i suggest reading about vasily arkhipov; this man, singlehandedly, stopped the launching of nuclear missiles near cuba during the cuban missile crisis while the us navy was peppering his sub with signaling depth charges.


This stuff really makes me realize just how close we were to a nuclear apocalypse.

Well it ain't the first time this happened

Frosty Wasp With bombs this powerful, that meteor might as well be heading for Mars instead

Alex Reppert you should check out a book called Command and Control

We also have giant meteors from space that can knock us back into the stone ages as well.


Me still waiting for this video to hit 1 million views cause Emp deserves it


I absolutely loved the homage to the '2001: Space Odyssey' match cut you did!


Stanislav Petrov is the embodiment of "With great power comes great responsibility."


from YTP to compelling historical documentaries... what a character arc


The greatest hero in recent history almost nobody knows about him.


This video accually really helped me in history class and it was super entertaining awsome vid bro!


Thinking about how close we all came to losing everything is more horrifying and unsettling than any horror movie or truecrime story. It's the same reason why "99 Red Balloons" makes me tear up every time I hear it.


this is one of the few youtube videos that have yanked an emotion out of me


This made me cry, made me think how amazing that it is that I exist today, because of this man. Going agasint his training and trusting his intuition.

This man despite what he said, is a hero and without him we may all be mere ashes or not even born.

@tryhard Shreck Nah, he made the correct choice cursed image sempai

The wrong choice, the incorrect, false choice, is why we are here today,


He was there at the right place at the right time. just imagine if it were someone else in that night shift


honestly that ending of the quote with the music was probably the best you could do, words cannot do this topic justic


haven't watched it yet, but the quote in the description is nice.
can't really imagine you knowing Russian, but i might be wrong, anyway for those who don't know, the quote says:
"do you think that God stays in the heavens because he also lives in fear of what he has created?"


6:28 Took me this many rewatches to notice the mirroring of the "more than 2 billion" line. A dollar for every god-faring soul to bring about the nuclear age. Wow.


Damn. I've just been moved so deeply by a man who once did nothing but complain.<br>Incredible work Emp. You have my unconditional support, for there will NEVER EVER be another man like you.

Damn. I've just been moved so deeply by a man who once did nothing but complain.
Incredible work Emp. You have my unconditional support, for there will NEVER EVER be another man like you.


7:37 There were actually 4 made, the 4th being broken up into the "demon core" after WWII.


I watched this and the whole time I thought to myself "...This guy has stolen the name of a guy who made Spingebill YTP years ago, the best contributor on the Spingebill Colab." Imagine my surprise when I found out they are one and the same. Well done, excellent video your sourness.


I once heard a story of an Israeli fighter pilot making a routine flight, when all of the sudden he spots something not right. In what was clearly a school playground a small missile launcher was being assembled by soldiers of an opposing country. The pilot knew that if they succeeded in building the launcher, they would load up a rocket and destroy part of his homeland. He had a very important decision to make. Bomb the launcher and risk the lives of children, or let it go and hope that not too many people get killed by the missile. Of course, the pilot wasn’t in a prop plane. He was in an F-21 Kfir. A plane capable of traveling at speeds over 2,000 Kilometers per hour. Which means that whatever thinking that needed to be done was in less than 10 seconds. Bomb it, or let them bomb. If he circled back around, the builders would probably shoot down the plane with their own armaments. There was no other hand. He needed to make the decision, and he did. He bombed the school and stopped the launcher from being built.


I can’t tell you how many times I’ve rewatched this, it’s your best video by far


I guess its time to think about our decisions and understand what it will do. Because Stanislav knew what he was about to do, so he didn't do it. Great Job! loved it


I've thought of this kind of thing before. And I'm sure it is some kind of trope in media. Where one would-be ordinary guy has to save humanity or something, and have almost no one know they ever did it or even existed. Heh. Who would've ever thought that it actually happened. Farewell, Stanislav Petrov.


love how you replaced "will" with "may" in the title. nice touch


I guess I should thank Stanislas Petrov for my existence in 1998.


So basically, the story of a nobody who saved everybody

Somebody made nobody make a choice that only somebody could make, turning that nobody to a somebody, while saving everybody

Chunky Chum turns out that nobody is somebody now


The scary thing to me about nuclear war is that if it happens I think I'd go outside and let my self die, I'm too close to large population centers for surviving to mean anything but extended suffering.


The fact that the title of this episode has “may” instead of “will” haunts me.


Idk why, but the part showing Tsar Bomba exploding actually scared me. Guess I wasn’t expecting it to be that big


"He lived a Quite uneventful life" I mean, compared to that, anything seems pretty uneventful.


This guy is like the Soviet officer that despite being outnumbered 2-1 by his peers in a submarine during the Cuban blockade, decided not to shoot the American fleet despite everyone in the submarine thinking that the nuclear war had started, if he or the guy in the video followed the protocol we would all be dead, kinda crazy in my opinion

@Jacob Campbell dude, same, i heard about him from an Oversimplified video

Vasili Arkhipov, yeah. Really strange how he's never brought up.

Yeah, I thought that the video was originally about him


Dude, how are you not a Netflix show yet? These are the best films I have ever watched.


I hope we won't have a WWIII. We would be screwed. This guy is such a hero for avoiding near WWIII.


heard this story a hundred times never made the connection between it and the hawaii false alarm and i got the chills BAD man


god this video is so informative. this could be shown in a world history class on stanislav petrov. when i was done watching, i was about to sleep and i kept thinking of what i just watched.


"I did what I was trained to do"<br>Holy shit EMP keep going!

"I did what I was trained to do"
Holy shit EMP keep going!

@Spyder You and Rayvin made a good quote.


Still can't believe I shared the same birthdate as this event, the video still gives me shivers everytime


One of the worst things about that day is if he ended up making the decision to follow protocol, most of humanity would've been wiped out and there would be no investigation or anything afterwards to find out it was a mistake that wiped out humanity.


After watching this countless times after it was uploaded, I can’t say how much the Half life 1 and 2 ost fit.


I didn't read the full title and thought to myself: "He means Stanislav Petrov?"


From what I've heard, Tsar Bomba was detonated at a reduced payload.

The idea that it could have been even larger is terrifying.

@THE BRAIN SPECIALIST what about the person inside?

Enigma I’m fairly certain science is probably are capable of a nuke that would level the whole world.

@tygonmaster I was just talking about the world in general, not any country in particular, I was using the USA as a size reference.

@Enigma Russia? No Russia's ballistic technology really has not advanced that much since the 80s. It is largely why astronauts that have to go up to the International Space Station are constantly bitching about the rough ride back to Earth since NASA Astronauts have to rely so much on outdated Russian tech to get them up there. Russia has not made jackshit in advancements to their nuclear Tech. At least as is known by the International Community. Now the bombs that the US has or has technology to quickly acquire....well... let's just say if they were detonated the concept of sides in a war become largely irrelevant. No one would survive. Additionally every major power in the world now has access to submarines that would ensure no one survives.

The bomb was supposed to be twice as powerful. 100 megatons.<br>It’s terrifying

The bomb was supposed to be twice as powerful. 100 megatons.
It’s terrifying

The problem was that if it were any larger, the plane dropping it wouldn'y have had time to get away, and they needed the data from that plane

@Aleksandar Sokerov I think it was lead or graphite. Tsar bomba was a clean bomb that didn't release much nuclear fallout. The blast could be heard and felt around the world.

The tsar Bomba was 100mt but they wrapped the core in something if I'm not mistaken which effectively reduced the payload to 50mt

The absolute horror is only further seen when you realize the detonation occured <b>multiple miles above the ground.. There was no actual contact with the ground, most nuclear bombs we see actually, are not nearly as power as they should be because the deliverer of the payload actually needs to survive</b>

The absolute horror is only further seen when you realize the detonation occured *multiple miles above the ground.. There was no actual contact with the ground, most nuclear bombs we see actually, are not nearly as power as they should be because the deliverer of the payload actually needs to survive*

Yes, there was a concept for a bomb 2x stronger than the Tsar Bomba.

They originally wanted it to be 100 Megatons, but decided it was safer to test it at 50 Megatons. Which, of course, was so insanely devasting in scale that to think they almost doubled it is absolutely fucking insane.

The full capacity of the bomb was said to be up to 100 Megatons, easily wipe out the biggest city and surrounding areas

They probably have bombs capable of obliterating the entire USA now.


i already knew the story so i never watched this one, glad I came back. one of your best


Listen man, future humans will unironically watch this video and deem it a record of the events of WWII and the Cold War, and by using that Dunkey quote at 11:00, you've legitimized our community permanently in the annals of technological history. No one alive now can know the lasting impact of your creative effort, nor will they appreciate this sub-cultural society we share because of it.


Vasili Arkhipov. This man also saved the world.


That decision was almost certainly tied for the most influential binary, "yes or no" decision that's ever been made, and for the most important decision ever made. (I'd say it's tied with Vasily Arkhipov's decision not to launch the submarine's warhead during the Cuban Missile Crisis for both.) Given how much people from the USSR hated people from the USA and vice versa, I'm amazed that we avoided the end of the world not once but twice. And both times it ended with the USSR making the correct decision. I hate what the USSR stood for (authoritarianism and forced annexation). I'm honestly grateful for those two people and their decisions more than I'm grateful for 99% of Americans.

@madmonkeys88 well
I mean the top leaders. They didn't really care much about other countries and everything except diplomacy and managing anything that wasn't related to the economic race (if there was any) was strategy during the cold war.
But the combination of freedom of speech and democracy is just generally better than how communism is implemented.
As long as the people in power play nice, nothing's gonna go wrong to the point of downfall if everyone can keep them in check (and we should whenever we can, that is the whole point). Even if there's a devious politician or something the media is allowed to expose them and BOOM they're not allowed to become politicians again. And everyone can help however they want.
Communism didn't even work at all even with different perspectives because there's no way everyone actually wants to develop the country. 100% of the humans in a communist country have to follow orders and cooperate all the time.

