The Most Dangerous Moment In History

The most dangerous moment in history...so far...

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News & Politics

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• nuclear
• destruction
• chomsky
• war
• millitary
• sub
• submarine
• missile
• crisis
• bush
• bomb
• atom
• a-bomb
• navy
• politics
• government

[scarboz40]

RobertHannah89 asked me "Where did this video come from?"

I replied:

The video is not taken from anything but simply stock footage and audio clips found on the net and edited together many years ago in FinalCut. I thought nobody would watch if I didn't try to do something fancy. I was dead wrong...Chomsky lectures stand on their own without extra fuss. (I accidently deleted comments and couldn't get them back so I rewrote the exchange...I don't delete comments unless it's SPAM),

[scarboz40]

for the full lecture search "chomsky democracy university" or here is the first part for starters:

youtube.com/watch?v=CcantIye7e­Q

[infiniteinfiniteinfi]

Self-interest will kill the human species, cooperation and solidarity will save it.

[modestiny85]

the second most dangerous part in history, "dear, lets have babies"

[skydome29]

@tstruss912 No, they were able to end the cold war, not easy for psychopaths to do.

[bozolazic]

@lamanchadale Of course! Now I have seen the light.

[iriestream]

@xlucim Sure, but in the context of the brink-of-war Cuban Missile Crisis, I think firing any explosives, no matter how "minor," at a nuclear capable submarine in international waters was as foolhardy and reckless as preparing to launch a nuke when you weren't certain a war had started. But let's not lose sight of the fact that the most insane thing of all was that international leaders allowed a situation where nuclear annihilation was a real possibility to persist for some 40 years.

[xlucim]

@iriestream Very sad that 2 out of 3 soviet sub commanders did not know what signalling depth charges were. They are a form of communication when other means fail. They are relatively minor explosions that are meant to get the attention of an unidentifed sub that won't radio its ID.  The subs were in no real danger and clearly the other 2 commanders must have been unfit for duty to think otherwise and to suggest such radical reaction. I think vodka had a lot to do with it.

[iriestream]

@xlucim At the time on a Soviet submarine a nuke could be launched without a direct order if the 3 commanding officers concurred. In this case the captain and political officer agreed (they thought the war had started) while only the 2nd-in-command, Vasili Arkhipov, refused. It really was that close. Note that at the time the US also authorized flag officers to launch nukes in similar circumstances, the idea being that even if the prez was killed in a 1st strike retaliation could occur.

[thedarkshitstain]

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

[henceseventytwo]

brilliant -eyeearbrain.webs.com sent me here

[lamanchadale]

It's hard to take seriously anything spouted out of the mouth of Noam Chomsky. Read his books to see that he is an incurable bolshevik who hates the USA, capitolism, and liberty.