Four classic the History Guy episodes on accidents with weapons of mass destruction. Nearly a full hour of the History Guy
00:00 – Missiles Over Mexico: A Cold War Story
16:25 – 1960 New Jersey BOMARC Missile Fire
29:47 – Able Archer and the World’s Most Dangerous Year
45:30 – Fire at Grand Forks Air Force Base
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Thank you Lance once again, but you keep making me feel older and older, I’ve participated in a few able archers and some others, and can think of a few accidents that were missed. I was deeply involved with all this stuff my last few years in service. Thanks for recapping all this stuff, I think it’s time I hunt down some old colleagues and say hi
What about the WW2 American Pilot that escaped the Philippines on a small sailboat and made it months later back to Australia and then went to fly and fight in Europe before being killed. His son found his diary he wrote during his months long escape and wrote a book about his father.?
God bless you sir. I love history and I first caught your show before I leave for work at 6:30 AM. If you pronounce It "Nuculer" one time I will forget I ever heard of you. 🤘😎
I watched and listened until 8 minutes and 19 seconds. I'm gonna finish ur video but you said "Nuclear Warhead". Much respect dude but I was waiting for you to say the word. ✊😆
THG. I bow to your knowledge of history. But it's pronounced Appalashian. Not Appalackian. ✊😎
There it is again. 17:58. Nuclear. 😁
Re: Range Wars, it also demonstrated just how little respect the US had for Mexico and the Mexican people.
Always thought 83 was a great year. Wow 😂
Keep in mind that this fire at Grand Forks AFB in 1980 was only a year after the accident at Three Mile Island in PA.
33:40 – I think British people shouldn't be allowed to complain about someone trying to rule the world.
just watched this video and noticed the TARDIS again along with Robbie the Robot 🙂
Excellent show, thank you!
The Bomarc site holds an interesting memory for me. I was stationed at McGuire in the early to mid 1980s as an Air Force cop. Some of our guys used to go to Bomarc to check the gate for signs of illegal entry, but that didn't fall into our job description. A few buddies of mine and I once went there while we were out tooling around after a day at the beach. We rolled up on the gate, found it locked, remembered it was supposed to be radioactive, so we left.
The Cold part of Cold War is misleading because it was, indeed a war and had some very deadly consequences. For some of us old Cold War Warriors a couple of those "Forgotten History Lessons" aren't history, they're memories, frightening yet at the same time proud memories because my team came home alive, yet in other situations, not everyone made it. We remember and revere the fallen because only the dead have seen the end of war..
Your videos inspire me. 🗽
Mexico has more than paid the USA back
How about a segment about the (grim) SL-1 (Stationery Low Power) reactor accident in 1961, near Idaho Falls, Idaho………
Yet another completely awesome episode of THG! Please, please, please, please, PLEASE… keep this great content coming our way!!! At least in my book, this one rated a 9.9 (I gave it this rating merely because "There ain't no 10's.")
GOVERNMENT
I spent 8 years of my life as a Pershing Electronics and Material Specialist – both in the Pershing 1A and Pershing 2 missiles. In all of that time, I'd never seen a test launch. That always disappointed me. I never wanted to see one fred in anger, but a test launch would have been neat to see.
The History Guy really makes me miss my dad. A huge history buff who fought in Korea, and also had a brother who flew over 50 missions in the Asian theater of WW2 (Distinguished Flying Cross).
Dad lost his vision kind of young, and wasted to much of his latter years getting angry listening to talk radio rhetoric, but i just KNOW how much Pop would have loved listening to you. He didn’t think much of the internet (except for moms genealogy pursuits) but I envision him on his lanai at night listening to your wonderful delivery of history.
I guess I share his fondness as I have ingested most of your videos by now, but I would have loved to have witnessed him devouring your videos.
This is the highest endorsement I may ever pay someone.
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Remember Apollo… PA. U. S. A. Home to cancer at a rate 20% the average of neighboring counties.
Oh yeah, there are 2 nuclear waste dumps in the area that have been here 60yrs.
Families live 400ft around both sites.
The Army corp of engineers started to clean one site, with municipality equipment, and after the bulldozer dug down hitting a certain level, the site was immediately evacuated.
So many lives are and have been in jeopardy and now the people who covered Chernobyl, are going to clean up the site.
Side note:
Does anyone know a place where they've never heard nuclear weapons, that's a decent place to live?
https://youtu.be/DAm7WpjK6tk
Sir hope you not mind I address you as male sir vs. female madam ? Henry Kissinger reputed to have sodomized men in uniform.. ➕ Howard and I minus our friend Jerome Dikowitz 👍🏼
My first transistor radio? A "theft" from 500 E. 80th St. NYC My grandmother ➕ grandfather never experienced that loss later on Father unbeknownst 👍🏼 he would die intestate took his walkman that SAD washed away Jones Beach 🏖
love that thumb govna
Black Mesa…. Greetings Gordon Freeman
Yup…. government showing that it continues to serve it's own interests first and foremost before it's own citizens and without any concerns for civilians in it's own country, neighboring countries, or anywhere else in the world.
In other words, Saint Ronnie was scaring the Russians to the point that they thought invasion was imminent, so they should go nuclear to prevent this from happening. On top of that, Reagan managed to trash the economy but good (trickle down economics, which the GOP still follows to this day); we are paying the consequences decades later. Oh, and it was Ronnie that botched the initial stages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Still think Saint Ronnie deserves sainthood?
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I truly wish there was some way to get all school aged young people everywhere to watch and understand the importance not to repeat these events again.