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!


I clicked on this video expecting some wrestler or bodybuilder


I think we got this close a second time now

-2022


The Dunkey feature is amazing but always makes me think my YouTube is broken


This man over here using Half-Life music. Nice.

@Jerrell Over half of the Half Life community probably go half their lives without ever actually learning what a half life is.

@Jerrell Not everyone does, no need for the passive aggression

It makes sense, actually. Half Life is a term used in chemistry to describe the length of radioactive decay.


1 million people now know who their lives are owed to


Интрсна тема 👍👍

Интрсна тема 👍👍


3 minutes in and I think I know the titular character.


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...


Absolutely god tier content, insane editing, and really well written and structured.<br>I love the never ever series, emp you're a legend.

Absolutely god tier content, insane editing, and really well written and structured.
I love the never ever series, emp you're a legend.


Barefoot Gen’s depiction of nuclear fallout in Japan is some of the most horrific media I’ve ever witnessed


Media be like: Billie Eilish unfollows everyone on instagram❗😱😱<br>Meanwhile nobody knows who is Stanislav Petrov

Media be like: Billie Eilish unfollows everyone on instagram❗😱😱
Meanwhile nobody knows who is Stanislav Petrov


The more I think about this, the more it terrifies me.


Good video sir. I hope you have a great career in corn milling!!!


i like this channel it can actually just show a neutral picture of trump and just leave it alone


Mention that much because he wasn't that important by the way he almost ended civilization just because of a thought


How 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


now THIS is how you make a youtube video.


Never Ever should be nationally televised. These are extremely informative and interesting. Thank you Emp


I still find it sad that this man saved the entire fucking planet but his personal life is so uninteresting that nobody gives a shit.


Ths may sound odd comng from a American but Stanislav Petrov is the greatest human ever


The NordVPN advert was incredibly well done.  I hope they pay you extra for it.


Though Communism isn’t as bad as it was in the 80s, I still fear it.


Don't slander McCarthy. He had a very good point.


if you could save the world and get no recognition, would you do it?


"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." <br>-Albert Einstein

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
-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?

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing

-Albert Einstein


He was Russian, he knew that the system was broken as fuck.


Why is there a dunkey quote in a video about nuclear bombs and why does it work


I was so fucking confused when a dunkey audio started playing


We need to build one big ass fucking statue of that guy.


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.

In that case,that was 3 people.Petrov was the deciding factor


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.


The fact that I can watch a documentary of this quality for free  is amazing! Thank you Emp, and thank you Stan!


that telling of what happened in hiroshima was so... sad


Whoever came here by Youtube recomendations without knowing this channel...

I 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


I genuinely think this is my favorite video you have ever made. Thank you, EmpLemon.


Ah yes, ofcourse dunkey was refrencing atomic fission in his video, not video games, we all knew that mhm yup yes


10:17 EmpLemon: "In the first century, Greeks used Uranium to color pottery."

11:03: Dunkey: "Nuclear physics is like finding an exploit in a video game."


the fact the title says <b>may</b> is menacing

the fact the title says *may* is menacing


7:26 Me when I stumble upon a Minecraft village


I already dreamed with nuclear war three times hehe...<br>It's horrible...

I already dreamed with nuclear war three times hehe...
It's horrible...


You out did your self Emp. Amazing video


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"


Teachers need to be playin these in schools. At least someone would be tellin the truth


honestly, more videos like this please. This was genuinely interesting and intriguing to watch


he has a memorial on the cache remake in csgo


<b>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</b>

*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*


17:35 the victors of ww2 apparently did not include the french or british...?


You think petrov would go to heaven or hell?


you quoting dunkey was too much for me ahahha


The description reads: "
Do you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?"

i'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.

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


why in the hell are the only available subtitles in portuguese


I like the Local58 reference for the NordVPN ad. It's a nice touch


Watched this video to study for my APUSH test


Einstein: You better build some nukes before Germany

US: Ok, can you do it?

Einstein: Yes, but I don't want the responsibility

@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.

I think he simply didn't want to be known as "the guy who designed the bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of people".

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.

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.

Yikes, but at the same time you cant really blame him since he couldn't stop them


22:44 I would have died and I live under north brunswick by 30 min


was petrov the same man mentioned in one of exurb1a's videos?


FYI short form of a name for Stanislav is Stas or, sometimes, Slava


22:08 is truly a masterpiece, I felt the chill down my spine on this section


11:13 Why is Dunkey talking in a video about nuclear war.


Being proud of eliminating over 350,000 people in seconds.... Is inhumane, ungodly.


I may not be here if it weren’t for the bombs. Thank you Manhattan project.


Has 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

Its from Half-Life 2, the song is called Triage at Dawn


Did people just forget about Japan's war crimes that somehow what the US did is the most gruesome and horrible thing they have done?


