3, the most explosive and radioactive material, And it was actually a last minute call by the designer too, as he had his Oppenheimer moment.
@Jam _ That is the most stupid thing I have heard in a long time. The USSR detonates the largest Atomic bomb ever created and the other countries should wonder what happened? And why should the USSR ever hide it if it is a demonstration of its strengh? Use your brain for one second.
And even then they still put his chances of living at 50% and he almost lost control after getting hit by the shockwave. It's just inconceivable how powerful nukes are, and that was only ONE...
@Jam _ You you see USSR as whole thing. There were times 1917-1953 it was time when government didn't care about people.After Stalins death there was revision policy. People were freed from labor camps.They let Soljenicin to publish his book about Stalins terror times. Basically government was fee So i guess there were period 1917-1955 and 1960-1991 when there were kind of very socialist times Medical care , social care , free housing , free education was on very high level. My mom was born in far city. She received free education bacame a doctor. Went to work in hospital in Moscow and same year government gave her apartment 55 sqare meters not far from her work. If families had more children government was providing them with bigger apartments. I think 70s up to 85 was kind of golden years of soviet union. When gorbachev came to power started deficit of products 86 chernobyl it was heavily declining. Don't really understand why. When USSR broke thing got so bad that average life expectancy dropped from 78 in 80s to 65 in 1993.
Just a little note about tsar bomba, the cloud broke into space. And it was also only at half power. It was originally supposed to be a 100 megaton bomb, but some soviet officer at the plant where it was produced decided to change it.
@Problems And as much as we seem to hate our fellow man, the mercy any of us average people contain is enough to keep this experiment going. I studied astronomy so I’m well aware how unlikely it is that we’re the first species to break past the great filter, but the optimist in me feeds off of comments like these. I think in the end, common people will be the true heroes when we make it to the next stage of our human journey, not the leaders, not the brightest among us, but truly unremarkable people like Stan, and that’s how it should be.
Had it been me we'd probably be in the stone age right now I've been pretty interested in the atom bomb and the cold war for most of my life but something about this video really made me come to terms with it all 10/10 made me cry twice
The greatest birthday present I've ever gotten is knowing that on my birthday of September 26th, Stanislav Petrov didn't cause a nuclear war. I wasn't alive back then but it's a great birthday present every year knowing this information.
That beginning scene describing the missiles of Japan Was terrifying That was scarier than any horror movie will or can ever be Because of the simple fact, that it's real
This is honestly the best documentary I’ve ever seen on the web. It honestly feels wrong watching this for free. I am still rather young and I don’t even know if this comment will ever get any attention, but that doesn’t matter, what matters is: EmpLemon, you have outdone yourself, and you are an inspiration, and frankly I’ve been taking you for granted, many of us probably have, so thank you Emp for keeping YouTube tolerable, and thank you for being an amazing teacher.
First thing I’m doing when I’m finally old enough is get on your Patreon, because thanking you with simple words is simply not enough for me.
Watch the channel "Ahoy". He makes documentaries mainly on video games and famous stuff pertaining to video games (famous guns like MP40, AK47, Minigun, etc.)
@Marfit +1. Ahoys documentary on the cold war affecting video games is genius. Hes another man that does all his own writing, narration, editing and even makes the music himself.
Another great creator of similar docu-videos is Jon Bois. He makes mostly sports videos but you don’t just have to be a sports fan to enjoy his videos. Emp has actually said that Jon is an inspiration to him in his Dale Earnhardt video I believe. He currently works and makes videos for SBNation and I recommend checking out his current Mariners series and his old series “Pretty Good“
This is one of the greatest what-ifs of history, along with what if Gavril Princep never shot Franz Ferdinand or what if Charles "the Hammer" Martel failed to repel the Umayyad Caliphate's invasion of Europe
This without exaggeration one of the best videos on YouTube. Puts the world in perspective that a few seconds of thought decided what the world would exist.
God I love stories of Cold War One thing is for sure,someone like me that loves History,that loves the History of Cold war Will always remember as much stories of people like Stanislav Petrov and to be amazed how destructive a human can be. To learn from such History to be important and to prevent it,even in todays situation.
Episode 1: Spongebob Squarepants Episode 2: Pro Wrestling Episode 3: Stock Car Racing Episode 4: THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION Episode 5: Super Smash Bros
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I think episode 6 is going to be about TF2. He has hinted it before, saying that it's his favorite videogame, and it has been featured in multiple videos. The title might be "There will never ever be another videogame like TF2." or something like that. If so, I'm looking forward to watching it. But that's just a theory...
Ep.3 DALE EARNHARDT "THE INTIMIDATOR" Was the best video for me. It was enough to make a grown man cry. There will be no one, never ever a man who can live up to his name.
@daniel roa You might be right. A lot of the Never Ever topics had cameos in his videos prior. Spongebob memes, Pro Wrestling fights, lots of Melee music.
You know Emp, I'll admit I never expected to watch this video from the fellow who uploaded some hilarious YTP's. But, much like what you've discussed in this video, I am grateful.
Well he forgot the fire bombs dropped on Japanese city’s that where more lethal. One fire bombing was more lethal than Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.
just know with how this world is going that a situation like this is going to happen again, on a greater scale because of the technology we have. I just hope to everything that the next person with this power is another Stanislav.
@ak24 I find that the only wars people like us will be facing within the next 50 years will be either small wars from small countries, or internal wars. I believe that world peace is achievable if we just work on ourselves and others, but that means accepting and befriending our enemies as well. We would have to make amends with the middle east, which is slowly but surely happening, making friends with north korea instead of provoking it, which is slowly but surely happening, and making sure the other world powers can realize that globalist views do not work, but good diplomacy and nationalism will, funny enough, bring the world closer together. Most don't even realize that we live in a time of almost absolute peace with little tension around the world except for our own selves, and if we can bring down the tension, the world is on track to overcome itself and the great filter, I believe, will pass through us, and humanity can take to the stars.
We have: a war in Syria, a war in Afghanistan (which, it seems, is coming to a Vietnam-like conclusion), separatists in Ukraine, the Crimea crisis is far from over. And on top of that - Belarus (closest ally of Russia), China and the US have big internal problems.
What world peace if a single Russian cruiser that was requested to arrive on a parade in St. Petersburg heightened tensions in Europe as it was on the way from the Black Sea? And the fact that all 3 major superpowers (US, Russia with its allies, China) have internal problems?
@Freya Wion I would like to say that many of my world views have changed in the last two years. I was in the American political pipeline, and I'm out of that now.
I appreciate your response. I truly do wish the world could get along, but it's never so simple. It always boils down to beliefs, history, and resource management.
Emp, your demonstration of the scale of Tsar Bomba made me break down in tears. Please continue to make these educational works. They are so important.
i dunno if it's the enormity of the situation described in the video or the perfectly placed half life music but i finished this one with tears in my eyes. thanks emplemon
im just watching this now, is it weird that this is making me want to cry? somehow the thought of how extremely and deeply the actions of few people have impacted human history forever is so crazy. its unfathomable. the kids were being taught with cartoons how to survive a nuclear blast (if it would have even been possible) the way humans were and are still seen as just.. things. "we have this many people and would lose this many if we did this and that" and so many wars and disasters have these huge death tolls that are so unfathomable. you cant ever mourn enough, its just not possible, so we just see the number and say "that was bad" thinking about what japan did to the other countries around it, and then the absolute insanity that was unleashed afterwards.. so bad that no one wants to remember japanese war crimes, because it totally blows it out of the water in a way. if a few incestuos royals hadnt been war hungry a hundred years ago, a man like hitler would not have risen to power, the united states may not have put much importance into nuclear weapons (just yet, maybe something else could have happened) nowadays china and north korea wouldnt constantly be able to hold these nukes over our heads, so so so much about the fabric of the world would be different. i think we are the fortunate ones who live in a timeline where we avoided the cold war turning into a very very hot one. its unfathomable for one human to conceptualize any of this, i feel overwhelmed with empathy for all those people, but also with terror.
The most ominous thing about this episode is that the titles of all the other ones say "there will Never Ever be..." This one says "there may Never Ever be..."
Although you could interpret it as optimism. That humanity will maneuver itself into a corner at some point in the future is certain, but... there may be outstanding people with hearts pure enough to be merciful to the world and save it
Everytime I listen to a documentary about WW2 and/or Cold War, I can't help but feel like it's fiction. Like if it were just a sci-fi novel. Mainly because that's where most sci fi stuff got their inspiration.
The scary thing is that the tsar bomba that got tested was smaller than the actual one they planned for, they made it smaller because they worried that even with the parachute and the high altitude and speed, the bomb would still blow up the plane, and even at this size the Shockwave nearly took the plane out of the sky
@Jared K if you want some people that actually adress why youtube is getting worse I can give you recommendations but these people get political, because the problem is youtubes employees are getting political.
@Jared K mainstream media is completely authoritarian. All their authoritative source are just people who agree with them that happen to have experience in an area. You don't need school to be educated anymore and it scares them that they can't brainwash us anymore. We decide who we want to listen to now.
@Olaedo_007 I left a comment already. Don't be afraid to disagree with them and try not to get upset when you do. I disagree with them alot but when they are right, the hit bullseyes.
A question requiring a Yes or No/Do or Don't answer can be world-changing.
Now imagine the timeline where the Soviet Computer itself automatically informed the authorities of a nuclear strike. Then you could say that Judgement Day had come and that SkyNet had come out on top over Humanity. Terminator technically becomes reality.
Ep. 1: This cartoon is amazing Ep. 2: This wrestling show is amazing Ep. 3: This famous racer is amazing Ep. 4: THE WORLD ALMOST GOT FRICKIN' DESTROYED
Emp continues to blow me away episode after episode tho. Its not the subject's presented that's necessarily interesting ,it's how its presented as corny as it sounds. The writing & presentation is everything !!
Despite being one of your least viewed episodes I still think this one was not only the most beautiful but also most thought provoking yet. Here's your coke, King
I've often wondered why it is there has never been an accidental detonation of an atomic weapon? Admittedly, the people who designed the atomic triggers were very, very smart. But - given that nuclear warheads have been accidentally dropped, set on fire, sunk to the bottom of the ocean, blown out of the top of an Atlas missile silo and so forth in something like eighty or more serious incidents (these are the ones we know about) and you can guarantee the Soviets/Russians/Chinese/British/French/Israelis etc. have all experienced similar screw ups you can only conclude we've either been extraordinarily and improbably lucky or there are properties these weapons possess we really haven't been told about. Yes, the safety protocols and failsafes are extremely comprehensive - but, these are human systems operated by humans and are thus equally likely to fall foul of Murphy's Law. The safety protocols at nuclear powerplants, nuclear processing facilities etc. might not be equally stringent - but they are getting there and yet there have been three major containment breaches at Mayak (in the fifties), Chernobyl and Fukushima (six if you count individual reactors), countless small-to-mid level incidents (Windscale, Three Mile Island, SL-1 etc.). And who knows how many we haven't been told about? If we can screw up this many times handling nuclear material it seems odd that we are pitching a hundred-innings no-hitter with actual warheads. Just a thought, tho ...
Another “Judgement day” was during the Cuban missile crisis. A Soviet sub was forced to surface by US ships that were part of the blockade of Cuba. As part of the US protocol, they used practice depth charges that didn’t do a lot of damage but would be very noticeable by a target sub. When the soviet sub was hit by one of these charges, the captain and political officer both ordered for a nuclear tipped torpedo to be fired. However the sub also had a fleet officer onboard who had a say and voted against launching and instead surfacing to receive orders from HQ.
The scariest thing about this video isn’t how it shows how close we were to nuclear annihilation, or how high tensions were between the US and USSR, but rather the surprising amount of people who would press the red button if they were in Petrov’s position.
Well thats what an culture shock does to rival societies,
At point everyone start classifying "us" as good, and "them" as evil, Or us the right, and them as wrong, that have happened before in history, the problem is that our technology is just so powerful that, if this ever happen again, we might be gone, or at least huge amounts of people might be gone
I don't remember the specifics, but I remember there was actually another situation besides this one where one person was a single button press away from turning the Cold War go nuclear. Its just that this one is famous and the other isn't.
@Notinghere 2 It's more noticeable than ever before, that is not the same thing. People are actually starting to realize that these divisions only hurt us, we're moving towards a better future.
I make it a habit to come back to this video once in a while. Strangely, it makes me feel better about my place in this world. I wouldn't have been born if this had happened and it's humbling to realize that we are getting better, it is a very slow process progress. It's so slow that it's hard to see, but from this video, I am happy that we are making some kind of progress, even if it is sideways sometimes. I'm sure the world won't be fixed in my lifetime, I'm not sure what a fixed world would even looks like to be honest, but it's videos like this that reminds me to live the best life you can, and to quote my dad, "Do the best you can, and live."
this is one of the most important videos that will ever be made. I wish everyone watched this video. It allows you to fully comprehend how harmful humans are to themselves.
Don't forget about Vasily Arkhipov, who, during the Cuban missile crisis, was the only of three officers to deny authorization for launching a counter-attack towards the US. Basically, his submarine was in unauthorized territory (within the US's Cuban blockade) and the American ships surrounding the submarine authorized the ship to surface and surrender. Because the submarine had lost contact with Moscow, the people on board had no idea as to whether or not war had begun because of the similar hostile environment that occurred in the 80s. Three officers were required to launch a strike against the Americans who told them to surface. Two of them did, but the third officer, Arkhipov, denied the launch of such a weapon against the American ships. Had he not done so, the American ships would've retaliated and war could've started between the US and USSR.
TL;DR : Vasily Arkhipov helped to prevent a war between the US and USSR by not authorizing a torpedo strike against American ships
This man really did make a video on the Soviet officer who prevented nuclear catastrophe, he's doing a service to keep the sacrifices of the real heroes alive
I never really thought about what kind of awesome and terrible power was in the hands of only a few people, that the thought of the world we know could die from one misunderstanding. I was honestly surprised and disgusted with what did happen with nuclear weapons and how they would pale in comparison to bombs that would come later. Thank you, Mr. Petrov, for making the right choice and for being the better man.
I know you say you've been going on a "downward spiral" to the point it's a meme, but I honestly think you've improved dramatically since your yesteryears.
You went from YouTube Poops, to reviewing memes, and now to making informative documentaries.
Do you know you're one of the few content creators I look forward to whenever you post a video? I will literally drop EVERYTHING to watch your vids.
You probably will never see this or ever care, but if you do, I want you to know that your content is basically a saving grace for this shit show called YouTube.
And I hope you don't ever quit or get demonitized.
I would like to point out, like I always do when I hear about kamikaze pilots, something I learned from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Kamikaze pilots were often chosen from the pool of radical thinking students that didn't buy into bushido. They were basically told if you do this we'll take care of your family.
I would pay alot of money for editing classes from lemon man , the YouTube poops must be some kind of editing boot camp. Amazing stuff as always , I have researched every video at least 5 times , this one is a masterpiece imo.
I had never heard of Stanislov Petrov before this video. And when you said he had died in 2017, only 2 years before today, I wish I would've known about him sooner.
I feel like many people have had similar choices and that the fact that we exist now proves that people will always choose for someone to live, even if not them.
Yes he is a very influential person, however the man who saved us from nuclear war was actually the only one of the senior officers on the submarine caught by the US near Cuba, it was ordered to fire due to a system failure, and this was like around US ships. 3 people had to sign off on it and only one man didn’t
Damn. Emp has come such a far way from making YTPs to THIS. An amazing, thoughtful, well-researched documentary that gives me a little dose of hope for the future.
@NinbendoYT I think you can't compare the two because of how different their content is. Frank was the King of edgy and ridiculous anti-culture humor. But with informative videos about history, EmpLemon is the best. It's like comparing Ali to Micheal Jordon. They are both the best at what they did, but what they did was too different to compare.
This is the story of a man named Stanislav. Stanislav worked for a company in a big building where he was employee # 427. Employee # 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order. This is what employee 427 did every day of every month of every year, and although others might have considered it soul rending, Stanislav relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job. And Stanislav was happy. And then one day, something very peculiar happened, something that would forever change Stanislav, something he would never quite forget.
Even though it is evident that we live in a very special place and have incredible amounts of information within ourselves, many still choose to live in ignorance, as is their right to do so.
I did know about him before this but you put it in a way that I've always felt but never could put the words amazing video this is only the second video I've watched of yours and I'm blown away
I think Emplemon is the only Youtuber who I always think his most recent video is his best one, and somehow comes out with another one that's even better.
I've watched a lot of emotionally frightening youtubes, but this one takes the cake I think. there's creepy shit, and then there's true existential horror. The editing is great. Jesus christ, what have we done
1 year ago, on August 19 2020. I saw a video of you in my recommendations about that blue Twitter checkmark. I remember being really bored and was like 'hmm, sounds like an interesting topic... let's see...'. I subscribed the same day. Soon enough you became one of my favorite, if not the most favourite, not just YouTube channel, but person. I've watched every single of your videos in a span of about a week. After an entire year I became a completely different person, but this video is still remains my favourite on this platform. Believe me, I've watched thousands of them. Thank you Emp, I think you really impacted me as a person. And I am really grateful that I found your channel on that not so usual date year ago... :)
Just to clear up, he didn't have the power to launch anything though. it would've been revised by the Soviet high command and the Secretary General would've had to make the call (even the Dead Hand system is actually semi-automatic, meaning that it involves a skeleton crew of officers hidden under a mountain who have to make the decision if Moscow ceases to exist). but who knows what they would've done... I think the point of the video still stands. for all we know you just might be right.
@GuyFromSouth of course it could. or maybe his superior officers would've deduced given that no other alerts were sounding that it was a dud. who knows. I'd rather not know, and thanks to Mr. Petrov we will never know. cheers.
I've seen a lot of videos about nuclear testing and such and I've never seen such a startling representation of the size of Tsar Bomba. My jaw is on the FLOOR
also, nuclear fears havent gone away, they’ve just been relegated to international relations people that the public doesnt really care about. russia straight up invaded ukraine 6 years ago and we’ve been incredibly tense with them ever since.
Wow its cody from the alternatehistoryhub what a nice suprise to see cody from alternatehistoryhub a great channel i might add. i do love watching cody from alternatehistoryhub talk on his channel which is alternatehistoryhub.
this is one of the best videos I've ever watched on YouTube, insightful as fuck, got me thinking about the whole "other intelligent beings in the galaxy don't exist long enough to develop interstellar travel"... when are we going to go?
Came here thinking it was going to be a story about oil (because I misread Petrov as Petrol), but left with existential dread. Please make more like this.
I was in Hawai’i for the nuclear weapons scare. Asleep in my dorm room I awoke to an alert from my phone—that it was all an accident... I realized that I would have died, been turned to ashes, without ever knowing. I would have never told my family and friends how much I loved them and appreciated them. I lived a 10 minute bus ride from Pearl Harbor; I would have died instantly in the nuclear fire. No body to bury, no closure for my loved ones. I’ve been in car crashes and had other near death experiences, but nothing shook me to my core like seeing the false alarm notification for a nuclear war that never happened.
Honestly as far as it goes. Being asleep throughout the whole thing is one of the better ways to go out. Better dying in your sleep than in full terror as the world collapses around you.
The whole video I was thinking, "Yeah I heard this before. It's pretty interesting, and the video's very well made."
But then you pulled out that clip of the American guy saying, "I did what I was trained to do" and that really, really stood out. I seriously can't identify what kind of emotional response it gave me, but it did something.
I believe what you felt was a hard dose of sobering empathy. The two sides of the decision are so vastly different and so impactful on global scale, it's extremely hard to not put yourself in his shoes and think of yourself making the same choice.
When clicking on this I expected the generic boring history video. I left realizing how important a single man was, and how he changed the course of history, and not just that. The editing style is very refined while still having his own spice on top. The biggest support here being audio, the songs and sounds you choose to represent what’s going on in the pictures and videos you see is top tier. as soon as the credits started rolling I instantly thought of that fact. Amazing work Emp. Definitely your best video. Can’t wait to see more.
i suggest reading about vasily arkhipov; this man, singlehandedly, stopped the launching of nuclear missiles near cuba during the cuban missile crisis while the us navy was peppering his sub with signaling depth charges.
Thinking about how close we all came to losing everything is more horrifying and unsettling than any horror movie or truecrime story. It's the same reason why "99 Red Balloons" makes me tear up every time I hear it.
haven't watched it yet, but the quote in the description is nice. can't really imagine you knowing Russian, but i might be wrong, anyway for those who don't know, the quote says: "do you think that God stays in the heavens because he also lives in fear of what he has created?"
6:28 Took me this many rewatches to notice the mirroring of the "more than 2 billion" line. A dollar for every god-faring soul to bring about the nuclear age. Wow.
Damn. I've just been moved so deeply by a man who once did nothing but complain. Incredible work Emp. You have my unconditional support, for there will NEVER EVER be another man like you.
I watched this and the whole time I thought to myself "...This guy has stolen the name of a guy who made Spingebill YTP years ago, the best contributor on the Spingebill Colab." Imagine my surprise when I found out they are one and the same. Well done, excellent video your sourness.
I once heard a story of an Israeli fighter pilot making a routine flight, when all of the sudden he spots something not right. In what was clearly a school playground a small missile launcher was being assembled by soldiers of an opposing country. The pilot knew that if they succeeded in building the launcher, they would load up a rocket and destroy part of his homeland. He had a very important decision to make. Bomb the launcher and risk the lives of children, or let it go and hope that not too many people get killed by the missile. Of course, the pilot wasn’t in a prop plane. He was in an F-21 Kfir. A plane capable of traveling at speeds over 2,000 Kilometers per hour. Which means that whatever thinking that needed to be done was in less than 10 seconds. Bomb it, or let them bomb. If he circled back around, the builders would probably shoot down the plane with their own armaments. There was no other hand. He needed to make the decision, and he did. He bombed the school and stopped the launcher from being built.
I guess its time to think about our decisions and understand what it will do. Because Stanislav knew what he was about to do, so he didn't do it. Great Job! loved it
I've thought of this kind of thing before. And I'm sure it is some kind of trope in media. Where one would-be ordinary guy has to save humanity or something, and have almost no one know they ever did it or even existed. Heh. Who would've ever thought that it actually happened. Farewell, Stanislav Petrov.
The scary thing to me about nuclear war is that if it happens I think I'd go outside and let my self die, I'm too close to large population centers for surviving to mean anything but extended suffering.
This guy is like the Soviet officer that despite being outnumbered 2-1 by his peers in a submarine during the Cuban blockade, decided not to shoot the American fleet despite everyone in the submarine thinking that the nuclear war had started, if he or the guy in the video followed the protocol we would all be dead, kinda crazy in my opinion
god this video is so informative. this could be shown in a world history class on stanislav petrov. when i was done watching, i was about to sleep and i kept thinking of what i just watched.
One of the worst things about that day is if he ended up making the decision to follow protocol, most of humanity would've been wiped out and there would be no investigation or anything afterwards to find out it was a mistake that wiped out humanity.
They originally wanted it to be 100 Megatons, but decided it was safer to test it at 50 Megatons. Which, of course, was so insanely devasting in scale that to think they almost doubled it is absolutely fucking insane.
The absolute horror is only further seen when you realize the detonation occured multiple miles above the ground.. There was no actual contact with the ground, most nuclear bombs we see actually, are not nearly as power as they should be because the deliverer of the payload actually needs to survive
@Aleksandar Sokerov I think it was lead or graphite. Tsar bomba was a clean bomb that didn't release much nuclear fallout. The blast could be heard and felt around the world.
@Enigma Russia? No Russia's ballistic technology really has not advanced that much since the 80s. It is largely why astronauts that have to go up to the International Space Station are constantly bitching about the rough ride back to Earth since NASA Astronauts have to rely so much on outdated Russian tech to get them up there. Russia has not made jackshit in advancements to their nuclear Tech. At least as is known by the International Community. Now the bombs that the US has or has technology to quickly acquire....well... let's just say if they were detonated the concept of sides in a war become largely irrelevant. No one would survive. Additionally every major power in the world now has access to submarines that would ensure no one survives.
Listen man, future humans will unironically watch this video and deem it a record of the events of WWII and the Cold War, and by using that Dunkey quote at 11:00, you've legitimized our community permanently in the annals of technological history. No one alive now can know the lasting impact of your creative effort, nor will they appreciate this sub-cultural society we share because of it.
That decision was almost certainly tied for the most influential binary, "yes or no" decision that's ever been made, and for the most important decision ever made. (I'd say it's tied with Vasily Arkhipov's decision not to launch the submarine's warhead during the Cuban Missile Crisis for both.) Given how much people from the USSR hated people from the USA and vice versa, I'm amazed that we avoided the end of the world not once but twice. And both times it ended with the USSR making the correct decision. I hate what the USSR stood for (authoritarianism and forced annexation). I'm honestly grateful for those two people and their decisions more than I'm grateful for 99% of Americans.
Agreed, I think it’s reflective of the reality that the people of the Cold War powers were not inherently bad, but the systems and power structures in place could only lead towards conflict.
@Hypertech 116 yes, it very much was. Not to say that the USA was doing all fine and dandy what with the internment of the Japanese and the whole red scare. It was still a much much much better place to live than the USSR, I would say no contest but the people putting others in literal work/death camps usually lived pretty well, until THEY got thrown in as well.
@madmonkeys88 well I mean the top leaders. They didn't really care much about other countries and everything except diplomacy and managing anything that wasn't related to the economic race (if there was any) was strategy during the cold war. But the combination of freedom of speech and democracy is just generally better than how communism is implemented. As long as the people in power play nice, nothing's gonna go wrong to the point of downfall if everyone can keep them in check (and we should whenever we can, that is the whole point). Even if there's a devious politician or something the media is allowed to expose them and BOOM they're not allowed to become politicians again. And everyone can help however they want. Communism didn't even work at all even with different perspectives because there's no way everyone actually wants to develop the country. 100% of the humans in a communist country have to follow orders and cooperate all the time.
24:03 not sure if it was an oversight, byt the soviets developed the first nuclear missiles, using the r-7 semyorka, the very same platform that carried the first manmade satelite into orbit.
You probably won't see this comment but this is honestly the best documentary I've seen on youtube. Great editing, script and use of historic clips. Really an amazing video all around. Maybe it's silly since I don't really know you outside of your videos but I'm proud of you! Good job.
@ivanmegafanboy Kurzgesagt made a video about the filter to help you understand the theory better. But basically the filter is not something we can pass. If such a filter exists, it may be a virus, a comet or something we cant even imagine yet. But in the end, every intelligent form of life will fail to overcome that filter.
@AndiParkour What? The theory talks about what is necessary in order to not be affected by these filters in the worst way, not that they will happen inevitably.
Originally the Nagasaki bomb was supposed to land at Kukora another Japanese city but it was too cloudy to drop the bomb precisely Kukora was spared because we couldn’t predict the weather just a few minutes ahead of time
It’s honestly the most interesting style in terms of a video essay. It’s amazing how a fun little method of making weird funny videos also meshes well with a serious video
It'd be great to see another video like this but on another individual in much the sMe circumstances: Vasily Arkhipov, who was aboard the B-59 submarine in the Cuban Missile Crisis when it was being shaken by signaling depth charges. Although the captain wished to launch a nuclear torpedo (yes, a torpedo with a nuclear payload), Arkhipov objected to it. He had the same choice, with almost the same exact result, but in what was likely a much more stressful scenario. It'd be really awesome to see you do a video on it, plus it'd be a great dive into the Cuban Missile Crisis and the middle years of the Cold War.
There are roughly 76 million military personnel on Earth currently (1% of the total population) and there may come a time when one day, someone among that number will either do as Stanislav did OR do as the "trained" Hawaiian worker did.
It’s not too chilling when you realize what he meant was that he was doing a test like he was trained for, and the outdated system made it very easy to press the wrong button, since they were both literal hyperlinks right next to each other.
4:40 But at what cost? That was horrific. Now I really understand. Never ever should something like this be used, such power and destruction in the hands of reckless humanity. Only in truly dire emergencies.
Fun Fact: The original target for the 2nd nuke dropped on Japan was Kokura, but since it was cloudy, the pilot had to move to the secondary target, Nagasaki
Von Braun didn't have much choice in ww2. He wanted to make rockets that would reach other worlds and since he couldn't leave Germany he either had to forget his dream or become an SS member so he could work on rockets.
Fun Fact (kinda): A quote from Albert Einstein about the Atomic bombs "had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing."
the part about the space race reminded me of my grandpa, he worked for a company called Rocketdyne and was contracted to design parts for the command module and the f1 engine on the saturn V. He was of Sicilian descent, and worked with a German scientist, and a Japanese scientist. The guys at NASA simply called them "the axis powers".
surprisingly this is common even in south america, im of italian descent, and in middle school i had a friend who was of german descent, and a friend of japanese descent. people used to call us the axis.
dale earnhardt one is his magnum opus. But this one is the best one imo. Like the dale earnhardt one is his most important video, it easily make people feels emotional and connect to more people but this video just do everything perfectly
Never thought I'd enjoy 40 minutes of history EmpLemon just made a history video more interesting than my history teacher in a classroom I wonder many people do nothing like him when the tension is high and false alarm is everywhere There's a guy who refused to launch nuclear in submarine near Cuba (need 5 people to launch nuke, he's one of them)
I think most people know what the "ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones" but it's almost like the quote means more when I realize that ww2 hadn't even ended at that point
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Emplemon: Posts an add about NordVPN in the form of a USSR controlled US Presidential announcement. Me: Laughs in Canada.
Great video, as always, Emplemon. Keep up the great work!
I think the great filter is more of a general concept than referring to something specific like nuclear weapons. The great filter could be behind us, like developing life at all, developing intelligent life, or still ahead such as nuclear weapons. Any number of things could be the great filter.
"Lately, many of us have given up trying to find a formidable foreign foe, and we've instead shifted our intention within our own borders, and turned much of the paranoia on ourselves." Current-day America in a nutshell.
@Chase Gillingham 15 (STUDENT) duck & cover is a good way to avoid burns if you get caught in fireball range but if you're in the blast range you're fucked
The ture horror of it hit home for me when i tryed to think of what i would have done. I have alway been crazy smart but tradable with people so i would have refused to do a buck and cover drill because i would have understood emeditly that doing so was pointless.
@ok muh Uhmurican laaves. America interned 120,000 people. Dropped 2 attomic bombs killing 200,000 people(majority were civilians) and starved 1,000,000+ germans war prisoners AFTER the war when they had a food surplus. They firembombed civilian cities and destroyed the railway lines and blame the Germans when their pow's starved
@Frequent Man Bad troll. This is one of the few instances where America, specifically the administration, was absolutely right. Japan was weakened, but would never surrender. Millions more on both sides would have ground each other down for a long time. The hatred would have run deep and long too. This broke the conquering nature and spirit of Imperial Japan, which was necessary for any lasting peace. It showed the world the true nature of atomic warfare and served as the original warning against future slides toward it. It ended the World War 2, it served as the baseline for negotiation into the successful relationship the U.S. and Japan have today, and it was going to happen in history eventually. Instead of an unknown wonder weapon, we know it for the doomsday device it is. And there are pictures of Nanking, like I shouldn't even have to say this but you're obviously trolling anyway so whatever. Hope you enjoyed the wall of text if you made it this far!
@Zeoxis6 not trolling. The pictures are Chinese communists wearing Japanese uniforms incorrectly and you didn't even address the Red Cross disputing it. The census numbers dispute it as well. You can argue that everything turned out for the best but thats because your line of descent went on and theirs didnt. It was for the best because it serves your self interests . Plus I don't know how you can criticise Japan for Nanking when the US literally vaporized 2 cities like wtf what kind of moral consistency is that!?
@Zeoxis6 also didnt address America starving 1,000,000 Germans to death after the war when they had been allocated the food for them. That's probably more people than what actually died in the holocaust( 6,000,000 is a joke dont @me)
@Ghosssty Yolk ((ya that was a bit egotistical of me and i am a social clueless person most of the time. ))The main point i was trying to make . this video made me think about how i would have attached as child back then and how the seeing every thing spell out in numbers really made all this hit home for me.( the crazy smart should have been more like Crazy\Smart.)
@Putrid Moldyman ya guy claiming to be smart miss spell something . trust me i use to it by now i have had problems with spelling a write most of my life. I will have them most likely for the rest of my life. My brain scrambles anything i try to write or type. There is nothing i can do about it. I wish somebody body would relate to the point i was trying to make and mot bad mouth me for my dame grimmer and spell.
Frequent Man seems like raping a whole city is different than dropping 2 bombs to end the war, the rape of Nanking was for what? There wasn’t POWs or allowing retreat, the Japanese killed and rapped many in that city
@Frequent Man Look man, I disagree with xou, but since this comment is older than dirt and I'm tired anyway, I don't want to argue. I do want to ask for a source on the red cross disputing it, I did some light google searching and couldn't find it.
Makes you wonder how many times this scenario has happened and the world never even knew. How many heroes died for humanity without humanity even knowing
Amazing video emp, probably my favorite. However, there was another Russian who almost caused nuclear war. Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine vice admiral was off the coast of Cuba during the cuban missile crisis, when many of the crew members mistakenly believed that war had broken out. Three people, Vasily and two other officials, were required to authorize the launch of the submarine's nuclear torpedo. The other two officials agreed to launch it, with only Vasily refusing.
@Tobie Well. Hard fact but world peace cannot be achieved through the USA. Socialism is the answer. Or more a socialist market economy. Stop looking away from the crimes, which the USA is doing.
@Smith How can socialism bring world peace in a way that capitalism can't? And why are you bringing the USA? I'm not even from there.
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John Smith2020-10-29 17:35:19 (edited 2020-10-29 17:36:06 )
@Tobie the best argument for an inherent evil of capitalism is its coersive nature. Under capitalism, your only method of survival is participation in the system. Socialists view food, water, and shelter as a human right. Under socialism those things are supposed to be provided. Under capitalism you have to gain currency to partake in those necessities. To gain currency means that you have to work within capitalism. In the age that we are in today, all participation in capitalism is unethical. Working at an insurance agency today means that you are taking advantage of others to stay alive. Buying food by using your money from work is unethical, since you are abusing the labor of a south american indentured servant. Buying an iphone means that you are perpetuating child slave labor. Of course, none of this is your fault since having food, water, and housing is mandatory for your survival. So world peace under capitalism is impossible, since it requires taking advantage of another's persons autonomy or freedom. Hopefully this answer is to your satisfaction. Have a good day.
@John Smith I appreciate your response but I don't like it. It's easy to criticize the in-place actual system, but what I was asking for what concrete solution does socialism has to fix those issues?
To me, socialism is still capitalism, but to a much larger scale, between countries. Each country tries to be as rich as possible, and the country rules every aspect of the economy. So you would have the same problems: some countries would be really rich on top of other really poor countries. We saw that happening when the Usa cut every export to Cuba in the 60's, and since then Cuba has never recovered financially and socially. It was the rights of the US to do what they wanted to do.
Also, I was a socialist too few years back but I changed my mind. So yeah, I know what socialism is.
@Tobie I don't think that socialism has a concrete way to create world peace or a perfect society, but it does have concrete methods to increase quality of life among the citizenry. No economic system can solve the world's problems on it's own, but some systems make achieving world peace a lot easier. My question to you would be do you view socialism as the government owning business and property, or the public? There are a few separate interpretations and in order to answer your question effectively I need to know what you think the term really means.
@John Smith I think for socialism to work, there has to be someone to be in charge of it all, a person or a group of person that will decide how much food each person will receive, etc. So there's always a form of government or coalition, something that links people together. But it can get pretty complicated. Living in a democracy and voting for a president and his government that will decide is very different than living in an autoritarian country that the same party keeps power years after years. Either way, the government owns the companies and the goods. If the people do, that's capitalism. Even an agricol union or things like that is still capitalism, it's just that profit is split between all the owners.
@Tobie your perception of socialism seems a little restricted. You seem like a decent guy so I guess I'd recommend that you look into more libertarian forms of socialism. Believe it or not socialism or even communism can exist without a strong authoritarian government.
@Tobie Except there has been, and there currently is, you're just not looking.
In the early 1900s there were 3 prominent examples of not only socialist societies without an authoritarian state, but ones completely lacking a state.
During the Russian Civil War, there was the Free Territory in Ukraine that lasted from 1917-1921. It was a federation of directly democratic communities organized along an anarcho-communist basis. That society fell as a result of the sheer strength and numbers of the Red Army invading. (Who later went on to imprison, exile, and murder many of the leading figures).
During the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939 anarcho-syndicalists and trade unions governored massive portions of Spain and much of the economy was collectivized. They failed because the USSR Stalinist backed forces betrayed them (they threw many of them in prison), which eventually lead to Franco and the fascists (whom were backed by Nazi Germany and Italy) taking over.
In Manchuria near the border of Korea there was the Korean People's Association in Manchuria which lasted from 1929-1931. They operated on a similar basis to the Free Territory. They were eventually destroyed as a result of a combined effort of Imperial Japan and the nationalist Kuomintang invading.
As to right now? There is Rojava, a predominantly Kurdish region within Northern Syria. They're a democratic confederalist society. They've existed since 2013, there's tons of videos on YouTube you can watch to learn about them.
There's also the Zapatistas in Chiapas Mexico, who in 1994 revolted against the Mexican Government as a result of NAFTA. They have controlled nearly half of the Chiapas region ever since then.
If you'd like any sources, I can provide a couple books and some YouTube videos.
@TomatoP
conflict of interest, as long as you have two people in a room, there will always be tension, as we have different perspectives on a common subject.
@PKFireFawx bro I was just having a polite philosophical discussion with a nice man. You've gotta chill out. I didn't even start this conversation, I just answered a question someone had to the best of my ability. You feeling ok?
I was just thinking about him and was going to make a comment like yours. Thanks to these 2 great men. It's amazing this happened twice and by the grace of God these 2 men was at the right place at the right time.
If anyone wants to read a book detailing how close the USA came to internal nuclear disaster, they should check out a book titled "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser. Fantastic read. Edit: Reminder that the US-Russia 2010 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), unless extended into 2026, will expire in February of this year.
This is deadass one of the single most terrifying things I've ever watched. It sorta feels like I'm living in an alternate timeline where Petrov didn't alert abt the nukes. Sorta like this isn't the main timeline, but a second chance at not complete annhilation. Feels weird.
I absolutely love your Never Ever series. You just taught me more about the Cold War than I ever understood from school. You're an underrated YouTuber, I wish you had more subs (and not empty ones. People who honestly watch your great videos.)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Another guy, Vadillo arkophov did something very similar in the Cuban missile crisis,:so there was the crisis and within the crisis there was a submarine near the us with a nuke under it,(this part I’m not sure about)and there was a person who couldn’t come and had to be replaced by Vassili (back to facts) And they thought that nuclear war had already started so the held a vote and 2 of the three voted to send the nuke and vasilli voted no and they needed a unanimous vote so they didn’t detonate
The intresting think was it was the 2nd(i know) time a gut feeling saved our world so will there be a 3rd time or maybe without our knowledge there where many more ? 1st i know goes to Wassili Alexandrowitsch Archipow who saw himself in a similar position but in a sense even more bad the chance of him even being there was low the chance that under pressure of others him not doing it was even lower but at the end he didnt its like for a moment people can realize in those moments that it gives lines that shouldnt be crossed maybe some deep Instinkt that tells us after that it will end dont do that but will the next time it happens be it someone who can follow that feeling or will it be someone that was so trained to do somethink that he dosent care anymore.
Amazing storytelling through editing and timing. You really set up the surrounding well and it has this dark but hopeful mood. Up there with your Earnhardt video, this is definitely one of my favourite youtube series!
I initially didn’t want to watch this video, it seemed less interesting than the rest of the Never Ever videos. It’s been my favorite since I watched it.
I just realized that out of all of the Never Ever episodes, this is the only one that says "there may Never ever be" instead of "there will Never Ever be".
Great video. 40:12 Define World Peace. Lack of conflict? As long as differences between people exist, conflict shall, too. World Peace is a stupendously simplistic idea with horrendous consequences. To suggest it means to erase people's differences. Even the rising neoempire could never achieve it, as internal conflicts would exist due to ethnocultural differences. If you magically erased that, we'd still have conflicts over resources. Achieving it would require transhumanism; a population in their perfect VR worlds, free of their "Darwinian pathologies", overseen by a being, likely an AI, since it'd be unethical to leave one person missing out. I'm fine with internal conflicts, thank you very much. Let us celebrate our differences.
This is honestly one of the best YouTube videos I've seen in a long time. These Never Ever videos just keep getting better and better. Keep up the great content man.
I cannot believe that it took me nearly a month to watch this video.... Emp, you truly are one of the most hardworking individuals on this site. Keep doing what you’re doing man.
24:15 By 1950 the USA should have demanded that the rest of the world limit itself to only 5 nukes each. By 1955, it should have unleashed its nukes upon Russia for refusing to stop making bombs. By 1965 Russia had enough bombs, that BOTH nations would lose in any nuclear exchange. Thus, the 1950s were the time that the USA should have prevented nuclear proliferation, and enforced Pax Romana, otherwise known as Pax Americana for the Nuclear Age.
The spiritual death of a nation my ass. Most of those killed in the bombings were in some way connected to the military. And the first bomb did force the Japanese to surrender, saving far more civilian lives than it killed (No one dying would've been a better outcome though, and I'm not defending the second bomb. It was by most accounts unnecessary). In my opinion, as one of the people whose nation was mercilessly conquered and raped by the WWII Japanese, I'd say the bombing (The first bomb) was a necessary show of power done by America. Japan was WAY WAYYY worse than the Nazis with the peoples they've conquered and this "wE WeRe BoMbEd" narrative just makes them sympathetic when in truth their actions were far more horrific and dare I say EVIL by all extent when compared to the German Nazis.
@douglas wahid it is insane to think that it was 50 years ago and 25 years after the first nuclear weapon. The fact it was at half capacity becomes more terrifying when you think how much more powerful we could make them today.
Nuclear weapons produce temperatures as hot as the sun and wind speeds approaching 1000 miles per hour. Official distributed advice from the British government to its citizens: board up your windows, hide under a desk, stockpile drinking water. That's the kind of advice you give when you know nothing will work, but you're just expected to give advice anyway.
-Please, stop making nuclear bombs, we'll all die. -What? Oh! You mean shut down perfectly operational nuclear power plants? Sure, we can do that, we love fossil fuels! -Wait, no, not like that...
I remember watching this the weekend after the fourth July, and as person with military background, it allowed to reconsider so believes I had, as well be able to see beyond what people discuss my circles. I just want to thank you for educating me on something that I struggle with from time to time: Mortality and Humanity.
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Murad Beybalaev2021-10-11 11:34:52 (edited 2021-10-11 12:05:21 )
18:48 Says "authoritarian" as he slides in a poster literally saying "Power to soviets! Peace to people! Land to peasants! Factories to workers!" [The noun "soviet" in Russian means a local democratic council at every workplace that includes every worker.] Great illustration..!
Did my man just quote Dunkey talking about balance in video games, but making it seem relevant to the context of war???? thats hilarious and genious simultaniously
The only way to win a game of mutually assured destruction is to not play at all. Stanislav is more than a Soviet national hero, he's a hero for all citizens of the world. Salute to you, Comrade Petrov.
we will achieve world peace when virtual reality comes to the level where it can serve as the battle field instead where we have champions fight for us instead of hordes of mobs on a field to die.
I remember reading about him long before he died. It always baffled me how important he was and how little recognition he got. Later on I found out that he died in an article on Twitter, I wasn't surprised by the little recognition he got but I figured he liked it that way, such a decent and I would say humble guy.
@William Jordan At what cost though? In a parallel universe (if you believe in that sort of thing) the entire world was annihilated because Stanislaw made a different decision. Mutually Assured Destruction brought us peace but every time world tensions reach a peak as they did during the cold war we risk that total destruction again. Sure it isn't imminent right now like it was in the 80s but it will be again one day, trust me on that.
I remember learning about Stanislav Petrov a couple years before he died on TVTropes, and ever since then I try to spread awareness of Stanislav Petrov day, September 26th. I regret that I never tried to make him aware of how grateful I am for what he did.
These Never Ever episodes just keep getting better and better. You need at least a week to contemplate what you just watched and how incredible it was, and afterwards re-watch it another 5 times.
I absolutely love the old 70s commercial for Nord VPN. a witty, creative way to plug a sponsor that for the first time I didn't want to skip. bravo sir. other creators should take notes!!!
This video has made me realise that everyone who watched this is living their life, normally but what if on a one normal day what you don't realise is that on the other side of the Earth a single man had decided not to push the button. Yesterday when you went to bed that sleep could have very well been your last.
How do you even find the sources you use in these videos...and then edit the clips so professionally into a 40 minute video documentary that is both informative and entertaining. This channel is very underrated.
Once again the YTP squid meme man cranks out a glorious masterpiece. This is honestly the best telling of this story in my opinion. I know this video will never make it on Trending, but it doesn't need to. It accomplishes its purpose all the same.
Can we say for certain that Petrov saved the world? How do we know that someone else wouldn't have put a stop to it? The truth is that we don't, but because of men like Petrov, we've never had to take that risk. Due to his handling of the situation and the subconscious hope for a better world inherent in every man woman and child, we've never had to cross that threshold. I like to believe that the hand of God was guiding him that day. I mean, my dad was a young man then, and I'm glad he was able to grow up as a result of people having the fortitude to abstain from pushing the button. There are so many incidents like this occurring throughout history and across the world, but yet the world doesn't know of them. Thanks to Petrov and his contemporaries, it doesn't have to.
We do not know if somebody else may have pushed the button or not but let’s be glad Stanislav Petrov didn’t push it and that we are able to to still be alive.
I showed this video to my dad, who's more in line to traditional documentaries from the history channel, and enjoyed it enough to watch it in one sitting. If that says anything, it means you did a great job appealing to the younger and older generations
My grandpa was a marine veteran and served during the Cuban middle crisis, he has said he was on the boats that were supposed to deploy the troops in case of the us went into Cuba.
the fucking video game dunkey reference was fucking amazing
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Eric Cortazar2021-02-02 06:24:00 (edited 2021-02-02 06:35:00 )
this is one of his best videos and it's not even reached a million views, prolly because russians and nazis being on the video and edit: the two most powerful nations in the world are not the world dude, why you say all humanity comes to an end when those TWO nations collide?
There are few videos that I ever feel truly satisfied when watching - and this one is one of the few. You managed to mix education of an uninformed topic, something that is generally boring to make interesting. You managed to make something engaging for 41 minutes, something informative and unique. I have never heard of this man before your video but every once in a while after watching this video for the first time. This is also one of those videos you can't stop watching- you perfectly closed the circle of information. When I'm older(I'm 15) I will definitely get money for your patreon because you deserve it
There can never be another man like stanislav petrov. We have evolved as a species and as such our concept of right and wrong have become blurry. If we somehow find a way to make the world black and white, it will mean the end of the human species.
As tragic and unnecessary as the downing of this aircraft was - but did US generals and/or the president really suggest total nuclear war as retaliation? Seems a bit extreme. Or was this scenario more in the heads of Soviet leaders, multiplied with the general paranoia of the time?
@douglas wahid You're missing the point here. It's not obvious when you're being brainwashed by your Government that the war is imminent. In fact, a normal person's obvious response would be to take the false alarm as true, in other words, jumping to conclusions. And we should be grateful that Petrov wasn't that kind of a guy.
I think I might name my first born son Stanislov, he’d be black, but I’d tell him I named him after a very heroic Russian who really doesn’t get enough credit.
@Amber Sugar Simp maybe name him Sash? Or Sasha? I know its not the same but its cool name. Also you could name him Petrov, i know its last name but whatever. Peter, perhaps?
I was always told how big Tsar Bomba’s explosion was. I was also shown how big it was, but I cannot express enough how they were nothing like Emp’s presentation. None more impactful and awe-struck it’ll leave you.
someone who got his start making YouTube poops using a dunkey excerpt for his Cold War mini-doc is prob the most internet thing I’ve ever seen, and my fave thing abt being online
In cinema, they say comedy is the hardest genre to master and some of the greatest directors started out with comedy. Emp started with Great YTPs and now releases hit after hit with this never ever series
He made the choice to not fire because he knew that we didn't hate each other enough to end the world. Let's hope that someone never has to make that choice ever again.
“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”
@BlueSatoshi actually a lot of what we call pop culture can also be considered pomo (like the simpsons or family guy and (of course)postmodern jukebox).
It's June 2021. Canada is suffering unprecedented heat waves in the West, resulting in hundreds of deaths. While climate change and its challenges will be even worse in the coming decades, I still find solace that on September 26th, 1983, one man made a decision that gave the rest of humanity the ability to choose how we will face tomorrow.
Every day since then has been a gift, no matter the current circumstances, and I will try to always remember how fragile and transient happiness in life is.
Why is one of my favorite videos is from someone who documents the history and state of a website and other things a history video on nuclear annihilation?
what I would do is this even if I found out it was true and there was missiles I still wouldn't fire my reasoning is that if I fire the world would get destroyed however if I don't fire yes our nation is gone but humans would still be there living on
@Scarface well I suppose the base directive was to guarantee the safety of the soviet union, not knowing he actually guaranteed the safety of the whole fucking world.
Emp, what about the guy on board the russian sub off the coast of Cuba in 61, 62, or 63? Wasn't he in a similar situation? I thought he was the third guy to make the call to launch the missiles or not, and that he opted not to.
This remind me of a full length animated cartoon called "When the wind blows" about an old civilian couple who survives a nuclear attack where everyone else in the neighborhood burned to the ground. They 'tried' to act like everything is okay, oblivious to the nuclear fallout when they slowly die while huddled together
It's the most surreal and heartbreaking cartoon ive ever watched. Go check it out. It paints a picture about how war only bring misery for everyone involved, especially us common civilians
Reminds me of “barefoot gen” a comic written by a survivor of Hiroshima. It focuses mostly on the culture in Japan before the blast, with the actual bombing and fallout only being a few pages. But because the people it shows dying are previously established characters, it impacts you all the more. One of the only books I’ve read where I had to sit down for a while after finishing it. Definitely recommend it
It is only a matter of when they will go off. As long as they have a reason to exist its not an IF question. When that day becomes reality we need to have our society secured in a way that they can't harm us in a lethal way.
Most interesting reuse of a dunkey quote ever. Makes me think of how art imitates life. We are just a game and War is the combat system. If we push back and break the code then it's game over.
well after seeing that nuke explode I remember the quote "Now we are all sons of bitches" which was said by J. Robert Oppenheimer after the first successful nuclear bomb test
Interesting the US government crying over 260 innocent civilians on the South Korean airliner, yet no problem with a couple hundred thousand dead in Japan. Those atomic bombs were not aimed at military operations, but directly into huge cities full of innocent people. Shaun did a great video about Hiroshima, which is a great companion piece to this great work. Never mind the incomprehensible destruction to the environment, Ocean life and anyone living in the South Pacific where they seemed to drop nukes just because “great flash big noise!” for innumerable years.
I had read about this guy. He is brought up in the introduction of a book called "War: What is it good for?" But before that, I had never heard of this incident. It is similar to the event where a Soviet Submarine was deciding to use nuclear torpedoes during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Usually, the Commanding Officer and Commissar both decide whether that happens. On this occasion both agreed. However, there happened to be a third man on the sub who, for reasons, also had to agree and he decided against it. I don't remember the reason why he was even there, or why he had any veto power, but because he was, it seemed the cooler heads were able to prevail in the Crisis. However, I understand why you didn't bring it up. The other incident is much more well know, and doesn't really need as much of a spotlight. Also, during the crisis, war could have still happened regardless of his decision. In this case, Stanislav was the key actor in preventing the thing from going overboard (if that's really a good way to describe nuclear Armageddon).
He was chief of staff for their submarine flotilla. He wasn't assigned to any one specific sub, he just happened to be on that one at that time. Had he been anywhere else, they would've launched. I actually thought this video was going to be about him at first.
russian man saves the entire human race form being vaporized Emplemon: "this man is so unremarkable I am only mentioning him now, I will barely talk about him"
I honestly think if I even knew an attack was happening I wouldn't press the button. Even if my country is destroyed I would want some of humanity to have a chance.
@Rocket-Rakun holy shit I put my phone down to go do something and the touch screen must have activated certain buttons before it locked itself... Sorry about that 😥
apparently petrov wasn't even supposed to be there that day. i think i saw an interview with him saying that he was covering the shift for someone else.
that's right; just makes quality stuff,weather it's abstract (roughly abstract)or an analysis/summery of the medium of new media and social political implications thereof.
Not to diminish the importance of Petrov, but there was no consequence at all for ignoring the warning. The nukes would have struck anyway. There is no tried and true defense to nuclear ICBMs to this day. And it's safe to say they would be aimed at military launch facilities. At worst, his dismissal would have curbed the retaliatory capability of the USSR slightly. In a parallel universe where this exact same event happened and the only difference is that the missiles were real, Petrov was court martialed and imprisoned for his inaction. If we assume there was an USSR to trial him to begin with.
Вы думаете, что Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал? Как вы думаете, к 2050 году мы все погибнем от собственной власти?
Kinda funny how we shot down an Iranian jet just like the Soviets did to Korean air but for some reason Iran didn't get asked by telephone poll how they felt by Ted Koppel
I refuse to believe that you used the version of the National Anthem from Local 58 and then immediately used the song Nexpo uses in his intro card by accident.
I was living on Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii when the alert went off. I like to think that was a test of what I would do if presented with guaranteed demise. I made roughly five phone calls to my closest friends, and my family was right along side me. I wasn't expecting the scare to show up in this video, but I'm glad it did. It was a nice reflection of a current event I'm old enough to recall, being as I didn't live through the cold war. I may have only discovered this channel and this series a few days ago, but I am really impressed with the thought and exploration presented in each video. I look forward to future content.
Edit: I did see the spongebob episode sometime around the time it came out, but this was on a 3 am youtube binge. Everything else is true, and I only made the connection after the fact.
Gonna be honest. I would not have pressed the button only due to not being able to make a decision. I’d be too worried to make such an important choice
Bro one of the scariest things is nuclear melt down the masks the invisible death how painful the death to the radiation is said to be it’s horrific it truly horrifies me knowing how many nukes are in hands of country’s that are far from friends of the u.s.
I think of I was in Petrovs position but the situation was real I would just not fight back. Why guarantee mutually assured destruction and the end of humanity when I could maybe let my enemies win but atleast not end the world out of spite.
As a teacher, I have this video on my list of "if your interessed in this subject, check this out" emp is good at wngaging young people, so it is a blessing for me and my students 😄
it’s actually a way more important issue than people give it credit for. nukes haven’t gone away and we’re still enemies with russia, china, iran and north korea. navigating these problems in the 21st century will be more difficult than ever before, but people dont bat an eye towards foreign policy because it’s outside our borders.
I don't get all this doom and gloom about a nuclear apocalypse, even at the height of the cold war the deployment of every single nuclear warhead in the most efficient manner from the perspective of killing people would not have come close to endangering the human race, and as for the ice age thing, humanity has survived such conditions before with far less advanced technology, there's no reason to believe we wouldn't be able to do it handily these days. The fact of the matter is that the aftermath would probably not even be bad enough to prevent the Warsaw pact and NATO from having a great big war immediately afterwards.
You know, I don’t like communists, I don’t like Soviet’s. But Stalinislav petrov saved the world, he saved all of us, for as much as I hate the communists, as much as I hate the soviets, he saved the world, he deserves not just a medal, not just a video, he deserves a fucking city sized memorial, or atleast in my opinion, god bless him.
love the video but why "Stan Petrov" why not Stanislav Petrov? He is the reason this video was made and the reason anyone is here to watch it. Say his full name lol
I just want to say to you, EmpLemon, that you make some of the most insightful, interesting videos I have seen on YouTube. So much truth, wisdom, and honesty put into your videos and I hope you keep making more in the future!
See, that's the difference between empLemon and everyone else. I'll watch the ad because he makes it funny whereas the rest either bolt thru it, apologize for it, or try to make it seem like they really actually dig the product.
Watched your Nascar videos. amazing. Tho mentioning NS you dont seen to realise what evil was coming from the East, starting with the ''russian'' revolution. The evil that was coming, had to be fought by a strong power. NS bad, i know the establishment statement but still....you should watch Europe: The last battle. Find it, give it a thought. If it doesnt convince you then you lost 12h of your time...For your research should be a fraction of your time. God bless, truth fears no investigation.
I find it funny that my step father was there to help tear down the Berlin Wall. He even got exchanged hats with a Soviet soldier after the wall fell. Lucky step dad
I pray for a season two of never ever, its the best content i think emp will make, not because they are factually the best but its too complicated for me to describe, i want to say they're the most important but he could upstage it, i might explain it eventually but just know i think these will be the best
This is, bar none, one of the greatest, if not the greatest documentary I've ever seen. The second in line being another one of your Never Ever documentaries. Your videos are golden, and you're craft is true talent. Keep it up Emp
Thank you for this wonderful documentary. Powerful editing skills displayed again. I knew of the story of Stan Petrov before this, but hearing it presented again like this was incredibly moving. Thank you!
Please do a deep dive into the milgram experient. Something is really off about it. There seem to float so many perceptions and counter arguments around the net...
