"Await further orders..." has got to be one of the most haunting, sobering things on that otherwise mundane checklist. One moment it's 3AM and you are following through a checklist you studied over and over, making sure the launch went fine, and the last reassuring thing it tells you may never happen in your lifetime.
Await further orders, in the meantime do air samples. If no further orders when the air quality reaches this level __________ you'll need to both go to the safe and get a new codebook and follow the steps to get out.
Everyone apart of the Manhattan project should have been lined up against a wall and shot in the head. This Cold War era shit should have been left in the Cold War. Why should a handful of world leaders have keys to the continuity of a planet that isn’t fucking theirs. /rant over
I imagine the Titan Project was already de-classified by then and that 80s system is different enough for people not to know. And to reiterate, there is no such thing as full-proof security. You can't just declassify something like that and expect spies not to tamper with it. They could toy with the butterfly valve 6 times and create a 1960s version of a denial of service attack.
I heard a story (no idea how true it was) that the US military were deeply concerned about how accurate the start of the movie was and wanted to know just who was involved with the movie from the US military.
The heat produced by the missiles when launched melt down the silos to the point that in order to repair it , they would have to dig out the silo which is long as fuck so they'll have to dig for like a month and then take the whole silo apart and then rebuild the thing and then put it back in the soil and then again put all of the mud on it and then make sure it's solid. Basically you just spent twice the amount of money refitting the used silo for another use when you could've built a new one at half of the price of the repair . Soo why would they bother repairing it? Plus if the site is noticed , it's game over for it anyways, soo why would you repair a site that has been spotted already
What this man is doing, taking history and presenting it to the public, is known academically in the field of public history as “interpreting.” He is one of the finest interpreters I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching in action, in person or online.
@@aidanswiftofficial they should seriously do this for some demonstrations, do a fake reaction of a nuclear warhead actually being launched. The people there for the tour would definitely have shit in their pants if it was realistic enough
I really like this guy. He is educating and describing the scariest and (for everyone else) the most dangerous job on the entire planet yet has the tone of an enthusiastic tour guide or that really funny and chill teacher from high school.
haven't noticed a forced update, turned off the antivirus with registry, don't give a shit about my os selling data cause at this point who isn't, can remove bloatware, 99% of people don't give a shit about registry and task scheduler, and if you can't run something from a previous os you're either doing something wrong or there's an alternative.
*enemy guy comes in with all the knowledge needed to launch the missile* *reads that he needs to fill out the form* “Ight y’all just gimme a sec I gotta fill out the form!”
Yup what it does when you turn the keys is ignite a pyrotechnic charge that heats a molten electrolyte battery that blows a single shot relay in the misile. The guts turn on fully when 28V is reached the umbilical blows off and the rocket launches.scary
In the Air Force we maintained a communication system call SACCS. It was at every SAC command post, base, and launch facility (part of it can be seen in this video). My system was at a SAC bomber base. After the alert bombers are in the air, the base has completed its mission. We then await the command to start emergency destruction. We had a board dedicated for that with axes, sledge hammers, and such. We practiced breaking/burning up critical pieces/documents of our equipment (ironically what we worked hard to keep active) and scatter the pieces. After that we were on our own... grab a girl and go out with a bang... we were on the Soviet's first strike list. There was that one time I set the whole base to DEFCON 1. I was in the squadron job control where we dispatch communication crews 24/7. It was 3 AM (03 : 00) and I was checking out the board that had switches and lights for the DEFCON settings. I was told they turn on lights in the commanders office. Being 3 AM and in charge of quarters when the commander or a senior officer is not present, I started to turn the knobs just to see how they worked. Less than a minute later the phone lines lit up. It was the command post, the tower, and combat crew facilities calling to confirm if we really are at DEFCON 1. I can hear the base klaxon and alarms on the phone. I said, stand down, we are having trouble with the alert board, I wiggled the knobs back and forth a bit and put them back at DEFCON 4 (we were not at 5 at the time). I said how's that... relieved, they canceled the alert. Nobody told me it turned on lights in ALL of the commanders offices on base! Lucky for me they didn't get to the point to fire up the bombers.
@@dishonoured Yeah, my colleague that was in our squadron Job Control called us "Scrotum Maintenance", every time I had to call him, he would say, "OK, Romsky... Scrotum Maintenance"... he was just razzing me, it was all in good fun.
@@christopherleubner6633 Yes indeed! It's a fire and forget system. The worst part is, after launch, hanging around for weeks with no word from headquarters as your food runs out, then popping out the emergency exit to see what is left of the earth. On a bomber base we practiced our doomsday post bomber sorties regularly.... after the bombers launched, we were to destroy all of our equipment and classified documents... and await further instructions as radiation sickness ate us alive. We did it so often we didn't think about what we were practicing. We were strictly professional... no funnin' around was allowed during those drills.
This whole process is basically... "Are you sure you want to perform this action?" "You cannot undo this, are you absolutely sure you want to perform this action?" "You will not be able to save your game after this point. If you have not saved now, save now." "Saving game (Autosave)..." "This is your final warning. All available quests and missions will be unavailable after starting the finale. Do you wish to proceed?" *_"You may potentially be immediately killed by this action. Proceed?"_* ...and the player just keeps clicking yes until shit hits the fan and he has to restart the game
Except no restart is availble, the world dies, and in three weeks (as haha by the audience), you have to choose between suffocation or death by radiation
The Phone Booth of Time yea, sitting there the whole time thinking wtf another test...until the cookie matches, there would have to be a killer self doubt moment there for those two people.
@@Halfstep2024 mhm, just thinking of the fact that you're essentially carrying out the orders to potentially begin a large scale world conflict that may end up with the extinction of the entire human race, alongside other missile command groups of course.
I would be willing to bet that none of the cookies match. All of the safety measures taken to prevent unauthorized launch, so why not implement a false safety measure to ensure that when it's time to launch the last person doesn't get cold feet. They're there to finalize 'pushing the button', not make the call.
@@user-gq1bs1kn1l nah see that wouldn't make sense because then they could have an accidental launch because of a tech glitch vs them actually being ordered to really do it.
No you dont. You want to drill this procedure into thier heads eceryday till they dont even think about it till the day its real and then they can think about it while russia goes buh bye
I think that's a lie. I saw a declassified document about radio controlled explosives in the fuel tanks. There's also an "abort" switch right on the panel...
It's possible they say that, and even tell the people that, while everyone involved knows it's not technically true, just because you don't want them getting that far thinking they can just back out. Maybe they have something that aborts it but they don't even know if it actually aborts.
This dude is an amazing character. Who knew such a scary and somber subject could be made to be so fun and exciting. Very interesting, this guy needs a raise
It didn’t really hit home for me until that last klaxon went off announcing the launch. Idk why, but that was the moment that really drove the gravity of the situation home. “It’s over now. You can’t stop this anymore.”
