Largest nuclear weapon ever deployed on display in Arizona
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- (ARIZONA HIGHWAYS TV) - They say the cold war is over, but Arizona is still holding on to at least one missile from America's nuclear arsenal. It's scary, and yet at the same time impressive. And you can see it inside the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita.
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You gotta love guys like this that keep these museums and displays alive.
@@Holyinspirit 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.
@@Holyinspirit 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
Just visited the national atomic testing museum in Nevada, they had a decommissioned m53 9 megaton thermonuclear bomb on display. Very unsettling to stand next to something 600 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Japan. Even just the casing of such a weapon is still terrifying. Everyone should visit these places to remember how close we stand to destroying our planet
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
I've written elsewhere on TH-cam that my dad was a Titan II site commander at one of the Davis-Monthan sites back in 1964. He actually took me down inside the operational silo, where I got a personal tour of the crew quarters, the command center, and---the really BIG THING---to stand directly on the W-duct underneath the fully-armed missile in its silo, the two engines only fifteen feet above my head. I could look up the silo wall to view the small service porches at several levels, with Liquid Nitrogen venting from a port on the missile's side. I was a Chemical Engineering major back then, and let me tell you----it was waaay coool! l would love to go back.
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.
When I was an AFROTC cadet at Vandenberg AFB in 1984, our flight's FTO was one Captain Brown, who was formerly a Titan launch officer. He had some stories. Some of us (at least me and another cadet from Bozeman MT, Jay Helming) were on Missile scholarships and were planning to be Minuteman crews.
Growing up on a missile base, the thought of a nuclear war was never far from your mind. I wouldn't say we lived in fear, exactly, but we all knew what it would mean if we saw multiple vertical contrails rising out of the Montana landscape. We had faith in those days that our command authority (i.e., the President of the United States) would not order the use of nuclear weapons without a damn good reason. I am glad that that faith was never tested.
For those who served, thank you.
Part of what's impressive to me is the lengths the designers went to ensure two people had to agree to launch. There was a balance between the desire to make the threat of launch credible and the response time quick enough (deterrence), and the responsibility they felt to eliminate accidental or rogue launches (safety). I wonder to what lengths other nuclear nations go to achieve a similar balance.
Pretty sure 2 people are required everywhere in the world for launching nukes and stuff
@@bboyenzoIL I saw a video somewhere here on TH-cam 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
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The "Top to Bottom Tour" is absolutely amazing. This is a very limited tour that they only do only a few times a month and it goes into EVERY space in the silo. The 1 hour tour is ok, but this tour goes into every nook and cranny, including down into the very bottom of the blast deflectors. Because of its limited nature, you need to reserve in advance, but this is the best best best tour I have ever done in my life. You miss nothing. You see every inch.
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.
Great news report. Just the thought of turning the key gave me chills. When my father was in the navy we were stationed twice at the POLARIS missile assembly facility near Charleston, South Carolina. It was always unnerving seeing missiles being moved by train to the ship yard
No idea how I stumbled upon this video but glad I did - Incredible. Not only is the history fascinating, but important to preserve so it can be learned from. And that siren - gave me chills. I came of age in the 80s - one of these sirens was on my high school campus. Every last Friday of the month, at 11:00 AM, the sirens all over my home town (maybe even the state) would go off. I remember getting out of class and watching the siren go round and round.. and it was so damned loud. Back then we lived with the fear of nuclear war happening at any minute.. I feared hearing those sirens at any other time than the usual prescribed day and time.
Former Little Rock Titan MFT here. Your show brought back many memories & really got my heart racing. I can even remember the smells & noise of the complex. Thank you so much.
I was in elementary school in Seattle in the 60's during the Cuban missile crisis. We had drills in school where we would have to go in the basement of the wood frame school building and lie down in the hallways in the event of a nuclear attack by the Soviets (as if that would protect anyone). Every Wednesday at noon, they turned the air raid sirens on as a drill. I will never forget that sound or that time. Creeped me out. Even today, the sound of those sirens brings back those memories.
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.
My first base that I was assigned when I enlisted in the Air Force was Vandenberg AFB in California. It was a missile test base, in other words they would pull them from various silos from around the country, take the warhead off and send them to VAFB so they could "do their thing" with them. It was interesting to see the launches, although you could usually hear and feel them even if you were nowhere near them.
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.
Retired USAF Comm technician with 8 of my 28 years spent during the Cold War and my last 5 at Vandenberg AFB, California in service of the Peacekeeper missile. Mostly familiar with the Minuteman III missile (currently in use), but my dad was a Security Police commander in charge of several locations with nuclear weapon capability.