@Hypertech 116 yes, it very much was. Not to say that the USA was doing all fine and dandy what with the internment of the Japanese and the whole red scare. It was still a much much much better place to live than the USSR, I would say no contest but the people putting others in literal work/death camps usually lived pretty well, until THEY got thrown in as well.

Yeah after Hitler no great evil emerged but the ideological conflict man.<br>The USSR was not worse than World War 2 and Cold War USA.

Yeah after Hitler no great evil emerged but the ideological conflict man.
The USSR was not worse than World War 2 and Cold War USA.

Agreed, I think it’s reflective of the reality that the people of the Cold War powers were not inherently bad, but the systems and power structures in place could only lead towards conflict.


Stanislav Petrov deserves a worldwide holiday.


I didn’t watch this one when emp first uploaded it. It was a real big mistake. Probably his best one.


we have stanislav petrov and vasili arkhipov to thank for being smart enough and level headed enough to not have ended the world.


24:03 not sure if it was an oversight, byt the soviets developed the first nuclear missiles, using the r-7 semyorka, the very same platform that carried the first manmade satelite into orbit.


You probably won't see this comment but this is honestly the best documentary I've seen on youtube. Great editing, script and use of historic clips. Really an amazing video all around. Maybe it's silly since I don't really know you outside of your videos but I'm proud of you! Good job.

jonathan I think he reads all his comments. Lucky you!


I love you that I found this channel. It makes 100% best and interesting content


My great grandmother was a survivor of the bomb she was working in the train stations at the time in Kure,Hiroshima


Well, I’m obsessed with this channel now


"I like to think that Sept 26, 1983 was our judgment day." <br>That has to be the most powerful words I heard a youtuber say.

"I like to think that Sept 26, 1983 was our judgment day."
That has to be the most powerful words I heard a youtuber say.

@AndiParkour What? The theory talks about what is necessary in order to not be affected by these filters in the worst way, not that they will happen inevitably.

@ivanmegafanboy Kurzgesagt made a video about the filter to help you understand the theory better. But basically the filter is not something we can pass. If such a filter exists, it may be a virus, a comet or something we cant even imagine yet. But in the end, every intelligent form of life will fail to overcome that filter.

So did we surpass the filter, or is there something worse?

I had that same feeling and it overwhelmed me with an emotion that i don't know how to describe,  thought only I caught it...

Judgement day, and we were saved. Thank you Stanislav Petrov.

yoooo I thought i was the only one that thought that. i dont know why but i started laughing in a sort of shock because emp popped off right there


Originally the Nagasaki bomb was supposed to land at Kukora another Japanese city but it was too cloudy to drop the bomb precisely<br>Kukora was spared because we couldn’t predict the weather just a few minutes ahead of time

Originally the Nagasaki bomb was supposed to land at Kukora another Japanese city but it was too cloudy to drop the bomb precisely
Kukora was spared because we couldn’t predict the weather just a few minutes ahead of time


Rest in peace, comrade petrov. Shit was sick


great topic, story telling, editing... heavy and enlightening stuff


I enjoyed every bit of this video. just awesome


Using your YTP editing skills to make documentaries is working wondrously

It’s honestly the most interesting style in terms of a video essay. It’s amazing how a fun little method of making weird funny videos also meshes well with a serious video


This guy should have he’s own national day


The editing of this video is phenomenal!


To the few who have watched and appreciated this video; we are truly the real ones.


The "Emergency Alert" thing at 8:00, for some reason, I just find chilling to listen to.

Bravo, Emp, on fucking me up for the next week, lol.


I never expected to hear Dunkey in a documentary about nuclear warfare

@Stravenson Gorglyforgly That's one of my favorite videos of his


That Tsar Bomba blast radius build-up edit was insane !


this is the best youtube channel, for now, for me.


What a beautifully crafted video. The end is a work of genius. Unbelievable.


The ending of Wargame scared the everliving shit out of me as a child.

My parents had terrible choice in movies to shown to kids lmao


5 months from now, this channel is gonna be an indie documentary channel and not a meme shitpost one

I have to wait 90 days to change my name

@Preston Heit big bruh moment from a fellow annoying orange pfper

The only thing sure about emplemon, is that nothing is for sure

I hope so, his meme related jokes are shit most of the time


It'd be great to see another video like this but on another individual in much the sMe circumstances: Vasily Arkhipov, who was aboard the B-59 submarine in the Cuban Missile Crisis when it was being shaken by signaling depth charges. Although the captain wished to launch a nuclear torpedo (yes, a torpedo with a nuclear payload), Arkhipov objected to it. He had the same choice, with almost the same exact result, but in what was likely a much more stressful scenario. It'd be really awesome to see you do a video on it, plus it'd be a great dive into the Cuban Missile Crisis and the middle years of the Cold War.


I'm so happy I'm not the only person who thought of the Arms race when Dunkey was talking about League, god bless you EMP


Seeing tsar bomba made my jaw drop, that kind of power is terrifying...

Funnily enough, Tsar Bomba translates as The King Bomb.


15:30 this is the version from Falco symphonical (Vienna calling). I can tell because I listened a million times to that album


“It was a system failure and I did what I was trained to do”.   H A U N T I N G !

Not gonna lie, that really made my heart stop for a moment

@Cody Produtions i dont think he did, he just triggered an alarm and caused mass panic. the rest of the country and world knew what was going on

I like how they censor his face when he forfeited the right to protection when he almost fucking caused the end of the world.

It’s not too chilling when you realize what he meant was that he was doing a test like he was trained for, and the outdated system made it very easy to press the wrong button, since they were both literal hyperlinks right next to each other.

There are roughly 76 million military personnel on Earth currently (1% of the total population) and there may come a time when one day, someone among that number will either do as Stanislav did OR do as the "trained" Hawaiian worker did.

@Matchsticks if we make a religion out of this, we need to call it Deus ex Machina

never felt chills like that in my life from a youtube video. fantastic

@Ippy We can make a religion out of this.

That is one of the scariest things i've ever heard.


38:38 Holy shit, the mix of that chilling line and the Triage at Dawn music hit me like a ICBM.


4:40 But at what cost? That was horrific. Now I really understand. Never ever should something like this be used, such power and destruction in the hands of reckless humanity. Only in truly dire emergencies.


Fun Fact: The original target for the 2nd nuke dropped on Japan was Kokura, but since it was cloudy, the pilot had to move to the secondary target, Nagasaki


Von Braun didn't have much choice in ww2. He wanted to make rockets that would reach other worlds and since he couldn't leave Germany he either had to forget his dream or become an SS member so he could work on rockets.


This documentary is amazing. Thank you for your unbiased view on history. The only remark: not Stan. Short for Stanislav is Stas.

With great respect and gratitude for your amazing work, a fellow Russian.

I'm more used to being called Stan than Stas by my friends

@Michael Hird no, because its not even fucking close

he used stan for humour and to get us to relate more, it's clearly not correct. would we call a vladimir vince? yes, because it's funny


Germany actually did develop something extraordinarily close to nuclear weapons, but never brought it to production, or beyond testing.


12:08 Does anybody else find the sight of Stalin chilling next to Churchill and the US president to be kind of surreal?


Fun Fact (kinda): A quote from Albert Einstein  about the Atomic bombs "had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing."


I knew about the incident.  But prior to watching this video, I did not know what it meant to have a chill sent down your spine.  I do now.


the part about the space race reminded me of my grandpa, he worked for a company called Rocketdyne and was contracted to design parts for the command module and the f1 engine on the saturn V. He was of Sicilian descent, and worked with a German scientist, and a Japanese scientist. The guys at NASA simply called them "the axis powers".

surprisingly this is common even in south america, im of italian descent, and in middle school i had a friend who was of german descent, and a friend of japanese descent. people used to call us the axis.

I wonder what they called the Nazi Von Braun?

That's a dark kind of humor right there......


I don’t know about the rest of you guys but I think this is the best vid EmpLemon ever made.


The amount of rewatchability these have are amazing


I started to play this video in the background while playing Fallout 4. I paused the game to actually watch the video. What a fitting game.


38:07 That False Ballistic Missile Threat here in Hawaii was personally the scariest shit I've ever experienced.


You can’t tell me that this is not EmpLemon’s magnum opus. I have rewatched this whole documentary 5 times at this point.

i feel his dale earnhardt just has that feeling to it, like i can feel the passion he put into it

dale earnhardt one is his magnum opus. But this one is the best one imo. Like the dale earnhardt one is his most important video, it easily make people feels emotional and connect to more people but this video just do everything perfectly

This is certainly up there, but I find the NASCAR videos (specifically the Dale Earnhardt one) to be their magnum opuses

I would argue that the Dale Earnhardt episode is Emp's magnum opus, but this one is certainly excellent.

I'm at around 7 I think, this is by far one of the most criminally underviewed videos... ever!


what a fucking cinematic masterpiece. take this to a movie festival this shit is beautiful


i just noticed that his videos are very jon bois-esque. clearly a big inspiration


7:26

This.

This clip.

This clip can spark fear in anyone who thinks the atomic bombs are not scary.


Such a fantastic video, really great job all around.


Never thought I'd enjoy 40 minutes of history
EmpLemon just made a history video more interesting than my history teacher in a classroom
I wonder many people do nothing like him when the tension is high and false alarm is everywhere
There's a guy who refused to launch nuclear in submarine near Cuba (need 5 people to launch nuke, he's one of them)


I think most people know what the "ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones" but it's almost like the quote means more when I realize that ww2 hadn't even ended at that point


Emplemon: Posts an add about NordVPN in the form of a USSR controlled US Presidential announcement.
Me: Laughs in Canada.

Great video, as always, Emplemon. Keep up the great work!


Goddamn I get goosebumps from so many parts of this video. fucking amazing work


Great taste in music love Scriabin, his 5th sonata is pretty good.


I think the great filter is more of a general concept than referring to something specific like nuclear weapons. The great filter could be behind us, like developing life at all, developing intelligent life, or still ahead such as nuclear weapons. Any number of things could be the great filter.


"Lately, many of us have given up trying to find a formidable foreign foe, and we've instead shifted our intention within our own borders, and turned much of the paranoia on ourselves."<br>Current-day America in a nutshell.