@Erich Klein What Japan did to POWs was inexcusable, but they were military targets. Pearl Harbour was an attack on military assets. Are you aware that Korean labourers and American POWs were killed in Hiroshima? Also do you think killing labourers who are helping the war effort is excusable? Often during wartime helping the war effort becomes the only mass jobs available so people are forced into those positions, just as Japanese citizens would have been. Equating lower class Japanese citizens forced into roles of labour for wartime efforts to soldiers is disgusting. Again, im not saying what the Japanese did to POWs is excusable at all, in fact Japan is guilty of some of the most heinous war crimes the Earth has seen. Atomic weapons may have been a necessary evil to end the war but they take thousands of lives and leave cities uninhabitable for years. Its sad that countries are forced to have a nuclear arsenal purely as a deterrent now.
The Japanese ability to wage war would be impossible without civilian labor. Civvies grow the food, make the weapons, bullets and airplanes. That makes them fair game in war.
What struck me was how banally the world can end with its codes and button pushing, but fantastic explanation of how the process operated from the tour guide.
Absolutely. Once American ICBM launches, Russian defense satellites will detect these launches and then "Perimeter" will be automatically activated with a short countdown that can either be interrupted by Moscow, or they can immediately order a counterattack. Perimeter is a dead man switch system to ensure that the US are destroyed regardless whatever else happens. When Perimeter is triggered a number of special radio transponder equipped missiles will launch and fly over the entire Russian Federation broadcasting attack orders. There are other ways the launch orders will be distributed but the missiles are there as a safeguard should the enemy disrupt these other ways. RVSN, the Russian strategic missile force, they will be in their silos, authenticating their launch orders, entering their launch codes and then turning their keys and nowadays fifteen minutes and less Washington will be reduced to a radioactive fireball brighter than a thousand suns. Now that the new generation of Sarmat-2 "Satan-2" missiles are entering service with RVSN, these hypersonic warheads are unstoppable. There is a good reason that the service motto of RVSN is "Posle nas, tishina". After us, silence.
@@georgeheld1901 Then you're also going to appreciate the RVSN song. The video ends on a frame with an indicator panel. The red light is "pusk nachals'ya", launch has begun. Edit forgot the link: ua-cam.com/video/-U5NVILTviQ/v-deo.html
@@endokrin7897 yeah, because when he was Growing up. that room could be what ended his and his parents life. imagine how Grateful you are that you are standing there now and that room has become a tourist attraction? i know i would.
You ever hear the motto of the Russian equivalent to the SAC? Because that’ll give that saying a run for its money. It translates as “After us, silence.”
Fun Fact: Mao Zedong believed population expansion was the only way he could win a nuclear war because he though the US and Russia would obliterate each other
The thing I like the most is that tiny little led that shows the launch has been started and can't be stopped. Its such a mundane thing with the biggest implications in human history.
This is the Titan Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, a launch control center with a Titan III C missile next door. The same guy was our guide when I visited ten years ago. I got to turn the key!
@@declan3443 Barely. Switzerland is mostly Mountain, therefore their entire nation is safe from any type of major radiation exposure thanks to the mountains being high enough to block the spread of the fallout. Same goes to Tibet, Nepal, Mountainous regions in Russia, the Appalachians, and any other mountainous regions across the globe.
The most scary or sobering part of this tour is that it was crystal clear that the humans manning that site would have launched, I had a female giving this presentation - she had commanded this site in the early 1980’s and was chillingly cold about this procedure.
@@TheRogueX dont underestimate audio heads .. You could design a bass shaker (basically a speaker with a weight instead of a cone, bolted to the floor ) to shake that floor pretty violently
depends on the silo type. but some silos fling their doors completely off to get them open faster. these are part of the MM-2/3 silo systems that are grouped up in the mid west. one silo controller controls between 6 to 12 silos
Atlas C missiles laid on their side. A cantilevered roof opened, the missile raised upright and then launched. Atlas D missiles were vertical in a silo, but raised out of it, before launching. Titan II launched from inside the silo. My father, a USAF Officer worked on building all of those types in the sixties.
It feels like he stopped for people to clap, but everyone was legitimately too terrified to react thinking about what this equipment could have done, what it represented.
Warfare has evolved to the point that 2 grandma's in a bunker can wreak more destruction then all the armys of Napoleon, Achilles, and Stalin combined... What crazy timeline we live in.
Yes, it's excellent, I did it in 2017. They had a tiny keyhole and camera near the missile head to monitor the actual warhead. Standing in at the bottom of the silo is amazing. I turned the key as well and I'm sure the presenter here was a guide.
@@seaharrierfrs1 and you as well. It's rather strange, some would speculate, you are stalking me. You leave me no choice but to update my stalker list. I will be forwarding this list to the respectful authority. I will see you in court sir. I bid you farewell now.
But yeah, that is fucking scary. "As soon as you turn that key might as say hello World War 3 because there is no going back" "Nobody wins in a nuclear war." The guy is completely right but damn how he managed to live knowing that and knowing that people are going to go through the same situation takes some real gut
The US has an airborne command network that is supposed to take over and issue orders. Besides that the radiation from nuclear weapons reaches safeish levels after two days and is considered all clear after 2 weeks.
@@Cousin-Eddy I heard somewhere that it depends on if it detonates when it hits the ground or if it detonates in the air before it hits the ground. I believe it was air detonation that was what made the radiation go away quickly, an example used was how Nagasaki and Hiroshima are habitable today unlike Chernobyl (which wasnt nuked but might as well have been seeing as how nuclear reactors exploded) which wont habitable for around 20,000 years (I looked that number up not my own info) and I believe that the nuclear reactors exploding was the equivalent of a ground detonated bomb.
As you can see folks, there are a number of security flaws in the process. In any case that's all I have for you today, if you have any questions or comments I'll see you in hell.
"We think we could probably survive down here for, eh, three to four weeks before we would start slowly suffocating to death. We've never ran that experiment so I don't know that for sure..." *extremely nervous laughter*
I found his performance to be very entertaining. I felt like the last few lines were very important and that the necessary weight wasn't understood. "Nobody wins in a nuclear war. There are only degrees of losers."
The enemy can win if the nucleur bomb is not launched but delivered to the location they want to destroy. There would be no way for us to know who detonated it.
