What if the Cold War Went Nuclear? 

4:39 would be scary as fuck

Daniel Catapang Things like that happens every decade or so

God damn it, seriously I owe my life to him.. Er my dad and mom does... Lol

Doesn't matter much now though. As Russia as at a tipping point, Putin is pissed as hell and Hillary and Biden are threatening _actual_ military action against Russia if there is a cyberattack against the US that they believe came from Russia. Soo. Yeah.

MikePlaysIt I'm hoping if something like that happens they won't use nukes

Happy Petrov day.

Well he did save most of us from nuclear destruction

dani sechzehn I think of war games

MarzK423 Slav actually comes from a Slavic word, "slovo" meaning "word". They called each other Slavs, because they could understand each other and had the same language (at least in the start). Similar in many Slavic languages the word for German; Niemcy is from the word "nyem" meaning "deaf". This is because they couldn't understand the Germans. To further prove my point, the Latin word for slave is completely different. The Latin word for slave is servus also meaning servant..

Game2 Game2 I am a German, who took six years of Latin in school, and had been living in St Petersburg for three years, and your explanation was absolutely perfect.

We already did

By we, he means us Russians, тупан.

@@someoneontheinternet1317 What makes you think that american equipment is no less faulty than Russian?

You're the ones getting thousands of these "dollars" a second. Why should your equipment be less faulty than ours?

@@someoneontheinternet1317 what do you mean money dont mean shit eveything no matter how expensive can be faulty due to dumbasses

Seriously though, I think Switzerland is not gonna make it. The Soviets will probably drop bombs in Northern Italy, Southern Germany and Eastern France since these places are highly industrialised. Since they all border Switzerland, the effect of these explosions will surely cover this tiny country. So basically Switzerland's death will be a colateral damage.

@@user-kk4sj4ih3e they have bunker to have all of Swiss population + Liechtenstein at once

Agree. If there's any place in Europe with any chance of surviving, it's somewhere in Spain

@Angello Rivera-Hurtado they have bunkers at their houses by law

@@madrexertheboredtm7728 i did not learn that from google, i went there and someone swiss told me it’s a law.

Western history books would never portray a soviet officer as a hero even if they are.

It’s not even a matter of Western books refusing to portray a soviet hero. Even in his own country Petrov was ostracized and faded into obscurity before death.

you confuse stanislav petrov with vasili arkhipov. He was the one during the cuban missile crisis, petrov was the one in 1983

George W Bush Did Pizzagate Yep you’re right. Which makes it marginally worse when you consider his was the only vote required to stop the missiles from firing. That sub had already decided nuclear war was at hand and decided to fire its payload without first consulting Moscow. (Which I’m sure you know this is just for other people who might read it.)

america was a asshole so they didn't include him.

AlternateHistoryHub Lets just put this way I would have never made this comment

AlternateHistoryHub lol

How about you do what if fourth crusade never happened?

well, I don't need to watch the video anymore

i wouldnt even of been born

It wouldn't, his role has been overly exaggerated in the West, pretending you admire Petrov while in actuality spitting on Russia. There was a whole chain of command, someone would notice "Americans wouldn't launch only four nukes on us, and this system is new and still in the beta phase"

@Robert Ortiz-Wilson Petrov didn't obey the chain of command at that time, so he was fired from the military. Though any suspicious launch against USSR would be taken seriously as it was during Reagan's Anti Communist policy, and that 'empire of evil' which where world tension skyrocket.

and it’s not a living hell now?? 😂

@@sockaccount8116 I agree. Even If Petrov had been a complete morron yelling "the capitalists are nuking us!!", the strategic command would have asked for a confirmation beyond reasonable doubt. Especially With just 4 warheads without a clear target.

@Robert Ortiz-Wilson Well, we do know that Petrov simply reported on what he saw on his screen : 4 icbm incomming ! then he added what everybody else whould have thought : It has to be a mistake. And we know that it was enough for the strategic command to standby, and eventually dismiss the whole thing. Ultimately it was up to them and USSR officials usually cared little for what a low ranking officer had to say ! Petrov's instinct would be secundary. And I still don't answer your question 😅 but that makes sense...