Emp I'm surprised you didn't come across Vasily Arkhipov in your research, virtually was under the exact same conditions at old mate Stanislav during the cuban missile crisis.
@bit There were 3 people who had to give the green light for launching the missiles. Arkhipov was the only one who said no, and was able to talk down the other two.
You have to have faith that the Russians who now occupy Petrov’s place, will do the same as he did, should the opportunity arise. That’s all that nearly all of us can do.
What I subbed to EmpLemon for: Haha funny video, when frying dory?
What I stayed for: In depth, existential analysis of the world around us. Conveying a constant theme of "not as good as it used to be, but hope for a better tomorrow"
I need to show this to my history professor, or someone else who will appreciate this as much as I do so we can both mutually have existential angst and hope at the same time
Only Emplemon can weave together a 4D 200IQ joke like putting a profoundly deep quote from a Robert rodriguez kids movie sequel in russian in the description
When the smartest man in history decided to refuse power, it speaks levels.
Let me put it this way:
The strongest forces tend to be the most violent, and the smartest forces tend to be the most pessimistic.
The most neutral tend to be the most obedient, and seemingly powerless.
However, when it comes down to it, those who are neutral have the least to lose, and the most to gain. The strong will never give up strength. The smart will never go against their wits.
But someone who is neutral has nothing to lose, so they have everything to gain in making the decision that someone with too much strength, and too much wisdom, are too chicken to make.
@Aflay He wasn't the smartest man in history. If he really thought the German nuclear program was a threat, he showed a lack of ethics in refusing to help the US develop the Manhattan project, just because he didn't want the blame of being only one of the men who made it. The guy also cheat on his wife with his teenage cousin.
Every time I see this guy's name pop up, I'm reminded of the theory of Quantum Immortality. That you can determine you are functionally immortal through a clever use of the Many Worlds Theory. Put yourself in a situation where it is statistically impossible to survive, and if you survive, you can declare yourself Quantum-ly Immortal, because you just so happen to exist in the world where you cannot die. Maybe the reason the Fermi Paradox is so evident and we're still here is that humanity itself has Quantum Immortality in this world, and no other civilization does.
But if this is true, it also means that in almost every single other timeline in existance, humanity is snuffed out, and it's likely that many of these deaths are due to this man, and other nuclear incidents. I think we should all remember that - even though things look grim, we've been the lucky ones so far. Maybe we should try to keep that trend alive.
basically why one above all is not the most powerful character
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Steven Powless2021-04-26 16:32:35 (edited 2021-04-26 16:33:14 )
We stubbornly refuse to take care of our neighbors we judge as unworthy for whatever reason, so we forever doom ourselves to arguing over whether they should take care of themselves, or the government should take care of them
Its kind of ironic. Arguably One of the worlds worst villain was american (oppenheimer) and the worlds greatest hero happened to be a soviet russian. Even evil ideologies like communism can still produce heros
@Arthur Borges Tonally, it is jarring. But, I think it makes sense in the context of the video. If life is a game, than the discovery of atomic weapons demonstrates humanity "cracking" back at the natural slow disadvantages of antiquated weaponry.
I dunno, I'm sorry if I seem pretentious, I thought it was a clever idea.
@Arthur Borges Is it? War being viewed as a bad thing is actually a fairly new concept, throughout most of human history warfare was praised and glorified. I think it works well to show the attitude to war humans had over the years.
And during all of this the Detroit Redwings of the NHL were sneaking hockey players into America, they later would win a championship and kick of a dynasty that lasted from the 90s to the 2000s.
So halflife, gran turismo 2 menu, and how many other video games did you borrow music from? Its used fantastically and really adds to the overall theme. Nice.
I remember back when you made primarily YouTube poops, so it is really interesting to see your channel's progression in to a more educational style, while still retaining some of those old elements. The editing is done very well, and you seem to put in a lot of effort and research to get these videos out, and I love it. I also really like the music choices for the videos you make, I even noticed a couple of tracks from half-life in this one. Keep up the good work, Lemon.
Humans: * cant even get over having their order at McDonald’s being wrong * Also humans: * somehow haven’t already obliterated themselves in a nuclear skirmish*
For one moment, the illuminati, god, hollow earth reptillians, secret world controlling governments, supernatural entities of all kinds were beholden to the whims of one Russian with a phone. Kinda fucks with a lot of worldviews simultaneously.
Tsar bamba, the one that was detonated, was actually Half the power they could have made. Russia scaled back, for obvious reasons, like how much damage the bomb could do.
This video was amazing, just god damn amazing, You did an awesome job explaining world events, Great editing and good references, Such as the reference to Local58 when you did the ad bit, You did an amazing video Emp, Like always, Great editing, Amazing explaining, Awesome video.
Thank you for this phenomenal video, Emp. Including the Hawaii false alarm clips was absolutely brilliant. It actually brought a tear to my eye, seeing the juxstaposition of the two events next to each other. And the way the he tried to shift blame from himself to the system... Imagine how impossible it would be to sleep with the guilt if the situation had escalated.
21:08 Emplemon : "The largest manmade tnt explosion was the Halifax disaster" 9 y'old me with the TNT World mod installed : "Are you sure about that ?"
MAD isn't like Chicken.....In this comparison both people must swerve in opposite directions or both people die (which is why its a bad analogy). ALL people on ALL sides needed to be on the same page to stop the chain reaction from happening. The results of the cold war in its entirety wasn't a low point in human history, I argue that it was a high point.
There was no paranoia then, the threat and result of a nuclear strike was very real and communism and its effects were very real and both of these already had historical events to reference. All of the possible outcomes of a nuclear strike were VERY possible. Heck, even this video explores one of the millions of possibilities that could have led to a near-extinction event. It was not paranoia, it was very real. The gravity of knowing the consequences of this, led humanity into directing every single one of those millions of outcomes in the right direction.
I’ve watched this so many times since it was first uploaded and I just wanted to say that this is my favorite video on the internet. The Never Ever series has such a perfect style that I don’t know any other way to describe. This video in particular fascinates me because of the Cold War topic. Overall I just think it’s a complete Masterpiece with a capital M.
Ahh the classic ad that the despicable Lyndon Johnson used to smear his far superior opponent Barry Goldwater. Democrat tactics still have not changed in 60 years
Emp is the type of guy to make you wonder about what the average man's value is to the powerful forces that control him and then play the audio from a Videogamedunkey review. He's truly a special Youtuber.
If I were to get the 'you're about to die' signal, I'm really not sure how I'd react. That's that me's problem. If I don't think about it until it happens then if it doesn't.. I win :) but sucks to suck if it does happen though :/
Even if it maybe be difficult to think in such little time. About life and looking back. Would you be able to try and think, should you punish a country for what its powers do? Do you let it hit you, or do you retaliate even though certain death is near?
Good video man, my only complaint/objection I guess is that you kind of gloss over that many many experts say that the US didn’t actually need to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to win the war, and Japan was well on their way to surrendering, especially if the US had met them on surrender terms. The soviets joining the allies spelled doom for Japan well before the atomic bombs did.
i am not making this up, but typing the entire name of the video into the YouTube search bar, doesn't get you the video. i don't know if this is only for me, but YouTube probably did something behind the scenes
I feel no sympathy for what we did to Japan and if you know anything about the Japanese war mentality in world War Two than you will too. The total death count from the bombs is a drop in the bucket compared to what overlord would of have cost EVERYONE
Ah yes, the country that had no functioning air force and had a blockade around it would've caused immeasurable harm to our military. We didn't lose a plane for the last months of WW2. the nukes were people in power showing off their shiny new toy.
I’m going to have to agree with OP here. Yes dropping the bombs was terrible but so is war.
The war would have been more drawn out, and you forget that a normal invasion would have killed more civilians due to how painful it would be to take over the whole island. Hell look at the German civilians to see that an invasion would kill more than one bomb. They wouldn't have surrendered also, it took TWO bombs before they did. Even when they did, some of the emperor’s generals tried to kill him and take over so they wouldn’t. A traditional invasion would have killed more people in the long run than the bombs have.
@NumNaut Even after 2 bombs on a country with no functioning air force with a navy blockade around them the war hungry still wanted more. We wanted unconditional surrender, they wanted to keep the emperor, if we gave them that we wouldn't have had to drop the bombs.
We needed a unconditional surrender, they're the people who did the whole "Death before dishonor" . Lets say we did, signed a peace treated. You know what would of happened? In order to regain their "Honor" they would of done Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, maybe you should look that sometime.
@NumNaut Luckily I highly doubt that they would've been able to pull something like that operation off given the state that they were in by the end of the war.
Watching this again and I must say that this is absolutely phenomenal. Your use of video, audio, storytelling, and cultural references are incredible. Usually I class YouTube videos as entertainment, but this is art. Very well done
I seriously love the new genuine/down-to-earth documentary style of your videos, it makes me think more of the lyric, “it’s all uphill from here.” It always seems like the upward ascend of one’s awareness and wisdom is instead a terrible path towards unimaginable suffering. I know you’re getting this quite a bit now, but I feel reassuring you of your definite “glow-up” in style, while seemingly unnecessary in the moment, can definitely make just a bit of an impact, no matter how small, that can remind the truly level headed person of their honorably charismatic accomplishments, and their reputation as a whole. As much as things may ever seem like they won’t improve, I believe the “downward spiral” meant to strengthen us all, and motivate us to push against the waves. Thank you so much for being one of what can feel like the last batch of genuine creators on this site.
I’m happy to know I already knew about this man before watching this, absolutely saved the world from Armageddon. Arguably one of the most important figures in history.
First of all I want to say that this series is excellent, and I hope we have many more episodes to look forward to ahead of us. You've turned me on to so many stories I'd otherwise never have considered either because of ignorant prejudice or just relative obscurity. ...But your song choice at the end of this video went from a melancholy, hopeful look to the future to a fucking savagely hilarious, ironic, bittersweet, bait and switch nuke of its own. I haven't laughed that hard in months. Brilliant.
Why do videos like this always make me cry a little bit? Guess there just that good.
I knew stanislav Petrov before it's quite amazing how the very reason he is exceptional is because he was so ordinary if found himself in such a difficult situation must have been extremely difficult for him considering he was basically getting told by the system that was ment to protect his land that was all going to be wiped out.
who knows maybe the great filter was that very moment.
That terrifying split second before the doomsday Clock chimed it's deathly song In my opinion that is the very closest we have ever come to true Doomsday 11:59.59pm on the doomsday Clock
If I remember correctly stanislav Petrov was also on a submarine in the Cuban missile crisis and he also prevented a nuclear torpedo from being launched making the similar assessment that if they fired they would trigger a nuclear war that would kill their loved ones as well as them
He knew it was a false alarm, because there were a lot of false alarms that had happened in the past, which is terrifying in its own right. What's scarier is the captain who was told to use a nuclear torpedo against a US fleet during the Cuban Missile Crises if they blocked his sub, but didn't. I think he was executed for it, but I don't remember.
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Tom Conte2020-08-30 00:40:35 (edited 2020-08-30 00:49:13 )
Great video, as always, so I am not detracting from its informational value by saying the following: English speakers rarely get russian language stresses. While EmpLemon did pronounce name "Stanisláv" correctly the last name is pronounced as "Petróv". I am rarely bothered by this, when watching english-speaking content, but this man at least deserves to have his full name to be pronounced in a way he would like it to. Again - I am not critisizing any content on display here, but maybe at least someone will find this information interesting or useful.
21:45 this small section is amazing. It truly brings the power, scale and prowess humanity has made at destroying itself. And it helps that a clip of Samuel L. Jackson is being used
The subtle humanist message that you build through this video is phenomenal. Juxtaposing the Reagan era rhetoric of the USSR as an evil Empire while presenting the fact that it was a Russian who decided to give the US the benefit of the doubt and spare the world nuclear holocaust. I'm not ashamed to say that the beauty of the video brought tears to my eyes.
Along with petrov we can thank Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov who refused to turn the key to launch the nukes in the Cuban missile crisis. Love your vids btw
Hey, what about the guy on submarine, that was the last man on the vessel, that needed to confirm the actual launch of the nuke, but despite the orders, he refused to confirm and he basically prevented nuclear war.
I'm so happy Whang mentioned your existence in a livestream a few weeks back. Since then i started with my first EmpLemon video Operation Red Herring: Further Down the Wormhole continued in backwards upload order till the VidCon (Q & A) video. At that point i decided to go to where it all started. I pressed sort by oldest and buckled my fuckle. I was not ready for the ear rape, but quickly your YTPs gave me that sense of discovery i had in my younger days finding the graffiti and punk scenes. With your back catalogue down i have reached this video and look forward to the continued journey through the Downward Spiral. Now off to EmperorLime, keep up the great work.
A few questions: What is your opinion on Empty Subscribers and what's your new average? Do you think Mumkey deserves his own Geographic now even though you made a video on the subject already?
PS: Pretty sure GamerfromMars got inspired by your old videos. The day i watched your original BehindTheMeme video he uploaded his that night, as for the day i watched your school shooter rants he uploaded his youngest ever video.
So after watching 5 of your videos it seems clear. You're one of the gods of YouTube. Your content is so damn good. Update:... I wrote that comment before he used Videogame Dunkey as a sample... this shit is art.
This reminds me of October 27th 1962 when a Russian submarine off the coast of Cuba was intercepted by a U.S ship which started to drop dummy depth charges on it to get it to surface. The submarine had an ICBM on board and no communication with the USSR. “ which would make it impossible to know if the war had started or not.” Usually there are two commanding officers on board of a submarine and the decision had to be unanimous on wether the missile should be launched or not. But it just so happened that there was a third officer on board, who instead of retiring chose to return to service and was placed on the submarine in this story. Both other officers who were normally on the submarine agreed that they should launch the missile. Putting him in a near identical situation to Petrov. He however disagreed with the other officers which caused the missile to not be launched and therefore preventing a nuclear war in a very similar way to Petrov.
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D Ke2020-10-26 14:48:45 (edited 2020-10-26 14:50:24 )
It was a torpedo (ICBMs on submarines are not common even today) but otherwise quite correct. If anything what Arkhipov did was more significant than Petrov as there were others in the chain of command who could have prevented the launch if Petrov had not while Arkhipov was quite literally the last man standing.
And are we going talk about Stanislav Petrov without mentioning Vasili Arkhipov who during the Cuban missile crisis stoped the firing of a nuclear torpedo?
Stanislav Petrov is literally the quote "One can save millions but millions can't save one" except he saved 4.7 billion people and all 4.7 billion people couldn't save him
I'd also like commend you. That was one of the most creative ways , across all YouTube, that I have seen a NordVPN + Patreon Ad worked in (the way it should be done, fits the video, and keeps the entertainment level going)
Your content is just amazing. Extremely top quality... Fcking love your voice and videos. You're becoming my favourite content creator of this website..
Anyone who tells you anything about nuclear weapons other than that they're responsible for one of the most peaceful and productive periods in human history is tragically misinformed or has an agenda.
Another man with the decision of nuclear war was varsille arkipov (butchered spelling i think) he was the captain of the submarine units in russia during the US blockade of cuba and decided to get on one because he wanted to know how well they were working and the route they were taking for getting around the US blockade to see Pros/Cons, This submarine was armed with a torpedo which had a nuclear tipped warhead ready to fire with the comformation of the 2 commanding officers. So this sub went beneath the blockade in which it had lost contact with Russia and was spotted by the blockade via radar, to get the attention of the sub the US dropped a dummy explosive in the water which would do no harm had it made contact, believing War had broken out and with their contact with russia severed, they had the decision of wether to fire the torpedo, the 2 commanding officers in charge of the decision both were in favour of firing the torpedo, however Because Arkipov was on board he was also required to decide, he decided they should resurface inside communication lines instead in which they could contact russia to gain conformation to attack. And thats the reason your living, one mans decision to get on the submarine that had he not gotten on would have started nuclear war shows how lucky we are
i live in south east tn and oak ridge is not far from me. i also had a nutty econmics teacher that liked to tell stories of his youth about being a bouncer that collected fake id's from people that failed to get into bars and kept all the fake id's. he even had a clip from mtv that proved his story. (and gave himself a little credibility in my eyes) he also told us one time he lost his dog in a park near east ridge ridge and came upon glowing mushrooms and was confronted by men in hazmats suits. he couldn't prove that one though.
25:58 the newspaper has an article about US oil consumption being stupid high and how they should stop building windowed towers and shopping malls, 50 years later nobody still has gotten that memo... EDIT : People shouldn't think that because the number of warheads has been reduced we are less at risk than before, quite the opposite in fact. Modern missiles and warheads are more capable, harder to intercept, more accurate, each missile carries dummy warheads to fool counter-measures and several real warheads to make sure that the target gets obliterated even if one or several warheads fail. Oh and the TNT equivalent of each warhead has gotten bigger too. THAT is why they can make do with less overall weapons because that make them cheaper to maintain and stockpile, with less risk of them going missing... those treaties were a farce and more unstable countries have gotten access to nukes as well.
30:10 Not exactly a good description of Great Filters. There are considered to be many many Great Filters, only one of which is self destruction at the hands of the species own technological advancement. When you say "The Great Filter" and then discuss the self destruction of a race, you make it sound like that is the extent of the theory of Great Filters. Could have just said "Great FilterS", plural, and said that ONE of them is self destruction. Self destruction is not the only reason we dont see other intelligent species everywhere we look... But other than that, great video, seriously! A well earned like for sure!
Danny Caracciolo2020-10-16 21:45:13 (edited 2021-02-27 18:59:44 )
Stanislav Petrov took a gamble with the fate of the world and Humanity itself........... And he won............... This makes him the luckiest man in the history of the earth.
Watching this after reading a book called The Girls of Atomic City which showed life in Oak Ridge from the perspective of a number of the women working there.
for some reason, people like to think that we told our kids "If you duck and cover, you will survive and everything will be fine." No one said that, it is your fault to think that. We had said from the very beginning that it all depends on your Location to the blast. Duck And Cover is just the 1st step of many.
The duck and cover program was informed by observing the outcomes of Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously if you're at ground zero you're screwed, but it didn't take much distance from there before the difference between being caught in the flash or being slightly sheltered meant the difference between life and death.
+Toori Baba Umm, you can find oil, mine coal or gold, cut down the coniferous trees for wood, test nuclear weapons away from civilization, study the wildlife, try not to disturb the natives who hold the land near and dear, rehearse missions to Mars, set up research stations, launch rockets, create early warning systems, etc.
@MeowTheRainbowX Yes, great, but when we're talking about nuclear war, are you seriously going to bomb a place with a population density of 0.5 per km^2 or are you going to bomb actual cities?
+Tecwyn Jones Are you implying that the only valuable places are ones that can be bombed by nukes? I assume you’re not (since that would be ridiculous) and that I misunderstand you.
Toori Baba take advantage of the oil and be able to get to Washington state in a few hour boat ride from Ketchikan(my hometown) to northwest Washington.
In Cuban middle crisis a Russian suarine heard some banging and thought it was nukes. 2 out of 3 people said it launch sub nukes and only one person said no. That guy also saved the word like Stan.
i literally just spent a good 5 minutes saying "wow", "holy shit", and "jesus christ" while laughing in pure awe of how good this video was and the fact it was this good for all 2,497 seconds of it. didn't even skip the outro and was still watching and paying attention and loving, basically, the comedown of this video.
im also decently high which just made this video so much more powerful and interesting
death is the permanent cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism
seriously though, this is genuinely one of the most beautiful videos i've ever seen, i cried a good 5 times while watching it, honestly, death is the beauty, death is the good, life is the ugly, and the bad, but to get to death, we must go through life, and everyone must go through life, two things:
think of death at least once daily
and remember that stanislav is the reason you can think of death
i am 100% genuine when i say this is a really great video. you can be proud of this video. the quality is outstanding. you did a good job. i will be looking forward to more videos like this if you decide to keep making them.
the "Как вы думаете, Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал?” in the description translates to "Do you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?
As a non-American, I knew only vaguely about the events of the cold war as it was barely mentioned in my history classes. This video was extremely helpful in regards to that. Thank you EmpLemon. Also, Hooooly shit, we were that close to nuclear annihilation?
this will probably sound silly, but i want to thank you for making this video. it was one of the most engaging, informative, and moving things i have ever seen on youtube. as another comment below me said, it feels almost criminal that i can watch this for free.
2020s - Canada Rises 2030s - Earth is Canada. North America is North Canada, South America is South Canada, Europe is Canada 2, Africa is Wide Canada, Asia is East Canada, Antarctica is Antarctic Canada, and Oceania/Australia is Southwest Canada or Down-Under Canada. Earth itself is Canada.
2010 was more of the war on privacy, with edward snowden leaks, facebook and Cambridge Analytica (hell, fb in general), etc. I believe 2020 will be the war on thoughts/speech. It's probably already started
The way you use memes is just amazing, unlike anyone I have ever seen. You use them in a way so subtle that even those that have never visited YouTube in their life could still get the point you're trying to make, and for those that do get it, it's a pleasant surprise instead of making the viewer cringe. The way you used audio from one of Dunkey's videos to convey public opinion on the dominant strategies in each war, saying how a nuclear weapon had the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire city as a subtle reference to Toy Story, and your use of Google Earth and NUKEMAP to convey the size of each explosion.
You know a video is good when the change in size from Hiroshima to Tsar Bomba legitimately made me say, out loud, "woah!"
Pretty good video, but Chernobyl had less of an impact on nuclear disarmament than the TV movie The Day After giving a President Reagan strong pause about continued nuclear buildup. With the controversy over Pershing missiles in Europe (later withdrawn), the concept of eliminating a class of nuclear weapons became politically feasible and expedient. So the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (now defunct, but the current spat is over cruise missles which have comparitively negligible value relative to IRBMs) came into effect and gave momentum to nuclear disarmament and current strategic postures (roughly 2.5k deployed warheads each for US and Russia among a nuclear triad) which now tend towards counterforce (military/command targets) rather than countervalue (economic/population targets) as a result of a smaller number of more accurate weapons making disarming first strikes on enemy nuclear forces far more feasible and attractive. In essence, nuclear war is more decisively winnable than ever.
I'd probably buy Stan Petrov something that has significant meaning to him. Something that would have reminded him of the incident, and how critical he was to saving humanity.
This is legitimately Oscar winning type shit. The video was so we'll made and thought me so much I forgot I was watching a YouTube video and thought I was watching an Oscar winning documentary. Great video keep it up
Can we all just appreciate how much work was put into this? One man made this whole video, he wrote, edited and made this And it’s basically television level quality Emp is truly an amazing content creator He practices what he preaches
I really hope that the amount of views compared to other videos in this series doesn't deter you from making more content like this. In my opinion this has been your greatest video you have made to date and I look forward to more like it.
Ever since hearing of him two years ago I post on the anniversary of his death, thanking him. Maybe it would be more appropriate to post on his birth, as he allowed me to be born, but I have only the utmost respect for this man. He, and he alone, prevented death on an unimaginable scale. WWIII is yet to happen, all thanks to one man
It is incredibly sad that this is the least viewed episode of never ever, when it is by far the most important, perhaps Mr. Petrov just has this effect in a sense of grand irony by the universe
I actually teared up a little bit knowing that I will never be able to thank Stanislav Petrov for what he did. What an amazing guy. I guarantee that if anybody else had been in his position, you wouldn't exist.
I guess all I can do is be thankful that Stanislav Petrov, as he himself put it "I was simply doing my job and I did it well".
It’s crazy that he doesn’t consider himself a hero, when if there was someone else at that same time and scenario with all the current tension then maybe the world would cease to exist. He truly had mercy for his fellow man, and was willing to let his home die without justice in order to see that the nuclear age would calm down to a halt
Oddly, in a sense, Stanislav Petrov is the closest individual we have to a traditional god. On the press of a button, he had the power to annihilate the majority of natural life, and even if he didn't have control over what he would cause, he had such a degree of power, that he is the closest we can say to a man who truly is a god. I'm not trying to say that a cult should be started. I'm trying to say the ideology of a benevolent god is truly, really, a reflection of the deepest parts of human nature, and even if we have the capacity to destroy, we have equal capacity to create, to give, and to be kind to all, be they our own in species, in colour, in political spectrum, in gender, in anything. All lives are as one, for all lives matter so much, every one with the power to do so much. Our enemy is not, in truth, ourselves, or the people whom we differ from. Our enemy is who we were, and our aspiration must be who we wish to become, then we shall be destroyed. International nuclear disarmament is not a matter of fighting as a political party, a religion, a group, but as a species, and for the good of all life that is, and ever will be, we must stop our conflicts, shake hands with our fellows and neighbours, and resolve the fractured nature of our own societies which drive us apart, or risk annihilation. We must stand together, or we shall not stand at all.
I love books and games about nuclear fallout, post-apocalypse. But man I felt kinda scared when my family in Hawaii sent a text to all of us saying they loved us. It must’ve kinda felt like that constantly decades ago
I know that we currently throw around a lot of names to remember. But if you can remember the name Stanislav Petrov, or even Stan P., the lesson from one man can extend to a million and one lessons on why we are here and who we are. A million and one ways to hate people who we have never met. A million and two ways to find a reason that we are in this together. To quote a top comment from the next video in this series, "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in them enough sorrow and suffering to disarm our hostility" - Henry Longfellow
idk how i didnt realize it before, but the excerpt from Videogamedunkey fits so beautifully in this video, and im so glad that syou had the foresight and understanding to use that quote. You are such an awesome fucking youtuber bro, i love your content. Keep doing what you doing for all of us. Much love from California.
Well... we actually know him well in Russia. He is in history books and this episode is often mentioned in documentaries. As a Russian, I really appreciate you made this video. Not just because the hero was Russian, but because nowadays it is important to remind the power of propaganda. We are all people. We are all the same at the end of the day :) Peace!
Real heroes don't call themselves heroes. If they perform an action that the people see as heroic, they will be deemed heroes by those people. This man is certainly a hero to me, because i feel like he comes the closest to being an example of a hero who truly saved the world from total annihilation by themselves.
My great aunts both worked at Oak Ridge when it first opened. My brother has their plaques for being part of the first 250 people to work there helping with the American atomic effort. They both died of cancer.
Even if we had really attacked and he failed to launch a retaliation it would of still happened because of the Dead Hand system the Soviets set up. If if signals were disrupted between the Dead Hand computer and the communication center, it would automatically assume the Soviet Union had suffered a nuclear attack and it would automatically retaliate with all available weapons.
There will never come any sort of understanding between people, so long as conflicts for each group's right to self-determination are obscured behind easy and empty platitudes about "prejudice". Humanity came close to the brink of annihilation to determine where to go as a species, to say that this conflict took place because the two sides just kind of didn't vibe with each other, is ridiculous.
Besides that, if Stanislav Petrov was as you said "the protocol", it's hard to paint the US as "the evil empire with no regard for human life". One man of no importance was "the protocol" that stood between humanity and nuclear annihilation. If this story is to be believed, the Soviet Union as a whole was irredeemably evil, the kind of evil that sprouts from utter stupidity and that cannot be reasoned with. If it is true.
it’s 2:09 am, and now i’m scared lol btw i learned of another day during the cuban missile crisis that could’ve ended the world. it was october 27th, 1962. a soviet leader in a submarine thought the united states was attacking them, and 2 out of the 3 people on board agreed to attack, expect that leader. because he didn’t say yes, they couldn’t continue. edit: here’s where i learned that https://youtu.be/BR1q9MRwHdQ
If anyone is wondering why the mushroom cloud for the tsar bomba illustration looks weird and flat, simple. The explosion was so fucking big the mushroom cloud that resulted reached the atmosphere and as a result spread outwards as it couldnt keep going vertical
Dude i discover your channel because of thevideo you made with Internet Historian about YTP and i didn't expect this kind of content from your part. Amazing video, the transitions and the music are so on point. "I've come looking for copper but i find gold" xD saludos desde Costa Rica uwu
I feel like harry truman had it rough. I mean, the dude was tasked with passing judgement on those who he had no right to do so and likely lived with years of regret and trauma for it. On top of that he wasn’t even revered as a hero by his own country for the most part.
You should look up "Pizza Hutt Gorbachev." Literally the premier of the USSR in a pizza hutt commercial. If that's not the victory of capitalism I don't know what is.
Von Brain wasn't really a Nazi, you look at how late he 'joined' the Nazi party, and how he was arrested for a "defeatest attitude" for the fact that he joined out of necessity. He was a scientist who only had his mind on space, it looks bad now in hind sight, but I completely understand why we strapped our wagon to him during the space race.
What about during the cold war when the Nuclear Submarine political officer said no to firing a Soviet Nuclear Torpedo at the American Blockade of Cuba? He also was a pretty powerful man.
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Forgot to mention that the guy knew the system far more than is let on here (basically not at all); ie his judgement is not purely shirking orders, he knew that the system was unreliable, just how unreliable, and that this was far more likely a failure of a system he knew to be shit than an actual attack. Remember Hawaii? Dude didn't know the system, hence the ICBM scare.
Does anyone remember the name of this soviet stop motion film, where two different "nations" of matchsticks fight against each other, they escalate a conflict and at the end burn one of their rivals only for the flames to propagate into the others side and burn them all?
I'm not sure if you've seen it before, but if you haven't, here it is. the title is just 'matches war'. Not sure if that is the original title or just a mock title.
I literally just finished watching the spongebob video and I couldn't even go a minute without seeing another spongebob reference just like he said how nobody could go on social media w/o seeing spongebob lol
The Fermi Paradox, Maybe its because they're just too far away. The way light travels, we wouldn't notice any aliens because if they do exist we would be looking at the equivalent of apes. Not after the nukes but before.
he didn't disobey orders per se; you see, USSR and other east bloc citizens love their countries to death, but they are wery suspitious about their own technologies.. Thats probably one of reasons why Petrov stopped and think about. Hell, if kicked monitor maybe 12 ICBMs could showed up instead of 5.
Как вы думаете, Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал? Do you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?
I hope I’d be a person who wouldn’t push the red button. The idea that pushing it would bring justice to anyone is flawed. Making the choice to kill millions of innocents as revenge isn’t justice, it’s injustice. Even if the missiles are incoming and my loved ones have only minutes to live, I would never take a life in retaliation.
The worst thing about nukes is that the tsar bomba, the largest nuclear bomb ever, was created in the 60s, and that means that humanity have had over 60 years to develop a bomb more powerful than the nuke that can give you third degree burns from 60 miles away.
This video was great but could not stop thinking about the other Russian who prevented an all out nuclear war during the cuban missile crisis! Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov
The USSR missle alarm system "Malfunctioned". Yeah right, Somebody was trying to start some shit, and gave The USSR due cause to do so. I'm just glad there was a cool and level headed commander on watch at the time.
Fun fact about the Little Boy and Fat Man, the Uranium used to make the suckers explode was extremely impure, and could've the explosions could've been 50 more powerful. What a society we live in.
@Flaccid Ween The II are you sure? Anything I have read said it uses thermonuclear fusion. We don't have controllable fusion for energy yet of course, and a big reason for that is because of how hard it its to keep stable, which makes it great for a bomb. Saying it's an h-bomb literally means its fusion. They use a 2 stage design, a fission bomb is detonated within, the gamma rays and x-rays from the fission reaction compress and superheat the hydrogen atoms,(the isotopes used are tritium and deuterium) causing them to fuse and produce massive energy that causes the explosion. I can link multiple sources if you want me to, let me know.
@Flaccid Ween The II you were right about it being a three stage h-bomb, but what that meand is that the fission bomb still goes off in the first stage, causing the fusion in the second stage, but instead of that fusion being the main blast, the energy is instead used to start the third stage, which houses much more hydrogen, meaning more fusion meaning more energy for the blast.
@TheWilliamPlays ok yeah I'll give you that one, I wrote that comment while semi drunk and only doing 5 mins of research on the construction of the thing myself at the time. We're both right but you're more right than me :3
The way you advertised your sponsor was awesome, dude. I wish people could sneak it in more creatively, other than transitioning with "speaking of which.." Keep this good content chugging, dude!
40:00 pointless wars that no one will ever remmember ? Tell that to the country USA chose as target for their "casual wars" I bet they have already forgotten :^)
Jesus, that 2001 edit and that ad break these videos are so well done. Never stop making these, take as much time as you need but never stop making them, thank you.
This is, in my opinion, the third best Never Ever succeeded by the Hungrybox and Spongebob episodes, yet it has the least views out of all of them? Seriously? This is some good shit for people of all ages and of every audience, and it will be a challenge to make the sixth episode of this series better than this one.
Dude..... I’m a big fan of your channel. This is your best video yet. I watched it last night, and as soon as my nine year old son woke up this morning I showed him. Keep up the good work
When I read "there may Never Ever be another man as powerful as", My mind auto completed it as "there may Never Ever be another man as powerful as Shaggy"
Fun fact about the Cold War: If it wasn’t for the former sellafield nuclear power station in the north west of England,the entire western world wouldn’t have found out about the Chernobyl disaster, simply because the nuclear alarms went off at the power station and some meteorologists tracked it to the Ukraine.
Considering the fact that If this didn’t happen maybe the us and the Soviet Union wouldn’t have started talking politically for a few more years at least
Video was great overall but you could’ve certainly trimmed a lot of it. The beginning section on ww2 and history of the nuke was unnecessary and drawn out. All of your viewers know this shit by now.
Your Sensei Shouyou I could summarize the whole video in a minute, it was very drawn out. Russia and the United States were in a tense feud (on many levels the most important being capitalist vs communist) that did not see any actual bloodshed. In an incident on a submarine three men had the decision to make on a submarine to fire a nuclear torpedo due to a false perceived threat. Two voted yes and one voted no. Had he voted yes nuclear war would’ve ensued. 45 minutes was unnecessary.
The thing is, Reagan was what America needed as Carter was a pushover who ultimately was the one that lost the Vietnam war. In fact, due to Reagan, the Reykjavík Summit was nearly successful, which would've meant the end of all nuclear weapons in both countries. The only reason that it never came to fruition was because Gorbachev wanted a theoretical nuclear satellite defense grid from being tested, as that would lead to the end of the cold war and likely the beginning of a far hotter war. Reagan, though, wanted safety for America and to have that safety in American hands.
You are an excellent storyteller. You had me frozen in horror through half the video, at least.
Small edit for my last thoughts: On the concept of world peace, I'm rather a pessimist. At least in this modern era. There still remain many conflicting, incompatible ideologies, and extremist believers ready to fight for supremacy over all others. Earth is a big place, and while I don't think it'd be impossible for everyone to get along relatively peacefully with the right set of circumstances, the current world situation has me thinking there will be at least one more truly global conflict. And all it takes is one nuclear weapon in the wrong hands for everything we've built over 4000 years to come crashing down around us. Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, is my opinion on the matter.
I know you’ve already made a “Never Ever” episode about WWE, but you should totally do one about how “There will Never Ever be another wrestler like The Undertaker”
Man, I gotta stop binging this series. Each one leaves me in tears, each time for a different reason. One of the best set of videos on this platform, by far. Thanks, EmpLemon. Keep on keeping on.
Thank you for making this. The majority of my generation and those younger seem to forget that the world as we know it was almost annihilated less than a century ago.
honestly man, I have to express my greatest respect for EmperorLemon, all the episodes, especially the Dale Earnhardt one, I was almost in tears at the end of each one, keep these videos up dude, thanks for the awesome content
I've come back to this video to admire the purity of it. EmpLemon, you have had my respect for 8 years now, and i think these videos have made me view you as a role model. This is easily my favorite video you've made, and probably among my favorite videos on this site period. I have saved your Never Ever videos and am putting them onto a DVD to keep as a memory for myself. You are a good man, thank you for such astounding content. :) ❤
This video is fantastic! Thank you so much for making it, and also thanks Stanislav Petrov for his level head and clear thinking, I hope he rests in peace :)
Holy shit, this has happened more than once, more than one time did the fate of the world depend on one man, it also depended on the decision of Vasili Arkhipov. He was on a submarine carrying nuclear missiles by mere coincidence, he was not even assigned to be there, but vetoed the captain's orders to attack, effectively ending human civilization. This happened near the Cuban Missile crisis in October 1962.
There is another man who did something like this. In a nuclear submarine in the carribean, during the cuban missile crisis some officers thought a war had started. Two out of three of them decided to push the buttons for launch, but It needed all three. Thankfully the last man did not believe there was a war yet and did not push it. One button push and nuclear fallout
The editing in this video is amazing.the audio,visuals and the content itself pure quality.I know you may not see this but I would like to say thank you for this masterpiece of a video. the Manhattan Project was extremely overshadowed by the Berlin Wall and other stuff,in my opinion the Manhattan Project is just as if not more important then the Berlin Wall.
I found it interesting that you interpreted that Roger Dean painting at 24:18 as a metaphor for mutually assured destruction. I never would’ve thought of that painting that way. Really good video
Hey I have been watching your videos for quite a while and I just want to say how your editing is the best I've seen. The high level of production and editing is amazing and remarkable. The topics you choose are capturing and you make them fascinating to watch and I credit you so much for having such top-tier videos. The best part is how these are all free, it should be a crime. You really are a gem on this website. You have opened my eyes to see a much bigger picture of analysis and depth. Thank you, EmpLemon.
I found this to be a very good video, one you normally wouldn't see. It's well produced, first off, but most people don't even think about being alive. To be alive at all is a huge game of chance, and most people don't realize how easily that life can be ended.
It's very appropriate that you decided to have that "may" in the title. Sometime soon, perhaps not this year, or maybe not even in this decade, although I have personal doubts about that, we all could find ourselves once again at the mercy of a single someone... or something... that could determine the fate of our entire species at a whim. If... no, not just "if", but when an entity emerges that possesses such power, pray that they emerge merciful, like Petrov was on that day.
The scariest part about visualizing the tsar bomba is that it’s only showing half of the bombs capabilities. The destructive power of tsar bomba had to be cut in half because the explosion was so large and so fast that there was no feasible way for the plane to make it out of the blast zone fast enough
Mr. Chang2020-03-10 03:45:49 (edited 2020-03-10 03:57:09 )
You seem fairly interested in this, you should read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. Very informative and you get, really, a general understanding of the foundations of our modern era and the men who built the atomic age from the ground up. One correction it makes is it wasn't actually Fermi who theorized the chain reaction, it was actually Leo Szilard theorizing how to get energy from the atom after the discovery of the neutron.
Hey just wanted to say that your sense of kinetics is impeccable. Your WWF/WCW/WWE video was astounding, how you stitched images together to convey the scene without risking demonitization -- similar here. You've turned the limitations into the art itself and that's pretty neat
This series usually ends with "there will never ever be", but this episode ends on a more solemn and maybe ominous, by adding two word to the formula, "have to". For everyone's sake, I hope it's true that we will never ever HAVE the need for a man like Petrov.
Thank you, EmpLemon, for giving the world this gift. It shouldn't matter what you are or where you come from, the merit you bring to the world should be based on a simple act of saying no when the world is screaming yes at you. I feel lucky to be alive, all things considered, and I don't want to waste the gift Stanislav Petrov has left us all.
24:33 there was a russian man assigned to a nuclear sub off the coast of Cuba and they thought nukes had already been launched. 2 out of the 3 crewmembers voted to launch the nuke at Florida but the third man, who had picked that sub rather than the one he was assigned to, saved america and the world from a nuclear war
One thing I would have like to have mentioned is Stanislav's wife. At the time, she was at home, dying of cancer. Petrov, due to his security clearance, never told her. She died shortly after, Stanislav never remarried.
Was this video censored or something? I never remember getting a notification on this one and it also has far less views than all of the other 'Never Ever's. It just seems weird that I didn't realize this was here until now, when I actually went to your channel to see what recent videos I missed.
Mr. Hippo2020-04-16 17:16:01 (edited 2020-04-16 17:18:24 )
Genuinely high quality content. Wasn't much a fan of the changes to the visual edits particularly toward the beginning, but you can kind of get used to them. The source names in big letters are a little distracting, mostly, kinda like how subbed anime makes you stop hearing the words that re being said because you focus on reading. Nice idea, but maybe make it take up less of the screen in future. Other than that a thoroughly entertaining video boyo. edit I just realised this video came out a year ago and i never knew it existed. f. Your editing's improved.
Vasili Arkhipov Actually stopped the cuban missle crisis because his fellow generals were ready to put their keys in and press the button but he said no due to this decision he singlehandedly stopped the cuban missle crisis
This is a good video, but the bit about nuclear bombs ending WW2 omit the part where japan lost its last oil producing facility shortly before the bombs were dropped, and that Soviets were moving troops to fight japan, which the Japaneese tried to avoid the whole war after they got completly destroyed during the undeclared border war, they were going to such lengths as letting US convoy ships with land leese through to help out Soviets insted of sending them to the bottom of the sea. Sad truth is that US had a new toy and wanted to test it before the war ended.
The initial part was so crisp that I almost forgot that you are the same guy who made YTP, and the ⬇️ ➿. AND then you hit me with the Local58 reference. You are the tree that keeps on giving but which at the same time explains how we live in a SOCIETY.
Just wanna point out that the two nukes didn't really trigger the end of the war, Russia invading did. Japanese cities had been getting firebombed for years by the US (most of the buildings were wood so this was especially devastating), the nukes weren't realistically that different to the firebombs. Using the nukes had been a gambit to end the war before Russia joined in so as to prevent Russian claims on Japanese territory as opposed to a 'necessary evil to save American lives'. The war was going to end either way (and in fact analysts think Japan would have surrendered earlier, just not unconditionally.)
what a fucking incredible video... i mean really as a human being one can only hope to act as selflessly as stan petrov did that day. I hope with all my being that should the situation present itself, there is another person like stan in a position to stop humanity from destroying ourselves.
For an idea of how big the Tsar Bomba reference was at 22:43, I grew up about an hour drive from Manhattan, and my home town was still just inside the outer circle.
29:29 - 30:50 Using that date, we get 38 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki and 26 years since the launch of Sputnik. In terms of space-time, that leaves basically nothing in our close range space neighborhood to observe any advanced technology we ever achieved and only 0.013% of our existence that we've been able to send out information to space. Granted we now have another 37 years on that total but we almost didn't. Given that, what hope is there that anything out there would be able to contact us deliberately?
Stan Petrov is that one first-name-only desk guy that makes that one teensy A or B decision that could shift the entire story one way or another. Here's to some Russian guy who didn't follow protocol.
Maybe if Operation: Unthinkable had been enacted in the time before the Soviets had access to Nuclear weapons, meaning they could not retaliate, then the Cold War may have been averted. The oppression of the Iron Curtain may have been averted. There were millions of lives affected by Soviet oppression, perhaps dropping one bomb and steamrolling the USSR in a quick series of strikes may have been worth it. Alas, this did not happen.
Actually the president could fire nukes on a whim. The checks and balances are for lower level personell. There is essentially nothing to stop the US president from "pressing the button", because if there was, America might not get their missiles in air before the enemy's missiles hit.
Fun fact, einstein did not write the letter, Leo Szilard wrote it and then persuaded Einstein to send it to Roosvelt under his name to begin the Manhattan Proyect.
Very good video, but there's one major mistake. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan to surrender, a different event made them commit such an act.
What about the Soviet officer on that submarine in the Cuban missile crisis who voted no to launch the nuclear missiles aboard after a American destroyer launched a dummy depth charge to tell the submarine to come up knowing its radar and communications were turned off even to it's own fleet and they freaked out, and all but the political officer wanted to launch a nuclear missile thinking war had just happened I forget the name but yeah
I know this comment will not be important, but I feel like I must say it. Stanislav, though I will never meet you, never get to thank you in person, I want you to know that I am grateful to you. If not for your right decision, I would not exist nor would the love of my life exist. Humanity as a whole would be gone, and I, being before your time, would have never know existents. So, I thank you, for being the right man, at the right place, at the right time.
It's a good thing humanity learned from Petrov and stopped idolizing celebrities for the shoes they wear and worshipping athletes for playing children's games.
It was a choice of either Dropping the Bombs or Invading Japan until they surrendered (they were unlikely to surrender until destroyed). The latter was likely to cause millions of more Japanese deaths and up to a million extra American deaths. War is not justified, but the choice Truman made to end it was the only logical one.
The statistic at 4:33 is misleading. Why are you comparing all US military deaths some time after WWII to an event that happened in WWII? There were 418,000 American casualties in WWII, 3x as many as were killed at Hiroshima.
the one claim you got from this was from A SONG THAT SAMPLED THE SAMUEL L JACKSON LINE?????? unbelievable. You're three part series about the copyright system being busted is no joke. Amazing video!
Fear of SJWs and runaway progressivism is not paranoia when we have historical precedent for precisely what it leads to and what the ultimate outcome of it will be.
Why is a YouTube Pooper such a great Video Essayist? Emplemon you have changed, for the better! I mean I still miss having the occasional YouTube poop, but this is even better.
@Alexander Korol власть ("vlast") means power in the sense of authority. It's more akin to the word "rule". Whoever rules over anything (usually a country/kingdom/empire/etc) is the vlast of it and its people. The United States government is the vlast of the USA. Kim Jon Un and his party are the vlast of North Korea. A chief of a tribe and his direct support are the vlast of the tribe - because the scale here is so small, other words like глава (head) or whatever the word for ruler is are used instead but I don't think using vlast here is entirely incorrect, just that there are better choices.
Russian is my second language and English is my third, so I'm sure there are better explanations of this and I am definitely missing some of the nuance of the vocabulary, but this should be fairly accurate. Hope this helps a little :]
Side note: In Hebrew there is a direct word to vlast though: שלטון (shilton) Not sure if this is useful to anyone but there ya go.
@Alexander Korol Hebrew. I live in Israel (guess who's under constant nuclear threat and other regular threats xD) but my mom is Russian. So she taught me Russian while the surroundings taught me Hebrew. I started using the internet around 7th grade and there I had no choice but to learn English and so I did. Learned some French in school but didn't do any of the homework (as all classes go) so I ultimately failed and have an extremely small understanding of the language. Learned a little Arabic in 5th/6th grade and my dad (he is from Iraq) taught me a tiny bit but it too is not sufficient to do anything with. Currently learning Japanese so I can read some of the untranslated comics (manga) that exists there which is often more interesting than the more popular stuff in both art and story. Really enjoy learning languages. It helps expand thinking and integrate concepts, percepts and ideas better. Highly recommend anyone pick any language and learn at least one extra. If you plan to have kids, get them to learn 1 or 2 extra languages early on you'll see some amazing results. My nephew's speak 3 languages and they are only 4 years old. Their dad speaks only Hebrew with them, their mom only speaks Russian with them and they live in Canada so their environment teaches them English. Pretty cool :]
@SiMe What manga do you read? If you haven't read them already. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Attack on Titan, The Promised Neverland, and Mob Psycho 100 are all pretty great.
@Alexander Korol haven't gotten into JoJo's or Mob yet. You can see everything on my channel (mainly the collection video and the ones afterwards). There is just too much to put in a comment. Some very cool things to see imo if you enjoy the medium and especially the physical volumes. My taste is not very orthodox so I can't really make recommendations aside from the consensus masterpieces.
Watching this video while thinking about the uncredibles is something very strange. I know that was so long ago, but I can't help but think of your YTP roots. Regardless, this was a great video
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The Big Sad2019-07-07 16:51:27 (edited 2019-07-07 16:51:42 )
Why isn't the nord VPN link in russian? WESTERN SPY
I hate the fact that the most recent video in this series is related to videogames (1.5 million views as of February 18, 2020), while this video, with a very serious and scary topic only has 400,000 views
Everyone before September 26, 1983 should thank Petrov for still being alive, and everyone after September 26, 1983 should thank Petrov for being born.
We got goddamn lucky. I don't want to nor know how to do the math, but there's more than a handful of zeros that would accompany the number of odds against us getting to this point I bet. Nothing short of a miracle.
"Do you think God remains in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he has created? Protect your information today". Brought to you by Google Translate
Thank you for these recent videos Emp. I think this documentary type style fits you way better than making videos about recent stuff on YouTube. The episodes in Never Ever and YouTube Geographic are some of the best things you’ve made. I’ve been watching you for years, and this video has hit me hard. Keep it up.
Man if I wasn’t a broke college student I’d become a patron in a heartbeat. I honestly feel guilty watching this for free.... this documentary is just, incredible really.
Emp, if you’re still making documentaries like this in say, 4 years, expect to receive a donation from myself
your never ever & youtube geographic series is genuinely one of my favorites on the website, and an inspiration to my video editing... keep up the great work dude, can't wait for what's next.
God damn it Lemon, I truly think you make some of the best stuff on this entire website. The fact that you are just some guy who used to make youtube poops, and that now you, a normal guy, make highly passionate videos about anything and everything, is just so REAL. There's no fakeness involved with what you make, and you divert so much care and passion into all of it. And when you handle topics as powerful as the Cold War, and the complete nuclear annihilation of the planet, that same passion that leads to movie-length videos about meme theory or spongebob lends it so much credibility, it's amazing. You made me cry, Emp. You just made one of the best documentaries I've ever watched, to be honest. Thanks for all you do, and truly, do whatever the hell you find yourself passionate about. That's what we love about you and everything you make.
22:09 - 22:55 Probably my favorite moment from the video. To think that a while after making a YTP revolving around Samuel L. Jackson, he would use him again for one of the most impactful illustrations of nuclear power I have ever seen. The biggest thing is this: there were weapons made after Tsar Bomba more powerful than Tsar Bomba. And it took one man to call launching them off.
EmpLemon has truly ascended past regular video composition. No franchise or media company will ever produce the way he can. I dream of one day becoming as good or even better than him.
This is absolutely phenomenal, one of the best made videos on youtube that I have ever seen, bar none. However, I would like to highlight something that is even more obscure than Stanislav Petrov, something that was essentially glossed over in this video.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, during the blockade where American and Soviet ships were facing off, just like in Berlin decades earlier, 3 Admirals on a submarine had the option of firing a nuclear missile, which would have inevitably lead to world destruction. Two admirals said yes. One said no. That one man, like Stanislav Petrov, saved the world with his critical thinking.
You ended this video with the hope that there will never have to be another man like Petrov. However, I would argue that he was the "other man" to this Admiral, who did something so eerily similar years in the past.
Holy shit this is so good, like I’ve been a fan of your never ever series since the spongebob one, and they’re just so well done. Also that dunky clip caught me so off guard.
For school I’ve written papers on the Cold War and the Manhattan project, meaning that I didn’t learn much new information from this. But this video is full of great information and one of the best documentaries on the Cold War I’ve ever seen.
It would be pretty dope to see maybe a music never ever. Something like that will never ever be another song like this one or etc. it feels like that would be a cool and interesting video to watch since the other have been about pretty surprising topics, it would be interesting to se what a creator like you could do with a concept like that
Hey Emp lemon big fan of the series and your channel. I was wondering if maybe you would consider making a never ever on team fortress two and it’s impact on the video game industry. It seems like your a fan of tf2 and as someone who grew up playing the series I’m also a pretty huge fan. But overall I hope you continue the series no matter what you make next.
I Was Honestly shocked by this whole documentary, you do better work than most Big budget corporations. Needless to say, I'm Impressed and glad i watched this
While watching, I knew I recognized the music, I had no idea how truly haunting the half life soundtrack could actually be. Fuck. What an amazing video Emp, thank you for so much hard work.
1983 had another moment where nuclear war came close. During November 4th-7th, NATO conducted a war exercise known as Able Archer. The soviets felt as if the games were them actually preparing to do a first strike, so the Soviet premier Yuri Andropov was ready to launch the Soviet Arsenal in his hospital bed if he felt if even in the slightest that the allies were going to attack
That part about Japan in the beginning is my favorite, what with perfect music, visuals, and a good topic as a lead up to how making the Japanese surrender was a big feat.
I like to think that some meta force created the false warning just to see if humanity could be trusted to continue or not. Seeing that one man, despite all of his training, still had faith that both his country and the enemy he’s lived all of his life hating would never usher in the apocalypse on a whim warmed their hearts. We passed their test.
I honestly think that there have been and will be many more times where the worlds fate rested in a single persons hands, but nobody realized it at the time or after
GREAAAT stuff Emp! l LOVE that you're into the Prog music too! The Roger Dean Yessongs Album artwork blew me away! l bought that album in '81, eight years after lt came out!
That commie saved us! Thank you and God bless you Stanislav Petrov! Great video emp, these always get better and better, I really get the feelings and emotions from this vid. Thank you man!
In all seriousness, technically we've had multiple judgement days. Anyone remember the Goldsboro B-51 accident where a bomber carrying two nuclear bombs broke up at 9,000 ft? One of the bombs did arm but thanks to a malfuntioning high voltage arming device, it never exploded. The first one was disarmed by only one of four arming mechanisms. Think about that. I also believe we have another judgement day coming up. Our maniacal appettite for resources has already resulted in us using more resources in one year than the earth can supply. We're polluting at an alarming rate. The issue with this problem is that since its consequences aren't immediatly felt, I worry that our collective tendency to procrastinate on issues that aren't banging down the door will be our inevitable doom. I hope we come to our senses before its too late. But that's just another hurdle in the fight for survival. Remember, you're here today because every one of your ancestors fought and overcame their existential challenges. This is not a time to give up but to fight.
Good video EmpLemon. Fat chance you are reading this but for your next Never Ever episode, can you make There Will Never Ever Be Another Pitchman Like Billy Mays. He died 10 years and 4 months ago.
I've been watching you since the uncredibles, I know I'm a bit late to this video but it amazes me how much respect and research went into this video. You should do more video essays in this style
In the 60s during the Cuban missile crisis something very similar to this happens in a Russian nuclear submarine and they almost launched the nuclear torpedo thinking world war 3 all ready started but the final commanding officer in the submarine didn't approve the launch therefore stoping the launch
Also worthy of note is Vasily Arkhipov, another Russian (this time, aboard a submarine) who had to make the same call: approve the firing of nukes towards the U.S. and essentially destroy the world, or disapprove. I'm sure you can guess what choice he made.
If the parallel universe theory is correct that means that there’s a universe where he reported the missiles and a nuclear holocaust ensued. Just let that sink in for a moment.
Thank you This is the best most engaging video on this topic i have ever seen. If you never make another video then you can bie happy Becouse you have truly in reached the heman race as a hola with this work.
I loved every moment of this video and spent 3 time longer the the video it self researching every point and running all your numders. Only to have my mind blown by what i found. The zare bomba bata my should was one of the most nightmarishly deep rabbit holes of All consuming Alsome i ever encountered. That scene for pop fiction but it perfectly. Ture werth of god shit. Its one thing to hear about it an another to do the math to the point you can feel the blast it self. Seeing it so completelt eclapes the Hiroshima blast as to make it completely eralavent is laterally something i will never forgot or be able to un see. Thank you
There was alot of sumillar situations on both sides. I heard story that Soviet submarine almost launch all of it payload because it lost contact with HQ
Lemmino makes video about the apocalypse. Ends with a song from Aphrodite's Child called End of the World. (Stanislov Petrov was mentioned)
Emplemon makes a video about the development of nuclear weapons and the threat of annihilation. Ends with a Coke ad about love. (Stanislov Petrov was mentioned)
My American pride wants me to say that there will be a man more powerful, but this Russian did one of the most American things you can do, trust your gut and stand with your instincts.
Last I looked you made a video about leafyishere going from nothing to something and to nothing. Now, today, I see this. I got goosebumps several times. Bravo, fantastic.
I like it Lemon, but there is just too much that's glossed over or moderately incorrect without proper context.
I can't go into everything, but you should have also focused on the exact moment more than the history. The history overall is too much to talk about and you do a disservice to history.
Also it's worth remembering that while Alaska has population centers, they aren't on the scale of LA, NYC, Chicago, or DC. Also Russia is really just tundra in Siberia, and the only major Russian city on that side of the map I KNOW of is Vladivostok. Considering this, EmpLemon isn't exactly wrong...
I dont like this assumption you have of how the military works. The human element is the first and foremost component of any kind of warfare and the idea that the military trains people be robots is absurd.
I was so confused when Dunkey came in.. I had paused just before it, and when I unpaused he started talking and I was like "hmm some kinda youtube bug" 😂
they were warned that the city would be firebombed like tokyo did they should have listned oh and both bombs are still lower deaths then the tokyo firebombings
8:04 I know this video is pretty old (and as such there's not much of a reason for you to respond), but I'm wondering how in the world you got such a discoloration/vhs effect going on?
i really cant comprehend what goes inside the minds of those people, they have the power to destroy life at a massive level, and they still can sleep at night. Sure, drop the bomb, you will erradicate all your enemies, but you will also cause all the suffering for everyone else, including your own people. imagine waking up, all is nothing but cinders, no building, no plants, no people at all, just the sound of the wind and the smell of hell, and knowing it was all your fault.
The conclusion that it was a false alarm doesn't seem like a difficult one to come to, I'm sure only the dumbest of people would've pressed the big red button on that, luckily Stanislav wasn't overtly stupid.
I fail to understand how you made a 41 minute video on the 1983 nuclear alarm incident.... and somehow didn't even make a single "99 Luftballons" reference. Maybe you hid it too well. I'm impressed.
Dude, you don't have to look hard for equivalents of the "evil empire." Just ask North Koreans, Crimeans, Georgians, east Ukrainians, Tibetans, Chinese muslims, middle eastern gays, Kurds, Russian dissidents with radioactive poisoning, French cartoonists, 9/11 survivors, etc. What fucking universe are you from? Stop with the relativism. That's such a tired trope.