@@danielorourke2542 Unfortunately, there is a good chance that this would result in a nuclear war regardless of not knowing who threw the first punch, so to speak. Successfully smuggling a nuclear weapon into the country and into the target location is also a somewhat implausible method for carrying out a first strike. What if the target country's intelligence services found out who the aggressor was? It would surely retaliate by launching its own nukes, and the result would yet again be nuclear war. The only plausible way to "win" at nuclear war is to launch a successful "decapitation strike", taking out the enemy government leadership (which would only delay retaliation, not prevent it), as well as every single one of their of their missile launch sites and SSBNs (which, given the reality of modern submarine warfare, is virtually impossible). Even then, you would likely still have to contend with incoming enemy aircraft carrying nuclear weapons. In the future, the most important game changer for nuclear warfare will be missile defense systems. Current day missile-based defense systems are not capable of defeating anywhere near 100% of incoming nuclear weapons, particularly when faced with MIRV-equipped warheads. High powered lasers have the potential to be used as ground and air based installations, or even as Orbital defense platforms, and could eventually provide a much more efficient and capable defense against incoming nuclear missiles and warheads.
Well I mean if somebody launched enough nukes at once and completely destroyed the other target before they could retaliate we could theoretically win.
Thats pretty valid. I thought of numerous ways to defeat the key sync and hold, before he stopped talking about it. Now, a smartphone and $20 of junk from Amazon will handle.
@@springbloom5940 Sure, its really easy to defeat if you have the know how, even back in the day, but limiting who knows and having specially trained personal is the main security mechanism.
Jokes aside the best use for VR would be to allow people to practice this without having to worry about the possibility of anything going off by mistake.
The silo has a master control switch that can flip the whole setup into drill mode, which is how they were able to turn those keys without actually launching anything.
Erick Picard fun fact that corrodes the metal fingers inside the cartridge and pushes Debree further into it, what really solve the problem was re-inserting the cartridge and having friction do it’s job on the oxidization 😊
I got to turn one of the keys on orders from the tour guide on a visit to the Titan Missle Silo (the museum here) when I was like 10. The whole experience was surreal, and only when I was in high school did I fully understood what turning that key would do back when it was active.
Many Americans grew up after the fall of the Soviet Union so they didn't grow up with the Nuke threat. We older Americans still remember how dangerous it can be when nuclear missiles are used. I work on missile systems at one time. No matter how many safety safeguards you make accidents can still happen.
I'd never really put much thought into silo operators. I've always wondered how much it weighed on presidents, having possession of the ability to end the world, but I never took the time to think about how the people who turn the key... manage to do it. Imagine taking this job during complete peacetime, thinking it's easy because you'll never *ever* have to actually turn that key, and then one day the speaker lights up and starts talking in numbers.
It's an interesting thing. Like yeah maybe the president and whoever is secondncan authorise it but would you launch the nukes if it came down to it. Could you really turn a key that ends the world
I mean, they did have surprise drills for missile crews that went exactly like that. There's a video on UA-cam you can easily find that's a clip from a really good documentary (Missile) that shows a launch training drill at Vandenberg AFB for a Minuteman missile crew. If the Titan creeped you out, the Minuteman will scare the hell out of you since the crew controls an entire flight of ICBMs launching within seconds of each other. What makes it more real is the Minuteman is still active. There are still US Air Force officers (missileers) sitting in silos running these drills just on the slight chance that one day the order is real.
@@pilot1721 There were two well known false alarm incidents in Russia, one at a missile base and one aboard a nuclear submarine, where the end of the world was prevented solely by individuals who hesitated because they knew that something wasn't quite right about the situation.
In the Star Wars comics, the guy that pulled the lever to fire the Death Star laser on Alderaan ended up killing himself from the grief of destroying billions
I did the same thing with the Pershing missile system back in the 70s and 80s. Same procedures... We didn't have a butterfly valve code, but we had a PAL (Permissive Action Link) that did pretty much the same thing. WIth P1A (my system) you pushed two buttons; with PII (1984 onward) they used two keys, like this. And yes... you had to memorize all this stuff, by rote and in all combinations) before you were allowed to stand watch.
Little known fact is that President Reagan chose the name for the latest missile system...Peacekeeper. One of the names submitted but not considered was "Worldender".
well the name fits as they where desined as a deterrent, the only thing they should do, is sit in their launch tubes untill humanidty wont need them or getts vanished an other way. They did their job well till this day, as noone wanted to missuse those rockets and actually unleash their full potential. I really hope those who sit behind the triggers never gonna be that stupid as to press them
I'm here because my brother-in-law was in a silo during the Cuban Missal crises in Arkansas ... and he told me exactly the same thing this guy said...await further orders after launch... if you survive... he said you were going to get a retaliatory strike .... he was also there when the welder hit a hydraulic line... leading to an explosion when the fuel tanks on the rocket collapsed thus mixing the fuel....blew the blast door off into a field. Also the war head which of course not armed...... interesting stuff thanks for posting....
"I have read the terms and conditions to start a thermonuclear war."
This made me chortle.
Meddl
George Pearson mutation what is this fallout
verdammde arschlöchaaaaa
Redefines the "End User Agreement" doesn't it.
I can’t believe they actually launched a nuclear missile just for demonstration
Solowarrior1221 bruhhh...
Solowarrior1221 smol brain
Solowarrior1221 woosh
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Solowarrior1221 u have to be kidding me
"Await further orders..." has got to be one of the most haunting, sobering things on that otherwise mundane checklist. One moment it's 3AM and you are following through a checklist you studied over and over, making sure the launch went fine, and the last reassuring thing it tells you may never happen in your lifetime.
I think putting more steps at the end of the checklist would have been a mercy. Wish I could find the checklist online somehwere
Await further orders, in the meantime do air samples. If no further orders when the air quality reaches this level __________ you'll need to both go to the safe and get a new codebook and follow the steps to get out.
Everyone apart of the Manhattan project should have been lined up against a wall and shot in the head.
This Cold War era shit should have been left in the Cold War. Why should a handful of world leaders have keys to the continuity of a planet that isn’t fucking theirs.
/rant over
@@claytonkickflip7595 well at least Hitler didn’t get his atomic bomb…
Thank you, Britain!
@@rhysgoodman7628 Hitler never would have come to power if the Allies hadn’t screwed over the German people at Versailles.
Who ever knew how accurate WarGames actually was!
I imagine the Titan Project was already de-classified by then and that 80s system is different enough for people not to know. And to reiterate, there is no such thing as full-proof security. You can't just declassify something like that and expect spies not to tamper with it. They could toy with the butterfly valve 6 times and create a 1960s version of a denial of service attack.
I heard a story (no idea how true it was) that the US military were deeply concerned about how accurate the start of the movie was and wanted to know just who was involved with the movie from the US military.
Whomever*
@@LordBaldur It isn't that different today. My father served on HMS Vanguard and it uses a similar system.
ARE YOU THAT GUY THAT REPLACES SQUARE D CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND TELLS PEOPLE THAT THERES TWO LINEUPS INSTEAD AND ONE BOX IS BLUE AND RED.
Hey guys, LockPickingLawyer here in a missle silo...
this comment is underrated
in any case, that's all I have you today. If you do have any questions or comments about this...
Launch confirmed in less than 60 seconds.