New Zealand survives too.

@@1mol831 barley

youll find me in new zealand

Wot about south east asia

Probably gets trampled china

I know what you mean bro! Hailing from Brazil too!

@@lordicarus8807 how's that corruption going

Australia baybeee!

@@NoSaysJo From the population's point of view, as bad as ever. However, there seems to be some actions being taken by the new government, Bolsonaro's one, but the damn commies from the workers party are blocking them as usual...

Bolsonaro has appointed his son as ambassador in the US and is blocking investigations against his other son ... he took 1 billion dollars from education to pay for votes in the congress... the dollar is in a record high and the unemployment is skyrocketing, are you insane?

The narrator obviously never visited and knows no Siberian women. #supermodels

He also implied that we do not have books, libraries or universities down here in New Zealand. Without the northern hemisphere the world would return to the stone age is what he basically said. I can kind of understand him thinking that about the Aussies though.

I mean... Isn't Mad Max really just a documentary of daily Australian life deep in the Outback?

Aquila Rossa Congrats. The deep south is still doing kinda good. People in Europe, Aisa, and America have basically none of the knowledge you have after a few generations.

Norway and Switzerland would be okay tho?

Good

I was physically shaking, my god

*lives in west coast just west of the Great Plains* nah fr tho I’m not gonna sleep tonight after hearing that lol

The 600 mph winds gave me more lol

They got the easy painless way out

Galactic Gameing wait what

The ultimate hero...

One of? Who are the others?

Galactic Gameing rip

he saved us all

Flat tire= end of HUMANITY

minutemen soldier wow we literally came so close to death

I don't think they would actually let people in charge of nuclear bombs off their shifts on the premise that someone is late.

Dan - I think his point was somebody would replace Petrov at his post, and they would have probably played it by the book and informed the Kremlin instead of assuming it was a glitch (with the implication that the Politburo might have decided to retaliate).

Shit

Hug your spouse, partner or pet because "duck and cover" ain't gonna save ya.

Death comes for all Sammy G 💀

@@twistedyogert false, if you aren't in ground zero of the nuclear explosion taking cover behind something sturdy will save you from being severely burnt. How ever if you can't escape the radiation you're screwed.

@@COUNTERCOM Thanks for the heads up, hope I never have to worry about using it. I was born in 1996 and while the fear of nuclear weapons seems to have wained, those horrible machines are still out there waiting for some idiot to use them for what they were designed for. Hopefully this demon will only haunt our worst nightmares and not rear it's ugly head in the real world.

@@twistedyogert I agree fuck nukes, unfortunately the nations understanably can't trust each other to De-arm their nuclear weapons.

yes

Aka 80% of the world population bro

brazil and south america would be kinda fine, like last bastions of civilization

He did get a Nobel peace prize and a citezen award. He will always be noted as the man that saved the world. But to him he was just doing his job.

Few people realise how ridiculously lucky we were, if it were not for him we'd all be dead, 1 man, out of 7 billion people, if 1 man were not present we would have destroyed ourselves. I honestly think that he got us through one of the great filters. I think once civilizations discover nukes they generally destroy themselves but he got us through that

The insane aerospace engineer dude just think what would have happened if he took that day off

crunchwrap supreme your absolutely right

Sady he was sacked because the military was embarrassed because their satilite messed up.

Plainsville Productions #2

He was fired

But he was a fuckin' commie

I guess that leads us to think of a different name for this video. 'what if Petrov never trusted his instincts' :P

...and he was punished for doing so. He only received appreciation a few years ago.

@Joker Depends where you were born. In Poland 90' were not as optimistic as in the west, with permanent economic crisis that began in the 80' and politicians unable to repair the country. Only after access to EU situation definitely improves.

It’s a lil chillier than usual

Nuclear winter: im gonna have to stop you right there

Japan: aww shit here we go again

Switzerland: (dies)

Australia: Fahk me mates, what the fuck went on ere?

even James Blunt (the guy who sings - youre beautiful) saved the world as he disobeyed his commanders order to storm a airbase held by The soviets ..blunt was a CO in the British army who said " i wont be responsible for world war 3"

Rakitha Peiriz Wut

Rakitha Peiriz he was a lieutenant.