The realisation that, if that man had been in Petrov's place, we would've all died, terrifies me. It doesn't just send a chill down my spine, it genuinely scares me.
you're like a mix of john bois and summoningsalt, but turned toward pop culture and memes. (you even used some of the same music as salt in your last NE video)
All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja All you wanted to be, a soulja, like me All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja All you wanted to be, a soulja, like me All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja All you wanted to be, a soulja, like me All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja All you wanted to be, a soulja, like me
DUNK TZU SAID THAT AND I’D SAY HE KNOWS A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT GAMING THAN YOU DO PAL BECAUSE HE INVENTED IT, AND THEN HE PERFECTED IT SO THAT NO MAN COULD BEST HIM IN THE RING OF HONOR!
I love the fact that I can finally show my family an EmpLemon video and not get weird looks from them.
On a serious note, your commentaries, documentaries, and just all-around production value just keep getting better and better with every video. I never realized how important storytelling was for documentaries until I saw this and your Dale Earnhardt video.
I hope one day my editing skills will be at least on par with yours (and my mic wasn’t so shitty lol) and I can produce content as quality as this.
It’s hard to believe that this is the same guy that made the Uncredibles 6 years ago.
May sound a tad hyperbolic, but you genuinely give me hope for the younger generations. Your production and editing skills are second to none and the content and delivery is top notch, too. If I could buy stocks in a YouTube channel, I'd plough as much as I could into yours.
Thank you for making this video, this was always I story I thought every person alive should here. How one man had the fate of the world as we knew it in his hands, how he trusted his instincts despite the cost, and won a silent victory for humanity
This is some god tier work mate. I was already aware of this incident but you've presented in such a cohesive and compelling manner that I couldn't help but watch all the way through. Keep the spiral going
Emp, I'm a bit late to this party, but I have to say, your skill in choosing exactly the right facts to say, but more importantly, creating the perfect imagery for the commentary and message is unparalleled. I always knew the nuclear arms race was terrifying in principle, but you gave me chills about it as if you lived through it, and neither of us have, and you did through this precise and effective imagery. Well done!! I appreciate that this series for you is about what you feel like talking about, and is thus eclectic, but I really would encourage you to start a separate series about major historical subjects like this.
Everyone really deserves quality history like this.
Actually there was another man just as powerful. His name is Vasili Arkhipov, the one man who cast a vote against launching a nuke during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I mean that did happen way before Petrov's incident, but let us not forget this man's great deed too, cause I noticed that there wasn't a single mention of him here...
Great Video. Schreibe nur selten Kommentare aber man merkt wie viel mühe in deinen Videos steckt, besonders das Ende hat mich zu Tränen gerührt. Du bist eine Inspiration für mich und sicher auch für viele andere Menschen. Mach weiter so!
Another situation happened similar to this involving a soviet submarine that lost communication during the Cuban missile crisis. Real life lore made a pretty good video talking about it
Very well written and produced video. The Kubrick cut and the Pulp Fiction scripture are my favourite examples of great allegorical work to emphasize a point. Well done. Truly.
I cannot believe I have found such an incredible collection of things that I enjoy so much, so well polished and good, I can´t believe it's free. From a former YTP creator and recently a maker of agry rants that didn't cease to swear every five seconds. This video made your channel take a huge turn for the better. The music, the voiceover, the tone, it was all so perfect. All I can say is thank you, you made my day.
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nicolas B.2019-08-21 05:09:40 (edited 2019-08-21 05:22:26 )
This story has been told many times over, but you added so much to it. Very well done. (Also best sponsor promotion I’ve ever seen)
it may be because I'm sick and not fully here, my inhibitions are at a low, but this video really made me tear up. Thank you EmpLemon. this was a fantastic video.
EmpLemon makes some of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen, and not just on YouTube but on all media platforms yet has 1/200th the suscribers of Pewdiepie. Not sure how to feel about this......
Im so proud i knew who he is because there was this article in this history magazine and it was about a guy who stopped the nuclear war. Thank for telling the stuff that happend and need to be know to this generation by the way im 12.
holy shit man, i was just talking with my coworkers about this story the other day. I was not ready for the heavy weight of this video. Very well made.
Terrible how this man was treated. Read this story a few years ago, and seems that thanks to this video and other sources people are getting to know this instance of heroism. Hope some statue gets build someday if not by Russia by other country
This isn't the first time I heard the story of Stanislav Petrov, but this is the first time I've heard his name. The story itself isn't that rare in the circles I'm used to. The Russian false alarm that decided the fate of the world. But what is normally a five minute story, tops, about an event that's played off as being the single most tense moment in history was turned into an hour long documentary about what I agree was the world's Judgement Day. And a nameless, faceless Russian soldier was transformed into the single most intelligent, humble, and calm man during the cold war. And when compared to that incident in Hawaii not too long ago it truly solidified that the most powerful man in the world is a position that, with any luck, nobody will ever take the title from.
I think that the Pulp Fiction clip used is really perfect, but in more ways than one. Without the context of the movie, it simply illustrates how nuclear weapons has given humans God-like power. However, using the context of the movie makes things more interesting. At the end of the film, Jules reflects that he thought he was the righteous man smiting evil, but was actually the evil tyrant, and truly wants to be the shepherd protecting the weak. Depending on your view of nuclear weapons (and which particular country possesses them) they can be seen as the shepherd protecting the weak or the evil tyranny.
There's a documentary about this incident on youtube called Able Archer 83. It explains quite well the situation and the mindset around the events of '83
Unfortunately, what you said in the end is exactly what is going to happen: We have, are, and always be in a conflict with ourselves. The only way to stop this biology within us is somehow transfer away our humanity in what we call today, trans-humanism. You must understand that this internal conflict is what brought up as big intelligent life form. A double-edged sword, really.
It's because he was from the soviet union, which is why nobody knows who he is. nobody would ever be taught to learn about anything from there. Just like how we were taught that the first man in space was john glenn, but it was actually yuri gagarin.
I may be a little late, but these close calls were way to common. If you understand the idea of immortality through quantum suicide, then you can see the point I am putting forward. Maybe there are an infinite number of universes where these weren't close calls, where millions and billions of people were uselessly killed in an instant of pure human intuition. If the many worlds interpretation is correct, then maybe, as a society, we are... immortal.
So I'm only just finding out this video exists because the last EMP lemon video I saw in my subscribed videos was the NASCAR Never Ever and I wanted to make sure he was still alive. Thank you so much for just straight up not showing me EMP's videos Susan W
I think the point abiut stopping to think if we became gods was very strong. But I think its instead the idea of forgetting where we are in relation to God. The postmodernist and Neo-Religious view that we are the Gods of this universe in our own respective reality is what leads to massive nuclear casualties and the equally staggering abortion casualties. Please make more videos like this.
Oh that’s cool, I didn’t know the Japanese Flag can be easily repainted into a WarFlag
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Da Dude2019-08-26 20:33:36 (edited 2019-08-26 20:58:42 )
unfortunately, the mentioned cases weren't the only ones of soldiers deciding to go against protocol, in order not to cause the destruction of all human life in the northern hemisphere (and most in the southern). you'll find more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
and then we haven't gotten into the cases which haven't been open to the public yet, due to secrecy.
about 10 years ago, Russia was getting hostile towards Poland and Czech Republic due to the building of anti-missile systems being installed (which were first mistaken for ICBM's). the result was threats going back and forth, regarding nuclear annihilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland the Obama government then reshaped the plan to this (due to public backlash in Poland and Czech Republic, making these nations in the frontline of future nuclear attacks, making them primary targets, together with locations such as Washington DC, LA, NY, Moscow, St: Petersburg, Tel Aviv and Teheran): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_System
even though the cold war has ended, we are still close to nuclear warfare. and if that day comes... we're all fucked, to put it nicely.
Emp should do a never ever on filthy Frank, or perhaps a YouTube geographic. It's true. There won't ever be another youtuber like Filthy Frank ever again. Not in the direction YouTube is going, at least.
Emplemon I love your work but I really do think that this piece could be cut in half. You need to decide whether or not this will be an informational or opinionated essay, and it appears that you are attempting to convey an information essay from the beginning. Later however you begin to tell the viewer on how Petrov only managed what he did due to disobeying orders and debate the ethics of millitary comforming tactics. I believe that this hampers your essay and you should either make it clear that this piece has an opinionated viewpoint near the end or keep it purely information, primarily because youtube audiences are quite impressionable and you should make it clear that they should form their own judgement.
Petrov's quote at the end really hammers it home how off Emp is here. It was literally a part of his job to determine whether or not a projected missile threat was accurate enough to warrant a counter launch.
It's hard to tell since people have continuously been giving false alarms about it for generations. I don't dismiss it completely but it's not something I see happening in my lifetime.
You kinda missed the point, it's not meant to be a comparison in that sense, it's meant to show that the bomb was so incredibly devastation, that its kill count was that much greater than ALL of our military casualties since the 70s.
@Mediocre DeadGuy i know that it is to show its devastation but why do it since the 70s? why not troop deaths in the pacific, people who were involved in the conflict with japan and what lead up to the use of nuclear weapons? Its misleading not using these statistics.
People think nowadays "What would happen if someone like Thanos can along and wiped out half the universe?" The answer is he already came, he just decided to go against his beliefs and spare us. Amazing work emp.
@Ivan Correct, that's why you shouldn't be praising the Soviet Union or it's genocidal leaders, at any point of their history, be it in the revolutionary phase or the final, rotting years.
@Calvin_Coolage He was a lifelong pacifist which was one of the reasons he renounced his German citizenship as doing so would prevent him joining the army as his views were opposed by Germany's militant views which became more apparent after Hitler became the leader of Germany.
@Max Mcdonald I see. I knew he was a pacifist, I just didn't know he always was. Hell, I thought the reason he left Germany was because of the Nazi party's stance on Jewish people, not anything to do with his pacifism.
@Calvin_Coolage Pacifism was one of the reasons, not the only reason or even the main reason for him leaving as Nazi Germany's hatred of Jews to a extermination of the religion and any people who are Jewish including Albert Einstein as him staying in Germany would cost him his life so he went away to America, he never forgive Germany, his home country for committing the holocaust.
I actually know a guy, Roy Henderson, who was in the US Air Force during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was stationed at a nuclear missile silo and went through a similar scenario to Petrov's. At the time, they were installing a secondary communication system to add redundancy in case of a failure due to a nuclear strike. During this installation, the old comm line to the silo was accidentally cut... before the new one was properly connected. Now, in US military protocol, every silo is designed to be able to operate independently, in case of a nuclear strike on Washington D.C. and a subsequent complete and utter destruction of the central command. When the old comm line was cut, it triggered the alarm that is tied to this protocol, and completely locked down the silo; no one could get in or out. Also, the missile was automatically armed and primed for launch. Roy was the only guy in the control room at the time, and for a few minutes, he had complete control of that nuclear missile. Luckily, he was very much like Petrov. But unlike Petrov, he knew for certain that the alert was a false one. He figured that the construction crew accidentally cut the old line and he didn't fire the missile. Meanwhile outside, literally everyone, and I mean EVERYONE on the base got word of what happened and were screaming toward the silo in whatever they had -- jeeps, trucks, helicopters, you name it -- all in an effort to tell Roy that it was a false alarm. It was hands-down, one of the top 5 "Oh shit! Oh Fuck!" moments of all time for them. When he told my dad the story, dad told me that he turned pale. To have that kind of power, no matter what you know or don't know, is absolutely terrifying.
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This deserves more likes, that's amazing
150 likesmissile time fun time
98 likeswhat would have happened if no one was in the silo? Would it just be locked until forced open?
47 likesis there any source that i can find about him?
15 likes@Kar amacı gütmeyen kanal If you digged around enough in the DoD's records
133 likes-and you had the proper authorization-you might find a report about the incident. All I am going off of is word-of-mouth from the guy himself, to my dad, then me.@Oscar Leaving an ICBM completely unattended? That's very unlikely. But on the off-chance it did happen? The people on the outside would probably just have to slowly drill through the door.
115 likesI heard about that in an article from university. Not a lot of people know about it
54 likes@RichyRich M There was an article on it? Nice! Is there any chance you could find that article again?
66 likesDon’t forget about the time that NORAD in Utah almost started global nuclear war because of the moon.
39 likes"Edit: Thanks for the 839 likes :)"
2 likes@Stellvia Heonheim You must be fun at parties. :/
26 likesHoly shit
18 likesso Roy literally held the lives of everyone on Earth in his hands. That's insane.
Hahah! that, is scary!
0 likesThere will never ever be a man as powerful as Roy Henderson
14 likes@GDNacho at least not until the next time this happens. Again. Damn, we keep getting lucky don't we?
8 likesHe has the same last name as me. That's crazy.
1 likeSo...he could've just said "eff it" and intentionally doomed the world forever?
9 likesHoly shit.
That's not the first time we had an oh shit moment...... Once a bomber plane accidentally loaded up and carried three nuclear warheads across the country when they weren't suppose to..... And another time a live nuclear warheads was dropped out of a plane and nearly detonated on impact......
6 likesWhat movie was That?
0 likesthat guy deserves his own special fucking medal lol
0 likes@Void of Space and Time I heard missiles...DAT SH*T IS MINE!
0 likesjust drop someones government who worked on a potential secret project…smh
0 likesI couldn't find anything covering the incident, but I did find an obituary of a "Roy 'Tom' Henderson" who served in the Air Force from 1950 - sometime after 1973. That checks out with this story being during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
5 likes@ATruePanda Lmao this is the rare case that the op is legit and has knowledge of classified government gossip. Glad to be here.
1 like@Cdog Thehedgehog We live in interesting times indeed.
0 likesFor a single day, that man became the protagonist, the antagonist, and everything in between
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Vassili akrupov: ok my turn
17 likes@Really Useful Trackmaster Fan The last 3 presidents of the USA: Round 3?
3 likessorta
Sonder is the realization that everyone is their own protagonist.
9 likesOn that day there were not many, but one protagonist
Powerful line
0 likesthat is just called a main character lmao
1 likeImagine being in Rome in the first century being like "yeah I just got this new vase, its yellow hue reminds me of the sun and it's even warm to the touch too" and dying in your mid-twenties.
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Hahaha
12 likesModern uranium glass glows but does not irradiate at all due to the ceramic layering above the glass. It's only if this layer were to be damaged is it dangerous. Not sure about ancient uranium glass though.
41 likesRaw uranium isn't all that radioactive. You can hold a chunk of it in your hands and you'll be fine. It's when it's refined that it gets radioactive.
29 likes@Randomly Entertaining True, but they still emit deadly radon gas.
1 likeEmpLemon is seriously the most underrated Youtuber out there. His storytelling is on a whole different level and his editing is top tier. How does he not even have one million subs when he's producing content like this?!
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Fortunately he’s growing
15 likesto be fair, he did tell us to unsubscribe in the past
0 likesBy years end, he will reach the prophesied 1,000,000 Sub Goal,
0 likesIt’s his fate
Almost there...
0 likesI have good news!
1 like@Owen Murphy nice, wonder if he'll come out of hiatus now
0 likesim rewatching the never ever series and HOW does this one have so few views, it's the best one imo
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like this belongs on TV, he should shoot a few emails to various media companies and see if they can work something out [and get the copyright deals and stuff in order]
75 likes@Ganer I've think it got copyright claimed. He explained it in one of the copyright law videos.
18 likesWait...I'am looking for the timestamp...
Ok. Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvFGumd_esg
18 likesIt's part 2 and the timestamp where he explaines it is: 13:13
Because it's symbolic
4 likes@Ganer yeah it dose
0 likes@Ganer He should stay on YouTube. This is his home. The only place his remix culture can be successful.
23 likesit needs a million
0 likesIn my opinion the best one is hungrybox's
11 likes@Aoshi Nah.
6 likesBecause it’s historical. People care more about pop culture than history.
13 likes@Jackson Allen sadly, yeah
1 likeIt has over a million now
2 likesThis one is pretty creepy and dark, I can see why people don't wanna watch how the "world almost ended"
6 likes@Orion late
1 likeI still think that the Hungrybox video is a better narrative and it also had better production but the Cold War is a very close second.
2 likes"The world is never fair, so sometimes acting like Homer is the only option left"
2 likes- Emplemon in the last video
Yes
0 likes@Jackson Allen true then there's me who loves both
1 like@Orion yeah but its also the most real this and the dale Earnhardt video are my favorite videos on YouTube
2 likesBecause the people who dont already know the name Stanislav Petrov dont care enough to click...
1 like@The mango man Nah I agree it's the most real and I love this video but that's prob why
0 likes@Aoshi i agree
0 likes@Aoshi it’s either this one or Homer’s enemy
0 likes@Jackson Allen true
0 likesI think it's the best video of his. It's so impactful at so many different moments. "I did what I was trained to do" is such a powerful moment, it really shows how lucky we are that Stanislav never thought that way.
1 likei normally tear down checkmarks like reagan did to the wall. but you seem sincere. carry on.
3 likes@Adam this entire channel is a shrine to pop culture and its lasting historical influence. sooo
1 like@Ian Ingold・15 years ago make sùre to click œn the bell 🔔 and BUY SOME MERTC-C_C-CH
2 likesneeds more clickbait
0 likes@Ganer sadly, the type of tv that makes money these days are kids shows. The first episode is about one
1 likethis is the beast episode lol
0 likes[10:07 remix] PS I've been looking for this remix and I'm wondering is emp uploaded it some where plz help
@mam man _88 If the remix isn't in the music list in the description he probs made it himself for that segment
0 likesIt really his magnum opus it's about something that affects everyone
0 likesThe one before this literally made me cry so I disagree
0 likesTV nerds don't like history 🤷 I love all forms of emps videos he has a genuine heartfelt take that we can all relate too
0 likesRaise hell, Praise Dale.
0 likesStan Petrov
1881 likesAn unremarkable man
With an unremarkable story
Who would save the world
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And denying doing something at all
66 likesStan Petrov saves the world by doing absolutely nothing. Reminds me of the Mario party videos. Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing.
107 likes@Fandom guy Thats because he is bro
13 likesSomeone gotta make a video like that.
1 likeThat's wrong. Even when you do nothing, you do something.
26 likes@AltCUT shhhhhhhhhhhn
3 likesAKArainkit “The fact that I’m doing nothing right now proves my resolve.”
27 likesI'd say he did the right thing.
3 likesAnd yet, by doing nothing, he did what is right.
10 likesOh Magic Conch Shell, what do we need to do about the incoming nuclear missiles?
2 likesThe right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
5 likes@Sachiko Broomfield Stanislav Petrov is LUIGI?!
4 likes"A strange game......... The only winning move is........ Not to play"
3 likes@Fandom guy To quote WarGames, “The only winning move is not to play.”
2 likesI guess you could say that he's a real nowhere man setting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
0 likesLuigi looking on with pride
1 likethe choice to not choose is a choice in it of itself
1 like"A strange game, the only move is not to play" -Wargames
2 likesDamn. Hopefully we have another guy like Petrov in these upcoming years. Scared to think what’s gonna happen going forward.
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Im worried about my home country(Slovakia) because our government yes-men agreed to become US military base, which would resolve in war dragging to Slovakia as well
4 likesIdk I hope the button is pressed. The world makes me lose hope in humanity sometimes lol
3 likes@Jack P. Richardson It sure would be quick..... Maybe it would be for the better.
1 likeI certainly hope this recent conflict does not escalate to a point where we will need another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov. Because I'm not sure anyone today would spare the world with the tensions rising now. Being in that hot-seat would be a hard place to be.
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That’s why I’m back here too. Perhaps I’m reflecting our good boy Stan here across the whole Russian people, but even if it comes to destruction for all, I don’t believe the Russians will do it. Whatever I feel about the geopolitical climate, this video reminds me that we aren’t so different, what scares me is Hawaii man. If the end of the world comes, it will be on the shoulders of the aggressor, and I’m terrified it will be us, because we still as a nation don’t believe in peace.
5 likesGovernments are much more pragmatic than you think. Especially when it comes to nuclear weapons.
0 likes“Many believe that a nuclear war is a scary reminder of the past. But I believe this opinion will change drastically.” -Stanislav Petrov
120 likesthe fact stanislov is so underground and unknown makes me sad
122 likeshe literally could’ve become the person with the highest kill count in history if he just picked up a phone
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The person with the highest kill count now is one of the 2 general that fired the 2 nuclear bombs at Japan.
5 likesHis K/D would've been off the chain
8 likesVladimir Putin has entered the competition!
0 likes@Dray Does Things Not yet... not yet...
1 like@R - G - C Huh? Mao is there, there's also Stalin, and there's also Hitler
0 likesThis man used a Dunkey clip as a metaphor for nuclear weapons
4629 likesBravo
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Toxic Pyro12 I thought it had skipped to my next video in the recommendations.
133 likesWhat vid was that from anyway
27 likesbravo? you mean castle bravo?
34 likesIf I didn’t know the context, I probably would have found it fitting. This must be the mind of a YouTube Pooper, always thinking of ways to splice unrelated media together.
145 likescopperhead scaly game difficulty
29 likesthis might be one of the most impressive things i ever saw on the internet
34 likesWhere was it? i missed it
2 likes@Natanael Esoxi 11:03
7 likesAnd it worked REAAALLY well, too
27 likesnot just nuclear weapons, but war as we know it.
8 likescopperhead scaly if he has a video on platforming I bet it’s that
0 likesI was just watching one of his videos on Mario Maker and I restarted the app bc I thought I ran into a bug
0 likes@Infomaniac dangit, you beat me to the joke!
1 likeWhat's the quote from ?
1 likecopperhead scaly It was difficulty in video games 1 I think
0 likesAnd Sometimes
1 likeIt Cracks
Russia: nope, you are nitpicking and biased, I win, byebyeee.
0 likes@scaly copperhead Difficulty in Videogames
0 likes@WRECKA and your enjoyment is ruined
0 likesI thought YouTube was having a seizure playing a Dunkey audio clip over this video
1 likeStanislav is absolutely a hero! This video is so underrated and I feel like this story is one that many more people should learn from, but they simply haven't been exposed to it.
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I will never ever forget this
8 likes@kalogio me too
1 likeHe could also have interpreted the "only 5 missile" as the only missiles the system were able to detect. This is the doomsday alternative universe he could have created
55 likesStan singlehandedly saved humanity from complete destruction, only to be forgotten by it. Man, what a tragedy. I’ll always remember you Stan, even if it’s just me.
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Lmao he's dead now Xd
0 likes@Henry Crabs ????? Is that how you normally react when someone dies
1 like@Henry Crabs bruhh wym "lmao he’s dead" imagine someone hearing about you being dead and they start laughing their ass off at you being dead
2 likes@Kingbanzzz you act as If I have empathy
0 likes@Henry Crabs Ight but at least have some respect… I mean he is the reason we all still here lmao
2 likes@Kingbanzzz he’s just an edge lord ignore people like him
1 likethe fact that i am alive today is due to a man who didn't get a medal, a big parade, a promotion, or bothered. thats the kinda hero i want to be.
67 likesI don't think people tell you often enough just how phenomenal your use of sound is. You're damn good at editing your audio so that it really makes an impact
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I'm sure he appreciates this dude, comments are good for the YouTube algorithm
13 likesA lot of EmpLemons style comes from Jon Bois and he emulates it so well. If you want other examples of great sound design check jon bois out.
23 likesWow your here too
0 likesAlso the range and choice of audio "samples" is great and fitting
4 likesYo I watch u Pokémon videos lol
1 likeThat is precisely why I love EmpLemon so much, the use of sounds and audio editing! They’re phenomenal!
2 likesYTPs may sound and look like complete nonsense but they require mad editing skills. Emp's been perfecting the craft for years.
12 likes@Nicholas Natale he has exactly 690k lol
0 likes@Nicholas Natale no I know, it is funny that you made me look at it just now. Also, he is still underated
0 likesGreatest use of sound was Dunkey on 11:19, the greatest man on Earth.
3 likesEnding it with the coke song was a stroke of brilliance.
2 likesthe comments on these videos are like a goddamn whos-who of youtubers
1 like@Jordan Mills funny reference to brr
0 likesThat is super true! The scene from this video that showcased the perspective of the Tsar Bomba explosion was definitely the most impactful part of the video.
3 likesCould not agree with this more. The best on this platform imo
1 like22:33 is my favorite example of the genius editing/sampling in this
2 likesThese videos are awesome and so are yours
0 likesNice profile picture powder puff
0 likesnice to see you here as well
0 likeswThis the YTP experience lel
1 like11:02 Mastapeace
1 likeThe dunkey break down FUCKING killed me XD
1 likeOh what the fuck? Hey MDB glad to see you enjoy quality content.
0 likesI liked the music from Doom too.
0 likes"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
124 likes~God, Futurama
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That's what I thought of and said at the end of the video.
1 likeI honestly love that little clip of Dunkey's voice over the bits of human history. Despite his words being meant for something completely different, it still captures the human experience at it's most raw: to conquer reality. The only difference between a game and real life is that when a game breaks, you can restart and apply your previous knowledge; but real life? When we break reality, there's no going back.
13 likesI've watched this video 5+ times and I can safely say it is my personal pick for the Apex of YouTube content. It may sound like I am exaggerating but this part of humanity's History (and, of course, of the one that most definitely saved us all) always brings a tear to my eye. I don't think it would have nearly as much of an impact if it wasn't presented in such a marvelous manner. Thank you, truly.
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Completely agreed. Hell, I would pay for an entire boxset of documentaries just like this.
6 likesCompletely Agree
0 likesFeelings of dread are rapidly closing in especially with recent events, but nonetheless I deeply hope we get to spend more time on this planet.
35 likesthere will never ever be an EmpLemon video on trending...
1790 likesBecause youtube hates quality content
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@Jared K Tru dat
5 likesAt least we still have iDubbbz.
6 likesThey only do true quality stuff like buzzfeed news about mansplaining,Justin beiber and his friends singing, great hosts like jimmy Kimmel talking about how Republicans are bad,and whatever people are offended by this week will always be what's on there. Totally important. I love seeing Ariana grande....talk about donuts?...uh...yeah...love YouTube trending -_-
30 likesBOB IGOR RUINED STAR WARS NOT JUST KATHLEEN
8 likesYeah. Why is a video of some pop star eating a donut trending when this video about a man who made a decision that saved 80-90% of the world isn't?
Youtube is in a big downward spiral
9 likesYouTube likes AWFUL CLICKBAIT YOUTUBERS
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@Jared K 5 MiNuTe*. *CrAfTs
7 likesStr8 Krillin it i- I’m pretty sure I was introduced to emplemon because of trending…
0 likes@Wyatt R. He did?
0 likesWe still have NigaHiga though. :)
0 likesI never even look at the trending tab its useless xD
0 likes@Inversion Aged like milk
5 likes@Friday Night Nicktoons Why are we still talking about political content like it's 2016? YouTube is a corporation. It's breeds lifestyle content to design lifestyle content to encourage more lifestyle content. The more people consume the more money YouTube makes. Money money money. That's what YouTube's about, that's what corporations are about. Seriously when was the last time man spreading or some shit has even been on the front page of YouTube?
3 likesThe fact that some people in the comments say the video is biased in favor of the USSR and others say the video is biased for the US just proves how right he is
42 likesgod, emp is just the king of these kinds of video essays.
12 likesthe writing is top notch, the editing, use of sound, the choices in footage, the wonderful transitions... you can not only tell the passion he has for telling these stories, but his mastery of how to tell these stories.
keep it up, big guy.
I've known about Petrov for about a decade. During all this, the USSR was on high alert because the allies were doing a training exercise that involved their radiomen giving mock orders and reports. This included nuclear launch reports. The soviets believed that if an attack were to ever occur, it would be during one of these exercises, as they would be unable to tell what was really happening. It was like a real life 'War Games,' which had coincidentally just came out two months prior.
14 likesThe fact that we are even here now given what happened during that early fall morning, is so implausible that it has lead me to believe that we were not allowed to be destroyed.
20:28 this whole part is inspired. How you slowly build up towards the Tsar and then the ultimate reveal is downright genius in it's effectiveness.
85 likes"I did what I was trained to do."
713 likesChilling. I believed there was nothing else left to say at that point in the video, so the sudden realization of what that meant really hit hard. Amazing job on this.
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Same feeling, that part was chilling...
2 likesIronically enough, In charlie Chaplin's words.
7 likes"You are not machines! You are men!"
Verdict: soldiers are souless human beings who cant think for themselves, and always trust your gut over the numbers.
0 likesNo human is without a soul, that’s just what a human is capable of.
1 like@*HellRay* I was making fun of the idea that soldiers dont function as individuals.
1 likeLogan Orlikoski
1 likeYeah I got that.
A machine would just follow directive with nothing on the lines or thinking it over.
It was a complete opposite of Stanislav. If their actions were reversed, the other guy would even be able to do anything because we'd all be dead.
4 likesEh? There's nothing chilling about it. It's not like the guy was even close to being in the same position as Petrov. Hell, look up the NORAD computer glitch from 1979 if you want to see the reaction to a similar situation. All that guy did was send out a warning. You can be mad at him for fucking up and being wrong, but to act like it some kind of mindless drone because he did what he was trained to do in order to potentially save lives is absurd.
11 likes@douglas wahid I made that comment 7 months ago. I've let this topic go and so should you.
0 likesimagine being a time traveller in any given timeline, and standing outside of petrov's room: you know he has made a decision, and you don't know what the decision was, only time will tell. at that point, you're in the largest scale schrodinger situation humanity has ever faced, the world is both shattered to bits and perfectly fine at the same time
18 likesThis is my favorite episode of Never Ever and would love to see more like this one.
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Well with the way the world is right now let’s pray there is another man like Petrov, because the alternative is something I don’t even want to think about.
9 likes@Crazypug 2881 its unlikely, but not impossible
1 likeThis is outright my favorite video on YouTube perhaps, and it's really a bummer it didn't perform as well as the others because holy shit is Emp good at this type of thing.
1 likeThere will Never Ever be another Never Ever episode like "There may Never Ever be a man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov"
2 likesguy goes home and his wife is like "how was work honey?" "oh you know, just another day at the office"
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Then a decade later. She finds out he had the power to end all of humanity but didn’t.. well i guess it’s just another day of good working
23 likesYeah
0 likesI legit cried at 40:47 . I am so grateful; Thank you Stanislav Petrov for saving us all. Thank you EmpLemon for the video.
60 likes2011 emperor lemon: ADMIRAL ACKBAR'S TRAPTASTIC SEXTRAVAGANZA
3522 likes2019 emperor lemon: documentary about nuclear energy and the cold war
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Our boy is all grown up
192 likesThe Kekster educational!
26 likes@Noxus Did you say... K E K ? >:-(
21 likesAy, but War....War never changes
8 likesTop tier character development
6 likes@Preacher Jenkins a
1 likeThat title still gets me
1 like@Loplop The Bird K E K W
0 likesYeah
0 likesAlso, Nascar YouTuber.
0 likesand how one man prevented the end of the human race.
0 likesAs a person living in New Jersey, the idea of a single nuke dropped on Manhattan wiping out half the state in seconds is very chilling.
17 likesEmp, gotta say, you may be the best creator on this site. Entertaining, highly informative, insightful, eloquent. Your videos are bona-fide professional works and you should be very proud of them
8 likesThis is definitely the best episode of Never Ever. It seems a lot of work was put into it. The music perfectly fit the parts of the video. Thank you
11 likesOver the past couple years I have come back and rewatched this video a few times. Truth is... This may be one of the best videos I myself have ever seen. The history of this obscure story, the implications of if it had gone differently, and the philosophical take on a lot of it (the idea of it being our great filter "judgement day" specifically...) All while having it remain grounded by focusing on the common person... It's phenomenal. It's frankly a work of art. The editing is superb, the sound design is excellent, and the overall composition is just brilliant. Fantastic job with this one Emp. You deserve every praise you get.
9 likesThat moment when a YouTube shitposter makes a more emotionally moving, well researched, and engaging mini-documentary than most multi-billion dollar media organizations.
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Those organizations are only in it for their narrative
130 likes@*HellRay* so is emplemon ya know.......
25 likesRuby Acosta
80 likesYeah his own narrative, not what a hyper biased group tells him to think.
Multi-million dollar media organizations are great! They work tirelessly to ensure the working man stands a chance in this world! Not to mention their determination to keep things fair and avoid operating in a manner than could be construed as manipulative. We're actually quite lucky because it could be much worse if they valued their profit margin higher than maintaining a strong moral foundation, and luckily they like to exercise being honest over on pushing any sort of narrative or agenda! Can you imagine?!
29 likesTitus Kent
47 likesIs he really a shitposter anymore?
I'm pretty sure at this point (based on his past NEVER EVER uploads) he's a firmly-established historian essayist.
Go check out “Potential History” he combines shitposting with history. It’s hilarious.
5 likesI like to think this is the future of media, and the MSM rages and screams, facing its coming end.
19 likesThe MSM organizations are the ones spearheading division and paranoia in the human race. In a manner of speaking, the vast majority of them would have no guilt in 'pushing the button' if it meant an end to their ideological enemies.
13 likesWait. This is by the same person who uploaded the Hotel Mario YouTube Poop video(s)?!! Cool!
9 likes@Alex Frideres same here
0 likes@Davin what's that supposed to mean?
0 likesyou've obviously never seen history channel after midnight
2 likesFolks like EmpLemon are the reason why the media you mostly see on TV is scared of YouTube. On YouTube you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want instead of being forced to watch one specific thing at a specific point in time on TV, depending on what channel you watch.
4 likesIn fact, most of these multi-billion dollar organizations rely on boomers who still think TV is as relevant as it was decades ago. Meanwhile, slowly but surely TV's are becoming more and more like computers. There are TV's out there that can let you watch Netflix and other things through just a few button pushes. There is even an internet browser on some cases.
These are the two main reasons why i think things like YouTube is going to replace Television.
His video about the dislike button is one of my favorites of his.
1 likeWhat I love is the YTP influence in the relevant pop culture shotposts spread throughout the video. Something about them really drives home the point
1 like@*HellRay* Oh, there's a lot of groupthink here.
1 like@William Jordan
2 likesAnd people that question the questionable aspects. That's what separates them from the others. They're allowed to debate and isn't considered stepping out of a line
@*HellRay* I never disagreed with that.
1 likeHe's no longer just a shitposter though !
0 likesmy sentiments exactly
0 likes@Place Placington it’s not msm, it’s the capitalists, state, and pressure orgs that create the media narrative
1 likeHis analysis of the soviet union and Reagan was kinda off and inaccurate, but otherwise an amazing doc
1 like@Quinn Nosbod which part was inaccurate exactly?
1 likeI changed it to 4.8k. I know no one but me cares but it feels good to change something
2 likesIn a positive way
@Johnny Bensonitis
0 likesThe sad thing is that I can’t tell if you’re joking or being serious
@Gplgs Thank you for your feedback! It's very important to us here! I'm always honest about corporations because without them innovation would be impossible and we'd all be better off dead if the world were different! It's important not to think about it too much and just consume and engage with your favorite social medias for a happy, healthy future!
2 likesWatching this video for the first time today. It's absolutely unreal to imagine that all these horrific options might be relevant yet again.
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It won't happen, but I don't blame people for being afraid, it's a scary thought, but humanity can and will prevail through it
3 likesYknow whats honestly weirdly comforting myguy? Its ALWAYS been an option, we've always been minutes to midnight. And nothing has happened
2 likesBreaks my heart to think that he does't get the recognition he deserves, if it weren't for him most of us wouldn't even be born, and the rest would most likely be dead.
17 likesThe pairing of the Dunkee clip alongside imagery of the evolution of warfare eventually leading to nukes (so as to save the "player" from the frustration of the meta) was a God-Tier satirical analogy.
10 likesThis makes me feel like we should wake up every morning and say "Thank you Stanislav Petrov" before we get on with our day.
8 likesthis channel has gone from youtube poops to Serious informative documentaries and I LOVE IT
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Demetra Economou more like serious documentary YouTube Poops, even better!
45 likesI love it
2 likesLong time ago.I like both ytps and documental stuff
4 likes@Toronto Transit Channel I really like this format. Very few people do it because it is hard to do. I know a good portion of it but stil lwatch the video because it is so entertaining to watch.
5 likesI for one accept this future
0 likesThis is what the maturing of a YTP'er looks like!
2 likes@𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐯𝐞 with such a title like YouTube poop, they are some of the most mature people to ever live on this planet
2 likesAfter rewatching this whole video, I gotta say...
7 likesBoy am I lucky to be taking strides to what I want to be. Probably because sooner or later...
My life could become one with the flowing air and ashes. Even if I don't get a nuclear warhead nowadays.
A few fun facts about Tsar bomba to give people nightmares;
9 likes-It was detonated around a mile off the ground, and STILL caused a medium-sized Earthquake
-The plane that dropped it was physically incapable of getting away fast enough to escape the shockwave, which caused all the engines to malfunction, forcing a mid-flight repair
-It was so bright that people over 65 miles away thought a second sun was rising seeing the blast
-It was over a thousand times more powerful than Trinity, Little boy, and Fat man combined
-It was only half as strong as it was supposed to be
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Its shockwave circled around the planet several times too
0 likesEvery once in a while I come back to this video. There's something about it all that makes it perfect. I say that this is EmpLemon's best video and is a masterpiece.
14 likesIt's a shame this one of Emp's Never Ever series has the least amount of views, because in practice I think this is the best of them. There's something to be said on how he used YTP editing skills to instead highlight just how tense the situation was. Rarely do I feel such an emotional payoff in media, much less a documentary.
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It's weirdly fitting considering how Petrov is not well known.
2 likes“If Stanislav Petrov had mercy for the world, then maybe we all can too.”
1831 likesSomething about that line is so wholesome that it almost makes me cry. This is why you’re my favorite YouTube channel.
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let's actually apply this thought in real life.
20 likes@Zaid Nava I certainly hope we can, as things are looking rather bleak at the moment. I'm still holding out hope that we'll realize the error of our ways before it's too late..
8 likes@Skies of Icarus what can we do about it? How can deal with polarized people and bring people together?
5 likes@Zaid Nava That is the tough part of this situation, which is why I mentioned that things are looking bleak. In fact, it might not happen in the next few years, which is the worrying part, as time is most critical.
26 likesThis whole situation has been centuries in the making, with multiple factors leading us to this point. Of course, with those factors came decisions, some of which had no ideal solution; there would be conflict regardless of the decision.
One such decision (or in this case, conflict) was the civil war. No matter the victor, we would find ourselves in a conflict such as the one we're facing now. Since the union won in our timeline, the former confederates felt oppressed, so that added a bit of fuel for the equal rights conflicts of the next century, and the following few decades leading up to the present. If the confederacy had won (factoring out the socioeconomic/political differences brought on by a confederate victory), there would have, inevitably, been some form of conflict between the confederate government/population and the enslaved African Americans. Of course, there's no way to know that, as it's alternate history theory, but I can make a guess, as baseless as it could be.
As Emp discussed in the video, one contributing factor (debatably) may be the lack of a major threat to our nation (in regards to the ability to completely destroy our nation from the outside), which (debatably) may have caused our internal conflicts in our own nation in order to keep that momentum of fear or anger going that was built up during the course of the cold war.
Finally, things are especially tense this year as it's an election year, with both major parties having (in my opinion) a rather poor choice of candidate (also in my opinion, the larger of the smaller parties (the green party and the libertarian party) also have lame candidates). Because we're at a periodic point in our nation's calendar (deciding how the country is going to be run), both sides of the polarized groups are rallying behind their party's candidate. Because both parties are the textbook definition of polar opposites and make up a majority of the United States population, no matter who wins or who loses, a major group of people will be uncontrollably upset.
So what can be done to get back onto the right track? I don't think many people will take the time out of their day to read this far, they probably quit out when I brought up the civil war. But to those who read on, I have some major pieces of advice. First, vote for who you believe fits your values best, regardless of party alignment, but don't be upset if your choice doesn't win. At the end of the day, we need to make the best of the hand we're dealt, regardless of if it's a bad hand or a royal flush. Second, don't separate your fellow countrymen into categories like party alignment, race, sex, etc., rather think of them as Americans. We're all under the same flag, so we need to do our best to work together to make it work. Third, listen to other people's opinions and weigh them against your own. You don't have to agree with them, but hear them out regardless. Fourth, if someone is gloating or attempting to incite anger out of you, don't take the bait. Keep a calm, collected, and most importantly, positive attitude towards the person doing the gloating/goading. This will cause them to feel like their boastful nature is having little effect on the people around them, causing them to question the effectiveness of such actions and/or thinking. Finally, and this is the most important part, hatred is a terrible thing to feel, and you shouldn't feel any form of hatred towards anyone, regardless of anything they stand for, anything they do, and most importantly, anything they are.
Make of this what you will, as I'm just a faceless person leaving a comment on a platform that's known for untrustworthy comments on a video that isn't seen by even a majority of the people on earth.
Vassili arkupov also saved the world
3 likes@Zaid Nava Bit by bit. Learning. Emotional intellect needs to be trained. Say hello to someone you see but never say anything. Maybe stick around for a few seconds to hold a door open for someone.
6 likesAsk if someone's got something on they're mind if you're gonna be strangers in close proximity for a while. Non-PAC volunteer services. Talk to the guy/lady you've seen quite a few times now, but never got time to perhaps get a coffee;, like Nardwuar says ad nauseam: _the strongest method of persuasion--JUST ASK. •́ ‿ ,•̀
It's legit advice, and can't emphasize how far its help.
I am glad I knew about this fella when my father died. Helped alot of perspective..
How is that wholesome
0 likesI always found that the craziest part of this story was that Stansislav was a substitute for that day because the usual commander was on vacation.
1 likeI feel like I've always learned something and grown as a person after watching one of your videos. Like I've been enlightened one lesson at a time. Thank you.
15 likesUsing a Dunkey reference to explain how it's human nature to take what at the time seems as a simplistic finding to the natural endgame of trying to harness it's power in order to essentially change the way the "game" is played to better favor the player is actually incredible in its comparison and articulation.
4 likesThis video and it's creator are the absolute pinnacle of YouTube. Nothing surpasses emplemon's prowess. If I could choose any editor in the world to work for me, it'd be my boy emp.
5 likesthis video is a testament to how your editing and style of storytelling can give me chills even on rewatches
8 likesFantastic video but there is one thing I disagree with.
7 likesPetrov followed his training. He said so himself in an interview.
It was in his training where he learned that in case of a nuclear launch the US would launch hundreds of missiles. So he deduced correctly. Yes, a degree of his individual self also played a part.
Nevertheless, the man should have a statue both on Washington and Moscow.
The Tsar Bomba edit dropped my soul. I knew all the stories before this video, but the video made me feel like I never did. I think people would care more about history if people told it like this video. With Passion.
5 likesI'd like to say that videos like these done by anyone else would often leave you with a sense of dread and fear that a crisis like this would come up again. But Emp really turned it around, especially towards the end, by pointing out how much thinking for ourselves is powerful.
2 likes7:03 This gave me goosebumps, sent chills down my spine and gave me anxiety all at once. 1) This is a masterpiece EmpLemon very great! 2) The very threat of nuclear annihilation looms over our very being and we need to take action.
4 likes"If Stan Petrov had mercy for the world, perhaps we can too."
105 likesGreat quote Mr.Emp
Petrov's wife: "He's hiding something, is it another woman?"
4 likesPetrov: "For 15 seconds I was responsible for the fate of humanity."
Don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but I’ve seen some of the most creative youtubers on this platforms blossom, and you my good sir are one of them. Phenomenal audio choices and timings, from music to voice and clips from all the way back then. The visuals itselfs are amazing and on-track, waving through each image/video like the quietest but most smoothest rube goldberg machine.
3 likesThis is further elevated by half of the audio clips you use, being from some of the YouTubers I watch on the daily. Adding that layer of connection takes your videos to a whole other level, and I have no doubt this series will become a staple soon enough. Keep up the good work!
Wow. I was 2 years too late for this video.
4 likesI am fighting back tears as i am writing this. May there never be another Stan Petrov, if we can help it.
Whether it’s intentional or not, I noticed that out of all the “Never Ever” episodes, this is the only one where the title says “There MAY never…” instead of “There WILL never...” Perhaps to highlight how there just might be someone with enough power to end the world, once again. But I don’t know, it could just be a simple error.
8 likesI can't believe he went from funny ytp's to THIS
728 likesthank you, this almost certainly the best video you have ever made.
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2 likesThis is almost certainly one of the most important videos in history.
Except Ascended 3 of course ;)
1 likeThank you for this video. I've lived my life drunkenly telling everyone I can about Stanislav Petrov and have constantly experienced frustration at the lack of credit this man has received. I appreciate this video more than you know.
1 likejust noticed the change from "will" to "may" in the title
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the title has always been "may"
1 likebringing it full circle with the hawaii false alarm and the man responsible saying he was doing what he was trained to do is genius directing. that part gave me chills.
2 likesWith things as they stand today, I hope that there is another with the mercy to spare mankind a second time.
13 likesCan we just take a moment to recognize this man's talent as a storyteller?
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He should dubbing some netflix history series, or something
12 likes@Migolas He might be the guy who makes all the intros of Fallout
2 likesLong live the emperor of Lime.
4 likesEpic editing skills
0 likesFr this guy made me care about Nascar
2 likesOn this day, 82 years ago, Petrov passed away. RIP to the man who saved the world.
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...I think you need to check your math on that one. He died in 2017 (4 years ago), not in 1939 (82 years ago).
5 likesThat said yes, RIP.
This is one of the best YouTube videos out there. Thank you emp for such amazing content
5 likesThis is one of the only videos that constantly bring me close to tears with just how real it can sometimes feel. One of the best videos that I feel can not be shared enough. Thank you EmpLemon.
0 likesWatching this made me realize: There will never ever be another comic book like Watchmen. For a couple reasons:
2 likes1. Watchmen was a product of its time, and without the threat of nuclear annihilation, no series can carry that sense of existential weight.
2. Attempts at adaptations, sequels, spin-offs and crossovers could not re-capture what made the series so good in the first place.
3. Alan Moore has not topped himself since writing the series.
There are probably other reasons, but I think Watchmen would very much deserve an entry in the Never Ever series. I have faith in you, Emp!
We all need to take a second to admire the integration of dunkey talking about difficulty in video games to describe the increasingly sinister nature of warfare. Goddamn genius
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@Juan Manuel Penaloza ahoy
2 likesWar has always been sinister
1 likeThis is without a doubt the best YouTube video I have watched in the past year at least. Great job man. If only history was taught like this.
1 like2022 has added an entire new layer to this...
18 likesI was living in Honolulu when the false alarm happened. I slept through it. I was supposed to work that morning and I was late to work. My dad was also living there at the time and he said people were running trying to find shelters and bunkers to go to and people were screaming like their lives were going to end. Imagine the fear those people had in those moments, being on an island almost 3000 miles away from the nearest continent, almost certain that your life is going to end and that you can’t do anything about it…
2 likesI have watched this video 8 times and I still get chills. You are an amazing creator and I always look forward to your next project.
2 likesThis was one of the most memorable and well crafted videos that I’ve ever watched on YT. Impeccable job.
2888 likes(also highly enjoyed that subtle nod to Local58)
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Never thought I see you here
31 likes@Debate Bro Neolib God lol me too omg nexpo
6 likesI happened to hear your theme song in this video haha
12 likesJust finished watching you video on local 58, earned a new sub!
2 likesTHINGS I WAS NOT EXPECTING: THAT
1 likeWow interesting seeing you here....and I completely agree
2 likes17:09 not the victory position again...
10 likesI saw your comment when you had like a couple likes, lol.
0 likesMy boy nexpo🖤🖤
0 likesLove you Nexpo.
0 likesWhen was that subtle nod?
1 like@Kacy Crockard The NordVPN ad in the video at 16:03 and again at 17:09
5 likesWhat was the time stamp?
1 likeNexpo glad to see you here. Glad to see a YouTuber with quality content watching another with quality content.
3 likesAlways nice to see quality content creators interacting with each other
3 likesReal Heel Ryan favorite horror channel and a favorite dank meme youtuber
1 likeYeah the local58 thing was pretty cool,thank god it wasn't the face thing though
3 likesNever Ever Local58 episode would be awesome.
1 likeLocal 58 got me like
1 likeIs local58 something about aliens? I cant quite put my finger on it...
0 likes@Generic Gaming Channel dude I hated real sleep, shit made me see shadow people in the corner of my eye for like 3 days
0 likesSir, your videos are phenomenal. Especially this one. You're really giving all the documentary channels a run for their money lol
3 likesYou’re views on Kamikazi are very simplistic. Most kamikazi pilots were forced into it. Many were college students that had no military experience. They were not jumping at the chance to kill themselves. The Japanese were extremely fearful of being captured because they had been led to believe through propaganda that US soldiers would rape, torture, and kill soldiers and civilians they captured. Many women and children were killed hiding in caves at Iwo Jima because they were so terrified of being captured.
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@Ethereal and the Philippines too
0 likesI can believe Kamikaze pilots being forced to become suicidal because of the society they are raised in. Of course most people wouldn't want to kill themselves for the sake of their country, but in those times, I think they would rather die than face the enormous shame and punishment that Japanese society will impose on them.
1 likeYou do such a good job of building importance before getting to the point of the story. Engaging the viewer with knowledge and context to up the effect of the video.
2 likesThis is one of the most stunning pieces of art I’ve ever had the joy to watch
3 likesthere will Never Ever be another youtuber as good as EmpLemon
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Correct!
27 likesYou aren't right
52 likesBut you're correct
Ive seen this comment 6 times
15 likes😚((
1 like@Preston Heit and we should see it 6 times more
25 likesSsethzeentach is even better
2 likesLogan paul is better
4 likesFact. Emplemon is best lemon.
4 likesI hope you aren't right because that might make the platform better
2 likesBlessed comment
2 likesCinemassacre is the only one i would think comes close
3 likesSummoning salt?
8 likesOr Etika
5 likesAbsolutely right
1 likethere will NEVER
1 likeEEEEEEEEEEEEVER be
@Bean Reese’s damn right
1 likeDamn you said it man, amen to that
3 likes@SIREX__ You mean the guy who has a foot for a face?
3 likesLike*
1 likeI have to agree with this
1 likeI like Rags more, but Emp is a very close second.
1 likeThere will never ever be a funny woman
0 likesI dunno, Lemmino is a pretty good YouTuner.
1 likeDamn, you really made me tear up a little at 39:32..
2 likesAmazing video, thank you for this documentary, and keeping the name of the man who most of us have to thank for our life... alive.
If I could, I would give this man a handshake and say "Thank you."
2 likesThat edit of the bone from 2001 into the nuclear weapon (I think) instead of the spacecraft gave me chills. I'm
2 likesblown awayby how excellent your videos are.These videos are the height of documentary youtube work. So much so that I think it should be submitted to actual film festivals. You are amazing at story telling and insightful review. Keep on trucking my dude.
0 likesWife: "Hey Honey, how was work?"
645 likesStan: "It was pretty regular."
Skip forward ten years
Wife: YOU WHAT!!!
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"It was ten years ago! Why are you so upset!?"
90 likes"And I saved your life, and the world for that matter anyway, why would you be upset?"
48 likesyou've never played tuber simulator?
4 likes@OptimisticScales he STANned green homer Simpson
0 likesI would like to see EmpLemon do a video on Joachim Ronnenberg, the Norwegian resistance fighter and his group who helped stop the nazi heavy water experiment. Watching the atomic bomb backstory part reminded me of him, and it would be neat for him to do a video on him.
1 likeImagine being the one guy who actually saved the world.
1 likeIt's only someone like EmpLemon who could use an audio bit from Dunkey to enhance the video as a whole.
0 likesExcellent work. This is why you're the best.
Just rewatching this today, I noticed something subtly striking about this video... it's currently the only Never Ever episode that says "there may Never Ever"... not, "there will Never Ever"... of all the historically amazing people and events the series has tackled, this is the one that "may" never ever happen again... just shows how horrifying the nature of it all is.
0 likesStill, I remain cautiously optimistic that Stanislav Petrov will forever remain an example to follow, and not a lucky fluke.
“I did what I was trained to do” God that is that is terrifying, the way the world is now I genuinely don’t think we’d have another Stanislav.
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We actually kind of did in Vasili Arkhipov who shared a similar story to Stanislav but on a Nuclear Submarine in the peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
165 likesDasnetta But was it as powerful as Stanislav Petrov?
5 likes@Sara Skyline kinda, two of the three commanding officers already approved the launch of missiles (keep in mind they were underwater and had no communications with the outside world) but Arkhipov still refused to approve to nuclear launch
128 likesDon't sell today's humans short. We have always been this dumb despite all the reasons we shouldn't.
69 likes@I Am Not Armed so a Twelve Angry Men sort of ordeal?
10 likesI think we all have a little bit of Petrov in our hearts
22 likes@Koolaid Man we can only hope we do
10 likesHow
1 like@Alpha Lax it's terrifying because it we know that's what most ppl would have done. If that was the man instead of stanislav you most likely wouldn't exist
17 likesThe most powerful people in the world got there by not being petrov. But there are Petrovs in the world they are just always in a low scale environment.
8 likesNobody has to be alive for nukes to fire. On either side. Final say is in the hands of a machine. If no human response is detected and all sensors point towards nuclear annihilation. Do you think this system once in a while burps up like a copy of windows Me? You bet it fucking does! Despite mountains of poopy panted officers who had their Stanislov moment along the way....those systems are still in place. Fucking pray they dont go BSOD suddenly.
2 likesWe are an absurd species. The traits that are most harmful to the community are the traits that are flaunted in public as the most desirable. That takes a special kind of stupid.
3 likesWould you rather he just ignore the alarm next time? It's not like he was in charge of firing off nuclear missles like Stanislav Petrov. He was thinking about others too.
3 likesThere was only 5 missiles that were showing on the screen, there would be no way America strikes first with only 5 missiles and not 33,000.
1 liketo be fair, most of us would do what they are trained to... i sympathize with the poor guy who sent the alert, if he actually believed it was real
1 likeThis comment has been approved by the Breadstick Comment Committee
0 likesIt can be argued that the US had plenty of Petrovs/Arkhipov in the 1960s when they had the great idea to fly armed bombers with nuclear warheads 24/7 just to be ready for a nuclear retaliation.
0 likesI'm not even joking, this was a real thing (look up Operation Chrome Dome). I'm surprised we even made it through that decade tbh
He made the Hungrybox one, which I think has better production and storytelling, but still this one is trippy as hell
0 likesJust rewatching this today, I noticed something subtly striking about this video... it's currently the only Never Ever episode that says "there may Never Ever"... not, "there will Never Ever"... of all the historically amazing people and events the series has tackled, this is the one that "may" never ever happen again... just shows how horrifying the nature of it all is.
0 likesStill, I remain cautiously optimistic that Stanislav Petrov will forever remain an example to follow, and not a lucky fluke.
I just realized something...
3 likesAt 19:15, Emp shows a scene from TF2's Meet the Spy.
For context, the characters shown are Blue Spy(The guy that gets shot), Blue Scout(Left), Blue Soldier(Middle), and Blue Heavy(Right). They are informed that a Red Spy is impersonating one of them. I think each of the characters symbolizes someone.
Soldier(McCarthy) shoots the Blue Spy(Innocent person) because he suspects Red Spy is disguised as Blue Spy, when in reality, Red Spy is Scout. Best part is that the colors match up, Blue for US, Red for USSR
As far as his power was concerned, he had binary agency. To launch, or not to launch, the missiles.
3 likes38:38 holy shit that sent a shiver down my spine imagine if this guy had petrovs job
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At The same Time - he really just did his Job. Petrov Was right with his decision but he disobeyed orders. I dont think Person who pushed Information about missle in hawaii is to blame, they paid him to do this and fired him when he did.
0 likesAh yes, quoting dunkey in a cold war documentary
2443 likes10/10 never change
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The madman actually did it.
114 likesAbsolutely disturbing ending parallelism
Stanislav Petrov actually calls up the USSR
102 likes" Hello, do you have the BEGG YOSHI? "
forsen1 i c baj
20 likesWhich video is it?
4 likesIt genuine had me shivering
10 likes@Aidan Cullinan The quote is from his "Difficulty in Videogames" video
36 likesMake reactsen react to this
3 likesI honestly thought it was some sort of glitch on my youtube
2 likes@drayc forsenJoy Clap
2 likes@Dangerousbros Hello brother
1 likeThis game makes you FEEL like you have the power to destroy the human race
16 likesAh, I see you're a man of bajs as well. forsen1
1 likeYou took the words out of my mouth, a true man of culture, this Emplemon
0 likes11:01
3 likesFor personal reasons
Just got to that part
0 likesI WATCH VORSEN IN THE MORNING 😂😂😂 ANY VI VONERS??
0 likes@Kadzu your doing God's work my man
0 likesman.. we haven’t learned since then have we
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Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. -Winston Churchill
4 likesI heard of the event but it pisses me off that most people didn't know his name. This man is a legend
0 likesCalling this event our “judgement day” in the context of the Fermi paradox is so damn terrifying. We came so close to failing the test
1 likeJon Bois: Doesn't release lost episode on the same subject
61 likesEmplemon: "I gotchu"
Don’t forget the Tsar Bomba was halved in explosive size because the pilot wouldn’t survive and testing it anywhere at that size would cause too much damage for a show of force.