As a kid in the 1960's, I remember hearing this siren. Now, as a 60-year-old watching this video and hearing the man play this siren again, was amazing. Until this moment, I had completely forgotten about this siren. I had forgotten how perilous the times were, way back when.
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 to display what was once our Nuclear deterrent site and to have ordinary citizens feel emotionally the strees of launching a nuclear exchange. Wow. Thank you.
As an Air Force ROTC Cadet in High School in 1973 we toured the training version of the real deal in WY. It was definitely a very maturing experience for us. The idea that we were of the same generation that was still in the silos for a while made it real!🇺🇸
Where ya from ??
Impressive and melancholic at the same time… looking forward visiting the museum soon!
i could listen to this guy for hours, the way he explain all this makes it even more interesting
Thank you for this video. Great to have this museum and make people aware of the awesome responsibilities we had. I was Commander of the 373rd Strategic Missile Squadron (Titan) and can attest you got it right.
Thank you for your service Commander, so old workers like me finally have a safe place to retire! 🇺🇸 👍
About the sirens. Here in France, the alert sirens are still in operation. Each number of tone is suppose to indicate the type of impending danger (fire, flooding, high winds, bombing..) and the fifth one (5 tones) is supposedly to indicate a nuclear attack (but this was never confirmed nor denied - so could be lore culture). However, you'll hear it throughout France at 12PM (actually twice, once at 12:00 and once at 12:05) every first Wednesday of the month to ensure they still operate properly.
Our company, and I myself, designed some of the electronics for the MGAC, and also for the MGC & IMU of the various Titan missiles. The Titan-2-3-34-4s were all used up, for Space & Satellite launcher programs. This was one of the most successful launchers ever made. It is too bad that there is not an MX Peacemaker museum, which was also a nuclear weapons system, similar to this one.
Good video. I was a Titan crew commander in Arkansas (308 SMW) for four years in the mid 70s. Brings back old memories. Everything in this video was just the way I remember it.
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)*
th-cam.com/video/smQvR_VD7yw/w-d-xo.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.
Unbelievable!
Thank you for posting!
Very powerful video!!! Can't say enough. Thanks again for sharing.
I was stationed at Little Rock AFB in 1985 through 1990. The Titans were in the process of being decommissioned at that time, but several were still active. Even though I was a C-130 troop, I'd helped out with the maintenance of one of the UH-1 helicopters that hauled the crews to the more remote sites. In appreciation, I got a ride on an incentive flight with a couple of other airmen and we "bounced" several of the sites. Impressive doors, and radio antennas. Don't know if it's true, but one of the missile maintenance guys who cross trained into avionics and came to our shop, SSgt Finley, told me if a bird landed on the HF transmitter antenna and they keyed the mic on the radio the bird would drop dead off of the antenna. It had THAT much power.
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.
I have visited several Titan II Missile Silos in Arkansas, even the one that is mention in this video. The actual location of the silo that exploded was at South Side/Damascus , Arkansas. The Titan II missiles used a liquid fuel whereas the newer Minuteman Missiles use a solid fuel, and less chance to explode during any kind of maintenance procedure. The explosion caused the end of the Titan II missiles being used.
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.
This guy is a TRUE teacher. He really went through everything showing off EVERYTHING in a professional manner of course. But had the police come when the sirens rang out HAHA. Whose teacher would of had the balls to do that for a demonstration in the USA!? XD
Good they had a white guy answering the police ...
I'm originally from Scotland and I remember hearing the Air Raid sirens that would be tested periodically when I was at primary school around 1960.
I believe there were air raid sirens at most schools in Glasgow that were originally installed in WWII to warn the population that there were Bombers heading our way and we should head to the Anderson bomb shelters for protection.
I was only 5 years old when I first heard them and knew what was making all that noise.
I'm not sure if the sirens are still there but many of the Anderson bomb shelters were demolished although there are a few still surviving today but would not survive a nuclear blast.
Got back from a 12 day holiday in Arizona 10 days ago. There were many highlights of that trip - the people, the incredible vistas - and a visit to this museum.
I volunteered as the Deputy Commander - and turned the launch-key to send the 9 Mt warhead on it's way.
I took the tour at this museum several years ago. Very impressive stuff. The gyroscope for this missile is in the museum and is the size of a beach ball. Without that gyroscope, the missile would have a very difficult time flying to the target. It's an interesting look back at the technology of 50 years ago. In addition, some of the scenes in the Star Trek: First Contact movie were filmed in the silo in 1995.