"Lately, many of us have given up trying to find a formidable foreign foe, and we've instead shifted our intention within our own borders, and turned much of the paranoia on ourselves."
Current-day America in a nutshell.


80% better than most Cold war documentaries out there!


As a degenerate who watches / listens to YouTube 18 hours a day, you are genuinely the best creator out here


That safety video gives a true feeling of the tension at the time.
“What are you supposed to do when you see the flash?”
Not “if”.
When.

@Frequent Man<br>Look man, I disagree with xou, but since this comment is older than dirt and I'm tired anyway, I don't want to argue. I do want to ask for a source on the red cross disputing it, I did some light google searching and couldn't find it.

@Frequent Man
Look man, I disagree with xou, but since this comment is older than dirt and I'm tired anyway, I don't want to argue. I do want to ask for a source on the red cross disputing it, I did some light google searching and couldn't find it.

@Mad Machanicest Did you graduate high school, or middle school for that matter?

@Ghosssty Yolk Exactly, along with the fact that they failed to spell the word "immediately", doesn't make me think they are "crazy smart".

Frequent Man so what about those mass graves too?

Frequent Man seems like raping a whole city is different than dropping 2 bombs to end the war, the rape of Nanking was for what? There wasn’t POWs or allowing retreat, the Japanese killed and rapped many in that city

@Putrid Moldyman  ya guy claiming to be smart miss spell something . trust me i use to it by now i have had problems with spelling a write most of my life. I will have them most likely for the rest of my life. My brain scrambles anything i try to write or type. There is nothing i can do about it. I wish somebody body would relate to the point i was trying to make and mot bad mouth me for my dame grimmer and spell.

@Mad Machanicest
"I have always been crazy smart"
"emeditly"

@Ghosssty Yolk  ((ya that was a bit egotistical of me and i am a social clueless person most of the time. ))The main point i was trying to make . this video made me think about how i would have attached as child back then and how the seeing every thing spell out in numbers really made all this hit home for me.( the crazy smart should have been more like Crazy\Smart.)

it's ironic that this is how they're teaching kids how to handle mass shootings

@Zeoxis6 also didnt address America starving 1,000,000 Germans to death after the war when they had been allocated the food for them. That's probably more people than what actually died in the holocaust( 6,000,000 is a joke dont @me)

@Zeoxis6 hey as long is there is some degree of punctuation I don't mind reading. I just dont want a headache

@Zeoxis6 not trolling. The pictures are Chinese communists wearing Japanese uniforms incorrectly and you didn't even address the Red Cross disputing it. The census numbers dispute it as well. You can argue that everything turned out for the best but thats because your line of descent went on and theirs didnt. It was for the best because it serves your self interests . Plus I don't know how you can criticise Japan for Nanking when the US literally vaporized 2 cities like wtf what kind of moral consistency is that!?

@Frequent Man Bad troll. This is one of the few instances where America, specifically the administration, was absolutely right. Japan was weakened, but would never surrender. Millions more on both sides would have ground each other down for a long time. The hatred would have run deep and long too.
This broke the conquering nature and spirit of Imperial Japan, which was necessary for any lasting peace. It showed the world the true nature of atomic warfare and served as the original warning against future slides toward it.
It ended the World War 2, it served as the baseline for negotiation into the successful relationship the U.S. and Japan have today, and it was going to happen in history eventually. Instead of an unknown wonder weapon, we know it for the doomsday device it is.
And there are pictures of Nanking, like I shouldn't even have to say this but you're obviously trolling anyway so whatever. Hope you enjoyed the wall of text if you made it this far!

@ok Nanking didnt happen btw the red cross disputes it

@ok muh Uhmurican laaves. America interned 120,000 people. Dropped 2 attomic bombs killing 200,000 people(majority were civilians) and starved 1,000,000+ germans war prisoners AFTER the war when they had a food surplus. They firembombed civilian cities and destroyed the railway lines and blame the Germans when their pow's starved

@Toronto Bud do people still think it was necessary to Nuke Japan? Propaganda really works wonders

@Goose McBruce trust me, u think duck and cover is gonna save u from a 1.2 megaton nuke ? It would destroy anything in a  25 mile radius.

The ture horror of it hit home for me when i tryed to think of what i would have done. I have alway been crazy smart but tradable with people so i would have refused to do a buck and cover drill because i would have understood emeditly that doing so was pointless.

Yeah, I don’t know anyone who wants to live for a small amount of years after the blast, with pain and suffering, or just painlessly die.

@Chase Gillingham 15 (STUDENT) duck & cover is a good way to avoid burns if you get caught in fireball range but if you're in the blast range you're fucked

Chase Gillingham 15 (STUDENT) I just told people to run for the basement.


Honestly surprised there was no mention of the amazing quote "Now we are all sons of bitches" by Kennith Bainbridge after the trinity nuclear test.


that moment when the video is so good you watch the whole sponsorship


Makes you wonder how many times this scenario has happened and the world never even knew. How many heroes died for humanity without humanity even knowing


Amazing video emp, probably my favorite. However, there was another Russian who almost caused nuclear war. Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine vice admiral was off the coast of Cuba during the cuban missile crisis, when many of the crew members mistakenly believed that war had broken out. Three people, Vasily and two other officials, were required to authorize the launch of the submarine's nuclear torpedo. The  other two officials agreed to launch it, with only Vasily refusing.

@Smith wow I want to vomit. Have you tried not having laughable ideas for a moment?

If I heard correctly Vasily was not even SUPPOSED to be on that sub.

I  was just thinking about him and was going to make a comment like yours. Thanks to these 2 great men. It's amazing this happened twice and by the grace of God these 2 men was at the right place at the right time.

@Smith Socialism is evil, and needs to be purged from this Earth.

@John Smith no you don’t you could live off of food stamps. In either system if a majority of people didn’t believe in it, it wouldn’t work.

I think it has to do with Petrov being the lone man who could’ve given the ok, while Arkipov had a couple of crew mates with him

@PKFireFawx bro I was just having a polite philosophical discussion with a nice man. You've gotta chill out. I didn't even start this conversation, I just answered a question someone had to the best of my ability. You feeling ok?

@TomatoP
conflict of interest, as long as you have two people in a room, there will always be tension, as we have different perspectives on a common subject.

Why cant we have capitalist and socialist countries and just idk leave each other the hell alone ._.

@Tobie <br>Ask theredcat dude, he's the one who randomly brought it up outta nowhere. All I did was reply to your reply that was talking about it.

@Tobie
Ask theredcat dude, he's the one who randomly brought it up outta nowhere. All I did was reply to your reply that was talking about it.

idk why you guys just started talking to me about communism and stuff, wtf did I do for that x)

@Tobie
Except there has been, and there currently is, you're just not looking.

In the early 1900s there were 3 prominent examples of not only socialist societies without an authoritarian state, but ones completely lacking a state.

During the Russian Civil War, there was the Free Territory in Ukraine that lasted from 1917-1921. It was a federation of directly democratic communities organized along an anarcho-communist basis. That society fell as a result of the sheer strength and numbers of the Red Army invading. (Who later went on to imprison, exile, and murder many of the leading figures).

During the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939 anarcho-syndicalists and trade unions governored massive portions of Spain and much of the economy was collectivized. They failed because the USSR Stalinist backed forces betrayed them (they threw many of them in prison), which eventually lead to Franco and the fascists (whom were backed by Nazi Germany and Italy) taking over.

In Manchuria near the border of Korea there was the Korean People's Association in Manchuria which lasted from 1929-1931. They operated on a similar basis to the Free Territory. They were eventually destroyed as a result of a combined effort of Imperial Japan and the nationalist Kuomintang invading.

As to right now? There is Rojava, a predominantly Kurdish region within Northern Syria. They're a democratic confederalist society. They've existed since 2013, there's tons of videos on YouTube you can watch to learn about them.

There's also the Zapatistas in Chiapas Mexico, who in 1994 revolted against the Mexican Government as a result of NAFTA. They have controlled nearly half of the Chiapas region ever since then.

If you'd like any sources, I can provide a couple books and some YouTube videos.

@John Smith (sorry for the late response) maybe, but yet there haven't been one.

@Tobie your perception of socialism seems a little restricted. You seem like a decent guy so I guess I'd recommend that you look into more libertarian forms of socialism. Believe it or not socialism or even communism can exist without a strong authoritarian government.

@John Smith I think for socialism to work, there has to be someone to be in charge of it all, a person or a group of person that will decide how much food each person will receive, etc. So there's always a form of government or coalition, something that links people together. But it can get pretty complicated.
Living in a democracy and voting for a president and his government that will decide is very different than living in an autoritarian country that the same party keeps power years after years. Either way, the government owns the companies and the goods. If the people do, that's capitalism. Even an agricol union or things like that is still capitalism, it's just that profit is split between all the owners.

So yeah,  the government :P

@Tobie I don't think that socialism has a concrete way to create world peace or a perfect society, but it does have concrete methods to increase quality of life among the citizenry. No economic system can solve the world's problems on it's own, but some systems make achieving world peace a lot easier. My question to you would be do you view socialism as the government owning business and property, or the public? There are a few separate interpretations and in order to answer your question effectively I need to know what you think the term really means.

@John Smith I appreciate your response but I don't like it. It's easy to criticize the in-place actual system, but what I was asking for what concrete solution does socialism has to fix those issues?

To me, socialism is still capitalism, but to a much larger scale, between countries. Each country tries to be as rich as possible, and the country rules every aspect of the economy. So you would have the same problems: some countries would be really rich on top of other really poor countries. We saw that happening when the Usa cut every export to Cuba in the 60's, and since then Cuba has never recovered financially and socially. It was the rights of the US to do what they wanted to do.

Also, I was a socialist too few years back but I changed my mind. So yeah, I know what socialism is.

