And yet, because they stood waist-deep in the aforementioned gasoline with the aforementioned matches, neither dared throw a punch at the other. The existence of MAD prevented the existence of a conventional, non-nuclear WW3.
Think Different - Thought Provoking Ideas Now, unlike during the mere 'Cold War', America and it's international terrorist military, NATO, are on the doorstep of Russia and agitating China. Wars of HOT and COLD, decades old! The official American Military Posture targeting Russia and, more specifically China, is incredibly stupid and insane. Mattis wrote it or helped put the accursed policy together, I believe. It's to be expected of an elite Super-Psychopath.
@@andreinekrasov2036 nato is the only way it can possibly win a war! we just lost to the taliban but you can't tell americans they are so deep inpropganda's ass they can not see straight!
@@robinderoos1166 Way better than that senile old Socialist, FDR, or his mate Stalin. Besides, most of the post-war planning was done by Labour, under that cretinous fool, Atlee.
Two questions: What were/are the evacuation plans of the Royal Family in case of a nuclear attack, or any other disaster? How much tea was stored in that bunker?
According to Plan SYNCHRONISE, The entire Royal Family would evacuate from London and fly to their land-based wartime place of residence. Contray to popular belief, HMY BRITANNIA would not be used for this purpose.
i do believe they have several options but would most likely choose balmoral. its literally a defended estate. you could probably pack five thousand royal marines onto its grounds i would think. good frickin luck storming that lol.
Ok, here's the scenario. The Bombs gone off approximately 70 to 80% of the population Dead or maimed who would run around keeping the the Queen and others supplied with Toilet rolls, Bread etc.if any Cows survived who would milk them ?.
Great video, Simon, on one of my favourite subjects. A few recommended books, if I may: 'Underground Structures Of The Cold War', by Paul Ozorak; 'Secret Underground Cities' 'Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers', both by Nick J. McCamley, the latter carrying some chilling facts on what the USSR planned to drop on the UK, by region. 'The Secret State', by Peter Hennessy. A classic. I lived through the latter parts of the cold war, and, as kids, we would often hear them testing a nearby air-raid siren. Asking my parents why, I'd be told it was for the fire brigade. In reality, it was the 'You've just time to boil an egg' alert. Where I live was once within 25 miles or so of six RAF and USAF airfields, the hub of the UK Radar system, a ROTOR Radar site, the NATO secure telecommunications hub, the British Telecom laboratories, Colchester Garrison, Felixstowe Docks, Sizewell Atomic power station... I can see the Soviet map, in my mind's eye, with my little corner of England full of pins, looking like a hedgehog. Our old borough council offices (long demolished) had no provision made for a bunker underneath it, in case of armageddon. There was no point. We would have been ash, and nothing or nobody left to govern. To me, the 1980's were most definitely the best of times, and the worst of times. Movies like 'War Games' were terrifyingly possible; the war scenarios shown near the end were all completely real, and it's still frightening to see. Computer glitches happened on both sides, and we are lucky, so lucky, that intelligent people were on duty at those times. On duty too, and for the duration of the cold war, were members of the Observer Corps, in their tiny underground bunkers, just big enough for four men, 20 feet underground. They would observe, via outside instruments, the location and power of the falling bombs. All over the UK. These were brave people, sitting in their little boxes. Waiting for the end of the world. They need a video, Simon.
Great taste in books Brian. Nick McCamley is a great researcher, as is Nick Catford. I would recommend Nick Catfords latest photobook, super reference work.
"Sir Humphrey: annihilation is bad enough without anarchy on top of it. PM Hacker: you can"t have a lot of rebellious cinders can you?" ~Yes, Prime Minister.
Thanks for the fantastic upload which was both entertaining and informative and all the more due to living on the hill (Rudloe just outside Corsham) that Burlington Quarry cuts through.
Been a subscriber since the beginning. Just watching and thinking to myself, this is a very well written, delivered and produced channel. Always is mate. Thanks Simon. The world would be a better place if more people were as interesting as you.
Yeaaaaah, Simon totally writes the scripts and edits... xD (There are a lot of other people involved in Simon’s various channels. He’s an absolute workaholic though)
There's a similar bunker west of Ottawa, Canada called the Diefenbunker that's now a museum. Would be worth an episode of Geographics. Blast tunnel, super thick doors, decontamination showers, giant vault for the country's gold, a gap around the vault with mirrors at every corner so you can look in either direction and see the back of your head, etc.