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..
My dad worked in construction as a crane operator and helped to build Titan II missile sites in Arkansas back in the early 1960's.
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
The sound of that Federal Thunderbolt gives me chills. Grew up in a small town in West Texas that had a Thunderbolt as a tornado siren.
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.
My father owned an old Nike missile base in Austin. It was off of 812. I still have the original survey and letters from the city, when he was planning on converting it in to a homeless boys shelter. Keep in mind, this was in the 80's. This was just outside of Bergstrom AFB (before it became a public airport). I barely remember going there as a kid. I'm 40 now
It’s hard to imagine what the operators of the missiles would feel after a launch if it came to that.
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:
th-cam.com/video/FVZmFISzqwY/w-d-xo.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.
My hometown in SW Michigan was and is home to three nuclear reactors. We grew up with them so we didn't pay much attention to potential problems. After Three Mile Island in 1979, the government put the sirens in to warn of a meltdown, tornadoes, and to a lesser extent, a nuclear attack. They would test them once a month (scheduled and announced). I think the sirens were creepier than the actual nuclear reactors.
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
Actually, the Titan silo accident that prompted the installation of the air raid horns at Titan silos, was in Damascus, Arkansas not Little Rock. In September of 1980, A large 8-pound socket from a wrench was dropped during maintenance and punctured the missile’s skin resulting in a fuel leak.
Some hours later there was an explosion that actually blew the silo door off the silo and the nuclear warhead was ejected and landed next to the complex entry gate.
@@LauRoot892 Central Arkansas. Remember as a kid seeing this event on the local news.
@@JosephMusgrove Ugh 😑
I've been to this place in 2014 when I was living on Tucson. I really loved every second I stayed on this place. I hope I could visit it again soon.
1:37 We have 3 targets, 3 pre-programmed targets that we can launch against. They are: targets 1, 2 and 3.
Pre program
Russia, China & North Korea
@@zoegarcia7031
Exactly
Castro, Breshnev and Marylin Monroe.
Specific cities I think.
I have no idea how it was done, but in about 1963 I was a member of a Boy Scout Explorer Post outside of Denver, CO which was sponsored by the Martin-Marietta Corp., the manufacturer of the Titan missile (probably 724-B). Our leaders, who were engineers at Martin, got us a tour of one of the operational Titan missile silos in the old Lowry bombing range east of Denver. I later found out that they were in the stages of closing the site, but before they did, we got to tour it. The diesels were providing noisy power to the facility and it was crawling with uniformed Air Force people, no workmen in sight. We walked out to one of the silos and the sergeant who was guiding our group pointed up to the top of the missile we were viewing and told us that that was a live "hydrogen bomb" (he used that description) about 30 feet above our heads. I don't know whether he was pulling our legs, but I would presume that they wouldn't have installed a dummy in its place. It was a great tour, but I have to really wonder how they'd let a bunch of teenagers do that.
Much simpler and better times
I grew up not far from a ammunition plant(s) that made ammo for WWII so we had those same sirens in town. After WWII they continued using them for decades to warn of tornadoes so this siren sound is very familiar to me.
In Dayton, they have several decommissioned nuclear weapons on display, and it's, unsettling to say the least, to be standing next to something that could make 10 million people cease to exist.
Good video, I wish you had given the dimensions of the missile and showed how the missile crews lived underground and coped with the enormous responsibility they had to endure.
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.
Did the tour and recall the firing sequence. The keys release electrolyte solution into a battery, which when mixed and began an inexorable voltage rise. In other words a delay until and at which time the battery put out 24 volts, then liftoff. Also, that the Titan class of nuclear weapons were second generation, having been moved south from the Dakotas after the Sputnik launch once the military realized the Russian first strike capability could wipe out our response.
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.
0:20. He makes it sound like the 8.9MT W53 was the highest yield weapon the US ever deployed. It isn't, the 25MT B41 was.
I really appreciate all the info from the group leader he understands and explains procedures and even gives people a chance to participate very good team leader but with that said I liked the video 👍
We heard this siren every day at Noon. If it's not oscillating from loud to quiet and back again, it's just a test. A straight blast is also the all clear siren. If it wavers, or "oscillates", that means get in a bomb shelter, because an attack may be imminent. They were originally air raid sirens for WWII. Since planes and missiles are still the way nuclear weapons are delivered, it's still a valid term.
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.
that horn freaks me out, so i guess it's up to the task of warning people.
This brings back memories of when i worked with all 18 Titan sites around Wichita Kansas back from 1971 to 1974.
