The Three Gorges Dam: The Most Important Strategic Target in the World

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Three Gorges Dam is holding back all the rocket fuel.

I saw a documentary once on attacking heavily defended targets and this one young pilot was successful by ignoring all the electronics targeting information and using a power he called the Force.

As the old joke says, mechanical engineers build weapons; civil engineers build targets.

The best attack plan for the dam is “wait” 😂

An F-16 making it from Taipai to Three Gorges sounds like the plot of the new Top Gun sequel.

There are several dams on the Yangtze above the Three Gorges Dam. They are much smaller, but still quite considerable in size. If one of them was to go for whatever reson it would result in a domino effect taking the others downstream with it.

The flood mentioned warped the dam quite a lot, too. It may not have to be destroyed at all. Looking at the before and after pictures, it's ...worrying, to say the least.

I don't know who needs to know this, but out of the stock footage he used for the flooding, there is a scene at 6:17 that includes a dinosaur fleeing from the flood. The More You Know

"In 2005, NASA scientists calculated that the shift of water mass stored by the dams would increase the total length of the Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds". While the energy of a nuclear weapon is powerful, I think the potential energy stored in the water reservour is on par.

I grew up in Lake Havasu City, below the Hoover Dam. I never gave a second thought about what would happen if it was destroyed. Very eye opening!

Simon may be making a great series about warfare, but in reality it's just a bunch of really good logic against war. And he does it masterfully!

I have a friend who was affected when a dam near her broke. She didn't just lose her home; she lost her entire town. Her job, her children's schools, her church, her favorite grocery store. Everything, gone. And this was only a small town. I can't imagine a mega-metropolis like Wuhan being wiped out. I mean, just look at inflation after China partially shut down due to Covid, how we now struggle to afford graphic cards, laptops, even food. Imagine if it all NEVER REOPENED because hundreds of millions were dead and all the industries wiped off. Simon is right, it's human destruction that would surpass literally EVERYTHING IN HISTORY, and an economic catastrophe with global ramifications. You don't need a nuclear arms race when you have a dam and hundred of millions of lives hanging in the balance.

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Biggest in the world 3:15 - Mid roll ads 4:40 - Back to the video 5:25 - Chapter 2 - Potential for catastrophe 11:30 - Chapter 3 - Attack & defense 18:45 - Chapter 4 - Deterring china ; china deters

If the Hoover dam was breached Mexico would see the Colorado river for the first time in almost a century.

I couldn't imagine Simon with hair. The bald head and beard is an iconic look, and a good look.

Loved this style of video. Good layout.

I remember hearing back in the early 00's. Back then, people were talking about how there were micro fractures throughout the foundations. Frankly, and in the revelation about tofu dreg construction, I always expected it to fall on it's own.

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The one weapon system you failed to mention was Rapid Dragon, basically imagine a C-130 loaded up with around 5 pallets of cruise missles each pallet carrying 6-9 cruise missles that get yeeted out the back of the plane and have a range of about 450 miles and are nigh impossible to both detect and stop and are loaded with JDAM style munitions. Basically if the United States Airforce decided to say screw the PRC all they would have to do to destroy the Three Gorges dam would be to send up a few cargo aircraft and cause a war crime from a safe distance away.