Verreck Im Gulag i know.

did you even watchthe video?

nukes would have been easier to get

It's not the nuke siren. It's just the EAS it's used to pretty much every disaster.

Skull Face Still freaks me out

Long Gone Lizard when that played at 10 PM, I was frozen in fear.

Nanboii Offical Omg DX

CattailGamer If you're talking about Trump then you might be right. I believe he's better than Hillary tho

Joe Higgins another 100 years if we will still be a life

Joe Higgins thays what fallouts story should have bewn

just saying he was on a nuclear submarine and was later punished (not rewarded) by the soviets. The Red button didn't work as it is putting too much responsibility on a possibly corruptible, or suicidal person

Joe Higgins Yeah, he literally saved the northern hemisphere of the world and billions of people. Holy shit

Joe Higgins

the only reason my one is (scotland) is because england made it so by storing americas nuclear subs here

Shane Williams unless you are libertarian

As a libertarian, both are terrifying.

@@DocLL Let's combine both

Orwell's 1984 was a result of nuclear war like this happening in the 1950s.

@@mustafamalik596 You're thinking of "Red Dawn".

More Gamezzz seems legit

More Gamezzz *emus

Politic Revolutionnaire ANYTHING BUT THAT

we already have those

O.o (downs a bottle of bleach)

Sure

There are no crimes in nature. She recognizes only the right of the strong.

No pilot is stupid enough to fly into no flying areas TWICE. Shooting it down was justified as there maybe a squad of US operatives instead of passengers which you never know until the body bags are pulled out of the wreckage

I think he got one

He won one in Germany but he died two years ago.

He also received a UN award

Hello Siri[ously], how's the weather today?

Seriously**

Ashley The Witch same here. They give me such a chill

same.

The computer sounding noises are what freaked me out.

Make Anime Great Again same

"Millions Vaporised On The East Coast" Welp, now that my anxiety levels are over the limit I am going to pull an all nighter!

It’s absolutely brilliant.

Agreed

Bloody amazing

Good sh!t to watch at 2:30 am

Listen back to it, imagine yourself in that moment saying "ok it's time, it's coming", gathering your family and hug each other tight, dog barking outside, you telling them how much you love them, until that 'boom' is the last thing you all hear.. That was going to be a very real scenario.

Calm down buddy

This is what V2 was for

You said it. Dude saved the world.

That hero is still alive today :) he's 77

YES

who cares

B

Japan: also heard the sirens Also Japan: aww shit here we go again

Here in Oklahoma you can hear them often when tornados touchdown.

In Russia in Sverdlovsk-44 (google it) we hear that every year really

Man I jus wish they made it longer lol with the sirens and bombs dropping 😉

Ikr I had literal chills

Come to think of it, this en tire video was very close to the scenario of MGS : Peace Walker !

FireFlame172 Ikr? He saved the entire human race. That's insane

*was ;-;

RPL Builds Yea just dies 🙁☹

Bro I’m like straight up not going to have a good time during ww3

I think Twain actually said that

@Uncle Sam im backing you up bro cause yeah Einstein said that

@@walter6164 I'll have a grand ol time for about 2 days

WWV will be fought with Dildoes.

oh no

well...we're still alright...for now.

thats my birthday

leocorn58 I know I was terrified when in the alarm blasts and there’s just a wave wash over you

I legit turned my volume all the way down at that part. That shit really is terrifying.

@JC [Ridley] yet...

@@marcyschnier3625 nuclear war will come someday... as fallout predicted it will probably be when resources start dwindling and nations get desperate.

When the EAS played I instantly turned my volume down. I get anxiety from those alarms.

When it said “millions on the east coast vaporized” I felt chills.

The man certainly deserves it.

We should

no

There are a few on both sides that prevented this due to computer glitches such as one reading 1's instead of 0's and other such things.

we fucking celebrate world war over NUCLEAR WAR END OF THE WORLD PARTY

Nah not always depending on your objective and opponent

John Doe Well even if it’s just 4 missiles, that leaves plenty of your nukes ready to go even after 4 nukes goes off in your country.

