Thanks so much for watching! For more info about nuclear winter, please check out: kzitem.info/news/bejne/snibuYKpsn6mqm0si=TyvqIG99c2p7Of4o Also, I misspoke, a shake is 10 nanoseconds, not 100. 😅
@BrickNewton
Ай бұрын
Can you please do a reaction to the 80's movie 'Where the wind blows'. It traumatized me as a child.
@sunnyval3134
Ай бұрын
44:27 he did say something "similar" happened.
@amym2944
Ай бұрын
Hi. I'd love you to do a reaction to some of the Netflix series, Turning Point the bomb and the cold war. You'll be horrified and how inaccurate the nuclear info is!
@mattiasdominguez2757
Ай бұрын
what do i need to study to become a nuclear engenieer? can you make a video of how to become a nuclear engenieer?
@tediustimmy
Ай бұрын
CS here to remind you that light travels approximately one foot per nanosecond, so if he's a mile away from the epicenter, then 528 shakes pass before he can feel any effects.
@ClellBiggs
Ай бұрын
I'm a Fallout fanatic and I just wanted to point something out. The nukes in the Fallout universe aren't like ours. They're closer to being neutron bombs that are engineered for massive amounts of radiation rather than destruction like ours. This was a consequence of no one in the Fallout universe having a conscience. I know it doesn't seem this way but the ones we have that kill more people instantly are more humane than the ones in the Fallout universe that kill people in horrible ways over long periods of time. They (the theorists) pointed this out in the video, but this has been canon since the very beginning and I just wanted to add some emphasis to it. The fact they got this right in the show when so few people are aware of it is impressive.
@rogervanbommel1086
Ай бұрын
Even IF they were neutron bombs the 200 year number is still wrong, and neutron radiation stops instantly when the bomb explodes
@MXarcx
Ай бұрын
So more like dirty MOABs than our nukes
@Gr13fM4ch1n3
Ай бұрын
Good catch
@bee281light6
Ай бұрын
I dunno about this, do you have any proof? Either way I don’t really care since fallout was never known for realism
@segganew
Ай бұрын
@@rogervanbommel1086the key thing about neutron radiation is that it makes other things radioactive. So yes it would. That’s why neutron radiation is the most dangerous kind. Look up “neutron activation.”
@oxylepy2
Ай бұрын
Wait, a lot of the mutations are related to Forced Evolutionary Virus AND radiation. FEV's role is really important to the lore
@AmaroqStarwind
Ай бұрын
7:47 In the lore for the first two Fallout games, the nuclear strikes were specifically targeted as ground detonations in order to maximize the long-term effects.
@DieselsVideos
Ай бұрын
And the show gives a possible second reason why the first Bombs detonate on the ground. They ar possibly detonated on place and not fired.
@AmaroqStarwind
Ай бұрын
@@DieselsVideos In theory, if you perfectly coordinated two nuclear weapons to detonate at exactly the same time and in roughly the same place, you could have a "dual-burst" weapon which combines a ground burst (for maximum contamination) with an air burst (for a larger blast radius). So the ground burst bomb would produce all of the contamination, and the air burst bomb would spread the contamination as far as possible.
@DieselsVideos
Ай бұрын
@@AmaroqStarwind has nothing to do with what I said. If you detonate the Bombs on the ground, because you're not firing them but you are the one who build the Vaults, placing the bombs over a long time, you do not have to fire the second bomb. And why spreading the contamination. it has a reason why we talk about half live circles. And yes you spread more. but you need half of your bombs to spread half of the contaminated material. What opens another point. Dirty Bombs would be specially designed to spread longer living radioactive particles
@AmaroqStarwind
Ай бұрын
@@DieselsVideos Ah, now I understand. I am dumb.
@Katsura_ja_nai_Zura_da
Ай бұрын
@@DieselsVideos vaulttech didn't say they will definelty nuke, that they will nuke if peace happen. But you forget something, Chinese bombers were detected several hours before first bomb exploded so it was Chinese that bombed first. Because they were desperate to stop Americans advancing more into China.
@andyf4292
Ай бұрын
hard to measure the height of a mushroom cloud when your eyes don't work anymore and you are on fire..
@Mikitsubizunizu
Ай бұрын
One major factor of radiaton in Fallout... Everything is nuclear powered with fission batteries. From radios to flashlights.
@phecto
Ай бұрын
Many of the cars run on nuclear energy, the power plants are all nuclear, and there's nuclear waste products careless stored everywhere to. Then all that gets hit with nukes. I mean 77 for vegas suggests that every city is basically getting a carpet bombing of nukes so all the nuclear infrastructure is getting blown up so every city suddenly makes Chernobyl look like an insignificant accident and there's no attempts at containment or cleanup. Then you have people like super mutants, enclave, brotherhood, and any nutjob raider than finds a fatman continuing to set of more tactical nukes, or even really big ones like in the case of the divide. That's why the fallout world is still a mess 200 years later.
@smolpener7430
Ай бұрын
And they just magically convert the heat into electricity.
@Mikitsubizunizu
Ай бұрын
@@smolpener7430 No, they are most likely radiovoltaic cells, though RTGs are a thing (killed those dudes in Georgia)
@cmo_kky
Ай бұрын
My thoughts too exactly. So there were factories that could have been hit too which could damage these batteries, fusion cores, etc and expose their radioactive contents to the surrounding areas. It could also be possible that these widely used fusion cores were rigged by the manufactures, whom may be in cahoots with the marketers, that could turn them into mini-nukes which would support the small nuclear yields theory mentioned.
@t84t748748t6
Ай бұрын
and dumping waste like the 50's where a fishing lake is so nuclear prewar u get burns from swimming in it
@innocentsmith6091
Ай бұрын
The real biggest problem with Fallout's immersion (at least in the Bethesda ones) is how it seems like the world is as if the nukes dropped a matter of years ago, not a century ago. Why do people have live in half destroyed pre war houses with trash and skeletons lying around? No one thought to build anything new or even clean up since the bombs dropped? It makes sense for desolate places, but not the many inhabited places.
