@@Holy949 lol..typical comment from someone with your name. Sorry reality, in the past or present, doesn't live up to your impossible Liberal ideals. 🤣

Yes, remembering the past and telling it to new generations is something to be proud of.

@@Holy949 It's so good for passing down knowledge. Passive displays don't give you a story. Do you know what history even is?

Keep that in mind Russian bot

There's nothing to be proud of with showing off nuclear weapons capable of wiping out populations

Pretty sure 2 people are required everywhere in the world for launching nukes and stuff

@@bboyenzoIL I saw a video somewhere here on UKposts showing a Russian ICBM silo and from what I remember it seemed that only one person could initiate a launch. I may be wrong, but it certainly bothered me if that really is the case.

@@chrisb.1214 With the once active Dead Hand System of the Soviet Union and later Russia, there were warheads that needed NO person to launch. The system detecting an enemy launch or strike would be enough to launch retaliation. To think about that, and the hardware in the cold war times, gives me shivers

@@bboyenzoIL No. We all know from the TDS crowd on Twitter that Donald could have launched a worldwide global nuclear war at any time on a whim from his Mara-a-Lago estate if he lost a game of golf. He carried the Big Red Button everywhere. Biden has it now.

Answer push button launch missile checkmate game over... And this is not sarcasm of any video game has actually it's both video and real life procedures... The two keys the two buttons all pressed and turned the same time as the actress to ease the tensions of the on looking public... Banana real fail safe scenario of whatever damage your sub your ship your bunker has taken there are buttons all over the facility or the whole or the bowels of a submarine that any semen of the lowest class can find his button when the sub has taken torpedoes half the cruise dead instantly including the captain and all come to the outside world and you see the water pouring in and you're up to your neck in it and you're The last One alive on the sub and you're going to be dead with him a minute you push the button and launch what you have left that will launch and there will be plenty before the ship is totally destroyed..... And so is well known and obvious there's no time to wait for any orders all right secret come frequency that activates the copier on board the sub to give you a official document signed by the president to launch it's all too late for that in real life ... So as it stands today and probably always will for eternity the fleet of submarines hidden below the surface undetectable without any way of detecting or estimating where any one of them are at any given time and of course the Russians have exactly the same thing it's down to the wire have who wants to commit suicide first and launch cuz that's what will happen if any or either side for any reason as there's no logical reason when you're shooting into the dark and your opponent is shooting back in the dark as both opposing subs are running at random without reports of any orders as both have free will can you play it out at their own choosing two logically have a higher chance of finding the enemy first ... Like the movie Hunt for Red October is basically a training movie for a captain and crew to experience strategies.... Now take away all those safety precautions on firing off missiles and nukes... And it was during that era of the movie my parents went out to San Diego to visit one of my relations who was the seaman on such a nuke sub who explained there's buttons all over the ship there's no keys there's no waiting for orders if I want to fire off the next and destroy the world I can do it.... And a scary part was the explanation for my parents as mom said he had this crazy look in his eye of some kind of a macho movie star mad scientist knowing he has that power by merely a touch of a button......so this info should educate all your curiosities that's what goes on in the real world beyond Hollywood that's a way more terrifying don't you think.... All's well it ends well sleep tight don't let the bedbugs bite they may be radioactive........ Oops my bad it's easier than my thought nobody even has to push the button the artificial intelligent robots to do that for you just in case you're dead when it comes time to launch which could be any time in the very next second hahaha en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-deadly

Wow

@@JASONH01 Sorry, but I went in there with my dad. I remember him using an intercom at the outside entrance announcing he was bring me, his son, in. The massive blast door clicked, he entered the code to complete the security sequence, and in we walked. About 20 feet down the steps my dad punched in another code and we proceed to a lower level. There he opened another door to reveal a black cavity with humungous springs in xyz directions meant to dampen a nuclear blast. From there to the crew sleeping quarters /personal area and then to the control center with the two separated launch key mechanisms. Then down a corridor opening onto the W-duct pedestal under the missile. You are free not to believe me, but citing only your personal opnion that I am lying isn't "evidence" of anything. You might want to read puncheex2's story below. Have a nice day, skippy.

@@jelink22 Things were different back in the day, people don't understand that just because things wouldn't happen now they were pretty common back then.

Now the demonicrats are destroying America from within!!!!!!!!!!

Human kind only has the ability to kill its self.......... Earth will last for another 5 billion years.......... in its physical state. Mankind has no means to destroy the planet. all of you earthers are just a bunch of whiney little bitches who have no idea of what total destruction is....... please just shut the fuck up and let the ozone evaporate and destroy the planet........... thanks.

