nuclear weapons are one of the deadliest inventions ever made by mankind when the
atomic bomb was first discovered millions of people around the world saw
that it was possible for their city to be pulverized at any moment by its rival
powers in the 1950s just five years after the atomic bombings of Japan the
nuclear powers of that time the Soviet Union and the United States of America
were still developing atomic technology at that time the only way to deliberate
the nuclear bombs to their objectives was to launch them from strategic
aircrafts or bombers as was the case with Hiroshima but from a technical
point of view it was ineffective because it would take hundreds of hours of
flight for the crew carrying the bomb and it would be complicated and in the
event of an accident a nuclear tragedy could occur therefore for the nuclear
powers of the world it was necessary to find a way to carry out a nuclear attack
in a matter of minutes quickly and effectively and make difficult to
intercept and they discovered a way to do it two intercontinental ballistic
missile or IBM capable of taking atomic bombs anywhere in the world in less than
an hour and also capable of erasing the population of a whole continent in a
couple of minutes in February twenty nineteen the u.s. withdrew from the
intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty or INF the INF treaty was an important
arms control agreement signed between the United States and the Soviet Union
at the end of the Cold War now with the departure of the United
States from the treaty Russia has automatically followed this means that
the two great weapons superpowers of the world has renounced the treaty that puts
global security in danger which could mean nuclear rearmament in Europe and the
end of the European protection that the US has provided until now so what does
this mean for a future and what's the state of global security right now let's begin
who are the first to go space I know you think you know the Soviets well no not
exactly the first ones who managed to reach space with their technology were
actually the Germans during World War two that is while the war was raging in
Europe Hitler wanted to develop a system of attack that would evade the anti
aerial systems of the Allies and allow them to attack London and other
objectives much easier so German scientists developed the v2 the first
long-range combat ballistic missile Hitler was not impressed by the v2
believing it to be expensive and inefficient still he supported the
research which ultimately consumed tremendous Nazi resources an A4v2
rocket launched from the island of the Baltic coast of Germany became the first
object known to man to reach space and had traveled 189 kilometers this marked
the date that humanity touched space for the first time after this Nazi Germany
will use several of these projectiles to attack London causing a death toll of
more than 3000 as a result of these missiles after the end of World War two
allied governments including the Americans British and Soviets gain
access to the technical designs of the v2 and the scientists responsible for
creating the rockets with so much knowledge and engineers no longer
belonging to the Nazis the German v2 rockets at that time became the
precursors of modern rockets and missiles including those built by the
space programs of the US and the Soviet Union during the space race and later
the Cold War the dynamics of missiles and rockets were game-changing while the
Allies gained access to the technology the Soviets were the first to put an
object into space the planet's first artificial satellite the Sputnik this
alarmed the u.s. so immensely that they considered launching of the Sputnik into
space as a threat to their own national security this was one of the main
motivating factors of the us to launch itself into the space race and with it
the development of modern-day rockets and missiles little by little the
technology of the missiles was developed and perfected the atomic bombs were
reduced in size and the possibility of miniaturizing them became a reality now
it was not only possible to carry just one warhead or atomic bomb on a missile
but it was also possible to carry 10 on a single missile the efficiency of the
ballistic missile had no precedent or point of comparison when it was first
realized typically an airplane or an air defense system could shoot down a bomber
whereas for example an IBM took off the earth at supersonic speeds it
reached space at an orbital speed of several thousands of kilometers per hour
and then it could return back to earth hitting its target in a matter of
minutes tracing and destroying an incoming nuclear warhead or missile is a
difficult task if not impossible we are talking about an object that travels
thousands of kilometers per hour falling from the sky the size of a small car and
we only have a few minutes to respond this is the case of intercontinental
ballistic missiles that can travel for more than 10,000 kilometers these can
takeoff from any point on earth say the United States fly over the atmosphere
crossing the Pacific Ocean and impact North Korea in less than 35 minutes
giving hardly any time to react that is why the US was very afraid of North
Korea's nuclear and ballistic development if North Korea managed to
develop a technology for its nuclear warheads to reach the US Washington
would have a great difficulty and intercepting an attack from Pyongyang
the closer the target is the easier faster and fulminating the hit will be
it would be more difficult to protect yourself from a nuclear attack in case
the missiles are a few tens or hundreds of kilometers away this situation is
exactly what happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 where the Soviet
Union transferred several ballistic miles with nuclear capacity to Cuba a
few kilometers from Florida and in Miami this was a response to the missiles that
the US had arranged in turkey encircling the Soviet Union and threatening a
nuclear attack to Moscow in just a few hundred kilometers this missile crisis
almost brought the world to a brief and ephemeral third world war that would
have destroyed our civilization during most of the Cold War era ballistic
systems were a deterrent for other states to know about nuclear
capabilities in the face of a given situation the Cold War saw the
exponential increase in atomic weapons and intercontinental missiles of all
types sizes and modalities for a moment humanity possessed more than hundred
thousand atomic weapons and 95% of them were owned by the Soviet Union and the
United States all it took to destroy Washington DC and
Moscow was a touch of a hypothetical red button and a few minutes based on the
same logic the tens of scenario is actually found in Europe where the Iron
Curtain rose and Europe was divided between Central and Eastern Europe
