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didn't you contradict yourself twice? first when expecting the bomb to be still on board after they made it explode over the sea and then when mentioning rumours the search expedition found human remains only to state a minute later that Shreyer couldn't have been aboard as no human remains were found... ? Also Established titles is one of the worst sponsors on RU-vid as the usage of the title Lord or Laird based on this sham is absolutely illegal in the UK and pointless outside of it.
This is one of my favourite episodes to date. I've never heard about this incident before. Very impressive storytelling and striking visuals. There was never a dull moment here!
Really good video about a largely unknown incident...it is important to recognize the heroism of the men who died in training throughout the Cold War.💯✌
@@howilearned2stopworrying508 It was either do the training flights, and make the American bomb a credible deterrent, or find out what Stalin would have done with absolutely no opposition to give him pause.
@@iKvetch558 lol our ally who helped us defeat Hitler? Would the soviets have invaded Afghanistan 30 years early? BUidling a modern state where women have equal rights - how dastardly. What if everyone refused to serve in Stalin's army too? Service is for Suckers.
@@iKvetch558 so the people of easyern euope have no agency of their own to resist a tyrant and refuse to serve in his army? Thank God America is ready and able to turn eastern europe into a crater to stop communism - better dead than red afterall.
Indeed. My uncle during his time in the Royal Signals knew a fair few fellow soldiers who died at barracks, on manoeuvres or even in transit to a new deployment or for a training manoeuvre. Some died from accidental firing of small arms, some from friendly fire at a long range, (not realising that a figure in the distance was a fellow service member and not a target), traffic accidents or from the mishandling of new and unfamiliar equipment or weapons. Lot's of things were changing very rapidly during the cold war and militaries make mistakes. All those who served and died with any military and served with honour and professionalism should be remembered regardless of the circumstances of their unfortunate death.
The most accurate telling of the event so far. However the “no one saw the weaponeer jump” is a somewhat trick statement as there was no one left to see him except the pilot - and the pilot would have noticed anyone left standing there on his way out. At the inquiry the pilot stated he was the last to leave and “everyone had bailed out”.
When I heard about the 1961 Yuba City B-52 crash I was shocked because I'd lived near there, and also because that could have done serious ecological damage. Thankfully the Air Force commit themselves to mitigating disasters! Brave men in all such instances.
In high school we were taught about this incident and as per usual the American government right up until the mid 90’s denied that an aircraft carrying a nuclear bomb crashed less than 500km from where we lived at the time. Despite all the evidence and the secret missions by the US military to get to the crash site they denied any crash occurred on Canadian soil for decades after the crash. The American militaries explanation was training missions for mountain rescues which left people who saw these so called rescue training missions why the soldiers had so much explosives with them for mountain rescue training. Add to that the local guides the US military hired were supposedly paid large sums of money to keep quiet.
As far as bailing out is concerned, there are some similarities here with the B-36 crash at Lacock, England Feb.1953.After setting the controls to aim at the Bristol Channel, the crew bailed out successfully. The aircraft flew on for 30 minutes, but eventually came down at Lacock, Wiltshire, nowhere near the water. So, setting the auto pilot to fly with no one in the aircraft is a bit of a gamble, especially when fuel runs low, as in the case of the Lacock crash.
So, the bomb was missing the nuclear core and i presume it was not onboard since this was just training. I want to learn about the hardcore accidents with complete functional nuclear bombs going down or lost!!
Just got out of classes to find this video having been posted. I couldn't have hoped for anything better to finish the day! Thank you for making such quality content.
Wow, so cool! I thought the first broken arrow was that bomb accidentally dropped over North Carolina. I had no idea about this. The new graphics also really helped bring the story to life 😊🧬
Many of us have heard most of these Cold War stories before, but I will always immediately click this channel because they have never been told so comprehensively. Amazing work and content 👍🏻
thank you for the kind words! regarding the Plutonium, you may be able to arrange to meet some Libyan nationals who can procure the material for you. They are occasionally seen at the Twin Pines Mall.
I don't understand why they couldn't just use a dead weight equivalent of the bomb. If they also needed to simulate the arming and dropping of said "bomb", than they could just do a mechanical equivalent of that bomb. The only thing I can think of (and this is getting into conspiracy theory territory here) is that they needed to move the bomb to fort worth for whatever reason.