@tabathacarruthers5122
Ай бұрын
Some fans think Fallout 3 takes place in 2100, not 2177 or 2277. It was like they chose a random number for how long it's been.
@shadewolf0075
Ай бұрын
Basically the whole thing about fallout is the post-apocalyptic aesthetic. You see a bunch of people complaining that fallout 76 still has places with tons of plant life in it and saying “it doesn’t look like fallout!” I agree 3 and 4 definitely feel like they are supposed to be earlier but 4 has the excuse of a secret group of scientists keeping the commonwealth divided and destroying any groups trying to actually rebuild the region. 3 honestly got explained in 76 as everyone basically just left the city and region for the way better Appalachia. We don’t really know anything about Appalachia during 3-4 so for all we know a thriving civilization has appeared
@lennysmileyface
Ай бұрын
@@shadewolf0075 It's the whole thing for Bethesda but it's not for the original vision of the games.
@theghostofthomasjenkins9643
4 күн бұрын
@@lennysmileyface no, it was still post apocalyptic in the first 2 games because the theme was we keep destroying ourselves. hence, "war never changes".
@lennysmileyface
4 күн бұрын
@@theghostofthomasjenkins9643 It was 80 years after the apocalypse in the first game and cities were already beginning to form.
@stoveman831
Ай бұрын
the shock wave is shown before hitting the windows
@xlgapelsin6173
Ай бұрын
As they should be
@ShimrraJamaane
Ай бұрын
Shockwave effects are seen before they are felt. Light travels faster than sound.
@miriamweller812
Ай бұрын
@@ShimrraJamaane Shockwave IS 'sound'. The light effect would be seen sooner of course by putting everything on fire (or not be seen anymore when you look into it, because it would make you - at minimum temporarely - blind).
@ShimrraJamaane
Ай бұрын
@@miriamweller812 I know a shockwave is sound. You can see the effects of the pressure wave before it hits. Hence, "light travels faster than sound". The light referring to the effects of the shockwave being visible, not the light from the blast itself. The Beirut explosion is a perfect example.
@RandomPerson-yq1qk
Ай бұрын
@@ShimrraJamaane This is also dangerous because a big explosion makes people look in that direction out of windows before the windows get shattered into their faces.
@x_atlan_x8100
Ай бұрын
We need to remind that especially in fallout 4 and 76 we see a lot of nuclear waste barrels across the map. I think this could potentially explain the intense radiation even after 200 Years . I don’t know if in the other fallout games the same thing applies
@wernerviehhauser94
Ай бұрын
Just consider the bomb in Megaton. In the Fallout universe, nukes are low yield, somewhere between a Davy Crocket and a SADM. This is how that universe works, not ours.
@Naedlus
Ай бұрын
Yup. Bethesda pretty much stated that the physics of the world of Fallout isn't the same as our own, with semiconductor tech not being feasible, but atomic was much more so.
@russellg1473
Ай бұрын
@@Naedlusis that not a detail that interplay would be responsible for? Seems like a core part of lore, as a complete layman, seems like it would have been established long before Bethesda.
@darkwinter7395
Ай бұрын
My head cannon (nooo... don't stick meh head in there and fire it! ): The blasts shown were just the first ones to fall - shortly after the intro sequence, the bombardment got a whole lot worse.
@A_Blip_In_The_Universe
Ай бұрын
The first ones were extremely low yield, to give most people time to get to the shelters or find shelter. At least this is my take...
@sgtrpcommand3778
Ай бұрын
Adding to this, these were low yield strikes against strategic targets - centres of local government, water purification, power (in the civilian context since that’s what we’re looking at here) while what would come afterwards was the main bombardment. In the movie Threads, they assumed the Soviets would detonate a high altitude warhead to disable electrical and power systems across the UK first, so it makes sense.
@Merennulli
Ай бұрын
I agree. In practice, a first strike would initially be aimed at taking out the enemy's second strike capability. The nuclear equivalent of calling "no tag-backs". That's why nuclear silos and air bases of the nuclear era moved away from population centers, but it's entirely plausible the Fallout universe opted for the economic efficiency of keeping them in cities too be closer to manufacturing and increase total output (in line with having so many). Adding to that likelihood is that the small ones were short range, meant to reduce the detection time. Air bursts as a "fighting nuclear with nuclear" defense mechanism were proven effective in Operation Plumbbob, so taking out the defensive options first with the warheads least likely to be detected in time is sound strategy.
@bee281light6
Ай бұрын
Are you sure? All they really needed was those nukes they dropped in the intro
@Merennulli
Ай бұрын
@@bee281light6 As the video mentions, the yield was far lower than the book claimed. It's also nowhere near enough for the devastation seen after they leave the vault. The total yield we saw was the same as the 2020 disaster in Beirut. Terrible, but far less than what you are saying this would do.
@StupidCatLady
Ай бұрын
I think you should watch the opening scene of the Fallout show. I personally think they did a decent job. They show the shockwave. But the scene is absolutely gut wrenching. The fear and wild terror is very evident and almost painful to watch. They convey just how bad everything is.
@j.f.fisher5318
Ай бұрын
I love the opening scene. But it's got lots of issues if you look at it from a realism standpoint. First, _nobody_ could mistake the flash of a nuke for a flash bulb - its like the sun outside suddenly got many times brighter which would be incredibly obvious in a house with so much glass. The way it's shown is accurate but _only_ for a fission weapon like Trinity or the weapons dropped on Japan. Fusion weapons have two flashes, the relatively quick fission flash and then a seconds-long "flash" as the fusion secondary explodes. There's practically no effect on skin or eyes from the flash. The shockwave takes long seconds to start. The glass should be deadly shrapnel inside the house. But, it's entertainment, not a documentary. It does what it's supposed to do playing up the humanity of the characters. They totally did the right thing.
@Takyodor2
Ай бұрын
@@j.f.fisher5318 Don't the two flashes occur within a microsecond or so from each other? (As in, you would need a really good high-speed camera to distinguish them)
@joshuaortiz2031
Ай бұрын
@@Takyodor2 yes the two nuclear reactions in fusion weapon happen pretty much simultaneously within microseconds of each other.
