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Mr. Beat looks at three times in recent history in which the world almost ended. Holy freaking crap.
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The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic metaphor that represents how likely it is that a human-made, worldwide disaster will kill us all. The closer it is to midnight, the closer we are to that actually happening. Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have been revealing how close we are to global destruction going back all the way to 1947.
Today there are an estimated 12,500 nuclear warheads still in existence.
Now, the fear is that if one government were to ever use a nuclear weapon, the government of the country hit by one would retaliate. The next thing you know, it could spiral out of control. Nukes dropped everywhere and we’re all dead. This fear was THE FEAR that was everywhere during the Cold War.
The end of the Cold War in 1991 got rid of much of those fears of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, though, the Doomsday Clock has been headed straight for midnight ever since. In recent years, the threat of nuclear war has returned, and it hasn’t been the ONLY thing the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have been worried about. They’ve also said the lack of support for taking action in response to climate change has led to the Doomsday Clock being closer to midnight.
But the thing is, there were times in recent history in which the Doomsday Clock actually would have arguably been…like…at ONE SECOND to midnight. We just didn’t realize it until later on.
And that’s what this video’s about.
Here are three times the world almost ended.
One crazy thing to think about is that you may be watching this video right now or listening…I do realize many of you don’t like to look at my face…whatever. But yeah, you may be consuming this video right now and there might be a nuke about to be launched. Did you hear that? A nuke possibly just almost got launched! And we won’t find out about this for a long time.
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0:00 The Doomsday Clock
2:05 Nuclear weapons
7:25 90 Seconds to Midnight
8:38 Sponsor
9:46 3 times the world almost ended
9:59 October 27, 1962
12:28 September 26, 1983
14:38 November 7, 1983
16:54 Final thoughts
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6:07 this thankfully (or not thankfully) probably wouldn’t be the case anymore, and it’s believed that a modern nuclear war could actually be won, by either Russia or the US. Whether this is better than everyone dying is debatable, I guess…
The world is ending as we speak
Hey there mr beat didnt you forget march 30 1981 and september 11 2001???
A strange game… the only winning move is not to play…
How about a nice game of Chess?
There was a 4th in recent history. Putin threatened (and has been threatening) nuclear retaliation since his insane war began.
When Stanislav Petrov was praised in his later years, he said that he did what anyone would do in that situation. That gives me a lot of faith in humanity.
I've heard about whistle-blowers that an ET diffused a nuclear weapon that was malfunctioning. if that weapon went off, it could have triggered ww3
Iron Maiden already warned us… "2 Minutes to Midnight" youtu.be/9qbRHY1l0vc
Thank you.
Shout out to Lawrence townies making something of themselves!
If the world is close to midnight you clearly say it's Literally 1983
Technically, a more recent example would be the false missile strike alarm in Hawaii a couple of years ago, by the same circumstances as the second example.
I wish more kids watched this kind of content than human trafficking influencers.
I hate those types of videos.
Gotta thank Russia and US for keeping their heads cool and saving us all from complete destruction so many times with their restraint
WTf Is this format blues clues?
My father was in the USA Navy during President JFK.
10:51
oh sweet! i love existential horror
I’d argue that the bombs never needed to be dropped
When the peoples enemy tried to consume me with darkness
The idea of M.A.D saved the world
Almost at a mill subs
It's insane that most of us probably owe our existence to Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, yet almost nobody has any awareness of them and their heroic actions.
Mr Beat, that intro definitely caught me off guard (although I don’t think you’ll ever be able to top “I’m Mr Beat, and one day I will die, heck, one day all of us will die”)
In 8th grade, I watched the day after and it scared the crap out of me. This would’ve been in 2019. Crazy that a single movie had such a huge impact on the whole world.
Crazy that it was theoretically possible for one nuclear blast to create a chain reaction and destroy the earth before the first test bomb was dropped by the Us
If I died by nuke, I'm glad it was while watching a Mr. Beat video
Hey Mr beat please can you do a video of the pig war windefield scott is there from moses ogar
Wanna know the scary part for us youngsters?
If those close calls had happened, we wouldn't be here to notice it. Which means that, after we are born, there's no such guarantee anymore.
This makes me MAD
I think an honorable mention should go to October 27-28, 1961. For 16 hours, American and Soviet tanks faced off at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. Just one wrong move and the potential for WW3 was there, but in the end, president Kennedy called in Premier Khrushchev and slowly, the two backed their tanks away about 5 inches at a time, and just like that, Mutually Assured Destruction was averted.
The most unenthusiastic "great googily moogily" ive ever heard in my life
Hiding under your desk. Ha Ha. Meanwhile the entire school disintegrates around you. Like taking the brace position when the plane is flying full speed into a mountain.
The clown mushroom cloud is a forever classic 💯
Three times we know of….
34 now
Your amazing mr. Beat! And your face is my 2nd favorite part, right after the sick info drop you make in my mind every video I watch.
my birthday is October 27th, and i find it hilarious that this date is well known for being one of the closest calls humanity has had
Odd how two of them were Russian, and the third rime it was the entire Russian military that held off. Seeimg a pattern here.
Thanks for the existential dread Mr. Beat you're a great educator 😊
The only reason South Africa dismantled its nukes is because Apartheid ended and the Apartheid government was fearful of a black majority government having nukes. It's sad to say that the only time a country has dismantled its nukes is because of racism.
Im old enough to remember needing black blinds to use at night so no light would attract plane attacks, and hiding under your class desk to save yourself from a nuclear attack. Which made no sense as Mr. Beat so eliquently put it.
And now we are getting close to a fourth time…
I seriously love when you upload the answer to my homework as a video, dude. It's an experience that can't be BEAT
Stumbled across your channel and you earned a sub out of me – really interesting stuff and good video editing!