Can’t believe Emp forgot to mention operation snake eater


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.

Anyway, great video, very eye-opening.


no, no fucking way that was a nordVPN ad, you sir have made the best advert I have ever seen.


basically why one above all is not the most powerful character


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


How the fuck does one make such an awe inspiring video


we still need the jon bois video on this


Intended or not, music from half life fits well wity this video in more than just the music itself


Nobody:
My 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


My old teacher showed your video in his class


It’s annoying when people assume Einstein was the smartest ever just because pop culture says so


I dropped my phone right as the dunkey clip kicked in and thought I accidentally changed the video.


13:35 wow would you look at that! thats hungary


12:46
*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


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


11:40 Did you just take a clip of dunkey playing halo on hard mode


The fucking gran turismo music killed me xD love the video tho


What’s that classical song played at 10:37 I’ve been searching forever lol


That song at the is from a gran turismo game on the ps3. I dont know exactly but I have nostalgia memories


This man really out here citing Dunkey in a video about nuclear bombs at 11:02

@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.

@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.

that was REALLY tone deaf..terrible idea

Literally one of the only Dunkey videos ove seen but damn did it fit.


(When we make nuclear jokes)

Same shit dat makes us laugh
Makes us cry

---big smoke

>be a meme
>have a tragic death

Shit’s deep.

Humans, willing to sacrifice their own when overcome by greed. They... are a Foolish race<br>-Black Doom

Humans, willing to sacrifice their own when overcome by greed. They... are a Foolish race
-Black Doom

“I had enough of you and this miserable planet!”<br>-Frieza

“I had enough of you and this miserable planet!”
-Frieza

"We are blessed, and cursed"<br>-Harris, Melvin

"We are blessed, and cursed"
-Harris, Melvin


Did I just hear Dunkey get used as a nuclear war analysis?


this is like Metal Gear Solid but more infographs


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.


Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a <b>Nuclear Winter</b>

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a *Nuclear Winter*

When I got this assignment, I was hoping there would be more gambling.

Perhaps those earthquakes might be the awakening of something far more interesting than a nuclear winter...

Are you patrolling the Mojave because of the earthquakes? Thank you for your sacrafice if you are.


That is the slickest sponsor cutaway I have ever seen


It felt like 40 minutes just went by but im only 8 minutes in the video


I hate how nuclear warfare has become relevant again.


God I love the quote from videogaming dunkey


Never has Dunkey sounded so intimidating.


vasili arkapov: <b>sad soviet noises</b>


Wait a minute, this freaky deaky intellectual just tricked me into learning about the cold war.


So you're saying that a Kiloton of Tnt could Kiloton?


Mainy thought they died and gone to hell.... That's a scary after-thought


15:10 they still don't he has a book called Why Socialism? And it's about why capitalism is bad.


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.


Anyone know the song that starts at 23:08?

Been 8 months but the song is Weatherscan Music - Track 3 hope u enjoy


Just learned the first atomic bomb set off on my birthday, neat.


isn't the music at 16:03 the same used in local 58?


Humans: * cant even get over having their order at McDonald’s being wrong *<br>Also humans: * somehow haven’t already obliterated themselves in a nuclear skirmish*

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*

@Espalorp Wow, that's really deep dude...

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.


Holy shit. Seeing California red for Reagan LMAO. It's like a fucking paradox


Brb im about to go tell my moms boyfriend he has a communist to thank for his life


Russia is so big that my house is closer to Moscow Russian than Moscow Russia is to Vladivostok Russia…I live in Louisiana USA…


Tsar bamba, the one that was detonated, was actually <i>Half the power they could have made.</i> Russia scaled back, for obvious reasons, like how much damage the bomb could do.

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.


I was born in Oak Ridge, Tn, they just finished demolishing the old buildings used for the project


milgrams prison experiment was rigged look it up, using it is lazy academia (I love your videos)


how did spongebob ytps turn into WWII information


my mans really just did make a local 58 YTP


triage at dawn hits different after this


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.


this is one of your best videos<br> but dude... fix that thumbnail !

this is one of your best videos
 but dude... fix that thumbnail !


Surprised Doctor Who hasn't made an episode around this yet.


How is this in the same series as a video about a video game player?


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.

Had Petrov not been there and if it was anybody else, you could say that would be the end of the world.


whats that website that show the bomb stuff? like how big they are


If you ever want to see what might happen if he did push the button play fallout, that is the entire premise of it.


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 ?"


Crazy cause I was actually born the next day wow


I straight up thought I had accidentally switched to a dunkey video there


I have to comment before the video is finished because that ad is just beautiful.


The biggest hero in American history was Russian


Time to reconsider my existance, weeeeeeeeeeeee


34:00 Lego Yoda Death sound first known appearance!