@joshuaortiz2031
Ай бұрын
@@j.f.fisher5318 yeah the flash was not bright enough that little girl in the beginning who was staring at the explosion would have been flash blinded instantly. The time it took for the sound and pressure wave to hit them was accurate though that's something many films and tv shows get wrong.
@j.f.fisher5318
Ай бұрын
@@Takyodor2 Look at video of thermonuclear tests. The low framerate makes it less visible but its obvious if you know what to look for. Castle Bravo or Tsar Bomba are examples though their size exaggerates this. There's a quick flash then it reduces and is replaced by a steadily growing brightness. Or look up graphs of thermal radiation over time. Visible light scales with thermal but it's the heat that does the most damage. The thermal and visible energy radiated by the fireball takes much longer than the nuclear reaction. For the largest thermonuclear weapons it lasts around half a minute. Smaller thermonuclear weapons still last multiple seconds, and the human eye is good at distinguishing the separation between flashes. Also this was a big part of why duck and cover was so important to avoid as much of that thermal radiation as possible if directly exposed to the flash at distances that weren't immediately deadly.
@Sho-td8wg
Ай бұрын
Random theory. Maybe those nukes were designed for the 250 kTon yield, but underperformed due to poor maintenance. Modern nukes require expensive servicing as some elements (tritium) have half-lives measured in decades. Maybe Fallout nukes were closer to dirty bombs.
@andyf4292
Ай бұрын
fizzles
@sanctionh2993
Ай бұрын
As he said, misuse of the word theory 😂
@carlosfbarajas7755
Ай бұрын
Maybe cobalt bombs?
@samiraperi467
9 күн бұрын
@@sanctionh2993 I dunno, seems like there's backing evidence, so it's one step above hypothesis.
@dahwriter
Ай бұрын
When a nuclear engineer tilts their head and delivers a slightly suspicious and monotone, "Okay..." You realize you might be under a misapprehension.
@cosmiceon
Ай бұрын
Tell all your friends about nuclear power. We must educate others about how important this energy source will be in the future and how safe it is compared to coal. If society continues to be afraid of nuclear power we are stuck burning fossil fuels. I support nuclear power!
@RangerHouston
Ай бұрын
2:06 keep in mind that the vaults are also build underground so in addition to the 3 feet thick lead walls you’d have all that earth too.
@S1ipperyJim
29 күн бұрын
A woman in Japan survived a nuke by just being inside a concrete bank only 300m away from the hypocenter, whereas someone on the stairs outside was vaporised
@ancientgamer3645
17 күн бұрын
One thing that is commonly overlooked is all the dead bodies that would go unattended. Diseases would run unchecked because the emergency response units would be overwhelmed and unable to clean up the corpses quickly.
@bgiv2010
Ай бұрын
The fact that they got so much right must be an honor for them to receive a review from a professional in the field.
@Fred-rv2tu
28 күн бұрын
I worked with nukes once upon a time. People are always shocked when I explain how survivable a nuclear war would be if you were outside the thermal pulse. Your biggest threat would be starvation after the collapse of the supply chain(refineries targeted) and the fallout falling in Americas breadbasket.
@gwynnmccallan8856
26 күн бұрын
If it's every nuke Russia and the US has, is Nuclear Winter a real possibility?
@TheSpookiestSkeleton
Ай бұрын
I mean I think chernobyl would be very dangerous to be around IF and I say IF there hadn't been efforts to clean up and contain the issue, such as if everyone died in a nuclear conflict and any survivors wouldn't know the first thing about how to go about cleaning up a nuclear disaster.
@A_N1ne
Ай бұрын
What Film Theory got wrong (and most of Bethesda's Fallout games) is you do see the thermal effects of the bombs on humans. In Fallout 1 (Black Isle Studios Fallout) you meet many Ghouls who survived the great war in Necropolis (Bakersfield) their leader Set is depicted with most of his skin burned off, exposed organs and so on. This depiction of Ghouls was dropped after Bethesda bought the franchise
@SpitFir3Tornado
Ай бұрын
I wouldn't say Betheada dropped it when they took overthr franchise... FO3 and FNV have similar appearing ghouls with melted flesh. FO4 is the first one with the smoothskin sunburnt ghouls.
@A_N1ne
Ай бұрын
@@SpitFir3Tornado true, but if you look at the model made for Set and then the model used for ghouls in 3 and NV, Set actually looks like he went through a nuclear explosion. Compare that to Moira in Megaton who also went through a nuclear blast, there's a big difference between the 2. Don't get me wrong 3 and NV's ghouls are way better then 4 and 76's, but I think Fallout 1 and 2 did them best. I also prefer the talking heads of the original games to the Xbox 360 era textures in the 3D games. So it could just be a personal bias and texture limitations.
@danchrapko445
Ай бұрын
i do wish for a nother fallout game in the style of 1 and 2
@gruanger
Ай бұрын
I think the biggest issue is what I call Devolution. Jobs would end, manufacturing, factories, etc. Then human knowledge would end in the dog eat dog food first world. Very quickly, knowledge about computers and other tech would disappear. For example, most kids don't even know how to make a lightbulb, forge materials, identify edible plants or other things people for most of history could do. Also, the scientist and intellectuals probably wouldn't survive the first generation of fighting. People wouldn't spend the time to teach reading and writing, etc. Eventually you might return to caveman, lol
@jazzyjaytee9961
29 күн бұрын
Absolutely, yes. Well, maybe not actual cavemen dressed in raw animal hides, but most certainly to a level of pre-industrial society. On a side note, while I have read all about Edison's light bulb, I personally would have no idea how to build one from scratch in my garage. Especially without a vacuum pump.