@Tobie the best argument for an inherent evil of capitalism is its coersive nature. Under capitalism, your only method of survival is participation in the system. Socialists view food, water, and shelter as a human right. Under socialism those things are supposed to be provided. Under capitalism you have to gain currency to partake in those necessities. To gain currency means that you have to work within capitalism. In the age that we are in today, all participation in capitalism is unethical. Working at an insurance agency today means that you are taking advantage of others to stay alive. Buying food by using your money from work is unethical, since you are abusing the labor of a south american indentured servant. Buying an iphone means that you are perpetuating child slave labor. Of course, none of this is your fault since having food, water, and housing is mandatory for your survival. So world peace under capitalism is impossible, since it requires taking advantage of another's persons autonomy or freedom. Hopefully this answer is to your satisfaction. Have a good day.

@Smith How can socialism bring world peace in a way that capitalism can't? And why are you bringing the USA? I'm not even from there.

@Tobie Well. Hard fact but world peace cannot be achieved through the USA.
Socialism is the answer.
Or more a socialist market economy.
Stop looking away from the crimes, which the USA is doing.

@Psychlops 924 same, but I've watched it about 5 times now and each time I've got tears at the end of the video :)

I thought that’s who this video would be about when I saw the title.


This is just so engaging and interesting to watch. Incredible work


If anyone wants to read a book detailing how close the USA came to internal nuclear disaster, they should check out a book titled "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser. Fantastic read.<br>Edit: Reminder that the US-Russia 2010 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), unless extended into 2026, will expire in February of this year.

If anyone wants to read a book detailing how close the USA came to internal nuclear disaster, they should check out a book titled "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser. Fantastic read.
Edit: Reminder that the US-Russia 2010 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), unless extended into 2026, will expire in February of this year.


This is one of the best videos on YouTube, no joke!


This is deadass one of the single most terrifying things I've ever watched. It sorta feels like I'm living in an alternate timeline where Petrov didn't alert abt the nukes. Sorta like this isn't the main timeline, but a second chance at not complete annhilation.  Feels weird.

Feels like someone playing a video game reloaded the save file to make a different decision


GODDAMMIT. I JUST DID AN ESSAY ON. THIS GUY AND JUST DISCOVERED THIS


I wish the title would be "there <b>must</b> Never Ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov"

I wish the title would be "there *must* Never Ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov"


Vasili Arkhipov arguably had more impact during the cuban missile crisis when he refused to launch nukes


I absolutely love your Never Ever series. You just taught me more about the Cold War than I ever understood from school. You're an underrated YouTuber, I wish you had more subs (and not empty ones. People who honestly watch your great videos.)


22:35 is extremely freighting. I have used nukemap, but it has never hit home like the context he gave.


Came for the history lesson, stayed for the soft machine


It’s hard to think a 41 minute video can give you a completely different perspective on the world but It


At this point, with the weapons we have, I pray there will be no WWIII, I know there will be no WWIV.

God this video is so fucking good 👍


Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche


Im back because of the conflict in Ukraine if we go to war with Russia then were fucked


4:11 Holy shit i literally just searched for this survivor on google and he died october 24th this year, RIP


37:30 onwards is some of the best video I have ever seen. Thank you.


Vasily Arkhipov (another Petrov like figure during the missile crisis) and Stanislav Petrov

Thank you for your service to humanity.


38:40 I've got goosebumps when I heard path of borealis


Crazy to think Petrov thought of what he did as nothing.


You know a youtube video is good when it almost makes me cry


3:45- I never knew it was that bad... instant crying, just... dear, dear god.  I knew it was terrible, but still


Do you think God remains in heaven because he too lives in fear for what he created?


You used a quote from Dunkey to symbolize the invention of nuclear weapons... and it was probably the most effective quote you could've used.


The true heroes of our species are those who simply go out and do a good job.


From Spongebob to the Attitude Era, to NASCAR, to Nuclear Warfare


Another guy, Vadillo arkophov did something very similar in the Cuban missile crisis,:so there was the crisis and within the crisis there was a submarine near the us with a nuke under it,(this part I’m not sure about)and there was a person who couldn’t come and had to be replaced by Vassili (back to facts) And they thought that nuclear war had already started so the held a vote and 2 of the three voted to send the nuke and vasilli voted no and they needed a unanimous vote so they didn’t detonate


This may just be my favourite video on the site. Thankyou, thankyou so much.


The intresting think was it was the 2nd(i know) time a gut feeling saved our world so will there be a 3rd time or maybe without our knowledge there where many more ? 1st i know goes to Wassili Alexandrowitsch Archipow who saw himself in a similar position but in a sense even more bad the chance of him even being there was low the chance that under pressure of others him not doing it was even lower but at the end he didnt its like for a moment people can realize in those moments that it gives lines that shouldnt be crossed maybe some deep Instinkt that tells us after that it will end dont do that but will the next time it happens be it someone who can follow that feeling or will it be someone that was so trained to do somethink that he dosent care anymore.


Amazing storytelling through editing and timing. You really set up the surrounding well and it has this dark but hopeful mood.<br>Up there with your Earnhardt video, this is definitely one of my favourite youtube series!

Amazing storytelling through editing and timing. You really set up the surrounding well and it has this dark but hopeful mood.
Up there with your Earnhardt video, this is definitely one of my favourite youtube series!


History made fun. Seriously, this guy is a genius at editing


"The axis powers lost access to ......." I liked that word choice haha maybe unintended but still


I want a holiday to celebrate Mr. Stanislav he's a true hero


You're missing a lot of info on how the US came to develop the atomic weapons.


I initially didn’t want to watch this video, it seemed less interesting than the rest of the Never Ever videos. It’s been my favorite since I watched it.


"I was simply doing my job and I did it well."


Holy smokes you are an amazing storyteller


Remember, this was back in WW2 where the weapon weren't as strong, imagine what would happen if a bomb with much higher power detonated today.

even in the world war 2 era, the power would be enough to not allow both of us type this comment.


16:38 Usually I hate advertisements in videos, but this one for NordVPN was really well done and added to the video tbh


I just realized that out of all of the Never Ever episodes, this is the only one that says "there may Never ever be" instead of "there will Never Ever be".


hey you, yeah you, you just clicked "most recent" expecting some dark humor over this, yeah we scared, but we shall grow from this.


The man saved the world and most people don't even know his name...

@GOOGLE TAQIYYA don't forget all the other guys who helped him before and all the guys afterwards.

There was another man who saved the world, his name was Vasili Arkhipov.

I still can’t spell his name.

Stan Petrikov? Stanison Perikeet. Damn reds.


"Entering Gracefully" is such a fuckin banger. This message will repeat, until there are none left to read it


Great video.
40:12 Define World Peace. Lack of conflict?
As long as differences between people exist, conflict shall, too.
World Peace is a stupendously simplistic idea with horrendous consequences.
To suggest it means to erase people's differences.
Even the rising neoempire could never achieve it, as internal conflicts would exist due to ethnocultural differences. If you magically erased that, we'd still have conflicts over resources.
Achieving it would require transhumanism; a population in their perfect VR worlds, free of their "Darwinian pathologies", overseen by a being, likely an AI, since it'd be unethical to leave one person missing out.
I'm fine with internal conflicts, thank you very much. Let us celebrate our differences.


I love the use of the Half Life soundtrack, it sounds so ominous and alien


stan was more powerful than jesus for a whole hour


This is honestly one of the best YouTube videos I've seen in a long time. These Never Ever videos just keep getting better and better. Keep up the great content man.


<b>thanks to this guy i gotta go to work and pay taxes....god damn it</b>

*thanks to this guy i gotta go to work and pay taxes....god damn it*


in this ep we learn about the most epicest man in the world that made the epic victory royale


Great video. However, I would revisit the statement about how soldier are trained. I would say it is very simplistic.


I want to watch another video after this so that Youtube recommends it to more people, but I'm really not in the mood.


40:51 this drove me to tears. the man who saved every single human life on earth doesn't even see himself as a hero :(

_40:51__ this drove me to tears. the man who saved every single human life on earth doesn't even see himself as a hero :(_

@HellSpoon they tend to just see themselves as people.

He's not wrong. Simply doing his job of signalling and reporting airborne threats and he did it right and well.

Good people don't see them selfs as good people.


commenting for the youtube algorithm so more people can see this masterpiece of a video.


god this made my stomach churn in terror a little...


Vassili arkupov: hold my also saving the world


This is by far your most special and insightful video.


I cannot believe that it took me nearly a month to watch this video.... Emp, you truly are one of the most hardworking individuals on this site. Keep doing what you’re doing man.


Elevated to more than a man for he was a god <br>And this god choose to be merciful

Elevated to more than a man for he was a god
And this god choose to be merciful


24:15 By 1950 the USA should have demanded that the rest of the world limit itself to only 5 nukes each.
By 1955, it should have unleashed its nukes upon Russia for refusing to stop making bombs.
By 1965 Russia had enough bombs, that BOTH nations would lose in any nuclear exchange.
Thus, the 1950s were the time that the USA should have prevented nuclear proliferation, and enforced Pax Romana, otherwise known as Pax Americana for the Nuclear Age.


"What would you do if satellite picked up 5 intercontinen...."

(Me in 2021): *CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK*

"OMG WTF ARE YOU DOING DUDE??!!!!"

"What would you do if satellite picked up 5 intercontinen...."

(Me in 2021): **CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK**

"OMG WTF ARE YOU DOING DUDE??!!!!"


the Einstein quote to the scene from odyssey. chills.


The spiritual death of a nation my ass. Most of those killed in the bombings were in some way connected to the military. And the first bomb did force the Japanese to surrender, saving far more civilian lives than it killed (No one dying would've been a better outcome though, and I'm not defending the second bomb. It was by most accounts unnecessary). In my opinion, as one of the people whose nation was mercilessly conquered and raped by the WWII Japanese, I'd say the bombing (The first bomb) was a necessary show of power done by America. Japan was WAY WAYYY worse than the Nazis with the peoples they've conquered and this "wE WeRe BoMbEd" narrative just makes them sympathetic when in truth their actions were far more horrific and dare I say EVIL by all extent when compared to the German Nazis.