@@MrCoors68 -- You're an "earther". lololol So stop whining! lololol

@@MrCoors68 planet destroyers are not very far away my g

Even closer now with Looming war with Russia

Is it the same guy giving the tour he seems pretty cool.

​@@stevenakn1 There were only a few people that did the Top to Bottom tour. The guy that led my tour had been at one time a crew commander in a Titan II Silo, so he had intimate detail of just about every aspect of the silo, the missle, and the various launch details. The standard tour does a simulated launch, but my guide gave a great deal more information about targeting, codes, maintenance, security, and pretty much anything else you could ever want to know. It was one of the very best military tours I have ever done in my life. They only did six people on the tour and I was there by myself so they paired me up with this History teacher and she was completely absorbed in every detail. I think she enjoyed the tour as much as I did. I cannot recommend this tour highly enough. No other museum of any other type put as much into the four hours I spend on this tour.

I just looked online and only see an option for a 45 minute tour. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong site?

On putins head in Moscow

@@AJ-ui6ny More than likely they suspended the long tour due to covid. They have a lengthy section on their site about covid safety protocols. Hopefully they will get back to the old normal soon.

I can relate sir!

I only played many sirenhead games (horror monster that lives in the woods and has thoose air raid sirens replacing his head but they are looking like normal speakers, its pretty big, can do thoose siren sounds, can imitate any other noise that would come through a radio like a police call and more ), and thats enough for me to feel uncomfortable when they test the sirens every month. (they only test if they work, once a month on the first saturday at 12:30am.).And once, a few months ago, it was tuesday, at f*cking 11:13 pm, thoose air raid sirens randomly started and wooke me up, i was scared a.f. and woke my mother, ( she always wears that anti-sound things in her ears while sleeping) and exactly then the sirens stopped., my mom heard nothing. After half a hour, I calmed down and got sleep, it never got mentioned anywhere, and even my friends didnt heard anything. But I know it happend. I am living in a place with democracy and peace. (Germany)

@@sasori6417 I believe you sir 💯

You was in school and I was a bosun's mate on the USS Wasp off the coast of Cuba during the blockade. We watched the Russian cargo ships come out of Cuba. It was a close call, we was on alert.

Check out the old minutemen missile sites on cougar mountain in Bellevue.

Everytime Vandenberg AFB does a ballistic missile test, you can see it hundreds of miles away. It’s so cool. Last time I saw one was maybe 3 years ago.

@@herzeleid9525 it's really cool when they launch one about an hour after sunset, the sun that's over the horizon lights up the exhaust trail all the way to the ground when it's dark outside.

In the 60s you guys were also under the threat of being nuked by the Soviet Union if you're in America.

It's only an illusion these times are not as perilous. We are always one mad man away from turning those keys. Today that mad man is Putin.

At the Great Planes they used enormous elevated all-around sirens driven by a V8 car engine at full throttle. They reached 30 miles wide or so to be able warn the population for an imminent Soviet attack.

Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

@@paulvarn4712 Of course, of course, it's Putin

Thank you for your service Commander, so old workers like me finally have a safe place to retire! 🇺🇸 👍

IN Cuban Missile Crisis, both JFK and Khruschev knew that the US had about 20-30 ICBMs ready to fire at a moment's notice, whereas the USSR had a handful of liquid-fuel rockets that took 24 hours to fuel and could not be un-fueled. Hence Khruschev had to blink when our Navy ordered the Soviet ships to stop. In an exchange, the US would be able to launch long before the Soviets.

@@nesbitstreet Unfortunately this change in the meanwhile :-(

The Minuteman I was already into deployment stage when that accident happened. Which was a positive on our part

@@nesbitstreet The countdown to launch was 25 seconds, Khruschev said " I don't want to die today"!

@@nesbitstreet Actually, there was *more* than one reason why Khrushchev wanted those missiles out of Cuba. Castro wanted to launch the missiles that were already operational on to U.S. civilian population centers to forestall what he believed to be an imminent invasion by U.S. military forces on the island of Cuba.

It's true, you don't really want to mess with HF. Lots of radiation, and the cause of some service members' cancer.

Definitely true. My dad was stationed at DMAFB in the late 70's to early 80's, then he transferred to LRAFB around '82. I remember years later, we were in Tucson and did a tour of that site. He told me stories about animals getting fried by the microwave antennas. The site is impressive...I was glad to have the perspective of someone that spent considerable time pulling alerts at those sites.

That's a hell of a thing you did, Rob. Thank you for your part in keeping us safe through some of those cold war years. Respect from Australia.

Did you drop the wrench? Fess up.