@modelcitizen8731
16 күн бұрын
Watch threads, you'll see what would happen, it's grim
@Hootersnoocher
Ай бұрын
I’m not sure many know this but, when Mount St. Helen erupted, a science teacher in Warren, Michigan, took one meter square sheets of plywood, placed visqueen over that and spread Vaseline petroleum jelly on top of that. I don’t remember how long they were placed on the roof of the school, however when they retrieved them and dissolved the jelly and filtered it out, it resulted in a significant amount of ash that had drifted those many miles.
@TheSpookiestSkeleton
Ай бұрын
well the first fallout game takes place in 2161 and by that point there's already small towns popping up and some larger towns even.
@SpookDudeGoesWild
Ай бұрын
So the fun part about the nukes in the opening scene are ground nukes detonated internally, so they were low yield first before the Chinese and American nukes even started launching.
@tauceti8060
Ай бұрын
Where did you get that info?
@SpookDudeGoesWild
Ай бұрын
Lore on the Fallout Series as a whole tells you Vault Tec set off the initial bombs, just have to dig deep for it. In good faith of trying not to spoil the show, you should watch it, as it is cannon in this universe.
@Chopstorm.
Ай бұрын
@@SpookDudeGoesWild Was that actually confirmed? They obviously say that they can start the war themselves, but did they actually go through with it? Tim Cain stated multiple times (and it's present within Fallout 1) that the Chinese were the first to launch the nukes.
@gavros9636
Ай бұрын
@@Chopstorm. There's evidence in one of the dlc's that aliens started it
@Chopstorm.
Ай бұрын
@gavros9636 Yeah, in Zeta. Again, evidence =/= proof.
@kevinhardy8997
Ай бұрын
I'd like to think that the Fallout alternate universe diverged from our real timeline at the moment if the first Atom bomb test
@blackXhawksXkickXbut
Ай бұрын
One issue with the theory is that I believe the height of the mushroom clouds in nuke map is the tallest point the mushroom cloud reaches. It would take the plume many minutes to rise to that height. So judging the height only a few seconds after detonation is bad methodology
@samiraperi467
9 күн бұрын
You underestimate the shockwave. It moves *fast*. Sure, the plume after the shockwave takes long to rise, but you have to remember that the shockwave is supersonic.
@tacticalgrace6456
28 күн бұрын
Many of the creatures in the Fallout games aren’t that way from radioactive mutations but deliberate experimentation at Big MT
@Naedlus
Ай бұрын
Well, now I'm starting to fall back on an old theory, that as of Fallout 3, with their inclusion of Dunwich Borers, they took a page from Deadlands: The Wasted West, and that in their world, the radiation is tied to the paranormal, which would also explain why it played nice for so long, encouraging society to adopt atomic cars, etc. so that when the fit hit the shan, they (whatever paranormal entities are toyed with in the series,) would have the best chance of causing true chaos in society to allow the paranormal to have a proper chance to take hold largely unnoticed by the population outside of ghouls, and even then, it's not the population noticing the paranormal, but the questioning audience putting things together over time.
@skube587
Ай бұрын
12:03 correction: a shake is actually 10 nanoseconds or 10^-8 seconds.
@akuyume7
Ай бұрын
47:05 I think he had it the right way around, he was saying the volcano was equal to thousands or tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.
@Gin-toki
Ай бұрын
There isn't really any lower limit to how small a mushroom cloud can get. I've seen them on smaller explosions similar to a single stick of dynamite. It's just a matter of how the gasses, dust and whatnot gets thrown around.
@ShimrraJamaane
Ай бұрын
It's a matter of convective forces. That's what a mushroom cloud is: convection.
@detvarvalfanda
Ай бұрын
The explosions of the nukes themself would not lead to a nuclear winter But I think they implied that the majority of the smoke would come from all the fires that the nukes cause. Is there a reson why there wouldn't be so much fire to cause a nuclear winter?
@davidroberts9099
Ай бұрын
The smoke was the excuse used to make the claim to begin with. The entire winter theory falls apart when peer reviewed by scientists instead of activists. The radiation is a different problem, that would kill a lot of people.
@Staladus
Ай бұрын
I mean we already have thousands of forest fires on earth, and they dont even have an effect on cooling the earth. The problem is that while there will be a lot of soot, most of it will fall back to earth by just gravity or rain. Things only stay for longer if it reaches the stratosphere, and its highly unlikely that surface fires would send stuff that high.
@detvarvalfanda
Ай бұрын
@@Staladus ok That seems logical
@S1ipperyJim
29 күн бұрын
Depending on the yield the blast wave can extinguish the fires from the thermal radiation
@herbertnorman617
3 күн бұрын
Not confirming or denying what is at hand a speculative theory, one that I think has a little more credibility than portrayed here, as it is at least debated by people knowing their shit (which I certainly do not sufficiently to confirm and deny, and I hope we will as humanity never get empirical data on it). But to clarify: The theory posits that the firestorms of a burning city, as seen in firebombings of cities, would create a vortex strong enough to propel the soot into higher layers of the athmosphere, where it would not simply fall out quickly but take many years in which it would have a cooling effect. This is not something that happens even during devastating forest fires. So the speculation is a bit more founded than that.
@jiffypoo5029
14 күн бұрын
Civilization tried to restart immediately after the bombs in the Fallout Universe. Brotherhood of Steel formed directly after the war in 2078 by remnants of the US military. The US government reformed as the Enclave immediately. Vegas never fell and remained a functional city. Former US Millitary went to war with the Former US Government and various Militias for control of vital assets. Both BoS and Enclave love using Nukes so there was most definately more Nukes dropped in their post-war conflict.
@pdonettes
Ай бұрын
My biggest beef is always the dead plants. Plants, and many other creatures and organisms are affected by radiation to a much lesser degree than humans are.
@x_atlan_x8100
Ай бұрын
I guess the warhead yield is under 100kt . I don’t know much about the Chinese nuclear weapons in the fallout universe but I think because of the ressource war going on the chinese government would probably use warheads that aren’t thermonuclear . But because we didn’t see any type of MIRV falling down the weapon could have been planted on the ground by Vault tec maybe , but who knows .
@samiraperi467
9 күн бұрын
They would definitely be psychopathic enough.