About to sleep, oh no a 40 minute emplemon video, I'll just watch the first 5 minutes.
(40 minutes later)
OH BOY 3AM

About to sleep, oh no a 40 minute emplemon video, I'll just watch the first 5 minutes.
(40 minutes later)
*OH BOY 3AM*


Nord ad claiming that VPNs are all-in-one security
.. Fucking epic


I like the LOCAL 58 references during the ad break.


Short for Stanislav is Slava, not Stan lol


Gawd, give me them feels why dontcha. Fucking hell Lemon


40:08
  Well, looking at Twitter, I'm not so sure...


That audio clip of Dunkey talking about difficulty in video games fit perfectly into this video

awesome 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).
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.

Tl;dr: vid good great job emp

Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet Multirole Fighter


I may be Australian  but shits still scary!


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


Petrov didn't retire, he was fired for not reporting.


Why Stanislav looks like the RussianBager?<br>They are so similar that is scary

Why Stanislav looks like the RussianBager?
They are so similar that is scary


That moment when Emp puts a Spy Kids 2 quote translated to Russian in the description.

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.<br>He's truly a special Youtuber.

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.

Don’t even need to know Russian to know what it says lol.

Jimdog6125 is it the “do you think god stays in heaven” quote? If so god damn


да, я так думаю

да, я так думаю


Возможно, друг, возможно

Возможно, друг, возможно


Ima write a song bout this bc this cant go on anymore...


9:12 “сила” - stands for “force”, “power” or “strength”

Maybe it was intentional, just wanted to make it clear.


Lmao as the new chapter begins with Ukraine


Can I just get the clip 11:02 - 11:27 with dunkey

It’s one of the videos on difficulty in video games I think. Just watch both to be safe.


An unremarkable person, with an unremarkable name


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.


This video is seeming a tad more scary right about now……


This video is a masterpiece. God bless Mr. Petrov. Thank you for telling us about him.


28:26 Dale what are you doing  here you should be kicking ass in nascar


That was masterful explanation of the scale of those nuclear bombs.  What is it with you and exceeding expectations every video?


I watched this well playing Minecraft :)


i hate the fact that this video exists. 5 stars


Can’t be the only one changing usa though out the whole video


The ONLY human that could beat Thanos (w/ 6 infinity stones)!!!!!!!!

but only for those 10 minutes

Thanos can teleport though. Once he'd see the nukes, he would say "Fuck this, I'm out."


oof I know I know this song, but I don't remember where its from 3:10


Ha HAHAHA mortally is an absolutely absurdly abstract. It is only a connection to death and the reality of our monkey brain.


Thanks from New Zealand.<br>Idea: 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand

Thanks from New Zealand.
Idea: 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand


Stanislav is not Stan, it's either Slava or Stas in Russian


Why didn't you, at 13:52 also adjust the number of employees for inflation? That's how it works right? Like a balloon?


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


Your content is so amazing. It's actually crazy that only one person produced this.


This is a lemmino video called "grazed by the apocalypse"


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 <b>EVERYONE</b>

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*

@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.

@NumNaut We got the unconditional surrender.... with the condition that Japan got to keep the emperor.

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 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.

I’m going to have to agree with OP here. Yes dropping the bombs was terrible but so is war.
<br>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.

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.

@Legate Lanius We didn't nuke Japanese military, we nuked civilians

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 don't get it, am I or am I not supposed to get nord VPN? That commercial was pretty persuasive


Is really nobody talking about the local 58 broadcast style used for the sponsored part of the video? Hidden pearl


Using nukes and civilized in the same sentence is not a good sign.


I went in not knowing who Stan was and I went out feeling grateful that he existed


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


This series is literally the best on YouTube.  Well researched and it discusses important topics in an interesting manner.  Great job, lemon man.


I've unironically learned more history from this video than any history class I've ever been in

@Ben_ Earthly ok you already won the debate

@helado vegano not north american by any chance?

But you sleep at the middle of the class?


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.<br>...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.

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


The utilization of that Dunkey quote is just brilliant


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.


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.

Also, just to point out, short name for Stanislav is Slava, not Stan.


great video :)

feels 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.


This is one of those timeless videos that you could watch 10 years from now and it would still be relevant


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


Why EmpLemon got me in tears with this series rn


Emplemon, you are unironically one of the smartest people I’ve ever seen.


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 must say you make some of the best videos that can be watched over the whole internet


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.<br>Update:... I wrote that comment before he used Videogame Dunkey as a sample... this shit is art.

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.


I’m still impressed this man used a Dunkey quote to describe the evolution of warfare


Someone needs to nerf warfare, the meta is getting too strong.