Click at one, nothing on two, slight click on the third aaand we got it open
first we got to rotate those discs as far clockwise as they will go, then get the pick that Bosnian Bill and i made...
*President receives email*
It appears a nuclear missile was launched from another device. Was this you?
monster monty 😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao
*yes*
*no*
Trump would tweet that he wants to launch the nukes instead of using the football lol
There’s something telling about how these silos were only single use.
Figure there would be no one really left to rearm them.
It is cheaper to make another one than to go repair them.
The heat produced by the missiles when launched melt down the silos to the point that in order to repair it , they would have to dig out the silo which is long as fuck so they'll have to dig for like a month and then take the whole silo apart and then rebuild the thing and then put it back in the soil and then again put all of the mud on it and then make sure it's solid. Basically you just spent twice the amount of money refitting the used silo for another use when you could've built a new one at half of the price of the repair .
Soo why would they bother repairing it?
Plus if the site is noticed , it's game over for it anyways, soo why would you repair a site that has been spotted already
I swear I've seen you around before
@@SumitYadav-ik2df my point was more “if these things get used, no one is coming to fix or repair them”
What this man is doing, taking history and presenting it to the public, is known academically in the field of public history as “interpreting.” He is one of the finest interpreters I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching in action, in person or online.
"With that blast door open we're fu- we're vulnerable."
Nice save.
You don't want the video to get demonetized.
Of course he was going to say FUBAR LOL
"With that blast door open we're *FUCKED*
Nice catch
Restoration 100
He shoulda said "wait did you just actually turn the key?!?!"
LOL
oh my god imagine the immeasurable level of panic everyone would have
I was honestly expecting it lmao. Old white dude humor :D
@@aidanswiftofficial they should seriously do this for some demonstrations, do a fake reaction of a nuclear warhead actually being launched. The people there for the tour would definitely have shit in their pants if it was realistic enough
april fools!
I really like this guy. He is educating and describing the scariest and (for everyone else) the most dangerous job on the entire planet yet has the tone of an enthusiastic tour guide or that really funny and chill teacher from high school.
Because he IS a tourguide. This isn't a military facility and military personell.
@@MrKuemmelbrotBut he was working there in the military back then when this site was an active Titan 2 launch controll site.
"Nobody wins in a nuclear war. It's only degrees of losers." That sent chills up my spine and goosebumps down m arm, holy hell
Don't piss yourself kid
Einstein allegedly said: "I know not with what weapons ww3 will be fought with, but ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones"
“I lose the least, yay.”
"How about a nice game of chess?"
@@hurricane3518Einstein was fucking wrong, because then came the machines
*turns launch key*
"Configuring Windows updates"
"0% complete"
"Do not turn off your computer"
Turns key and the Blue Screen of Death appears. :)
@@NerdyNEET Me: Windows 10 is bad?
*...*
@@NerdyNEET Windows 10 can't be that bad
It works for me!
haven't noticed a forced update, turned off the antivirus with registry, don't give a shit about my os selling data cause at this point who isn't, can remove bloatware, 99% of people don't give a shit about registry and task scheduler, and if you can't run something from a previous os you're either doing something wrong or there's an alternative.
@@NerdyNEET One of my favourite Ted Talks. 👏👏👏
The fact you have to fill out a form before launching a nuke is the most military thing ever
Gotta have someone responsible.
"If you did a dumb, we know who you are and that you did it
X_______"
DA Form 69420.
*enemy guy comes in with all the knowledge needed to launch the missile* *reads that he needs to fill out the form* “Ight y’all just gimme a sec I gotta fill out the form!”
@@FreeLeaks his partners: *h u h?!*
“And the missile will no longer take any orders from us.” For some reason that felt super powerful to me (7:20)
"Seeing the missile on its way to deliver doom fills you with determination."
Well, for at least 30 minutes
@THE GREAT CORNHOLIO fr fr
The fact that there’s no “emergency self destruct” feature is concerning
Yup what it does when you turn the keys is ignite a pyrotechnic charge that heats a molten electrolyte battery that blows a single shot relay in the misile. The guts turn on fully when 28V is reached the umbilical blows off and the rocket launches.scary
yep & look up russia's dead hand system too
In the Air Force we maintained a communication system call SACCS. It was at every SAC command post, base, and launch facility (part of it can be seen in this video). My system was at a SAC bomber base. After the alert bombers are in the air, the base has completed its mission. We then await the command to start emergency destruction. We had a board dedicated for that with axes, sledge hammers, and such. We practiced breaking/burning up critical pieces/documents of our equipment (ironically what we worked hard to keep active) and scatter the pieces. After that we were on our own... grab a girl and go out with a bang... we were on the Soviet's first strike list. There was that one time I set the whole base to DEFCON 1. I was in the squadron job control where we dispatch communication crews 24/7. It was 3 AM (03 : 00) and I was checking out the board that had switches and lights for the DEFCON settings. I was told they turn on lights in the commanders office. Being 3 AM and in charge of quarters when the commander or a senior officer is not present, I started to turn the knobs just to see how they worked. Less than a minute later the phone lines lit up. It was the command post, the tower, and combat crew facilities calling to confirm if we really are at DEFCON 1. I can hear the base klaxon and alarms on the phone. I said, stand down, we are having trouble with the alert board, I wiggled the knobs back and forth a bit and put them back at DEFCON 4 (we were not at 5 at the time). I said how's that... relieved, they canceled the alert. Nobody told me it turned on lights in ALL of the commanders offices on base! Lucky for me they didn't get to the point to fire up the bombers.
ballsaccs
@@dishonoured Yeah, my colleague that was in our squadron Job Control called us "Scrotum Maintenance", every time I had to call him, he would say, "OK, Romsky... Scrotum Maintenance"... he was just razzing me, it was all in good fun.
@@paulromsky9527 haha 😂 as long as it's just for fun
Damn that is terrifying
@@christopherleubner6633 Yes indeed! It's a fire and forget system. The worst part is, after launch, hanging around for weeks with no word from headquarters as your food runs out, then popping out the emergency exit to see what is left of the earth. On a bomber base we practiced our doomsday post bomber sorties regularly.... after the bombers launched, we were to destroy all of our equipment and classified documents... and await further instructions as radiation sickness ate us alive. We did it so often we didn't think about what we were practicing. We were strictly professional... no funnin' around was allowed during those drills.
This whole process is basically...
"Are you sure you want to perform this action?"
"You cannot undo this, are you absolutely sure you want to perform this action?"
"You will not be able to save your game after this point. If you have not saved now, save now."
"Saving game (Autosave)..."
"This is your final warning. All available quests and missions will be unavailable after starting the finale. Do you wish to proceed?"
*_"You may potentially be immediately killed by this action. Proceed?"_*
...and the player just keeps clicking yes until shit hits the fan and he has to restart the game
And, here, restarting the game will be like in SimCity and such, with an empty map, having to build up a civilization all over again...