dominated by the Warsaw Pact and then Western Europe dominated by NATO beyond
the imminent danger of Soviet offensive that preoccupied European
the imminent danger was the medium-range ballistic missiles that the Soviets and
Westerners possessed this type of missile can target targets from 500 to
5,000 kilometers away medium-range ballistic missiles are like any other
type of nuclear missile with the particularity that these are designed to
attack closer range targets and a faster and more lethal way these types of
missiles are considered highly dangerous since they are small mobile and located
relatively close to their potential targets in the late 1970s Soviet Russia
deployed the ss-20 missile to threaten targets in Western Europe causing alarm
and many NATO member countries the ss-20 missile or as the Westerners called it
the SS Satan could carry a very powerful thermonuclear head of between 15 to 20
megatons or ten atomic heads of two megatons each with only one of these
missiles Russia could devastate Paris Madrid Barcelona Rome Berlin London
Warsaw Athens Brussels and Amsterdam in less than 25 minutes from its missile
installations in its Enclave located in Kaliningrad in the heart of the European
Union this constant threat also forced the Americans to install similar missile
systems in Europe that would have contained Moscow with the goal of
protecting Europe from any nuclear act by Russia in short during the 70s
Western and Eastern Europe were plagued with ballistic medium-range missiles of
the Soviets and the West which guaranteed an assured mutual destruction
in less than 25 minutes in order to preserve global and nuclear security the
US and Russia reached a mutual agreement to prohibit the manufacturing and
development of these types of missiles to prevent an armament and rearmament
and a substantial increase of missiles throughout Europe and the world the
treaty the INF marked the first time that the superpowers agreed to reduce
their atomic arsenals eliminating a whole category of atomic weapons and
allow comprehensive inspections to ensure that the states comply with the
provisions the US and the Soviet Union destroyed a total of 2692 short and
medium-range missiles in the late 80s and in 1991 from their atomic Arsenal's
so since 2015 the US administration has been accusing Russia of violating its
obligations not to develop these types of missiles participating in the
development of a new missile called the 9m seven to nine known by NATO as the
SSC eight it is speculated that Russia would have developed up to a hundred of
these new types of which would violate the rules of the
treaty because this shows the possibility of attacks towards European
targets such as Paris London or Berlin recently Russia and its president
proudly presented to the world a new missile avantgarde a hypersonic missile
that travels 27 times the speed of sound and that according to the Kremlin would
be invincible and impossible to intercept and therefore would render the
US anti-missile defense useless these types of trials and statements by Moscow
have done nothing more than confirmed to Washington that the real intentions of
the Kremlin are not those set forth in the treaty therefore after accusatory
statements from both sides the u.s. led by President Trump announced that they
would withdraw from the treaty due to Russia's lack of seriousness and
commitment as soon as one day passed the Russian Federation followed in the
footsteps of the US canceling its participation in the treaty the big
losers and those who have the most fear for this decision are the Europeans
since the abandonment of Russia and the u.s. gives the legal possibility of
Russia to develop new tactical ballistic missiles which are far more modern
capable and effective in order to hit European cities the president of France
announced the withdrawal of the u.s. is a mistake because those who will pay the
consequences for the withdrawal will not be the United States a country thousands
of kilometers from Russia and with highly advanced defense systems those
who will pay for the consequences will be the Europeans who will be defenseless
before the nuclear development of the new missiles that Russia will develop
the European states always depending generally on the protection of NATO
mainly provided by the US now have another great disappointment on the part
of their great Ally which shows evidence of lack of commitment and cooperation
with their European partners the US has left Europe at the mercy of Russia and
its new missiles in response the United States France and the United Kingdom the
only three nuclear powers of NATO could restart the development research and
production of new ballistic missiles capable of dealing with the new missiles
developed by Moscow especially in the case of France which has all its nuclear
warheads in its Armada and atomic submarines France has already dismantled
its nuclear silos on land just to prevent the French territory from being
attacked in the event of a nuclear war but in view of that situation
the French army could consider developing new medium-range ballistic
missiles and positions within French territory to dissuade Russia from
attacking Paris the decision of the United States above all of Trump to
suspend and begin the process of withdrawal
of the INF treaty raises the possibility of a new nuclear arms race without any
limits the entire system that regulates and protects arms control treaties is
collapsing at a time when tensions between Russia and the West are
increasing steadily the disappearance of the INF would be a worse ensign of 2021
which is the crucial date on which the START treaty expires an agreement
between Russia and the United States that establishes limits for long-range
strategic missiles in short the missiles that can reach any part of the globe
through withdrawal of the US and Russia from the INF treaty will throw the world
into a new nuclear arms race and could put much more stress on the situation in
Europe and even in the asia-pacific region with countries like North Korea
that will see the cancellation of the treaty as motivation to continue testing
their missiles without repercussions if we don't take the correct political
steps we could find ourselves again in a situation similar to the missile crisis
very soon and this time with a much more real risk given the number of countries
with nuclear weapons so I passed the question off to you what do you think
about the withdrawal of the US and Russia from the treaty do you think that
Russia was violating the treaty with the tests of its new hypersonic missiles and
provoking the United States do you think that the current missile system should
be regulated or deregulated I hope you liked this video and don't forget to
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