I feel like a nuclear missile like this is kind of like a large tornado/volcano. Its a combination of being simultaneously awe-inspiring and terrifying. It has to be fascinating to see in person, and feel the immense magnitude of the responsibility the soldiers who worked here had and the gratitude that we've never had to use these weapons. Plus, it also puts in perspective that even today nuclear war is still a possibility and the idea of people casually throwing around terms like "ahh, just nuke em..." is not really something that should be casually thrown around. Very interesting report - and credit to the museum tour guy who was very knowledgable about this stuff and explaining the gravity of it.
Great video. Great tour guide. I would love to check it out.
Incredible how these machines of war and destruction were later converted into machines of peaceful exploration.
The Voyagers, Cassini-Huygens and many other interplanetary spacecraft were launched on rockets that were basically upgraded Titan missiles.
@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.
Came for the awesome sounding Thunderbolt. It's also set to 4RPM. The Thunderbolt can have its rotation changed from 2, 4 or 8 RPMs. The common speed was 2, and 8 was more rare.
My Dad was a 1SGT at McConnell AFB from 1976 through 1982 when his squadron had an incident inside one of the silos in Kansas.
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.
What a great museum guide 👌you can tell he loves what he does 😀
I was stationed active duty on those sites and can tell you there were no sirens like the one in the video. We had a claxon and a series of colored lights, but no air raid-type siren.
Love the commitment of the guy giving tours! Want to visit next time in AZ.
Amazing video. I hope we will NEVER see a day when nuclear weapons are used. My hat off to those who served in these silos, despite knowing the responsibility placed in their hands.
they've been used.. and against animals and civilians too
Memories.
I was a Titan-II BMAT (Balistic Missile Analysist Technician) from '62 to' '70. The last 5 years as a Launch Crew Member.
BTW: We knew what our targets were. Every Air, Ground and Sea Launched Target was listed in the SIOP (Single Integrated Operations Plan). We had to access the SIOP to determine our available Launch Times under certain conditions.
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?
Sounds like this guy loves his job. Good for him.
"mom, the cornfield is smoking"
Awesome!!! Thank you for this.
Sobering. We still have sirens like this one that are tested on a regular basis in our neighborhood.
I was a Minuteman II ICBM Combat Crew Member at Malmstrom AFB MT. Toward the end of my crew commitment we started getting a lot of ex Titan II crew members that were coming to the Minuteman weapons system to finish out their crew commitments. Many I knew had some really good "war stories" about that antiquated system. Look forward to visiting this site someday.
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.
What a fantastic host!!!
I remember when I was a kid in the late 80’s early 90’s my town had two of the thunderbolts. The one in town was on the roof of city hall and went off every Saturday at noontime. I don’t know when the other one was used, it was 5 miles away on the edge of town.
The RS-28 Sarmat is the largest ICBM in the world.
That siren is identical to those used in Michigan for tornado warning sirens. If you hear that, a tornado has been spotted in your area. Yes, it's kind of spooky.
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.
When I lived in Las Vegas during the 60's and 70's we could see (and feel) the nuclear blasts. We would place a stack of quarters on the ground and watch the blast shock wave from 90 miles away knock them over!
The thought of how powerful nuclear bombs are is so incredibly terrifying I literally felt the colour drain from my face watching this
I'm old enough to remember that sound of that siren
The fact that this weapons event exists is a failure of humanity
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.
We used to have a siren like that, or similar, in downtown Houston. It would always go off at exactly 12:00 Noon every Friday. People would set the clocks and watches by it. I still miss hearing it.
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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.
In the mid-1970s, I knew a fellow in a church choir in San Francisco who used to serve in a missile silo launch base. He said that stress on his conscience was such that he finally got to the point where he went to his commanders and told then unequivocally that, if he were ever given the order to launch, he would refuse. So he was relieved of duty. Even by the time I met him, he came across as very nervous and fearful.
It was not Little Rock AR, it was Damascus AR in Falkner county, where the missile blew up in the silo. I was visiting the now defunct silo, after my spouse told me about the incident where the bomb landed a few hundred yards away in a chaps garden.
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.
How they guided anything in the 1960s is a miracle, but they did have televisions.
Brand new computers for sure. Have you seen how the core memory of Apollo was made? It's fascinating.
Smaller warheads on Minuteman 3 and Trident are all that is needed due to much more accurate delivery.
If you can deliver the weapon within 100 yards of the tareget instead of 1,000 yards, you do not need such a large warhead to destroy the target, plus you can get more smaller warheads into the one missile.