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Remember though, the soviets really couldn’t have cared less if a pilot died. It would of done better because killing off the pilot would have done the soviets a plus by killing off the only true witnesses of the test.
90 likes@Jam _ ah yes, thank god that the pilot survived to tell the tale of the time they discreetly tested a bomb that was so large it caused tremors to echo through the world multiple times. That pilots testimony was really the only way we would have ever found out about such a top secret test that definitely wasn't done intentionally to intimidate the USA.
350 likes@Jam _ ah yes, the pilot was the only one who knew a nuclear bomb of that magnitude was detonated. Thank god he didn't die and if he did the secret of the tsar bomba would never be unearthed!!!1!!1!1!
90 likes@Jam _ ah yes, of course a test of a bomb never meant to be used where many people were present was top secret
18 likes@Jam _ Nuke: annihilates an entire country and the pilot
72 likesEverybody in the rest of the world: i wonder what happened
@Jam _ ah yes, the first rule of the scientific method: Never observe the results of a test
53 likes@Jam _ Behold, the derp attitude of the cold war alive and well in 2020.
23 likesMay I see the source for this?
2 likes@Sakboi2012 he might be wrong on the fact that no one could tell what happened but that piolet is eating dirt the moment he come ack to the hanger
1 likeit was more a matter of its creator fearing the effects of a 100 MT bomb exploding on the north of Russia more than anything so he halved the capacity with lead.
5 likesAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
5 likes@Crimson Call Scary isnt it?
1 like@Ben Siener it was actually only cut by 1/3, the most explosive and radioactive material, And it was actually a last minute call by the designer too, as he had his Oppenheimer moment.
4 likes@Jam _ ah yes, a common case of intelligence juice leakeage.
4 likesIt truly was-
2 likesTHE KING OF BOMBS.
@Jam _ That is the most stupid thing I have heard in a long time. The USSR detonates the largest Atomic bomb ever created and the other countries should wonder what happened? And why should the USSR ever hide it if it is a demonstration of its strengh? Use your brain for one second.
3 likesI love how all of the replies on here are just people making fun of Jam_ for saying stupid shit. It's beautiful
13 likes@Brandon it really is
2 likes@Jam _ ah yes,another comment insulting you
4 likesim pretty sure it was just using it's energy inefficiently, because the taar bomba was never dropped from a plane
0 likes@Brandon Ah yes, indeed it is beautiful. Im genuinely enjoying it.
4 likes@Psybandit - it was, specifically a modified Tu-95V, and it was accompanied by a Tu-16A, which was there to witness and film the test.
0 likesAnd even then they still put his chances of living at 50% and he almost lost control after getting hit by the shockwave.
0 likesIt's just inconceivable how powerful nukes are, and that was only ONE...
Someone was murdered here, goddamn.
2 likes@Jam _ Man. You got destroyed.
0 likes@Jam _ ah yes, another "ah, yes" reply
0 likes@fastn't boi ah yes, ah yes.
1 like@Jam _ They literally publicized the test in a propaganda film.
0 likes@I need no channel youtube! ah yes, they publicized the test in a propaganda film.
0 likesthis shit reeks of monty python skit energy
0 likes@Jam _ You you see USSR as whole thing. There were times 1917-1953 it was time when government didn't care about people.After Stalins death there was revision policy. People were freed from labor camps.They let Soljenicin to publish his book about Stalins terror times. Basically government was fee So i guess there were period 1917-1955 and 1960-1991 when there were kind of very socialist times Medical care , social care , free housing , free education was on very high level. My mom was born in far city. She received free education bacame a doctor. Went to work in hospital in Moscow and same year government gave her apartment 55 sqare meters not far from her work. If families had more children government was providing them with bigger apartments. I think 70s up to 85 was kind of golden years of soviet union. When gorbachev came to power started deficit of products 86 chernobyl it was heavily declining. Don't really understand why. When USSR broke thing got so bad that average life expectancy dropped from 78 in 80s to 65 in 1993.
0 likesJust a little note about tsar bomba, the cloud broke into space. And it was also only at half power. It was originally supposed to be a 100 megaton bomb, but some soviet officer at the plant where it was produced decided to change it.
1 likeDo you ever think we’ve had several judgment days with one persons morals being judged to decide the worlds fate?
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I like to think it’s always a person of completely average morals for the time that is “chosen” to make the decision
3 likesYou ever heard of The Mud Flood?
0 likes@Problems And as much as we seem to hate our fellow man, the mercy any of us average people contain is enough to keep this experiment going. I studied astronomy so I’m well aware how unlikely it is that we’re the first species to break past the great filter, but the optimist in me feeds off of comments like these. I think in the end, common people will be the true heroes when we make it to the next stage of our human journey, not the leaders, not the brightest among us, but truly unremarkable people like Stan, and that’s how it should be.
1 likeHad it been me we'd probably be in the stone age right now
0 likesI've been pretty interested in the atom bomb and the cold war for most of my life but something about this video really made me come to terms with it all
10/10 made me cry twice
This is probably my favourite Never Ever episode, it’s just so interesting.
2 likesEmplemon: Youtube will never have as good production quality as traditional TV.
1598 likesalso Emplemon:
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Use dat munie you use to buy a glock to donate to his patreon instead at that point.
6 likesI could actually see this playing on TV
11 likes"Fine I'll do it myself"
2 likesI might be sounding paranoid, but I just hope Putin keeps Petrov and his actions in mind, I really do...
3 likesThe greatest birthday present I've ever gotten is knowing that on my birthday of September 26th, Stanislav Petrov didn't cause a nuclear war. I wasn't alive back then but it's a great birthday present every year knowing this information.
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Hey me too, glad that I can celebrate my birthday, and thank Mr. Petrov for not blowing up the planet.
1 likeThat beginning scene describing the missiles of Japan
1 likeWas terrifying
That was scarier than any horror movie will or can ever be
Because of the simple fact, that it's real
rewatching because of, uh, "current events".
16 likesThis is honestly the best documentary I’ve ever seen on the web. It honestly feels wrong watching this for free. I am still rather young and I don’t even know if this comment will ever get any attention, but that doesn’t matter, what matters is: EmpLemon, you have outdone yourself, and you are an inspiration, and frankly I’ve been taking you for granted, many of us probably have, so thank you Emp for keeping YouTube tolerable, and thank you for being an amazing teacher.
2631 likesFirst thing I’m doing when I’m finally old enough is get on your Patreon, because thanking you with simple words is simply not enough for me.
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bro this was how good watching bill nye in 3rd grade was. honestly probably better
75 likesSai DESGRAÇA you rock
6 likesI feel the exact same way!
2 likesAgreed!
2 likesWatch the channel "Ahoy". He makes documentaries mainly on video games and famous stuff pertaining to video games (famous guns like MP40, AK47, Minigun, etc.)
32 likesMarfit That guys is one of my absolute favorites! His series on iconic firearms is actually what introduced me to documentaries on YouTube.
6 likesAnd I thought Idubbbz "Full Force" was the best. It's certainly still the most wholesome.
5 likesThis video is absolutely incredible though.
smart kid
3 likesinfelizmente sim.
1 like@Marfit +1. Ahoys documentary on the cold war affecting video games is genius. Hes another man that does all his own writing, narration, editing and even makes the music himself.
3 likesFor one who is of a young age, you are a rare, special breed of wisdom
5 likesThen you haven't watched many. Hate these vids with sniveling kids talking like they know whit. Looks at cold war doc it's 10h
1 like@typhoonfire8 nostalgia can make the worst of shit look tolerable
0 likes@Marfit oh hell yeah
0 likesSai DESGRAÇA This is the most adorable comment I’ve seen in my entire life. Good on you, buddy. You’re a pretty cool dude in our eyes.
0 likesThere are other perspectives you should consider before worshipping this video.
2 likesnão sai não desgraça 😢
1 likeAprecio outro fã brasileiro de EmpLemon
0 likesYou should see Lemmino's channel. He's really good for documentaries as well
1 like@Marfit p o l y b i u s
0 likesIf you like this then you should check out lemmino
1 likethis kid gets it
0 likesDamnnnnnnn you need to watch a lil more documentaries my friend.
0 likesAnother great documentary is summoning salts quest to beat matt turk.
1 likeAnother great creator of similar docu-videos is Jon Bois. He makes mostly sports videos but you don’t just have to be a sports fan to enjoy his videos. Emp has actually said that Jon is an inspiration to him in his Dale Earnhardt video I believe. He currently works and makes videos for SBNation and I recommend checking out his current Mariners series and his old series “Pretty Good“
2 likesThis is one of the greatest what-ifs of history, along with what if Gavril Princep never shot Franz Ferdinand or what if Charles "the Hammer" Martel failed to repel the Umayyad Caliphate's invasion of Europe
2 likesThis without exaggeration one of the best videos on YouTube. Puts the world in perspective that a few seconds of thought decided what the world would exist.
0 likesThis is downright the best YouTube video I’ve ever watched. Excellent work.
5 likesGod I love stories of Cold War
2 likesOne thing is for sure,someone like me that loves History,that loves the History of Cold war
Will always remember as much stories of people like Stanislav Petrov and to be amazed how destructive a human can be.
To learn from such History to be important and to prevent it,even in todays situation.
“When you’ve done things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”
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That's probably one of the best lines futurama ever said. It's basically eternal
80 likes✊✊✊✊
5 likesGreatest Futurama quote
5 likesFirst I was god…then I met god!
0 likesThis video makes me emotional in a way no other media ever has. When I want to just feel, I watch this video.
3 likes"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
2 likesThere’s something to be said about how the most powerful person in the world was just some ordinary man.
0 likesThe nuclear air strike drill is so terrifying, it really makes you feel like you’re about to see the end of the world
0 likesEpisode 1: Spongebob Squarepants
7266 likesEpisode 2: Pro Wrestling
Episode 3: Stock Car Racing
Episode 4: THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION
Episode 5: Super Smash Bros
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Episode 6: Godzilla
222 likesEdit: Oh shit. This is comment is outdated now.
No complaints
104 likesAll is right with the World
40 likesThis is the best comment ever
24 likesAverage thoughts for today's youth. I approve.
27 likes@MMFan2004 Is it really?
3 likes@Emi Grant Just wait and see.
6 likesFunny, 4 can also mean death in Japanese from what I've heard.
6 likesseriously, this guy has a very wide range of interests
8 likesPang ikr... I’m watching this series like WOW
0 likesI think episode 6 is going to be about TF2. He has hinted it before, saying that it's his favorite videogame, and it has been featured in multiple videos. The title might be "There will never ever be another videogame like TF2." or something like that. If so, I'm looking forward to watching it.
9 likesBut that's just a theory...
Episode 6: Coronavirus
2 likesIm 1k like
0 likesMario Mixels fan 2011 I’d totally be down for that.
0 likes@daniel roa A GAME THEORY!
0 likesmelee is no joke
2 likesI mean only Smash can top Nuclear Annihilation.
2 likes4 is unlucky in parts of east asia, after all.
0 likesEpisode 6: BOING
1 likeEpisode 6: Falling
1 likeI see we continue to reach more important topics
1 likeEpisode 7:SLAVERY
1 likePang well that escalated quickly
0 likesEp.3 DALE EARNHARDT "THE INTIMIDATOR" Was the best video for me. It was enough to make a grown man cry. There will be no one, never ever a man who can live up to his name.
1 likeNhan Nguyen Trong episode 7: the heat death of the universe.
0 likesEp 6: best fruit
0 likes😅 good one.
0 likesEpisode 8: the existential crisis of inevitable mortality
1 likeWhat if Episode 6: The end of the Internet
1 like@daniel roa Yeah, probably
0 likesThese are very different topics but I like it
2 likesyeah
0 likesThis series was made for me
0 likes"Perfectly balanced as all things should be"
0 likes@daniel roa You might be right. A lot of the Never Ever topics had cameos in his videos prior. Spongebob memes, Pro Wrestling fights, lots of Melee music.
1 likeLMFAO FR!!
0 likesHotel: Trivago
0 likesSounds like a coherent plot.
1 likeWe need more of these
0 likesEpisode 6: Simpsons
10 likesMario Mixels fan 2004 Oh.
0 likes@MMFan2004 wrong
0 likes@Alpha Lax Ok, you're right.
1 likeEpisode 5: The Simpsons
0 likes@Random Internet Toaster It's Actually Episode 6.
0 likes6 was not about Simpsons
2 likesIt was about green Simpsons.
Ep 6 simpsons
2 likes@Kira Yoshikage
0 likesGreen Simpsons
@MMFan2004 it was actually the Simpsons
0 likes@ayo the pizza here i know.
0 likesEpisode 6: The Simpsons' Last Hurrah, Homer's Enemy.
2 likesEpisode 6: los sinson
0 likesEpisode 6: The SIMPS-ons
0 likesDon’t worry we got the Simpsons next
0 likesEpisode 6: one simpsons episode
0 likesEpisode 6: Simpsons
0 likesEpisode 6: An episode of The Simpsons
0 likes@Nhan Nguyen Trong there will never ever be another plague like COVID-19
0 likesstop using my avatar outside of youtube
0 likesI knew of Stan before this video. But I also watch and read a great deal of material related to nuclear bombs and their history.
1 likeYou know Emp, I'll admit I never expected to watch this video from the fellow who uploaded some hilarious YTP's.
0 likesBut, much like what you've discussed in this video, I am grateful.
I wanna get in a discord with emplemon just to learn how he got so good at content creation. There will never be a better conversation than that.
0 likes"Are we doomed to fight like the savage creatures from which we came?"
4 likesNo. We are doomed to fight like the savage creatures that we are.
The title being called “There May Never Be...” instead of “There WILL Never Be...” is chilling. But, as usual, This was fantastic.
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Well he forgot the fire bombs dropped on Japanese city’s that where more lethal. One fire bombing was more lethal than Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.
3 likesjust know with how this world is going that a situation like this is going to happen again, on a greater scale because of the technology we have. I just hope to everything that the next person with this power is another Stanislav.
8 likes@ak24 I find that the only wars people like us will be facing within the next 50 years will be either small wars from small countries, or internal wars. I believe that world peace is achievable if we just work on ourselves and others, but that means accepting and befriending our enemies as well. We would have to make amends with the middle east, which is slowly but surely happening, making friends with north korea instead of provoking it, which is slowly but surely happening, and making sure the other world powers can realize that globalist views do not work, but good diplomacy and nationalism will, funny enough, bring the world closer together. Most don't even realize that we live in a time of almost absolute peace with little tension around the world except for our own selves, and if we can bring down the tension, the world is on track to overcome itself and the great filter, I believe, will pass through us, and humanity can take to the stars.
9 likes@MonkeSle If only everyone chooses to love their own people and respect others.
1 likeThere will never ever be a game as great as subway simulator
1 likewell what do you know...
0 likesIt would've been extra clever if he added in brackets (and why that's a good thing)
0 likes@MonkeSle I'd say the opposite.
0 likesWe have: a war in Syria, a war in Afghanistan (which, it seems, is coming to a Vietnam-like conclusion), separatists in Ukraine, the Crimea crisis is far from over. And on top of that - Belarus (closest ally of Russia), China and the US have big internal problems.
What world peace if a single Russian cruiser that was requested to arrive on a parade in St. Petersburg heightened tensions in Europe as it was on the way from the Black Sea? And the fact that all 3 major superpowers (US, Russia with its allies, China) have internal problems?
@Freya Wion I would like to say that many of my world views have changed in the last two years. I was in the American political pipeline, and I'm out of that now.
1 likeI appreciate your response. I truly do wish the world could get along, but it's never so simple. It always boils down to beliefs, history, and resource management.
You are absolutely my favorite YouTuber on the platform. Keep up the amazing work!
0 likes"We created a weapon to deter enemies, but instead the enemies is ourselves."
1 likeMan, you're just above and beyond on this type of work
0 likesThat ending is probably the best ending I have seen on YouTube. I rewatch this video on a monthly
5 likesEmp, your demonstration of the scale of Tsar Bomba made me break down in tears. Please continue to make these educational works. They are so important.
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My heart dropped.
6 likes@Aflay just like tsar bomba
0 likesConsider a career in documentary editing. Take it from an editor with nearly a decade of experience, you would make a fantastic doc editor.
70 likesThis video gave me a new appreciation for my life. Thank you so much Emp
2 likesi dunno if it's the enormity of the situation described in the video or the perfectly placed half life music but i finished this one with tears in my eyes. thanks emplemon
0 likesim just watching this now, is it weird that this is making me want to cry? somehow the thought of how extremely and deeply the actions of few people have impacted human history forever is so crazy. its unfathomable. the kids were being taught with cartoons how to survive a nuclear blast (if it would have even been possible) the way humans were and are still seen as just.. things. "we have this many people and would lose this many if we did this and that" and so many wars and disasters have these huge death tolls that are so unfathomable. you cant ever mourn enough, its just not possible, so we just see the number and say "that was bad"
0 likesthinking about what japan did to the other countries around it, and then the absolute insanity that was unleashed afterwards.. so bad that no one wants to remember japanese war crimes, because it totally blows it out of the water in a way. if a few incestuos royals hadnt been war hungry a hundred years ago, a man like hitler would not have risen to power, the united states may not have put much importance into nuclear weapons (just yet, maybe something else could have happened) nowadays china and north korea wouldnt constantly be able to hold these nukes over our heads, so so so much about the fabric of the world would be different. i think we are the fortunate ones who live in a timeline where we avoided the cold war turning into a very very hot one. its unfathomable for one human to conceptualize any of this, i feel overwhelmed with empathy for all those people, but also with terror.
The most ominous thing about this episode is that the titles of all the other ones say "there will Never Ever be..." This one says "there may Never Ever be..."
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Meaning its an uncertainty
64 likesHopefully it will always be the former.
71 likesLet's just hope, that may will mean will here
28 likesAlthough you could interpret it as optimism. That humanity will maneuver itself into a corner at some point in the future is certain, but... there may be outstanding people with hearts pure enough to be merciful to the world and save it
25 likesThere will be another cold war at some point in the future
1 likeAnyone see the news? China is building up it's nukes. And Sino-American tensions have never been higher.
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2 likesYeah
0 likesI had never noticed that
0 likesVery astute observation, I never noticed that.
0 likesI've had my fill of life in general, personally. I'm ready whenever it's time to get off this crazy ride.
0 likesI come back every once in a while to this video, just to feel the power.
2 likesEverytime I listen to a documentary about WW2 and/or Cold War, I can't help but feel like it's fiction. Like if it were just a sci-fi novel. Mainly because that's where most sci fi stuff got their inspiration.
0 likesThe scary thing is that the tsar bomba that got tested was smaller than the actual one they planned for, they made it smaller because they worried that even with the parachute and the high altitude and speed, the bomb would still blow up the plane, and even at this size the Shockwave nearly took the plane out of the sky
1 likeI like the point he made with the Hawaiian false alarm. Essentially if that man was the person who was in Petrov’s position, we would all not exist
0 likesEmplemon continues to grow and prove himself to become one of the greatest content creators on this website.
164 likesI'm just proud.
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Definitely not the smartest. Just good editing.
1 like@Khan Cool Cat not smart.
0 likes@Jared K if you want some people that actually adress why youtube is getting worse I can give you recommendations but these people get political, because the problem is youtubes employees are getting political.
0 likes@DragonFruitXVI what are your recommendations?
0 likes@Jared K mainstream media is completely authoritarian. All their authoritative source are just people who agree with them that happen to have experience in an area. You don't need school to be educated anymore and it scares them that they can't brainwash us anymore. We decide who we want to listen to now.
0 likesI listen to
(Political)
Tim pool
Sargon of Akkad
(Entertainment)
EFAP
Vee
Rekieta Law
@Olaedo_007 I left a comment already. Don't be afraid to disagree with them and try not to get upset when you do. I disagree with them alot but when they are right, the hit bullseyes.
0 likesI'm tearing up and I don't even know why, this is just such an intensely human story.
0 likesMan I get goosebumps everytime I hear that speech by Robert Oppenheimer
4 likesA question requiring a Yes or No/Do or Don't answer can be world-changing.
3 likesNow imagine the timeline where the Soviet Computer itself automatically informed the authorities of a nuclear strike. Then you could say that Judgement Day had come and that SkyNet had come out on top over Humanity. Terminator technically becomes reality.
(15:18) That transition is beautiful, as is the entirety of the video, amazing work.
0 likesEp. 1: This cartoon is amazing
2324 likesEp. 2: This wrestling show is amazing
Ep. 3: This famous racer is amazing
Ep. 4: THE WORLD ALMOST GOT FRICKIN' DESTROYED
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There will never be a more dramatic jump
110 likes*This ordinary guy is amazing.
100 likesEmp continues to blow me away episode after episode tho. Its not the subject's presented that's necessarily interesting ,it's how its presented as corny as it sounds. The writing & presentation is everything !!
57 likesEp. 4: this guy is amazing
33 likesEp. 5: This man broke reality
25 likesEp 3: man of the year
1 likedo you mean never ever
0 likesWHAT'S EPISODE 5
0 likesno ads too
1 likeEp. 5: This video game is amazing
11 likes@Zorro9129 my name jeff
0 likes@Ian This Jigglypuff player is amazing
7 likesalfa01spotivo A little off, but close!
0 likesEp. 5 this gamer is amazing
0 likes@Iahan *literally makes video about dramatic jumps
0 likes@Ian Smash bros.
0 likesSeriously... I'm just wholesomely impressed by your creations.
0 likesDespite being one of your least viewed episodes I still think this one was not only the most beautiful but also most thought provoking yet. Here's your coke, King
0 likesI've often wondered why it is there has never been an accidental detonation of an atomic weapon? Admittedly, the people who designed the atomic triggers were very, very smart. But - given that nuclear warheads have been accidentally dropped, set on fire, sunk to the bottom of the ocean, blown out of the top of an Atlas missile silo and so forth in something like eighty or more serious incidents (these are the ones we know about) and you can guarantee the Soviets/Russians/Chinese/British/French/Israelis etc. have all experienced similar screw ups you can only conclude we've either been extraordinarily and improbably lucky or there are properties these weapons possess we really haven't been told about. Yes, the safety protocols and failsafes are extremely comprehensive - but, these are human systems operated by humans and are thus equally likely to fall foul of Murphy's Law. The safety protocols at nuclear powerplants, nuclear processing facilities etc. might not be equally stringent - but they are getting there and yet there have been three major containment breaches at Mayak (in the fifties), Chernobyl and Fukushima (six if you count individual reactors), countless small-to-mid level incidents (Windscale, Three Mile Island, SL-1 etc.). And who knows how many we haven't been told about? If we can screw up this many times handling nuclear material it seems odd that we are pitching a hundred-innings no-hitter with actual warheads. Just a thought, tho ...
0 likesAnother “Judgement day” was during the Cuban missile crisis. A Soviet sub was forced to surface by US ships that were part of the blockade of Cuba. As part of the US protocol, they used practice depth charges that didn’t do a lot of damage but would be very noticeable by a target sub. When the soviet sub was hit by one of these charges, the captain and political officer both ordered for a nuclear tipped torpedo to be fired. However the sub also had a fleet officer onboard who had a say and voted against launching and instead surfacing to receive orders from HQ.
0 likesThe scariest thing about this video isn’t how it shows how close we were to nuclear annihilation, or how high tensions were between the US and USSR, but rather the surprising amount of people who would press the red button if they were in Petrov’s position.
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Well thats what an culture shock does to rival societies,
28 likesAt point everyone start classifying "us" as good, and "them" as evil,
Or us the right, and them as wrong, that have happened before in history, the problem is that our technology is just so powerful that, if this ever happen again, we might be gone, or at least huge amounts of people might be gone
@I do not know you No it's not, It's more present then ever.
4 likesI don't remember the specifics, but I remember there was actually another situation besides this one where one person was a single button press away from turning the Cold War go nuclear. Its just that this one is famous and the other isn't.
3 likes@Liar With A Gun I thought most launches required 2 or 3 people to turn the key
0 likes@Notinghere 2 It's more noticeable than ever before, that is not the same thing. People are actually starting to realize that these divisions only hurt us, we're moving towards a better future.
2 likesI make it a habit to come back to this video once in a while. Strangely, it makes me feel better about my place in this world. I wouldn't have been born if this had happened and it's humbling to realize that we are getting better, it is a very slow process progress. It's so slow that it's hard to see, but from this video, I am happy that we are making some kind of progress, even if it is sideways sometimes. I'm sure the world won't be fixed in my lifetime, I'm not sure what a fixed world would even looks like to be honest, but it's videos like this that reminds me to live the best life you can, and to quote my dad, "Do the best you can, and live."
0 likesthis is one of the most important videos that will ever be made. I wish everyone watched this video. It allows you to fully comprehend how harmful humans are to themselves.
0 likesMay you rest in peace, Stanislov Petrov
1 likeThis is painfully underrated and underviewed. What an amazing video my friend.
1 likeDon't forget about Vasily Arkhipov, who, during the Cuban missile crisis, was the only of three officers to deny authorization for launching a counter-attack towards the US. Basically, his submarine was in unauthorized territory (within the US's Cuban blockade) and the American ships surrounding the submarine authorized the ship to surface and surrender. Because the submarine had lost contact with Moscow, the people on board had no idea as to whether or not war had begun because of the similar hostile environment that occurred in the 80s. Three officers were required to launch a strike against the Americans who told them to surface. Two of them did, but the third officer, Arkhipov, denied the launch of such a weapon against the American ships. Had he not done so, the American ships would've retaliated and war could've started between the US and USSR.
200 likesTL;DR : Vasily Arkhipov helped to prevent a war between the US and USSR by not authorizing a torpedo strike against American ships
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Anish Bagri He even had to probably say to their faces that he wouldn’t do it. Not only going against what he was trained, but his own partners.
20 likes@FreshPrinceOfSolaire. *comrades
6 likes@FreshPrinceOfSolaire. no. To save time they voted by turning the keys. He decided not to turn his key and saved the world
2 likesi think i heard jordan peterson mention him
0 likesYeah I thought this video was about him
1 likeMel Li Oh alright
0 likesRoMineMe Of course, my bad.
0 likes@FreshPrinceOfSolaire. *our bad
1 likeAnish Bagri Wow, missing all of these Marx
0 likesThis was singlehandedly the best video I’ve ever watched on YouTube. Thank you.
2 likesThis man really did make a video on the Soviet officer who prevented nuclear catastrophe, he's doing a service to keep the sacrifices of the real heroes alive
0 likesI never really thought about what kind of awesome and terrible power was in the hands of only a few people, that the thought of the world we know could die from one misunderstanding. I was honestly surprised and disgusted with what did happen with nuclear weapons and how they would pale in comparison to bombs that would come later. Thank you, Mr. Petrov, for making the right choice and for being the better man.
0 likesGenuinely one of the best videos on the platform
4 likesI know you say you've been going on a "downward spiral" to the point it's a meme, but I honestly think you've improved dramatically since your yesteryears.
42 likesYou went from YouTube Poops, to reviewing memes, and now to making informative documentaries.
Do you know you're one of the few content creators I look forward to whenever you post a video? I will literally drop EVERYTHING to watch your vids.
You probably will never see this or ever care, but if you do, I want you to know that your content is basically a saving grace for this shit show called YouTube.
And I hope you don't ever quit or get demonitized.
Thanks, Emp.
Once and a while when I want to feel hope and faith in humanity again, I watch this video 🥰🥰🥰
0 likesI would like to point out, like I always do when I hear about kamikaze pilots, something I learned from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Kamikaze pilots were often chosen from the pool of radical thinking students that didn't buy into bushido. They were basically told if you do this we'll take care of your family.
0 likesI would pay alot of money for editing classes from lemon man , the YouTube poops must be some kind of editing boot camp. Amazing stuff as always , I have researched every video at least 5 times , this one is a masterpiece imo.
0 likesDamn the way you obscured Petrov was emotionally spot on.
0 likesArt.
I had never heard of Stanislov Petrov before this video.
135 likesAnd when you said he had died in 2017, only 2 years before today, I wish I would've known about him sooner.
Absolutely love this series you've made, Emp!
Emplemon is an example of who to properly invest in with Patreon
15 likesOne of the best videos on youtube, the ending always gives me chills
0 likesI feel like many people have had similar choices and that the fact that we exist now proves that people will always choose for someone to live, even if not them.
0 likesYes he is a very influential person, however the man who saved us from nuclear war was actually the only one of the senior officers on the submarine caught by the US near Cuba, it was ordered to fire due to a system failure, and this was like around US ships. 3 people had to sign off on it and only one man didn’t
0 likesDamn. Emp has come such a far way from making YTPs to THIS. An amazing, thoughtful, well-researched documentary that gives me a little dose of hope for the future.
116 likesDamn you’ve done this man justice !
0 likesthe dunkey quote was actually incredibly powerful on my first watch
1 likeI shall never forget this video because it's one of few videos on YouTube that made my spine shiver in fear.
0 likesThere's something deep in an Russian, an Soviet, the american greatest fear, being the one that in the end chooses to possibly save the world
1 likeThere will never ever be a better youtuber than EmpLemon
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There will never ever be a shadier YouTuber than Memetastic
158 likesThere will never ever be a more true comment
14 likesMemetastic what about Fred?
3 likesMemetastic and there will never be a more unfunny one than memetastic
61 likesThere will Never Ever (insert something bad about memetastic)
12 likesMemetastic what about FilthyFrank
5 likesThisguy lot
1 like+Memetastic
2 likesI already posted this
Demolition D begs to differ.
0 likes@NinbendoYT I never really got into him. I'm more of a Vinesauce kind of guy these days.
1 likeMeiAids
1 likeAnd that's a fact
1 likeMeiAids
1 likeMemetastic if you like him you should check out Jon bois, both are amazing
1 like*avgn
1 like@NinbendoYT I think you can't compare the two because of how different their content is. Frank was the King of edgy and ridiculous anti-culture humor. But with informative videos about history, EmpLemon is the best.
1 likeIt's like comparing Ali to Micheal Jordon. They are both the best at what they did, but what they did was too different to compare.
cr1tikal is up there I think
1 likeJon Bois has entered the chat.
0 likesthere will never ever be a man cooler than Doctor Penez, comedy gamer.
0 likesChallenge accepted
0 likeshey can you make a joke about my dead friend please i would be really happy
1 likeAgreed
0 likesThank you, mister Petrov
4 likesThis is the story of a man named Stanislav. Stanislav worked for a company in a big building where he was employee # 427. Employee # 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order. This is what employee 427 did every day of every month of every year, and although others might have considered it soul rending, Stanislav relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job. And Stanislav was happy. And then one day, something very peculiar happened, something that would forever change Stanislav, something he would never quite forget.
2 likeswow, the Local 58 references really tie this together. Probably my favorite ARG.
18 likesI am not a religious man.
5 likesMy God, we are doomed.
I can't stop watching this video. Beautiful editing and script.
0 likesit’s so nice seeing documentaries/video essays with THIS high of quality
0 likesYour videos are outstanding, and your ability to move my heart and drive such a message with your videos are mind blowing
0 likesHow… how the hell did this man get a videogamedunkey clip to send chills down my spine?
0 likesFucking marvelous
The Hiroshima-to-Tsar Bomba comparison actually made me reel back. That coupled with the Pulp Fiction quote made it a really powerful scene.
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Absolute sublime editing
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0 likesNothing makes me feel more existential dread than the thought of nuclear war
0 likesEven though it is evident that we live in a very special place and have incredible amounts of information within ourselves, many still choose to live in ignorance, as is their right to do so.
0 likesI did know about him before this but you put it in a way that I've always felt but never could put the words amazing video this is only the second video I've watched of yours and I'm blown away
0 likesСтас! Вернись! We need You! It is 2022.
4 likesI think Emplemon is the only Youtuber who I always think his most recent video is his best one, and somehow comes out with another one that's even better.
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One ought to wonder if the equivalent of Moore's Law will ever kick in
5 likesIf you like it that way, I think Core-A Gaming might be something for you, my dude.
2 likesWatch lemmino
3 likesDon't know. That Dale video still gets me. So sad.
1 likeAnd now he is rolling in his grave.
8 likes"There May Never Ever Be a Man as Powerful as Stanislav Petrov"
1 likeor
"May There Never Ever Be a Man as Powerful as Stanislav Petrov"
I've watched a lot of emotionally frightening youtubes, but this one takes the cake I think. there's creepy shit, and then there's true existential horror. The editing is great. Jesus christ, what have we done
0 likes1 year ago, on August 19 2020. I saw a video of you in my recommendations about that blue Twitter checkmark. I remember being really bored and was like 'hmm, sounds like an interesting topic... let's see...'. I subscribed the same day. Soon enough you became one of my favorite, if not the most favourite, not just YouTube channel, but person. I've watched every single of your videos in a span of about a week. After an entire year I became a completely different person, but this video is still remains my favourite on this platform. Believe me, I've watched thousands of them. Thank you Emp, I think you really impacted me as a person. And I am really grateful that I found your channel on that not so usual date year ago... :)
2 likesRip Stanislav Petrov, unironically the most important man in the history of life on earth.
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i agree
7 likesThere are more people like this sadly this wasn’t the only time the will of a single person changed history
1 like2nd only to that fish that decided to crawl onto a beach
18 likesYea man I wish there are more pepol like him
1 likeJust to clear up, he didn't have the power to launch anything though. it would've been revised by the Soviet high command and the Secretary General would've had to make the call (even the Dead Hand system is actually semi-automatic, meaning that it involves a skeleton crew of officers hidden under a mountain who have to make the decision if Moscow ceases to exist). but who knows what they would've done... I think the point of the video still stands. for all we know you just might be right.
3 likes@jon le blanc he was the one to call command and tell them it was a glitch. Had he have not said this it could have ended badly.
1 like@GuyFromSouth of course it could. or maybe his superior officers would've deduced given that no other alerts were sounding that it was a dud. who knows. I'd rather not know, and thanks to Mr. Petrov we will never know. cheers.
2 likes@Xuanathan goddamn that fish
2 likes@MF DOOM the fish that started it all
0 likesI've seen a lot of videos about nuclear testing and such and I've never seen such a startling representation of the size of Tsar Bomba. My jaw is on the FLOOR
0 likesalso, nuclear fears havent gone away, they’ve just been relegated to international relations people that the public doesnt really care about. russia straight up invaded ukraine 6 years ago and we’ve been incredibly tense with them ever since.
0 likesThis video is so well edited, holy shit. Good job dude!
3 likesI'm watching this while tripping balls. I understand how the hippies felt. I'm sad, but in a good way. Thanks for the video Emp.
0 likesThe upward spiral of EmpLemon
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Nice seeing you here cody from the alternatehistoryhub.
175 likesCollab?
70 likesOh hi Cody. i didn't expect to see you here.
33 likesWow its cody from the alternatehistoryhub what a nice suprise to see cody from alternatehistoryhub a great channel i might add. i do love watching cody from alternatehistoryhub talk on his channel which is alternatehistoryhub.
73 likesCome on! My parents use that as a counter to the downward spiral.
15 likeslol
5 likeshere before 1k likes
7 likesThis would be the single greatest collab of all time.
12 likesWhen worlds collide
13 likesjust more of this empy, please more of this series.
4 likesCody what brings you here
4 likes>AHH watches EmpLemon
7 likesNoice
AlternateHistoryHub I know! I haven’t seen this level of video-making talent since Brain4Breakfest passed, may he Rest In Peace
8 likesWouldn’t a upward spiral mean everything else is going down?
4 likesOh shit
2 likesIt's a colab
Holy crap! Cody from alternate historyhub!
3 likesWhy are you here?
1 likeHoly shit, the other superior channel.
2 likesMy wishlist is for you and EmpTigerstar to collab with EmpLemon.
2 likesHey Althist!
2 likesI came because of your video on stalinslav and the cold war turned hot and found you bruh
2 likesThanks cody from alternate history hub
1 like@*HellRay* Its all relative
1 likeHello Cody
2 likesKingDead 47 d
1 likehow did you get here?
2 likesand the downward spiral of you.
2 likes@SockEater4293 how?
1 likeHey, Cody.
1 likeCODY!!!
1 likeImpossible
1 likeI guess EmpLemon’s spiral doesn’t only go down.
1 likeHoly shit its cody!
1 likeCody
1 likeDownward*
0 likesPolitics is horrid lol
Honestly AHH’s what if the Cold War got hot is the only reason I knew of Stanislav Petrov
0 likes-(downward+spiral)
0 likesNice to see you on here Cody maybe their could be a colab.
1 likeThis comment has been approved by the Breadstick Comment Committee
0 likesdesc. says "Do you think God remains in heaven because he too lives in fear for what he created?"
0 likesan absolute horror of a video seeing that we’re on track for a second cold war at this very moment
0 likesA moment of silence for people who will never see this masterpiece of a video...
3 likesthis is one of the best videos I've ever watched on YouTube, insightful as fuck, got me thinking about the whole "other intelligent beings in the galaxy don't exist long enough to develop interstellar travel"... when are we going to go?
0 likesCame here thinking it was going to be a story about oil (because I misread Petrov as Petrol), but left with existential dread. Please make more like this.
0 likesI was in Hawai’i for the nuclear weapons scare. Asleep in my dorm room I awoke to an alert from my phone—that it was all an accident... I realized that I would have died, been turned to ashes, without ever knowing. I would have never told my family and friends how much I loved them and appreciated them. I lived a 10 minute bus ride from Pearl Harbor; I would have died instantly in the nuclear fire. No body to bury, no closure for my loved ones. I’ve been in car crashes and had other near death experiences, but nothing shook me to my core like seeing the false alarm notification for a nuclear war that never happened.
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Honestly as far as it goes. Being asleep throughout the whole thing is one of the better ways to go out. Better dying in your sleep than in full terror as the world collapses around you.
6 likesI was in Hawaii at the time too. That moment really put a lot of things into perspective.
1 likeDid you tell your friends and family afterwards?
1 likeI was there to scariest thing I even been though
2 likes@Strong Bad Idk, it'd really suck to be shaken awake by the start of the apocalypse
1 likeI broke into tears at the end of this video. Beyond words how well crafted this video is made. I salute you emplemon.
2 likesI didn't expect an EmpLemon video to move me to tears... damn.
0 likesHe's more than a hero
1 likeThat ending made me cry for a minute, the perfect video
0 likesThe whole video I was thinking, "Yeah I heard this before. It's pretty interesting, and the video's very well made."
376 likesBut then you pulled out that clip of the American guy saying, "I did what I was trained to do" and that really, really stood out. I seriously can't identify what kind of emotional response it gave me, but it did something.
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Both he and Petrov were in the exact same situation, and we got to see both sides of the decision. Thankfully the choices were made in the right order
82 likesI believe what you felt was a hard dose of sobering empathy. The two sides of the decision are so vastly different and so impactful on global scale, it's extremely hard to not put yourself in his shoes and think of yourself making the same choice.
56 likesCan you give us a timestamp
7 likes@PerniciousSeizure hellio
14 likes38:24
I hope we're doing our jobs right
I had a very similar experience. Learned about this before, but that quote hit me so hard.
4 likesYeah i would be scared/dead if Petrov did what he trained to do
4 likesI see you tried to mimick the matchcut in the original 2001: A Space Odyssey at 15:19. Brilliant video as always :)
1 likeYou are actually good at writing and how you present stuff man. good job
0 likes"Humanity is innocent, humanity is guilty, both states are undeniably true" - Scythe Curie, Scythe
3 likesDrums and Riffs was a really haunting song choice here. Great work as always emp.
1 likeWhen clicking on this I expected the generic boring history video. I left realizing how important a single man was, and how he changed the course of history, and not just that. The editing style is very refined while still having his own spice on top. The biggest support here being audio, the songs and sounds you choose to represent what’s going on in the pictures and videos you see is top tier. as soon as the credits started rolling I instantly thought of that fact. Amazing work Emp. Definitely your best video. Can’t wait to see more.
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Ok you deserve more likes.
2 likesCheck out 17776 and Jon Bois if you like the editing.
0 likesif this topic was made by anyone else, id be bored for my life. emp keeps me on my toes the whole video
7 likesI came for the memes but your historical documentary videos (the donald trump one was amazing), are another level.
0 likesYou should definitely do more of those! I am now subscribed, you legend
The Half-Life music fits perfectly with this topic. Amazing
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Not just halflife, but gran turismo 2 menu music..and I'm fairly sure at least 2 other games too
0 likes@Ryu rc especially half life music simply because of what half life is
0 likesYou even make the sponsored pieces entertaining and usually hilarious
0 likesi suggest reading about vasily arkhipov; this man, singlehandedly, stopped the launching of nuclear missiles near cuba during the cuban missile crisis while the us navy was peppering his sub with signaling depth charges.
0 likesThis stuff really makes me realize just how close we were to a nuclear apocalypse.
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IKR? Fascinating and scary.
12 likesWe also have giant meteors from space that can knock us back into the stone ages as well.
10 likes*are
9 likesAlex Reppert you should check out a book called Command and Control
2 likesFrosty Wasp With bombs this powerful, that meteor might as well be heading for Mars instead
0 likesWell it ain't the first time this happened
0 likesare*
1 likeMe still waiting for this video to hit 1 million views cause Emp deserves it
0 likesI absolutely loved the homage to the '2001: Space Odyssey' match cut you did!
1 likeStanislav Petrov is the embodiment of "With great power comes great responsibility."
0 likesfrom YTP to compelling historical documentaries... what a character arc
0 likesThe greatest hero in recent history almost nobody knows about him.
0 likesThis video accually really helped me in history class and it was super entertaining awsome vid bro!
0 likesThinking about how close we all came to losing everything is more horrifying and unsettling than any horror movie or truecrime story. It's the same reason why "99 Red Balloons" makes me tear up every time I hear it.
0 likesthis is one of the few youtube videos that have yanked an emotion out of me
0 likesThis made me cry, made me think how amazing that it is that I exist today, because of this man. Going agasint his training and trusting his intuition.
137 likesThis man despite what he said, is a hero and without him we may all be mere ashes or not even born.
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The wrong choice, the incorrect, false choice, is why we are here today,
3 likes@tryhard Shreck Nah, he made the correct choice cursed image sempai
5 likesHe was there at the right place at the right time. just imagine if it were someone else in that night shift
2 likeshonestly that ending of the quote with the music was probably the best you could do, words cannot do this topic justic
0 likeshaven't watched it yet, but the quote in the description is nice.
0 likescan't really imagine you knowing Russian, but i might be wrong, anyway for those who don't know, the quote says:
"do you think that God stays in the heavens because he also lives in fear of what he has created?"
6:28 Took me this many rewatches to notice the mirroring of the "more than 2 billion" line. A dollar for every god-faring soul to bring about the nuclear age. Wow.
0 likesDamn. I've just been moved so deeply by a man who once did nothing but complain.
54 likesIncredible work Emp. You have my unconditional support, for there will NEVER EVER be another man like you.
7:37 There were actually 4 made, the 4th being broken up into the "demon core" after WWII.
0 likesI watched this and the whole time I thought to myself "...This guy has stolen the name of a guy who made Spingebill YTP years ago, the best contributor on the Spingebill Colab." Imagine my surprise when I found out they are one and the same. Well done, excellent video your sourness.
1 likeI once heard a story of an Israeli fighter pilot making a routine flight, when all of the sudden he spots something not right. In what was clearly a school playground a small missile launcher was being assembled by soldiers of an opposing country. The pilot knew that if they succeeded in building the launcher, they would load up a rocket and destroy part of his homeland. He had a very important decision to make. Bomb the launcher and risk the lives of children, or let it go and hope that not too many people get killed by the missile. Of course, the pilot wasn’t in a prop plane. He was in an F-21 Kfir. A plane capable of traveling at speeds over 2,000 Kilometers per hour. Which means that whatever thinking that needed to be done was in less than 10 seconds. Bomb it, or let them bomb. If he circled back around, the builders would probably shoot down the plane with their own armaments. There was no other hand. He needed to make the decision, and he did. He bombed the school and stopped the launcher from being built.
0 likesI can’t tell you how many times I’ve rewatched this, it’s your best video by far
1 likeI guess its time to think about our decisions and understand what it will do. Because Stanislav knew what he was about to do, so he didn't do it. Great Job! loved it
0 likesI've thought of this kind of thing before. And I'm sure it is some kind of trope in media. Where one would-be ordinary guy has to save humanity or something, and have almost no one know they ever did it or even existed. Heh. Who would've ever thought that it actually happened. Farewell, Stanislav Petrov.
0 likeslove how you replaced "will" with "may" in the title. nice touch
2 likesI guess I should thank Stanislas Petrov for my existence in 1998.
0 likesSo basically, the story of a nobody who saved everybody
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Chunky Chum turns out that nobody is somebody now
60 likesSomebody made nobody make a choice that only somebody could make, turning that nobody to a somebody, while saving everybody
47 likesOof
1 like@IsHudsonn bars
6 likesMr Bean's art teacher: DA BODEY
1 likeHalf life in a nutshell
0 likesmegamind(colorized)
0 likesThe scary thing to me about nuclear war is that if it happens I think I'd go outside and let my self die, I'm too close to large population centers for surviving to mean anything but extended suffering.
0 likesThe fact that the title of this episode has “may” instead of “will” haunts me.
8 likesIdk why, but the part showing Tsar Bomba exploding actually scared me. Guess I wasn’t expecting it to be that big
0 likes"He lived a Quite uneventful life" I mean, compared to that, anything seems pretty uneventful.
1 likeThis guy is like the Soviet officer that despite being outnumbered 2-1 by his peers in a submarine during the Cuban blockade, decided not to shoot the American fleet despite everyone in the submarine thinking that the nuclear war had started, if he or the guy in the video followed the protocol we would all be dead, kinda crazy in my opinion
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Yeah, I thought that the video was originally about him
3 likesVasili Arkhipov, yeah. Really strange how he's never brought up.
5 likes@Jacob Campbell dude, same, i heard about him from an Oversimplified video
2 likesDude, how are you not a Netflix show yet? These are the best films I have ever watched.
2 likesI hope we won't have a WWIII. We would be screwed. This guy is such a hero for avoiding near WWIII.
2 likesheard this story a hundred times never made the connection between it and the hawaii false alarm and i got the chills BAD man
0 likesgod this video is so informative. this could be shown in a world history class on stanislav petrov. when i was done watching, i was about to sleep and i kept thinking of what i just watched.
0 likes"I did what I was trained to do"
440 likesHoly shit EMP keep going!
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So... the moral of the story is....
13 likesBe a human being
45 likes@Spyder not a human doing
40 likes@Spyder You and Rayvin made a good quote.
16 likesStill can't believe I shared the same birthdate as this event, the video still gives me shivers everytime
0 likesOne of the worst things about that day is if he ended up making the decision to follow protocol, most of humanity would've been wiped out and there would be no investigation or anything afterwards to find out it was a mistake that wiped out humanity.
1 likeAfter watching this countless times after it was uploaded, I can’t say how much the Half life 1 and 2 ost fit.
0 likesI didn't read the full title and thought to myself: "He means Stanislav Petrov?"
1 likeFrom what I've heard, Tsar Bomba was detonated at a reduced payload.
318 likesThe idea that it could have been even larger is terrifying.
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They probably have bombs capable of obliterating the entire USA now.
20 likesThe full capacity of the bomb was said to be up to 100 Megatons, easily wipe out the biggest city and surrounding areas
32 likesThey originally wanted it to be 100 Megatons, but decided it was safer to test it at 50 Megatons. Which, of course, was so insanely devasting in scale that to think they almost doubled it is absolutely fucking insane.
56 likesYes, there was a concept for a bomb 2x stronger than the Tsar Bomba.
4 likesThe absolute horror is only further seen when you realize the detonation occured multiple miles above the ground.. There was no actual contact with the ground, most nuclear bombs we see actually, are not nearly as power as they should be because the deliverer of the payload actually needs to survive
14 likesThe tsar Bomba was 100mt but they wrapped the core in something if I'm not mistaken which effectively reduced the payload to 50mt
5 likes@Aleksandar Sokerov I think it was lead or graphite. Tsar bomba was a clean bomb that didn't release much nuclear fallout. The blast could be heard and felt around the world.
6 likesThe problem was that if it were any larger, the plane dropping it wouldn'y have had time to get away, and they needed the data from that plane
4 likesThe bomb was supposed to be twice as powerful. 100 megatons.
0 likesIt’s terrifying
@Enigma Russia? No Russia's ballistic technology really has not advanced that much since the 80s. It is largely why astronauts that have to go up to the International Space Station are constantly bitching about the rough ride back to Earth since NASA Astronauts have to rely so much on outdated Russian tech to get them up there. Russia has not made jackshit in advancements to their nuclear Tech. At least as is known by the International Community. Now the bombs that the US has or has technology to quickly acquire....well... let's just say if they were detonated the concept of sides in a war become largely irrelevant. No one would survive. Additionally every major power in the world now has access to submarines that would ensure no one survives.
0 likes@tygonmaster I was just talking about the world in general, not any country in particular, I was using the USA as a size reference.
1 likeEnigma I’m fairly certain science is probably are capable of a nuke that would level the whole world.
1 like@THE BRAIN SPECIALIST what about the person inside?
0 likesi already knew the story so i never watched this one, glad I came back. one of your best
1 likeListen man, future humans will unironically watch this video and deem it a record of the events of WWII and the Cold War, and by using that Dunkey quote at 11:00, you've legitimized our community permanently in the annals of technological history. No one alive now can know the lasting impact of your creative effort, nor will they appreciate this sub-cultural society we share because of it.
0 likesextremely well written and well edited
0 likesVasili Arkhipov. This man also saved the world.
2 likesThat decision was almost certainly tied for the most influential binary, "yes or no" decision that's ever been made, and for the most important decision ever made. (I'd say it's tied with Vasily Arkhipov's decision not to launch the submarine's warhead during the Cuban Missile Crisis for both.) Given how much people from the USSR hated people from the USA and vice versa, I'm amazed that we avoided the end of the world not once but twice. And both times it ended with the USSR making the correct decision. I hate what the USSR stood for (authoritarianism and forced annexation). I'm honestly grateful for those two people and their decisions more than I'm grateful for 99% of Americans.
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Agreed, I think it’s reflective of the reality that the people of the Cold War powers were not inherently bad, but the systems and power structures in place could only lead towards conflict.
15 likesYeah after Hitler no great evil emerged but the ideological conflict man.
1 likeThe USSR was not worse than World War 2 and Cold War USA.
@Hypertech 116 yes, it very much was. Not to say that the USA was doing all fine and dandy what with the internment of the Japanese and the whole red scare. It was still a much much much better place to live than the USSR, I would say no contest but the people putting others in literal work/death camps usually lived pretty well, until THEY got thrown in as well.
0 likes@madmonkeys88 well
0 likesI mean the top leaders. They didn't really care much about other countries and everything except diplomacy and managing anything that wasn't related to the economic race (if there was any) was strategy during the cold war.
But the combination of freedom of speech and democracy is just generally better than how communism is implemented.
As long as the people in power play nice, nothing's gonna go wrong to the point of downfall if everyone can keep them in check (and we should whenever we can, that is the whole point). Even if there's a devious politician or something the media is allowed to expose them and BOOM they're not allowed to become politicians again. And everyone can help however they want.
Communism didn't even work at all even with different perspectives because there's no way everyone actually wants to develop the country. 100% of the humans in a communist country have to follow orders and cooperate all the time.
Stanislav Petrov deserves a worldwide holiday.
4 likesI didn’t watch this one when emp first uploaded it. It was a real big mistake. Probably his best one.
1 likewe have stanislav petrov and vasili arkhipov to thank for being smart enough and level headed enough to not have ended the world.
0 likes24:03 not sure if it was an oversight, byt the soviets developed the first nuclear missiles, using the r-7 semyorka, the very same platform that carried the first manmade satelite into orbit.
0 likesYou probably won't see this comment but this is honestly the best documentary I've seen on youtube. Great editing, script and use of historic clips. Really an amazing video all around. Maybe it's silly since I don't really know you outside of your videos but I'm proud of you! Good job.
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jonathan I think he reads all his comments. Lucky you!
2 likesI love you that I found this channel. It makes 100% best and interesting content
0 likesMy great grandmother was a survivor of the bomb she was working in the train stations at the time in Kure,Hiroshima
0 likesWell, I’m obsessed with this channel now
5 likesDamn, what a down to earth man
0 likes"I like to think that Sept 26, 1983 was our judgment day."
1119 likesThat has to be the most powerful words I heard a youtuber say.
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yoooo I thought i was the only one that thought that. i dont know why but i started laughing in a sort of shock because emp popped off right there
34 likesJudgement day, and we were saved. Thank you Stanislav Petrov.
12 likesI had that same feeling and it overwhelmed me with an emotion that i don't know how to describe, thought only I caught it...
1 likeSo did we surpass the filter, or is there something worse?
1 like@ivanmegafanboy Kurzgesagt made a video about the filter to help you understand the theory better. But basically the filter is not something we can pass. If such a filter exists, it may be a virus, a comet or something we cant even imagine yet. But in the end, every intelligent form of life will fail to overcome that filter.
0 likes@AndiParkour What? The theory talks about what is necessary in order to not be affected by these filters in the worst way, not that they will happen inevitably.
1 likeOriginally the Nagasaki bomb was supposed to land at Kukora another Japanese city but it was too cloudy to drop the bomb precisely
0 likesKukora was spared because we couldn’t predict the weather just a few minutes ahead of time
Rest in peace, comrade petrov. Shit was sick
1 likegreat topic, story telling, editing... heavy and enlightening stuff
0 likesI enjoyed every bit of this video. just awesome
2 likesUsing your YTP editing skills to make documentaries is working wondrously
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It’s honestly the most interesting style in terms of a video essay. It’s amazing how a fun little method of making weird funny videos also meshes well with a serious video
12 likes@Gabe The Babe indeed
1 like@Gabe The Babe quite
0 likesThis guy should have he’s own national day
1 likeThe editing of this video is phenomenal!
0 likesTo the few who have watched and appreciated this video; we are truly the real ones.
0 likesThe "Emergency Alert" thing at 8:00, for some reason, I just find chilling to listen to.
2 likesBravo, Emp, on fucking me up for the next week, lol.
I never expected to hear Dunkey in a documentary about nuclear warfare
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@Stravenson Gorglyforgly That's one of my favorite videos of his
1 likeThat Tsar Bomba blast radius build-up edit was insane !
1 likethis is the best youtube channel, for now, for me.
2 likesWhat a beautifully crafted video. The end is a work of genius. Unbelievable.
0 likesThe ending of Wargame scared the everliving shit out of me as a child.
0 likesMy parents had terrible choice in movies to shown to kids lmao
5 months from now, this channel is gonna be an indie documentary channel and not a meme shitpost one
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It already has been for a long time
51 likesDude, why do I see you everywhere I go?
1 likeI hope so, his meme related jokes are shit most of the time
4 likesThe only thing sure about emplemon, is that nothing is for sure
13 likesNo more funny videos?
0 likes@Preston Heit big bruh moment from a fellow annoying orange pfper
5 likesLemmino time
2 likes@ElSaltaCohetes paying attention^
0 likesAnd I’m here for it.
0 likesLife is a meme shitpost
6 likesIt'd be great to see another video like this but on another individual in much the sMe circumstances: Vasily Arkhipov, who was aboard the B-59 submarine in the Cuban Missile Crisis when it was being shaken by signaling depth charges. Although the captain wished to launch a nuclear torpedo (yes, a torpedo with a nuclear payload), Arkhipov objected to it. He had the same choice, with almost the same exact result, but in what was likely a much more stressful scenario. It'd be really awesome to see you do a video on it, plus it'd be a great dive into the Cuban Missile Crisis and the middle years of the Cold War.
0 likesI'm so happy I'm not the only person who thought of the Arms race when Dunkey was talking about League, god bless you EMP
0 likesSeeing tsar bomba made my jaw drop, that kind of power is terrifying...
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Funnily enough, Tsar Bomba translates as The King Bomb.
0 likes15:30 this is the version from Falco symphonical (Vienna calling). I can tell because I listened a million times to that album
0 likes“It was a system failure and I did what I was trained to do”. H A U N T I N G !
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That is one of the scariest things i've ever heard.
182 likesI felt chills on my back
73 likes@Maspunch Nath that's a human person
31 likes@Ippy We can make a religion out of this.
27 likes@Matchsticks No don't.
14 likesnever felt chills like that in my life from a youtube video. fantastic
14 likes@Matchsticks if we make a religion out of this, we need to call it Deus ex Machina
1 like@Ghosssty Yolk seems good to me
6 likesThere are roughly 76 million military personnel on Earth currently (1% of the total population) and there may come a time when one day, someone among that number will either do as Stanislav did OR do as the "trained" Hawaiian worker did.
20 likesi cried when i heard it
1 likeIt’s not too chilling when you realize what he meant was that he was doing a test like he was trained for, and the outdated system made it very easy to press the wrong button, since they were both literal hyperlinks right next to each other.
2 likes@Ippy exactly!
0 likesI like how they censor his face when he forfeited the right to protection when he almost fucking caused the end of the world.
0 likes@Cody Produtions i dont think he did, he just triggered an alarm and caused mass panic. the rest of the country and world knew what was going on
2 likesNot gonna lie, that really made my heart stop for a moment
1 like38:38 Holy shit, the mix of that chilling line and the Triage at Dawn music hit me like a ICBM.