@davidjh7
Ай бұрын
I'd almost recommend you react to the classic "Threads", but things are depressing enough these days.
@mikhailiagacesa3406
15 күн бұрын
People who play Fallout should DEFINATELY see it, if they haven't already.
@olliaalto5638
Ай бұрын
Hello. Thank you so much for making nuclear related videos, they are very interesting and learning so much. I was wondering have you made a video of N. S Savannah? I think Savannah was first commercial nuclear powered freight ship + it could also passengers.
@ericerpelding2348
6 күн бұрын
Regarding the typical yield of a Fallout nuclear weapon being 200-750 kt, a wiki article has this to say about real weapon. "The Mark 18 nuclear bomb, also known as the SOB or Super Oralloy Bomb, was an American nuclear bomb design which was the highest yield fission bomb produced by the US. The Mark 18 had a design yield of 500 kilotons. Nuclear weapon designer Ted Taylor was the lead designer for the Mark 18."
@DieselsVideos
Ай бұрын
The main Point is: he gets a range for strategic nukes and assumes that the biggest in the show is on the upper end. Then he said that everything is too small for the estimated upper end bomb. the question would be: is the cloud realistic to the other effects? maybe its just not 750kt and 200 kt but 200 kt and 50 kt?
@Potatoboii2
Ай бұрын
Yoo I was hoping you'd react to this one! Commenting during the intro to get the comment in a soon as possible, so I can't wait to see what you say!
@CC-ke5np
Ай бұрын
The problem with the "Nature reserve" in Tschernobyl is that humans live longer than animals so they are more likely to develop cancer and other medical problems due to radiation. So small animals mostly die of old age before they get cancer. Birds are a different story due to their fast metabolism. Birds really can't thrive in Tschernobyls nature reserve (yet). Nuclear fallout affects humans most. Nukes are actually the most harmless ABC weapon. C weapons can destroy the ecosystem on a bacteriological level preventing recovery for a very long time. A-weapons have a very local effect and the area can recover relative quickly.
@PhantomHelix
Ай бұрын
Not that any are in the vicinity of Chernobyl, but giant tortoises species are mostly larger and longer lived than humans and are extremely resilient to cancers so……..
@samiraperi467
9 күн бұрын
@@PhantomHelix They also have stupidly slow metabolisms.
@ToxicGamer86454
Ай бұрын
100 tons is only 9 GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bombs.
@kattterina
Ай бұрын
yessss! i’ve been hoping for you to this show 😊 i love nuclear ☢️ topics and fallout is my favorite game ahhh
@ItatsuMagnatsa
23 күн бұрын
There is a Quest called "Here there be Monsters" in Fallout 4 and it is given to the Player by a Kid on the Docks who tells the Player that he sees a Monster looking out from below the Surface of the Water but its actually a Parascope from a Chinese Submarine that has been Damaged 200+ Years ago and it was possibly the Sub that launched the Nukes in Boston, Massachusetts but was damaged by a Mine and everyone in the sub turned into Ghouls, but Captain Zao was the only one who didn't Turn Feral. If you help him repair the sub he gives you a Chinese Sword and a Transponder so you can call in Nukes from the Sub. But like all Nukes, they are Small like a Mini Nuke, or Fat Man Shell.
@Tijuanabill
Ай бұрын
The breakdown zero humans were asking for, fact checking a game that doesn't even take itself seriously, and makes jokes about how laughable the premise is, in the game itself.
@Chestyfriend
Ай бұрын
Some kid in fallout 4 survived for 200 years by hiding in a fridge when the bombs fell right on top of the city. How he survived without food and water that long, and how his parents didn't find him for 200 years despite living about 100 meters away from him for those 200 years is a mystery so mysterious even the writer of the quest doesn't know the answer and he blocks everyone who asks.
@sadmermaid
Ай бұрын
Congrats on 100k!
@miriamweller812
Ай бұрын
Erosion by wind and wearther and alike will simply spread and by that thin out radioactive elements. People also often don't get the difference between the radioactive elements and the radiation. You can block most radiation easily, especially alpha and even beta and an alpha emitter on your skin wouldn't be good, but also not lethal (as long as you wash it off sooner or later and of course you you don't have such high radiation level, that it pretty much cooks you). But when you consume a radioactive element and at worst it stays in your system, constantly denaturalizing your organs... Biggest (longer term) problem in Tschernobyl was that certain plants liked to absorb those elements, what could then also get into animal which eat them, what then made consumption of these animals or plants not exactly healthy. It would not kill you, but of course raise your long term risk for health issues.
@skunkmyrddyn
Ай бұрын
There's also a comment in one of the games (I forget which one) that the bombs that started the devastation also set off most of the various small batteries and other nuclear devices that were powering everything. From cars, to homes. Each of these would not have a large explosive blast, but could add to the amount of localized blanketing waste. It's never described how well these more portable devices would detonate. Could they be incomplete explosions, or just shatter and spray their irradiated components about.
@ericcartmanofborg8669
14 күн бұрын
44:30 Yea another thing about that time period of 1816 was it was still in the Little Ice Age that ran from the 14th century to the mid of the 19th century, so the impact if there was to be one would have been increased during that point of time.
@Lucky32Luke
Ай бұрын
Let's check out my Daddy sense by listening to the a baby in the background. Sounds like a baby girl saying twice at least, "Daddy, I think I have something for you here!" Dedication at full blast. Pls mate, that baby (no matter what) needs your attention more than me as a channel follower or any of us here could ever deserve or thank you for. Sorry if I was too straight forward. Great vid as always!
@miriamweller812
Ай бұрын
To be fair: a lower yield can be a bigger problem, because high yield can easily lead to a lot of material just blown into space. It would be a lot about the 'perfect' yield to reach that orbit in which a majority of that material would stay for a long time and not either be thrown from the planet for good or fall back again.
@Staladus
Ай бұрын
Ok I dont think high yield nukes can send stuff into orbit lmao. The ash cloud doesnt even reach the stratosphere most of the time
@erntaku
15 сағат бұрын
I imagine the relatively low yield bombs hitting a city like LA would cause a chain reaction with all of the nuclear powered cars that are in the fallout games.
