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The thing that struck me here is the size. Based on reading on the event and you saying the size of 4 2 car garages i figured they'd be WAY more MASSIVE! Still it was cool to see one up close and inside too and the site of 572. Also the walking back out of it made think of fallout games.

where does collin county in texas rank in that book for radiation? I just remember reading old newspapers about unknown cancer outbreaks.

We had Nike missiles all over NY and PA. We had huge microwave radomes on top of the ridges all over New England. In the Plattsburgh NY area we had 12 Atlas F silos. One of them in Saranac NY in the middle of nowhere in the Adirondack mountains was bought and converted to a home. It used to be NY17 airport. The road into the development used to be the runway. I used to talk about the silos in the 80s and 90s and why people should buy them. People thought I was crazy. Now they don't. Along Central Avenue in Albany ( Colonie ) NY, we had a uranium processing facility. I believe it was owned by National Lead. It was contaminated and the employees died young, and they polluted the stream along the plant. The neighborhood behind the plant was contaminated and the people died earlier than expected. One of the alternative newspapers in the Capital District area of New York did a story " What is the price of a Half-Life " The test in Nevada traveled to the Capital District area and the rain was very radioactive ☢️. RPI is a big college. They had radiation detectors in the 50s and 60s and 70s and they picked up the high radiation from the nuclear weapons test in Nevada. The rain was contaminated and no one knew how bad it was, except for the college that was reading the fallout. So many tests and accidents caused fallout all over America. The Three Mile Island accident had an independent investigation and report done in the 90s. The tests of the area northeast, in the area northeast of Harrisburg had very high levels of radiation to this day. The report has eyewitness reports including the woman farmer who went out before sunrise and heard the release and alarm from the reactor and then a glowing blue cloud descended over her farm. She had cows born with 2 heads, alive, and there were many of these and local businesses had the skulls of these animals. She died a few years later. After the report came out, unknown people came to the area and bought every single double headed cow skull they could. At least one business was not willing to sell theirs. The business said they were being offered a lot of money and they were going to sell but they got the feeling that these people were not just regular people but actually government people and they would not sell because they were not happy about the fact that they were trying to erase what happened and the proof. So at least one survived. In the 90s I watched as many of the AT&T nuclear bunkers for the Long Lines Sites were sold off. In addition to the hardened microwave towers, they had the Echo Foxtrot frequency pair that Air Force One would use to communicate with Norad and other CCCs. The Autovon phone network was in these sites and I used to hear the communications from AF1 or other military planes calling the AT&T LL bunkers. Today the system is not used. The sites are almost all decommissioned and most were sold to private companies and some of them were bought by American Tower Corporation. There were cell phone companies that rented space on the towers for a period in the 90s and 2000s, but I have not seen any still left. A few of the bunkers that are in use by AT&T have a few new digital racks and new battery rack backups and the generators have been replaced with new systems. Much of the space is empty and seeing how packed these sites were, and the living quarters, and kitchens and the recreation room with pool tables and some even had pinball machines and early arcade games and they even had vending machines with Pepsi and Chips and candy bars. I have no idea if AT&T had a separate department that stocked the machines. I can't imagine they let anyone in except for the employees, so they must have had deliveries to another location and a supervisor must have brought in the soda cans and the candy and snacks and stocked up the machines and collected the money. Really incredible history

If you ever acquire a decommissioned Nucular silo i'm on board To volunteer My services and help to turn it into a museum or Prepper are something of that nature.

I think it's very interesting. The data behind it in the early 90s, when the cold war ended and we officially stopped nuke. Testing the increase in seismic activity across the United States and states that never saw it before , very odd the Seismic activity Seemed to be on a schedule Just look at all the current Seismic activity going on in Texas Apparently. Earthquakes like to shake themselves early in the morning.Or after lunch time Almost if it were on a schedule

I was stationed at Medina. I was aware of the accident that occurred decades before I was born. Never got a chance to look inside the bunkers though. Thank you for making this video.

I have a question. If Uranium had never been discovered, all things nuclear wouldn't exist. Correct??

4:32 last Pantex train 1987 4:39 weapons train consist description 5:35 escort car 6:27 cupola 7:26 standard locomotive - no armor?

No Rocky Flats?

Crazy to discover Proctor & Gamble ran Pantex for a few years 😮

I understand Colorado Rocky Flats triggers used to go to Pantex 7:43

Hey Natasha What happened to you. Im not seeing any new posts from you, I hope you are ok and doing well. I came across your channel a bit late but was really enjoying it. Anyway, I’m hoping you are doing well. Jim

Shut the hell up! Nukes don't just fucking detonate. Under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation🙄 yeah, sure, ooooooook.

Why on earth would this not be confidential? America is so stupid!

What a great channel! Congratulations on taking an amazing trip!

Thanks for a really cool video, I'm subscribed to GT's Channel and have watched all his videos about rehabbing this place. He seems like a genuine guy. He hasn't posted any updates in a while but I'm assuming he's very busy.

She has credentials 😢 she's a former weapons scientist with the Pntagon

What a cool find! Its so crazy how fast technology developed during this era making so many of these sites obsolete in such a short time. Going forward its hard to imagine they'd ever need this site again as it is, and if so if it would even be manned with how much ai is advancing. Great video!

This thing is on RUclips legally ☝️worldwide ? Amazing 👋🇺🇸☮️

That's definitely higher than normal background radiation

My little home town, sister!( World worst weapons a. Site in surveillance history

The B-52 hasn't had nuclear gravity bomb capability for quite a few years. Only nuclear cruise missles in addition to conventioal ordnance.

