How Humanity Almost Destroyed Itself

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Earth has been closer to Nuclear War more times than you’d think. Head over to https://hensonshaving.com/veritasium and enter code 'Veritasium' for 100 free blades with the purchase of a razor. Make sure to add both the razor and the blades to your cart for the code to take effect. ▀▀▀ References: List of Broken Arrows -- https://ve42.co/AtomicArchive https://ve42.co/BrokenArrowsReport Declassified Goldsboro Report -- https://ve42.co/Goldsboro Operation ChromeDome -- https://ve42.co/OperationChromeDome CIA website -- https://ve42.co/CIA Cataclysmic cargo: The hunt for four missing nuclear bombs after a B-52 crash -- https://ve42.co/WoPo THE LAST FLIGHT OF HOBO 28 -- https://ve42.co/lastflight The Voice of Larry Messinger is from this documentary -- https://ve42.co/Messinger Even Without Detonation, 4 Hydrogen Bombs From ’66 Scar Spanish Village -- https://ve42.co/NYTPalomares Decades Later, Sickness Among Airmen After a Hydrogen Bomb Accident -- https://ve42.co/NYTPalomares2 Picture of ReVelle -- https://ve42.co/JackReVelle1 Great NPR where the audio of ReVelle is from -- https://ve42.co/JackReVelle2 CIA Website -- https://ve42.co/CIA ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Anton Ragin, Balkrishna Heroor, Bernard McGee, Bill Linder, Burt Humburg, Dave Kircher, Diffbot, Evgeny Skvortsov, Gnare, Jesse Brandsoy, John H. Austin, Jr., john kiehl, Josh Hibschman, Juan Benet, KeyWestr, Lee Redden, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Mario Bottion, MaxPal, Meekay, meg noah, Michael Krugman, Orlando Bassotto, Paul Peijzel, Richard Sundvall, Sam Lutfi, Stephen Wilcox, Tj Steyn, TTST, Ubiquity Ventures ▀▀▀ Directed by Petr Lebedev Written by Petr Lebedev and Derek Muller Edited by Peter Nelson Animated by Fabio Albertelli, Jakub Misiek, Ivy Tello and Mike Radjabov Filmed by Derek Muller Produced by Petr Lebedev, Han Evans, and Derek Muller Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images and Pond5 Music from Epidemic Sound