The "Bombed to force surrender" is a myth. Japan was  already way on its way to surrender.


and that was just the strongest nuke *tested*. the soviets made a 100 megaton tsar bomba (x2 size of the one tested) but it was never used

blasts that big would have a world wide effect


just seeing the atom bomb explode really hit me, like i think people really underestimate that shit


That Tsar Bomba visualization gives me chills every time

The video at the beginning is so chilling too

@douglas wahid it is insane to think that it was 50 years ago and 25 years after the first nuclear weapon. The fact it was at half capacity becomes more terrifying when you think how much more powerful we could make them today.

I thought that 22:40 was the radius and was like "Holy shit that's a lot," and then the actual simulation was shown

As someone who lives next to the city yeah this gives me super chills

Despite multiple rewatchings, it’s no less chilling. At each detonation sound as well.

The whole state of New York would be Thanos'd

22:34 for those looking for the timestamp


This is genuinely the scariest thing ive ever known about or will ever know about everything of anything


i sincerely wish the title didnt have to say "may" before never ever, i dont want any one person to ever have that much power


From shitposting to intellectual documentaries, you provide the best of content that this degenerate site has to offer.


emplemon: I wonder how far apart Russia and the us are?
casually ignores left and up
emp: oh so about 5000 miles, cool

emplemon: I wonder how far apart Russia and the us are?
*casually ignores left and up*
emp: oh so about 5000 miles, cool


Nuclear weapons produce temperatures as hot as the sun and wind speeds approaching 1000 miles per hour.
Official distributed advice from the British government to its citizens: board up your windows, hide under a desk, stockpile drinking water.
That's the kind of advice you give when you know nothing will work, but you're just expected to give advice anyway.


-Please, stop making nuclear bombs, we'll all die.
-What? Oh! You mean shut down perfectly operational nuclear power plants? Sure, we can do that, we love fossil fuels!
-Wait, no, not like that...


24:18 Hold on! I never thought I'd see Roger Dean's art here, of all places!


I remember watching this the weekend after the fourth July, and as person with military background, it allowed to reconsider so believes I had, as well be able to see beyond what people discuss my circles. I just want to thank you for educating me on something that I struggle with from time to time: Mortality and Humanity.


18:48 Says "authoritarian" as he slides in a poster literally saying "Power to soviets! Peace to people! Land to peasants! Factories to workers!" [The noun "soviet" in Russian means a local democratic council at every workplace that includes every worker.] Great illustration..!


Never thought a dunkey quote would make it into a ww2 documentary.


Did my man just quote Dunkey talking about balance in video games, but making it seem relevant to the context of war????<br>thats hilarious and genious simultaniously

Did my man just quote Dunkey talking about balance in video games, but making it seem relevant to the context of war????
thats hilarious and genious simultaniously


Did you really use a Dunkey quote as a metaphor for war and humanity. I love you.


The only way to win a game of mutually assured destruction is to not play at all. Stanislav is more than a Soviet national hero, he's a hero for all citizens of the world. Salute to you, Comrade Petrov.


The dichotomy between the guy in hawaii and stan petrov genuinely terrifies me


Love the use of grand turismo music on this channel. This anxiety of the opening song is just right on point


we will achieve world peace when virtual reality comes to the level where it can serve as the battle field instead where we have champions fight for us instead of hordes of mobs on a field to die.


I remember reading about him long before he died. It always baffled me how important he was and how little recognition he got. Later on I found out  that he died in an article on Twitter, I wasn't surprised by the little  recognition he got but I figured he liked it that way, such a decent and I would say humble guy.

I'd argue that the man who prevented the death of billions of people is just a bit more than decent


This is the best video you have ever made!


The buildup to 22:42 is so fucking good, then the followup a couple of seconds later is even more incredible.


March 2022, hoping this one becomes a documentary too.


First episode: there WILL never be
Second episode: there WILL never be
Third episode: there WILL never be
Forth episode: there MAY never be

chilling

@William Jordan At what cost though? In a parallel universe (if you believe in that sort of thing) the entire world was annihilated because Stanislaw made a different decision. Mutually Assured Destruction brought us peace but every time world tensions reach a peak as they did during the cold war we risk that total destruction again. Sure it isn't imminent right now like it was in the 80s but it will be again one day, trust me on that.

Actually, nuke capability has killed world wars in their tracks. Nothing even close has happened in 75 years.

there will be never be a "there will never be" again

...emp?

there never SHOULD be

but humanity doesn't deal in "should we?", we deal in "can we?"
I hope to be proven wrong

Natalia Borys I’d like the think this comment ended the world


who else started to tear up watching this ?


Stan is such a normal name, showing that maybe, even if not known, we can be a hero ourselves.


This may be one of the best videos on youtube


You summarised a year's worth of junior high History classes in the span of 41:38.

Top tier content.

Don't be surprised if teachers use this video for their studies.


I can't be the same people who instinctively heard the opening of Burning in the Skies after the Oppenheimer speech right? ...right?

Great video.


I remember learning about Stanislav Petrov a couple years before he died on TVTropes, and ever since then I try to spread awareness of Stanislav Petrov day, September 26th. I regret that I never tried to make him aware of how grateful I am for what he did.

Imagine learning about history from TVtropes


Did this guy seriously use a dunkey clip for his video about bombs? Bravo Emplemon, bravo.


These Never Ever episodes just keep getting better and better. You need at least a week to contemplate what you just watched and how incredible it was, and afterwards re-watch it another 5 times.

@Giovanni Trujillo Those, and <b>echo</b> MEME Theory. 😃

@Giovanni Trujillo Those, and *echo* MEME Theory. 😃

Dont forget about his YouTube Geographic series

I binge watch these episodes over and over.


I absolutely love the old 70s commercial for Nord VPN. a witty, creative way to plug a sponsor that for the first time I didn't want to skip. bravo sir. other creators should take notes!!!

now back to finish the doc 😉


2:42 I'm so happy to hear that song from Half-life. I love the songs you use in your videos.


This is genuinely one of the greatest pieces of content you can find on the internet.


Probably one of the top 25 videos on this platform. Idk how objective I am, but genuinely amazing video.


Greetings from Europe in 2022. Hopefully I can greet again in 2023.


I feel like the spirit of YouTube Poop will never leave your editing.

And I like that.


that realization that if a nuclear bomb dropped on New York you would be dead even though you don’t live there


Dude your shit is the bomb my kids are learning with  ease thank you for your dedication for history


This may have been one of the best YouTube videos I’ve seen.


This video has made me realise that everyone who watched this is living their life, normally but what if on a one normal day what you don't realise is that on the other side of the Earth a single man had decided not to push the button. Yesterday when you went to bed that sleep could have very well been your last.

The craziest bit is that he was not even meant to be there. He was just the substitute for the regular guy who ran that post.


The most polished series YT has ever been blessed with


God, it's all the waiting and anticipation that just gets me.  Can't we just have a nuclear war an <i>get it over with, already?!?</i>

God, it's all the waiting and anticipation that just gets me.  Can't we just have a nuclear war an _get it over with, already?!?_


This is the most insane episode of never ever


How do you even find the sources you use in these videos...and then edit the clips so professionally into a 40 minute video documentary that is both informative and entertaining.<br>This channel is very underrated.

How do you even find the sources you use in these videos...and then edit the clips so professionally into a 40 minute video documentary that is both informative and entertaining.
This channel is very underrated.


I’m sorry to say it but this is the best video on YouTube


what the hell,this guy saved the world in the most literal sense possible


We just watched this damn video in history class yesterday


Once again the YTP squid meme man cranks out a glorious masterpiece.  This is honestly the best telling of this story in my opinion.  I know this video will never make it on Trending, but it doesn't need to. It accomplishes its purpose all the same.

Can we say for certain that Petrov saved the world?  How do we know that someone else wouldn't have put a stop to it?  The truth is that we don't, but because of men like Petrov, we've never had to take that risk.  Due to his handling of the situation and the subconscious hope for a better world inherent in every man woman and child, we've never had to cross that threshold.  I like to believe that the hand of God was guiding him that day.  I mean, my dad was a young man then, and I'm glad he was able to grow up as a result of people having the fortitude to abstain from pushing the button. There are so many incidents like this occurring throughout history and across the world, but yet the world doesn't know of them.  Thanks to Petrov and his contemporaries, it doesn't have to.

We do not know if somebody else may have pushed the button or not but let’s be glad Stanislav Petrov didn’t push it and that we are able to to still be alive.


On September 26th, 1983, I was 6 years old.  I don't remember that day at all.  Thank God I don't.


I off an on return to binge watching your vids every now and then. Shocked to find out you're under a million subs. Wow.


There’s a really good video by Shaun that goes over the dropping of the bombs, I highly recommend it after this one.


I showed this video to my dad, who's more in line to traditional documentaries from the history channel, and enjoyed it enough to watch it in one sitting. If that says anything, it means you did a great job appealing to the younger and older generations


honestly the way i act, if i was in stan petrovs shoes i would have ended the world


My grandpa was a marine veteran and served during the Cuban middle crisis, he has said he was on the boats that were supposed to deploy the troops in case of the us went into Cuba.


New idea:

There may never ever be another king like Henry VIII


"One of the greatest scientific achievements in human history was built off the back of one of it's greatest atrocities."

@TackyWhale can ya specify cus that pfp isn't giving the best implications here

...Eh, I kinda disagree with him, there.

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."<br>- A quote I don't know

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
- A quote I don't know


the fucking video game dunkey reference was fucking amazing


this is one of his best videos and it's not even reached a million views, prolly because russians and nazis being on the video and edit: the two most powerful nations in the world are not the world dude, why you say all humanity comes to an end when those TWO nations collide?


There are few videos that I ever feel truly satisfied when watching - and this one is one of the few. You managed to mix education of an uninformed topic, something that is generally boring to make interesting. You managed to make something engaging for 41 minutes, something informative and unique. I have never heard of this man before your video but every once in a while after watching this video for the first time.<br>This is also one of those videos you can't stop watching- you perfectly closed the circle of information. When I'm older(I'm 15) I will definitely get money for your patreon because you deserve it

There are few videos that I ever feel truly satisfied when watching - and this one is one of the few. You managed to mix education of an uninformed topic, something that is generally boring to make interesting. You managed to make something engaging for 41 minutes, something informative and unique. I have never heard of this man before your video but every once in a while after watching this video for the first time.
This is also one of those videos you can't stop watching- you perfectly closed the circle of information. When I'm older(I'm 15) I will definitely get money for your patreon because you deserve it


There can never be another man like stanislav petrov. We have evolved as a species and as such our concept of right and wrong have become blurry. If we somehow find a way to make the world black and white, it will mean the end of the human species.