0 likes4:40 But at what cost? That was horrific. Now I really understand. Never ever should something like this be used, such power and destruction in the hands of reckless humanity. Only in truly dire emergencies.
0 likesFun Fact: The original target for the 2nd nuke dropped on Japan was Kokura, but since it was cloudy, the pilot had to move to the secondary target, Nagasaki
0 likesVon Braun didn't have much choice in ww2. He wanted to make rockets that would reach other worlds and since he couldn't leave Germany he either had to forget his dream or become an SS member so he could work on rockets.
0 likesThis documentary is amazing. Thank you for your unbiased view on history. The only remark: not Stan. Short for Stanislav is Stas.
277 likesWith great respect and gratitude for your amazing work, a fellow Russian.
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he used stan for humour and to get us to relate more, it's clearly not correct. would we call a vladimir vince? yes, because it's funny
16 likes@Michael Hird no, because its not even fucking close
14 likesI'm more used to being called Stan than Stas by my friends
4 likes@𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓴 𝓕𝓪𝓬𝓮 that's better
0 likesGermany actually did develop something extraordinarily close to nuclear weapons, but never brought it to production, or beyond testing.
0 likes12:08 Does anybody else find the sight of Stalin chilling next to Churchill and the US president to be kind of surreal?
1 likeFun Fact (kinda): A quote from Albert Einstein about the Atomic bombs "had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing."
0 likesI knew about the incident. But prior to watching this video, I did not know what it meant to have a chill sent down your spine. I do now.
0 likesthe part about the space race reminded me of my grandpa, he worked for a company called Rocketdyne and was contracted to design parts for the command module and the f1 engine on the saturn V. He was of Sicilian descent, and worked with a German scientist, and a Japanese scientist. The guys at NASA simply called them "the axis powers".
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Weirdly wholesome
56 likesThat's a dark kind of humor right there......
51 likesI wonder what they called the Nazi Von Braun?
18 likesHaha that's awesome
7 likes@Stem Artin Probably "Sir".
13 likes@RaptorJesus 😂👍
4 likessurprisingly this is common even in south america, im of italian descent, and in middle school i had a friend who was of german descent, and a friend of japanese descent. people used to call us the axis.
11 likesI don’t know about the rest of you guys but I think this is the best vid EmpLemon ever made.
1 likeThe amount of rewatchability these have are amazing
2 likesI started to play this video in the background while playing Fallout 4. I paused the game to actually watch the video. What a fitting game.
1 like38:07 That False Ballistic Missile Threat here in Hawaii was personally the scariest shit I've ever experienced.
1 likeYou can’t tell me that this is not EmpLemon’s magnum opus. I have rewatched this whole documentary 5 times at this point.
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Try 15
3 likesI'm at around 7 I think, this is by far one of the most criminally underviewed videos... ever!
8 likesI would argue that the Dale Earnhardt episode is Emp's magnum opus, but this one is certainly excellent.
2 likesThis is time #3 for me!
1 likeThis is certainly up there, but I find the NASCAR videos (specifically the Dale Earnhardt one) to be their magnum opuses
0 likesdale earnhardt one is his magnum opus. But this one is the best one imo. Like the dale earnhardt one is his most important video, it easily make people feels emotional and connect to more people but this video just do everything perfectly
2 likesEarnheart
0 likesi feel his dale earnhardt just has that feeling to it, like i can feel the passion he put into it
0 likeswhat a fucking cinematic masterpiece. take this to a movie festival this shit is beautiful
2 likesi just noticed that his videos are very jon bois-esque. clearly a big inspiration
2 likes7:26
0 likesThis.
This clip.
This clip can spark fear in anyone who thinks the atomic bombs are not scary.
Such a fantastic video, really great job all around.
0 likesNever thought I'd enjoy 40 minutes of history
37 likesEmpLemon just made a history video more interesting than my history teacher in a classroom
I wonder many people do nothing like him when the tension is high and false alarm is everywhere
There's a guy who refused to launch nuclear in submarine near Cuba (need 5 people to launch nuke, he's one of them)
I think most people know what the "ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones" but it's almost like the quote means more when I realize that ww2 hadn't even ended at that point
1 likeEmplemon: Posts an add about NordVPN in the form of a USSR controlled US Presidential announcement.
1 likeMe: Laughs in Canada.
Great video, as always, Emplemon. Keep up the great work!
Goddamn I get goosebumps from so many parts of this video. fucking amazing work
0 likesGreat taste in music love Scriabin, his 5th sonata is pretty good.
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turns out I was wrong
0 likesI think the great filter is more of a general concept than referring to something specific like nuclear weapons. The great filter could be behind us, like developing life at all, developing intelligent life, or still ahead such as nuclear weapons. Any number of things could be the great filter.
0 likes"Lately, many of us have given up trying to find a formidable foreign foe, and we've instead shifted our intention within our own borders, and turned much of the paranoia on ourselves."
0 likesCurrent-day America in a nutshell.
80% better than most Cold war documentaries out there!
0 likesAs a degenerate who watches / listens to YouTube 18 hours a day, you are genuinely the best creator out here
0 likesThat safety video gives a true feeling of the tension at the time.
2106 likes“What are you supposed to do when you see the flash?”
Not “if”.
When.
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Chase Gillingham 15 (STUDENT) I just told people to run for the basement.
11 likesOh damn.
3 likes@Chase Gillingham 15 (STUDENT) duck & cover is a good way to avoid burns if you get caught in fireball range but if you're in the blast range you're fucked
71 likesYeah, I don’t know anyone who wants to live for a small amount of years after the blast, with pain and suffering, or just painlessly die.
8 likesThe ture horror of it hit home for me when i tryed to think of what i would have done. I have alway been crazy smart but tradable with people so i would have refused to do a buck and cover drill because i would have understood emeditly that doing so was pointless.
3 likes@Goose McBruce trust me, u think duck and cover is gonna save u from a 1.2 megaton nuke ? It would destroy anything in a 25 mile radius.
1 like@Toronto Bud do people still think it was necessary to Nuke Japan? Propaganda really works wonders
5 likes@Frequent Man mUh PrOpAgANdA
4 likes@ok muh Uhmurican laaves. America interned 120,000 people. Dropped 2 attomic bombs killing 200,000 people(majority were civilians) and starved 1,000,000+ germans war prisoners AFTER the war when they had a food surplus. They firembombed civilian cities and destroyed the railway lines and blame the Germans when their pow's starved
3 likes@ok Nanking didnt happen btw the red cross disputes it
0 likes@Frequent Man Bad troll. This is one of the few instances where America, specifically the administration, was absolutely right. Japan was weakened, but would never surrender. Millions more on both sides would have ground each other down for a long time. The hatred would have run deep and long too.
2 likesThis broke the conquering nature and spirit of Imperial Japan, which was necessary for any lasting peace. It showed the world the true nature of atomic warfare and served as the original warning against future slides toward it.
It ended the World War 2, it served as the baseline for negotiation into the successful relationship the U.S. and Japan have today, and it was going to happen in history eventually. Instead of an unknown wonder weapon, we know it for the doomsday device it is.
And there are pictures of Nanking, like I shouldn't even have to say this but you're obviously trolling anyway so whatever. Hope you enjoyed the wall of text if you made it this far!
@Zeoxis6 not trolling. The pictures are Chinese communists wearing Japanese uniforms incorrectly and you didn't even address the Red Cross disputing it. The census numbers dispute it as well. You can argue that everything turned out for the best but thats because your line of descent went on and theirs didnt. It was for the best because it serves your self interests . Plus I don't know how you can criticise Japan for Nanking when the US literally vaporized 2 cities like wtf what kind of moral consistency is that!?
1 like@Zeoxis6 hey as long is there is some degree of punctuation I don't mind reading. I just dont want a headache
1 like@Zeoxis6 also didnt address America starving 1,000,000 Germans to death after the war when they had been allocated the food for them. That's probably more people than what actually died in the holocaust( 6,000,000 is a joke dont @me)
1 likeit's ironic that this is how they're teaching kids how to handle mass shootings
0 likes@Ghosssty Yolk ((ya that was a bit egotistical of me and i am a social clueless person most of the time. ))The main point i was trying to make . this video made me think about how i would have attached as child back then and how the seeing every thing spell out in numbers really made all this hit home for me.( the crazy smart should have been more like Crazy\Smart.)
0 likes@Mad Machanicest
1 like"I have always been crazy smart"
"emeditly"
@Putrid Moldyman ya guy claiming to be smart miss spell something . trust me i use to it by now i have had problems with spelling a write most of my life. I will have them most likely for the rest of my life. My brain scrambles anything i try to write or type. There is nothing i can do about it. I wish somebody body would relate to the point i was trying to make and mot bad mouth me for my dame grimmer and spell.
0 likesFrequent Man seems like raping a whole city is different than dropping 2 bombs to end the war, the rape of Nanking was for what? There wasn’t POWs or allowing retreat, the Japanese killed and rapped many in that city
1 likeFrequent Man so what about those mass graves too?
1 like@Ghosssty Yolk Exactly, along with the fact that they failed to spell the word "immediately", doesn't make me think they are "crazy smart".
0 likes@Mad Machanicest Did you graduate high school, or middle school for that matter?
0 likes@Frequent Man
0 likesLook man, I disagree with xou, but since this comment is older than dirt and I'm tired anyway, I don't want to argue. I do want to ask for a source on the red cross disputing it, I did some light google searching and couldn't find it.
Honestly surprised there was no mention of the amazing quote "Now we are all sons of bitches" by Kennith Bainbridge after the trinity nuclear test.
1 likethat moment when the video is so good you watch the whole sponsorship
0 likesNeed this now
8 likesMakes you wonder how many times this scenario has happened and the world never even knew. How many heroes died for humanity without humanity even knowing
0 likesAmazing video emp, probably my favorite. However, there was another Russian who almost caused nuclear war. Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine vice admiral was off the coast of Cuba during the cuban missile crisis, when many of the crew members mistakenly believed that war had broken out. Three people, Vasily and two other officials, were required to authorize the launch of the submarine's nuclear torpedo. The other two officials agreed to launch it, with only Vasily refusing.
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I thought that’s who this video would be about when I saw the title.
52 likes@Psychlops 924 same, but I've watched it about 5 times now and each time I've got tears at the end of the video :)
26 likes@Tobie Well. Hard fact but world peace cannot be achieved through the USA.
14 likesSocialism is the answer.
Or more a socialist market economy.
Stop looking away from the crimes, which the USA is doing.
@Smith How can socialism bring world peace in a way that capitalism can't? And why are you bringing the USA? I'm not even from there.
39 likes@Tobie the best argument for an inherent evil of capitalism is its coersive nature. Under capitalism, your only method of survival is participation in the system. Socialists view food, water, and shelter as a human right. Under socialism those things are supposed to be provided. Under capitalism you have to gain currency to partake in those necessities. To gain currency means that you have to work within capitalism. In the age that we are in today, all participation in capitalism is unethical. Working at an insurance agency today means that you are taking advantage of others to stay alive. Buying food by using your money from work is unethical, since you are abusing the labor of a south american indentured servant. Buying an iphone means that you are perpetuating child slave labor. Of course, none of this is your fault since having food, water, and housing is mandatory for your survival. So world peace under capitalism is impossible, since it requires taking advantage of another's persons autonomy or freedom. Hopefully this answer is to your satisfaction. Have a good day.
11 likes@John Smith I appreciate your response but I don't like it. It's easy to criticize the in-place actual system, but what I was asking for what concrete solution does socialism has to fix those issues?
36 likesTo me, socialism is still capitalism, but to a much larger scale, between countries. Each country tries to be as rich as possible, and the country rules every aspect of the economy. So you would have the same problems: some countries would be really rich on top of other really poor countries. We saw that happening when the Usa cut every export to Cuba in the 60's, and since then Cuba has never recovered financially and socially. It was the rights of the US to do what they wanted to do.
Also, I was a socialist too few years back but I changed my mind. So yeah, I know what socialism is.
@Tobie I don't think that socialism has a concrete way to create world peace or a perfect society, but it does have concrete methods to increase quality of life among the citizenry. No economic system can solve the world's problems on it's own, but some systems make achieving world peace a lot easier. My question to you would be do you view socialism as the government owning business and property, or the public? There are a few separate interpretations and in order to answer your question effectively I need to know what you think the term really means.
6 likes@John Smith I think for socialism to work, there has to be someone to be in charge of it all, a person or a group of person that will decide how much food each person will receive, etc. So there's always a form of government or coalition, something that links people together. But it can get pretty complicated.
14 likesLiving in a democracy and voting for a president and his government that will decide is very different than living in an autoritarian country that the same party keeps power years after years. Either way, the government owns the companies and the goods. If the people do, that's capitalism. Even an agricol union or things like that is still capitalism, it's just that profit is split between all the owners.
So yeah, the government :P
@Tobie your perception of socialism seems a little restricted. You seem like a decent guy so I guess I'd recommend that you look into more libertarian forms of socialism. Believe it or not socialism or even communism can exist without a strong authoritarian government.
4 likes@John Smith (sorry for the late response) maybe, but yet there haven't been one.
5 likes@Tobie
6 likesExcept there has been, and there currently is, you're just not looking.
In the early 1900s there were 3 prominent examples of not only socialist societies without an authoritarian state, but ones completely lacking a state.
During the Russian Civil War, there was the Free Territory in Ukraine that lasted from 1917-1921. It was a federation of directly democratic communities organized along an anarcho-communist basis. That society fell as a result of the sheer strength and numbers of the Red Army invading. (Who later went on to imprison, exile, and murder many of the leading figures).
During the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939 anarcho-syndicalists and trade unions governored massive portions of Spain and much of the economy was collectivized. They failed because the USSR Stalinist backed forces betrayed them (they threw many of them in prison), which eventually lead to Franco and the fascists (whom were backed by Nazi Germany and Italy) taking over.
In Manchuria near the border of Korea there was the Korean People's Association in Manchuria which lasted from 1929-1931. They operated on a similar basis to the Free Territory. They were eventually destroyed as a result of a combined effort of Imperial Japan and the nationalist Kuomintang invading.
As to right now? There is Rojava, a predominantly Kurdish region within Northern Syria. They're a democratic confederalist society. They've existed since 2013, there's tons of videos on YouTube you can watch to learn about them.
There's also the Zapatistas in Chiapas Mexico, who in 1994 revolted against the Mexican Government as a result of NAFTA. They have controlled nearly half of the Chiapas region ever since then.
If you'd like any sources, I can provide a couple books and some YouTube videos.
idk why you guys just started talking to me about communism and stuff, wtf did I do for that x)
6 likes@Tobie
2 likesAsk theredcat dude, he's the one who randomly brought it up outta nowhere. All I did was reply to your reply that was talking about it.
@Brandon yeah I know lol
5 likesWhy cant we have capitalist and socialist countries and just idk leave each other the hell alone ._.
5 likes@TomatoP conflict of interest, as long as you have two people in a room, there will always be tension, as we have different perspectives on a common subject.
1 like@PKFireFawx bro I was just having a polite philosophical discussion with a nice man. You've gotta chill out. I didn't even start this conversation, I just answered a question someone had to the best of my ability. You feeling ok?
4 likesI think it has to do with Petrov being the lone man who could’ve given the ok, while Arkipov had a couple of crew mates with him
1 likeImo arkihpov was way more powerful
1 like@John Smith no you don’t you could live off of food stamps. In either system if a majority of people didn’t believe in it, it wouldn’t work.
0 likes@Smith Socialism is evil, and needs to be purged from this Earth.
0 likesYeah I was thinking about that.
0 likesI was just thinking about him and was going to make a comment like yours. Thanks to these 2 great men. It's amazing this happened twice and by the grace of God these 2 men was at the right place at the right time.
0 likesIf I heard correctly Vasily was not even SUPPOSED to be on that sub.
0 likes@Smith wow I want to vomit. Have you tried not having laughable ideas for a moment?
0 likesThis is just so engaging and interesting to watch. Incredible work
0 likesIf anyone wants to read a book detailing how close the USA came to internal nuclear disaster, they should check out a book titled "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser. Fantastic read.
0 likesEdit: Reminder that the US-Russia 2010 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), unless extended into 2026, will expire in February of this year.
This is one of the best videos on YouTube, no joke!
1 likeA true work of art
0 likesThis is deadass one of the single most terrifying things I've ever watched. It sorta feels like I'm living in an alternate timeline where Petrov didn't alert abt the nukes. Sorta like this isn't the main timeline, but a second chance at not complete annhilation. Feels weird.
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I know, it feels weird.
5 likesFeels like someone playing a video game reloaded the save file to make a different decision
2 likesW's in the chat for Stan🤘🏾
0 likesGODDAMMIT. I JUST DID AN ESSAY ON. THIS GUY AND JUST DISCOVERED THIS
6 likesI wish the title would be "there must Never Ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov"
0 likesVasili Arkhipov arguably had more impact during the cuban missile crisis when he refused to launch nukes
0 likesI absolutely love your Never Ever series. You just taught me more about the Cold War than I ever understood from school. You're an underrated YouTuber, I wish you had more subs (and not empty ones. People who honestly watch your great videos.)
70 likes22:35 is extremely freighting. I have used nukemap, but it has never hit home like the context he gave.
1 likeCame for the history lesson, stayed for the soft machine
0 likesIt’s hard to think a 41 minute video can give you a completely different perspective on the world but It
1 likeAt this point, with the weapons we have, I pray there will be no WWIII, I know there will be no WWIV.
0 likesGod this video is so fucking good 👍
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
0 likesFriedrich Nietzsche
Im back because of the conflict in Ukraine if we go to war with Russia then were fucked
11 likes4:11 Holy shit i literally just searched for this survivor on google and he died october 24th this year, RIP
0 likes37:30 onwards is some of the best video I have ever seen. Thank you.
1 likeVasily Arkhipov (another Petrov like figure during the missile crisis) and Stanislav Petrov
82 likesThank you for your service to humanity.
38:40 I've got goosebumps when I heard path of borealis
1 likeCrazy to think Petrov thought of what he did as nothing.
1 likeYou know a youtube video is good when it almost makes me cry
0 likes3:45- I never knew it was that bad... instant crying, just... dear, dear god. I knew it was terrible, but still
0 likesDo you think God remains in heaven because he too lives in fear for what he created?
2 likesYou used a quote from Dunkey to symbolize the invention of nuclear weapons... and it was probably the most effective quote you could've used.
0 likesThe true heroes of our species are those who simply go out and do a good job.
0 likesThis gave me chills
0 likesFrom Spongebob to the Attitude Era, to NASCAR, to Nuclear Warfare
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Definitely very similar subject matters
16 likesYou make a good history teacher.
0 likesAnother guy, Vadillo arkophov did something very similar in the Cuban missile crisis,:so there was the crisis and within the crisis there was a submarine near the us with a nuke under it,(this part I’m not sure about)and there was a person who couldn’t come and had to be replaced by Vassili (back to facts) And they thought that nuclear war had already started so the held a vote and 2 of the three voted to send the nuke and vasilli voted no and they needed a unanimous vote so they didn’t detonate
1 likeThis may just be my favourite video on the site. Thankyou, thankyou so much.
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Same!
0 likesThe intresting think was it was the 2nd(i know) time a gut feeling saved our world so will there be a 3rd time or maybe without our knowledge there where many more ? 1st i know goes to Wassili Alexandrowitsch Archipow who saw himself in a similar position but in a sense even more bad the chance of him even being there was low the chance that under pressure of others him not doing it was even lower but at the end he didnt its like for a moment people can realize in those moments that it gives lines that shouldnt be crossed maybe some deep Instinkt that tells us after that it will end dont do that but will the next time it happens be it someone who can follow that feeling or will it be someone that was so trained to do somethink that he dosent care anymore.
1 likeAmazing storytelling through editing and timing. You really set up the surrounding well and it has this dark but hopeful mood.
57 likesUp there with your Earnhardt video, this is definitely one of my favourite youtube series!
History made fun. Seriously, this guy is a genius at editing
0 likes"The axis powers lost access to ......." I liked that word choice haha maybe unintended but still
1 likeI want a holiday to celebrate Mr. Stanislav he's a true hero
1 likeYou're missing a lot of info on how the US came to develop the atomic weapons.
1 likeI initially didn’t want to watch this video, it seemed less interesting than the rest of the Never Ever videos. It’s been my favorite since I watched it.
0 likesThat dunkey voiceover was perfect.
1 like"I was simply doing my job and I did it well."
1 likeHoly smokes you are an amazing storyteller
1 likeRemember, this was back in WW2 where the weapon weren't as strong, imagine what would happen if a bomb with much higher power detonated today.
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even in the world war 2 era, the power would be enough to not allow both of us type this comment.
0 likes16:38 Usually I hate advertisements in videos, but this one for NordVPN was really well done and added to the video tbh
0 likesI just realized that out of all of the Never Ever episodes, this is the only one that says "there may Never ever be" instead of "there will Never Ever be".
0 likeshey you, yeah you, you just clicked "most recent" expecting some dark humor over this, yeah we scared, but we shall grow from this.
12 likesThe man saved the world and most people don't even know his name...
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hes Saitama
6 likesI still can’t spell his name.
1 likeStan Petrikov? Stanison Perikeet. Damn reds.
His name is Donald John Trump Sr.
0 likesThere was another man who saved the world, his name was Vasili Arkhipov.
6 likes@GOOGLE TAQIYYA don't forget all the other guys who helped him before and all the guys afterwards.
1 like"Entering Gracefully" is such a fuckin banger. This message will repeat, until there are none left to read it
1 likeGreat video.
0 likes40:12 Define World Peace. Lack of conflict?
As long as differences between people exist, conflict shall, too.
World Peace is a stupendously simplistic idea with horrendous consequences.
To suggest it means to erase people's differences.
Even the rising neoempire could never achieve it, as internal conflicts would exist due to ethnocultural differences. If you magically erased that, we'd still have conflicts over resources.
Achieving it would require transhumanism; a population in their perfect VR worlds, free of their "Darwinian pathologies", overseen by a being, likely an AI, since it'd be unethical to leave one person missing out.
I'm fine with internal conflicts, thank you very much. Let us celebrate our differences.
I love the use of the Half Life soundtrack, it sounds so ominous and alien
1 likestan was more powerful than jesus for a whole hour
0 likesThis is honestly one of the best YouTube videos I've seen in a long time. These Never Ever videos just keep getting better and better. Keep up the great content man.
38 likesthanks to this guy i gotta go to work and pay taxes....god damn it
0 likesin this ep we learn about the most epicest man in the world that made the epic victory royale
0 likesGreat video. However, I would revisit the statement about how soldier are trained. I would say it is very simplistic.
0 likesI want to watch another video after this so that Youtube recommends it to more people, but I'm really not in the mood.
3 likes40:51 this drove me to tears. the man who saved every single human life on earth doesn't even see himself as a hero :(
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Good people don't see them selfs as good people.
21 likesHe's not wrong. Simply doing his job of signalling and reporting airborne threats and he did it right and well.
17 likes@HellSpoon they tend to just see themselves as people.
14 likescommenting for the youtube algorithm so more people can see this masterpiece of a video.
4 likesgod this made my stomach churn in terror a little...
1 likeVassili arkupov: hold my also saving the world
2 likesThis is by far your most special and insightful video.
0 likesI cannot believe that it took me nearly a month to watch this video.... Emp, you truly are one of the most hardworking individuals on this site. Keep doing what you’re doing man.
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me too
0 likesElevated to more than a man for he was a god
0 likesAnd this god choose to be merciful
24:15 By 1950 the USA should have demanded that the rest of the world limit itself to only 5 nukes each.
1 likeBy 1955, it should have unleashed its nukes upon Russia for refusing to stop making bombs.
By 1965 Russia had enough bombs, that BOTH nations would lose in any nuclear exchange.
Thus, the 1950s were the time that the USA should have prevented nuclear proliferation, and enforced Pax Romana, otherwise known as Pax Americana for the Nuclear Age.
"What would you do if satellite picked up 5 intercontinen...."
1 like(Me in 2021): *CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK*
"OMG WTF ARE YOU DOING DUDE??!!!!"
Best one yet. Phenomenal content.
0 likesthe Einstein quote to the scene from odyssey. chills.
1 likeThe spiritual death of a nation my ass. Most of those killed in the bombings were in some way connected to the military. And the first bomb did force the Japanese to surrender, saving far more civilian lives than it killed (No one dying would've been a better outcome though, and I'm not defending the second bomb. It was by most accounts unnecessary). In my opinion, as one of the people whose nation was mercilessly conquered and raped by the WWII Japanese, I'd say the bombing (The first bomb) was a necessary show of power done by America. Japan was WAY WAYYY worse than the Nazis with the peoples they've conquered and this "wE WeRe BoMbEd" narrative just makes them sympathetic when in truth their actions were far more horrific and dare I say EVIL by all extent when compared to the German Nazis.
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The "Bombed to force surrender" is a myth. Japan was already way on its way to surrender.
1 likeand that was just the strongest nuke *tested*. the soviets made a 100 megaton tsar bomba (x2 size of the one tested) but it was never used
0 likesblasts that big would have a world wide effect
just seeing the atom bomb explode really hit me, like i think people really underestimate that shit
0 likesThat Tsar Bomba visualization gives me chills every time
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Me to man, it's scary to think about to
30 likes22:34 for those looking for the timestamp
73 likes@bennygoat thanks man appreciate it
19 likesThe whole state of New York would be Thanos'd
21 likes@Lelouch gone...reduced to atoms...
16 likes@The Desert Fox welcome to the club
5 likes@Carl thank ya m8, I'm glad to be here
4 likesDespite multiple rewatchings, it’s no less chilling. At each detonation sound as well.
2 likesAs someone who lives next to the city yeah this gives me super chills
1 likeI thought that 22:40 was the radius and was like "Holy shit that's a lot," and then the actual simulation was shown
0 likes@douglas wahid it is insane to think that it was 50 years ago and 25 years after the first nuclear weapon. The fact it was at half capacity becomes more terrifying when you think how much more powerful we could make them today.
0 likesI'm the 1000th like :)
0 likesThe video at the beginning is so chilling too
0 likesThis is genuinely the scariest thing ive ever known about or will ever know about everything of anything
0 likesWell said Sir, well said indeed.
0 likesi sincerely wish the title didnt have to say "may" before never ever, i dont want any one person to ever have that much power
0 likesthe man who bought the world
0 likesFrom shitposting to intellectual documentaries, you provide the best of content that this degenerate site has to offer.
142 likesemplemon: I wonder how far apart Russia and the us are?
1 likecasually ignores left and up
emp: oh so about 5000 miles, cool
Nuclear weapons produce temperatures as hot as the sun and wind speeds approaching 1000 miles per hour.
2 likesOfficial distributed advice from the British government to its citizens: board up your windows, hide under a desk, stockpile drinking water.
That's the kind of advice you give when you know nothing will work, but you're just expected to give advice anyway.
-Please, stop making nuclear bombs, we'll all die.
0 likes-What? Oh! You mean shut down perfectly operational nuclear power plants? Sure, we can do that, we love fossil fuels!
-Wait, no, not like that...
24:18 Hold on! I never thought I'd see Roger Dean's art here, of all places!
0 likesI remember watching this the weekend after the fourth July, and as person with military background, it allowed to reconsider so believes I had, as well be able to see beyond what people discuss my circles. I just want to thank you for educating me on something that I struggle with from time to time: Mortality and Humanity.
139 likes18:48 Says "authoritarian" as he slides in a poster literally saying "Power to soviets! Peace to people! Land to peasants! Factories to workers!" [The noun "soviet" in Russian means a local democratic council at every workplace that includes every worker.] Great illustration..!
6 likesNever thought a dunkey quote would make it into a ww2 documentary.
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More Cold War I’d say
0 likesDid my man just quote Dunkey talking about balance in video games, but making it seem relevant to the context of war????
1 likethats hilarious and genious simultaniously
we need more historical episodes
0 likesDid you really use a Dunkey quote as a metaphor for war and humanity. I love you.
151 likesThe only way to win a game of mutually assured destruction is to not play at all. Stanislav is more than a Soviet national hero, he's a hero for all citizens of the world. Salute to you, Comrade Petrov.
0 likesThe dichotomy between the guy in hawaii and stan petrov genuinely terrifies me
0 likesLove the use of grand turismo music on this channel. This anxiety of the opening song is just right on point
0 likeswe will achieve world peace when virtual reality comes to the level where it can serve as the battle field instead where we have champions fight for us instead of hordes of mobs on a field to die.
0 likesI remember reading about him long before he died. It always baffled me how important he was and how little recognition he got. Later on I found out that he died in an article on Twitter, I wasn't surprised by the little recognition he got but I figured he liked it that way, such a decent and I would say humble guy.
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I'd argue that the man who prevented the death of billions of people is just a bit more than decent
2 likesThis is the best video you have ever made!
1 likeThe buildup to 22:42 is so fucking good, then the followup a couple of seconds later is even more incredible.
0 likesMarch 2022, hoping this one becomes a documentary too.
2 likesStanislov is really a genuine hero
0 likesFirst episode: there WILL never be
1289 likesSecond episode: there WILL never be
Third episode: there WILL never be
Forth episode: there MAY never be
chilling
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When will it be
4 likes[PRESS HERE] to start World War III
36 likesNatalia Borys I’d like the think this comment ended the world
7 likesthere never SHOULD be
20 likesbut humanity doesn't deal in "should we?", we deal in "can we?"
I hope to be proven wrong
We hope there will never be
0 likesthere will be never be a "there will never be" again
0 likes...emp?
Actually, nuke capability has killed world wars in their tracks. Nothing even close has happened in 75 years.
4 likesthere be
0 likes*fourth
0 likes@William Jordan At what cost though? In a parallel universe (if you believe in that sort of thing) the entire world was annihilated because Stanislaw made a different decision. Mutually Assured Destruction brought us peace but every time world tensions reach a peak as they did during the cold war we risk that total destruction again. Sure it isn't imminent right now like it was in the 80s but it will be again one day, trust me on that.
1 likeHe is being optimistic.
0 likeswho else started to tear up watching this ?
0 likesThank you Stan
1 likeStan is such a normal name, showing that maybe, even if not known, we can be a hero ourselves.
0 likesThis may be one of the best videos on youtube
3 likesYou summarised a year's worth of junior high History classes in the span of 41:38.
209 likesTop tier content.
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Don't be surprised if teachers use this video for their studies.
3 likesI can't be the same people who instinctively heard the opening of Burning in the Skies after the Oppenheimer speech right? ...right?
0 likesGreat video.
I remember learning about Stanislav Petrov a couple years before he died on TVTropes, and ever since then I try to spread awareness of Stanislav Petrov day, September 26th. I regret that I never tried to make him aware of how grateful I am for what he did.
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Imagine learning about history from TVtropes
0 likesMake more history videos !!
0 likesDid this guy seriously use a dunkey clip for his video about bombs? Bravo Emplemon, bravo.
2 likesThese Never Ever episodes just keep getting better and better. You need at least a week to contemplate what you just watched and how incredible it was, and afterwards re-watch it another 5 times.
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I binge watch these episodes over and over.
9 likesDont forget about his YouTube Geographic series
1 like@Giovanni Trujillo Those, and echo MEME Theory. 😃
0 likesI absolutely love the old 70s commercial for Nord VPN. a witty, creative way to plug a sponsor that for the first time I didn't want to skip. bravo sir. other creators should take notes!!!
0 likesnow back to finish the doc 😉
2:42 I'm so happy to hear that song from Half-life. I love the songs you use in your videos.
0 likesRIP Stanislav Petrov
0 likesThis was incredible
0 likesThis is genuinely one of the greatest pieces of content you can find on the internet.
156 likesgoddamn it emp! im crying now!!!
0 likesProbably one of the top 25 videos on this platform. Idk how objective I am, but genuinely amazing video.
0 likesThis should be shown in schools
5 likesGreetings from Europe in 2022. Hopefully I can greet again in 2023.
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0 likesI feel like the spirit of YouTube Poop will never leave your editing.
310 likesAnd I like that.
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0 likesOr he's just slowly boiling it out.
0 likesthat realization that if a nuclear bomb dropped on New York you would be dead even though you don’t live there
0 likesDude your shit is the bomb my kids are learning with ease thank you for your dedication for history
0 likesThis may have been one of the best YouTube videos I’ve seen.
0 likesI cried at the end
0 likesThis video has made me realise that everyone who watched this is living their life, normally but what if on a one normal day what you don't realise is that on the other side of the Earth a single man had decided not to push the button. Yesterday when you went to bed that sleep could have very well been your last.
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my name jeff
15 likes@Yağız Alp Camcı a fitting reply
3 likesThe craziest bit is that he was not even meant to be there. He was just the substitute for the regular guy who ran that post.
3 likesThe most polished series YT has ever been blessed with
0 likesGod, it's all the waiting and anticipation that just gets me. Can't we just have a nuclear war an get it over with, already?!?
0 likesThis is the most insane episode of never ever
1 likeThank you Stan
1 likeHow do you even find the sources you use in these videos...and then edit the clips so professionally into a 40 minute video documentary that is both informative and entertaining.
37 likesThis channel is very underrated.
I’m sorry to say it but this is the best video on YouTube
3 likeswhat the hell,this guy saved the world in the most literal sense possible
0 likesI DEADASS CRIED DURING THE ENDING
0 likesWe just watched this damn video in history class yesterday
2 likesOnce again the YTP squid meme man cranks out a glorious masterpiece. This is honestly the best telling of this story in my opinion. I know this video will never make it on Trending, but it doesn't need to. It accomplishes its purpose all the same.
55 likesCan we say for certain that Petrov saved the world? How do we know that someone else wouldn't have put a stop to it? The truth is that we don't, but because of men like Petrov, we've never had to take that risk. Due to his handling of the situation and the subconscious hope for a better world inherent in every man woman and child, we've never had to cross that threshold. I like to believe that the hand of God was guiding him that day. I mean, my dad was a young man then, and I'm glad he was able to grow up as a result of people having the fortitude to abstain from pushing the button. There are so many incidents like this occurring throughout history and across the world, but yet the world doesn't know of them. Thanks to Petrov and his contemporaries, it doesn't have to.
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We do not know if somebody else may have pushed the button or not but let’s be glad Stanislav Petrov didn’t push it and that we are able to to still be alive.
0 likes22:09 is my favorite part
0 likesOn September 26th, 1983, I was 6 years old. I don't remember that day at all. Thank God I don't.
8 likesI off an on return to binge watching your vids every now and then. Shocked to find out you're under a million subs. Wow.
0 likesThere’s a really good video by Shaun that goes over the dropping of the bombs, I highly recommend it after this one.
0 likesI showed this video to my dad, who's more in line to traditional documentaries from the history channel, and enjoyed it enough to watch it in one sitting. If that says anything, it means you did a great job appealing to the younger and older generations
15 likesWhat a fascinating perspective!
0 likeshonestly the way i act, if i was in stan petrovs shoes i would have ended the world
0 likesMy grandpa was a marine veteran and served during the Cuban middle crisis, he has said he was on the boats that were supposed to deploy the troops in case of the us went into Cuba.
0 likesNew idea:
0 likesThere may never ever be another king like Henry VIII
"One of the greatest scientific achievements in human history was built off the back of one of it's greatest atrocities."
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Nazi rockets go BRUM.
6 likes"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
19 likes- A quote I don't know
when did this man get deep
2 likes666 likes.
1 like...Eh, I kinda disagree with him, there.
0 likes@TackyWhale on what exactly ?
0 likes@TackyWhale can ya specify cus that pfp isn't giving the best implications here
0 likesthe fucking video game dunkey reference was fucking amazing
3 likesthis is one of his best videos and it's not even reached a million views, prolly because russians and nazis being on the video and edit: the two most powerful nations in the world are not the world dude, why you say all humanity comes to an end when those TWO nations collide?
0 likesThese are all works of art.
0 likesThis is criminally underrated
1 likeThere are few videos that I ever feel truly satisfied when watching - and this one is one of the few. You managed to mix education of an uninformed topic, something that is generally boring to make interesting. You managed to make something engaging for 41 minutes, something informative and unique. I have never heard of this man before your video but every once in a while after watching this video for the first time.
174 likesThis is also one of those videos you can't stop watching- you perfectly closed the circle of information. When I'm older(I'm 15) I will definitely get money for your patreon because you deserve it
There can never be another man like stanislav petrov. We have evolved as a species and as such our concept of right and wrong have become blurry. If we somehow find a way to make the world black and white, it will mean the end of the human species.
0 likesIt’s scary that this type of “system error” isn’t unheard of….
1 likeAs tragic and unnecessary as the downing of this aircraft was - but did US generals and/or the president really suggest total nuclear war as retaliation? Seems a bit extreme.
0 likesOr was this scenario more in the heads of Soviet leaders, multiplied with the general paranoia of the time?
I suppose you have never heard of a man by the name Kyriakos Grizzly
1 like"I'm not a hero, I was just at the right place at the right time."
203 likes- Stan Motherfucking Petrov
The button : "You would save the world, but the world will never know about what you did."
And the man smashed that button.
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@douglas wahid So you're telling me that you would blow up earth if you were not on it? xD
0 likes@douglas wahid You're missing the point here. It's not obvious when you're being brainwashed by your Government that the war is imminent. In fact, a normal person's obvious response would be to take the false alarm as true, in other words, jumping to conclusions. And we should be grateful that Petrov wasn't that kind of a guy.
3 likes@Bachelor Sensei amen
0 likesAlternate title: There never ever should be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov
0 likes37:31 What if the real evil empire was the crimes we committed along the way?
0 likes16:02 my heart sank and I was thinking of a bad storm in Massachusetts.
0 likesDr. Evil had really low standards to hold the world hostage for just 1 million.
0 likesI think I might name my first born son Stanislov, he’d be black, but I’d tell him I named him after a very heroic Russian who really doesn’t get enough credit.
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Not to be an ass, that's a good choice. But, be sure to spell it correctly. Stanislav with an A. :]
140 likescall him stan so he doesnt get bullied
93 likes@Beef Hardcheese in Russian short for Stanislav is Stas, not Stan
77 likes@CrunchyCoochie were assuming this guy is in america doe so stan would be way better
61 likes@Amber Sugar Simp maybe name him Sash? Or Sasha? I know its not the same but its cool name. Also you could name him Petrov, i know its last name but whatever. Peter, perhaps?
6 likes@Филип Радојковић ah yes, Peter really evokes the legend of Stanislav Petrov.
24 likes@Rick Rhone Stanislav Griffin
34 likesStan peter
7 likesjust call him peter griffin and get it over with
18 likesAs fine a name I’ve heard as any.
3 likes@Beef Hardcheese you have the best username.
0 likesThank you.
0 likesdid you end up doing it?
0 likesPog
0 likesBro do you know how FUCKING awesome it would be if you did that 😂
1 likeThese descriptions are beyond terrifying, but this also kinda reminded me that Imma be just fine for as long as I got.
0 likesthank you Mr. Petrov
0 likesThe best YouTube I’ve ever known. Emperor Lemon. The name fits
0 likesThis is like the trolley problem but a million times the stakes.
0 likesThe Tsar Bomba presentation was spectacular. Pacing, Sound Design, and Direction on another level than most video essays on YouTube.
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I was always told how big Tsar Bomba’s explosion was. I was also shown how big it was, but I cannot express enough how they were nothing like Emp’s presentation. None more impactful and awe-struck it’ll leave you.
21 likesIt was great!
2 likesThe moment Tsar Bomba exploded over Manhattan, and the sound that came with it...
Just wow
What an excellent video. I think your channel will go down as one of the greats.
1 likeOn the other hand, one man could have single handedly prevented EA from existing.
0 likesWhere’d ya find the image for the mutually assured destruction intro? I really like that art style.
0 likesNot glossing over the excellent video, but I’d love to follow that artist.
This is quite possibly the magnum opus of never ever
0 likesOne thing I never thought EmpLemon would say is
264 likes“Germany invading Poland”
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I dunno why, but I somehow felt the need to rewind 10 seconds just to hear that phrase again. (I'm a Pole)
4 likesWhy?
3 likesoliver dreyer Sława Polska
1 likeI like to think if I was in this situation I probably wouldn't of fired just to prove in our last moment that we were better then what they thought.
0 likesI thought based on the title it would be some strongman wrestler and got confused on the start lol (I knew the story but forgot his name of course)
1 likesomeone who got his start making YouTube poops using a dunkey excerpt for his Cold War mini-doc is prob the most internet thing I’ve ever seen, and my fave thing abt being online
1 likeThis was a thought provoking emotional roller-coaster
0 likesIn cinema, they say comedy is the hardest genre to master and some of the greatest directors started out with comedy. Emp started with Great YTPs and now releases hit after hit with this never ever series
13 likesI can’t honestly say I wouldn’t press that button in his shoes. That’s the scariest part.
1 likeEmplemon: Guys here's a cool video about spongebob
1 likeEmplemon: here's a cool video about homers enemy
Emplemon: here's a cool video about super smash bros melee and the rise of Hbox
Emplemon: here's a cool video about nuclear Armageddon and the fear constantly looming over us of the destruction of the world
He made the choice to not fire because he knew that we didn't hate each other enough to end the world. Let's hope that someone never has to make that choice ever again.
0 likesWorth watching❤️
0 likes“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”
463 likes― George Sand
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Wow, that’s the single most poetic thing a furry has ever said
11 likesBravo
If I had a nickel
1 likeAnd that's precisely why postmodernist art is trash.
4 likes@Sojjjer I'm a Furry, and I have an original quote that I did not just steal from someone, I made it up myself!
6 likes"Self-Awareness without Self-Improvement ultimately means nothing."
-Me, 2019
@BlueSatoshi actually a lot of what we call pop culture can also be considered pomo (like the simpsons or family guy and (of course)postmodern jukebox).
0 likesthe preceding of tsar bomba by slj preaching gospel, even as an atheist, was a stylistically masterful choice
0 likes18:55 crazy seeing my hometown just outside the zone
3 likesThe tsar bomba is definetely the scariest shit I have ever seen
1 likeEmpLemon: speaks history
1 likeMe: I see you’re a man of culture as well
"The US and Russia are separated by about 5000 miles"
156 likesThe Diomede Islands:
"Am I a joke to you?"
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Nice
1 likeYou can swim arcoss it
0 likes"I can see Russia from my house."
0 likes@Monk Of Dark Times in the winter you can walk across
1 likeyes
0 likeswow i believe this is the single best video i've ever seen on youtube.
0 likesNetflix should have you make a series your work is amazing no matter the topic you get me engaged.
0 likesAmazing work
0 likesthis is an AMAZING video.
0 likes"Because if we're lucky... there will never ever have to be another man like him."
63 likesChrist that gave me chills.
"lemme tell you about this one guy"
1 like"so humans first found uranium in..."
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If you want to explain it, you have to go back to the start.
0 likesI hope EmpLemon gets to 1,000,000 subs.
0 likesBruh I got chills watching this episode
0 likesThank you Stanislav Petrov. You opened the door for Shrek to invented
0 likesStanislav decides not to launch the missiles but trips and falls face first on the button
208 likesSEINFELD THEME INTENSIFIES
This is the greatest video I’ve ever watched
0 likesstanislav petrov and that russian submarine general saved the entire earth
1 likeI’m reminded of the last line from Christopher Nolan’s Tenet: “It’s the bomb that didn’t go off that has the power to change the world”
0 likesIt's June 2021. Canada is suffering unprecedented heat waves in the West, resulting in hundreds of deaths. While climate change and its challenges will be even worse in the coming decades, I still find solace that on September 26th, 1983, one man made a decision that gave the rest of humanity the ability to choose how we will face tomorrow.
1 likeEvery day since then has been a gift, no matter the current circumstances, and I will try to always remember how fragile and transient happiness in life is.
Quite a sobering realization ain't it Emp?
21 likesThankfully, Stanislav managed to stave off our annihilation. I hope that we don't soon forget his act, even if we don't remember his name.
Damn good work making these videos.
1 likethis video made me cry
3 likesI highly recommend watching the courier with Benedict cumberbatch it gives a unique view of the cold war
0 likes29:32 Very happy with the use of Gran Turismo music. Instant rush of nostalgia
1 likeHere we have another Vsauce.
389 likesStarted by doing shitposts and is now producing top tier youtube content
I just hope you wont do a youtube red series and then leave for 2 years
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This isn't only top tier youtube content. This is top tier content period.
16 likesJust watch Michael go crazy on D!NG (yes it was always called D!NG what do you mean).
11 likesWhat do you mean,he helped howtobasic to promote his merch
0 likesVsauce did shitposts?
1 like@mosh the did?
1 like@mosh Well, for him it's the other way around haha flashback to watching the pot boil
1 likeThis deserves more views
0 likesThis might just be my favorite video on youtube
0 likes22:40
11 likesMy litteral reaction out loud when seeing the blast radius going from a city district to possibly an entire island: Holy F.
this was really really great
0 likes"We must either love each other, or we must die" has to be the single most chilling sentence I've ever heard
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@douglas wahid If humanity escapes to the stars, humanity's next invention will be how to bring war to it.
0 likesthis gave me immense shivers
0 likes8:33 when you pause the video but the siren is still going
0 likesremember when EmpLemon just made YTPs?
0 likesWhy is one of my favorite videos is from someone who documents the history and state of a website and other things a history video on nuclear annihilation?
0 likesIt's like the lovechild of National Geographic, Local 58, and YTP.
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Also Jon Bois
8 likes31:31 "Khan" just means "King"
0 likesRelating to the creating of the nuclear bomb, I’m actually FDR’s 7th cousin on my mother’s side.
0 likeswhat I would do is this even if I found out it was true and there was missiles I still wouldn't fire
0 likesmy reasoning is that if I fire the world would get destroyed
however if I don't fire yes our nation is gone but humans would still be there living on
i voted yes on that telephone pole in 1983
0 likesalso I can confirm that walking around in Berlin at the time was tenser than walking in Detroit
also stop blowing up New York >:(
"I didn't believe I had done something extraordinary. I was simply doing my job and I did it well."
143 likesYou're goddamn right.
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Mike234 technically he did his job horribly but I’m glad he did
1 like@Scarface well I suppose the base directive was to guarantee the safety of the soviet union, not knowing he actually guaranteed the safety of the whole fucking world.
2 likesIt's so uncanny seeing Russian language in an Emplemon video, probably the Americanest channel
0 likesThe whole space go to the moon thing may have been plausible deniability for the development of the ICBM.
0 likes36:22 me when I'm Russian and understood English in this this video more than Russian
0 likesyour music choice is on point. great content
0 likesFor someone who took Russian class just last semester, I can safely say this is without a shadow of a doubt... POWERFUL.
34 likesAnother excellent video as always EmpLemon. Amen.
That donkey clip on the explanation of the history of war was brilliant
0 likesNever knew videogamedunkey would be so quote worthy on a serious topic
0 likesEmp, what about the guy on board the russian sub off the coast of Cuba in 61, 62, or 63? Wasn't he in a similar situation? I thought he was the third guy to make the call to launch the missiles or not, and that he opted not to.
0 likesVasili Arkhipov was another man that was as powerful as Stanislav Petrov.
1 likeThis remind me of a full length animated cartoon called "When the wind blows" about an old civilian couple who survives a nuclear attack where everyone else in the neighborhood burned to the ground.
264 likesThey 'tried' to act like everything is okay, oblivious to the nuclear fallout when they slowly die while huddled together
It's the most surreal and heartbreaking cartoon ive ever watched. Go check it out. It paints a picture about how war only bring misery for everyone involved, especially us common civilians
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At least they were old and died together. Some people don't get that.
11 likesReminds me of “barefoot gen” a comic written by a survivor of Hiroshima. It focuses mostly on the culture in Japan before the blast, with the actual bombing and fallout only being a few pages. But because the people it shows dying are previously established characters, it impacts you all the more. One of the only books I’ve read where I had to sit down for a while after finishing it. Definitely recommend it
1 like@Rossel oh yeah i've watched that too, quite a disturbing one that was
0 likesMore so that it was based on a real life event
My home town developed heavy water for these bombs back in the day. Strange to think about...
0 likesI like how at 17:32 Finland has its own category
0 likesthe implications of that "may" is truly terrifying
0 likesSo EmpLemon and Don Draper worked together to make this video? That sounds right.
0 likesThe transition from the thrown bone falling, to the nuke dropping was genius.
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He’s paying tribute to the same kind of jump cut Stanley Kubrick used in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is where the bone scene comes from.
13 likesThat Coca Cola ad reminds me of Don Draper too. One of my favorite show finale on TV.
0 likesMan. I wish school was as entertaining as these videos. I'd actually care to study.
1 likeIt is only a matter of when they will go off. As long as they have a reason to exist its not an IF question. When that day becomes reality we need to have our society secured in a way that they can't harm us in a lethal way.
0 likes14:57
1 likeWith each passing day in 2022 the quote becomes more and more plausible
11:02 Is the best use of a Dunky Clip I have ever seen
1 likeQuite a happy end for such a delicately deadly subject matter.
0 likesI’m curious as to how his station was the only one to receive the attack call?
0 likesQuality content
1 likeMost interesting reuse of a dunkey quote ever. Makes me think of how art imitates life. We are just a game and War is the combat system. If we push back and break the code then it's game over.
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life is a joke and we are the punch line
2 likeswell after seeing that nuke explode I remember the quote "Now we are all sons of bitches" which was said by J. Robert Oppenheimer after the first successful nuclear bomb test
0 likesInteresting the US government crying over 260 innocent civilians on the South Korean airliner, yet no problem with a couple hundred thousand dead in Japan. Those atomic bombs were not aimed at military operations, but directly into huge cities full of innocent people. Shaun did a great video about Hiroshima, which is a great companion piece to this great work. Never mind the incomprehensible destruction to the environment, Ocean life and anyone living in the South Pacific where they seemed to drop nukes just because “great flash big noise!” for innumerable years.
0 likesThis needs more views 1 million is not enough
1 like24:22 that Doom soundtrack really caught me hahahahahahha
2 likesI had read about this guy. He is brought up in the introduction of a book called "War: What is it good for?" But before that, I had never heard of this incident. It is similar to the event where a Soviet Submarine was deciding to use nuclear torpedoes during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Usually, the Commanding Officer and Commissar both decide whether that happens. On this occasion both agreed. However, there happened to be a third man on the sub who, for reasons, also had to agree and he decided against it. I don't remember the reason why he was even there, or why he had any veto power, but because he was, it seemed the cooler heads were able to prevail in the Crisis. However, I understand why you didn't bring it up. The other incident is much more well know, and doesn't really need as much of a spotlight. Also, during the crisis, war could have still happened regardless of his decision. In this case, Stanislav was the key actor in preventing the thing from going overboard (if that's really a good way to describe nuclear Armageddon).
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That man was Vasily Arkhipov
1 likeHe was chief of staff for their submarine flotilla. He wasn't assigned to any one specific sub, he just happened to be on that one at that time. Had he been anywhere else, they would've launched. I actually thought this video was going to be about him at first.
3 likesHere after the SHIT popped off, can't wait for this 2.0
6 likesIt never occurred to me the parallel between Stanislav and the fake Hawaiian missile alert, but damn, it blew my mind.
0 likesI love how he didnt destroy the vibe while adding an ad to video lol
3 likesthis is the best video i have EVER seen in my entire life and im not a bot
0 likesIncredible production. EmpLemon is an inspiration to all of us, and I really hope he knows it.
26 likes13:48 he only signed that, he didn’t write that. Probably knew that, but for those who don’t, Albert Einstein did not write that letter.
0 likesDunkey was the last person I expected to hear bro I thought I was going insane
1 likeThanks Stan👍
0 likesUnexpected 🔥🔥🔥 use of a dunkey quote
1 likeOne of the best video's on YouTube
0 likesgod i FUCKING LOVE THESE VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES
1 likeGod dammit i started binge watching all of these after the Nascar episode.
0 likesThat dunkey reference was beautiful
0 likesBased on the Aestheic, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you recently watched Local 58. If not, I highly reccomend it.
1 likeI like the choice of DOOM music after mentioning M.A.D., very fitting
1 likeFYI in Russian "Stanislav" is usually shortened to "Slava" and not "Stan". Which is ironically also a literal translation of a word "Fame".
0 likesIt's ASTONISHING that ppl still cause harm to others. Literally the most absurd thing.
0 likesrussian man saves the entire human race form being vaporized
317 likesEmplemon: "this man is so unremarkable I am only mentioning him now, I will barely talk about him"
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@Connor Boyce A bullet can't stop the Bull Moose.
15 likes👏👏👏
2 likes@Skitty It but a heart attack can lmao
3 likes35:37 I love this.
1 likeI'm sure tensions would never rise that high again, oh wait...
11 likesYou’re the best Youtuber ever
0 likesFrom where I live in New Jersey, if that bomb was dropped on New York I would be dead
2 likesYour content is in an upward spiral for years now. Love the Never Ever series and the huge amount of effort and work you put in to it! Thanks!!
57 likes30:45: The morning's Garfield strip...an elegant, beautiful way to drive home the normalcy of it all. Well done.
3 likesI honestly think if I even knew an attack was happening I wouldn't press the button. Even if my country is destroyed I would want some of humanity to have a chance.
0 likesWow loved it
0 likesMan that Tsar bomb sequence made me shit my pants
0 likesFor a brief moment in that cold september day, Petrov held the power of a God in his hands.
8 likesSure, nuclear weapons are bad, but imagine how much war it stopped. Millions of deaths.
0 likesThank god its gotten to 1 mil veiws, more people needed to watch this
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@Cryptrik what
0 likes@Rocket-Rakun holy shit I put my phone down to go do something and the touch screen must have activated certain buttons before it locked itself... Sorry about that 😥
0 likesyour editing is incredible.
0 likes9:23 hey he was pretty handsome you at least gotta give him that
2 likesComrade Stanislav Petrov, Hero of the Soviet Union and Earth
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Hero of all of Humanity, of all time, and forever more
18 likesHero of all life
6 likesSavior of humanity,unknown hero to all
5 likesHim and Valisi saved the world
2 likesEvery body gangsta until the title says " MAY " instead of WILL
1 likeThe entire world had been fucking around for decades and this man single handedly kept us from finding out
0 likesluckily most russian nukes were trees covered in sheet metal
1 likeapparently petrov wasn't even supposed to be there that day. i think i saw an interview with him saying that he was covering the shift for someone else.
0 likesI cant believe this is the same guy who made the uncredibles
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I thought the same when i saw the Dale Earnhardt video
58 likesHaha fr huh
3 likes@Hapen cringe
24 likesXanthopathy bro,
5 likescRiNgE
I also heard he has the world record for Bowsers Big Bean Burrito
5 likesLightning McQueer
2 likes@No name A
2 likesImpossible, drunkey has the world record and he doesnt even own the game
SdB SdB T-Pose Fox > T-Pose Falco
0 likesthat's right; just makes quality stuff,weather it's abstract (roughly abstract)or an analysis/summery of the medium of new media and social political implications thereof.
1 likeThose commentary videos and Dark Souls lets plays are by the same guy as MLG teletubbies
1 like@Hapen cringe
0 likesYeah how can a single mind be capable of these two masterpieces
0 likes@Hapen cringe
0 likes@I'm a racist who
0 likesThis is the man behind the downward spiral
0 likesHis true magnum opus
Surprised he didn't get a Nobel peace prize
1 likeWas NOT expecting a Video Game Dunkey quote in this video
0 likesBut odly enough it fits well
Its odd, and out of nowhere
But it fits well
18:43 If you count alaska they are about 55 miles apart
1 likeNot to diminish the importance of Petrov, but there was no consequence at all for ignoring the warning.
0 likesThe nukes would have struck anyway. There is no tried and true defense to nuclear ICBMs to this day. And it's safe to say they would be aimed at military launch facilities.
At worst, his dismissal would have curbed the retaliatory capability of the USSR slightly. In a parallel universe where this exact same event happened and the only difference is that the missiles were real, Petrov was court martialed and imprisoned for his inaction. If we assume there was an USSR to trial him to begin with.
"The spoils of WWII were won by the victors..."
38 likes-EmpLemon, 2019
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Well, winning has to be good for something, right?
6 likesThis channel gives me Lemmino vibes. You just got a new sub.
0 likesthis is what we show a machine to show we will live as a race, or aliens.
0 likesthis didn't age well
5 likesImportant videos like these are the reason I love youtube
1 likeThank you, Stanislav Petrov.
27 likesThat nord commercial!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 great job!
0 likesYes. I do think God fears what he has created.
0 likesHad the decision relied on Reagan, we would be fighting with stones and stick now...
1 likeRussian guy: Accidentally forgets to put away his yellow redstone.
0 likesI had to double check my video when i heard dunkey start talking 😂😂
0 likesi got chills from the visuals + samuel l jackson... im so scared rn jeez lol
0 likesAnd there was never ever anyone with that much power again, until master chief on installation 04
0 likesPlease never stop making videos
0 likes"-it stops being fun" -Dunkey
58 likesShowing WW1 footage
Gave me a hearty chuckle
I can't believe that you used a Dunkey quote in a video about nuclear weapons.
0 likesBig Shout-out to Alessandro Roberti for soundtrack around 3:50
0 likesВы думаете, что Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал? Как вы думаете, к 2050 году мы все погибнем от собственной власти?