Also, 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


2020: this year cant get any worse<br>1947-1991: welcome to the club

2020: this year cant get any worse
1947-1991: welcome to the club


23:00 that weatherscan music hit always works so goddamn well


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.

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.


I always cry at the end of EmpLemons videos.


there are over 2 billion people who believe in a god
do you think any of them stopped to thing that we were the gods?
that's such a chilling quote

there are over 2 billion people who believe in a god
*do 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


Hi, my names Stanislav Petrov and your probably wondering how i got into this mess...


This is as good or better than a lot of professional made documentaries by actual production companies


This video is incredible. Without a doubt one of the best documentaries I've ever watched.


Never stop making never evers. Greatest series on youtube.


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?


Damn dude... the way you worked that Dunkey sample, and made it apply to atomic science,  was awesome!


Thanks, Emp. I'm using this video among other sources for my university exam :)


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


Coincidentally, this is the least viewed video in the Never Ever series


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)


This is one of the best videos on all of YouTube.


Your content is just amazing. Extremely top quality... Fcking love your voice and videos. You're becoming my favourite content creator of this website..


Thought it was gonna be about one of the three dudes who went in Chernobyl and saved nearly all of Europe from radioactive clouds.


my god your content is so good I have no words I HAVE NO WORDS WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS PERFECT


This man legit used half life music in a Cold War documentary


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.


My dad actually works in Oak Ridge now as an engineer at Y-12. He has one of the coolest jobs in the world


Humans had access to nuclear weaponry before compound bows


Man's greatest torture, being tricked by what you believe in most to making such a weapon it will destroy humanity as a whole.


I think that this is my favorite video on the internet truely a masterpeice


This mans presentation and transition is so high above other youtubers


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


love the dunkey voice clip, amazing editing:3


The use of the Half Life 1 ost is one of the best parts of this.


I've marked may 19th in my calendar as stan petrov day, I wont forget him.


I just realized it's probably the 37th anniversary of this event.


It's funny to picture a alternate reality where Petrov did launch the missiles


We can only hope it nevers happens again that a single man has the possibility to destroy the humanity with a single decision.


I think it is fair to say that Stanislav Petrov is the man who saved the world by not ending it.


24:23 Music is "The Healer Stalks" from the Doom II soundtrack.


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. <br>he couldn't prove that one though.

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.


I 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.


The beginning was actually gut wrenching


Great video.

Could've atleast mentioned Arkhipov tho


I wish i could like this video a thousand times


That Pulp Fiction clip with the Tsar Bomba visualization... Holy fucking shit. You’re my new favorite creator.


Vasili Arkhipov also saved the world in 1962


Your the only youtuber I think deserves more subs


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.


this is actually the best video on youtube


To 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


There may never be a downward spiral like emplemon


thank u for telling me that if a YouTube Pooper can graduate to some of the coolest documentary/video essays, anything<br> can happen

thank u for telling me that if a YouTube Pooper can graduate to some of the coolest documentary/video essays, anything
 can happen


If the Hawaii guy was in Petrov's place...


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!


Did you make Petrov the story episode four in tribute to the lost Pretty Good episode 4? Or am I just projecting?


lol i was so caught off guard by the dunkey comparison that oddly makes a lot of sense


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.


'Nuclear Bombs: When you push the game to it's limit.'


your video's production quality is so much better than television.


we basically would be in fallout rn with my stannis the mannis


"scientist were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"


I want a Never Ever episode on Undertaker


11:02 and here we may have the Best Out of Context Use of Dunkey ever made

Indeed. I basically have that whole bit memorized verbatim.


I think that this is my favorite video on YouTube


When I first saw the title I thought it would be a video about Vasili Arkhipov


When EmpLemon doesn't make a video on you
*sad Vasili Arkhopov noises*

When EmpLemon doesn't make a video on you
**sad Vasili Arkhopov noises**


It really creeps me out how nonchalant Truman was about nuking Japan


Ahh yes the two victors of WW2 the US and USSR


the story of Vassili Arkhipov is very close to this one.


Am I the only one who knew about him before watching this video?


Where can I find the Chernobyl call, it sound horrifying and interesting.


I wouldve pressed the button almost immediately, what a fucking god stanislov was... Respect


You're documentary style videos are awesome dude. Thanks for the free content from the bottom of my black, lifeless heart.


I can respect that you put half life music in the video


Everyone: noooo you cant just start WWIII

me: haha button go click


I love the Local 58 references and Dunkey cameo


Incredibly well produced as always. Unsubscribed


Wasn't this supposed to be the lost episode of Pretty Good?


i have become death destroyer of worlds Robert Oppenheimer the inventor of the first nuclear bomb


The last thing I would expect from this video is a Dunkey quote


There will never ever be another show like never ever


This is the same man behind Frying Nemo.