What's it like now, being older and having the time and ability to openly reflect on having the responsibility and power of ending the world in your hands? Does it ever bother you

I spit on you, Rob

@@fiendish67 I was curious about what happened so I watched this video *The Damascus Missile Explosion (Disaster Documentary)* ukposts.info/have/v-deo/q52CqoiWjXpo2qs.html Perfect example of how a simple decision of not wanting to waste some time to go back and get the approved tool end up causing A LOT more waste of equipment and a death in the end. Still could have been a lot worse.

The town I use to live in had the exact same siren as in the video, it was used for the fire station and tornado warnings. Every time there was a fire it would go off. It was freaky getting woke up by it going off in the middle of the night.

Ahhhhh good ol cook nuclear plant

I’m in Michigan and I wanna hear it

@@Thememelord134 Cook Nuclear Power Plant is in Bridgman, MI, and Palisades Power Plant is in South Haven

@@jacksonvilletaxman1 thank you

Where ya from ??

Back then I believe the tour was given by the Air Force personal who were assigned to that site in the 1980's before it was shut down they all gotten lot older now I'm assuming retired from that.

50 years ago was 1972. This was 60-70 year old tech.

@@silicon212 A Luger from WW1, can kill you just as dead as a new Glock. Just because it's old, doesn't mean it wouldn't work.

@@elultimo102 Nobody ever said it wouldn't.

if it was this good back then.. can only imagine what its like today..

In 1956 after I graduated from HS and before the USAF, I worked for the company that produce those batteries. I was QA and did the destructive and environmental testing of the batteries. It was interesting work.

Good they had a white guy answering the police ...

Pre program

Russia, China & North Korea

@@zoegarcia7031 Exactly

Castro, Breshnev and Marylin Monroe.

Specific cities I think.

@@LauRoot892 Central Arkansas. Remember as a kid seeing this event on the local news.

@@JosephMusgrove Ugh 😑

Totally numb would be my first guess. That's if one or both of the pair didn't refuse to launch.

Here you can hear about what happens after a launch, gives something of a perspective: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/foaLoXyAirCi2I0.html

Depends who the target was,in the case of Putin,glad,but you would have to be sure it got to its target.

Probaly just like that war games movie one is ready to do his job the other won’t kill millions .. every one is different under pressure everyone is different period ..

Get it launched before the enemies missle hits your launch site.

Much simpler and better times

Me,too.Those sirens have been around for many years.Some still in operation . Used for weather,nukes,, tornado watch Warnings.The mid west st one point in time ,was prepared.

Scare me to turn the key/Was not or true.One of two guys had a gun ready to force the other guy to turn the key if the other guy dont turn the key/.Second the 2 would be locked in the room foreever if they had to turn the KEY.Takes guts to know you will destroy builting or things.But kill many on the other end.Scare me to death.I cant do it !!.Good educational video sir.

@@scottfailing7045 they both had guns, I recommend watching 1980's movie" war games", great scene about exactly this sinario u talk about in the opening part of movie!

Actually bigger bombs were made, they just were not needed because of the waste, most energy goes straight up because of atmospheric pressure.

@@tedmoss very true. Of much greater destructive power are several smaller warheads.

Would have been manned 24/7 for 21 years. Would love to know what their actual usual workday was like without the overdramatised BS. I would imagine there were plenty of daily system checks and possibly a weekly firing drill, but other than that it would have been a very quiet uneventful job. So would love to know what they did to pass those quiet times.

who cares

@@BlueSky...... Actually, I do.

That’s cool did he have to get special permission I assume? That’s pretty serious stuff for a civilian.

@@BlueSky...... 26 people cared, but not a single person cared about your faggot ass comment

This is legit

Thank you for your service sir

@Felicity Grossman Both. What Capt. Bruce Cathie (q.v.) discovered is that the Earth's fields wouldn't support more than one nuke going off at a time. They had to be programmed for specific places at specific times, pertaining to the relative position of the Sun and Moon at the intended point of impact. After one went off, the atmosphere and magnetic fields would be so distorted in several ways that another one wouldn't detonate for at least a day or more. Big secret .mil didn't want anybody knowing about, since the idea of 'all-out' nuclear war (M.A.D.) was the deterrent. Talk about insane . . .

@Felicity Grossman He spelled it out for you...SIOP (Single Integrated Operations Plan)

@@AZStarYT do you have a link to more information on that topic?

I was thinking the same thing. At the township hall in Wales, MI it still operates monthly. Well, when it works

@@raymondpierce8162 Oh yes, the monthly tests. They should let the local police know when they are going to fire it up.

I hear them ever so often here in illinois, they test them about once a month. Growing up I knew them as tornado sirens but they probably are the same thing. sounded the same too.

Crazy thing is that with the ability of the Russian navy to put subs off the coast, getting to a shelter nowadays wouldn't be possible. Launch to land would be just a few minutes, then BOOM. Probably the best answer would be , to be always ready for your final moments here on earth. Love God and your neighbor, and leave the rest to His hands. Just a thought.