0 likesthis is my favorite video on all of youtube
0 likesThe man who saved the world and most people don't even know his name. Awesome video, Emp. Your research alone is impeccable.
5 likesPls make more of these
0 likesStan Petrov is a G
0 likesKinda funny how we shot down an Iranian jet just like the Soviets did to Korean air but for some reason Iran didn't get asked by telephone poll how they felt by Ted Koppel
0 likesThat goes into the hall of honor of this building of World of Legends
0 likesThere will Never Ever be a better way to spend 41 minutes and 38 seconds of your time.
80 likesAlso, nice way to include Dunkey into this great video.
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Until Emp makes another video lmao
2 likesKarxy key word: until
0 likes"tsuka, amerikinsci fired 5 nukes!"
0 likes"is soviet tech. is garbage. opah!"
cheeky breeky intensifies
so amazing
0 likesI refuse to believe that you used the version of the National Anthem from Local 58 and then immediately used the song Nexpo uses in his intro card by accident.
0 likesi haven't felt this empty since reading issue 6 of watchmen
0 likesAm I the first person to cry to "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke"?
1 likeThis might be my favorite video of yours
0 likesTHIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN
0 likesthis is the nation equivalent of lamar roasts franklin
0 likesfranklin: does not want Lamar to stay over
lamar: over cooks franklin by 100*C
Japan: Bombs a harbour
USA: now you can eat sunlight!
I was playing Half Life Alyx when suddenly Triage at Dawn started playing at 38:41, was thoroughly confused and delighted
0 likesYou have exercised utmost discernment, far beyond that of the layman.
0 likesWill the real Episode 4: Stanislav Petrov please stand up
0 likesThat was such a cool story
0 likesRIP Stan "The Man" Petrov. Let's be honest, dude deserves that nickname. Thanks for thinking for yourself, Stan. And thanks for the video, Emp.
6 likesGod damn, everything Joseph McCarthy was worried about came true.
0 likesWhat makes this feel weird is that we dont have control over our destiny. You see the flash, you will likely die
0 likesBut man, respect.
0 likes*few people laughed, few people cried.....I can assure there was more than 2 people in that situation LOL
0 likesI have a feeling that this was one of Emp's college projects but he decided to present via youtube.
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Kevin Saginario ( Student )
37 likesConsidering his last "Never Ever", I doubt it.
But interesting thought.
@MageBurger wait what! Its his last? How do you know?
1 likealfa01spotivo no he means the last one, the NASCAR one.
20 likesthis is why you proof read
2 likesIt feels too good to be a std assignment
0 likes22:08
0 likesPure catharsis.
That dunkey clip fits too well
0 likesThis EmpLemon dude makes some darned fine videos... even though nukes are fake, and no Man has ever stepped foot on the Moon.
0 likes30:00 Come April 28, 2020 and that all changed or rather be clearly and officially declared that they're existence has been confirmed
2 likesAwesome vids! 👏
1 likeif you do something right people don't know if you did anything at all
1 likeIf I was a teacher, I'd show this video
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to my students if that was not clear
1 likeHuman life is older than 200,000 years…
0 likesI was living on Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii when the alert went off. I like to think that was a test of what I would do if presented with guaranteed demise. I made roughly five phone calls to my closest friends, and my family was right along side me. I wasn't expecting the scare to show up in this video, but I'm glad it did. It was a nice reflection of a current event I'm old enough to recall, being as I didn't live through the cold war. I may have only discovered this channel and this series a few days ago, but I am really impressed with the thought and exploration presented in each video. I look forward to future content.
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Edit: I did see the spongebob episode sometime around the time it came out, but this was on a 3 am youtube binge. Everything else is true, and I only made the connection after the fact.
2 likesGonna be honest. I would not have pressed the button only due to not being able to make a decision. I’d be too worried to make such an important choice
0 likesTo think a Dunkey rant is surprisingly fitting for an analogy to weapon research.
0 likesBro one of the scariest things is nuclear melt down the masks the invisible death how painful the death to the radiation is said to be it’s horrific it truly horrifies me knowing how many nukes are in hands of country’s that are far from friends of the u.s.
0 likesI think of I was in Petrovs position but the situation was real I would just not fight back. Why guarantee mutually assured destruction and the end of humanity when I could maybe let my enemies win but atleast not end the world out of spite.
0 likesIt's chilling to watch those clips from the 80s. People casually insisting that nuclear annihilation be delivered because of one big mistake.
26 likesthe way you used that dunky clip is fucking iconic
0 likes17:31 I love that of the three colors on this graph, one of them is just for Finland
0 likesThe ironic moment when the one who saved the world wouldn't be america, but by a single soviet
0 likesIncredible video
0 likes"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones "
24 likeslegit chills holy shit
Who knows, he may have been on a toilet break and never found out about the missile warnings on that day in 83.
0 likesthat EAS alert tone made me turn on all the fucking lights and I had to make my feet go cris cross with my chair
0 likesThis is the best YouTube video ever made
0 likes22:40 that shit made me fucking start crying
0 likes"Many thought they had died and gone to Hell" that gave me chills, man.
48 likesScary ... and necessary. Thank u
0 likesMano preciso dizer que as legendas em português não estão boas
0 likesI will never understand HOW people dropped a NUKE in a city.
0 likesI got my history class to watch the vid ppl liked it
2 likesPretty sad that I've learned more about the history of nuclear weapons from a Youtube Pooper than I ever really did in school.
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FAX
7 likesFaX
3 likesAs a teacher, I have this video on my list of "if your interessed in this subject, check this out" emp is good at wngaging young people, so it is a blessing for me and my students 😄
12 likes@KaptajnKaffe send it plz
1 like@KaptajnKaffe You're an awesome teacher.
5 likesMaybe cause you didn't pay attention in class
1 likeit’s actually a way more important issue than people give it credit for. nukes haven’t gone away and we’re still enemies with russia, china, iran and north korea. navigating these problems in the 21st century will be more difficult than ever before, but people dont bat an eye towards foreign policy because it’s outside our borders.
3 likesYeah man. Emplemon knows and cares about his stuff.
0 likes@Guivi I have to edit it, because I teach in Danish.
0 likesBut sure, I can share the updated version 😅
@KaptajnKaffe thankz
0 likesThen 40 years later Putin decided to make the same exact mistake Petrov tried to avoid
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Putin respected this man. As a leader, he must follow Petrov's vision.
3 likesThis war must not escalate any further.
I probably shouldn't have watched this at night. This is very scary and sad, to put it lightly
0 likesIt's like Jon Bois but with more existential dread
0 likesEnding humanity is my dream
0 likesThis is like a longer than normal metal gear cutscene.
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Gaymingg
5 likesshorter*
2 likesLol i was literally thinking the same thing!
0 likesKojimbo
0 likesI don't get all this doom and gloom about a nuclear apocalypse, even at the height of the cold war the deployment of every single nuclear warhead in the most efficient manner from the perspective of killing people would not have come close to endangering the human race, and as for the ice age thing, humanity has survived such conditions before with far less advanced technology, there's no reason to believe we wouldn't be able to do it handily these days. The fact of the matter is that the aftermath would probably not even be bad enough to prevent the Warsaw pact and NATO from having a great big war immediately afterwards.
0 likesthose who were at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the lucky ones compared to what happened to civilians throughout Asia in 1940-1945
0 likesYou know, I don’t like communists, I don’t like Soviet’s. But Stalinislav petrov saved the world, he saved all of us, for as much as I hate the communists, as much as I hate the soviets, he saved the world, he deserves not just a medal, not just a video, he deserves a fucking city sized memorial, or atleast in my opinion, god bless him.
0 likesGod I wish there had been an apocalypse then I would be here dealing with this shit
0 likes16:02 Local 58 reference?
0 likesedit: yeah, definitely. I see you have good taste, Mr. Lemon.
There should be a movie where they would explore what would happen if Stanislav fired the missile.
0 likeslove the video but why "Stan Petrov" why not Stanislav Petrov? He is the reason this video was made and the reason anyone is here to watch it. Say his full name lol
0 likesFermi paradox assumes other intelligent civilizations are warring against each other , what if they are a unified civilization ?
0 likesThank god for Stalinslav. We would be green dust without him
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More so anyway.
0 likesdusty old bones... full of green dust
9 likescant even spell his name right lmao
5 likesKnockrotter DUSTY OLD BONES FULL OF GREEN DUST
0 likesWhy are the dust green
0 likesProblebly the scariest video Emplemon has made
0 likesThese videos are like if Jon Bois decided to do non-sports-related content.
1 likeI love that Dunkey was even in this video.
0 likesIt's not "two people laughed, two people cried" its "few people laughed, few people cried"
0 likesI just want to say to you, EmpLemon, that you make some of the most insightful, interesting videos I have seen on YouTube. So much truth, wisdom, and honesty put into your videos and I hope you keep making more in the future!
6 likesWell done, man!
Stanislav Petrov only used 0.1% of his true power.
0 likesi think vasili arkhapov was actually more powerfull in the cuban missile crisis
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Not really
0 likesIt took the decision of 3 to launch a nuke in Arkhipov's case. It took 1 to do the same in Petrov's case.
3:03 the fact that the landscape here somewhat looks like a distraught/horrified face only makes the scene worse
0 likesThank you for your humanity, comrade Petrov
1 likeI love this channel right now.
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I don't blame you one bit
0 likesdamn straight that day was our judgment day and ever since then the world's soul has died
0 likesChuck Norris: Am I a joke to you?
0 likesthis should be taught at schools
0 likesFinally Someone researching the real cause Of climate change….
1 likeSee, that's the difference between empLemon and everyone else. I'll watch the ad because he makes it funny whereas the rest either bolt thru it, apologize for it, or try to make it seem like they really actually dig the product.
0 likesHearing the Local58 music during the ad read actually made me flinch
0 likesDid you... did you use a line from a dunkey video in reference to a video about nuclear annihilation?
1 likeI just finished my history gcse and this video could genuinely have been played in one of my cold War classes, it's that great
21 likesLarry McDonald. Chairman of the John Birch Society at the time of his death. Forever remembered
0 likesWatched your Nascar videos. amazing. Tho mentioning NS you dont seen to realise what evil was coming from the East, starting with the ''russian'' revolution. The evil that was coming, had to be fought by a strong power. NS bad, i know the establishment statement but still....you should watch Europe: The last battle. Find it, give it a thought. If it doesnt convince you then you lost 12h of your time...For your research should be a fraction of your time. God bless, truth fears no investigation.
0 likesI shat myself when he applied the tnt hissing sound as I was playing Minecraft while watching this.
0 likes2:41 when You used of the Best Half Life songs I suscribed instantly
0 likesI find it funny that my step father was there to help tear down the Berlin Wall. He even got exchanged hats with a Soviet soldier after the wall fell. Lucky step dad
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Wow thats lucky, i live in asia
0 likes37:34 well that's hasn't aged well
2 likesGOOD, there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be too much government involvement. 💀
1 likemy two favorite youtubers in ONE VIDEO?!
1 likePut me right in the ol existential crisis
0 likesYou know Emp's gonna say some real shit when the Gran Turismo music starts
55 likes23:08 childhood music
0 likesIf there's a holiday celebrating St. Patrick, it's inexcusable that there isn't one for "St." Petrov.
0 likes"I'd like to think that September 26 1983 was our judgement day."
0 likesThis series is Pretty Good
0 likesThis guy is so cool that he has slav in his name
0 likesthis is such a good video
0 likes"Lets make america great again" WAIT WHAT WAS THAT REALLY THE SLOGAN BACK THEN
0 likes16:03
0 likesThose are some pretty intense Local 58 vibes
I pray for a season two of never ever, its the best content i think emp will make, not because they are factually the best but its too complicated for me to describe, i want to say they're the most important but he could upstage it, i might explain it eventually but just know i think these will be the best
54 likesi feel like i shouldnt be watching this for free
0 likesWhere’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.🙌
0 likes13:57 It was the red ensign over Reichstag in Berlin that ended the war.
0 likesit’s criminal this only just scraped 1m views. this is so well put together it’s UNREAL
0 likesThis is, bar none, one of the greatest, if not the greatest documentary I've ever seen. The second in line being another one of your Never Ever documentaries. Your videos are golden, and you're craft is true talent. Keep it up Emp
4 likesRumors are they are planning on making a sequel with China
1 likeEdit: Nevermind. Guess China comes in later in the plot...
That commercial break sounds really trust worthy to me, goodbye Nord VPN, there’s no need for you
0 likesthat dunkey clip is art
1 likeLove the dunkey bit in this
0 likesThank you for this wonderful documentary. Powerful editing skills displayed again. I knew of the story of Stan Petrov before this, but hearing it presented again like this was incredibly moving. Thank you!
13 likesI clicked on this video expecting some wrestler or bodybuilder
0 likesI think we got this close a second time now
2 likes-2022
Mother of god, what a banger.
0 likesThe Dunkey feature is amazing but always makes me think my YouTube is broken
1 likeThis man over here using Half-Life music. Nice.
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It makes sense, actually. Half Life is a term used in chemistry to describe the length of radioactive decay.
10 likes@Jerrell Not everyone does, no need for the passive aggression
2 likes@Jerrell Over half of the Half Life community probably go half their lives without ever actually learning what a half life is.
2 likes1 million people now know who their lives are owed to
0 likesИнтрсна тема 👍👍
0 likes3 minutes in and I think I know the titular character.
0 likesPlease do a deep dive into the milgram experient. Something is really off about it. There seem to float so many perceptions and counter arguments around the net...
0 likesAbsolutely god tier content, insane editing, and really well written and structured.
4 likesI love the never ever series, emp you're a legend.
Love the doom music at 25:00
0 likeslmfao that dunkey clip is hilarious
0 likesBarefoot Gen’s depiction of nuclear fallout in Japan is some of the most horrific media I’ve ever witnessed
0 likesMedia be like: Billie Eilish unfollows everyone on instagram❗😱😱
2 likesMeanwhile nobody knows who is Stanislav Petrov
The more I think about this, the more it terrifies me.
0 likes11:02 Genius
0 likesGood video sir. I hope you have a great career in corn milling!!!
4 likesi like this channel it can actually just show a neutral picture of trump and just leave it alone
0 likesMention that much because he wasn't that important by the way he almost ended civilization just because of a thought
0 likesHow many quantum entanglements do you think were needed for the world to end, and what is the percentage that we all would be dead that moment
0 likesnow THIS is how you make a youtube video.
0 likesthe dunkey quote was insane
0 likesNever Ever should be nationally televised. These are extremely informative and interesting. Thank you Emp
3 likesThis is the best youtube channel
1 likeI still find it sad that this man saved the entire fucking planet but his personal life is so uninteresting that nobody gives a shit.
1 likeGod is a man and he's Stanislav Petrov
0 likesThs may sound odd comng from a American but Stanislav Petrov is the greatest human ever
0 likesThe NordVPN advert was incredibly well done. I hope they pay you extra for it.
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LOCAL58 MUSIC INTENSIFIES
0 likesgreat video emp
0 likesThough Communism isn’t as bad as it was in the 80s, I still fear it.
1 likeDon't slander McCarthy. He had a very good point.
0 likesif you could save the world and get no recognition, would you do it?
0 likes"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
29 likes-Albert Einstein
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing
3 likes-Albert Einstein
and you don't need to make mistakes when you can just steal others' research and claim it for yourself, aint that right Albie?
1 likeHay nice profile picture
0 likesHe was Russian, he knew that the system was broken as fuck.
0 likesWhy is there a dunkey quote in a video about nuclear bombs and why does it work
1 likeI was so fucking confused when a dunkey audio started playing
0 likesWe need to build one big ass fucking statue of that guy.
0 likesEmp I'm surprised you didn't come across Vasily Arkhipov in your research, virtually was under the exact same conditions at old mate Stanislav during the cuban missile crisis.
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In that case,that was 3 people.Petrov was the deciding factor
8 likes@bit There were 3 people who had to give the green light for launching the missiles. Arkhipov was the only one who said no, and was able to talk down the other two.
2 likesWell emplemon… what now….
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You have to have faith that the Russians who now occupy Petrov’s place, will do the same as he did, should the opportunity arise. That’s all that nearly all of us can do.
3 likesWhat a guy.
0 likesYour gonna give me a heart attack
0 likesThe fact that I can watch a documentary of this quality for free is amazing! Thank you Emp, and thank you Stan!
7 likesthat telling of what happened in hiroshima was so... sad
0 likesWhoever came here by Youtube recomendations without knowing this channel...
8 likesI know. He does pretty good videos. But Youtube's sense of humour is starting to be scary.
it is ungodly unfortunate how poorly this video and its point has aged. never ever? more like a year from now... SMH
2 likesSuperb editing at 9:10
0 likesI genuinely think this is my favorite video you have ever made. Thank you, EmpLemon.
7 likesAh yes, ofcourse dunkey was refrencing atomic fission in his video, not video games, we all knew that mhm yup yes
1 likequality content. ads are even good lmao
0 likesI just love 22:08
0 likesemplemon is the best youtuber
0 likes10:17 EmpLemon: "In the first century, Greeks used Uranium to color pottery."
16 likes11:03: Dunkey: "Nuclear physics is like finding an exploit in a video game."
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Hence dominant Strategy
0 likesthe fact the title says may is menacing
0 likes7:26 Me when I stumble upon a Minecraft village
0 likesI already dreamed with nuclear war three times hehe...
0 likesIt's horrible...
You out did your self Emp. Amazing video
1 likeWhat I subbed to EmpLemon for: Haha funny video, when frying dory?
137 likesWhat I stayed for: In depth, existential analysis of the world around us. Conveying a constant theme of "not as good as it used to be, but hope for a better tomorrow"
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CAN YOU UNSUBSCRIBE?
1 likeJuan Stamos CAN YOU UNSUBSCRIBE?
0 likesA So amazingly great video
0 likesTeachers need to be playin these in schools. At least someone would be tellin the truth
0 likesWhy is this so underrated
0 likeshonestly, more videos like this please. This was genuinely interesting and intriguing to watch
9 likes20:24 Get back to work Mr. Squidward.
2 likeshe has a memorial on the cache remake in csgo
0 likesGreat vid nice research
0 likesThis video is really good.
0 likesI need to show this to my history professor, or someone else who will appreciate this as much as I do so we can both mutually have existential angst and hope at the same time
11 likes17:35 the victors of ww2 apparently did not include the french or british...?
0 likesUntil 40k becomes reality
0 likesYou think petrov would go to heaven or hell?
0 likesyou quoting dunkey was too much for me ahahha
0 likesThe description reads: " Do you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?"
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- Spy Kids 2
21 likesOnly Emplemon can weave together a 4D 200IQ joke like putting a profoundly deep quote from a Robert rodriguez kids movie sequel in russian in the description
24 likesi'd argue it says "Heavens" in stead of "Heaven", as there is a specific word for "Heaven" in Russian, but the meaning stays the same basically.
5 likeswhy in the hell are the only available subtitles in portuguese
0 likesI like the Local58 reference for the NordVPN ad. It's a nice touch
1 likeWatched this video to study for my APUSH test
0 likesA legend who deserves to be remembered.
0 likesEinstein: You better build some nukes before Germany
137 likesUS: Ok, can you do it?
Einstein: Yes, but I don't want the responsibility
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Yikes, but at the same time you cant really blame him since he couldn't stop them
9 likesWhen the smartest man in history decided to refuse power, it speaks levels.
12 likesLet me put it this way:
The strongest forces tend to be the most violent, and the smartest forces tend to be the most pessimistic.
The most neutral tend to be the most obedient, and seemingly powerless.
However, when it comes down to it, those who are neutral have the least to lose, and the most to gain. The strong will never give up strength. The smart will never go against their wits.
But someone who is neutral has nothing to lose, so they have everything to gain in making the decision that someone with too much strength, and too much wisdom, are too chicken to make.
I think he simply didn't want to be known as "the guy who designed the bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of people".
1 like@Aflay He wasn't the smartest man in history. If he really thought the German nuclear program was a threat, he showed a lack of ethics in refusing to help the US develop the Manhattan project, just because he didn't want the blame of being only one of the men who made it. The guy also cheat on his wife with his teenage cousin.
1 likeNice flying, Einstein!
1 like22:44 I would have died and I live under north brunswick by 30 min
0 likeswas petrov the same man mentioned in one of exurb1a's videos?
0 likesFYI short form of a name for Stanislav is Stas or, sometimes, Slava
0 likes20:29 tsar bomba part
0 likes22:08 is truly a masterpiece, I felt the chill down my spine on this section
65 likes11:13 Why is Dunkey talking in a video about nuclear war.
1 likeBeing proud of eliminating over 350,000 people in seconds.... Is inhumane, ungodly.
0 likesBeing proud of eliminating over 350,000 people in seconds.... Is inhumane, ungodly.
0 likesI may not be here if it weren’t for the bombs. Thank you Manhattan project.
0 likesHas anyone found the music at 38:40? I'm talking about a link, i believe that the music is named "Unknown Hero", but i have not find any link
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Its from Half-Life 2, the song is called Triage at Dawn
0 likesHoly f...THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR
1 likeDid people just forget about Japan's war crimes that somehow what the US did is the most gruesome and horrible thing they have done?
0 likesCan’t believe Emp forgot to mention operation snake eater
0 likeshero
0 likesEvery time I see this guy's name pop up, I'm reminded of the theory of Quantum Immortality. That you can determine you are functionally immortal through a clever use of the Many Worlds Theory. Put yourself in a situation where it is statistically impossible to survive, and if you survive, you can declare yourself Quantum-ly Immortal, because you just so happen to exist in the world where you cannot die. Maybe the reason the Fermi Paradox is so evident and we're still here is that humanity itself has Quantum Immortality in this world, and no other civilization does.
65 likesBut if this is true, it also means that in almost every single other timeline in existance, humanity is snuffed out, and it's likely that many of these deaths are due to this man, and other nuclear incidents. I think we should all remember that - even though things look grim, we've been the lucky ones so far. Maybe we should try to keep that trend alive.
Anyway, great video, very eye-opening.
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I put it down to the Providence of God.
0 likesno, no fucking way that was a nordVPN ad, you sir have made the best advert I have ever seen.
0 likesDunkey is the greatest mind.
1 likeI’m fucking shook by this quality
0 likesbasically why one above all is not the most powerful character
0 likesWe stubbornly refuse to take care of our neighbors we judge as unworthy for whatever reason, so we forever doom ourselves to arguing over whether they should take care of themselves, or the government should take care of them
0 likesHow the fuck does one make such an awe inspiring video
0 likesMaybe God still loves us.
0 likeswe still need the jon bois video on this
0 likesIntended or not, music from half life fits well wity this video in more than just the music itself
0 likesbruh at 16:26 i cried
0 likesNobody:
0 likesMy PC when it tries to run Minecraft on "epic" settings: 1:52
How are these even YouTube videos anymore? They’re full on documentaries mate
2 likesMy old teacher showed your video in his class
1 likeIt’s annoying when people assume Einstein was the smartest ever just because pop culture says so
0 likesI dropped my phone right as the dunkey clip kicked in and thought I accidentally changed the video.
0 likesThat sponsorship though.
0 likescongrats on 1 mil!
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:D
0 likes13:35 wow would you look at that! thats hungary
1 likeNo one man can have all that power
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I'm livi
0 likesnice one stan
1 likeand now here we are.
3 likes12:46
0 likes*United Kingdom
until they got the US on board with the idea.
what if he just fell asleep on the job and was too ashamed to admit it
0 likesIts kind of ironic. Arguably One of the worlds worst villain was american (oppenheimer) and the worlds greatest hero happened to be a soviet russian. Even evil ideologies like communism can still produce heros
0 likes11:40 Did you just take a clip of dunkey playing halo on hard mode
0 likesThis channel is golden
0 likesNever Ever: Michael Jordan please!
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There have been players like MJ.
0 likesWilt would be a better video tbh
0 likesI hear Dunky I upvote
0 likes19:09
1 likeAhh, yes the 6th continent, Spain
The fucking gran turismo music killed me xD love the video tho
0 likesWhat’s that classical song played at 10:37 I’ve been searching forever lol
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Carmen -- Habanera
0 likesThat song at the is from a gran turismo game on the ps3. I dont know exactly but I have nostalgia memories
0 likesThis man really out here citing Dunkey in a video about nuclear bombs at 11:02
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Literally one of the only Dunkey videos ove seen but damn did it fit.
34 likes@Mister Tago Mago What's the video?
2 likes@Syfoll Difficulty in Games 2
15 likesthat was REALLY tone deaf..terrible idea
1 like@Arthur Borges Tonally, it is jarring. But, I think it makes sense in the context of the video. If life is a game, than the discovery of atomic weapons demonstrates humanity "cracking" back at the natural slow disadvantages of antiquated weaponry.
9 likesI dunno, I'm sorry if I seem pretentious, I thought it was a clever idea.
@Arthur Borges Is it? War being viewed as a bad thing is actually a fairly new concept, throughout most of human history warfare was praised and glorified. I think it works well to show the attitude to war humans had over the years.
3 likesLoved the dunkey colab
0 likes37:05 The germans did, nobody else.
0 likesThe half-life music was a good choice
0 likesthis video is insane
0 likes(When we make nuclear jokes)
394 likesSame shit dat makes us laugh
Makes us cry
---big smoke
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"We are blessed, and cursed"
8 likes-Harris, Melvin
"What fucking book"
18 likes-Carl johnson
“I had enough of you and this miserable planet!”
5 likes-Frieza
I am the Senate
3 likes_Sheev Palpatine
Humans, willing to sacrifice their own when overcome by greed. They... are a Foolish race
2 likes-Black Doom
>be a meme
5 likes>have a tragic death
Shit’s deep.
This string of replies is just perfect.
0 likesDid I just hear Dunkey get used as a nuclear war analysis?
0 likesdamn good video
0 likesthis is like Metal Gear Solid but more infographs
0 likesAnd during all of this the Detroit Redwings of the NHL were sneaking hockey players into America, they later would win a championship and kick of a dynasty that lasted from the 90s to the 2000s.
0 likesPatrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter
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Wrong account
0 likesAre you patrolling the Mojave because of the earthquakes? Thank you for your sacrafice if you are.
1 likePerhaps those earthquakes might be the awakening of something far more interesting than a nuclear winter...
0 likesWhen I got this assignment, I was hoping there would be more gambling.
0 likesThat is the slickest sponsor cutaway I have ever seen
0 likesIt felt like 40 minutes just went by but im only 8 minutes in the video
0 likesI hate how nuclear warfare has become relevant again.
2 likesGod I love the quote from videogaming dunkey
1 likeNever has Dunkey sounded so intimidating.
13 likesYou make tight videos. Subbed.
0 likesvasili arkapov: sad soviet noises
0 likesand now Ukraine happened
6 likesThis is honestly really scary.
0 likesWait a minute, this freaky deaky intellectual just tricked me into learning about the cold war.
285 likesSo you're saying that a Kiloton of Tnt could Kiloton?
0 likesMainy thought they died and gone to hell.... That's a scary after-thought
0 likes15:10 they still don't he has a book called Why Socialism? And it's about why capitalism is bad.
1 likeSo halflife, gran turismo 2 menu, and how many other video games did you borrow music from? Its used fantastically and really adds to the overall theme. Nice.
0 likesI remember back when you made primarily YouTube poops, so it is really interesting to see your channel's progression in to a more educational style, while still retaining some of those old elements. The editing is done very well, and you seem to put in a lot of effort and research to get these videos out, and I love it. I also really like the music choices for the videos you make, I even noticed a couple of tracks from half-life in this one. Keep up the good work, Lemon.
3 likesAnyone know the song that starts at 23:08?
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Been 8 months but the song is Weatherscan Music - Track 3 hope u enjoy
3 likes@RGM thx
0 likesJust learned the first atomic bomb set off on my birthday, neat.
0 likes👍
0 likesisn't the music at 16:03 the same used in local 58?
0 likesHumans: * cant even get over having their order at McDonald’s being wrong *
72 likesAlso humans: * somehow haven’t already obliterated themselves in a nuclear skirmish*
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For one moment,
15 likesthe illuminati, god, hollow earth reptillians, secret world controlling governments, supernatural entities of all kinds were beholden to the whims of one Russian with a phone.
Kinda fucks with a lot of worldviews simultaneously.
@Espalorp Wow, that's really deep dude...
4 likesHoly shit. Seeing California red for Reagan LMAO. It's like a fucking paradox
0 likesEmplemon please do never ever ufc
1 likeBrb im about to go tell my moms boyfriend he has a communist to thank for his life
0 likesRussia is so big that my house is closer to Moscow Russian than Moscow Russia is to Vladivostok Russia…I live in Louisiana USA…
1 likeTsar bamba, the one that was detonated, was actually Half the power they could have made. Russia scaled back, for obvious reasons, like how much damage the bomb could do.
6 likesI was born in Oak Ridge, Tn, they just finished demolishing the old buildings used for the project
0 likesI love the Local 58 references
1 likethis is very compelling viewing
0 likesSlava, not Stan
1 likemilgrams prison experiment was rigged look it up, using it is lazy academia (I love your videos)
0 likeshow did spongebob ytps turn into WWII information
0 likesmy mans really just did make a local 58 YTP
0 likestriage at dawn hits different after this
0 likesThis video was amazing, just god damn amazing, You did an awesome job explaining world events, Great editing and good references, Such as the reference to Local58 when you did the ad bit, You did an amazing video Emp, Like always, Great editing, Amazing explaining, Awesome video.
17 likes26:00 "The year 2021"
0 likesthis is one of your best videos
0 likesbut dude... fix that thumbnail !
Surprised Doctor Who hasn't made an episode around this yet.
0 likesHow is this in the same series as a video about a video game player?
0 likesThank you for this phenomenal video, Emp. Including the Hawaii false alarm clips was absolutely brilliant. It actually brought a tear to my eye, seeing the juxstaposition of the two events next to each other. And the way the he tried to shift blame from himself to the system... Imagine how impossible it would be to sleep with the guilt if the situation had escalated.
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Had Petrov not been there and if it was anybody else, you could say that would be the end of the world.
0 likeswhats that website that show the bomb stuff? like how big they are
0 likesNice video
0 likesIf you ever want to see what might happen if he did push the button play fallout, that is the entire premise of it.
0 likesyou should do the 80s tv show Cheers.
0 likes21:08
0 likesEmplemon : "The largest manmade tnt explosion was the Halifax disaster"
9 y'old me with the TNT World mod installed :
"Are you sure about that ?"
Atta boy Stan.
1 likethe half life music is kinda fitting
0 likesCrazy cause I was actually born the next day wow
0 likes38:33 sent chills through my whole body
37 likesI straight up thought I had accidentally switched to a dunkey video there
0 likesI'd probably have pushed the button tbh
0 likesWasn’t expecting dunkey
1 likeI have to comment before the video is finished because that ad is just beautiful.
0 likesThe biggest hero in American history was Russian
1 likeTime to reconsider my existance, weeeeeeeeeeeee
0 likesVasili Arkhipov is just as cool
1 like34:00 Lego Yoda Death sound first known appearance!
1 likeAbout to sleep, oh no a 40 minute emplemon video, I'll just watch the first 5 minutes.
201 likes(40 minutes later)
OH BOY 3AM
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SolarChip bro im watching this at 4AM
2 likes@shibacacti 5 am for me
2 likesliterally finished at 3 am lmao
1 like0240 for me. Crap.
1 likeTakes bite of Krabby Patty
3 likesBiden: Hold my executive orders
0 likesDunkey would be proud
1 likeNord ad claiming that VPNs are all-in-one security .. Fucking epic
0 likesI like the LOCAL 58 references during the ad break.
0 likesShort for Stanislav is Slava, not Stan lol
0 likesGawd, give me them feels why dontcha. Fucking hell Lemon
0 likesgood video
1 like40:08
0 likesWell, looking at Twitter, I'm not so sure...
That audio clip of Dunkey talking about difficulty in video games fit perfectly into this video
19 likesawesome work as always!
MAD isn't like Chicken.....In this comparison both people must swerve in opposite directions or both people die (which is why its a bad analogy).
0 likesALL people on ALL sides needed to be on the same page to stop the chain reaction from happening. The results of the cold war in its entirety wasn't a low point in human history, I argue that it was a high point.
There was no paranoia then, the threat and result of a nuclear strike was very real and communism and its effects were very real and both of these already had historical events to reference. All of the possible outcomes of a nuclear strike were VERY possible. Heck, even this video explores one of the millions of possibilities that could have led to a near-extinction event. It was not paranoia, it was very real. The gravity of knowing the consequences of this, led humanity into directing every single one of those millions of outcomes in the right direction.
was not expecting the dunkey clip lol
0 likes18:41 The Earth isn't flat.
0 likesEdward Teller is more terrifying
0 likesI’ve watched this so many times since it was first uploaded and I just wanted to say that this is my favorite video on the internet. The Never Ever series has such a perfect style that I don’t know any other way to describe. This video in particular fascinates me because of the Cold War topic. Overall I just think it’s a complete Masterpiece with a capital M.
8 likesTl;dr: vid good great job emp
40:40 mad men ending
0 likesI may be Australian but shits still scary!
0 likeswatching this in 2022 hits diffrent
0 likesAhh the classic ad that the despicable Lyndon Johnson used to smear his far superior opponent Barry Goldwater. Democrat tactics still have not changed in 60 years
0 likesDunkey cameo is perf
1 likebest. NordVPN. add. ever
0 likesPetrov didn't retire, he was fired for not reporting.
0 likesWhy Stanislav looks like the RussianBager?
0 likesThey are so similar that is scary
That moment when Emp puts a Spy Kids 2 quote translated to Russian in the description.
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Jimdog6125 is it the “do you think god stays in heaven” quote? If so god damn
52 likesThomas it is
11 likesDon’t even need to know Russian to know what it says lol.
4 likesEmp is the type of guy to make you wonder about what the average man's value is to the powerful forces that control him and then play the audio from a Videogamedunkey review.
3 likesHe's truly a special Youtuber.
да, я так думаю
0 likesВозможно, друг, возможно
1 likeIma write a song bout this bc this cant go on anymore...
0 likesi wish Goldwater had won
0 likes9:12 “сила” - stands for “force”, “power” or “strength”
26 likesMaybe it was intentional, just wanted to make it clear.
I’d launch the missiles.
0 likesLmao as the new chapter begins with Ukraine
1 likeCan I just get the clip 11:02 - 11:27 with dunkey
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It’s one of the videos on difficulty in video games I think. Just watch both to be safe.
0 likesAn unremarkable person, with an unremarkable name
0 likesIf I were to get the 'you're about to die' signal, I'm really not sure how I'd react. That's that me's problem. If I don't think about it until it happens then if it doesn't.. I win :) but sucks to suck if it does happen though :/
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Even if it maybe be difficult to think in such little time. About life and looking back. Would you be able to try and think, should you punish a country for what its powers do? Do you let it hit you, or do you retaliate even though certain death is near?
0 likesGood video man, my only complaint/objection I guess is that you kind of gloss over that many many experts say that the US didn’t actually need to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to win the war, and Japan was well on their way to surrendering, especially if the US had met them on surrender terms. The soviets joining the allies spelled doom for Japan well before the atomic bombs did.
0 likesThis video is seeming a tad more scary right about now……
7 likesArt
0 likesThis video is a masterpiece. God bless Mr. Petrov. Thank you for telling us about him.
11 likes28:26 Dale what are you doing here you should be kicking ass in nascar
0 likesWhy was the use of Dunkey so good
0 likesmy favorite video of urs
1 like38:38 the contrast
0 likesThat was masterful explanation of the scale of those nuclear bombs. What is it with you and exceeding expectations every video?
47 likesI watched this well playing Minecraft :)
0 likesWow
0 likesi hate the fact that this video exists. 5 stars
0 likesCan’t be the only one changing usa though out the whole video
0 likesThe ONLY human that could beat Thanos (w/ 6 infinity stones)!!!!!!!!
34 likesbut only for those 10 minutes
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Thanos can teleport though. Once he'd see the nukes, he would say "Fuck this, I'm out."
7 likesi cant take this seriously
0 likesoof I know I know this song, but I don't remember where its from 3:10
0 likesHa HAHAHA mortally is an absolutely absurdly abstract. It is only a connection to death and the reality of our monkey brain.
0 likesMakes me think.
0 likesShit that's good
0 likesThat song at the end.......
2 likesOh no...
Thanks from New Zealand.
0 likesIdea: 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand
Stanislav is not Stan, it's either Slava or Stas in Russian
0 likesWhy didn't you, at 13:52 also adjust the number of employees for inflation? That's how it works right? Like a balloon?
1 likei am not making this up, but typing the entire name of the video into the YouTube search bar, doesn't get you the video. i don't know if this is only for me, but YouTube probably did something behind the scenes
0 likesOr Vasili Petrov
0 likes25:55 $2-$3/gal for gas....lol
2 likesYour content is so amazing. It's actually crazy that only one person produced this.
8 likesThis is a lemmino video called "grazed by the apocalypse"
0 likesI feel no sympathy for what we did to Japan and if you know anything about the Japanese war mentality in world War Two than you will too. The total death count from the bombs is a drop in the bucket compared to what overlord would of have cost EVERYONE
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Ah yes, the country that had no functioning air force and had a blockade around it would've caused immeasurable harm to our military. We didn't lose a plane for the last months of WW2. the nukes were people in power showing off their shiny new toy.
1 like@Legate Lanius We didn't nuke Japanese military, we nuked civilians
1 likeI’m going to have to agree with OP here. Yes dropping the bombs was terrible but so is war.
1 likeThe war would have been more drawn out, and you forget that a normal invasion would have killed more civilians due to how painful it would be to take over the whole island. Hell look at the German civilians to see that an invasion would kill more than one bomb. They wouldn't have surrendered also, it took TWO bombs before they did. Even when they did, some of the emperor’s generals tried to kill him and take over so they wouldn’t. A traditional invasion would have killed more people in the long run than the bombs have.
@NumNaut Even after 2 bombs on a country with no functioning air force with a navy blockade around them the war hungry still wanted more. We wanted unconditional surrender, they wanted to keep the emperor, if we gave them that we wouldn't have had to drop the bombs.
0 likesWe needed a unconditional surrender, they're the people who did the whole "Death before dishonor" . Lets say we did, signed a peace treated. You know what would of happened? In order to regain their "Honor" they would of done Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, maybe you should look that sometime.
0 likes@NumNaut We got the unconditional surrender.... with the condition that Japan got to keep the emperor.
0 likes@NumNaut Luckily I highly doubt that they would've been able to pull something like that operation off given the state that they were in by the end of the war.
0 likesI don't get it, am I or am I not supposed to get nord VPN? That commercial was pretty persuasive
0 likesIs really nobody talking about the local 58 broadcast style used for the sponsored part of the video? Hidden pearl
0 likesUsing nukes and civilized in the same sentence is not a good sign.
0 likesI went in not knowing who Stan was and I went out feeling grateful that he existed
16 likesWatching this again and I must say that this is absolutely phenomenal. Your use of video, audio, storytelling, and cultural references are incredible. Usually I class YouTube videos as entertainment, but this is art. Very well done
3 likesThis series is literally the best on YouTube. Well researched and it discusses important topics in an interesting manner. Great job, lemon man.
3 likesI've unironically learned more history from this video than any history class I've ever been in
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But you sleep at the middle of the class?
1 like@helado vegano not north american by any chance?
2 likestake apush
0 likes@Ben_ Earthly ok you already won the debate
1 likeI seriously love the new genuine/down-to-earth documentary style of your videos, it makes me think more of the lyric, “it’s all uphill from here.” It always seems like the upward ascend of one’s awareness and wisdom is instead a terrible path towards unimaginable suffering. I know you’re getting this quite a bit now, but I feel reassuring you of your definite “glow-up” in style, while seemingly unnecessary in the moment, can definitely make just a bit of an impact, no matter how small, that can remind the truly level headed person of their honorably charismatic accomplishments, and their reputation as a whole. As much as things may ever seem like they won’t improve, I believe the “downward spiral” meant to strengthen us all, and motivate us to push against the waves. Thank you so much for being one of what can feel like the last batch of genuine creators on this site.
2 likesI’m happy to know I already knew about this man before watching this, absolutely saved the world from Armageddon. Arguably one of the most important figures in history.
0 likesFirst of all I want to say that this series is excellent, and I hope we have many more episodes to look forward to ahead of us. You've turned me on to so many stories I'd otherwise never have considered either because of ignorant prejudice or just relative obscurity.
0 likes...But your song choice at the end of this video went from a melancholy, hopeful look to the future to a fucking savagely hilarious, ironic, bittersweet, bait and switch nuke of its own. I haven't laughed that hard in months. Brilliant.
Why do videos like this always make me cry a little bit? Guess there just that good.
3 likesI knew stanislav Petrov before it's quite amazing how the very reason he is exceptional is because he was so ordinary if found himself in such a difficult situation must have been extremely difficult for him considering he was basically getting told by the system that was ment to protect his land that was all going to be wiped out.
who knows maybe the great filter was that very moment.
That terrifying split second before the doomsday Clock chimed it's deathly song
In my opinion that is the very closest we have ever come to true Doomsday 11:59.59pm on the doomsday Clock
If I remember correctly stanislav Petrov was also on a submarine in the Cuban missile crisis and he also prevented a nuclear torpedo from being launched making the similar assessment that if they fired they would trigger a nuclear war that would kill their loved ones as well as them
The utilization of that Dunkey quote is just brilliant
57 likesHe knew it was a false alarm, because there were a lot of false alarms that had happened in the past, which is terrifying in its own right. What's scarier is the captain who was told to use a nuclear torpedo against a US fleet during the Cuban Missile Crises if they blocked his sub, but didn't. I think he was executed for it, but I don't remember.
2 likesGreat video, as always, so I am not detracting from its informational value by saying the following:
2 likesEnglish speakers rarely get russian language stresses. While EmpLemon did pronounce name "Stanisláv" correctly the last name is pronounced as "Petróv".
I am rarely bothered by this, when watching english-speaking content, but this man at least deserves to have his full name to be pronounced in a way he would like it to.
Again - I am not critisizing any content on display here, but maybe at least someone will find this information interesting or useful.
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Also, just to point out, short name for Stanislav is Slava, not Stan.
0 likesgreat video :)
2 likesfeels nice living on the downward spiral of this timeline , keep up the good work
Watching this video always makes me feel heavy. The fact that many of us would not exist today is really something else.
0 likesThis is one of those timeless videos that you could watch 10 years from now and it would still be relevant
3 likes21:45 this small section is amazing. It truly brings the power, scale and prowess humanity has made at destroying itself. And it helps that a clip of Samuel L. Jackson is being used
3 likesThe subtle humanist message that you build through this video is phenomenal. Juxtaposing the Reagan era rhetoric of the USSR as an evil Empire while presenting the fact that it was a Russian who decided to give the US the benefit of the doubt and spare the world nuclear holocaust. I'm not ashamed to say that the beauty of the video brought tears to my eyes.
2 likesAlong with petrov we can thank Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov who refused to turn the key to launch the nukes in the Cuban missile crisis. Love your vids btw
2 likesWhy EmpLemon got me in tears with this series rn
65 likesEmplemon, you are unironically one of the smartest people I’ve ever seen.
6 likesHey, what about the guy on submarine, that was the last man on the vessel, that needed to confirm the actual launch of the nuke, but despite the orders, he refused to confirm and he basically prevented nuclear war.
1 likeI must say you make some of the best videos that can be watched over the whole internet
3 likes22:35 That part gave me chills
16 likesI'm so happy Whang mentioned your existence in a livestream a few weeks back. Since then i started with my first EmpLemon video Operation Red Herring: Further Down the Wormhole continued in backwards upload order till the VidCon (Q & A) video. At that point i decided to go to where it all started. I pressed sort by oldest and buckled my fuckle. I was not ready for the ear rape, but quickly your YTPs gave me that sense of discovery i had in my younger days finding the graffiti and punk scenes. With your back catalogue down i have reached this video and look forward to the continued journey through the Downward Spiral. Now off to EmperorLime, keep up the great work.
0 likesA few questions:
What is your opinion on Empty Subscribers and what's your new average?
Do you think Mumkey deserves his own Geographic now even though you made a video on the subject already?
PS: Pretty sure GamerfromMars got inspired by your old videos. The day i watched your original BehindTheMeme video he uploaded his that night, as for the day i watched your school shooter rants he uploaded his youngest ever video.
So after watching 5 of your videos it seems clear. You're one of the gods of YouTube. Your content is so damn good.
0 likesUpdate:... I wrote that comment before he used Videogame Dunkey as a sample... this shit is art.
I’m still impressed this man used a Dunkey quote to describe the evolution of warfare
2 likesSomeone needs to nerf warfare, the meta is getting too strong.
1 likeAlso, on a more serious note, despite the heavy subject matter this is may favorite edition to the Never Ever series. Phenomenal job.
I just discovered you're channel due to memes but your history lesson here is very important. Thank you
0 likes2020: this year cant get any worse
55 likes1947-1991: welcome to the club
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1939 - 1945: Anybody said something?
7 likes@Actic 1912-1933:
1 like@Stevesouas how about before the 90s?
0 likes23:00 that weatherscan music hit always works so goddamn well
3 likesThis reminds me of October 27th 1962 when a Russian submarine off the coast of Cuba was intercepted by a U.S ship which started to drop dummy depth charges on it to get it to surface. The submarine had an ICBM on board and no communication with the USSR. “ which would make it impossible to know if the war had started or not.” Usually there are two commanding officers on board of a submarine and the decision had to be unanimous on wether the missile should be launched or not. But it just so happened that there was a third officer on board, who instead of retiring chose to return to service and was placed on the submarine in this story. Both other officers who were normally on the submarine agreed that they should launch the missile. Putting him in a near identical situation to Petrov. He however disagreed with the other officers which caused the missile to not be launched and therefore preventing a nuclear war in a very similar way to Petrov.
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It was a torpedo (ICBMs on submarines are not common even today) but otherwise quite correct. If anything what Arkhipov did was more significant than Petrov as there were others in the chain of command who could have prevented the launch if Petrov had not while Arkhipov was quite literally the last man standing.
0 likesI always cry at the end of EmpLemons videos.
2 likesthere are over 2 billion people who believe in a god
1 likedo you think any of them stopped to thing that we were the gods?
that's such a chilling quote
I can’t stress how much I love this video and this channel
0 likesIt would be amazing to meet this man
0 likesHi, my names Stanislav Petrov and your probably wondering how i got into this mess...
49 likesThis is as good or better than a lot of professional made documentaries by actual production companies
1 likeThis video is incredible. Without a doubt one of the best documentaries I've ever watched.
1 likeNever stop making never evers. Greatest series on youtube.
0 likesAnd are we going talk about Stanislav Petrov without mentioning Vasili Arkhipov who during the Cuban missile crisis stoped the firing of a nuclear torpedo?
2 likesDamn dude... the way you worked that Dunkey sample, and made it apply to atomic science, was awesome!
0 likesThanks, Emp. I'm using this video among other sources for my university exam :)
0 likesStanislav Petrov is literally the quote "One can save millions but millions can't save one" except he saved 4.7 billion people and all 4.7 billion people couldn't save him
1 likeCoincidentally, this is the least viewed video in the Never Ever series
5 likesI'd also like commend you. That was one of the most creative ways , across all YouTube, that I have seen a NordVPN + Patreon Ad worked in (the way it should be done, fits the video, and keeps the entertainment level going)
0 likesThis is one of the best videos on all of YouTube.
2 likesYour content is just amazing. Extremely top quality... Fcking love your voice and videos. You're becoming my favourite content creator of this website..
0 likesThought it was gonna be about one of the three dudes who went in Chernobyl and saved nearly all of Europe from radioactive clouds.
0 likesmy god your content is so good I have no words I HAVE NO WORDS WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS PERFECT
2 likesThis man legit used half life music in a Cold War documentary
0 likesAnyone who tells you anything about nuclear weapons other than that they're responsible for one of the most peaceful and productive periods in human history is tragically misinformed or has an agenda.
0 likesMy dad actually works in Oak Ridge now as an engineer at Y-12. He has one of the coolest jobs in the world
0 likesHumans had access to nuclear weaponry before compound bows
1 likeMan's greatest torture, being tricked by what you believe in most to making such a weapon it will destroy humanity as a whole.
1 likethe man who saved the world
0 likesI think that this is my favorite video on the internet truely a masterpeice
2 likesThis mans presentation and transition is so high above other youtubers
0 likesAnother man with the decision of nuclear war was varsille arkipov (butchered spelling i think) he was the captain of the submarine units in russia during the US blockade of cuba and decided to get on one because he wanted to know how well they were working and the route they were taking for getting around the US blockade to see Pros/Cons, This submarine was armed with a torpedo which had a nuclear tipped warhead ready to fire with the comformation of the 2 commanding officers. So this sub went beneath the blockade in which it had lost contact with Russia and was spotted by the blockade via radar, to get the attention of the sub the US dropped a dummy explosive in the water which would do no harm had it made contact, believing War had broken out and with their contact with russia severed, they had the decision of wether to fire the torpedo, the 2 commanding officers in charge of the decision both were in favour of firing the torpedo, however Because Arkipov was on board he was also required to decide, he decided they should resurface inside communication lines instead in which they could contact russia to gain conformation to attack. And thats the reason your living, one mans decision to get on the submarine that had he not gotten on would have started nuclear war shows how lucky we are
0 likeslove the dunkey voice clip, amazing editing:3
1 likeThe use of the Half Life 1 ost is one of the best parts of this.
0 likesI've marked may 19th in my calendar as stan petrov day, I wont forget him.
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Ey thats my birthday
0 likesI just realized it's probably the 37th anniversary of this event.
15 likesHappy birthday Stanislav petrov!
2 likesIt's funny to picture a alternate reality where Petrov did launch the missiles
0 likesWe can only hope it nevers happens again that a single man has the possibility to destroy the humanity with a single decision.
0 likesI think it is fair to say that Stanislav Petrov is the man who saved the world by not ending it.
0 likes24:23 Music is "The Healer Stalks" from the Doom II soundtrack.
2 likesi live in south east tn and oak ridge is not far from me. i also had a nutty econmics teacher that liked to tell stories of his youth about being a bouncer that collected fake id's from people that failed to get into bars and kept all the fake id's. he even had a clip from mtv that proved his story. (and gave himself a little credibility in my eyes) he also told us one time he lost his dog in a park near east ridge ridge and came upon glowing mushrooms and was confronted by men in hazmats suits.
0 likeshe couldn't prove that one though.
Thanks, Stanislav!
1 likeI can to see a well made independent documentary after seeing a comment on a coca-cola commercial. I left crying with existential dread. Thank you.
0 likesThe beginning was actually gut wrenching
0 likesThank you stanislav petrov
1 likeBeautiful video. Thank you
1 likeGreat video.
2 likesCould've atleast mentioned Arkhipov tho
I wish i could like this video a thousand times
0 likesThat Pulp Fiction clip with the Tsar Bomba visualization... Holy fucking shit. You’re my new favorite creator.
0 likes"there may"
1 likefreaking chilling.
Vasili Arkhipov also saved the world in 1962
1 likeThe ending gave me fucking chills
0 likesYour the only youtuber I think deserves more subs
0 likes25:58 the newspaper has an article about US oil consumption being stupid high and how they should stop building windowed towers and shopping malls, 50 years later nobody still has gotten that memo...
0 likesEDIT : People shouldn't think that because the number of warheads has been reduced we are less at risk than before, quite the opposite in fact. Modern missiles and warheads are more capable, harder to intercept, more accurate, each missile carries dummy warheads to fool counter-measures and several real warheads to make sure that the target gets obliterated even if one or several warheads fail. Oh and the TNT equivalent of each warhead has gotten bigger too. THAT is why they can make do with less overall weapons because that make them cheaper to maintain and stockpile, with less risk of them going missing... those treaties were a farce and more unstable countries have gotten access to nukes as well.
this is actually the best video on youtube
1 likeTo think there is a alternate universe where all of us would never exist, the world would have ended, and life as we know it would all end
1 likeThere may never be a downward spiral like emplemon
0 likesthank u for telling me that if a YouTube Pooper can graduate to some of the coolest documentary/video essays, anything
0 likescan happen
If the Hawaii guy was in Petrov's place...
0 likes30:10 Not exactly a good description of Great Filters. There are considered to be many many Great Filters, only one of which is self destruction at the hands of the species own technological advancement. When you say "The Great Filter" and then discuss the self destruction of a race, you make it sound like that is the extent of the theory of Great Filters. Could have just said "Great FilterS", plural, and said that ONE of them is self destruction. Self destruction is not the only reason we dont see other intelligent species everywhere we look...
1 likeBut other than that, great video, seriously! A well earned like for sure!
Did you make Petrov the story episode four in tribute to the lost Pretty Good episode 4? Or am I just projecting?
0 likeslol i was so caught off guard by the dunkey comparison that oddly makes a lot of sense
0 likesThis should be on Netflix or Hulu.
1 likeStanislav Petrov took a gamble with the fate of the world and Humanity itself........... And he won............... This makes him the luckiest man in the history of the earth.
2 likesWatching this after reading a book called The Girls of Atomic City which showed life in Oak Ridge from the perspective of a number of the women working there.
0 likesA weapon to surpass Papa John
0 likes'Nuclear Bombs: When you push the game to it's limit.'
0 likes22:33 legit scared me
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Me too bro
0 likesyour video's production quality is so much better than television.
1 likewe basically would be in fallout rn with my stannis the mannis
0 likesRepeat after me, The only winning move-
1 like"scientist were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
0 likesJesus, I love your content.
1 likeI want a Never Ever episode on Undertaker
0 likes11:02 and here we may have the Best Out of Context Use of Dunkey ever made
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Indeed. I basically have that whole bit memorized verbatim.
1 likeI think that this is my favorite video on YouTube
0 likesWhen I first saw the title I thought it would be a video about Vasili Arkhipov
0 likesWhen EmpLemon doesn't make a video on you
0 likes*sad Vasili Arkhopov noises*
I love all the Half-Life OST.
0 likesIncredible.
0 likesThat path of borealis hit hard
1 likeIt really creeps me out how nonchalant Truman was about nuking Japan
0 likesAhh yes the two victors of WW2 the US and USSR
0 likesthe story of Vassili Arkhipov is very close to this one.
0 likesThe best comrade of comrades
0 likesI love this
0 likesAm I the only one who knew about him before watching this video?
0 likesWhere can I find the Chernobyl call, it sound horrifying and interesting.
2 likesI wouldve pressed the button almost immediately, what a fucking god stanislov was... Respect
0 likesYou're documentary style videos are awesome dude. Thanks for the free content from the bottom of my black, lifeless heart.
0 likesI can respect that you put half life music in the video
0 likesEveryone: noooo you cant just start WWIII
0 likesme: haha button go click
I love the Local 58 references and Dunkey cameo
4 likesIncredibly well produced as always. Unsubscribed
1 likehe died for us
0 likesWasn't this supposed to be the lost episode of Pretty Good?
1 likei have become death destroyer of worlds Robert Oppenheimer the inventor of the first nuclear bomb
1 likeHow did China get so powerful?
0 likesThe last thing I would expect from this video is a Dunkey quote
0 likesBritain would've survived
0 likesThere will never ever be another show like never ever
1 likeThis is the same man behind Frying Nemo.
0 likesJust wanna take this moment to condemn Tankies
0 likes8:04 chilling intro
1 likeReminds me of Black Ops Cold War.
0 likesEveryone has already said this but this series is fantastic. Great job as always Emp.
4 likesChildren: Duck and Cover!
785 likes10 Megaton Nuclear bomb: VISIBLE FRUSTRATION
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A History videos not complete without a polandball commenter
32 likes10 megaton nuke: SLAMS TABLE
28 likesChildren: Duck and Cover!
10 likesHydrogen bomb: I don't think so
for some reason, people like to think that we told our kids "If you duck and cover, you will survive and everything will be fine." No one said that, it is your fault to think that. We had said from the very beginning that it all depends on your Location to the blast. Duck And Cover is just the 1st step of many.
5 likes@C Porter Monke
1 like@C Porter lol yeah a blast went off, instead of going to the underground bunker just duck and cover
2 likes@Evan Merwin But that's not what they said. That's what people want you to beleive they said.
3 likesYou sound like the guy who would have pressed the button
0 likes@Gorka sorry if it sounds like that, but I just hate how people Actually Beleive that Duck And Cover doesn't work.
2 likes“Duck and Cover children”
0 likesI.C.B.M: I’m about to end these children’s whole lives.
The duck and cover program was informed by observing the outcomes of Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously if you're at ground zero you're screwed, but it didn't take much distance from there before the difference between being caught in the flash or being slightly sheltered meant the difference between life and death.
4 likes@Buscat there we go. Someone who knows it too!
2 likes@Doom58 suprisingly enough,this guy isnt polish
0 likesBy the way, what's the song at the end?
0 likes@C Porter r/woooosh
0 likeshe act
2 likeshe protec
but above all
he does not report the attac
18:41 "the us and russia are sepearted by 5000 miles"
779 likesAlaska And Siberia: am i a joke to you
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Lol i suppose he's going by capital
45 likesAlaska and Siberia are known to mostly be wastelands of cold and wildlife, maybe less with Alaska but still
42 likes@sssawfish i know, but it doesn't stop them from being geographically close to each other
12 likesAverage Guy Whoops, typo
3 likesAll I can think when hearing Alaska and Siberia together is a combination of Tuvan and Inuit throat singing. Wouldn’t that be amazing to listen to?