This time last year I'd have agreed with you. 2020 has taught me that most of my compatriots are infantile selfish hackwits. We'd be at full Mad Max before the doilies ran out.
I live in Corsham and about half a mile from the quarry entrance. You used to able to walk down to track level at the quarry which is alongside Box Tunnel, but it's locked tight and the tracks have been lifted, but there are various entrances to the quarries scattered around the surrounding hills and woods, and every once a blue moon they let the public in
I live near the bunker it's a running joke that there's a road sign directing to the "secret nuclear bunker" No tourist ever gets a straight answer for humour purposes of course
When you say you didn't live through it... You know that those missiles still exist, they are on hair triggered alert and still aimed at the same targets. Nobody told the bombs that the cold war is over. (yes there are fewer bombs, but still enough to destroy all the targets)
You can visit various "Secret Nuclear Bunkers" in the UK. I went to one in the north west, funny seeing a big signpost say "this way to the secret nuclear bunker". They are very cool, creepy and have a sinister cold war feel to them. Worth visiting. Kelvedon Hatch is a famous one near london
Even modern Special forces. chemical weapons and intelligence bases are labelled “works only unit” on major motorways. There’s nothing secret in the UK. It’s almost tragic.
@@jugganaut33 Yes with big red signs making you instantly think whats there, best one is on the M4 near Swindon. USAF weapons storage facility I think. These nuclear bunkers say they are secret as a joke, they are effectively frozen in time museums.
North Bay, Ontario. The NORAD regional command centre (another episode suggestion), the only one of NORADs regional installations to be built underground, designed to withstand a direct hit of 4 megatons. What did they name it? The "Underground Complex (UGC)" or as locals know it "The Hole". You would think with a winter that lasts 8 months we would have time to think up more creative names.
Camp x was where British sis and soe officers trained the first members of the oss. It was the first of a network of over two dozen such camps. One of which trains cia officers to this day. Camp x is very real and very worthy of an episode.
Corsham bunkers are still in use by MOD/ government , but a lot of the outlying bunkers in the area are used by data companies and storage companies. There's a lot of urbex videos on UA-cam just search Burlington bunkers.
“There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.” ― George W. Bush
@@QuestionEverythingButWHY honestly, I was too young at the time to really have an opinion on him based on his actions live. From what speeches and stuff I've seen he seems to me to be kind of like biden, tripping over himself and getting all tongue-tied really easily
I've been in some of the old mines around Burlington Bunker and they are impressive dating back to the late 1800's to early 1900's/mid 1950's. They are called Box mines and they are some of the biggest mine workings in Europe with miles of passageways that connect up to the Bunker itself which has distinct red doors blocking the entrance in. Another fact that's missing here is that the Bunker was converted from an underground ammo dump where several old quarries in Wiltshire got transferred into underground manufacturing and storage of bombs during WWII which at the time, also had the largest stockpile of bombs in Europe.
Hey Geographic can you make a video about the Bataan Peninsula and why was is the place General MacArthur picked it as the place where he decided to make his defense against the Japanese in the ww2 and its history.
This turnstile bunker was an open secret in the area, my father and grandparents lived about a mile from the entrance, one thing you didn’t mention is this is a siding off of the famous Box tunnel built by IK Brunel and was used as a munitions manufacturing and store during WW2
The Irony is that by the time it was operational Burlington was already obsolete. It had been designed with a long slow journey into war in mind and the Cuban Missile Crisis showed there might not be time to man the bunker before nukes delivered by ICBM arrived. And as you say the bunker could not survive a direct hit and relied on secrecy, which was blown soon after. As with so much of civil defence, it was passed on by events
Their used to be a fallout shelter near where i live for the primer that got sold off to the hells angels after the cold war...not sure who in the Canadian government figured selling a nuclear bomb shelter to an organized crime group was a good idea but no ones ever called the canadian government smart. They did buy it back but im pretty sure they paid more than sold it for.
There's a (former) "Secret Nuclear Bunker" in Essex. Because it's a tourist attraction, it's fully signposted, but when people see photos of the signs online they often assume they're fake. 😁
Massive co-incidence that you posted this today, Simon; as my family and I only yesterday visited a nuclear bunker in Nantwich Cheshire. It’s been turned into a museum with lots of Cold War era artefacts and mock ups of how the bunker would have been used in the event of war.