Except no restart is availble, the world dies, and in three weeks (as haha by the audience), you have to choose between suffocation or death by radiation
@@mikakeinanen8382 "there is no whoops switch"
you mean except for all the previous 'whoops' switches?
Only problem is, there is no restart
Nice profile banner lmao
Imagine the horror of getting far enough into the staging sequence and finding out that it's not a test.
The Phone Booth of Time yea, sitting there the whole time thinking wtf another test...until the cookie matches, there would have to be a killer self doubt moment there for those two people.
@@Halfstep2024 mhm, just thinking of the fact that you're essentially carrying out the orders to potentially begin a large scale world conflict that may end up with the extinction of the entire human race, alongside other missile command groups of course.
the scary thing is that they drill it every day so they are desensitized to it so when the cookies do match that's it they are turning the keys.
I would be willing to bet that none of the cookies match. All of the safety measures taken to prevent unauthorized launch, so why not implement a false safety measure to ensure that when it's time to launch the last person doesn't get cold feet. They're there to finalize 'pushing the button', not make the call.
@@user-gq1bs1kn1l nah see that wouldn't make sense because then they could have an accidental launch because of a tech glitch vs them actually being ordered to really do it.
6:42 "There is no 'Oops' switch."
That honestly sounds like a design oversight. If there's *one thing* you want to give an emergency shutoff...
No you dont. You want to drill this procedure into thier heads eceryday till they dont even think about it till the day its real and then they can think about it while russia goes buh bye
Also not much of a deterrent if there's a "Wait, no." switch
@@dillonhonore3579 superpowers be like, "lol jk xd"
I think that's a lie. I saw a declassified document about radio controlled explosives in the fuel tanks. There's also an "abort" switch right on the panel...
It's possible they say that, and even tell the people that, while everyone involved knows it's not technically true, just because you don't want them getting that far thinking they can just back out. Maybe they have something that aborts it but they don't even know if it actually aborts.
This dude is an amazing character. Who knew such a scary and somber subject could be made to be so fun and exciting. Very interesting, this guy needs a raise
So this is the UA-cam algorithm's pick for random 4 year old video for this week.
It straight up recommended me the whole channel.. there's just random people bowling and creation of mii characters with like tens of views... wat?
I think our good old friend Mr UA-cam algorithm is finally learning
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Stop saying algorithm like you're smart and know what it means. You don't. Stop. It's getting old.
@@noreason2701 algorithm
"This weapon is ONLY and ONLY for Mr. President"
"So here's the step by step tutorial how to launch the codes"
From a installation that is half a century old.
@@erwin887 lmao yeah. And Im sure they change it often.
@Deadpoppin Wait how do you know
@@kounding because the us wouldn't just tell people how to launch A NUCLEAR FUCKING BOMB
@@sushimidnight9539 keep in mind the USA had there launch codes set to all 0s for a long time
It didn’t really hit home for me until that last klaxon went off announcing the launch. Idk why, but that was the moment that really drove the gravity of the situation home. “It’s over now. You can’t stop this anymore.”
I love how he looks at the camera when talking about the commander, it really makes it feel like you’re the commander.
"Nobody wins a nuclear war" That's the truth.
W O K E
Nothing is a certitude in this world
@Erich Klein By killing thousands of innocent people.
@Erich Klein What Japan did to POWs was inexcusable, but they were military targets. Pearl Harbour was an attack on military assets. Are you aware that Korean labourers and American POWs were killed in Hiroshima? Also do you think killing labourers who are helping the war effort is excusable? Often during wartime helping the war effort becomes the only mass jobs available so people are forced into those positions, just as Japanese citizens would have been. Equating lower class Japanese citizens forced into roles of labour for wartime efforts to soldiers is disgusting. Again, im not saying what the Japanese did to POWs is excusable at all, in fact Japan is guilty of some of the most heinous war crimes the Earth has seen. Atomic weapons may have been a necessary evil to end the war but they take thousands of lives and leave cities uninhabitable for years. Its sad that countries are forced to have a nuclear arsenal purely as a deterrent now.
The Japanese ability to wage war would be impossible without civilian labor. Civvies grow the food, make the weapons, bullets and airplanes. That makes them fair game in war.
I'd at least expected a reCAPTCHA. 'Select all squares with traffic signs.' Man that missile would never launch.
TRY AGAIN
When there are none left, click Verify.
So much later that the old narrator got tired and they had to hire a new one...
@I work in uh. Sanitation
Look at robloxs auth now I can't even do it
A more military thing would be 'Select all squares with Vietcong.' and it's just a vietnam forest picture :D
Select all squares with a mushroom cloud
What struck me was how banally the world can end with its codes and button pushing, but fantastic explanation of how the process operated from the tour guide.
Such an authentication procesure would make a really good escape room I think
So this is how feels like when you're using two-factor authentication.
old school two auth method
Hacker here, hate to piss on your chips but 2 factor authentication is easily bypassed or hacked these days eg thru a ss7 attack on mobile networks
@@nsaagentkali8984 but does it increase the difficulty for the hacker to tap into my account?
@@nsaagentkali8984 kek at the username
@@nsaagentkali8984 uh huh.
"No one wins a nuclear war, it's only the degree of losses"
Absolutely. Once American ICBM launches, Russian defense satellites will detect these launches and then "Perimeter" will be automatically activated with a short countdown that can either be interrupted by Moscow, or they can immediately order a counterattack. Perimeter is a dead man switch system to ensure that the US are destroyed regardless whatever else happens. When Perimeter is triggered a number of special radio transponder equipped missiles will launch and fly over the entire Russian Federation broadcasting attack orders. There are other ways the launch orders will be distributed but the missiles are there as a safeguard should the enemy disrupt these other ways. RVSN, the Russian strategic missile force, they will be in their silos, authenticating their launch orders, entering their launch codes and then turning their keys and nowadays fifteen minutes and less Washington will be reduced to a radioactive fireball brighter than a thousand suns.
Now that the new generation of Sarmat-2 "Satan-2" missiles are entering service with RVSN, these hypersonic warheads are unstoppable. There is a good reason that the service motto of RVSN is "Posle nas, tishina". After us, silence.
@@statinskill cool
statinskill Kick ass motto
@@georgeheld1901 Then you're also going to appreciate the RVSN song. The video ends on a frame with an indicator panel. The red light is "pusk nachals'ya", launch has begun.
Edit forgot the link: ua-cam.com/video/-U5NVILTviQ/v-deo.html
And the degrees of those lost like 10000000000 degree whatever’s
i love how hes so positive and friendly while demonstrating how to launch a nuclear warhead
One of the few occasions where the saying "Party like its the end of the world" have a meaning
He's very happy to be there!