11 likes+Toori Baba Umm, you can find oil, mine coal or gold, cut down the coniferous trees for wood, test nuclear weapons away from civilization, study the wildlife, try not to disturb the natives who hold the land near and dear, rehearse missions to Mars, set up research stations, launch rockets, create early warning systems, etc.
4 likes@MeowTheRainbowX Yes, great, but when we're talking about nuclear war, are you seriously going to bomb a place with a population density of 0.5 per km^2 or are you going to bomb actual cities?
2 likes@Toori Baba Do what the US did with the little islands we got in the pacific. Use it as a nuclear test site!!
0 likesGot EEEEM!!!!
0 likes+Tecwyn Jones Are you implying that the only valuable places are ones that can be bombed by nukes? I assume you’re not (since that would be ridiculous) and that I misunderstand you.
0 likesToori Baba take advantage of the oil and be able to get to Washington state in a few hour boat ride from Ketchikan(my hometown) to northwest Washington.
0 likesTecwyn Jones my town has like 12,000 people and it’s a small town
0 likesyou ever see something on youtube and feel guilty for watching it for free?
125 likesthanks emp.. May the spiral be in your favor.
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You can always donate.
6 likes@Salamander i do ;)
2 likesNo
0 likesI need someone to tell me the timestamps of the eas beeps in the video because those honestly scare me.
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Nvm I found it
0 likes8:04 is where is starts
8:48 is when it ends
Let's hope so no other Stanislav Petrov is never ever needed again.
4 likesAnother amazing and well put together video, EmpLemon, it's nice to enjoy your work.
For just once, we were better than ants!
0 likesworld peace is almost impossible. thank god petrov existed. nice video
31 likesI know that version of the american anthem, local 58 is terrifying
0 likesIn Cuban middle crisis a Russian suarine heard some banging and thought it was nukes. 2 out of 3 people said it launch sub nukes and only one person said no. That guy also saved the word like Stan.
4 likesthis video is fucking incredible
0 likesi literally just spent a good 5 minutes saying "wow", "holy shit", and "jesus christ" while laughing in pure awe of how good this video was and the fact it was this good for all 2,497 seconds of it. didn't even skip the outro and was still watching and paying attention and loving, basically, the comedown of this video.
3 likesim also decently high which just made this video so much more powerful and interesting
10:20 what is the name of the song in the background?
0 likesstanislav petrov wasn't as strong as
298 likesdeath is the permanent cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism
seriously though, this is genuinely one of the most beautiful videos i've ever seen, i cried a good 5 times while watching it, honestly, death is the beauty, death is the good, life is the ugly, and the bad, but to get to death, we must go through life, and everyone must go through life, two things:
think of death at least once daily
and remember that stanislav is the reason you can think of death
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everyday i think is Death the true ending ?... or just another door to the unknown ?
2 likes@Frosty Wasp death is the road, your soul is the driver, life is the car, and the destination is nirvana
0 likeswhat we call death is just our soul stopping for gas
but when we die doesn't the brain stops functioning and our bodies turn into soil?
0 likesChatian Death is stupid.
0 likesMomento mori
0 likes@Chatian Hey Chatian, remember me?
0 likes@Blaster .M there's the thing that's you besides the brain, your consciousness is not physical, at least not to me
0 likes@JakeSpacePirate E yeah
0 likesI love how you used the editing tricks you learned making YTPs to create masterpieces like this. Keep it up!
4 likesDamn dude, from YTP to legit, quality, thoughtful videos. You've come a long way baby
6 likesThe dunky part... just chapó
0 likesDidn't know Google maps was a thing in the 60s. Damn.
0 likesi am 100% genuine when i say this is a really great video. you can be proud of this video. the quality is outstanding. you did a good job. i will be looking forward to more videos like this if you decide to keep making them.
5 likesthe "Как вы думаете, Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал?” in the description translates to
5 likes"Do you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?
I could not agree more.
This video proves that Never Ever is the spiritual successor of Jon Bois's Pretty Good
5 likesYou're doing a stellar job, Emp
Using the local 58 music for the interval was a nice touch
0 likesAs a non-American, I knew only vaguely about the events of the cold war as it was barely mentioned in my history classes. This video was extremely helpful in regards to that. Thank you EmpLemon.
4 likesAlso, Hooooly shit, we were that close to nuclear annihilation?
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Yes and many more times.
0 likesYou know, i wonder what would happen if USSR liberated western Europe
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''liberated''
1 likeSometimes the best thing to do is nothing
0 likes"Crazy to think that this generation's Ken Burns started out making YouTube Poops."
301 likes-people in the 2020s
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Can confirm.
5 likesIs never ever the new pretty good, cause it seems like it
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not like jon bois makin pretty good anymore, and never ever is a pretty good stand in
0 likesthis will probably sound silly, but i want to thank you for making this video. it was one of the most engaging, informative, and moving things i have ever seen on youtube. as another comment below me said, it feels almost criminal that i can watch this for free.
3 likeswhen you have a more that 99% like to dislike ratio ;
0 likesWhat version of id like to teach the world to sing is this?
0 likes1960s - War on Communism
278 likes1970s - War on Nukes
1980s - War on Drugs
1990s - War on Pollution
2000s - War on Terror
2010s - War on Us
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Im afraid of what the 2020's hold
23 likes@Wayne Sanford war on us, part 2
48 likes@Wayne Sanford War on Us: Actual War Boogaloo.
53 likes2020s - War on our Thoughts
35 likes2030s Furries take over europe
34 likes2040 - War on Furries
33 likes2050 - War on Non-Furries
@Kneight2060: War on Aliens
16 likes@Kneight inshallah
1 likeKneight I hate what that entails
2 likes@Bobby Grossman 2077- Cyberpunk 2 is released.
6 likes@Sachiko Broomfield Now things are getting interesting
1 like@Sachiko Broomfield "I don't like where this is going" - JonTron.
2 likes2020s - Canada Rises
2 likes2030s - Earth is Canada. North America is North Canada, South America is South Canada, Europe is Canada 2, Africa is Wide Canada, Asia is East Canada, Antarctica is Antarctic Canada, and Oceania/Australia is Southwest Canada or Down-Under Canada.
Earth itself is Canada.
Source: I'm Canadian.
@Wayne Sanford China, probably.
0 likes@AcidHydra101 I'm italian and I unironically would love this.
2 likes2050s - War on Astroid rainfalls
0 likes@AcidHydra101 Yeah, keep dreamin' canunook...
0 likes@Spiral God King It's canuck, and it's called a joke.
1 like@AcidHydra101 I'm joking too, man.
1 like@Spiral God King Understandable
0 likes2010 was more of the war on privacy, with edward snowden leaks, facebook and Cambridge Analytica (hell, fb in general), etc. I believe 2020 will be the war on thoughts/speech. It's probably already started
0 likes2020s - War on Europa
0 likesNice Dunkey reference! Nice video!
1 likeOne of the greatest videos I’ve seen, beautifully directed, written, and edited. Thank you for this masterpiece, Emp.
3 likesThe way you use memes is just amazing, unlike anyone I have ever seen. You use them in a way so subtle that even those that have never visited YouTube in their life could still get the point you're trying to make, and for those that do get it, it's a pleasant surprise instead of making the viewer cringe. The way you used audio from one of Dunkey's videos to convey public opinion on the dominant strategies in each war, saying how a nuclear weapon had the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire city as a subtle reference to Toy Story, and your use of Google Earth and NUKEMAP to convey the size of each explosion.
4 likesYou know a video is good when the change in size from Hiroshima to Tsar Bomba legitimately made me say, out loud, "woah!"
"...boarded the Enola Gay.."
10 likesMe:. Hah, he said gay
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That's like the one instance where hearing the word Gay is kinda hard to laugh at .....
1 likeI haven’t felt this much existential dread since last time I watched a Kurzgesagt video
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Have you watched exurb1a?
2 likesDEER PARK drinking water...the next evil empire
1 likeIt's ok the people who died don't matter
0 likesLove this style of video! Definitely would love to see more of these. Keep up the good work! 💪🏻
5 likes666k views on the video about nuclear annihilation.
0 likesI Wrote an assignment about Stanislav Petrov a week ago For School. A nice coincidence. :D
87 likesthe half life music tho
1 likeThis video reminds me of Jon Bois.
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I wonder if that's why this is the 4th episode of the series.....
0 likesThough I'm just happen to be Russian and not anyhow connected with Petrov, I suddenly feel humbled.
3 likesThank you. Your work is amazing.
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Not many of us can admit that we were not humbled watching this video.
0 likesWhat’s the difference between the USA and USSR? The USA could coexist in the same world as the USSR. The USSR could not.
0 likesMy sincerest salutations go to you, Mister Petrov.
7 likesMore than having been the most powerful person in modern history, you sir are the one true tovarich.
/O
wow.
0 likesWorst thing humans ever did was split the atom and create the deadliest element to humanity ever
0 likesHe put the Soviet spy named Igor on a pink background hehe
1 likePretty good video, but Chernobyl had less of an impact on nuclear disarmament than the TV movie The Day After giving a President Reagan strong pause about continued nuclear buildup. With the controversy over Pershing missiles in Europe (later withdrawn), the concept of eliminating a class of nuclear weapons became politically feasible and expedient. So the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (now defunct, but the current spat is over cruise missles which have comparitively negligible value relative to IRBMs) came into effect and gave momentum to nuclear disarmament and current strategic postures (roughly 2.5k deployed warheads each for US and Russia among a nuclear triad) which now tend towards counterforce (military/command targets) rather than countervalue (economic/population targets) as a result of a smaller number of more accurate weapons making disarming first strikes on enemy nuclear forces far more feasible and attractive. In essence, nuclear war is more decisively winnable than ever.
10 likesFess up Emp, you just wanted to make a video about the cold war.
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Its a very interesting topic.
25 likesA more strange time, I do not know
3 likesthe framing was powerful and it fit the series anyway
2 likeswhats the painting at 24:19
0 likesThat’s terrifying. We almost had a real life version of Dr. Strangelove occur...and nobody even knows about it.
28 likesI'm going to make sure my kid sees this when she's old enough. You're a legend, Emp
11 likesI cannot believe you connected this to dunkey
0 likes....did emplemon just fucking local 58 me?
0 likesI'd like to buy Stanislav Petrov a Coke for saving the world.
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he's dead now
6 likesConiver Divide nawww,really?
0 likes@GodBloodSpilla yep, unfortunately he passed away in 2018
9 likesI'd probably buy Stan Petrov something that has significant meaning to him. Something that would have reminded him of the incident, and how critical he was to saving humanity.
3 likesEthereal Coke
1 likeBut if he was alive get him a pepsi not a coke.
0 likes@aydan khaliq LMAO
0 likesTake hime to a pizza hutt, will remind him of the last leader
0 likesJust do it in heaven. Easy shit.
0 likesThis is legitimately Oscar winning type shit. The video was so we'll made and thought me so much I forgot I was watching a YouTube video and thought I was watching an Oscar winning documentary. Great video keep it up
12 likesBUSHIDO DIGNIFIED
0 likesVery well put together, no wonder you hate the bland and repetitive type of content thats sploon fed to normies.
5 likesVery interesting, and my attention was 100% focused on the subject/topic
Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.
0 likesI don't like people who say Japan surrendered because of the nukes
0 likesI did not expect a history lesson from this channel but I love it
3 likesHoly crap this is great!
11 likesAnd that dunkey quote is so fitting
Edit: My god I just finished it, this is the best thing you have ever made
hail hydration
0 likes11:04 my favorite game is outside
0 likesi whould have sent the nukes thb
0 likesHappy b-day once again.
0 likesCan we all just appreciate how much work was put into this?
2 likesOne man made this whole video, he wrote, edited and made this
And it’s basically television level quality
Emp is truly an amazing content creator
He practices what he preaches
I think you're one of the best creators on this platform, i've already seen all this series and it's so perfect
2 likesI really hope that the amount of views compared to other videos in this series doesn't deter you from making more content like this. In my opinion this has been your greatest video you have made to date and I look forward to more like it.
1 likeThis channel qualifies as being amongst the greatest on the entire website.
15 likesI done a project on this man for school. I believe he's the most important man who lived that no one knows about.
2 likesEver since hearing of him two years ago I post on the anniversary of his death, thanking him. Maybe it would be more appropriate to post on his birth, as he allowed me to be born, but I have only the utmost respect for this man. He, and he alone, prevented death on an unimaginable scale. WWIII is yet to happen, all thanks to one man
0 likesIt is incredibly sad that this is the least viewed episode of never ever, when it is by far the most important, perhaps Mr. Petrov just has this effect in a sense of grand irony by the universe
6 likesI actually teared up a little bit knowing that I will never be able to thank Stanislav Petrov for what he did. What an amazing guy. I guarantee that if anybody else had been in his position, you wouldn't exist.
0 likesI guess all I can do is be thankful that Stanislav Petrov, as he himself put it "I was simply doing my job and I did it well".
The end makes me cry everytime. We were so close. Thanks for your work Emp
1 likeimagine fighting with guns and bomvs and shit and then the enemy summons a tiny sun on one of your cities
53 likesThat was an incredibly power ending. Bringing up Hawaii. Very powerful indeed.
8 likes22:45 This part is honestly terrifying.
46 likesIt’s crazy that he doesn’t consider himself a hero, when if there was someone else at that same time and scenario with all the current tension then maybe the world would cease to exist. He truly had mercy for his fellow man, and was willing to let his home die without justice in order to see that the nuclear age would calm down to a halt
0 likesI like that before even watching this, I know this man, and his importance in history.
0 likesHeck yeah. This is going to be good.
IM HOLDING BACK TEARS THIS VIDEO WAS SO POWERFUL
0 likesThis is incredibly well-edited, there are so many little details (and jokes of course).
4 likesTbh if I was a history teacher I would show this to my students if we ever had a day to watch a video
0 likesOddly, in a sense, Stanislav Petrov is the closest individual we have to a traditional god. On the press of a button, he had the power to annihilate the majority of natural life, and even if he didn't have control over what he would cause, he had such a degree of power, that he is the closest we can say to a man who truly is a god. I'm not trying to say that a cult should be started. I'm trying to say the ideology of a benevolent god is truly, really, a reflection of the deepest parts of human nature, and even if we have the capacity to destroy, we have equal capacity to create, to give, and to be kind to all, be they our own in species, in colour, in political spectrum, in gender, in anything. All lives are as one, for all lives matter so much, every one with the power to do so much. Our enemy is not, in truth, ourselves, or the people whom we differ from. Our enemy is who we were, and our aspiration must be who we wish to become, then we shall be destroyed. International nuclear disarmament is not a matter of fighting as a political party, a religion, a group, but as a species, and for the good of all life that is, and ever will be, we must stop our conflicts, shake hands with our fellows and neighbours, and resolve the fractured nature of our own societies which drive us apart, or risk annihilation. We must stand together, or we shall not stand at all.
1 likeI love books and games about nuclear fallout, post-apocalypse. But man I felt kinda scared when my family in Hawaii sent a text to all of us saying they loved us. It must’ve kinda felt like that constantly decades ago
0 likes14:36 - 14:56 That’s just... I haven’t the ability to utter the words to describe how overpowering that quote is. That is deep. Truly deep.
0 likesI know that we currently throw around a lot of names to remember. But if you can remember the name Stanislav Petrov, or even Stan P., the lesson from one man can extend to a million and one lessons on why we are here and who we are.
0 likesA million and one ways to hate people who we have never met.
A million and two ways to find a reason that we are in this together.
To quote a top comment from the next video in this series,
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in them enough sorrow and suffering to disarm our hostility" - Henry Longfellow
It's really interesting how someone who came from making YTP developed into someone who makes interesting documentaries about various subjects.
0 likesThat Dunkey quote sent chills down my spine. I can't believe how well placed that was.
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Only Emplemon can make a Dunkey Quote send chills down your spine
0 likesmay he rest in peace and he shall not be forgotten
1 likeThe way you used samuel l jackson's monologue to precede the tzar bomba detonation gave me chills. Excellent use of audio!
1 likewatching this you can tell that this is one of the most important videos on the internet in some way or another
1 likeidk how i didnt realize it before, but the excerpt from Videogamedunkey fits so beautifully in this video, and im so glad that syou had the foresight and understanding to use that quote. You are such an awesome fucking youtuber bro, i love your content. Keep doing what you doing for all of us. Much love from California.
0 likes37:30 I've been saying this for years. I wish more people would see it.
0 likesThanks to your video a lot more people did.
Holy fuck this was incredible. Made me emotional
2 likesYou are such an amazing creator, these videos are miraculous.
0 likesWell... we actually know him well in Russia. He is in history books and this episode is often mentioned in documentaries. As a Russian, I really appreciate you made this video. Not just because the hero was Russian, but because nowadays it is important to remind the power of propaganda. We are all people. We are all the same at the end of the day :) Peace!
0 likesLegit left tears in my eyes
3 likesA lot of ppl: Wow, this guy saved us.
4 likesMe: Это же тот дядька из 5 подъезда!
I’d like to think that Stanislav Petrov is in heaven thinking more about his decision as he sees humanity and its potential from the afterlife
0 likesReal heroes don't call themselves heroes. If they perform an action that the people see as heroic, they will be deemed heroes by those people. This man is certainly a hero to me, because i feel like he comes the closest to being an example of a hero who truly saved the world from total annihilation by themselves.
0 likesUsing a dunkey speech about games breaking as a metaphor creating the atomic bomb is probably the smartest thing anyone has done ever.
0 likeshad goosebumps at the end and shed a graceful tear
0 likesMy great aunts both worked at Oak Ridge when it first opened. My brother has their plaques for being part of the first 250 people to work there helping with the American atomic effort. They both died of cancer.
0 likesEmpLemon is one of, if not the only youtuber, that i will watch in-video ads for.
2 likes“The US and Russia are 500 miles apart”
2 likesBering Strait: Am I a joke to you?
Even if we had really attacked and he failed to launch a retaliation it would of still happened because of the Dead Hand system the Soviets set up. If if signals were disrupted between the Dead Hand computer and the communication center, it would automatically assume the Soviet Union had suffered a nuclear attack and it would automatically retaliate with all available weapons.
0 likesThere will never come any sort of understanding between people, so long as conflicts for each group's right to self-determination are obscured behind easy and empty platitudes about "prejudice".
0 likesHumanity came close to the brink of annihilation to determine where to go as a species, to say that this conflict took place because the two sides just kind of didn't vibe with each other, is ridiculous.
Besides that, if Stanislav Petrov was as you said "the protocol", it's hard to paint the US as "the evil empire with no regard for human life".
One man of no importance was "the protocol" that stood between humanity and nuclear annihilation.
If this story is to be believed, the Soviet Union as a whole was irredeemably evil, the kind of evil that sprouts from utter stupidity and that cannot be reasoned with.
If it is true.
it’s 2:09 am, and now i’m scared lol
3 likesbtw i learned of another day during the cuban missile crisis that could’ve ended the world. it was october 27th, 1962. a soviet leader in a submarine thought the united states was attacking them, and 2 out of the 3 people on board agreed to attack, expect that leader. because he didn’t say yes, they couldn’t continue.
edit: here’s where i learned that https://youtu.be/BR1q9MRwHdQ
When the Hawaiian official said "I was just following orders" I freaked out.
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Good soldier
0 likesi still wish there was more videos like this
0 likesIf anyone is wondering why the mushroom cloud for the tsar bomba illustration looks weird and flat, simple.
1 likeThe explosion was so fucking big the mushroom cloud that resulted reached the atmosphere and as a result spread outwards as it couldnt keep going vertical
Dude i discover your channel because of thevideo you made with Internet Historian about YTP and i didn't expect this kind of content from your part. Amazing video, the transitions and the music are so on point. "I've come looking for copper but i find gold" xD saludos desde Costa Rica uwu
0 likesI wish they taught history like this haha this is so engaging
0 likesThis is absolutely your best video. You are truly an Emperor I would die for. バンザイ🎌
0 likesI found the ending song perfectly fitting for the tone at the end. Amazing vid. Glad to have found you after watching your Spingebill vids years ago.
1 likeI would look into Sergei Koralev for another one of these.
2 likesThank you, Mr. Petrov
0 likesYou should do one on vasili arkipov! Same story but arkipov was even more powerful
0 likesThis video is powerful. I know for a fact I’d have pressed it.
2 likeswhat a time to be alive
0 likesI feel like harry truman had it rough. I mean, the dude was tasked with passing judgement on those who he had no right to do so and likely lived with years of regret and trauma for it. On top of that he wasn’t even revered as a hero by his own country for the most part.
0 likes16:04 Oh God, that music gives me chills...
1 likeMy coworker who grew up in Soviet Union didnt even know who this was.
0 likesHow do keep making these absolute masterpieces
0 likesThank you Stanislav Petrov from the bottom of my hearth! <3
0 likes...for doing the right thing.
Vasili Arkhipov: “Am I a joke to you”
4 likesI love how he ends this with the Coke song, a subtle nod to the victory of capitalism.
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You should look up "Pizza Hutt Gorbachev." Literally the premier of the USSR in a pizza hutt commercial. If that's not the victory of capitalism I don't know what is.
4 likesi love how you used a clip from a dunkey video to visualize the evolution of warfare lmaoo
1 like22:09 THATS HOW U BUILD SUSPENSE
5 likesWhen I was watching this and the “atomic bomb contingency notice” we had a tornado and the sirens were going off, I feared death
0 likesVon Brain wasn't really a Nazi, you look at how late he 'joined' the Nazi party, and how he was arrested for a "defeatest attitude" for the fact that he joined out of necessity. He was a scientist who only had his mind on space, it looks bad now in hind sight, but I completely understand why we strapped our wagon to him during the space race.
1 likeWow, great job man. You really have a gift for video making..
0 likesEmplemon: makes a documentary of The Cold War.
0 likesMetal Gear Stans: It's Showtime
The Hawaii part gave me chills
0 likesImagine being the servicemen who dropped the bombs
0 likes15:20 can we talk about how perfectly framed and positioned this transition was
1 likeA true hero is not one who sees himself as such, but only feels that what he did was right.
0 likesCan we get a F in the chat for comrade Stan?
0 likes15:21 THAT TRANSITION WAS GODLIKE!!!
0 likesi cannot stress how good the use of that dunkey clip was
0 likesCame here for a Stanislav Petrov doc
0 likesStayed for the nuclear arms race doc
What about during the cold war when the Nuclear Submarine political officer said no to firing a Soviet Nuclear Torpedo at the American Blockade of Cuba? He also was a pretty powerful man.
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Thats a different story.
0 likesBesides, almost everyone knows about him.
Stanislav Petrov is a bit more obscure.
emp, you've outdone yourself
1 likeHeres all the tracks used in order:
0 likesSoft Machine - Slightly All The Time (Live 1972)
Half Life Soundtrack - Drums and Riffs
Gustav Holst - The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War
The Cherry Blossoms (Sakura Sakura)
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83, "Stalingrad" (Pollini)
Wizard of Oz Soundtrack - Cyclone
Georges Bizet - Carmen Habanera (Instrumental)
Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (Orchestra version)
Half Life Soundtrack - Vague Voices
J. Strauss: On the Beautiful Blue Danube (2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack)
LIMO Recording Studio - Entering Graciously
Ross Bugden - Black Heat
Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
Weatherscan Music - Track 3
Doom II OST - The Healer Stalks
Gran Turismo 4 Soundtrack - Race Menu 1
OC ReMix #3199: Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) 'Chasing Waterfalls' [Cascade Capers] by Blue Magic
Tourist Trophy - TT Mode: Menu Music (Far East)
Half-Life 2 Soundtrack - Path Of Borealis
Coca Cola "Hilltop" Ad
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Damn it Petrov. You had one job. You could’ve stopped the bleeding right there. Now we have to limp on acting like it’s not gonna come back around.
0 likesForgot to mention that the guy knew the system far more than is let on here (basically not at all); ie his judgement is not purely shirking orders, he knew that the system was unreliable, just how unreliable, and that this was far more likely a failure of a system he knew to be shit than an actual attack. Remember Hawaii? Dude didn't know the system, hence the ICBM scare.
0 likesDoes anyone remember the name of this soviet stop motion film, where two different "nations" of matchsticks fight against each other, they escalate a conflict and at the end burn one of their rivals only for the flames to propagate into the others side and burn them all?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyrF77-hahg
0 likesI'm not sure if you've seen it before, but if you haven't, here it is. the title is just 'matches war'. Not sure if that is the original title or just a mock title.
imagine you could control the soviet union
0 likesI literally just finished watching the spongebob video and I couldn't even go a minute without seeing another spongebob reference just like he said how nobody could go on social media w/o seeing spongebob lol
0 likesThis is one of the most important videos on the internet
0 likesLove him or hate him, we wouldn't have any human rights and live under a dictatorship if it wasn't for Reagan winning the Cold War.
0 likesthe fun parts of these videos for me are the quotes.
0 likessome really get me.
If only people knew just how close we've come to oblivion, numerous times, because of human error.
0 likesThis objectively is the best video on YouTube
0 likesDamn, I miss Peter Jennings.
0 likesYour use of the nuclear warning message is chilling
0 likesThe Fermi Paradox, Maybe its because they're just too far away. The way light travels, we wouldn't notice any aliens because if they do exist we would be looking at the equivalent of apes. Not after the nukes but before.
0 likesStanislav Petrov remarkable in deed.
0 likesPearl harbor, Oh that's just our planes.
I love this guy
0 likesHOW TF did you make dunkey sound like a philosopher
0 likeshe didn't disobey orders per se; you see, USSR and other east bloc citizens love their countries to death, but they are wery suspitious about their own technologies.. Thats probably one of reasons why Petrov stopped and think about. Hell, if kicked monitor maybe 12 ICBMs could showed up instead of 5.
1 likeThis must be what Krillin felt holding the spirit bomb
0 likesYour best video, by far.
0 likes19:06
0 likesUSA: THE RED MENACE
Also USA: Our nation
37:29 Yugoslavia was never a part of the Soviet Union.
4 likesКак вы думаете, Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал?
0 likesDo you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?
everyone should know what Stanislav Petrov did for the humanity
0 likesGood to know that in any other world timeline the world would be destroyed
0 likesthe dunkey clip works so well lol
1 likeI hope I’d be a person who wouldn’t push the red button. The idea that pushing it would bring justice to anyone is flawed. Making the choice to kill millions of innocents as revenge isn’t justice, it’s injustice. Even if the missiles are incoming and my loved ones have only minutes to live, I would never take a life in retaliation.
0 likesThe worst thing about nukes is that the tsar bomba, the largest nuclear bomb ever, was created in the 60s, and that means that humanity have had over 60 years to develop a bomb more powerful than the nuke that can give you third degree burns from 60 miles away.
0 likesThis is the best YouTube video to every existence
0 likesthanks,stan!
0 likesHe actually quoted dunkey in a cold war documentary
0 likesStanislav Petrov really sounds like a bulgarian name :0
0 likes20:29
12 likesEveryone: No you can't just use minecraft content in a historical vide...
Emplemon: haha TNT goes bum
This video was great but could not stop thinking about the other Russian who prevented an all out nuclear war during the cuban missile crisis! Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov
0 likesVasily Arkhipov: am I a joke to you?
0 likesSeptember 26th is Petrov Day.
0 likesSpread the word.
Thanks for this
0 likesWhen you use a dunkey quote in history video
0 likesThe USSR missle alarm system "Malfunctioned". Yeah right, Somebody was trying to start some shit, and gave The USSR due cause to do so. I'm just glad there was a cool and level headed commander on watch at the time.
0 likesFucking YouTube. They never told me you uploaded this one. It's brilliant as usual.
0 likesYour videos are better then mines. But just slightly ;)
0 likesThis is the weirdest YTP I’ve ever watched
0 likesHoly shit that opening
0 likesproduction value is insane
0 likesFun fact about the Little Boy and Fat Man, the Uranium used to make the suckers explode was extremely impure, and could've the explosions could've been 50 more powerful. What a society we live in.
0 likesSoft Machine playing in the background at 34:32? Dang, good taste in music Mr. Lemon!
0 likesSo now we know that we can just send five nukes and win :D
0 likesHe protec
0 likesHe atac
He doesn't call Moscow back
29:30
0 likesAh yes, the next step in human evolution:
Chicken Wings
Always love to see a shout out to the Miracle on Ice
1 likeJust wanted to point out that tsar bomba was fusion, not fission
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It was a 3 stage H-Bomb. We don't have Fusion power or bombs yet my child.
1 like@Flaccid Ween The II are you sure? Anything I have read said it uses thermonuclear fusion. We don't have controllable fusion for energy yet of course, and a big reason for that is because of how hard it its to keep stable, which makes it great for a bomb. Saying it's an h-bomb literally means its fusion. They use a 2 stage design, a fission bomb is detonated within, the gamma rays and x-rays from the fission reaction compress and superheat the hydrogen atoms,(the isotopes used are tritium and deuterium) causing them to fuse and produce massive energy that causes the explosion. I can link multiple sources if you want me to, let me know.
0 likes@Flaccid Ween The II you were right about it being a three stage h-bomb, but what that meand is that the fission bomb still goes off in the first stage, causing the fusion in the second stage, but instead of that fusion being the main blast, the energy is instead used to start the third stage, which houses much more hydrogen, meaning more fusion meaning more energy for the blast.
0 likes@TheWilliamPlays ok yeah I'll give you that one, I wrote that comment while semi drunk and only doing 5 mins of research on the construction of the thing myself at the time. We're both right but you're more right than me :3
0 likes@Flaccid Ween The II yeah, its honestly crazy, also looking back on it I was snarky in my reply, sorry about that
0 likesamazing video
0 likesGreat video
0 likes10:04 how did he get here, how did we Get here, do you have 90 minutes
0 likesA truly chilling video
1 likeThank you
0 likes10:57 I love that you quoted Dunkey in a serious manner.
1 likeHey great job with this video
0 likesthe dunkey quote at 11:01 lol
0 likesTriage at dawn is probably the most fitting song in the video
0 likesWhat´s the music that plays from 11:07 to 11:19? Is it from Kirby? It sounds just too familiar
0 likesA red spy is in the base?
0 likesHe’ll turn red aaanny second now. Any second.
So, stan, a soviet, did the right thing. But an American today, says "Oh It WaS A SyStem FaILUre!" Unbelievable..
0 likesthat spy kids quote is chilling
0 likesQuality content at 500k views after a year? What is this bull
0 likes“Now we’re all sons of bitches.” - Kenneth Bainbridge, following the successful detonation of Trinity, July 16th 1945
0 likesThe way you advertised your sponsor was awesome, dude. I wish people could sneak it in more creatively, other than transitioning with "speaking of which.." Keep this good content chugging, dude!
6 likesthis video has a little something for everyone
1 like"Why did the bombs get so big?"
193 likesThose chickens are up to something
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Chicken run
1 likeChicken powered nuclear bombs
3 likesThis is why you can't trust the chickens hail the pigs!
0 likesWhy doesn't this have more likes
0 likes40:00 pointless wars that no one will ever remmember ?
0 likesTell that to the country USA chose as target for their "casual wars" I bet they have already forgotten :^)
damn. just damn.
0 likes10/10 Learned more about history than in a full semester of school.
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You haven't watched the video yet
0 likesMy man quoting dunkey himself
0 likesStan Petrov uses FACTS and LOGIC to not DESTROY the world.
7 likesWhen a YTP artist makes a documentary it results in a masterpiece.
6 likesAlbert einstien:yo you should make some bombs to end ww2
0 likesyour use of Mars: Bringer of War was so well timed and perfectly edited what a fantastic video
7 likesNice. You’ve proven that this series can explore not only media, but the human condition as a whole. Keep it up!!
3 likesIt's glad to see correct russian signs in the video
0 likesRemarkable
0 likesScientists in the 1940s: Ah who are we kidding, this nuclear fission stuff isn't a bad idea. I mean c'mon, have you ever seen an atomic bomb fly?
77 likesHOME's" We're Finally Landing" plays
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**1987 Winston 500 - Talladega, Alabama**
17 likesPawel Dziurawiec [Summoning
4 likesSalt Intensifies]
7:15 Few people. Not two people.
0 likesYour commercial cut was wayyy to close to local 58 for me to be at all comfortable watching it lol
0 likesEmp you can do pretty good history videos!
83 likesalso i didn't get a youtube notification
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Click on his bell and press all
1 like@smokie I know that but youtube didn't give me a notification until 5 mins after the upload.
0 likes@Chill Polecat I got mine four minutes late.
0 likesFive minutes isn't that long
3 likes@Ashatistic I never wanna be late to an emplemon video
1 likebecause he always makes great content and he is a great creator
My god, this is amazing. I'm so glad to be alive now. Thanks Emplemon :)
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*Thanks Stan
2 likes@Jetskizze Fair point, but without Emplemon I'd have no idea about Stan, so thanks to them both ig :P
1 likeat the same time, if it wasn't for Stan, you, me and Emp wouldn't exist
0 likes@Jetskizze Indeed :D
0 likesI'm using this for a school project
0 likesBased Lem has ascended
0 likesThis was the most well made documentary that I've seen in a very long time thank you and keep making these they are very good!
3 likes22:09 this is for myself
0 likesJesus, that 2001 edit and that ad break these videos are so well done. Never stop making these, take as much time as you need but never stop making them, thank you.
4 likesThis is, in my opinion, the third best Never Ever succeeded by the Hungrybox and Spongebob episodes, yet it has the least views out of all of them? Seriously? This is some good shit for people of all ages and of every audience, and it will be a challenge to make the sixth episode of this series better than this one.
0 likesThe old timey footage and sound of the voices really just gives me a weird vibe aswell as the defcon alarm
67 likesUsing the Half Life soundtrack on a video about nuclear weapons.
27 likesI see what you did there.
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heh, half-lives
0 likesThe gods may have given us fire, but the nuclear bombs were made by man. What does that say about how powerful our species has become?
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Nice saying, Dr Bright
1 likeMan invented god, god invented man. The words become more interchangeable by the years that pass by, as our strength and knowledge grows.
4 likesWe can stuff the power of a Star into a small metal canister
0 likesEvolutionary Pinnacle Your reply made me remember why I developed a passion for commenting.
1 likejesus christ the LOCAL58 vibes really threw me off
1 likeLooks like the record labels yoinked this video because of a Pulp Fiction scene they don't even own. This world doesn't deserve you, Emp.
24 likesAbsolute Mad Lad saves the World against the will of others.
58 likesI wish this was ready on the 4th of july. I feel like I'm the only one that salutes this literally world saving man.
3 likesDude..... I’m a big fan of your channel. This is your best video yet. I watched it last night, and as soon as my nine year old son woke up this morning I showed him. Keep up the good work
7 likesforgot it was about stanislav
0 likes7:36 bruh really be using the minecraft lightning sound
0 likesWhat Dunkey episode is the bit at 11:02 from?
1 likeHonestly what an amazing video...
3 likesI got the chills multiple times through.
Great work
I'm sorry but I can't hear "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony" without thinking of Zone-tan
39 likeslol, I didn't expect the reference to that weather channel - I thought I changed videos for a second
0 likesWhen I read "there may Never Ever be another man as powerful as", My mind auto completed it as "there may Never Ever be another man as powerful as Shaggy"
7 likesFun fact about the Cold War:
6 likesIf it wasn’t for the former sellafield nuclear power station in the north west of England,the entire western world wouldn’t have found out about the Chernobyl disaster, simply because the nuclear alarms went off at the power station and some meteorologists tracked it to the Ukraine.
Considering the fact that If this didn’t happen maybe the us and the Soviet Union wouldn’t have started talking politically for a few more years at least
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God just imagine. "Holy shit are we leaking? No, radiation seems to be traveling by wind from the USSR, they must have leaked big.
0 likes. . .
HOLY FUCK GET YOUR SUIT ON!"
Fandom guy when you realise it isn’t your power station that’s leaking radiation
1 likelocal 58 vibes or is this just what old american television was like
0 likesYou sound so much like Raycevick
0 likesFrom YTPs, to complaining, to this. Just who the hell, or what the hell are you?
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God
42 likesa person
24 likesStainislov Petrov
36 likesJeff
14 likesHe's an emperor. An emperor of the Downward Spiral.
26 likesБог
5 likesAll you ever do is complain
4 likesI'm crying bro wtf
0 likesHe is the man sitting above the downward spiral.
1 likeThe evolution of his channel is truly amazing.
4 likesperhaps... his spiral was actually an upward spiral
5 likesPerhaps he remained in the same place and the spiral kept going down around him, leaving him above it all.
5 likes@Raptyrn Perhaps the spiral is actually the world.
0 likes@Negev And perhaps the world is all of us. We should strive to be more like Emp.
2 likesThe only thing that's for sure about EmpLemon...
0 likesIs nothing's for sure.
YTP’s represent being a child
2 likesComplaining was the awkward teen phase of the channel
Now it’s adult documentaries
A TRAP!!!!
0 likesVideo was great overall but you could’ve certainly trimmed a lot of it. The beginning section on ww2 and history of the nuke was unnecessary and drawn out. All of your viewers know this shit by now.
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I appreciate his consideration of newcomers like me who know nothing about world war history
1 likeYour Sensei Shouyou I could summarize the whole video in a minute, it was very drawn out. Russia and the United States were in a tense feud (on many levels the most important being capitalist vs communist) that did not see any actual bloodshed. In an incident on a submarine three men had the decision to make on a submarine to fire a nuclear torpedo due to a false perceived threat. Two voted yes and one voted no. Had he voted yes nuclear war would’ve ensued. 45 minutes was unnecessary.
0 likesMake a never ever on how discord single-handedly ended Skype's career
13 likesThe thing is, Reagan was what America needed as Carter was a pushover who ultimately was the one that lost the Vietnam war. In fact, due to Reagan, the Reykjavík Summit was nearly successful, which would've meant the end of all nuclear weapons in both countries. The only reason that it never came to fruition was because Gorbachev wanted a theoretical nuclear satellite defense grid from being tested, as that would lead to the end of the cold war and likely the beginning of a far hotter war. Reagan, though, wanted safety for America and to have that safety in American hands.
0 likes19:00
268 likesAh yes, my favorite portion of the Cold War, Texas vs the USSR
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Engies vs hoovys
52 likesOr Chile vs the URSS
9 likesOr Liberia
2 likesLol
0 likesTEXAS: YOU YEE'D YOUR LAST HAW
14 likesUSSR: NYET!
somalia vs the USSR
0 likesimma be real camps did not create space rockets thats such a dumb analogy
0 likesEmp makes such quality content.
3 likesYou are an excellent storyteller. You had me frozen in horror through half the video, at least.
0 likesSmall edit for my last thoughts: On the concept of world peace, I'm rather a pessimist. At least in this modern era. There still remain many conflicting, incompatible ideologies, and extremist believers ready to fight for supremacy over all others. Earth is a big place, and while I don't think it'd be impossible for everyone to get along relatively peacefully with the right set of circumstances, the current world situation has me thinking there will be at least one more truly global conflict. And all it takes is one nuclear weapon in the wrong hands for everything we've built over 4000 years to come crashing down around us. Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, is my opinion on the matter.
As a video game series once said, “War..... War Never Changes....”
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The Fallout series.
0 likesYeah metal gear
3 likesGresh11990
4 likesMetal gear said
“War has changed”
Klaatu barada nikto.
0 likes6:20 Are you sure that’s not the French lol?
0 likesGod that ending gives me chills everytime incredible video on the level of multi million dollar documentaries
7 likesI know you’ve already made a “Never Ever” episode about WWE, but you should totally do one about how “There will Never Ever be another wrestler like The Undertaker”
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Super Eye patch Wolf did a video about the Undertaker, you might like that. Although you probably might have seen that video already.
0 likesMan, I gotta stop binging this series. Each one leaves me in tears, each time for a different reason. One of the best set of videos on this platform, by far. Thanks, EmpLemon. Keep on keeping on.
1 likeThank you for making this. The majority of my generation and those younger seem to forget that the world as we know it was almost annihilated less than a century ago.
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Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it
1 likehonestly man, I have to express my greatest respect for EmperorLemon, all the episodes, especially the Dale Earnhardt one, I was almost in tears at the end of each one, keep these videos up dude, thanks for the awesome content
0 likesThis documentary really moved me. I have no words as I'm still processing the feelings this brought up.
0 likesTremendous work Emp. Please keep making content like this!
I've come back to this video to admire the purity of it. EmpLemon, you have had my respect for 8 years now, and i think these videos have made me view you as a role model. This is easily my favorite video you've made, and probably among my favorite videos on this site period. I have saved your Never Ever videos and am putting them onto a DVD to keep as a memory for myself. You are a good man, thank you for such astounding content. :) ❤
0 likesThis video is fantastic! Thank you so much for making it, and also thanks Stanislav Petrov for his level head and clear thinking, I hope he rests in peace :)
0 likesHoly shit, this has happened more than once, more than one time did the fate of the world depend on one man, it also depended on the decision of Vasili Arkhipov. He was on a submarine carrying nuclear missiles by mere coincidence, he was not even assigned to be there, but vetoed the captain's orders to attack, effectively ending human civilization. This happened near the Cuban Missile crisis in October 1962.
link:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208342/Soviet-submariner-single-handedly-averted-WWIII-height-Cuban-Missile-Crisis.html?printingPage=true
I’ve binge watched this entire series, it’s incredible and engaging, bravo 👏
1 like22:40 i literally got goosebumps from this.
0 likesYou are one heck of a storyteller man
There is another man who did something like this. In a nuclear submarine in the carribean, during the cuban missile crisis some officers thought a war had started. Two out of three of them decided to push the buttons for launch, but It needed all three. Thankfully the last man did not believe there was a war yet and did not push it. One button push and nuclear fallout
1 likeAw, this is my favourite Never Ever episode. Sad to see it be so underrated in comparison to your other episodes.
0 likesThe editing in this video is amazing.the audio,visuals and the content itself pure quality.I know you may not see this but I would like to say thank you for this masterpiece of a video. the Manhattan Project was extremely overshadowed by the Berlin Wall and other stuff,in my opinion the Manhattan Project is just as if not more important then the Berlin Wall.
0 likesI found it interesting that you interpreted that Roger Dean painting at 24:18 as a metaphor for mutually assured destruction. I never would’ve thought of that painting that way. Really good video
0 likesI never thought I'd hear Dunkey's voice in a video about the Cold War, but somehow Emp incorporates in naturally. Well played.
0 likesAlso known as the most powerful powerless man, I feel like he is often forgotten and schools don’t really ever teach about him
0 likesYou have a serious talent for making documentaries, and with such variety too. Keep it up man.
0 likesHey I have been watching your videos for quite a while and I just want to say how your editing is the best I've seen. The high level of production and editing is amazing and remarkable. The topics you choose are capturing and you make them fascinating to watch and I credit you so much for having such top-tier videos. The best part is how these are all free, it should be a crime. You really are a gem on this website. You have opened my eyes to see a much bigger picture of analysis and depth. Thank you, EmpLemon.
0 likesI found this to be a very good video, one you normally wouldn't see. It's well produced, first off, but most people don't even think about being alive. To be alive at all is a huge game of chance, and most people don't realize how easily that life can be ended.
0 likesIt's very appropriate that you decided to have that "may" in the title.
2 likesSometime soon, perhaps not this year, or maybe not even in this decade, although I have personal doubts about that, we all could find ourselves once again at the mercy of a single someone... or something... that could determine the fate of our entire species at a whim.
If... no, not just "if", but when an entity emerges that possesses such power, pray that they emerge merciful, like Petrov was on that day.
The scariest part about visualizing the tsar bomba is that it’s only showing half of the bombs capabilities. The destructive power of tsar bomba had to be cut in half because the explosion was so large and so fast that there was no feasible way for the plane to make it out of the blast zone fast enough
0 likes38:40 is the most chilling part
5 likesYou seem fairly interested in this, you should read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. Very informative and you get, really, a general understanding of the foundations of our modern era and the men who built the atomic age from the ground up. One correction it makes is it wasn't actually Fermi who theorized the chain reaction, it was actually Leo Szilard theorizing how to get energy from the atom after the discovery of the neutron.
0 likes"So why did the bombs get so big?
39 likesChicken."
Me: OF COURSE! The Soviets always did envy the West's poultry production!
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I don't think any country envies our meatpacking industry
0 likesHey just wanted to say that your sense of kinetics is impeccable. Your WWF/WCW/WWE video was astounding, how you stitched images together to convey the scene without risking demonitization -- similar here. You've turned the limitations into the art itself and that's pretty neat
0 likesThis series usually ends with "there will never ever be", but this episode ends on a more solemn and maybe ominous, by adding two word to the formula, "have to". For everyone's sake, I hope it's true that we will never ever HAVE the need for a man like Petrov.
0 likesIt sucks that this type of amazing informative content can’t be monetized because it respectfully discusses topics like ww2 and nazis.
0 likesThis is my favorite episode of Never Ever so far. The fifth one is also very good, but not as good as this.
0 likesThank you, EmpLemon, for giving the world this gift. It shouldn't matter what you are or where you come from, the merit you bring to the world should be based on a simple act of saying no when the world is screaming yes at you. I feel lucky to be alive, all things considered, and I don't want to waste the gift Stanislav Petrov has left us all.
0 likes24:33 there was a russian man assigned to a nuclear sub off the coast of Cuba and they thought nukes had already been launched. 2 out of the 3 crewmembers voted to launch the nuke at Florida but the third man, who had picked that sub rather than the one he was assigned to, saved america and the world from a nuclear war
0 likesMay God rest soul and thank you Mr.Petrov! Coming from an American!
0 likesI still come back to this video after many watches and knowing the story in full beforehand because this video is just that good
0 likesOne thing I would have like to have mentioned is Stanislav's wife. At the time, she was at home, dying of cancer. Petrov, due to his security clearance, never told her. She died shortly after, Stanislav never remarried.
0 likesdam, almost didn't watch this episode because the subject wasn't interesting to me.
0 likesOf course, it had to be the best one, all thanks to lemon's amazing storytelling abilities
Was this video censored or something? I never remember getting a notification on this one and it also has far less views than all of the other 'Never Ever's. It just seems weird that I didn't realize this was here until now, when I actually went to your channel to see what recent videos I missed.
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Could be because it's a pretty niche hard to hear topic
5 likesone man was in a position to be god and he, as such, was our savior
0 likesThis guy really just used Half-Life music over a serious documentary and made it work well.
1 likeOne of the greatest stories I’ve ever heard.
0 likesFascinating and well produced. Thank you
0 likesGenuinely high quality content. Wasn't much a fan of the changes to the visual edits particularly toward the beginning, but you can kind of get used to them. The source names in big letters are a little distracting, mostly, kinda like how subbed anime makes you stop hearing the words that re being said because you focus on reading. Nice idea, but maybe make it take up less of the screen in future. Other than that a thoroughly entertaining video boyo.
0 likesedit I just realised this video came out a year ago and i never knew it existed. f. Your editing's improved.
The video's so good it gave me chills, man. Thank you.
0 likesVasili Arkhipov
1 likeActually stopped the cuban missle crisis because his fellow generals were ready to put their keys in and press the button but he said no due to this decision he singlehandedly stopped the cuban missle crisis
I like to think that on that day the universe spilt in two timelines, one where human civilization effectively ended and this one.
0 likesThis is a good video, but the bit about nuclear bombs ending WW2 omit the part where japan lost its last oil producing facility shortly before the bombs were dropped, and that Soviets were moving troops to fight japan, which the Japaneese tried to avoid the whole war after they got completly destroyed during the undeclared border war, they were going to such lengths as letting US convoy ships with land leese through to help out Soviets insted of sending them to the bottom of the sea. Sad truth is that US had a new toy and wanted to test it before the war ended.
0 likesthank god he thought "if it was real, why would the US only sent four missiles?"
2 likesI keep coming back to this video, and at this point, I think that it's definitely my favourite video on this website.
1 likeThe build up to the"I did what I was trained to do" clip along with the punchline itself outdoes anything I've seen on this site. Damn.
1 likeThe initial part was so crisp that I almost forgot that you are the same guy who made YTP, and the ⬇️ ➿. AND then you hit me with the Local58 reference. You are the tree that keeps on giving but which at the same time explains how we live in a SOCIETY.
2 likesThis got me crying. Beautiful.
0 likesMY GUY REPLICATED THE 2001 MATCH CUT! WHAT A GOD
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the what now?
1 likeJust wanna point out that the two nukes didn't really trigger the end of the war, Russia invading did. Japanese cities had been getting firebombed for years by the US (most of the buildings were wood so this was especially devastating), the nukes weren't realistically that different to the firebombs. Using the nukes had been a gambit to end the war before Russia joined in so as to prevent Russian claims on Japanese territory as opposed to a 'necessary evil to save American lives'. The war was going to end either way (and in fact analysts think Japan would have surrendered earlier, just not unconditionally.)
0 likes11:03 I’ve never seen a more perfect dunkey quote
2 likes22:41 that gave me chills
1 likeJust sent this to my history teacher. He was alive and lucid for the Cold War. Let's see what happens.
0 likesStanislav may just be the man I respect most in all of history.
0 likesAfter years on the platform, this is the greatest YouTube video ever!
0 likesalso the way you did the famous 2001 "match cut" but with a nuclear weapon... really really good editing!
0 likesThis is unironically the single best video i have ever watched, Period.
1 likeThe tsar bomba was only half of it's intended size and they wanted to make a bomb 2× more powerful
0 likesThis video deserves so much more attention
1 likeI loved this. Keep it up!
0 likesThis man....this man is a beautiful man.
0 likesThank you Mr. Petrov.
1 likewhat a fucking incredible video... i mean really as a human being one can only hope to act as selflessly as stan petrov did that day. I hope with all my being that should the situation present itself, there is another person like stan in a position to stop humanity from destroying ourselves.
0 likesFor an idea of how big the Tsar Bomba reference was at 22:43, I grew up about an hour drive from Manhattan, and my home town was still just inside the outer circle.
0 likesIf our good guy Stan Petrov would have made the wrong decision, we wont be here now.
0 likesGot the biggest chill of my life.
29:29 - 30:50 Using that date, we get 38 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki and 26 years since the launch of Sputnik. In terms of space-time, that leaves basically nothing in our close range space neighborhood to observe any advanced technology we ever achieved and only 0.013% of our existence that we've been able to send out information to space. Granted we now have another 37 years on that total but we almost didn't. Given that, what hope is there that anything out there would be able to contact us deliberately?
0 likesThis is the closest we will ever get to pretty good episode 4
1 like7:09 I think it's "few people laughed, few people cried..."
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It is.
0 likesThe Einstein quote about WW4 really struck a chord with me
0 likesi just want to say thank you, lemon. im not sure why, but i have this feeling that i need to say this. call me crazy but, thank you.
0 likesNever ever be a man as powerful as Petrov. As powerful as Petrov. So someone can be more powerful but not as powerful as Petrov?
0 likesThere was another Russian, on a nuclear sub, that came close to allowing nuclear war to begin.
0 likesWhay a documentory man! This is amazing. Should be broadcasted on TV or netflix and made a series
0 likesthis is so fucking amazing dude holy shit. this video is so good I can't put it in words.
0 likesStan Petrov is that one first-name-only desk guy that makes that one teensy A or B decision that could shift the entire story one way or another. Here's to some Russian guy who didn't follow protocol.
0 likesbeautiful ending, shit nearly made me cry
0 likesthis is so good, history channel aint got nothin on the boy EmpLemon
0 likesmy new favourite youtuber. keep it up amigo, with love from Australia <3
0 likesSo when nuclear apocalypse comes, I'm supposed to duck and cover and NOT run like hell?
1 likeSmall nitpick, but the letter to FDR to pursue nuclear weapons was only signed by Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard actually wrote it.
0 likesAnd both Castlo Bravo and the Tsar bomba were fusion bombs, not "refined fission" bombs.
0 likesThe advertisements used for the Patreon and NordVPN are very nostalgic.
8 likesIn order to reach world peace we have to accept our differences, not brush them under the rug.
1 like"We have been judged by Stanislav Petrov and found unwanted."
1 likei appreciate the amount of half-life music in this video. very fitting
0 likesDunkey was the last person I expected to hear quoted in this video about nuclear war ngl
0 likesThe Half-Life OST was used very well here, good job.
0 likesThis is one of the most terrifying videos I have ever watched.
1 likeThe Halifax Disaster was not a TNT explosion, it had many other explosives including powder and picric acid.
0 likesGreat Doc.. loved it and felt it. Just watch thats all.
0 likesAstonishingly good, thank you Lemon
0 likesA lot of misinformation about the USSR but a well made documentary
0 likesThat has filled the void left after the copyright takedown of Jon Bois' video on Stanislav Petrov. Thank you.
0 likesAbsolutely brilliant vid!
0 likesabsolutely great incredible video good work
0 likesMaybe if Operation: Unthinkable had been enacted in the time before the Soviets had access to Nuclear weapons, meaning they could not retaliate, then the Cold War may have been averted. The oppression of the Iron Curtain may have been averted. There were millions of lives affected by Soviet oppression, perhaps dropping one bomb and steamrolling the USSR in a quick series of strikes may have been worth it. Alas, this did not happen.
0 likesThanks for not ending with Imagine by John Lennon
0 likesWhat would you do if you had the choice to decide humanity's fate in a few seconds.
0 likesNever Ever is to EmpLemon as Pretty Good is to Jon Bois
0 likesΤhis moved me to tears
0 likesStan Petrov and Vasil Arkhipov.
1 likeRemember their names.
Damn EMP that Ad break was Aesthetic AF
0 likesimagine we find a new alien civilization and the very next day we witness their judgement day before we could communicate
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That would actually be kinda freaky, imagine how many books and movies would be made, and if it was the other way around. Damn, thats a good idea!
0 likesThat would be a pretty good idea for a Short........
0 likesHoly shit, I can't believe humanity was saved because someone gambled... What luck!
0 likesActually the president could fire nukes on a whim. The checks and balances are for lower level personell. There is essentially nothing to stop the US president from "pressing the button", because if there was, America might not get their missiles in air before the enemy's missiles hit.
1 likeSoooo....This is what happened to emperor lemon while I was gone.....wow.
0 likesI'm from Halifax, it's referred to as the 'Halifax Explosion' not 'Disaster'.
0 likes21:21 wow someone actually used nukemap I mess around on there all the time and I've never seen someone else mention it
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dude, i used to do the same thing on Nukemap
1 likeFun fact, einstein did not write the letter, Leo Szilard wrote it and then persuaded Einstein to send it to Roosvelt under his name to begin the Manhattan Proyect.
0 likesI just cried man. I was here to have a little laugh
0 likesVery good video, but there's one major mistake. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan to surrender, a different event made them commit such an act.
0 likesWhat about the Soviet officer on that submarine in the Cuban missile crisis who voted no to launch the nuclear missiles aboard after a American destroyer launched a dummy depth charge to tell the submarine to come up knowing its radar and communications were turned off even to it's own fleet and they freaked out, and all but the political officer wanted to launch a nuclear missile thinking war had just happened I forget the name but yeah
0 likesThis is why we need to build Peacewalker.
0 likesYou did good Comerade
1 likeYou did good
I wonder why I feel like watching Dr. Strangelove now?
0 likes38:43 chilled me to the bone.
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Holy fuck, I have never got the chills like that in my life
0 likesI know this comment will not be important, but I feel like I must say it. Stanislav, though I will never meet you, never get to thank you in person, I want you to know that I am grateful to you. If not for your right decision, I would not exist nor would the love of my life exist. Humanity as a whole would be gone, and I, being before your time, would have never know existents. So, I thank you, for being the right man, at the right place, at the right time.
0 likesAmazing video mate
0 likesHow do you edit so well
0 likesand then able archer happened two months later
0 likesIt's a good thing humanity learned from Petrov and stopped idolizing celebrities for the shoes they wear and worshipping athletes for playing children's games.
0 likesThis man used to do YTP
0 likesVery good documentary
0 likesну офигеть)
1 likeIt’s absolutely disgusting that anyone thought that dropping the atomic bombs were necessary. So many innocent children dead.
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It stopped the deadest war in human history. How many lives spared it could be looked at it.
2 likesIf they hadn't, the war would have continued for many years and many more innocent children would have died. World War 2 wasn't very epic overall.
4 likesIt was a choice of either Dropping the Bombs or Invading Japan until they surrendered (they were unlikely to surrender until destroyed). The latter was likely to cause millions of more Japanese deaths and up to a million extra American deaths. War is not justified, but the choice Truman made to end it was the only logical one.
2 likesUNIT 731
2 likes20:25
2 likesIs that Squidward? You can even see his nose if you look at it hard enough.
... I really should get around to watching Dr. Strangelove...
0 likesThe statistic at 4:33 is misleading. Why are you comparing all US military deaths some time after WWII to an event that happened in WWII? There were 418,000 American casualties in WWII, 3x as many as were killed at Hiroshima.
0 likesthe one claim you got from this was from A SONG THAT SAMPLED THE SAMUEL L JACKSON LINE?????? unbelievable. You're three part series about the copyright system being busted is no joke.
0 likesAmazing video!