@RandomPerson-yq1qk
Ай бұрын
In Fallout 76 you get more than daily nukes still being launched by players to farm endgame items and enemies on a single server. So if we consider player action in f76 as canon across all servers then A LOT of nukes are being continously lauched even 25 years after the war. All just in the name of creating exotic materials.
@shadewolf0075
Ай бұрын
Lore wise there are only 2 confirmed cases of the vault 76 dwellers using the nukes
@jimskywaker4345
28 күн бұрын
I love that explanation.
@RovingTroll
Ай бұрын
My headcannon for the Fallout Great War has for a long time been that they peppered the continent with thousands of small yield nukes. A half a dozen or more for each city kinda bombardment. But I also think that the aftermath of that Day was a whole lot of survivor settlements rising, fighting, and using now abandoned nuclear facilities to effectively continually nuke themselves for generations. This is why by time you get to Fallout 3, the world just looks GHASTLY
@RandomPerson-yq1qk
Ай бұрын
In f76 people use nukes just to get their hands on exotic irradiated plants and similar materials. In Fallout radiation = magic and Fallout's dirty nukes are a perfect way to irradiate a lot of stuff for the magic properties.
@tiberius8390
29 күн бұрын
What I noticed is in the games e.g. Fallout 4 obviously the greater Boston area is much much smaller than it actually is. So when we consider that "Sanctuary" is actually a little bit North West of Concord and ground zero of that nuke is somewhere around the town of Dover (which is way outside of downtown Boston), we are talking a distance of 27 kilometers or about 17 miles. That means the single nuke in Fallout 4 that hits the Boston area when scaled to the real world must be approximately 2.3 megatons in size to do the damage we see in the game (then again it's 200 years later when you actually play in the game and a lot of damage could just be done by time). So it might be an oversight in the show or just following the game aesthetics that the nukes look so small, while IRL they should be much larger. For the show it's certainly a jawdropping shot.
@murilotheodoro5025
26 күн бұрын
Hey, while you're at it, I'd love to see your reactions to Shoddycast's series on the science of fallout. He even has a video on the mini nukes you mentioned. He even talks about how the mushroom cloud visuals on small explosions too
@0chuklz0
23 күн бұрын
One thing that seems to be ignored from the equation is the presence of quick healing medicines and insanely effective anti-radiation medications. Assuming the nukes were actually more like neutron bombs, as well as being ground bursts, Cooper's survival for the next few hours is 'believable'. If he came across some radaway and/or stimpacks, both he and his daughter would be saved from their initial damage and exposure. The ghoulification was just something that happened to a small number of people, and the script says that having received a terminal dose of rads, Cooper changed into a ghoul. He was one of the few that reacted to the rads that way. Thanks for the analysis.
@BubbleShield570
22 күн бұрын
Lets not forget that in the Fallout universe the nukes were made to pollute the land and air as much as possible so that the other nation couldnt use said land after detonation and not destroy infrastructures. In fact in fallout most buildings were still up after the bombs, with exceptions of course. They used one nuke like we do in our world that was meant to destroy the city of Shady Sands and you can see the difference, not much radiation but a big crater.
@As3th8r
Ай бұрын
What yield would you guess for the visuals? 1-2 kt? Edit: That's what i get for commenting early. The Info is in the video
@johnwiebe8581
11 күн бұрын
Hey, First time here and this is a good review video, I had actually not seen the film theory vid for the TV show. It is good to hear opinions from a person who is educated in the field. That said Fallout games are...Games, and I prefer them to be over the top comical and relaxing. This is why the games have 'Crocket' launchers you can aim at your feet and survive, miracle drugs that heal and remove rads, etc. The TV show had a chance to show some real blasts but this shows they went small, like micro nukes that were still the size of 'Big Boy'. I will check into your other videos on Fallout and Chernobyl.
@williampmcd8548
14 күн бұрын
Hi, can you comment/speculate any way acoustic materials could be engineered to absorb radiation as at Fukushima or Chernobl? Thank you.
@borisivanov2806
27 күн бұрын
Note that mutated fauna, super mutants and ghouls aren't due to radiation, but due to the massively more advanced gene- and biotech in the Fallout universe. The chems they used 2077, including stimpack, were really crazy.
@Justin_Ebright
Ай бұрын
My biggest issue is that if you can see the mushroom cloud then you've already survived the thermal blast and shockwave. Hence, you still have time to get away, even if radiation exposure is higher because the two biggest quick k*ll scenarios would happen before you see a well defined mushroom cloud.
@jonasprebenmindejohansen930
Ай бұрын
Nice video, good info but dude you know that you have to make a video about how to shelter, shield ourselves and survive a nuclear Fallout since we are in a possible future where threats of nuclear war is very possible.
@Mastikator
Ай бұрын
Don't you need the really big yields to push the aerosols high enough into the atmosphere to cause a nuclear winter anyway? A hundred thousand tiny nukes seems like answer to the question "how to we kill a country without causing nuclear winter". Also, setting off volcanoes to slow down climate change sounds like a Bond villain's plan.
@spartenkiller456
Ай бұрын
Fallout is an alternate universe. The 1950's "atomic punk" is more than just an aesthetic. It's a world were the 1950's, pop/comic book understanding of radiation. Less cancer, more superpowers. To quote the fallout 4 parady "radiation can lead to debilitating death... It can also make you immortal."
@edwardwoodhead7979
Ай бұрын
In the year 536 was the closest we came to a global nuclear winter.