Just wanna take this moment to condemn Tankies


Everyone has already said this but this series is fantastic. Great job as always Emp.


Children: Duck and Cover!
10 Megaton Nuclear bomb: VISIBLE FRUSTRATION

Children: Duck and Cover!
10 Megaton Nuclear bomb: *VISIBLE FRUSTRATION*

@Doom58 suprisingly enough,this guy isnt polish

@Buscat there we go. Someone who knows it too!

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.

“Duck and Cover children”<br>I.C.B.M: I’m about to end these children’s whole lives.

“Duck and Cover children”
I.C.B.M: I’m about to end these children’s whole lives.

@Gorka sorry if it sounds like that, but I just hate how people Actually Beleive that Duck And Cover doesn't work.

You sound like the guy who would have pressed the button

@Evan Merwin But that's not what they said. That's what people want you to beleive they said.

@C Porter lol yeah a blast went off, instead of going to the underground bunker just duck and cover

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.

Children: Duck and Cover!<br>Hydrogen bomb: I don't think so

Children: Duck and Cover!
Hydrogen bomb: I don't think so

A History videos not complete without a polandball commenter


he act
he protec
but above all

he does not report the attac


18:41 "the us and russia are sepearted by 5000 miles"
Alaska And Siberia: am i a joke to you

18:41 "the us and russia are sepearted by 5000 miles"
Alaska And Siberia: *am i a joke to you*

Tecwyn Jones my town has like 12,000 people and it’s a small town

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.

+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 Do what the US did with the little islands we got in the pacific. Use it as a nuclear test site!!

@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?

+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.

All 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?

@sssawfish i know, but it doesn't stop them from being geographically close to each other

Alaska and Siberia are known to mostly be wastelands of cold and wildlife, maybe less with Alaska but still


you ever see something on youtube and feel guilty for watching it for free?<br>thanks emp.. May the spiral be in your favor.

you ever see something on youtube and feel guilty for watching it for free?
thanks emp.. May the spiral be in your favor.


I need someone to tell me the timestamps of the eas beeps in the video because those honestly scare me.

Nvm I found it
8:04 is where is starts
8:48 is when it ends


Let's hope so no other Stanislav Petrov is never ever needed again.

Another amazing and well put together video, EmpLemon, it's nice to enjoy your work.


For just once, we were better than ants!


world peace is almost impossible. thank god petrov existed. nice video


I know that version of the american anthem, local 58 is terrifying


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


10:20 what is the name of the song in the background?


stanislav petrov wasn't as strong as

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

@Blaster .M there's the thing that's you besides the brain, your consciousness is not physical, at least not to me

but when we die doesn't the brain stops functioning and our bodies turn into soil?

@Frosty Wasp death is the road, your soul is the driver, life is the car, and the destination is nirvana

what we call death is just our soul stopping for gas

everyday i think is Death the true ending ?... or just another door to the unknown ?


I love how you used the editing tricks you learned making YTPs to create masterpieces like this. Keep it up!


Damn dude, from YTP to legit, quality, thoughtful videos. You've come a long way baby


Didn't know Google maps was a thing in the 60s. Damn.


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?

I could not agree more.


This video proves that Never Ever is the spiritual successor of Jon Bois's Pretty Good<br>You're doing a stellar job, Emp

This video proves that Never Ever is the spiritual successor of Jon Bois's Pretty Good
You're doing a stellar job, Emp


Using the local 58 music for the interval was a nice touch


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.<br>Also, Hooooly shit, we were that close to nuclear annihilation?

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?


You know, i wonder what would happen if USSR liberated western Europe


Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing


"Crazy to think that this generation's Ken Burns started out making YouTube Poops." <br>-people in the 2020s

"Crazy to think that this generation's Ken Burns started out making YouTube Poops."
-people in the 2020s


Is never ever the new pretty good, cause it seems like it

not like jon bois makin pretty good anymore, and never ever is a pretty good stand in


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.


when you have a more that 99% like to dislike ratio ;


What version of id like to teach the world to sing is this?


1960s - War on Communism
1970s - War on Nukes
1980s - War on Drugs
1990s - War on Pollution
2000s - War on Terror
2010s - War on Us

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

@Spiral God King It's canuck, and it's called a joke.

@AcidHydra101 Yeah, keep dreamin' canunook...

@AcidHydra101 I'm italian and I unironically would love this.

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.

Source: I'm Canadian.

@Sachiko Broomfield "I don't like where this is going" - JonTron.

@Sachiko Broomfield Now things are getting interesting

@Bobby Grossman 2077- Cyberpunk 2 is released.

2040 - War on Furries<br>2050 - War on Non-Furries

2040 - War on Furries
2050 - War on Non-Furries

@Wayne Sanford War on Us: Actual War Boogaloo.