@@MrSolLeks ours sound like they oscillate because they spin, in northern Illinois anyway.

There was around 10 of us that came to Malmstrom. I went from 10 years pf Titan II PTS (Propellants) to (MMT) Minuteman II and III at Malmstrom. Retired in 1997 at Malstrom.

😑

I'm actually a siren enthusiast or someone who shares the same interest, if you're interested in looking at my channel you can find plenty of videos of all kinds of sirens including those types called the "Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000" in the video also can be found on my channel so you can find documentations of them that I've filmed around the state of Michigan.

@JSC most based and redpilled individual in history

“These Machines” are solely responsible for keeping the peace that you and I enjoy, and have come accustomed to…

@@nigel900 facts

@@THESLlCK Precisely…

@JSC Yes, and it worked.

they've been used.. and against animals and civilians too

Did it blew with nuclear weapon? Or just the missile?

@@luisaleman4008 luckily the warhead was intact and only the missile exploded, just one of the several thousand nuclear accidents in us history.

Did warhead detonate....blimey we'd have heard it here, in little limey land!

@@dominicseanmccann6300 no, the warhead did not detonate.

I know mate. Just as well. Fucking maniacs.

For the fissile material itself, having a half-life of 24'000yrs (Plutonium) and 700 million years (uranium), it does not need to be re-enriched or need to get swapped. It's likely the other components would have to get replaced because of age or radiation damage. But most of the warheads, are not constantly armed. Fissile cores were usually inserted in the last moments before launch, except obviously for on-alert missiles. About "retire", most fissile material cores can be recycled and used in nuclear reactors, which has been done a lot in the last years. Also, it can be used to power space vehicles like probes or rovers. The danger of "cost" cutting can be a problem, but since nuclear warheads are very complex and delicate, it's much more likely that an actually launched missile would not detonate, than the chance that one just explodes. As mentioned above, most weapons do not have installed the actual fissile material before the final launch.

@@verruekterPhysiker Many thanks for the info. My dad was a submarine engineering commander in the Royal Navy and was later a naval overseer for the propulsion systems on many of the nuclear subs built up at Barrow in Furness so he often talked about the challenges with rapid metal degradation inside nuclear reactor cores . Stainless steel and nickel were predominant with the biggest concerns over welded components typically using a nickel-chromium-iron alloy rod. Seem to recall the radiation accelerated failure rate was referred to as stress corrosion cracking. I think the most amazing and disturbing experience I had was visiting the reactor compartment during "family days" at the naval base. I actually got to peek down at the glowing core (through a very thick gamma glass port).

In 1968 I actually saw a bag of hand tools drop from a work platform at the War Head to the thrust mount while serving on a launch crew in Kansas. Thankful that the tools did not jab the missile skin. I fell to my knees and wondered if we were about to die. 54 year later I am writing this reply. Old BMAT's never die, we just smell like fish from the missile fuels.

That's intense my bro

Hey buddy, no more war movies for you. That was a pretty intense dream you had.

@@charliewerchan7252 ,Well, Sir, I actually joined the Air Force and was stationed at one of the largest SAC Bases in the US . This Base had B-52s and Ballistic Nuclear Missiles. Yeah, interesting being stationed at a Place that alone had enough Nuclear Assets to erase virtually every living Thing on Earth.

@@michaeltheoret3842 Thank you for your service, and again, NO WAR MOVIES FOR YOU .....watch happy movies....with pleasant endings and your bad dreams will go away. Just a thought

👏👏👏

Super.great man

During the Cold War in 1981 in Coventry UK, I was woken at 4am by the air raid siren. I was not around in WW2 to hear all of those sirens, but I knew what it was. Delivery time from the Soviet Union was 4 mimutes at the time. After ten minutes nothing happened so I knew it was a false alarm and went back to sleep. It was in the press the next day but I never found out what caused it. I haven't heard one since and do not want to

No not really it's a marvel of human engineering

WELL SAID.

@@ninjanutzforfun1105 basically both.

If it’s ultimate purpose was ever used, US/Soviets had 19,000 nukes combined, you would have thanked humanity for gifting you mercy………… People never wonder why not one drop of blood is found at (not for the public domain)

@@ninjanutzforfun1105 it's no marvel, if it's inception is based on faulty logic. Aiming to destroy more effectively is not what i would consider evolution.

m.ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h3eUh51wfIBquKs.html

He Moved to the south Carolina.

@@ironjohn5914 thanks im checking it out wish i had your email address

@@ironjohn5914 I'm not having any luck with South Carolina , would you have any other information . Thank You