@laser85
Ай бұрын
If possible to answer due to security reasons, what is the most dangerous event that’s happened at the nuclear plant you work at. And is/are the reactor(s) at your power plant pressurised water reactor(s)
@alexbryda
Ай бұрын
BRO YO THIS IS ACTUALLY AWESOME! Much respect to your knowledge ❤🙏 i always wondered what about fallout is actually possible? 👌 and with the bomb dropping scene it's in slow motion so the shock waves do come in momentarily after than breaking all the glass and causing destruction 👾♥️ and the 50s theme is because it takes place in a timeline where technology progressed differently and Bethesda wants to reference the actual 1950s since at that time nuclear war was very very feared
@user-md8jw2dx2x
13 күн бұрын
Love the vid! A lot of the radiation came from pretty much every pre war nook and cranny was used as a nuke waste dump. In F4, you can find entire dump sites in lakes, streams, in populated areas etc. Glowing goo everywhere in busted barrels. So I would guess that it too got thrown all over via shockwave and 'Fallout.'
@frederickmiles8815
Ай бұрын
Wow 1st time i have seen actual accurate analysis - great analysis
@sobas8411
29 күн бұрын
i know near nothing about radiation so bare with me and this is just a question but, does the time for uranium etc to lose its radiation shorten if you break it down and separate it into small pieces? think of how ice melts faster when its in smaller pieces compared to if it where all connected. again i know nothing and im just speaking my curiosity
@dotdedo
Ай бұрын
4:50 I will say they did show the shock wave, it was in the scene before the one film theory showed. I bet they just didn’t want to cgi it for every bomb dropped
@darkhoodorderofgray6354
Ай бұрын
Little bit of a fun fact with the lore of the fallout universe the nukes were actually part of a submarine stealth launcher or basically they are a rocket
@LudvigIndestrucable
Ай бұрын
It's not unusual for an ICBM to house multiple warheads, if you wanted to disrupt a society, setting off a scattered low yield spread in that manner while using larger devices against strategic targets would fit.
@Fred-rv2tu
28 күн бұрын
A city is considered a strategic target. Tanks battalions are tactical.
@miriamweller812
Ай бұрын
Sad enough, many people seem to think that those videogame nukes are just as it is. When you hear people say, that they should use nukes here or there, for examplt to destroy a bridge or whatever, it seems like they think of those C&C nukes, which are more on the level of a FAB or MOAB at best (in C&C generals the MOAB and nuke are pretty much the same, only difference is that radioactive cloud hanging around for some minutes - it doesn't even have any kind of EMP, what is also something utterly ignored in most fictional stories).
@andyf4292
Ай бұрын
I think EMP is only of any effect if detonated in thin , high altitude air?
@Merennulli
Ай бұрын
The difference with the Tambora eruption was secondary effects. Yes, the yield is far lower for the Fallout war, but it's spread out with secondary sources of particulate into the upper atmosphere. But, yes, more up to date models for nuclear winter are relatively short and survivable. The problem is after nuclear winter ends with the particulate falling out of the atmosphere, you're left with the CO2 and other greenhouse gasses from all those projected fires and a lot of decaying matter from the nuclear winter period adding more to it and a slow recovery as plants and algae re-colonize areas. Obviously, neither of these is the end of the world, but it's certainly plausible to end up with post-apocalyptic power struggles, resource shortages and systems collapse like something out of Mad Max. To be honest, the biggest threat of nuclear war is systems collapse. We could feasibly bounce back to producing enough food not too long after nuclear war, but if we don't have the systems in place to get it to people, things get really bad really fast for anywhere that isn't within walking distance of enough actively producing farmland for the population. Which doesn't just mean every big city but even a lot of rural towns.
@LoricSwift
Ай бұрын
One of the things that always sticks out to me in these post-apoc settings (Fallout, Mad Max etc), humanity's biggest enemy is invariably humanity itself. For person trying to rebuild any scrap of civilisation there seems to be someone just out for themselves ready to take what they can carry and burn everything else down. Its even worse in Fallout where it has been 200 years and people are still struggling and living of pre-war scraps.
@mikhailiagacesa3406
15 күн бұрын
No seed crops, no fertilizer, no irrigation water, no food; if you survive initially, you will be living off the land. What's left of it.
@Merennulli
15 күн бұрын
@@mikhailiagacesa3406 Why would there be no seed crops, fertilizer or irrigation water in what we just talked about? That may be true of the fantasy world of Fallout that has openly admitted it's based on "because we needed a wasteland for the story" logic, but it doesn't work with even the outdated and incorrect projections of nuclear winter at the height of the Cold War, let alone the current projections.
@xPancakes4lyf
24 күн бұрын
the smaller, surface level nukes falls in line with lore and vault techs plan to purge the land and wait for the radiation to kill the left overs and wait for the radiation to fade before opening all the vaults to re populate, not expecting people to survive.
@sealstech8087
Ай бұрын
Thanks to the animation of intense storms in fallout 4 and even more so in its Far Harbor DLC, I think “nuclear winter” is a blanket term, while it’s obvious the environment sees a swing of extremes day to day, it was never an ice age. The mass fire idea is supported by how everything is burned or has evidence of a fire in the past even far beyond the immediate blast area. I suspect the mutations are less from the initial fallout or the half lives of the remaining fallout and more so from generations of contaminated food and water being consumed bit by by decade for decade. Some vaults opened soon by design while others played a long game. You can see some towns being rebuilt before being destroyed again. The wasteland has gotten worse, not better.
@Snavels
Ай бұрын
I think it's important to also note that Nukes (and physics as a whole) in Fallout do not act the same way they do in the real world. Instead, they act according to the pulpy 50s common sensibilities of what Nuclear Armageddon would entail: Gigantified Bugs, Endless Radiation, Zombified Humans, etc. Since Fallout one, it's never been particularly realistic, but it wasn't really trying to be. Thank you for your valuable input on this topic
@slab-dd6vj
14 күн бұрын
Good reaction video, I liked it a lot. About the nuclear winter section, the question I have is what would be something like this: to release soot in the atmosphere what would be more efficient? 1* 30 000 MT bomb or 10 000 * 1MT bombs and the factor that came to my mind is location and time. The volcano that erupted was mostly surrounded by seas, While the bombs would mostly fall on the northern continents during what looked like summer to me. the bombs could start many more large forest fires than the volcano could. would that be enough to produce as much or more soot the volcano?