If I could get a clip of 22:00 - 23:00 i could find many a use for that
0 likesFear of SJWs and runaway progressivism is not paranoia when we have historical precedent for precisely what it leads to and what the ultimate outcome of it will be.
1 likeOak Ridge was not the headquarters of the project, Los Alamos was. That was where the main effort was located.
0 likesStanislov petrov died on my birthday. That's sad to think about.
0 likesI am scared that this is the only never ever video that started with there may not there will
0 likes10:43 Radiation is not a chemical property.
0 likes16:12 this music is hellishly familiar
0 likes500k view on this is fucking criminal, this should be shown in schools
1 likeIf you want to honor someone, at least try to pronounce his/her name wrong. At least put the the accent on the right syllable. It ain't hard.
0 likesUS and Russia are ALOT closer than 5k miles. Like 50 miles or some shit
0 likesWhy is a YouTube Pooper such a great Video Essayist? Emplemon you have changed, for the better! I mean I still miss having the occasional YouTube poop, but this is even better.
0 likesI come back to 22:08 every now and then.
0 likesIsn't that ironic that less than a month after this video INF treaty was cancelled.
1 likeLove the local58 references.
1 likeDo Vietnam! Do Vietnam!
1 like9:12 "Сила" doesn't mean "good". It's "power"
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Paketiq that may have been an accident but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was intentional.
19 likesThat would be "добро", I think.
4 likes@Bari seems totally plausible
2 likes@supra107 correct
2 likesWhat does the word representing America mean, unless it just means evil.
0 likes@Some Guy
0 likesЗло means evil, yes
I thought that "vlast" meant "power" and "sila" meant strength
0 likes@Alexander Korol власть ("vlast") means power in the sense of authority. It's more akin to the word "rule". Whoever rules over anything (usually a country/kingdom/empire/etc) is the vlast of it and its people. The United States government is the vlast of the USA. Kim Jon Un and his party are the vlast of North Korea. A chief of a tribe and his direct support are the vlast of the tribe - because the scale here is so small, other words like глава (head) or whatever the word for ruler is are used instead but I don't think using vlast here is entirely incorrect, just that there are better choices.
1 likeRussian is my second language and English is my third, so I'm sure there are better explanations of this and I am definitely missing some of the nuance of the vocabulary, but this should be fairly accurate. Hope this helps a little :]
Side note:
In Hebrew there is a direct word to vlast though: שלטון (shilton)
Not sure if this is useful to anyone but there ya go.
@SiMe What's your first language?
0 likes@Alexander Korol Hebrew. I live in Israel (guess who's under constant nuclear threat and other regular threats xD) but my mom is Russian. So she taught me Russian while the surroundings taught me Hebrew. I started using the internet around 7th grade and there I had no choice but to learn English and so I did. Learned some French in school but didn't do any of the homework (as all classes go) so I ultimately failed and have an extremely small understanding of the language. Learned a little Arabic in 5th/6th grade and my dad (he is from Iraq) taught me a tiny bit but it too is not sufficient to do anything with. Currently learning Japanese so I can read some of the untranslated comics (manga) that exists there which is often more interesting than the more popular stuff in both art and story. Really enjoy learning languages. It helps expand thinking and integrate concepts, percepts and ideas better. Highly recommend anyone pick any language and learn at least one extra. If you plan to have kids, get them to learn 1 or 2 extra languages early on you'll see some amazing results. My nephew's speak 3 languages and they are only 4 years old. Their dad speaks only Hebrew with them, their mom only speaks Russian with them and they live in Canada so their environment teaches them English. Pretty cool :]
0 likes@SiMe What manga do you read? If you haven't read them already. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Attack on Titan, The Promised Neverland, and Mob Psycho 100 are all pretty great.
1 like@Alexander Korol haven't gotten into JoJo's or Mob yet. You can see everything on my channel (mainly the collection video and the ones afterwards). There is just too much to put in a comment. Some very cool things to see imo if you enjoy the medium and especially the physical volumes. My taste is not very orthodox so I can't really make recommendations aside from the consensus masterpieces.
1 likeWell, I'm really glad my comment attracted some weebs
0 likes@Paketiq I don't think you know what a weeb is
0 likes@Paketiq fine I guess
0 likes"The spiritual death of a nation." I had never actually considered it like that, but now I realize it is obvious true. Jeez.
7 likesna , that title goes to my NC brother who singlehandledly dropped the biggest kill count in history
0 likesWe need another petrov
23 likesWHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SONG THAT STARTS AROUND 5:20 PLEASE
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ALSO AT 11:40 DAMNIT
0 likeshe should have pushed the button
0 likesi just noticed it's "there may Never Ever be" instead of "there will Never Ever be". that's perfectly chilling.
14 likesThere should be a fucking statue of this guy made out of pure gold in front of the UN building.
0 likesThis is actually a higher quality documentation than you can see them on TV
7 likesFeel like 16:02 is a local 58 reference if so good work honestly
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Yeah just watched it definitely a reference
0 likesIf there was a standing ovation button I would press it my friend. Great video.
4 likesWatching this video while thinking about the uncredibles is something very strange. I know that was so long ago, but I can't help but think of your YTP roots. Regardless, this was a great video
5 likesWhy isn't the nord VPN link in russian? WESTERN SPY
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Nordic spy*
27 likes:D
0 likesLove ur name
1 likeWho said the line about pushing a game to its limit? I wanna find that
0 likes29:39 that song is from gran turismo 4 a spec on the ps2
0 likes"Bombs that would end ww2"
0 likesEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
22:47 i was legitemately SHOCKED. I had no idea of the sheer size of JUST the explosion. That is absolutely terrifying.
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That test was a scaled down version of the bomb as to allow the planes crew to survive as well.
2 likesBeautiful
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Valerie yes
4 likeshow
4 likesHow was this commented 20 hours ago
18 likesTrue!
1 likehow
0 likesWhat
0 likesCongrats, you- WAIT 20 HOURS AGO?!
1 like@Tazio Benfanti PATREON
3 likes+xD3n15
3 likesPatreon support.
🤔
0 likesWait how did you post this 20 hours ago
0 likes@Condescending online Man PATREON BOI
1 likewow emp lesbian confirmed
1 likeWut
0 likesGuys she is Emp's real life gf.
5 likesTorque and Thermo ooohhh ok
0 likes21 hours ago!?
0 likesHello from 21 hours later!
0 likestime traveler confirmed?!
0 likesI sincerely hope you're not still on the right after researching this.
0 likesI should have known this episode was better than the other ones, cause it's the only one that doesn't pop up on my recommends.
0 likesI would push it.
0 likes36:02 I hear Tourist Trophy!
0 likes"We are now gods, but for the wisdom"
17 likes- Eric Weinstein
The hypocrisy on that Red Menace poster is hilarious
0 likesDude is this just 10 high school lectures in 1 or what lmao
1 like“Will there ever be world peace?”
4 likesN O
I hate the fact that the most recent video in this series is related to videogames (1.5 million views as of February 18, 2020), while this video, with a very serious and scary topic only has 400,000 views
0 likes"searching for the next evil empire" maybe try a mirror?
0 likes14:58 – Hey, it's nice to see you collaborating with Mumkey again!
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You got me! I was like when? Than I saw the clip XD.
14 likesCan’t dunk the Mumk.
15 likes@Goodie Spastic?
2 likes@Chef Remy idk about other countries but its a pretty common insult in australia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ also could use "spaz" instead
7 likes@Daniel Bull I don't think Mumkey wanted to leech off of sheepover at first when they became gf and bf but I think Mumkey was corrupted
4 likes@Daniel Bull chill man , he is going through shit
8 likesOh hey! I feel like I recognize you from somewhere...
1 like@Chef_Roach who?
0 likes@Gyaku okay my bad but everything else (I think) is true
0 likes@Void of Space and Time okay i fixed it
1 like@Butch Deloria I'm not angry?
0 likesEmplemon just cloned bunch of mumkey jones so they can start in a Bruno Mars music video.
0 likesThe comparison to the Hawaii false alarm is haunting. Brilliant analysis. Absolutely brilliant.
5 likesWhen you go from talking about cartoons to wrestling to racing to a man who for 12 seconds what's the most powerful person on earth
30 likesPARKOUR
Chilling
0 likesEveryone before September 26, 1983 should thank Petrov for still being alive, and everyone after September 26, 1983 should thank Petrov for being born.
276 likesI hope this comment doesn't get buried....
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Mark your calendars. The twenty sixth of September's a day we should all remember.
3 likes@Vir ofc i do, life is prison for soul
1 liketalking about big decisions in life... o.o
0 likes12:12 , Me an da bois finna stop Hitler
0 likesMirin' those production-quality gains Emp, keep up tbe good work!
4 likesWhat about Vasily Arkipov
1 likeThe segment at 22:09 is truly terrifying to imagine if it occurred in reality
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Well, the Tsar Bomba was detonated, so in a way, it happened.
0 likesIt wasn’t sent on civilians, it was just tested. So it was still set off, but imagine if it were used on a major city...
2 likesThis might just be your most well edited video yet.
3 likes22:42 made me feel sick
0 likes24:45
0 likesTexans: 😂
“Now I have become death, Destroyer of worlds” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
39 likesi never noticed the local58 part in the middle
1 likelocal58 is great
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Juan Stamos local 58 is amazinf
0 likesThe title should be named “There should never ever be a man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov”
3 likesMan, the timeline we're on is freaking weird
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I agree.
1 like@douglas wahid Earth's civilization is more than just lucky.
6 likesWe got goddamn lucky. I don't want to nor know how to do the math, but there's more than a handful of zeros that would accompany the number of odds against us getting to this point I bet. Nothing short of a miracle.
7 likesIts not weird because we're lucky...its weird because we prop up sick people as super human, and let people like Petrov fade away.
0 likesAfter I hear that Campaign Advertisement, everytime I think of Fatboy Slim's "Bird of Pray" lol
0 likesAlways hated these VPN ads back in the 30th
0 likes"Do you think God remains in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he has created? Protect your information today". Brought to you by Google Translate
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Nigga I didn't even need Google Translate for that.
0 likesRonald Reagan was one of America’s greatest Presidents 🇺🇸
1 likeNever ever will there be someone like EmpLemon. Glad iv lived to see you my friend.. 😶
4 likesdont't watch this while eating
0 likesIs that general Sam?
0 likesYay Dunko in this
0 likesYoi could make a religiion kut of this
0 likesShort form of Stanislav is Stas not Stan (Basically every Russian name has a short form, it does not have to be logical (example Wladimir - Wowa))
6 likeswhat ending song
0 likesBest like dislike ratio ever
0 likesThank you for these recent videos Emp. I think this documentary type style fits you way better than making videos about recent stuff on YouTube. The episodes in Never Ever and YouTube Geographic are some of the best things you’ve made. I’ve been watching you for years, and this video has hit me hard. Keep it up.
0 likesMan if I wasn’t a broke college student I’d become a patron in a heartbeat. I honestly feel guilty watching this for free.... this documentary is just, incredible really.
1 likeEmp, if you’re still making documentaries like this in say, 4 years, expect to receive a donation from myself
your never ever & youtube geographic series is genuinely one of my favorites on the website, and an inspiration to my video editing... keep up the great work dude, can't wait for what's next.
0 likesGod damn it Lemon, I truly think you make some of the best stuff on this entire website. The fact that you are just some guy who used to make youtube poops, and that now you, a normal guy, make highly passionate videos about anything and everything, is just so REAL. There's no fakeness involved with what you make, and you divert so much care and passion into all of it. And when you handle topics as powerful as the Cold War, and the complete nuclear annihilation of the planet, that same passion that leads to movie-length videos about meme theory or spongebob lends it so much credibility, it's amazing. You made me cry, Emp. You just made one of the best documentaries I've ever watched, to be honest.
0 likesThanks for all you do, and truly, do whatever the hell you find yourself passionate about. That's what we love about you and everything you make.
22:09 - 22:55
1 likeProbably my favorite moment from the video. To think that a while after making a YTP revolving around Samuel L. Jackson, he would use him again for one of the most impactful illustrations of nuclear power I have ever seen. The biggest thing is this: there were weapons made after Tsar Bomba more powerful than Tsar Bomba. And it took one man to call launching them off.
This one resonates so well it’s just amazing the quality of it and it reflects the sheer passion of the series as a whole
0 likesEmpLemon has truly ascended past regular video composition. No franchise or media company will ever produce the way he can. I dream of one day becoming as good or even better than him.
1 likeThis is absolutely phenomenal, one of the best made videos on youtube that I have ever seen, bar none. However, I would like to highlight something that is even more obscure than Stanislav Petrov, something that was essentially glossed over in this video.
0 likesDuring the Cuban Missile Crisis, during the blockade where American and Soviet ships were facing off, just like in Berlin decades earlier, 3 Admirals on a submarine had the option of firing a nuclear missile, which would have inevitably lead to world destruction. Two admirals said yes. One said no. That one man, like Stanislav Petrov, saved the world with his critical thinking.
You ended this video with the hope that there will never have to be another man like Petrov. However, I would argue that he was the "other man" to this Admiral, who did something so eerily similar years in the past.
I am absolutely fascinated by your editing style and incredible content quality and research. Keep up the good work, emplemon. Do you have merch?
1 likeThis is honestly one of the best researched and best edited video on YouTube. Fantastic job. This deserves more views than it has.
0 likesHoly shit this is so good, like I’ve been a fan of your never ever series since the spongebob one, and they’re just so well done. Also that dunky clip caught me so off guard.
0 likesMan, I only started watching these Never Ever videos just yesterday, but god damn these are so well produced
0 likesKeep up the good work, Emp.
Thank you for enlightening us about this great man! 💜
0 likesWe take existence for granted.
For school I’ve written papers on the Cold War and the Manhattan project, meaning that I didn’t learn much new information from this. But this video is full of great information and one of the best documentaries on the Cold War I’ve ever seen.
1 likeThis documentary is just so unrealistically well done! Outstanding work!
1 likeIt would be pretty dope to see maybe a music never ever. Something like that will never ever be another song like this one or etc. it feels like that would be a cool and interesting video to watch since the other have been about pretty surprising topics, it would be interesting to se what a creator like you could do with a concept like that
1 likeAbsolutely amazing content. Please continue making these for mine and everyone elses sake
1 likeThis is the best show on YouTube and there may Never Ever be another show as creative and compelling as this one
2 likesHey Emp lemon big fan of the series and your channel. I was wondering if maybe you would consider making a never ever on team fortress two and it’s impact on the video game industry. It seems like your a fan of tf2 and as someone who grew up playing the series I’m also a pretty huge fan. But overall I hope you continue the series no matter what you make next.
0 likesI Was Honestly shocked by this whole documentary, you do better work than most Big budget corporations. Needless to say, I'm Impressed and glad i watched this
1 likeWhile watching, I knew I recognized the music, I had no idea how truly haunting the half life soundtrack could actually be. Fuck. What an amazing video Emp, thank you for so much hard work.
0 likesWow this really hit home.... thank you for creating such a fantastic and thought provoking film!
0 likesAnother insightful and amazing documentary. Bravo Emp!
1 like1983 had another moment where nuclear war came close. During November 4th-7th, NATO conducted a war exercise known as Able Archer. The soviets felt as if the games were them actually preparing to do a first strike, so the Soviet premier Yuri Andropov was ready to launch the Soviet Arsenal in his hospital bed if he felt if even in the slightest that the allies were going to attack
0 likesThat part about Japan in the beginning is my favorite, what with perfect music, visuals, and a good topic as a lead up to how making the Japanese surrender was a big feat.
2 likesI like to think that some meta force created the false warning just to see if humanity could be trusted to continue or not. Seeing that one man, despite all of his training, still had faith that both his country and the enemy he’s lived all of his life hating would never usher in the apocalypse on a whim warmed their hearts. We passed their test.
1 likeA year later...
10 likes"There will Never Ever be another Giant Monster like Godzilla (Gojira)"
Note: this isn't the only time something like this happend during the cold war.
3 likesYour video work is incredible. I don't know how much time you spent making this and other great videos of yours but Thank You.
0 likesAs someone who was born in the former Soviet Union, but grew up in the US, this type of content is super interesting
1 likeI honestly think that there have been and will be many more times where the worlds fate rested in a single persons hands, but nobody realized it at the time or after
0 likeseven with 300k views i feel like this documentary is underrated
5 likesGREAAAT stuff Emp! l LOVE that you're into the Prog music too! The Roger Dean Yessongs Album artwork blew me away! l bought that album in '81, eight years after lt came out!
2 likesCongrats emp, you made my favorite never ever video but also my new fear
0 likesThat commie saved us! Thank you and God bless you Stanislav Petrov! Great video emp, these always get better and better, I really get the feelings and emotions from this vid. Thank you man!
0 likesIn all seriousness, technically we've had multiple judgement days. Anyone remember the Goldsboro B-51 accident where a bomber carrying two nuclear bombs broke up at 9,000 ft? One of the bombs did arm but thanks to a malfuntioning high voltage arming device, it never exploded. The first one was disarmed by only one of four arming mechanisms. Think about that. I also believe we have another judgement day coming up. Our maniacal appettite for resources has already resulted in us using more resources in one year than the earth can supply. We're polluting at an alarming rate. The issue with this problem is that since its consequences aren't immediatly felt, I worry that our collective tendency to procrastinate on issues that aren't banging down the door will be our inevitable doom. I hope we come to our senses before its too late. But that's just another hurdle in the fight for survival. Remember, you're here today because every one of your ancestors fought and overcame their existential challenges. This is not a time to give up but to fight.
0 likesGood video EmpLemon. Fat chance you are reading this but for your next Never Ever episode, can you make There Will Never Ever Be Another Pitchman Like Billy Mays. He died 10 years and 4 months ago.
2 likesI've been watching you since the uncredibles, I know I'm a bit late to this video but it amazes me how much respect and research went into this video. You should do more video essays in this style
0 likesYou have an exceptional talent. I hope you continue to develop and hone this talent.
1 likeThis video is really well made, thank you
0 likesThis was masterfully done !
0 likesI think you've found your calling dude, these videos are some of the best I've ever seen on this site.
1 likeAll of the other Never Ever videos: There will* never ever be-
0 likesThis one: There may never ever be-
Never second guess humanity's power to place people into doomsday scenarios.
In the 60s during the Cuban missile crisis something very similar to this happens in a Russian nuclear submarine and they almost launched the nuclear torpedo thinking world war 3 all ready started but the final commanding officer in the submarine didn't approve the launch therefore stoping the launch
1 likeI like that it pays some respect to him, cause thanks for not blowing us all up
3 likesThat re-contextualization of the dunky quote was genius.
0 likesman never thought id see the day a ytper become a history channel for one vid
1 likeAlso worthy of note is Vasily Arkhipov, another Russian (this time, aboard a submarine) who had to make the same call: approve the firing of nukes towards the U.S. and essentially destroy the world, or disapprove. I'm sure you can guess what choice he made.
0 likes7:25 So that's where that comes from. Fitting how it's being used to describe nuclear fallout.
8 likesVasili arkhipov was in a similar situation in the Cuban missile crisis
2 likes16:40 that musical reference is clever.
14 likesIf the parallel universe theory is correct that means that there’s a universe where he reported the missiles and a nuclear holocaust ensued. Just let that sink in for a moment.
0 likesHe saved our lives.
0 likesTHIS IS BEAUTIFUL THIS IS THE BEST DOUCMENTARY I HAVE EVER SEEN!
0 likesBrilliantly done.
1 like7:02-7:35 what an unbelievably powerful statement
0 likesYour videos are insanely good
0 likesThank you
Thank you
0 likesThis is the best most engaging video on this topic i have ever seen. If you never make another video then you can bie happy Becouse you have truly in reached the heman race as a hola with this work.
I loved every moment of this video and spent 3 time longer the the video it self researching every point and running all your numders. Only to have my mind blown by what i found. The zare bomba bata my should was one of the most nightmarishly deep rabbit holes of All consuming Alsome i ever encountered. That scene for pop fiction but it perfectly. Ture werth of god shit. Its one thing to hear about it an another to do the math to the point you can feel the blast it self. Seeing it so completelt eclapes the Hiroshima blast as to make it completely eralavent is laterally something i will never forgot or be able to un see. Thank you
There was alot of sumillar situations on both sides.
0 likesI heard story that Soviet submarine almost launch all of it payload because it lost contact with HQ
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CONFORMING AND USING THE METRIC SYSTEM!!! <3
0 likesI can not find words for how awesome 11:02 is!
0 likesI gotta admit i would have pushed the button. Wow THANK YOU Stanislav for making the correct choice
0 likesHonestly this is one of the best videos I have ever watchdd
1 likeI really like this video, wish you'd make one on the US and the middle east
0 likesI am proud of my city for making the nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants.
0 likesIf you ever do another one of these about a sports player for the live of god please get Jon Bois in on it
0 likesThis video has such a powerful effect on me
1 likeDid Emplemon use VideoGameDunkey to describe war using a video game review?
0 likesThis video is a masterpiece.
Emplemon: Nuclear warfare has remained in the realm of fiction
12 likesjapan: am I a joke to you
As an Alaskan, Cold War 2 would be catastrophic for me
0 likesLemmino makes video about the apocalypse. Ends with a song from Aphrodite's Child called End of the World. (Stanislov Petrov was mentioned)
0 likesEmplemon makes a video about the development of nuclear weapons and the threat of annihilation. Ends with a Coke ad about love. (Stanislov Petrov was mentioned)
A double feature of two kinds of perspectives.
Mentions the victors of WW2
2 likesDoesn't mention the UK, nice
This dude saved the world, and his name is forgotten by most. HOW IN THE FUCK?!?!
1 likeThe void stared back and Petrov didn't blink
0 likesCan you make more never ever videos that have to deal with the military in some way? NORAD maybe?
0 likes11:02 just here to leave the dunkey time stamp
12 likesthat pulp fiction section was chilling to the bone
1 likeWe started as people of creation and ended as gods of destruction
0 likescan we appreaciate the fact that at 3:00 he is playing half life music?
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Yes kelly bailey is a legend
0 likesMy American pride wants me to say that there will be a man more powerful, but this Russian did one of the most American things you can do, trust your gut and stand with your instincts.
0 likesimagine if Stas Petrov just slept
0 likes15:16 love that jumpcut
0 likesI love this video so much.
0 likes16:03 Emp, are you secretly part of the local 58 project or something?
15 likesThe tsar bomb section...
2 likesholy fucking shit dude oh my God
It happened all ways, multiverse bro, we're just here observing the only possibility that lead to us being able to observe.
0 likesFuck it, I’ll still form the Brotherhood of Steel
0 likesThe usage of a quote from videogamedunkey was genius.
0 likes22:08 best part of this video
0 likesRequesting there will never be another creator like Stan Lee
4 likesEmpLemon is the up and coming youtube creator.
0 likesthere may Never Ever be another athlete as fast as Barry Sanders
0 likesLoving those Quentin Tarantino references
0 likesMake a “Never Ever” about Avatar the last airbender
0 likesthis video is amazing
0 likesLast I looked you made a video about leafyishere going from nothing to something and to nothing. Now, today, I see this. I got goosebumps several times. Bravo, fantastic.
0 likesWe where all saved because one man dare disobey orders.
0 likesI like it Lemon, but there is just too much that's glossed over or moderately incorrect without proper context.
0 likesI can't go into everything, but you should have also focused on the exact moment more than the history. The history overall is too much to talk about and you do a disservice to history.
Not a bad video, but there are some issues
Hold up was this your version of pretty good episode 4? The lost episode? And it's the 4th of yours too. Wow.
0 likesAmazing
0 likesWhat if i didn't wanna be born and wanted humanity to not exist, does that make him my enemy?
0 likes18:40 "The U.S. and Russia are separated by about 5,000 miles"
52 likesUmm... (looks at the Bering Strait and Diomede islands)
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YouTube documentaries...
1 likeYou'll notice the line is drawn from Moscow to DC.
18 likesTheir capital cities - as in where the countries are administered from - are 5000 miles apart.
Also it's worth remembering that while Alaska has population centers, they aren't on the scale of LA, NYC, Chicago, or DC. Also Russia is really just tundra in Siberia, and the only major Russian city on that side of the map I KNOW of is Vladivostok. Considering this, EmpLemon isn't exactly wrong...
8 likesThis is an underrated video.
0 likesplease do never ever on kevin vandam for fishing or kelly slater for surfing
0 likesAnother amazing video
0 likesThis video is art
0 likesI love and hate these videos because they interest me yet terrify me at the same time
0 likesI dont like this assumption you have of how the military works. The human element is the first and foremost component of any kind of warfare and the idea that the military trains people be robots is absurd.
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He's still overall right, especially considering the Soviet military's much more rigid nature, but it's still painting in very broad strokes.
0 likesthe topic of nuclear annihilation really scares me. fr keeps me up at night. dont be stupid humanity. 🤞🙏
0 likesThis is one of the most scariest videos i've ever watched
0 likesHOW DID I MISS 4 OF YOUR VIDEOS
0 likesI made a video for school about this 2 months prior, just now finding it!
0 likesI feel like your explanation of Bushido was poor. But oh well. This isn’t a Japanese history video.
0 likestrying to fight back the tears
0 likesI used 22:40 to test our new subwoofer.
0 likesIt works
I was so confused when Dunkey came in.. I had paused just before it, and when I unpaused he started talking and I was like "hmm some kinda youtube bug" 😂
0 likesthey were warned that the city would be firebombed like tokyo did they should have listned oh and both bombs are still lower deaths then the tokyo firebombings
0 likeswhat do you use to make your videos?
0 likesI can’t believe this documentary is free
1 likeYou said none of us know how much time we have left but what about people on death row?
0 likesyou should make a never ever about the WRC and the group b racing
0 likes9:11 it says "strength;evil" and what narrator says "good and evil"
3 likesUSA: Hey Japan
0 likesJapan: Yeah?
USA: Vibe check
Hiroshima and Nagasaki gone
The Stanislav Parable
0 likes8:04 I know this video is pretty old (and as such there's not much of a reason for you to respond), but I'm wondering how in the world you got such a discoloration/vhs effect going on?
0 likeshahah why is my brain so flimsy
You cant have agency without power lol
0 likesA true Slav man
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i really cant comprehend what goes inside the minds of those people, they have the power to destroy life at a massive level, and they still can sleep at night.
0 likesSure, drop the bomb, you will erradicate all your enemies, but you will also cause all the suffering for everyone else, including your own people.
imagine waking up, all is nothing but cinders, no building, no plants, no people at all, just the sound of the wind and the smell of hell, and knowing it was all your fault.
COME ON YOUTUBE LET THESE GET MORE VIEWS DAMMIT
0 likesEmp, did you just use an entire segment to reference Local58?
0 likesThere Will Never Ever be Another Game like GTA: San Andreas
0 likesThere will Never Ever be another band like Nirvana
0 likesNobody : ...
0 likesAmerica : *puts atomic bombs near Russia *
Russia : *puts atomic bombs near America *
America : I’m a good guy!
Do “There will never be another GTA IV/San Andreas”.
1 likeThe videogamedunkey quote was a nice touch
1 like>Emp puts local58 in the video
0 likesah, a man of culture, i see
16:40 It's the US Anthem from Local58 - Contingency!
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Fitting.
0 likesfuck yeah, great Soft Machine track
1 likeThere will Never Ever be another Never Ever video
1 likeSuggestion: There will never ever be another game like Minecraft
0 likesThe conclusion that it was a false alarm doesn't seem like a difficult one to come to, I'm sure only the dumbest of people would've pressed the big red button on that, luckily Stanislav wasn't overtly stupid.
0 likesThere Will Never Ever be Another Newspaper Comic Like Calvin and Hobbes?
1 like28:35 Ya'll didn't mind killing 200k lmao, there was no good or evil side
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It was either that or fire bombing, which would have resulted in more deaths.
0 likesloved the 2001 cut
0 likesThanks for continuing to try.
0 likeswhy don't they play this in classes instead of the mostly BS and Oversimplified documentaries?
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Oversimplified is another good creator.
2 likesThe 50th anniversary of the Moon Landings is in 13 days!!! Also, the description is a Russian translation of a certain famous quote from Spy Kids
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Is it possible that you could translate? I’d love to know what it says.
0 likes@cole train Do you think God remains in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he has created?
21 likes@ceraypx123 Ah thank you very much. The translation is appreciated.
1 likeOoooooh a Fermi paradox reference with an allusion to the Easter islanders. Nice
0 likesSimply Astonishing sir !
13 likesYou deserve the best !
You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time; now, we finally have the power to finish the job. - The Comedian
14 likesI fail to understand how you made a 41 minute video on the 1983 nuclear alarm incident.... and somehow didn't even make a single "99 Luftballons" reference. Maybe you hid it too well. I'm impressed.
7 likesDont think I missed that slick Local58 reference
0 likes22:41 I didn’t realize how scary a nuke was until now...
3 likesaccording to google transalate, the description says, "Do you think God remains in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he has created?"
7 likesThat first NordVPN ad you put mid video, that background audio was made by the local58 channel on their "contingency plan"
0 likesWe are now 100 seconds away from Midnight
0 likesSleep tight brothers I hope for the best
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2020: Plague Wars
0 likesДа, приятелю мой. Я тоже думаю Бог не лубит свой создал. Мы очень страшном.
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@JSA Gaming Нет лол.
0 likes@Fluff the Sergal Вы говорите по-английски
0 likes@JSA Gaming Да я могу. Почему ты хочешь познаьсят?
0 likes@Fluff the Sergal ok
0 likes@JSA Gaming Why did you say "Fuck America"? xD
0 likesOk ivan
0 likesUsing a Dunkey audio clip as a parallel to the nuclear arms race is the best thing I have ever seen
4 likesDude, you don't have to look hard for equivalents of the "evil empire." Just ask North Koreans, Crimeans, Georgians, east Ukrainians, Tibetans, Chinese muslims, middle eastern gays, Kurds, Russian dissidents with radioactive poisoning, French cartoonists, 9/11 survivors, etc. What fucking universe are you from? Stop with the relativism. That's such a tired trope.
0 likesWell if we can't have Jon Bois' Pretty Good Episode 4, we can always have Never Ever Episode 4
4 likes38:39 That legitimately sent a chill down my spine.
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I feel so bad for that man. He did everything right and yet is probably hated for it.
0 likesThe realisation that, if that man had been in Petrov's place, we would've all died, terrifies me. It doesn't just send a chill down my spine, it genuinely scares me.
0 likesBruh he used local 58 as the music for the sponsor I’m shitting my pants.
0 likesWow. Truly breathtaking video Mr. Lemon. 15/10
7 likeswhy isn't stanislav petrov the ruler of the world.
1 likeIt went from spongebob to nuclear warfare
73 likesLol, anyone else here because they watched alternate history hub and were smug because they knew what the video was about?
0 likesNext Episode: There will *Never Ever* be another video like "The Death of H3H3"
0 likesEmpLemon is an internet treasure. Damn this video is good!
4 likesMake one of these about formula 1
0 likesI love the local 58 look in the ad
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When is local 58 gonna upload again?
1 likePetrov looks like bajur deadass
0 likes6 months later...
186 likes"There will never ever be a YouTuber like Mumkey Jones"
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@Darren Barten whay the hell happened to the guy? his videos dissapeared n shit.
2 likesLee Torry his channel got removed. Look it up. He recreated a new one named “simian jimmy” or something
9 likesDownward spiral, eh?
0 likes2 months and a new state of YouTube video away
0 likesYeah, I've got time.
1 likeI love these never ever videos keep it up
6 likesНе делайте
1 likefrantic backspace
DO NOT PURCHASE
God damn that production quality is A1... You deserve more views... One of my favorite videos on YouTube by far!!
3 likesyou're like a mix of john bois and summoningsalt, but turned toward pop culture and memes. (you even used some of the same music as salt in your last NE video)
9 likesWelp, time to look back at this video considering the current political situation (Jan 4th 2020).
3 likeswonderful music, voice, and sound work. The Half Life songs fit especially well.
3 likesWhat’s the music at 9:16
0 likesDo you think God remains in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he has created?
3 likesI got my coke after this.
0 likesThere may never be a man more powerful than Soulja Boy
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All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja
6 likesAll you wanted to be, a soulja, like me
All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja
All you wanted to be, a soulja, like me
All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja
All you wanted to be, a soulja, like me
All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja
All you wanted to be, a soulja, like me
@LimePesto Is this bone thugs?
2 likesFucking great video again. Backed by the Half-Life soundtrack and all
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It’s only fitting.
5 likesI need to play that oneday.
0 likes@NightRaven it's on sale currently. And absolutely worth it.
2 likeswelcome to city 17
1 likeYou have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers.
1 likeYour documentary skills are getting stellar brother
3 likeswell yes, because hilary clinton has that place now
0 likesThe Art of War - DUNKEY Tzu
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DUNK TZU SAID THAT AND I’D SAY HE KNOWS A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT GAMING THAN YOU DO PAL BECAUSE HE INVENTED IT, AND THEN HE PERFECTED IT SO THAT NO MAN COULD BEST HIM IN THE RING OF HONOR!
1 like@Solid Steak UNLESS IT'S A FARM!
1 likethanks Emp, for reminding me i have coke in my fridge. now i can have a coke AND an existential crisis
3 likesbut seriously amazing video.
Some of your editing reminds me of nexpo
0 likes20:25 why tf does it look like squidward
1 likeHuh I didn't know that Zone-tan song was a parody.
0 likesThis episode is F•••••g silly
0 likesIs 16:02-17:30 a nod to Local 58?
0 likesJem of the 21st Century
0 likesGreat video. Wtf bro.
0 likesLove the use of Half-life soundtrack. Surprisingly fitting.
4 likesnice spy kids quote in the description
0 likessomeone been watching local 58, haven't they.
0 likesGod, I hope President Joe doesn't have the nuclear codes
0 likesSerious Local 58 vibes
1 likeEmp: "On July 20th, 1969, man would walk on the moon..."
5 likesMe: Nice.
39:39 Literally made me tear up in public. Thank you EmpLemon. You won the heart I didn't know I had.
1 likeI love the fact that I can finally show my family an EmpLemon video and not get weird looks from them.
0 likesOn a serious note, your commentaries, documentaries, and just all-around production value just keep getting better and better with every video. I never realized how important storytelling was for documentaries until I saw this and your Dale Earnhardt video.
I hope one day my editing skills will be at least on par with yours (and my mic wasn’t so shitty lol) and I can produce content as quality as this.
It’s hard to believe that this is the same guy that made the Uncredibles 6 years ago.
This is an absolutely well done documentary on Stanislav Petrov. Thank you for making it. This is worth showing in history classes across the world.
0 likesMay sound a tad hyperbolic, but you genuinely give me hope for the younger generations. Your production and editing skills are second to none and the content and delivery is top notch, too. If I could buy stocks in a YouTube channel, I'd plough as much as I could into yours.
1 likeKeep on spiralling, Mr Lemon.
Thank you for making this video, this was always I story I thought every person alive should here. How one man had the fate of the world as we knew it in his hands, how he trusted his instincts despite the cost, and won a silent victory for humanity
0 likesWithout a single shred of doubt, I can say this is the greatest video that I've watched that you've made.
0 likesPlease, keep up the good work.
This is some god tier work mate. I was already aware of this incident but you've presented in such a cohesive and compelling manner that I couldn't help but watch all the way through. Keep the spiral going
0 likesI actually cried at this, at work, god damn man you deserve every recognition sent your way
0 likesI love these videos so much. EmpLemon, that scene with Sam Jackon's quote from Pulp Fiction. Sent chills down my spine how badass it was.
0 likesEmp, I'm a bit late to this party, but I have to say, your skill in choosing exactly the right facts to say, but more importantly, creating the perfect imagery for the commentary and message is unparalleled. I always knew the nuclear arms race was terrifying in principle, but you gave me chills about it as if you lived through it, and neither of us have, and you did through this precise and effective imagery. Well done!! I appreciate that this series for you is about what you feel like talking about, and is thus eclectic, but I really would encourage you to start a separate series about major historical subjects like this.
0 likesEveryone really deserves quality history like this.
I genuinely teared up by the end of this video. Great work.
0 likesActually there was another man just as powerful.
1 likeHis name is Vasili Arkhipov, the one man who cast a vote against launching a nuke during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I mean that did happen way before Petrov's incident, but let us not forget this man's great deed too, cause I noticed that there wasn't a single mention of him here...
Great Video. Schreibe nur selten Kommentare aber man merkt wie viel mühe in deinen Videos steckt, besonders das Ende hat mich zu Tränen gerührt. Du bist eine Inspiration für mich und sicher auch für viele andere Menschen. Mach weiter so!
0 likesGreat subject matter. Amazing story. Wonderfully edited. A masterpiece.
0 likesAnother situation happened similar to this involving a soviet submarine that lost communication during the Cuban missile crisis. Real life lore made a pretty good video talking about it
0 likeswow, how come people like you dont get famous here, such a well produced video. keep it up, proud of ya
0 likesI find it interesting how the man who saved the world was born a few days after the start of the war that would ultimately lead him into his situation
0 likesThis is phenomenal. A mix of the beauty and humor of Jon Bois, and the glorious EmpLemon. Well done sir.
0 likesVery well written and produced video. The Kubrick cut and the Pulp Fiction scripture are my favourite examples of great allegorical work to emphasize a point. Well done. Truly.
0 likesI cannot believe I have found such an incredible collection of things that I enjoy so much, so well polished and good, I can´t believe it's free. From a former YTP creator and recently a maker of agry rants that didn't cease to swear every five seconds. This video made your channel take a huge turn for the better. The music, the voiceover, the tone, it was all so perfect. All I can say is thank you, you made my day.
0 likesThis story has been told many times over, but you added so much to it. Very well done. (Also best sponsor promotion I’ve ever seen)
0 likesit may be because I'm sick and not fully here, my inhibitions are at a low, but this video really made me tear up. Thank you EmpLemon. this was a fantastic video.
0 likesEmpLemon makes some of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen, and not just on YouTube but on all media platforms yet has 1/200th the suscribers of Pewdiepie. Not sure how to feel about this......
1 likeDefinitely your best work to date. I think it will be hard to top this in whatever kind of video you make next.
0 likesI'm glad the we were stuck with you.
Im so proud i knew who he is because there was this article in this history magazine and it was about a guy who stopped the nuclear war.
0 likesThank for telling the stuff that happend and need to be know to this generation by the way im 12.
holy shit man, i was just talking with my coworkers about this story the other day. I was not ready for the heavy weight of this video. Very well made.
0 likesThe utter production value of these episodes are ludicrously good, YTP taught you well lol
0 likesTerrible how this man was treated. Read this story a few years ago, and seems that thanks to this video and other sources people are getting to know this instance of heroism. Hope some statue gets build someday if not by Russia by other country
1 likeMaking me tear up man! This is a work of art! 🙌🙌🙌🙌
0 likesThis kind of content is wat I subscribed for I have never known any of this an now I'm grateful that I do keep it up U Absolute legend
0 likesThis isn't the first time I heard the story of Stanislav Petrov, but this is the first time I've heard his name. The story itself isn't that rare in the circles I'm used to. The Russian false alarm that decided the fate of the world. But what is normally a five minute story, tops, about an event that's played off as being the single most tense moment in history was turned into an hour long documentary about what I agree was the world's Judgement Day. And a nameless, faceless Russian soldier was transformed into the single most intelligent, humble, and calm man during the cold war. And when compared to that incident in Hawaii not too long ago it truly solidified that the most powerful man in the world is a position that, with any luck, nobody will ever take the title from.
0 likesEasily one of the best YTP's you've ever made
0 likesDamn it all to hell, I shed tears at the end. Been while Sir Lemon, been a while.
0 likesNever stop making these I don’t care if it takes you 15 years to make part five
0 likesgood video but way too many people overlook the fact that there have been MANY other times this situation happened but only stanislav gets attention
0 likesIncredible video as always.
1 likeUnbiased, fair and educational.
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unbiased, lol...
1 like@Dare Run What exact biases did you find in the video.
0 likesThank you, Stanislav Petrov.
0 likesthis doesn't have even 1/100th of the views it should have. incredible work, lemon!
1 likeAh yes, Never Ever, my favorite history class
0 likesI think that the Pulp Fiction clip used is really perfect, but in more ways than one. Without the context of the movie, it simply illustrates how nuclear weapons has given humans God-like power. However, using the context of the movie makes things more interesting. At the end of the film, Jules reflects that he thought he was the righteous man smiting evil, but was actually the evil tyrant, and truly wants to be the shepherd protecting the weak. Depending on your view of nuclear weapons (and which particular country possesses them) they can be seen as the shepherd protecting the weak or the evil tyranny.
0 likesThis is the most incredible and moving thing I've ever seen
0 likesThere's a documentary about this incident on youtube called Able Archer 83. It explains quite well the situation and the mindset around the events of '83
0 likes1986 I would have died during one of the happiest time in my life........thanks for nothing Stan.
0 likesUnfortunately, what you said in the end is exactly what is going to happen: We have, are, and always be in a conflict with ourselves. The only way to stop this biology within us is somehow transfer away our humanity in what we call today, trans-humanism.
1 likeYou must understand that this internal conflict is what brought up as big intelligent life form. A double-edged sword, really.
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Is this a joke. It needs to be
0 likesDidn’t ask for the feels but I welcome them anyway
1 likeAnother amazing work! <3
0 likesPutting Dunkey's commentary over the war montage was a masterful decision
0 likesIt's because he was from the soviet union, which is why nobody knows who he is. nobody would ever be taught to learn about anything from there. Just like how we were taught that the first man in space was john glenn, but it was actually yuri gagarin.
1 likeim going to watch this over again, thanks for the existential angst mate
1 likeBeautiful video man. Wise beyond your years.
0 likesIt's scary to know what we can do to ourselves and our planet
0 likesHe did what he was trained to do. If circumstances were different it's possible the US could've fired and the world would've probably ended
0 likesI may be a little late, but these close calls were way to common. If you understand the idea of immortality through quantum suicide, then you can see the point I am putting forward. Maybe there are an infinite number of universes where these weren't close calls, where millions and billions of people were uselessly killed in an instant of pure human intuition. If the many worlds interpretation is correct, then maybe, as a society, we are... immortal.
1 likeI love these lengthy informative videos.
0 likesI love the editing new style. I have not seen anything like it. great job man. : )
0 likesthere may Never Ever be another channel as good as EmpLemon
0 likesR.I.P Stanislav Petrov!
0 likesSo I'm only just finding out this video exists because the last EMP lemon video I saw in my subscribed videos was the NASCAR Never Ever and I wanted to make sure he was still alive. Thank you so much for just straight up not showing me EMP's videos Susan W
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IcebatWage basically same
0 likesDamn Stan we were this close to the Irl fallout, what a lost opportunity
1 likeY’all know its YouTube when a meme channel makes you contemplate existence
1 likeIncredible video, outstanding!
0 likesI think the point abiut stopping to think if we became gods was very strong. But I think its instead the idea of forgetting where we are in relation to God. The postmodernist and Neo-Religious view that we are the Gods of this universe in our own respective reality is what leads to massive nuclear casualties and the equally staggering abortion casualties. Please make more videos like this.
0 likesEmp, you made a comment about loving jon bois videos in the Dale Earnhardt video and you took it so far that you LITERALLY MADE A PRETTY GOOD EPISODE.
0 likesEmp talks about the iron curtain
0 likesThe video: a literal curtain
The use of Half Life music near the end suites this video perfectly.
2 likes2:45
13 likesIs that Half Life music my ears have been blessed with?
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Glad im not the only one that noticed
0 likesOh that’s cool, I didn’t know the Japanese Flag can be easily repainted into a WarFlag
2 likesunfortunately, the mentioned cases weren't the only ones of soldiers deciding to go against protocol, in order not to cause the destruction of all human life in the northern hemisphere (and most in the southern).
0 likesyou'll find more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
and then we haven't gotten into the cases which haven't been open to the public yet, due to secrecy.
about 10 years ago, Russia was getting hostile towards Poland and Czech Republic due to the building of anti-missile systems being installed (which were first mistaken for ICBM's). the result was threats going back and forth, regarding nuclear annihilation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland
the Obama government then reshaped the plan to this (due to public backlash in Poland and Czech Republic, making these nations in the frontline of future nuclear attacks, making them primary targets, together with locations such as Washington DC, LA, NY, Moscow, St: Petersburg, Tel Aviv and Teheran):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_System
even though the cold war has ended, we are still close to nuclear warfare.
and if that day comes... we're all fucked, to put it nicely.
This has made me the most uncomfortable but intrigued I’ve been watching a video. Fantastic.
0 likesOne of our world's greatest heroes: Not a God, not a Leader, not ambitious. Just a guy doing his job.
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Or was it, a guy not doing his job?
2 likesMy man went from a shitposter to a history teacher
1 likeman wasn't ready for that much power
0 likesThis is like a goddamn documentary, how does this not have any more views?
1 likeNo wait actually i think i know why
Back for the 4th time because quality content is always rewatchable
0 likesSplendid work.
1 likedescription: Do you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?
0 likesCant wait for the next video keep up the great work
0 likesanother masterpiece emp
0 likesBest video that I've ever seen, and the best video on this entire site.
0 likesthe editing in this video is so fucking good dude
0 likesall i could do is laugh at the horror of "i did what i was trained to do" at the end of the video.
0 likesHERES TO YOU, STANISLAV! NOSTROVIA!!!! (basically means "To your health" hen cheersing)
0 likesThere will never ever be another band like The Beatles
1 likeI'd actually never heard the original version of the ending song, just the Zone version.
0 likesDoes that mean if the theories of alternate universes are correct, then in some obscure reality, the world really ended in the 80's :/
0 likesEmp should do a never ever on filthy Frank, or perhaps a YouTube geographic.
0 likesIt's true. There won't ever be another youtuber like Filthy Frank ever again. Not in the direction YouTube is going, at least.
my favorite video ever. i can't believe this only has 200k views wtf fuck youtube the world needs to see this
0 likesI like the part about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
0 likesKeep it up emp!
Cmon. Stanislav deserves a national holiday
1 likeAn absolutely amazing video
0 likesEmpLemon 2014: makes great YTPs
2 likesEmpLemon 2017: YouTube has been on a downward spiral
EmpLemon 2019: we are all gonna die
This is kind of video you watch in school, but the narrator has emotion.
0 likesEverything about this screams Ahoy and Local 58 and I love it.
1 likePossibly the only time Emp was historical.
0 likesthere will Never Ever be a better political-type YouTuber than EmperorLemon
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There's your request, mate. Well done on this series.
0 likesThis is so cool emoji!! Keep it up
0 likesAnd this scares me, that city map puts it into perspective and it's terrifying
0 likesYou are amazing emp
0 likesWow! Amazing doc my dude!!!!
0 likesPost WW2 documentary, written and edited by, YouTube Pooper
56 likesWhile its true i miss your poops, you still make incredible content regardless.
0 likesWar.
0 likesWar never changes.
5:31 FOR THE EMPEROR
0 likesEpisode 1: will
1 likeEpisode 2: will
Episode 3: will
Episode 4: may
Not all heroes wear capes
0 likesSome wear Ushankas
EmpLemon you’ve done it again
0 likesthis editing is so fucking good
1 likeEmplemon I love your work but I really do think that this piece could be cut in half. You need to decide whether or not this will be an informational or opinionated essay, and it appears that you are attempting to convey an information essay from the beginning. Later however you begin to tell the viewer on how Petrov only managed what he did due to disobeying orders and debate the ethics of millitary comforming tactics. I believe that this hampers your essay and you should either make it clear that this piece has an opinionated viewpoint near the end or keep it purely information, primarily because youtube audiences are quite impressionable and you should make it clear that they should form their own judgement.
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yeah, I was thinking something similar.
1 likePetrov's quote at the end really hammers it home how off Emp is here. It was literally a part of his job to determine whether or not a projected missile threat was accurate enough to warrant a counter launch.
1 likeI wish I saw this in history class, I might've actually gave a shit
0 likes20:30
13 likesEmpLemon used nostalgia
IT’S SUPER EFFECTIVE
this is the most metal youtube video ever created
0 likesCraz ppl: The End Is Near!
16 likesCold War: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
chernobyl: Is a thing
Cola: 40:39
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I'm not gonna lie
3 likesthis video made me consider life more than any pasifist
despite not being a forgiving guy
Stanislav Petrov was a true Patriot.
0 likesAmazing
0 likesI really enjoyed the Dunkey reference at 11:01 lol
0 likesSupervillans are in power and are threatening each other with their 'ultimate weapons' over black gold.
0 likesI recognized the use of Jupiter from the planets.
0 likesThere will never ever be another video game series like Metal Gear
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NightlySquigly agreed
0 likesGirl's locker rooms: "OMG have you seen Rebecca's new boyfriend?"
18 likesBoy's locker rooms: 14:58
Fallout VR would've been wild
0 likesStan slav petrov
0 likesThere will never ever be another Steve Irwin
0 likesHey, I could use this for my ninth grade history report. Help me and my gang write out this report so we can use it for school.
0 likesMatthew 24:21-24:22
0 likesFor then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again.
"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Honestly It feels like we're already in a judgement day.
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It's hard to tell since people have continuously been giving false alarms about it for generations. I don't dismiss it completely but it's not something I see happening in my lifetime.
0 likesYou might be a genius, bruh.
0 likesBro this video is 41 mins long and theres no ads
1 like14:49
5 likesThis is the same guy that plays tails in sonic high school
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You mean emplemon was the voice actor in internet historians video?
0 likesSuperb
0 likesthis gives me jon bois energy. i love you
0 likesMarvelous
0 likesYouTube is terribly fucked, I have notifications on for this channel and yet I had no idea this existed even two months after it was uploaded.
0 likesI did a report on this man in 9th grade
0 likesthat dunkey clip holy shit
0 likes40:42 I thought to g o d that that was Zone-Tan
3 likeswhy did i remember this video being about Rusev?
0 likesNuke Alarms give me paranoia.
1 likeThere will never ever be another person like Chris Chan
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Oh really? Look up Dragonlord, he's basically Germany's Chris Chan
0 likesam i losing my mind or was that robot wars music at 4:25-4:50
0 likesLol why are you comparing us troops death since 1975? Wouldnt it be more accurate to show us troop deaths during the pacific war?
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You kinda missed the point, it's not meant to be a comparison in that sense, it's meant to show that the bomb was so incredibly devastation, that its kill count was that much greater than ALL of our military casualties since the 70s.
1 like@Mediocre DeadGuy i know that it is to show its devastation but why do it since the 70s? why not troop deaths in the pacific, people who were involved in the conflict with japan and what lead up to the use of nuclear weapons? Its misleading not using these statistics.
0 likesYugoslavia was not part of the iron curtain. Just wanted to correct that.
0 likes250,000 people now are more grateful than 42 minutes ago
1 likeThere may Never Ever be another videogame as GTA San Andreas
0 likesI see someone's a fan of Local 58... The music tracks used during the advertisements are almost identical
0 likesАх, я понял это описание
0 likesJapanese:bombs pearl harbour and gets nuked: America get nae nae’d
1 likeDon’t you know nukes aren’t real?
0 likesHey EmpLemon, how did you get Nukemap3D working? It's been dead for years for me
0 likesLocal 58 never fails to spook me
0 likesPeople think nowadays "What would happen if someone like Thanos can along and wiped out half the universe?" The answer is he already came, he just decided to go against his beliefs and spare us. Amazing work emp.
5 likesEp 1: Spongebob :)
82 likesEp 2: WWE Raw :OO!!
Ep 3: Nascar ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ep 4: NUCLEAR WAR
… Well that escalated quickly…
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Team Lid you escalated quickly
0 likesEscalate me quickly daddy
0 likesAll Russian men are already powerful enough
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@Robot Bjorn
6 likesTfw Germany still lost
Twice
15 likes@Frog Glen germany kicked russias ass in WW1,and almost did in WW2 though?🤔
0 likes@First Name Last Name mass murdering civilians is not "kicking ass".
8 likes@Ivan Correct, that's why you shouldn't be praising the Soviet Union or it's genocidal leaders, at any point of their history, be it in the revolutionary phase or the final, rotting years.
2 likesI remember hearing about Mr. Petrov in Lemmino's Grazed by the Apocalypse video.
3 likesthe half life music... is great
0 likesThere will Never Ever be another movie like Shrek.
4 likesCome on Emp, you know it’ll work.
Man. Those Youtube poops gave you great editing skills
11 likesI'm glad you made this. I found it very inspirational.
yugoslavia was not part of soviet union tho.
0 likes17:30 EmperorTigerstar + EmperorLemon
133 likesIn the words of Mr Peanutbutter, "Is this a crossover episode?".
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The 2 emperors
6 likesSam Satore The Diarchy of Shitposting and Mapping lmao
3 likes+They could found a new field: shartpostography.
1 likeHow I wish these two emperors would meet.
0 likesLove the use of the Half-Life music...
17 likesI FUCKING LOVE U MAN
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YES I FUCKING DO LOVE YOU
1 likei loved that mrmeatman audio clip.
0 likesthat nexpo music hit me hard
0 likesstraight outta nowhere dunkey voice, almost forgot I was watching emp
9 likesNever been faster to click on a vid. Thanks for another master piece Emp!
4 likesI don't think I've ever regretted clicking on one of your notifications. How do you keep raising the bar with every video, dude?
3 likesEmpLemon listens to Soft Machine???
0 likesthe way the sponsor was shown gave me local58 flashbacks
0 likesactually a good video, breath of fresh air for this website
3 likesNever ever: the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
0 likes🎵Standing.
24 likesOn the edge.
Of the crater.
Like the prophets once said.🎶
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God tier song my man, the metal gear saga is something else
0 likesAnd the ashes
2 likesare all cold now
no more bullets
and the embers are dead
Whispers
1 likein the air
tell the tales
Of the brothers gone
Desolation
1 likeDevestation
What a mess we made
When it all went wrong
Watching
1 likefrom the edge
of the circus
For the games to begin
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0 likesdoot doot doo-doo, doot doot doo-doo doot
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This is very similar to jon bois, and I like that. Great job with the series, emp!
7 likesJesus christ you just got instantly claimed, rip.
29 likesI didn’t even get a notification for this video wtf
0 likesMan you've came a long way from your origins as a Youtube Poop maker.
3 likesDamn you make me cry at 04:30 am
4 likes"I did what i was trained to do."
When’s 5 coming out?
0 likesDOWNWARD SPIRAL
0 likesThere will never ever be a war like the war on terror
4 likes22:41 WOAH
0 likesI just farded and shidded my self.
I recognize those local58 samples!
0 likesPOI #436
0 likesInternet Persona
EmpLemon
We act on behalf of our government.
We act in the name of peace and survival beyond a single solar system
You have been selected for our cloning and genetic preservation programme
Detais for collection of your genetic material to follow soon
We hope you share our vision.
Loving the Local 58 vibe and music!
25 likesEmpLemon has gone full Jon Bois.
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Kungfupandacam Even has similar text too I’m glad to see youtubers going in Jon’s direction
1 likeI love that the title says “may”
3 likesThere’s still a chance that this could happen again
half-life music very nice
1 likeDidn't know that EmpLemon was fluent in Russian.
6 likesDid you put the pink Bbckground on Igor Gouzenko as a Tyler reference?
0 likesI genuinely wanted to crack open a can of Coke after the vid ended, but all I have is Pepsi! :(
5 likes10:27 what is that song ?
0 likes10:27 what is that song ?
the sponsor part was cool, had effort put into it gj dude
5 likesthis song though
0 likesIdiot me thought Stanislav Petrov was a YouTuber and we were talking about how there will never be a meme that is more meme'd than the atomic bomb.
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I thought he was gonna talk about the guy who fought rocky balboa
5 likesI thought that was Stalin's real name.
3 likesRussia and the US are separated by less than a mile of water. Lol.
0 likesI’m calling it, there will never ever be a video game like team fortress 2
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he might do minecraft and ride the minecraft train on YT rn, but tf2 is more probable
0 likesGood vid
0 likesDownward spiral
0 likesThis is probably the best channel on YouTube.
3 likesdonkey made the atomic bomb
0 likesWhy does nobody talk about the korean airline massacre?
0 likesIronic how Einstein’s work was involved in the work of the atomic bomb even though he a pacifist.
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Was he a pacifist before or after the bombs dropped?
0 likes@Calvin_Coolage He was a lifelong pacifist which was one of the reasons he renounced his German citizenship as doing so would prevent him joining the army as his views were opposed by Germany's militant views which became more apparent after Hitler became the leader of Germany.
1 like@Max Mcdonald I see. I knew he was a pacifist, I just didn't know he always was. Hell, I thought the reason he left Germany was because of the Nazi party's stance on Jewish people, not anything to do with his pacifism.
0 likes@Calvin_Coolage Pacifism was one of the reasons, not the only reason or even the main reason for him leaving as Nazi Germany's hatred of Jews to a extermination of the religion and any people who are Jewish including Albert Einstein as him staying in Germany would cost him his life so he went away to America, he never forgive Germany, his home country for committing the holocaust.
0 likes@Max Mcdonald I just never realized his pacifism made up part of his reason to leave.
0 likes@Calvin_Coolage If you want to know more about his views, you use other sources of information as i am no expert in history.
0 likesThe world doesn't need religion, it needs understanding.
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