It’s scary that this type of “system error” isn’t unheard of….


As tragic and unnecessary as the downing of this aircraft was - but did US generals and/or the president really suggest total nuclear war as retaliation? Seems a bit extreme.<br>Or was this scenario more in the heads of Soviet leaders, multiplied with the general paranoia of the time?

As tragic and unnecessary as the downing of this aircraft was - but did US generals and/or the president really suggest total nuclear war as retaliation? Seems a bit extreme.
Or was this scenario more in the heads of Soviet leaders, multiplied with the general paranoia of the time?


I suppose you have never heard of a man by the name Kyriakos Grizzly


"I'm not a hero, I was just at the right place at the right time."
- Stan Motherfucking Petrov

The button : "You would save the world, but the world will never know about what you did."
And the man smashed that button.

@douglas wahid You're missing the point here. It's not obvious when you're being brainwashed by your Government that the war is imminent. In fact, a normal person's obvious response would be to take the false alarm as true, in other words, jumping to conclusions. And we should be grateful that Petrov wasn't that kind of a guy.

@douglas wahid So you're telling me that you would blow up earth if you were not on it? xD


Alternate title: There never ever <b>should</b> be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov

Alternate title: There never ever *should* be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov


37:31 What if the real evil empire was the crimes we committed along the way?


16:02 my heart sank and I was thinking of a bad storm in Massachusetts.


Dr. Evil had really low standards to hold the world hostage for just 1 million.


I think I might name my first born son Stanislov, he’d be black, but I’d tell him I named him after a very heroic Russian who really doesn’t get enough credit.

Bro do you know how FUCKING awesome it would be if you did that 😂

@Beef Hardcheese you have the best username.

just call him peter griffin and get it over with

Филип Радојковић

@Филип Радојковић ah yes, Peter really evokes the legend of Stanislav Petrov.

@Amber Sugar Simp maybe name him Sash? Or Sasha? I know its not the same but its cool name. Also you could name him Petrov, i know its last name but whatever. Peter, perhaps?

Филип Радојковић

@CrunchyCoochie were assuming this guy is in america doe so stan would be way better

@Beef Hardcheese in Russian short for Stanislav is Stas, not Stan

Not to be an ass, that's a good choice. But, be sure to spell it correctly. Stanislav with an A. :]


These descriptions are beyond terrifying, but this also kinda reminded me that Imma be just fine for as long as I got.


The best YouTube I’ve ever known. Emperor Lemon. The name fits


This is like the trolley problem but a million times the stakes.


The Tsar Bomba presentation was spectacular. Pacing, Sound Design, and Direction on another level than most video essays on YouTube.

It was great!
The moment Tsar Bomba exploded over Manhattan, and the sound that came with it...
Just wow

I was always told how big Tsar Bomba’s explosion was. I was also shown how big it was, but I cannot express enough how they were nothing like Emp’s presentation. None more impactful and awe-struck it’ll leave you.


What an excellent video. I think your channel will go down as one of the greats.


On the other hand, one man could have single handedly prevented EA from existing.


Where’d ya find the image for the mutually assured destruction intro? I really like that art style.

Not glossing over the excellent video, but I’d love to follow that artist.


This is quite possibly the magnum opus of never ever


One thing I never thought EmpLemon would say is <br>“Germany invading Poland”

One thing I never thought EmpLemon would say is
“Germany invading Poland”

I dunno why, but I somehow felt the need to rewind 10 seconds just to hear that phrase again. (I'm a Pole)


I like to think if I was in this situation I probably wouldn't of fired just to prove in our last moment that we were better then what they thought.


I thought based on the title it would be some strongman wrestler and got confused on the start lol (I knew the story but forgot his name of course)


someone who got his start making YouTube poops using a dunkey excerpt for his Cold War mini-doc is prob the most internet thing I’ve ever seen, and my fave thing abt being online


This was a thought provoking emotional roller-coaster


In cinema, they say comedy is the hardest genre to master and some of the greatest directors started out with comedy. Emp started with Great YTPs and now releases hit after hit with this never ever series


I can’t honestly say I wouldn’t press that button in his shoes. That’s the scariest part.


Emplemon: Guys here's a cool video about spongebob

Emplemon: here's a cool video about homers enemy

Emplemon: here's a cool video about super smash bros melee and the rise of Hbox

Emplemon: here's a cool video about nuclear Armageddon and the fear constantly looming over us of the destruction of the world


He made the choice to not fire because he knew that we didn't hate each other enough to end the world. Let's hope that someone never has to make that choice ever again.


“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”

― George Sand

@BlueSatoshi actually a lot of what we call pop culture can also be considered pomo (like the simpsons or family guy and (of course)postmodern jukebox).

@Sojjjer I'm a Furry, and I have an original quote that I did not just steal from someone, I made it up myself!

"Self-Awareness without Self-Improvement ultimately means nothing."
-Me, 2019

And that's precisely why postmodernist art is trash.

Wow, that’s the single most poetic thing a furry has ever said<br>Bravo

Wow, that’s the single most poetic thing a furry has ever said
Bravo


the preceding of tsar bomba by slj preaching gospel, even as an atheist, was a stylistically masterful choice


18:55 crazy seeing my hometown just outside the zone


The tsar bomba is definetely the scariest shit I have ever seen


EmpLemon: speaks history

Me: I see you’re a man of culture as well

EmpLemon: *speaks history*

Me: I see you’re a man of culture as well


"The US and Russia are separated by about 5000 miles"

The Diomede Islands:

"Am I a joke to you?"

@Monk Of Dark Times in the winter you can walk across


wow i believe this is the single best video i've ever seen on youtube.


Netflix should have you make a series your work is amazing no matter the topic you get me engaged.


"Because if we're lucky... there will never ever have to be another man like him."

Christ that gave me chills.


"lemme tell you about this one guy"

"so humans first found uranium in..."

If you want to explain it, you have to go back to the start.


Thank you Stanislav Petrov. You opened the door for Shrek to invented


Stanislav decides not to launch the missiles but trips and falls face first on the button
SEINFELD THEME INTENSIFIES

Stanislav decides not to launch the missiles but trips and falls face first on the button
*SEINFELD THEME INTENSIFIES*


This is the greatest video I’ve ever watched


stanislav petrov and that russian submarine general saved the entire earth


I’m reminded of the last line from Christopher Nolan’s Tenet: “It’s the bomb that didn’t go off that has the power to change the world”


It's June 2021. Canada is suffering unprecedented heat waves in the West, resulting in hundreds of deaths. While climate change and its challenges will be even worse in the coming decades, I still find solace that on September 26th, 1983, one man made a decision that gave the rest of humanity the ability to choose how we will face tomorrow.

Every day since then has been a gift, no matter the current circumstances, and I will try to always remember how fragile and transient happiness in life is.


Quite a sobering realization ain't it Emp?

Thankfully, Stanislav managed to stave off our annihilation. I hope that we don't soon forget his act, even if we don't remember his name.


I highly recommend watching the courier with Benedict cumberbatch it gives a unique view of the cold war


29:32 Very happy with the use of Gran Turismo music. Instant rush of nostalgia


Here we have another Vsauce.
Started by doing shitposts and is now producing top tier youtube content

I just hope you wont do a youtube red series and then leave for 2 years

@mosh Well, for him it's the other way around haha <b>flashback to watching the pot boil</b>

@mosh Well, for him it's the other way around haha *flashback to watching the pot boil*

What do you mean,he helped howtobasic to promote his merch

Just watch Michael go crazy on D!NG (yes it was always called D!NG what do you mean).

This isn't only top tier youtube content. This is top tier content period.


This might just be my favorite video on youtube


22:40
My litteral reaction out loud when seeing the blast radius going from a city district to possibly an entire island: Holy F.


"We must either love each other, or we must die" has to be the single most chilling sentence I've ever heard

@douglas wahid If humanity escapes to the stars, humanity's next invention will be how to bring war to it.


8:33 when you pause the video but the siren is still going


Why is one of my favorite videos is from someone who documents the history and state of a website and other things a history video on nuclear annihilation?


It's like the lovechild of National Geographic, Local 58, and YTP.


Relating to the creating of the nuclear bomb, I’m actually FDR’s 7th cousin on my mother’s side.


what I would do is this even if I found out it was true and there was missiles I still wouldn't fire
my reasoning is that if I fire the world would get destroyed
however if I don't fire yes our nation is gone but humans would still be there living on


i voted yes on that telephone pole in 1983

also I can confirm that walking around in Berlin at the time was tenser than walking in Detroit

also stop blowing up New York   >:(


"I didn't believe I had done something extraordinary. I was simply doing my job and I did it well."

You're goddamn right.

@Scarface well I suppose the base directive was to guarantee the safety of the soviet union, not knowing he actually guaranteed the safety of the whole fucking world.

Mike234 technically he did his job horribly but I’m glad he did


It's so uncanny seeing Russian language in an Emplemon video, probably the Americanest channel


The whole space go to the moon thing may have been plausible deniability for the development of the ICBM.


36:22 me when I'm Russian and understood English in this this video more than Russian


your music choice is on point. great content


For someone who took Russian class just last semester, I can safely say this is without a shadow of a doubt... POWERFUL.

Another excellent video as always EmpLemon. Amen.

For someone who took Russian class just last semester, I can safely say this is without a shadow of a doubt... *POWERFUL.*

Another excellent video as always EmpLemon. Amen.


That donkey clip on the explanation of the history of war was brilliant


Never knew videogamedunkey would be so quote worthy on a serious topic


Emp, what about the guy on board the russian sub off the coast of Cuba in 61, 62, or 63? Wasn't he in a similar situation? I thought he was the third guy to make the call to launch the missiles or not, and that he opted not to.