@@JohnDoe-dg8pe if u launch 1 or 2 nukes, then ur opponent launches 50

@Sir Dankistan What about a limited strike? Target enemy military installations.

@@SPARTS3000 that's where mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.) comes into play. The two most powerful nation's the world has ever witnessed would not give each other small love taps and jabs. They would litterally full on bombard each other trying to deal the most massive blows to knock the other one out, pretty much killing all parties involved.

NOT THE MEMES!

PuffMapper *dear god not the memes*

Memes have existed forever. The Web just allowed both them and awareness of them to spread like wildfire. Read "The Selfish Gene". Howard the Duck was created in 1973. And Nintendo was founded in 1889, and started creating arcade video games in 1975 and home video game systems in 1977.

WE WOULDN'T HAVE INTERNET!! 😭😭😭😭

Almost all of the people who knew English would be gone, including our forebears.

The EAS sound is what got me

idk why but its just the siren that makes me feel like the earth is doomed even though i didnt even know what that siren was for until know.

still gives me goosebumps and i know its coming.

@@TheBigEvil I know damn well that it's coming too

yep, it makes mine too, but i likely never will hear such sounds even if they happend tomorrow...

It had them dying too

Kraio this made me laugh harder then the actual joke did

literally

That's depressing.

+Henry Gummerus Yes, yes it is

Henry Gummerus fuck yeah it is I mean when the siren goes off just say your prayers cuz your still gonna die no matter what

Henry Gummerus in Denmark we hear that sound once a year (to test if the sirens work)

TaizGAminG GaMeZ Theirs a fire station near my house, so the first time one of their sirens went off I thought I was about to see a nuke in the horizon lol

Air raid sirens are fucking terrifying.

Dippin' Dots No just wait until the emus strike.

Emus declare themselves the new rulers of Australia and begin their genocide.

like "WTF mate?"

Actually it wouldn't since it was an ally and a strategic location for the "capitalist pigs"

LOL the emu's and kangaroos gave them enough warning before shit hit the fan XD and ya, TO AUSTRALIA!

According to the United States' nuclear target list from 1956, about 15 targets in Hungary were planned to be hit with nuclear weapons.

@@chrisgaming9567By 1983 that number would have been around 300 targets.

Finland: I'm here

Rex Longfellow every single alternate timeline in a nutshell

all but switzerland XD

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He IS talking about the end of the world, or at least most of it.

Well it is October....

THATsideOfRU-vid good time to be on the west coast

Iam in so cal

I think he got executed for disobeying orders

The man has been dimisses from soviet army for disobey orders and show system's failures. Today he wins a normal retire pension and lives in a governement condominium. He whon a trophy and US$ 1.000,00 in 2004.

Humanity at its best everyone!

At first no medals, but in 2004 he got the World Citizens Award for averting a catastrophe, and also the Dresden Preis in 2013. Plus a film about him I think, so I mean not too bad off considering.

Asher P yea

Don't remember an emu war, could you explain?

Chinchilla ruby they still become a giant shitpost

Chinchilla ruby Please don't speak about it. I was the captain of 32nd infantry division in the great emu wars. All I remember was the squawks and all of my men dead or taken prisoner. I stil have PTED.

Following the Great Depression, Australian military tried to kill some Emus that were "running amok". They failed decisively.

Australians attempt to exterminate large group of emus using soldiers, cars and 2 machine guns. They fail.

David Boucard The explosion sounds are the only fake thing in this. The siren and *kkrrr* sounds are actual sounds prerecorded and will actually sound

Ephjoe Kwon That's what gave me chills. I imagined if all the taxi cabs, subway cars, and chatter in the streets were suddenly engulfed by the sound of that wailing siren and it was too late to leave the city.

Ephjoe Kwon The Krrr isn't that scary, since it happens during any moderate flood.