One of the greatest videos I’ve seen, beautifully directed, written, and edited. Thank you for this masterpiece, Emp.


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!"


"...boarded the Enola Gay.."

Me:. Hah, he said gay

That's like the one instance where hearing the word Gay is kinda hard to laugh at .....


I haven’t felt this much existential dread since last time I watched a Kurzgesagt video


DEER PARK drinking water...the next evil empire


It's ok the people who died don't matter


Love this style of video! Definitely would love to see more of these. Keep up the good work! 💪🏻


666k views on the video about nuclear annihilation.


I Wrote an assignment about Stanislav Petrov a week ago For School. A nice coincidence. :D


I wonder if that's why this is the 4th episode of the series.....


Though I'm just happen to be Russian and not anyhow connected with Petrov, I suddenly feel humbled.

Thank you. Your work is amazing.

Not many of us can admit that we were not humbled watching this video.


What’s the difference between the USA and USSR? The USA could coexist in the same world as the USSR. The USSR could not.


My sincerest salutations go to you, Mister Petrov.

More than having been the most powerful person in modern history, you sir are the one true tovarich.

/O


Worst thing humans ever did was split the atom and create the deadliest element to humanity ever


He put the Soviet spy named Igor on a pink background hehe


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.


Fess up Emp, you just wanted to make a video about the cold war.

the framing was powerful and it fit the series anyway


That’s terrifying. We almost had a real life version of Dr. Strangelove occur...and nobody even knows about it.


I'm going to make sure my kid sees this when she's old enough. You're a legend, Emp


I cannot believe you connected this to dunkey


....did emplemon just fucking local 58 me?


I'd like to buy Stanislav Petrov a Coke for saving the world.

Take hime to a pizza hutt, will remind him of the last leader

But if he was alive get him a pepsi not a coke.

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.

@GodBloodSpilla yep, unfortunately he passed away in 2018


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


Very well put together, no wonder you hate the bland and repetitive type of content thats sploon fed to normies.

Very interesting, and my attention was 100% focused on the subject/topic


Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.


I don't like people who say Japan surrendered because of the nukes


I did not expect a history lesson from this channel but I love it


Holy crap this is great!

And that dunkey quote is so fitting

Edit: My god I just finished it, this is the best thing you have ever made


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 think you're one of the best creators on this platform, i've already seen all this series and it's so perfect


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.


This channel qualifies as being amongst the greatest on the entire website.


I done a project on this man for school. I believe he's the most important man who lived that no one knows about.


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".


The end makes me cry everytime. We were so close. Thanks for your work Emp


imagine fighting with guns and bomvs and shit and then the enemy summons a tiny sun on one of your cities


That was an incredibly power ending. Bringing up Hawaii. Very powerful indeed.


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


I like that before even watching this, I know this man, and his importance in history.<br>Heck yeah. This is going to be good.

I like that before even watching this, I know this man, and his importance in history.
Heck yeah. This is going to be good.


IM HOLDING BACK TEARS THIS VIDEO WAS SO POWERFUL


This is incredibly well-edited, there are so many little details (and jokes of course).


Tbh if I was a history teacher I would show this to my students if we ever had a day to watch a video


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


14:36 - 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.


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


It's really interesting how someone who came from making YTP developed into someone who makes interesting documentaries about various subjects.


That Dunkey quote sent chills down my spine. I can't believe how well placed that was.

Only Emplemon can make a Dunkey Quote send chills down your spine


may he rest in peace and he shall not be forgotten


The way you used samuel l jackson's monologue to precede the tzar bomba detonation gave me chills. Excellent use of audio!


watching this you can tell that this is one of the most important videos on the internet in some way or another


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.


37:30 I've been saying this for years. I wish more people would see it.

Thanks to your video a lot more people did.


Holy fuck this was incredible. Made me emotional


You are such an amazing creator, these videos are miraculous.


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!


A lot of ppl: Wow, this guy saved us.<br>Me: Это же тот дядька из 5 подъезда!

A lot of ppl: Wow, this guy saved us.
Me: 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


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.


Using a dunkey speech about games breaking as a metaphor creating the atomic bomb is probably the smartest thing anyone has done ever.


had goosebumps at the end and shed a graceful tear


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.


EmpLemon is one of, if not the only youtuber, that i will watch in-video ads for.


“The US and Russia are 500 miles apart”<br>Bering Strait: Am I a joke to you?

“The US and Russia are 500 miles apart”
Bering 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.


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


When the Hawaiian official said "I was just following orders" I freaked out.


i still wish there was more videos like this


If anyone is wondering why the mushroom cloud for the tsar bomba illustration looks weird and flat, simple.<br>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

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 wish they taught history like this haha this is so engaging


This is absolutely your best video. You are truly an Emperor I would die for. バンザイ🎌


I 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.