Vasili Arkhipov was another man that was as powerful as Stanislav Petrov.


This remind me of a full length animated cartoon called "When the wind blows" about an old civilian couple who survives a nuclear attack where everyone else in the neighborhood burned to the ground.
They 'tried' to act like everything is okay, oblivious to the nuclear fallout when they slowly die while huddled together

It's the most surreal and heartbreaking cartoon ive ever watched. Go check it out. It paints a picture about how war only bring misery for everyone involved, especially us common civilians

@Rossel oh yeah i've watched that too, quite a disturbing one that was<br>More so that it was based on a real life event

@Rossel oh yeah i've watched that too, quite a disturbing one that was
More so that it was based on a real life event

Reminds me of “barefoot gen” a comic written by a survivor of Hiroshima. It focuses mostly on the culture in Japan before the blast, with the actual bombing and fallout only being a few pages. But because the people it shows dying are previously established characters, it impacts you all the more. One of the only books I’ve read where I had to sit down for a while after finishing it. Definitely recommend it

At least they were old and died together. Some people don't get that.


My home town developed heavy water for these bombs back in the day. Strange to think about...


I like how at 17:32 Finland has its own category


the implications of that "may" is truly terrifying


So EmpLemon and Don Draper worked together to make this video? That sounds right.


The transition from the thrown bone falling, to the nuke dropping was genius.

He’s paying tribute to the same kind of jump cut Stanley Kubrick used in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is where the bone scene comes from.


That Coca Cola ad reminds me of Don Draper too. One of my favorite show finale on TV.


Man. I wish school was as entertaining as these videos. I'd actually care to study.


It is only a matter of when they will go off. As long as they have a reason to exist its not an IF question. When that day becomes reality we need to have our society secured in a way that they can't harm us in a lethal way.


14:57
With each passing day in 2022 the quote becomes more and more plausible


11:02 Is the best use of a Dunky Clip I have ever seen


Quite a happy end for such a delicately deadly subject matter.


I’m curious as to how his station was the only one to receive the attack call?


Most interesting reuse of a dunkey quote ever. Makes me think of how art imitates life. We are just a game and War is the combat system. If we push back and break the code then it's game over.

life is a joke and we are the punch line


well after seeing that nuke explode I remember the quote "Now we are all sons of bitches" which was said by J. Robert Oppenheimer after the first successful nuclear bomb test


Interesting the US government crying over 260 innocent civilians on the South Korean airliner, yet no problem with a couple hundred thousand dead in Japan. Those atomic bombs were not aimed at military operations, but directly into huge cities full of innocent people. Shaun did a great video about Hiroshima, which is a great companion piece to this great work. Never mind the incomprehensible destruction to the environment, Ocean life and anyone living in the South Pacific where they seemed to drop nukes just because “great flash big noise!” for innumerable years.


This needs more views 1 million is not enough


24:22 that Doom soundtrack really caught me hahahahahahha


I had read about this guy.  He is brought up in the introduction of a book called "War: What is it good for?" But before that, I had never heard of this incident.  It is similar to the event where a Soviet Submarine was deciding to use nuclear torpedoes during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Usually, the Commanding Officer and Commissar both decide whether that happens. On this occasion both agreed.  However, there happened to be a third man on the sub who, for reasons, also had to agree and he decided against it.  I don't remember the reason why he was even there, or why he had any veto power, but because he was, it seemed the cooler heads were able to prevail in the Crisis. However, I understand why you didn't bring it up.  The other incident is much more well know, and doesn't really need as much of a spotlight.  Also, during the crisis, war could have still happened regardless of his decision.  In this case, Stanislav was the key actor in preventing the thing from going overboard (if that's really a good way to describe nuclear Armageddon).

He was chief of staff for their submarine flotilla. He wasn't assigned to any one specific sub, he just happened to be on that one at that time. Had he been anywhere else, they would've launched. I actually thought this video was going to be about him at first.


Here after the SHIT popped off, can't wait for this 2.0


It never occurred to me the parallel between Stanislav and the fake Hawaiian missile alert, but damn, it blew my mind.


I love how he didnt destroy the vibe while adding an ad to video lol


this is the best video i have EVER seen in my entire life and im not a bot


Incredible production. EmpLemon is an inspiration to all of us, and I really hope he knows it.


13:48 he only signed that, he didn’t write that. Probably knew that, but for those who don’t, Albert Einstein did not write that letter.


Dunkey was the last person I expected to hear bro I thought I was going insane


god i FUCKING LOVE THESE VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES


God dammit i started binge watching all of these after the Nascar episode.


Based on the Aestheic, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you recently watched Local 58. If not, I highly reccomend it.


I like the choice of DOOM music after mentioning M.A.D., very fitting


FYI in Russian "Stanislav" is usually shortened to "Slava" and not "Stan". Which is ironically also a literal translation of a word "Fame".


It's ASTONISHING that ppl still cause harm to others. Literally the most absurd thing.


russian man saves the entire human race form being vaporized
Emplemon: "this man is so unremarkable I am only mentioning him now, I will barely talk about him"

*russian man saves the entire human race form being vaporized*
Emplemon: "this man is so unremarkable I am only mentioning him now, I will barely talk about him"

@Connor Boyce A bullet can't stop the Bull Moose.


I'm sure tensions would never rise that high again, oh wait...


From where I live in New Jersey, if that bomb was dropped on New York I would be dead


Your content is in an upward spiral for years now. Love the Never Ever series and the huge amount of effort and work you put in to it! Thanks!!


30:45: The morning's Garfield strip...an elegant, beautiful way to drive home the normalcy of it all. Well done.


I honestly think if I even knew an attack was  happening I wouldn't press the button. Even if my country is destroyed I would want some of humanity to have a chance.


Man that Tsar bomb sequence made me shit my pants


For a brief moment in that cold september day, Petrov held the power of a God in his hands.


Sure, nuclear weapons are bad, but imagine how much war it stopped. Millions of deaths.


Thank god its gotten to 1 mil veiws, more people needed to watch this

@Rocket-Rakun holy shit I put my phone down to go do something and the touch screen must have activated certain buttons before it locked itself... Sorry about that 😥


9:23 hey he was pretty handsome you at least gotta give him that


Comrade Stanislav Petrov, Hero of the Soviet Union and Earth

Hero of all of Humanity, of all time, and forever more


Every body gangsta until the title says " MAY " instead of  WILL

Every body gangsta until the title says " *MAY* " instead of  *WILL*


The entire world had been fucking around for decades and this man single handedly kept us from finding out


luckily most russian nukes were trees covered in sheet metal


apparently petrov wasn't even supposed to be there that day. i think i saw an interview with him saying that he was covering the shift for someone else.


I cant believe this is the same guy who made the uncredibles

This is the man behind the downward spiral

His true magnum opus

Yeah how can a single mind be capable of these two masterpieces

Those commentary videos and Dark Souls lets plays are by the same guy as MLG teletubbies

that's right; just makes quality stuff,weather it's abstract (roughly abstract)or an analysis/summery of the medium of new media and social political implications thereof.

@No name A <br>Impossible, drunkey has the world record and he doesnt even own the game

@No name A
Impossible, drunkey has the world record and he doesnt even own the game

Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet Multirole Fighter

I also heard he has the world record for Bowsers Big Bean Burrito

I thought the same when i saw the Dale Earnhardt video


Surprised he didn't get a Nobel peace prize


Was NOT expecting a Video Game Dunkey quote in this video
But odly enough it fits well
Its odd, and out of nowhere
But it fits well


18:43 If you count alaska they are about 55 miles apart


Not to diminish the importance of Petrov, but there was no consequence at all for ignoring the warning.
The nukes would have struck anyway. There is no tried and true defense to nuclear ICBMs to this day. And it's safe to say they would be aimed at military launch facilities.
At worst, his dismissal would have curbed the retaliatory capability of the USSR slightly. In a parallel universe where this exact same event happened and the only difference is that the missiles were real, Petrov was court martialed and imprisoned for his inaction. If we assume there was an USSR to trial him to begin with.


"The spoils of WWII were won by the victors..."<br>-EmpLemon, 2019

"The spoils of WWII were won by the victors..."
-EmpLemon, 2019

Well, winning has to be good for something, right?


This channel gives me Lemmino vibes. You just got a new sub.


this is what we show a machine to show we will live as a race, or aliens.


Important videos like these are the reason I love youtube


That nord commercial!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 great job!


Yes. I do think God fears what he has created.


Had the decision relied on Reagan, we would be fighting with stones and stick now...


Russian guy: <b>Accidentally forgets to put away his yellow redstone.</b>

Russian guy: *Accidentally forgets to put away his yellow redstone.*


I had to double check my video when i heard dunkey start talking 😂😂


i got chills from the visuals + samuel l jackson... im so scared rn jeez lol


And there was never ever anyone with that much power again, until master chief on installation 04


"-it stops being fun" -Dunkey
Showing WW1 footage

Gave me a hearty chuckle


I can't believe that you used a Dunkey quote in a video about nuclear weapons.


Big Shout-out to Alessandro Roberti for soundtrack around 3:50


Вы думаете, что Бог остается на небесах, потому что он тоже живет в страхе за то, что он создал? Как вы думаете, к 2050 году мы все погибнем от собственной власти?


this is my favorite video on all of youtube


The man who saved the world and most people don't even know his name. Awesome video, Emp. Your research alone is impeccable.


Kinda funny how we shot down an Iranian jet just like the Soviets did to Korean air but for some reason Iran didn't get asked by telephone poll how they felt by Ted Koppel


That goes into the hall of honor of this building of World of  Legends


There will Never Ever be a better way to spend 41 minutes and 38 seconds of your time.

Also, nice way to include Dunkey into this great video.

There will *Never Ever* be a better way to spend 41 minutes and 38 seconds of your time.

Also, nice way to include Dunkey into this great video.