In some places this siren might be more common. In peaceful countries where there is also very little extreme weather we never hear this siren. The only place we hear it is in war movies. That makes it sound much more scary to us.

maybe to you since it only means a flood to you, but to other people it tends to mean tornado or hurricane

Australia isn't 3rd world.

@@dylanshadowstar9779 dunno man, some areas feel like it

@@ggpl8117 excuse me, living conditions in urban areas in Australia are often better than USA. So I wouldn't talk about 1st world

@@dylanshadowstar9779 USA is a rather low bar to compare to lol but i am not talking about the urban areas, those are usually much much better than rest of the country

PrinceOfParthia74 All hail petrov

His spidy sinces weren't tingling

he still alive too

ERod Heras do it

+Amen Akthar is awesome 2 JUST DO IT!

What if the Russian Empire's attempt to colonize Australia succeded?

Davis ___ that's what i thought. He said the Southern Hemisphere would be relatively fine so what better country to become a superpower than Australia

The Russians actually did try to colonize Australia along with the dutch and british. But what of they succeded?

Brazil would also rize.

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OI OI OI. AUSTRALIA IS STRONG!

I wouldn't exist. My Mom was a child when this happened. So was my dad. And 90% my uncle's and aunts.

Steve Erwin becomes the king of New Australia and starts wrestling giant mutant alligators.

You realise nothing would be the same, nothing. Even south of the equator

Tom Hanks could be traveling to one of the nuke sites

Worst of all: Iron Maiden would never release Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Jojo would never exist

PC Invictus remember he only had one job

Actually, he wasn't removed. He was assigned to other parts, and also retired early. Forcibly or not, I'm not sure.

He didn't actually recieve any repurcusions, since he was only in charge of watching the warning systems, instead they just went on like any other day. It wasn't until a decade or two after when he was actually recognized for saving humanity.

The usa would have done the same thing.

He was reassigned to a less sensitive post, took early retirement (although he emphasizes that he was not "forced out" of the army)

Watch the 1984 film Threads.

Most of us here won’t even exist at all

* Those Russian men. There was Petrov, and then there was Vasili Arkhipov. Arkhipov was on a Soviet nuclear sub around Cuba in October 1962. The sub had lost radio contact with Moscow, so when they were attacked with depth charges, protocol stipulated that 3 keys had to be turned to launch the nukes. 2 agreed to do that, but Arkhipov didn't. He is basically the reason why the Cuban Missile Crisis never got hot (apart from JFK removing nukes from Turkey and whoever-was-in-charge-of-the-USSR removing nukes from Cuba). So we should thank both of them for what they did(n't) do.

Matt Lipton Fr!

Fr?

Matt Lipton What?

Wait, where was that first comment?

Already doing that.

I just did the same thing and was saddened to realize I never knew about him before this while he was still alive.

good riddance

William Grike as a Brit I like the Aussies I think it'll be a great world full of beer, BBQ's and banter, seems decent

its a car from GTA. I drive a e46 m3 in real life.....

it would be targeted by being an ally of the major powers

William Grike either that or brazil

William Grike or South Africa?

Jude Pelaez well not really. Australia already gets too hot. Imagine hotter.

New Zealand exists ya know

South Africa Brazil Argentina

Why doesn't anyone mention Peru? Brazil and Bolivia are shitholes. The people are nice, but not the government, and environment.

Australia and New Zealand would be the only developed countries left alright.

And the only thing you can do is embrace your loved ones close and await your impending doom, truley terrifying

The Doughboy Don't worry. It probably won't happen. *_Probably._* Surely we wouldn't be daft enough to destroy ourselves?

F--- THATS SCARY AND IM 8 YEARS OLD

Anybody play fallout 4 and remember the enter the vault

@@williamburdgick2582 Oh yes , wonderful scene, the view was perfect from the hill where you enter the vault.

commie-ng

Patroling the mojave makes me wish for a nucelear winter

Is like the one of Korea invading USA

"Europe is just.. dead"

Midwest: wut just happened

xCynder ha a new vegas ncr ranger

@Mr_HulaStache fuck the BoS God bless the Enclave God bless America

Fuck everyone but the followers, the courier is our true hero