My god your gorgeous 😍

So love that beautiful smile of yours ❤

Lived here my whole life and I've never heard Amarillo called "bomb City." Must be an inside joke from those that work there however, we are still the helium capital of the world. It's just that the US government doesn't use it anymore for NASA for the Apollo and shuttle missions.

I was stationed there at Eldorado Air Force Station. I was Security Police.

Great job Ray!

I lived in Amarillo for some years, and I have a cousin who worked at Pantex, but I was never near the plant. Although I remember seeing a huge oil refinery from like a 1/2 mile away. I worked in 1970 in a famous cafeteria for its fish. Sadly, it was demolished in 1971 and in that terrain was erected the tallest building in Amarillo. The building was finished in less than a year. I went to Palo Duro Canyon once and I rented a horse there. I used to cruise Polk street which was the reunion point for youngsters. I also visited the university in Canyon and the water reservoir in Fritch all of that in 1970. Thanks for your video.

Potter county

The graveyard of bomb city

Raill line out of white sands los Alamos..lead to stable raill. Line to assembly sitr. Pantex ..has assembeld most of us nukes. Probably 90 percent

20,ooo ghost bombs buried out back. .in twenty thousand weapons decommissioned now lie buried in the assembly grounds

The only assembly ..plant left in existing

My home town , dad

Nice video, did you say that an air burst is worse than a ground burst? That would seem to be reversed. A lot of testing was done using airbursts specifically to avoid fallout as much as possible, and in the Plumbbob test series, they deliberately detonated a Genie warhead directly over a small group of volunteers to attempt to prove their point. Enjoying this series, curious how many of the Nike sites remain. If you make it up the eastern seaboard, check out the site of the 1958 Nike explosion here in New Jersey. History sadly not remembered by many!

Thanks!

For the water leak... Did you use a water regulator to prevent the city water pressure from causing leaks?

Cute Bostons!

Best scoutmaster ever. I hope to visit and reconnect soon.

I live a few miles from this place

Can you do custom trim size? Trim size between hardcover and softcover can sometimes be slightly different...great video! So many create ideas I'm going to incorporate in my books!

I always like going to the AF museum at Wright Patterson and have gone there many times since the age of 8 or so when our family moved from Cincinnati to the Detroit area. I'm 75 now. My son and I went the day before before the latest solar eclipse, stayed overnight in Middletown OH and then headed north to see the eclipse. The WP museum is massive and is a pretty good test of endurance for my 75 yr old body and legs. I'm glad we went as it was the first total eclipse I've ever seen and I'm sure it will be my last.

This was NOT a 2 person crew!!! Jeeze!!!! There were 4 launch crew members on each crew and EACH had crucial functions during a launch, especially if the launch sequence stopped.......just ask any former Titan II combat crew member.

22,456 pits!

Thanks for the coordinates doll... lol What they had then is nothing to what they have now. The rest we gave to ukraines along with all your money. Enjoy the high food prices next time learn to vote for the people not the elites

Love the video and that beautiful smile 😍

5:16 Interesting note: that mission cost well upwards of $100,000,000, and was largely done to demonstrate the US’s ability to bomb anywhere in the world without landing (using in flight refueling).

First, thanks for making a true effort the preserve this piece of Cold War history. Technically missile crews were not able to hot wire the missile for launch. But, early on, by HF radio, both the Wing Command Post at the base and the alternate command post (another Titan II silo) constantly transmitted a "launch disable" signal that would deny power from being applied to the key switch at the launch console. If one of the radio signals failed, the on-site crew was informed, and maintenance was dispatched to wherever the problem existed. If both HF radio signals failed, the condition was called a "dual channel failure" and the Wing Command Post instructed both the MCCC and the DMCCC to man their console positions until the failures were repaired. Now under a "Dual Channel Failure", launch keys could be inserted, turned and the ICBM launch. The thing is that on Level 3 of the Control Center the Silo's HF radios were located, and so too was the power switch. Turn off the power switch and you immediately had a "Dual Channel Failure", but both the Wing and Alternate Command Posts would know it too. Around 1982, a drug bust at Davis Monthan AFB involving Titan II crew members resulted in a system modification known as "Coded Switch". A serious of value locks were inserted into the fuel lines of the missile and were placed in the "lock or fuel flow block" position. A code entry panel was installed in the Control Center, and the designated code was only available to the crews in the "Launch Execution Message". Only the Wing Plans office had access to those codes, and they were the ones who would go out to each site to enter these codes into the system. The end of Titan II came as you cited with the destruction at Damascus, but also with a massive fuel leak at Rock, Kansas where the 381 SMW was located. During a Launch Verification test, there was a communications error between the panel in the control center and the lock mechanisms on the fuel lines. The locks had to be replaced on the missile and this required a full removal of the missile from the silo. Once the fix was completed and the missile placed back in the silo, an accident occurred during the refueling of the oxidizer. Pretty ugly. And despite blast door protection and positive airflow - the control center had to be evacuated. The crew had to use the escape hatch located on Level 3 of the Control Center. One massive wrench and two very long screws that had to be turned in alternating fashion. If you have access to Level 3 of the Control Center, take a hard look and guess how long it would take to open that hatch. The crew claimed they did it in under 15 minutes - they were highly motivated by the oxidizer fumes slowly entering the control center. I was one of the two Wing Plans Officers who was tasked to go into the complex after things were stabilized to recover all the classified - code books, launch keys, and nuclear authenticators. I was also on Titan II missile crew from 1971 through 1974 and was the MCCC of Crew E-0167 with the 533 SMS, and conducted most of my nuclear alerts at 533-03, just south-west of Eldorado, KS. Thanks again for your work and efforts on keeping this alive. Thumbs up and "Missile Away".

Good informative video. But that "music" (noise) in the background is very irritating and doesn't add one thing to your presentation. On the contrary, it detracts from it substantially.