I was 24 when I checked out as a Deputy Missile Crew Commander at Davis Monthan in 1979. A year later, at 26, I was a Crew commander, in charge of my own crew. I actually pulled a few alert tours at that museum site but my home site was 571-5, up in Madera Canyon, a nature preserve, about 12 miles away. Many people say young people cannot shoulder responsibility. Most of us were still kids. The "old" guys were in their mid 30's. The enlisted crew members were often younger than the new officers. The military has a great way of screening and training to get the desired result. A year after I upgraded to crew commander, I was flying a supersonic T-38 trainer by myself out of Williams AFB. Young people can do amazing things with the right frame of mind, and excellent training.
Thank you for your Service
This is museum remains of a pre-historical doomsday that didn't happen. The up to date version doesn't even compare to it.
It's not a nuclear weapon. It's the Phoenix, a warp capable rocket!
Are the springs strong enough where they are tape proof or is that a design oversight
I live like 5 miles from the museum
Awesome thing to see.
one of those sirens went off in the middle of the night on Catalina island it scared the shit out of everybody a cat had gotten inside the electrical box and shorted out the system and that’s why that Siren went off like at 12 o’clock at night
You know craps going to hit the fan when they remove the concrete blocks up top.
in Rantoul Illinois they had a training base turned air museum with a landing strip. In 2012 A friend & I flew a small plane there one weekend for an event; They had 2 or 3 silos we were able to visit & study. Also we got to tour the inside of a spy plane too. That was one great day! I'm told they closed Rantoul a couple years ago and that's a shame.
Using a pole with a slot cut in it, would allow both keys to be turned nearly simultaneously. Just was in that exact spot a few days ago.
With the nuclear war tension at its highest today, imagine those alarms going off accidentally.
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
We had one of these Titan II missile silos 1 mile from our house....we figured if it happen, we would not even know it...French fried into dust...in a mili-second. We were basically at ground zero in a Soviet attack.
i got to tour this place back in 2010 or 2011 (i dont remember when) but it was so cool as hell seeing all this. i also went to the boneyard down there for the aviation museum.
A friend and I toured the Titan Missile Museum just north of Green Valley Arizona, but I also lived in Tucson from 1959 to 1972 and remember those sirens. My dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB during the construction of these silos around Tucson! As a child I had no idea of the missile silos as that was all classified information, my Dad was the NCOIC of supply at DM till he was stationed in Thailand then Japan! I was asked to be the Missile Commander and did turn the key, but I knew having been in the Air Force myself that turning the key did nothing but show how the computers would start the launch sequence. I want to go back for the top to bottom tour with another friend. I live in Phoenix now so it would be a day trip to Tucson!
Of all the things shown that Siren troubled the most. I was around eleven years old and had a Nightmare about the USSR launching nuclear missiles at the US . In this Dream, I was close enough to be able to see the blast but far enough away that I had minutes to contemplate what was happening. The most frightening sound was the Siren , wailing It's forlorn warning of DEATH for every Man, Woman , Child and Animal on Earth .
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
My father was an electronics engineer on the one in Wyoming and Montana, from 1962 to 1964 helping with the installation in while working for Boeing.
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Super.great man
I remember our Ham Radio club toured an active missile site just ten miles from this one. We could not wear anything made of metal because of all the magnetic energy in the place.
I own an overhead door business and I do work at an Atlas Missle launch site in upstate NY. A rich guy bought it and a bunch of military vehicles and they play war games up there. Its awesome. I have a video on my channel of me going into the bunker.
Remember too that the Titan II missile was what launched our Gemini astronauts into space, lest you doubt the ability of the Titan II to get a payload into space, or into an enemy!
Damn and Russia waving about with hypersonic missles with multiple 100megaton+ warheads
imagine turning the keys and he says "wait did u fr turn it?!?!?"
I can't imagine what it would be like being a commander and you being ordered to fire the missile.
The fate of millions at your fingertips, a once populated city gone in a matter of seconds.
I wish humanity had invested all the research coming to this into positive things, that actually made our world a better place.
We have been like that since the age of the caveman and always will be unfortunately. Animals are much more respectful to each other, within the same species at least
For more than a decade the United States, stock piled 500, 24 megaton bombs, they were bomber only weapons to be carried by B-52s. The Titan was capable of carrying a more powerful warhead, but one was never fitted to them.
holy fuck.
Cool. How did they get their hands on the Tsar Bomba?
The way that man holds that camera is so cool and hilarious together at the same time.