Canada had the Diefenbunker it's become a tourist attraction after the fall of the old Soviet Union However the Diefenbunker was extremely modern for it's time considering it was built back in the early 1960s
Er... did I hear correctly? "...4000 key officials would be mobilised to reach TURNSTILE within 2 hours or less preferably by RAF helicopters." Where on earth did that misinformation come from? The real plan was to transport the 3,760 TURNSTILE staff from Kensington Olympia Station (London) in chartered trains over a 14 hour period, to Warminster Station in Wiltshire (codenamed CHECKPOINT). They would then go to the nearby School of Infantry, be fed and watered and assembled for oneard transport by Army convoy to the CGWHQ at Corsham. And GRANDEE HOTEL wasn't the code to man - that was GRANDEE DELTA 4. GRANDEE HOTEL 1 was the code to signify that TURNSTILE was manned and would now take control of the UK .
The Canadians also made one of these, called the Diefenbunker in Carp, Ontario (just outside of Ottawa). I've been, the whole thing is a really ugly shade of pinkish-grey and somehow smells like paint however many decades later but the whole thing is incredibly neat.
Simon...I love all your channels!!! I have a suggestion for a video, although it is not as exciting as a nuclear buncker or a super volcano but a it is a bit interesting. There is an area in the state of Minnesota that is totally cut off from the rest of the United States. It goes by some different name but "The Angle" is I believe the most used. For example the childern have to go through Canada back into Minnesota to attend school. Many of the residents commute via Canada to work, shop, doctors etc. I believe the only "city" or town in the area is called Angle Inlet. Check it out to see if it is of interest for your use.
When I was a little Scroggie, anytime my family (I am the last of 8, from my mother, 10th from my father) in the 1960s and early 70s, anytime my family went on trips to see my Aunts in Manitoba, Canada, my father would always say something about a "mushroom plant" he worked on building. Naturally, I thought "yummy! Mushrooms", as I loved eating fried mushrooms. Later 1970s, in the Canadian Army, given a tour of the first floor of the "Diefenbunker" (still active at that time bomb shelter for the Manitoba government, built by our PM John Diefenbaker) at CFB Shilo, Manitoba. Was also told that I would probably never get the clearance to see more of it. I mentioned it to my father the next time I saw him, and he said: "Oh, the Mushroom Plant!"! Seems he had designed and installed the alarm system in it. Told me more about the place than the Sagent knew!
Simon, you could have done a video on Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker. That one was the one the Prime Minister would have gone to. And we’ve been there!
3:52 if you haven't seen Threads then try and locate a copy. It's a very powerful film that showcases the horrors of a nuke conflict in the UK. Well worth a watch.
It's so surreal watching a Geographics video about the town I live in. Unfortunately the entrances to the quarries and tunnel systems have been largely sealed off, though I did manage to have a brief look around in one many years back.
Hey Simon and Crew, can you do an episode on Bletchley Park? I know there are probably a lot of vids on this, but I trust y’all and like the spin y’all have on subjects. Thanks for all y’all do!
I live not far from a local government emergency planning bunker. Now disused and turned into housing but the underground planning room is still there and open to the public 1 day a year.
I remember the school cartoon on what to do during a nuclear hit during the 80s, painting windows and hide under a staircase or table. The scary part was that we were supposed to take it seriously ! WE ALL KNEW !
@@Clarkyboy1979 I grew up in So. Cal during the Cold War and I don't remember doing any nuke drills either. May have been more common the closer one got to the various bases. I remember the earthquake drills.
I actually went into this place during the summer of 1982. I was 17 and a member of the Air Training Corp ( a youth program of the Royal Air Force a bit like the US ROTC program). We had a summer camp in Wiltshire and one of the trips was to this bunker.
How about a documentary on the Russian bunkers during the cold war? I'll acknowledge that this would be difficult to research due to the political differences, but it would be interesting to see what a potential opponent was planning to do with regards to continuation of Government in the event of total nuclear war.
You should do a video on Osowiec Fortress. I was the site of a battle in ww1 where after being gassed the half dead russian garrison counter charged and routed a much larger german assault
I lived in Corsham for a year and I kept complaining that nothing ever happened there, unbeknownst to me that there was super secret nuclear bunker beneath me the entire time..
"There would be no Mad Max scenario here..." Me: Laughs in THREADS. ETA: For anyone with Prime, if you want to see one of the most horrifying, realistic nuclear war/apocalypse films ever made, THREADS is now available for Prime users (it used to be on the channel "Shudder").
There's a big underground mine digging out fertiliser. Hopefully it will be made into a permanent usefull space that will not collapse that might be used in the future. The underground space is being created by the miner. One simple use of an extremely large space that is built (if it could be kept dry) would be to help to provide housing to people. And or to creat a usable space for an underground military base that could be used for a long time if desired.