Yeah why the crew set the autopilot to climb 3000ft and do a 180 Weaponer Ted Sricher may have bailed out but there were radio transmission that lasted 3 hours before the aircraft before it hit the mountain which means 1 of the crew stayed behind
Hey David, hope all is well. I have some suggestions I want to make regarding and following certain RU-vid channels as well: 1) I would like to see different types of uniforms regarding each country such as US Armed Forces, Soviet Army, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, Chinese Army, NATO Forces, Waraw Pact Forces, etc. 2) You can do the cold war on the road and visit various location in the future whether is in the US, Vietnam, Russia, Algeria, etc. 3) Do collaborations with Forgotten Weapons, C&Rsenal, & the Royal Armories to go through different types of firearms whether its US weapons, Soviet Weapons, NATO Weapons, etc. 4) Do collaborations with Military Aviation History, Drachinifel, Tank Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Imperial War Museum, and Nuclear Museum to go in detail regarding the navy ships, planes, tanks, vehicles, space shuttles, and even models of nuclear weapons. 5) I would like to see more out of the bunker videos answering viewer questions throughout the series. 6) There's a RU-vid channels I would recommend you follow if you never heard of them. They're known as TimeGhost History, a RU-vid channel hosted by Indy Neidell and Spartacus Olsson which they cover the interwar period 1919-1939 & World War Two. The reason why I would recommend you follow them is because in the future, they might consider doing series such as the Korean War, the Space Race, and Spies, Ties, and Lies 1899-1939 which covers the history of espionage. I mean really fascinating stuff. So, you can subscribe to TimeGhost History and World War Two RU-vid channels. You can follow them on Twitter by typing "TimeGhostTV" and you'll see World Two - Online Video Series. Also, if you search in RU-vid, "timeghost history what happens after ww2", you'll find the video what I'm referring to. And that's it, thank you and I hope you have a good day!
@@kragardtynehad9030 I’m neither of these things. Now, the reason why I make suggestions 1-5 that way is because it’s been done before such as the Great War channel with Indy Neidell back in 2014-2018 for not only they cover ww1 week by week, but do a bunch of things such as the Great War on the road where they did visit actual locations where certain battles of ww1 took place and visit different museums which talk different aspects of the war such as the tank museum, specials about certain countries before and during ww1, countries’ uniforms like Germany, Russia, Britain, etc., different types of firearms during ww1 including rare guns, “out of the trenches” segments where Indy answers viewers’ questions regarding ww1, “out of the ether” segments where a viewer researched a particular topic and share it with Indy and his crew, biographies of ww1 figures such as Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph I, Erwin Rommel, Paul von Hindenburg, etc., do specials like trench warfare, submarine warfare, dreadnoughts, aviation like the Red Baron, and so on. You name it, they do a bunch of things. Heck, even today, Indy and the Timeghost history team are not only doing ww2 week by week, but also do other things, such as biographies of ww2 figures like Pleak Philbun, Winston Churchil, Hideki Tojo, Joseph Stalin, etc., specials about the home front of ww2, “war against humanity” segments which covers certain atrocities which specific countries committed during that time, “spies and ties” segments which covers espionage during ww2, “out of the foxholes” & “across the airwaves” where Indy and other host named Spartacus Olsson answer viewers’ questions regarding ww2, specials about uniforms like the stalhelm, tanks like the tiger tank, visit locations where each battle of ww2 took place like for next year, they’re going to France to cover day by day coverage of D-Day as it happens in real time. Once again, they did a bunch of things like this. And I figured, if they can do all of these things, why not the Cold War channel? Especially, they’re a lot of things you can talk about during that time. I mean, it’s the Cold War, it’s a goldmine of topics you can talk about during that time. That’s why I make these suggestions, because it’s been done before. And besides, for the “out of the bunker” segments, they actually did that before, you can look it up in RU-vid. Now, maybe the circumstances would be different since money and time is needed to make certain things a reality like the Cold War on the road for example. Now, could it be over ambitious? Perhaps, but it can be done. For suggestions #2-4, I can see that it can be problematic if you did not have the time or money to do these things. For collaborations, I don’t think it required money to do these things if it refers to RU-vid channels such as forgotten weapons or drachinifel, however for the tank museum or the nuclear museum, yeah, you need money to travel there and the time to talk about certain aspects of the Cold War. Whereas for the Cold War on the road specials, yeah, if you did not have the money or time to do these things, yeah, I can see why it can be a problem. Other things that I put out are not hard to do since it doesn’t require money to do it, like suggestion #6. I mean, it’s not that hard to do. Just look them in RU-vid and twitter, subscribe and follow them and then, you’re done. We can go on and on, but at the end of the day, it’s up to them whether they want to do it or not, that’s why I said, “I have some suggestions I want to make…” and not “You need to cover these topics at this time and that time…”. Yeah, then it’ll be like, “dude, what are you doing?” at that point. And that’s pretty much it, I hope that clear things up and have a good day.