I would look into Sergei Koralev for another one of these.


You should do one on vasili arkipov! Same story but arkipov was even more powerful


This video is powerful. I know for a fact I’d have pressed it.


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.


16:04 Oh God, that music gives me chills...


My coworker who grew up in Soviet Union didnt even know who this was.


How do keep making these absolute masterpieces


Thank you Stanislav Petrov from the bottom of my hearth! <3

...for doing the right thing.


I love how he ends this with the Coke song, a subtle nod to the victory of capitalism.

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.


i love how you used a clip from a dunkey video to visualize the evolution of warfare lmaoo


When I was watching this and the “atomic bomb contingency notice” we had a tornado and the sirens were going off, I feared death


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.


Wow, great job man. You really have a gift for video making..


Emplemon: makes a documentary of The Cold War. <br>Metal Gear Stans: It's Showtime

Emplemon: makes a documentary of The Cold War.
Metal Gear Stans: It's Showtime


Imagine being the servicemen who dropped the bombs


15:20 can we talk about how perfectly framed and positioned this transition was


A true hero is not one who sees himself as such, but only feels that what he did was right.


Can we get a F in the chat for comrade Stan?


i cannot stress how good the use of that dunkey clip was


Came here for a Stanislav Petrov doc

Stayed 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.

Thats a different story.
Besides, almost everyone knows about him.
Stanislav Petrov is a bit more obscure.


Heres all the tracks used in order:

Soft 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
RAW Paste Data


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.


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 <b>knew</b> 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.

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyrF77-hahg

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.


imagine you could control the soviet union


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


This is one of the most important videos on the internet


Love 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.


the fun parts of these videos for me are the quotes.<br>some really get me.

the fun parts of these videos for me are the quotes.
some really get me.


If only people knew just how close we've come to oblivion, numerous times, because of human error.


This objectively is the best video on YouTube


Your use of the nuclear warning message is chilling


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.


Stanislav Petrov remarkable in deed.<br>Pearl harbor, Oh that's just our planes.

Stanislav Petrov remarkable in deed.
Pearl harbor, Oh that's just our planes.


HOW TF did you make dunkey sound like a philosopher


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.


This must be what Krillin felt holding the spirit bomb


19:06
USA: THE RED MENACE
Also USA: Our nation


37:29 Yugoslavia was never a part of the Soviet Union.


Как вы думаете, Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал?<br>Do you think God stays in heaven because he also lives in fear for what he created?

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?


everyone should know what Stanislav Petrov did for the humanity


Good to know that in any other world timeline the world would be destroyed


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 is the best YouTube video to every existence


He actually quoted dunkey in a cold war documentary


Stanislav Petrov really sounds like a bulgarian name :0


20:29
Everyone: No you can't just use minecraft content in a historical vide...

Emplemon: haha TNT goes bum

20:29
Everyone: 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


September 26th is Petrov Day.

Spread the word.


When you use a dunkey quote in history video


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.


Fucking YouTube. They never told me you uploaded this one. It's brilliant as usual.


Your videos are better then mines. But just slightly ;)


This is the weirdest YTP I’ve ever watched


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.


Soft Machine playing in the background at 34:32? Dang, good taste in music Mr. Lemon!


So now we know that we can just send five nukes and win :D


He protec
He atac
He doesn't call Moscow back


29:30

Ah yes, the next step in human evolution:

Chicken Wings


Always love to see a shout out to the Miracle on Ice


Just wanted to point out that tsar bomba was fusion, not fission

@Flaccid Ween The II yeah, its honestly crazy, also looking back on it I was snarky in my reply, sorry about that

@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

@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.

@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.

It was a 3 stage H-Bomb. We don't have Fusion power or bombs yet my child.


10:04 how did he get here, how did we Get here, do you have 90 minutes


10:57 I love that you quoted Dunkey in a serious manner.


Triage at dawn is probably the most fitting song in the video


What´s the music that plays from 11:07 to 11:19? Is it from Kirby? It sounds just too familiar


A red spy is in the base?<br>He’ll turn red aaanny second now. Any second.

A red spy is in the base?
He’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..


Quality content at 500k views after a year? What is this bull


“Now we’re all sons of bitches.” - Kenneth Bainbridge, following the successful detonation of Trinity, July 16th 1945


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!


this video has a little something for everyone


"Why did the bombs get so big?"

Those chickens are up to something

This is why you can't trust the chickens hail the pigs!


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 :^)


10/10 Learned more about history than in a full semester of school.


Stan Petrov uses FACTS and LOGIC to not DESTROY the world.


When a YTP artist makes a documentary it results in a masterpiece.