"tsuka, amerikinsci fired 5 nukes!"
"is soviet tech. is garbage. opah!"
cheeky breeky intensifies

"tsuka, amerikinsci fired 5 nukes!"
"is soviet tech. is garbage. opah!"
*cheeky breeky intensifies*


I refuse to believe that you used the version of the National Anthem from Local 58 and then immediately used the song Nexpo uses in his intro card by accident.


i haven't felt this empty since reading issue 6 of watchmen


Am I the first person to cry to "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke"?


This might be my favorite video of yours


this is the nation equivalent of lamar roasts franklin
franklin: does not want Lamar to stay over
lamar: over cooks franklin by 100*C

Japan: Bombs a harbour
USA: now you can eat sunlight!


I was playing Half Life Alyx when suddenly Triage at Dawn started playing at 38:41, was thoroughly confused and delighted


You have exercised utmost discernment, far beyond that of the layman.


Will the real Episode 4: Stanislav Petrov please stand up


RIP Stan "The Man" Petrov. Let's be honest, dude deserves that nickname. Thanks for thinking for yourself, Stan. And thanks for the video, Emp.


God damn, everything Joseph McCarthy was worried about came true.


What makes this feel weird is that we dont have control over our destiny. You see the flash, you will likely die


Territories Of le Greater British Empire /Reaper99


*few people laughed, few people cried.....I can assure there was more than 2 people in that situation LOL


I have a feeling that this was one of Emp's college projects but he decided to present via youtube.

It feels too good to be a std assignment

alfa01spotivo no he means the last one, the NASCAR one.

@MageBurger wait what! Its his last? How do you know?

Kevin Saginario ( Student )
Considering his last "Never Ever", I doubt it.
But interesting thought.


This EmpLemon dude makes some darned fine videos... even though nukes are fake, and no Man has ever stepped foot on the Moon.


30:00 Come April 28, 2020 and that all changed or rather be clearly and officially declared that they're existence has been confirmed


if you do something right people don't know if you did anything at all


I was living on Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii when the alert went off. I like to think that was a test of what I would do if presented with guaranteed demise. I made roughly five phone calls to my closest friends, and my family was right along side me. I wasn't expecting the scare to show up in this video, but I'm glad it did. It was a nice reflection of a current event I'm old enough to recall, being as I didn't live through the cold war. I may have only discovered this channel and this series a few days ago, but I am really impressed with the thought and exploration presented in each video. I look forward to future content.

Edit: I did see the spongebob episode sometime around the time it came out, but this was on a 3 am youtube binge. Everything else is true, and I only made the connection after the fact.


Gonna be honest. I would not have pressed the button only due to not being able to make a decision. I’d be too worried to make such an important choice


To think a Dunkey rant is surprisingly fitting for an analogy to weapon research.


Bro one of the scariest things is nuclear melt down the masks the invisible death how painful the death to the radiation is said to be it’s horrific it truly horrifies me knowing how many nukes are in hands of country’s that are far from friends of the u.s.


I think of I was in Petrovs position but the situation was real I would just not fight back. Why guarantee mutually assured destruction and the end of humanity when I could maybe let my enemies win but atleast not end the world out of spite.


It's chilling to watch those clips from the 80s. People casually insisting that nuclear annihilation be delivered because of one big mistake.


the way you used that dunky clip is fucking iconic


17:31 I love that of the three colors on this graph, one of them is just for Finland


The ironic moment when the one who saved the world wouldn't be america, but by a single soviet


"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones "

legit chills holy shit

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with *sticks* and *stones* "

*legit chills holy shit*


Who knows, he may have been on a toilet break and never found out about the missile warnings on that day in 83.


that EAS alert tone made me turn on all the fucking lights and I had to make my feet go cris cross with my chair


This is the best YouTube video ever made


22:40 that shit made me fucking start crying


"Many thought they had died and gone to Hell" that gave me chills, man.


Mano preciso dizer que as legendas em português não estão boas


I will never understand HOW people dropped a NUKE in a city.


I got my history class to watch the vid ppl liked it


Pretty sad that I've learned more about the history of nuclear weapons from a Youtube Pooper than I ever really did in school.

@Guivi I have to edit it, because I teach in Danish.<br>But sure, I can share the updated version 😅

@Guivi I have to edit it, because I teach in Danish.
But sure, I can share the updated version 😅

Yeah man. Emplemon knows and cares about his stuff.

it’s actually a way more important issue than people give it credit for. nukes haven’t gone away and we’re still enemies with russia, china, iran and north korea. navigating these problems in the 21st century will be more difficult than ever before, but people dont bat an eye towards foreign policy because it’s outside our borders.

Maybe cause you didn't pay attention in class

@KaptajnKaffe You're an awesome teacher.

As a teacher, I have this video on my list of "if your interessed in this subject, check this out" emp is good at wngaging young people, so it is a blessing for me and my students 😄


Then 40 years later Putin decided to make the same exact mistake Petrov tried to avoid

Putin respected this man. As a leader, he must follow Petrov's vision.

This war must not escalate any further.


I probably shouldn't have watched this at night. This is very scary and sad, to put it lightly


It's like Jon Bois but with more existential dread


This is like a longer than normal metal gear cutscene.

Lol i was literally thinking the same thing!


I don't get all this doom and gloom about a nuclear apocalypse, even at the height of the cold war the deployment of every single nuclear warhead in the most efficient manner from the perspective of killing people would not have come close to endangering the human race, and as for the ice age thing, humanity has survived such conditions before with far less advanced technology, there's no reason to believe we wouldn't be able to do it handily these days. The fact of the matter is that the aftermath would probably not even be bad enough to prevent the Warsaw pact and NATO from having a great big war immediately afterwards.


those who were at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the lucky ones compared to what happened to civilians throughout Asia in 1940-1945


You know, I don’t like communists, I don’t like Soviet’s. But Stalinislav petrov saved the world, he saved all of us, for as much as I hate the communists, as much as I hate the soviets, he saved the world, he deserves not just a medal, not just a video, he deserves a fucking city sized memorial, or atleast in my opinion, god bless him.


God I wish there had been an apocalypse then I would be here dealing with this shit


16:02 Local 58 reference?

edit: yeah, definitely. I see you have good taste, Mr. Lemon.


There should be a movie where they would explore what would happen if Stanislav fired the missile.


love the video but why "Stan Petrov" why not Stanislav Petrov? He is the reason this video was made and the reason anyone is here to watch it. Say his full name lol


Fermi paradox assumes other intelligent civilizations are warring against each other , what if they are a unified civilization ?


Thank god for Stalinslav. We would be green dust without him

Knockrotter DUSTY OLD BONES FULL OF GREEN DUST


Problebly the scariest video Emplemon has made


These videos are like if Jon Bois decided to do non-sports-related content.


I love that Dunkey was even in this video.


It's not "two people laughed, two people cried" its "few people laughed, few people cried"


I just want to say to you, EmpLemon, that you make some of the most insightful, interesting videos I have seen on YouTube. So much truth, wisdom, and honesty put into your videos and I hope you keep making more in the future!

Well done, man!


Stanislav Petrov only used 0.1% of his true power.


i think vasili arkhapov was actually more powerfull in the cuban missile crisis

Not really<br>It took the decision of 3 to launch a nuke in Arkhipov's case. It took 1 to do the same in Petrov's case.

Not really
It took the decision of 3 to launch a nuke in Arkhipov's case. It took 1 to do the same in Petrov's case.


3:03 the fact that the landscape here somewhat looks like a distraught/horrified face only makes the scene worse


Thank you for your humanity, comrade Petrov


damn straight that day was our judgment day and ever since then the world's soul has died


Finally Someone researching the real cause Of climate change….


See, that's the difference between empLemon and everyone else.  I'll watch the ad because he makes it funny whereas the rest either bolt thru it, apologize for it, or try to make it seem like they really actually dig the product.


Hearing the Local58 music during the ad read actually made me flinch


Did you... did you use a line from a dunkey video in reference to a video about nuclear annihilation?


I just finished my history gcse and this video could genuinely have been played in one of my cold War classes, it's that great


Larry McDonald. Chairman of the John Birch Society at the time of his death. Forever remembered


Watched your Nascar videos. amazing. Tho mentioning NS you dont seen to realise what evil was coming from the East, starting with the ''russian'' revolution. The evil that was coming, had to be fought by a strong power. NS bad, i know the establishment statement but still....you should watch Europe: The last battle. Find it, give it a thought. If it doesnt convince you then you lost 12h of your time...For your research should be a fraction of your time. God bless, truth fears no investigation.


I shat myself when he applied the tnt hissing sound as I was playing Minecraft while watching this.


2:41 when You used of the Best Half Life songs I suscribed instantly


I find it funny that my step father was there to help tear down the Berlin Wall. He even got exchanged hats with a Soviet soldier after the wall fell. Lucky step dad


<b>GOOD, there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be too much government involvement. 💀</b>

*GOOD, there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be too much government involvement. 💀*

『D』『e』『e』『z』


my two favorite youtubers in ONE VIDEO?!


Put me right in the ol existential crisis


You know Emp's gonna say some real shit when the Gran Turismo music starts


If there's a holiday celebrating St. Patrick, it's inexcusable that there isn't one for "St." Petrov.


"I'd like to think that September 26 1983 was our judgement day."


This guy is so cool that he has slav in his name


"Lets make america great again" WAIT WHAT WAS THAT REALLY THE SLOGAN BACK THEN


16:03
Those are some pretty intense Local 58 vibes


I pray for a season two of never ever, its the best content i think emp will make, not because they are factually the best but its too complicated for me to describe, i want to say they're the most important but he could upstage it, i might explain it eventually but just know i think these will be the best


i feel like i shouldnt be watching this for free


Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.🙌


13:57 It was the red ensign over Reichstag in Berlin that ended the war.


it’s criminal this only just scraped 1m views. this is so well put together it’s UNREAL


This is, bar none, one of the greatest, if not the greatest documentary I've ever seen. The second in line being another one of your Never Ever documentaries. Your videos are golden, and you're craft is true talent. Keep it up Emp


Rumors are they are planning on making a sequel with China

Edit: Nevermind. Guess China comes in later in the plot...


That commercial break sounds really trust worthy to me, goodbye Nord VPN, there’s no need for you