Calling for nuclear impregnation of the bell button... I like this somehow, in a cold war-era nuclear holocaust literary sense... very fitting. With all you've done to that bell button, you'd better put a ring on it. 😁 Seriously though, I've read about several broken arrow incidents, but not this one. Thanks for the video.
it detonated !!! ... and suppose it wasn't a 'conventional explosion' as they have stated, would have they told us??? it was 1950 and near the empty Canadian hinterland so how many people would have been there to witness or record the incident.
There was a similar event near where I live, where a TB-25 crashed in a pretty shallow river and just completely disappeared, people are still searching for it today. It was just a training plane picking up spare parts, but because of how no one can find it even after really extensive searches, it's grown a conspiracy around it to also include having a nuke on-board that is now missing. It's called the Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela and Popular Mechanics did a recent article on it.
Several people on Fishing ships near the area that we spoke with saw the B36 fly over and no detonation of the device was witnessed or heard .. I worked with EOD teams to dispose of the comp B on the site as well as live spare Detonating lenses ...
Only the Conventional Initiator Explosives would have detonated. This would have destroyed the bomb completely without the risk of a Nuclear Explosion. Beats me how they made the core removable really? Seeing as it’s surrounded by high explosive segments plus, these cores are highly dangerous and radioactive!
I highly recommend both : Command & Control by Eric Schlosser (also check out the doc, it's well-produced but I'd recommend reading the book first, for the impact) Aaaaand in the red corner : The Dead Hand by David E Hoffman. This book will scare the sh@t out of you, Soviet style. I think it's a crucial read, plus it's also a damned-entertaining read.
Sounded like something from the Twilight Zone TV program📺...... but then again this backdrop of the 50's would of fed into that TV program's writing team outlook!! 🤔
Aerodynamic gains, but it was also why it was a deathtrap - the engines were fitted backwards, or, intake>carb>engine block>ancillaries and propellor gearing> prop. The carb was usually at the back so it got a lot of heat from the motor - this configuration the carb intake iced, the mixture riched up, and its just a matter of time before fireball...
Maybe I'm missunderstanding somethig: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CK_AhCRilns.html at 09:20 you say "seeing the flash was important afterwards" - but I don't think you say why, unless I missed it. Did it come up again or not?
It was the 5,000 pounds of high explosives that the Mark 4 used to trigger the nuclear explosion. Without the core, the bomb will still explode, destroying it so that none of the tech can be recovered by hostile forces
I am very glad that no one routinely keeps nuclear weapons in the air anymore, but also kudos to the Los Alamos scientists who kept designing safer and safer weapons. Which is an oxymoron, but is also true ;)
Nit picker here - America lost its first nuclear weapon at Trinity - perhaps a better way of phrasing it would be "How America first lost a nuclear weapon."
Yeah the plane was losing 500 feet per minute but somehow managed to do 300 miles on autopilot, before hitting a mountain. Those pilots should had gotten the scaffold.
if Ukraine had figured out that Russia and America are not trustworthy and kept their Soviet nuclear weapons in the 1990s they never would have had their sovereignty violated.
Man those poor bastards who bailed out and got swept out to sea... That is not a death I would wish on even my worst enemy.... plus what truly happed to the weaponeer? Mysterious... Makes me wonder just how many nuclear weapons lie sleeping at the bottom of the ocean or at remote crash sites, because as the Russians have shown lately, competence isn't something they do much of, so odds are there's dozens of Soviet lost nukes out there...