@@endokrin7897 yeah, because when he was Growing up. that room could be what ended his and his parents life. imagine how Grateful you are that you are standing there now and that room has become a tourist attraction? i know i would.
You can tell he really is interested in this and likes what he's doing.
Good thing because I'm not 😂
Because nuclear energy, especially weapons grade plutonium and hydrogen, is the scariest shit humans have ever discovered.
“So uh...this won’t actually work. The missiles were removed.”
*Presses button*
*Missile launches*
“Oh”
*OH*
123rd like
They would restock them if needed. Meaning that the president would order them in advance.
oh poop
"Huh, Neat."
“There are no winners in a nuclear war, only degrees of losers.” Probably one of the darkest things I’ve ever heard.
But true
You ever hear the motto of the Russian equivalent to the SAC? Because that’ll give that saying a run for its money. It translates as “After us, silence.”
Fun Fact: Mao Zedong believed population expansion was the only way he could win a nuclear war because he though the US and Russia would obliterate each other
One side loses the least
considering the color of the words are white, this is probably one of the lightest things I've ever read.
The thing I like the most is that tiny little led that shows the launch has been started and can't be stopped. Its such a mundane thing with the biggest implications in human history.
I like the way this guy can talk about a very dark subject in a light hearted way. Imagine how bad it would be with a different person doing this.
If anyone is interested, Lebron James' wingspan is 84 inches -- just 3 inches short of being able to turn both keys.
What's that in sensible measurements?
In metric now?
But Kevin Durant comes in at 89" WE GOT LIFT OF BOYS
Craig Johnston that’s awesome. Lol
I think he's need a few more inches per hand. It's not really possible to turn a key with just the very tip of your finger.
After 30 kills I’m the one who calls the president.
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@@russell9378 not anymore sir. Not in new MW.
@@LittleBlacksheep1995 that game is so bad i snapped the disck way too many campers n hackers mw2 is the best always will be
@@russell9378 campaign is the best
@@russell9378 If you dont know how to counter campers then you're just bad. Although I do agree with you on the hacker part
This is the Titan Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, a launch control center with a Titan III C missile next door. The same guy was our guide when I visited ten years ago. I got to turn the key!
This guy is like Willy Wonka with the amount of enthusiasm he brings to explaining how this room was designed to bring about the end times.
Oompa loompa didgeridoo, we've got a missile heading for you
_This is the LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is a double-locked Titan Missile launch box_
_Click out of two, three is set, nothing on four_
And there we go, less than 2 seconds. *Time for the other lock*
This lock has some SERIOUS design flaws that NEED to be fixed.
@@theunamed9525 _Nice click out of five_
Nice
"nobody wins a nuclear war"
>Switzerland entered the server
>Switzerland has joined spectators mode
>Also Switzerland: blows itself up to prevent invasion from post-nuclear bears and eagles
GreekMad Lad Switzerland is a neutral nation, therefore they wouldnt be targetted
what the radiation would still drift into Switzerland
@@declan3443 Barely. Switzerland is mostly Mountain, therefore their entire nation is safe from any type of major radiation exposure thanks to the mountains being high enough to block the spread of the fallout. Same goes to Tibet, Nepal, Mountainous regions in Russia, the Appalachians, and any other mountainous regions across the globe.
This is the most elaborate Command & Conquer cutscene I’ve ever watched
The most scary or sobering part of this tour is that it was crystal clear that the humans manning that site would have launched, I had a female giving this presentation - she had commanded this site in the early 1980’s and was chillingly cold about this procedure.
"Before causing the end of the world, please enter seven passwords and click Are You Sure? Yes."
Cliche here to verify "not a robot"
At least they're thorough. Better to make you double check and confirm that you basically want to be Satan, than to not.
Please check all images that include: SIGN
*this password is already in use*
@@tanneradams20 world saved
They should really rig up some good speakers with fake launch sounds for when they turn the keys, and have the instructor freak out like "whoops" :-P
Yeah you wouldn't be able to properly fake it because a real launch would be loud as fuck and shake the shit out of that room.
It may be decommissioned, But we need a place to keep over 6k nukes
@@TheRogueX dont underestimate audio heads .. You could design a bass shaker (basically a speaker with a weight instead of a cone, bolted to the floor ) to shake that floor pretty violently
@@SL33PINS3XY get JBL speaker, they are really loud and high quality.
@@Vysair a JBL speaker.. is that all you could come up with to shake a concrete fucking bunker😂😂😂
This guy actually looks and sounds a little like Gene Hackman, which is ironic given his role in Crimson Tide! :D
I come back to this video time and again. Its fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
Is this how McDonald’s cleans the ice cream machine
Lol, apparently
This is how you explain alegraba, not McDonald’s because they never fix the ice cream machine
@@unsimplified2071 that's the joke lol
I know how to actually fix the ice cream machine at mc donald
This is how they operate it
Commander: This is going seamlessly, only have to turn the keys...
Google AI: Select all images containing a storefront.
😂😂
I'm not a robot
Select all images containing traffic lights
Or worse: 'Windows can't disconnect Self-destruct (F:) from the USB port because it's either busy writing or still being used by an application' ...
Lol 😂
Now think of all the silos (on both sides) the cold war tension and to think we never had an accidental launch... amazing
depends on the silo type. but some silos fling their doors completely off to get them open faster. these are part of the MM-2/3 silo systems that are grouped up in the mid west. one silo controller controls between 6 to 12 silos
Atlas C missiles laid on their side. A cantilevered roof opened, the missile raised upright and then launched. Atlas D missiles were vertical in a silo, but raised out of it, before launching. Titan II launched from inside the silo. My father, a USAF Officer worked on building all of those types in the sixties.
It feels like he stopped for people to clap, but everyone was legitimately too terrified to react thinking about what this equipment could have done, what it represented.
"I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."
Propane Enthusiast U n l e s s
@Propane Enthusiast yeah i know I was just making a joke thanks for telling though
@Propane Enthusiast didn't ask.
@@Jedislayer19 "I suppose we all thought that one way or another..."
Warfare has evolved to the point that 2 grandma's in a bunker can wreak more destruction then all the armys of Napoleon, Achilles, and Stalin combined... What crazy timeline we live in.
Lol, 2 grandmas
and this was filmed like a hundred years ago
Stalin had nukes, though.
@@VRichardsn Good point. Stalin had the power of nukes AND babushkas, no wonder everyone feared him.
don't underestimate grandmas
There is somthing so cool and euphoric about the whole procedure, especially the final launch buzzer.
I LOVE presenters like this guy
If you ever visit this museum, pay the money for the “top to bottom” tour and see everything.
YES!! I am so glad I did that while I was there a while back.
Where is it?
@@brokencassetteplayer7469 I wanna knownto
Yes, it's excellent, I did it in 2017. They had a tiny keyhole and camera near the missile head to monitor the actual warhead. Standing in at the bottom of the silo is amazing. I turned the key as well and I'm sure the presenter here was a guide.