@samiraperi467
9 күн бұрын
Volcanos produce soot only secondarily, by lighting fires. What you get out of volcanos is basically very fine dust, not soot. If you ask me, what you want to do for maximum particulate emissions, you blow up forests, oilfields, *anything* that burns.
@rflats771
10 күн бұрын
In the game, MOST of the delivery systems are aircraft(the 50's aesthetic) so MOST of the weapons in game are closer to older lower yeild free fall bombs. Missiles etc were actually rare in game. The book be mentioned from the F1 game is just stating ACTUAL weapon facts,not the ones in game, also people should ask the game devs and show's producers
@ravenauslander3726
18 күн бұрын
In the Fallout universe, they canonically used ground burst nukes to create more radioactive fallout.
@KeiranTrick
Ай бұрын
I got recommended this video, as a long time '___ Theory' fan. Great video, thanks for making it. I haven't seen anything else you've done yet, but plan to watch your video on Nuclear Winter! I do think it's a little silly to say they're 'misusing' the term theory, when they've always (to my knowledge at least) been using it colloquially and not intentionally conflating it with the scientific definition. Though, I understand the frustration with so many people not knowing there is a difference. Other than that minor nitpick, I appreciate the fair criticism leveled here, and was glad to learn from a professional's corrections. I never take any Game/Film Theory video as fact without doing my own reading, unless they've cited/brought on a professional on the topic. I wish more fans would do the same, and I'm sure Team Theorist want that as well. I hope their ever-growing resources are used to reach put to more experts in the fields they discuss, such as nuclear physics/engineering, to avoid mistakes like they made here. (Also, just to be clear, I'm dumb as a sack of bricks with no expertise in any stem/steam fields to speak of. Which is why I know mistakes happen, people get misinformed or misunderstand information, and learning requires double-checking what people say instead of assuming people are correct)
@shaft_raiser
27 күн бұрын
The fact your mentioning that we don't see any bombs or rockets falling just makes me believe even more than vault tec in the end set them off on purpose
@Metaljacket420
13 күн бұрын
'Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.' -Mark Twain
@lennysmileyface
Ай бұрын
That's just a hypothesis, a game hypothesis!
@Fred-rv2tu
28 күн бұрын
Perfect
@plantelo
17 күн бұрын
I'll just point out here that Honest Hearts offers a much more realistic and grounded view of nuclear explosions through Randall Clark's journal entries, including musing "Two months in cave. Still lethal outside. Don't get it. In army they said 2-4 weeks cleared fallout."
@danielrickner7190
10 күн бұрын
Can nukes, radiation, or magnetic fields mess up clocks? Bethesda has a habit of showing the world as if a few years have passed, but says it's been decades or centuries. We built steel skyscrapers and mass air transit just a few decades after wood balloons and horses were ubiquitous.
@stefthorman8548
25 күн бұрын
you have to remember, even if they are aesthetically 1950's, they are technologically more advanced than us in nuclear research, since unlike us, they didn't screech to an halt like when our cold war ended.
@spvillano
2 күн бұрын
I'm curious on an unrelated matter. TMI is literally just down the river for me, shuttered to be decommissioned due to cost of operation being massively higher than to operate fossil fuel plants for energy production. What's the estimated cost comparison for a modern design reactor vs TMI's rather elderly class of reactor?
@drTERRRORRR
Ай бұрын
Also : "M.A.D." means there would be multiple hydrogen bombs per square kilometr over any major settlement, so picture New Year's Eve, but with heavy nukes, so I'd expect a huge slab of black glass covering the LA,not ruins.
@KarmCraft
Ай бұрын
A widely disregarded detail is that the mutations are a consequence of the FEV in the atmosphere and not of the radiation.
@olibeau7955
Ай бұрын
AFAIK the Fallout universe is different from ours not only historically but also the laws of physics are different. Energy behaves differently there. That's why radiation can spontaneously mutate things and they never were able to develop semiconductors despite investing massive amounts of money into science and robotics.
@aka-chi_hurron
28 күн бұрын
So here's the thing, people forget that EVERYTHING from alarm clocks to the cars to power suits and everything between is powered by mini nuclear reactors or nuclear fission batteries. So while the bombs themselves having short half-lives isn't an issue. The radiation 200 years later isn't from the bombs, it's from all the mini nuclear reactors in the blast radius going critical, which would have half-lifes more than enough to be a danger 200 years later. It would be more of a comparison to simulate a fat man being dropped on Chernobyl before the melt down This is on top of the fact that the nuclear bombs in game are vastly different from real world nukes. Ours being designed for as much physical destruction in as large of an area as possible, the radiation being more of a side product. The nukes in Fallout were designed to output as much radiation as possible, the physical destruction being a side product. People tend to directly compare the bombs in fallout to real world bombs without taking into consideration the different design philosophies and the environments they are detonated in
@cmkeelDIM
7 күн бұрын
Real Word attacks would use approximately 20-22 800KT warheads in airburst at about 3000 feet. This would cover the ENTIRE of the LA basin from Redlands to Van Nuys to Long Beach. That is roughly 4 - 6 SS-25 missiles. And they would detonate within 5 seconds of each other in a Time on Target attack. BOOM! I am pretty sure that the Teller-Ulam Fusion bombs were never a thing in the Fallout Universe. Read that somewhere over a decade ago so I can't back it up, but a fully fission warhead can get into the megaton range, but it is HORRIBLY inefficient. Something like 11-15% of the material actually undergoes fission before the core is blasted apart. Also wanna read about a humanity killing volcano look up Toba.
@PradoxGamerAu
2 күн бұрын
Had to give you a like for talking about C&C alone. I was wondering if the cars that where powered by nuclear fusion chain react to the bombs? Not saying it would change much but just wondering
@seanbyrne5313
Ай бұрын
I think the fallout games imply that contamination is from industrial and commercial pollution, not the nuclear war that everyone blames it on. It's almost as if the nuclear war was staged by mega corps as a PR move to disguise the damage they did to the planet with greed. We know, for instance, that the war was fought over oil in an era where science was about to eliminate the need oil as a power source, and everyone knew that.
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