Albert einstien:yo you should make some bombs to end ww2


your use of Mars: Bringer of War was so well timed and perfectly edited what a fantastic video


Nice. You’ve proven that this series can explore not only media, but the human condition as a whole. Keep it up!!


It's glad to see correct russian signs in the video

Столевар Литейник


Scientists 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?

HOME's" We're Finally Landing" plays

Pawel Dziurawiec [Summoning<br>Salt Intensifies]

Pawel Dziurawiec [Summoning
Salt Intensifies]

<b>**1987 Winston 500 - Talladega, Alabama**</b>

***1987 Winston 500 - Talladega, Alabama***


Your commercial cut was wayyy to close to local 58 for me to be at all comfortable watching it lol


Emp you can do pretty good history videos!

also i didn't get a youtube notification

@Ashatistic I never wanna be late to an emplemon video<br>because he always makes great content and he is a great creator

@Ashatistic I never wanna be late to an emplemon video
because he always makes great content and he is a great creator

@Chill Polecat I got mine four minutes late.

@smokie I know that but youtube didn't give me a notification until 5 mins after the upload.


My god, this is amazing. I'm so glad to be alive now. Thanks Emplemon :)

at the same time, if it wasn't for Stan, you, me and Emp wouldn't exist

@Jetskizze Fair point, but without Emplemon I'd have no idea about Stan, so thanks to them both ig :P


This 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!


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.


The old timey footage and sound of the voices really just gives me a weird vibe aswell as the defcon alarm


Using the Half Life soundtrack on a video about nuclear weapons.

I see what you did there.


The 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?

Evolutionary Pinnacle Your reply made me remember why I developed a passion for commenting.

We can stuff the power of a Star into a small metal canister

Man invented god, god invented man. The words become more interchangeable by the years that pass by, as our strength and knowledge grows.


jesus christ the LOCAL58 vibes really threw me off


Looks 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.


Absolute Mad Lad saves the World against the will of others.


I wish this was ready on the 4th of july. I feel like I'm the only one that salutes this literally world saving man.


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


7:36 bruh really be using the minecraft lightning sound


What Dunkey episode is the bit at 11:02 from?


Honestly what an amazing video...
I 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


lol, I didn't expect the reference to that weather channel - I thought I changed videos for a second


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

Fandom guy when you realise it isn’t your power station that’s leaking radiation

God just imagine.  "Holy shit are we leaking? No, radiation seems to be traveling by wind from the USSR, they must have leaked big.

. . .

HOLY FUCK GET YOUR SUIT ON!"


local 58 vibes or is this just what old american television was like


From YTPs, to complaining, to this. Just who the hell, or what the hell are you?

YTP’s represent being a child

Complaining was the awkward teen phase of the channel

Now it’s adult documentaries

The only thing that's for sure about EmpLemon...

Is nothing's for sure.

@Negev And perhaps the world is all of us. We should strive to be more like Emp.

@Raptyrn Perhaps the spiral is actually the world.

Perhaps he remained in the same place and the spiral kept going down around him, leaving him above it all.

perhaps... his spiral was actually an upward spiral

The evolution of his channel is truly amazing.

He is the man sitting above the downward spiral.

He's an emperor. An emperor of the <b>Downward Spiral.</b>

He's an emperor. An emperor of the *Downward Spiral.*


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.

I appreciate his consideration of newcomers like me who know nothing about world war history


Make a never ever on how discord single-handedly ended Skype's career


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.


19:00
Ah yes, my favorite portion of the Cold War, Texas vs the USSR

TEXAS: YOU YEE'D YOUR LAST HAW

USSR: NYET!

TEXAS: *YOU YEE'D YOUR LAST HAW*

USSR: *NYET!*


imma be real camps did not create space rockets thats such a dumb analogy


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.


As a video game series once said, “War..... War Never Changes....”

Gresh11990
 Metal gear said
“War has changed”


6:20 Are you sure that’s not the French lol?


God that ending gives me chills everytime incredible video on the level of multi million dollar documentaries


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”

Super Eye patch Wolf did a video about the Undertaker, you might like that. Although you probably might have seen that video already.


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.


<b>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.</b>

*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.*

Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it


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


This documentary really moved me. I have no words as I'm still processing the feelings this brought up.

Tremendous 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. :) ❤


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.

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 👏


22:40 i literally got goosebumps from this.
You 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


Aw, this is my favourite Never Ever episode. Sad to see it be so underrated in comparison to your other episodes.


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


I never thought I'd hear Dunkey's voice in a video about the Cold War, but somehow Emp incorporates in naturally. Well played.


Also known as the most powerful powerless man, I feel like he is often forgotten and schools don’t really ever teach about him


You have a serious talent for making documentaries, and with such variety too. Keep it up man.


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.