Can people still go?
Great presentation. He seems like he loves his job.
Bmused, you happen to be in almost every video I watch's comment section, It's rather strange.
@@seaharrierfrs1 and you as well. It's rather strange, some would speculate, you are stalking me. You leave me no choice but to update my stalker list. I will be forwarding this list to the respectful authority. I will see you in court sir. I bid you farewell now.
@@yootantonystark2738 Damn some real drama happening here in the youtube comment section on a 5 year old video
@@GABEBASSMUSIC ikr I need popcorn
he seems gay
For a lecture on using barely legal weapons this looks fun and engaging.
Strange game. The only way to win is not to play.
I would rather play a nice game of chess
Meanwhile James May tries to ignite the missile with a lighter.
Oh my God yes I was waiting to see this here
It must be damp
*SS-18 Bruh Moment*
James May bypassing the Pentagon, the trick the US military doesn't want you to know.
I think it must be damp!
Last item on checklist
“Await further orders.”
God damn that’s real. Scary
Cue Fallout 3 intro sequence.
cue fallout 76 intro
But yeah, that is fucking scary. "As soon as you turn that key might as say hello World War 3 because there is no going back"
"Nobody wins in a nuclear war."
The guy is completely right but damn how he managed to live knowing that and knowing that people are going to go through the same situation takes some real gut
The US has an airborne command network that is supposed to take over and issue orders. Besides that the radiation from nuclear weapons reaches safeish levels after two days and is considered all clear after 2 weeks.
@@Cousin-Eddy I heard somewhere that it depends on if it detonates when it hits the ground or if it detonates in the air before it hits the ground. I believe it was air detonation that was what made the radiation go away quickly, an example used was how Nagasaki and Hiroshima are habitable today unlike Chernobyl (which wasnt nuked but might as well have been seeing as how nuclear reactors exploded) which wont habitable for around 20,000 years (I looked that number up not my own info) and I believe that the nuclear reactors exploding was the equivalent of a ground detonated bomb.
7:10 the key operator on the right faints with a “THUD” after the guy says “you’ve now started the launch sequence”
This man is fucking excellent and enthralling. Give that dude a raise
LockPickingLawyer: Nothing on one, two is binding, click on three, and we got liftoff
As you can see folks, there are a number of security flaws in the process. In any case that's all I have for you today, if you have any questions or comments I'll see you in hell.
You know Bosnian Bill will be at the other key, both with TTBBAIM's in their hands picking in tandem.
hahahhaa love it
This comment is gold.
I dont think you understand how foolish you sound
"We think we could probably survive down here for, eh, three to four weeks before we would start slowly suffocating to death. We've never ran that experiment so I don't know that for sure..."
*extremely nervous laughter*
BETTER DEAD THAN RED
Luckily if the process is slow enough they would just feel more and more tired until they died.
@@gargoyles9999 Better red, white and blue, than dead, (in)side [a bunker], and screwed.
@@gargoyles9999 Well, there are no more reds...
@@manjelos yeah if you close your eyes and cover your ears and pretend China doesn't exist
"And, Commander, if that happened while your crew was on duty, you have NOT enhanced your military career!" LOL
And that’s how the cookie crumbles.
"This aged well" - some guy from the future
“This didn’t age well” - a charred space where a person should be, from the future
*EXCUSEMEWAT*
"ooga booga ook ook" -some guy from the future where we used this stuff
John titor
@B H ???
I found his performance to be very entertaining. I felt like the last few lines were very important and that the necessary weight wasn't understood. "Nobody wins in a nuclear war. There are only degrees of losers."
I don't understand the part where it says there's only degrees of losers what does that mean
Alphabet 7 Even if you didn’t lose as bad as the other guy you still lost. In this case not losing as bad would be getting hit by fewer nukes.
The enemy can win if the nucleur bomb is not launched but delivered to the location they want to destroy. There would be no way for us to know who detonated it.
@@danielorourke2542 Unfortunately, there is a good chance that this would result in a nuclear war regardless of not knowing who threw the first punch, so to speak. Successfully smuggling a nuclear weapon into the country and into the target location is also a somewhat implausible method for carrying out a first strike. What if the target country's intelligence services found out who the aggressor was? It would surely retaliate by launching its own nukes, and the result would yet again be nuclear war.
The only plausible way to "win" at nuclear war is to launch a successful "decapitation strike", taking out the enemy government leadership (which would only delay retaliation, not prevent it), as well as every single one of their of their missile launch sites and SSBNs (which, given the reality of modern submarine warfare, is virtually impossible). Even then, you would likely still have to contend with incoming enemy aircraft carrying nuclear weapons.
In the future, the most important game changer for nuclear warfare will be missile defense systems. Current day missile-based defense systems are not capable of defeating anywhere near 100% of incoming nuclear weapons, particularly when faced with MIRV-equipped warheads. High powered lasers have the potential to be used as ground and air based installations, or even as Orbital defense platforms, and could eventually provide a much more efficient and capable defense against incoming nuclear missiles and warheads.
Well I mean if somebody launched enough nukes at once and completely destroyed the other target before they could retaliate we could theoretically win.
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
Hard to believe this info is unclassified
But in Russia.
“Blyat, Yuri. Do bomb thing.”
“Cheeki Breeki.”
*Yuri throws stone aginst missile*
cyua we need to pepair for nukler war.
Dymitry get the votga
MIKHAIL! Get de bares inside de siylo, we don’t want dem to go boom
"Cheeki Breeky, iv damke, Mikhail! misle go boom soon."
IV DAMKE
Hard BaSS plays 3 week non-stop to keep komrade strong. No food and hydration allowed.
*Turns key*
*Small CRT flicks on and a trackball appears from the console*
"Please confirm you're not a robot"
Thats pretty valid. I thought of numerous ways to defeat the key sync and hold, before he stopped talking about it. Now, a smartphone and $20 of junk from Amazon will handle.
"To prove you are not a self aware artificial intelligence you will need to take a captcha test"
@@springbloom5940 Sure, its really easy to defeat if you have the know how, even back in the day, but limiting who knows and having specially trained personal is the main security mechanism.
Jokes aside the best use for VR would be to allow people to practice this without having to worry about the possibility of anything going off by mistake.
The silo has a master control switch that can flip the whole setup into drill mode, which is how they were able to turn those keys without actually launching anything.
@@shadowtheimpure Well, there's nothing wired up to any live systems now. And I imagine USAF had locations to do drills.
Thanks for sharing this! It's great to see another demonstration, aside from the one Veritasium shows!
When it’s family game night and they say you’ll pick up the rules quick
lmaoooo
The rules are simple; DO NOT PLAY THE GAME...
We all know that the only winning move is not to play...
@@thiesenf if you turn the keys, you get a cookie
4:59
The way he turns to the camera and says "Commander" gave me such strong Red Alert vibes it's almost uncomfortable.
Oh God I still have dreams of "building ... construction complete..."
I still play, kirov ready commander
@@ghettodollarstore4766 kirov reporting
Unable to comply, building in progress.
Yup. Someone else got it
Fantastic educator, fantastic speaker, wonderful presentation 🎉
1:49 This is the LockPickingLawyer and today we will launch a nuclear ICBM.
If the cartridge doesn't work, pull it out and blow on it.
Erick Picard fun fact that corrodes the metal fingers inside the cartridge and pushes Debree further into it, what really solve the problem was re-inserting the cartridge and having friction do it’s job on the oxidization 😊
@@sammymichael1872 thanks. I always thought that breathing into them puts moisture in it
@@sammymichael1872 r/wooooosh
Still not working, should I try the cartridge slot now?
@@sammymichael1872 yeah but it's cool
“The only way to win, is to not play” - Wargames
"everybody looses" - DEFCON
@@impossabomb2146 "Everybody dies"
How about a nice game of chess
CPE1704TKS
But i love playing wargames its a great movie
I got to turn one of the keys on orders from the tour guide on a visit to the Titan Missle Silo (the museum here) when I was like 10. The whole experience was surreal, and only when I was in high school did I fully understood what turning that key would do back when it was active.
Many Americans grew up after the fall of the Soviet Union so they didn't grow up with the Nuke threat. We older Americans still remember how dangerous it can be when nuclear missiles are used. I work on missile systems at one time. No matter how many safety safeguards you make accidents can still happen.
I'd never really put much thought into silo operators. I've always wondered how much it weighed on presidents, having possession of the ability to end the world, but I never took the time to think about how the people who turn the key... manage to do it. Imagine taking this job during complete peacetime, thinking it's easy because you'll never *ever* have to actually turn that key, and then one day the speaker lights up and starts talking in numbers.
It's an interesting thing. Like yeah maybe the president and whoever is secondncan authorise it but would you launch the nukes if it came down to it. Could you really turn a key that ends the world
I mean, they did have surprise drills for missile crews that went exactly like that. There's a video on UA-cam you can easily find that's a clip from a really good documentary (Missile) that shows a launch training drill at Vandenberg AFB for a Minuteman missile crew.
If the Titan creeped you out, the Minuteman will scare the hell out of you since the crew controls an entire flight of ICBMs launching within seconds of each other. What makes it more real is the Minuteman is still active. There are still US Air Force officers (missileers) sitting in silos running these drills just on the slight chance that one day the order is real.
@@pilot1721 There were two well known false alarm incidents in Russia, one at a missile base and one aboard a nuclear submarine, where the end of the world was prevented solely by individuals who hesitated because they knew that something wasn't quite right about the situation.
@@platyhelminthes2877 They also hesitated because no one in their right mind, would ever launch a world ending device.
In the Star Wars comics, the guy that pulled the lever to fire the Death Star laser on Alderaan ended up killing himself from the grief of destroying billions
Best security they could use should be trying to uninstall McAfee from a windows installation.
HMU
Jesus amen
@@DUNCEATRON5000 you know it.
They should be able to send them though
What a great presenter.
Thank you for sharing this.
I don't know why but I just love these late 1900-century military technology.
was half-expecting him to spook them by playing really loud noises and having the stage shake
Yup, they totally need to rig up speakers/subwoofers with fake launch sounds and have the instructor go "uhhhh... Whoops"
@@AlexHerlan even better is to even have the room shake a little bit with it and a lot of vibrations
No, it was spooky enough as it was. The fact that we never have had to do it is no small feat.
@@ImpendingJoker It's not like you didn't try...
Hard part about that is that this isn't a stage. It is the actual underground complex for the titan missile
A lot of steps to end the world. A turn of a key , a push of a button , cancel Christmas. In fact cancel everything.
Snatch every motherfucker birthday.
@@clintonleonard5187 Concour mister.
Does cancel everything cancel itself?
@@monkpkey Then it is not cancel everything.
@@doedsstierna its cancel everything at that moment
Being a scientist and dedicating yourself to making missiles is like being a doctor and creating poisons, a failure
I think it’s quite eerie to think that these rooms could potentially be the last that any human steps in before human civilization is wiped
Wait, so nukes don't have a self destruct button? Hollywood lied to me.
No, you can't hide in a refrigerator either.
No, the military won't give you a pat in the back and say "Come inside where you're safe" on their silo or bunker.
No, stepping outside in the irradiated wasteland will not give you super powers.
@@hunt2668 Now you tell me
@@jamesparson "No, stepping outside in the irradiated wasteland will not give you super powers."
Wait I read that as "Now, you tell me."
Man that guy is really doing his job well. He’s a natural educator
Jack Glossop I totally agree, it’s crazy how he’s memorized all of this, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a vet that served under the same MOS.
He really seems like he loves his job, too.
I did the same thing with the Pershing missile system back in the 70s and 80s. Same procedures... We didn't have a butterfly valve code, but we had a PAL (Permissive Action Link) that did pretty much the same thing. WIth P1A (my system) you pushed two buttons; with PII (1984 onward) they used two keys, like this. And yes... you had to memorize all this stuff, by rote and in all combinations) before you were allowed to stand watch.
I met this guy just a few months ago. He was awesome.
Sounds like a solution to a puzzle room.
Little known fact is that President Reagan chose the name for the latest missile system...Peacekeeper. One of the names submitted but not considered was "Worldender".
Ooooh, I like the second one MUCH better!
well the name fits as they where desined as a deterrent, the only thing they should do, is sit in their launch tubes untill humanidty wont need them or getts vanished an other way. They did their job well till this day, as noone wanted to missuse those rockets and actually unleash their full potential. I really hope those who sit behind the triggers never gonna be that stupid as to press them
They are peacekeepers
I would call it "doomsday machine"
@@alekxu The fools...the mad fools! ua-cam.com/video/2yfXgu37iyI/v-deo.html
The motto for the Strategic Missile Forces (Russian) is:
"После нас - тишина" ("After us - silence")
that's pretty metal ngl
That's actually really disturbing.
That’s hardcore!!!!
Our founding fathers were fond of ours
ventus, vertis, fortunis....
Which translates It roughly to..
"Why does my peepee comeout yellow?"
that actually means same in Serbian :3
I'm here because my brother-in-law was in a silo during the Cuban Missal crises in Arkansas ... and he told me exactly the same thing this guy said...await further orders after launch... if you survive... he said you were going to get a retaliatory strike .... he was also there when the welder hit a hydraulic line... leading to an explosion when the fuel tanks on the rocket collapsed thus mixing the fuel....blew the blast door off into a field. Also the war head which of course not armed...... interesting stuff thanks for posting....
This is how it is for me to do my work. Everything is so authenticated!