"Scattered across the countryside" was a strange way to put it. It made it sound like there aren't other cities in the UK. The other nukes that didn't hit London or military targets would have hit the other cities.
I live above a hidden nuclear bunker in Merseyside. I personally can't find any information on the internet. But its common local knowledge its there and a collage use to be directly ontop. A old tutor there told a story about getting opening the shaft witch lead to the bunk. I seen loads of pictures from there and its like it has never been touched. Fully stocked awaiting use..
Could you do a story about the Climax Mine outside of Leadville Colorado? Its a massive mine that's taken an entire peak off of a mountain and poisoned the lakes below it. Making the water turn several shades of rust at once. A state highway runs right by it. So its easy to find.
Very interesting video boi with the blaze. I have a question. If england was hit with nukes, could this bunker communicate with american government? Or european governments? I guess the russians could track communications though....
Davon Garcia Im not anerican im canadian. I spent middle school in special needs classes I think those 2 things contributed to me not knowing most of these megaprojects
The book by Duncan Campbell, UK War Plan made the Burlington (one of several names assigned over its existence) central government seat of power public information in the mid 1980's.
For anyone interested in this type of stuff the podcast "The Atomic Hobo" by Julie McDowall might be of interest. The amount of procedures that institutions came up with "to deal with it" were interesting and at times quite disturbing.
@@johnharrop5530 There's a widely advertised tool available for keeping things like this in check. It is called Lawnmower3 by Manscape. It is designed for tough course hair, cattle and sheep, but is just what Simon needs just now, before it's too late and he is suffocated, insects start breeding in there, or his child takes fright and leaves home.
This kind of plan is not only about what to do during such an attack and in the immediate aftermath, but about getting things back up and running properly. You would eventually want Parliament to reconvene; keeping a copy of their rules would be handy to have.
The plans are called The WAR BOOK And are documented in The WHITE PAPER Reform a Government, Not Parliament As there would be no need for a Parliament.. But the reality is.. There wouldn't be anything left of the UK to try and govern ..
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
― Carl Sagan
And yet, because they stood waist-deep in the aforementioned gasoline with the aforementioned matches, neither dared throw a punch at the other. The existence of MAD prevented the existence of a conventional, non-nuclear WW3.
@@MrBlueBurd0451 it still does. The missiles are still there
Think Different - Thought Provoking Ideas Now, unlike during the mere 'Cold War', America and it's international terrorist military, NATO, are on the doorstep of Russia and agitating China. Wars of HOT and COLD, decades old! The official American Military Posture targeting Russia and, more specifically China, is incredibly stupid and insane. Mattis wrote it or helped put the accursed policy together, I believe. It's to be expected of an elite Super-Psychopath.
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@@andreinekrasov2036 nato is the only way it can possibly win a war! we just lost to the taliban but you can't tell americans they are so deep inpropganda's ass they can not see straight!
3 per person? They weren’t building castles with millions of hoarded toilet paper and naming it Fartingham Palace?
How disappointing
Nuclear bombs out of toilet paper,............"Allegedly ", ................😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😊😊😊🤔😊🤔🤔😜😜😜
Bidets!
Don't forget mollions of fresh socks, because Churchill was a fool.
@@robinderoos1166 Churchill was my role model,...................."Allegedly",.......................😃😃😃😃😃😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@robinderoos1166 Way better than that senile old Socialist, FDR, or his mate Stalin. Besides, most of the post-war planning was done by Labour, under that cretinous fool, Atlee.
1:10 - Chapter 1 - Citadel !
6:25 - Chapter 2 - Subterfuge !
8:55 - Mid roll ads
10:20 - Chapter 3 - Bunking in the bunker
13:45 - Chapter 4 - Stockwell !
14:00 - Chapter 5 - Burlington !
15:15 - Chapter 6 - Turnstile !
20:55 - Chapter 7 - Python flying circus
It's interesting that there was no mention on tea. Without tea & booze this would have collapsed in hours.
Two questions:
What were/are the evacuation plans of the Royal Family in case of a nuclear attack, or any other disaster?
How much tea was stored in that bunker?
According to Plan SYNCHRONISE, The entire Royal Family would evacuate from London and fly to their land-based wartime place of residence. Contray to popular belief, HMY BRITANNIA would not be used for this purpose.
It's why Pall Mall is painted red. So it can be used as a runway to evacuate them.
@@nickjacobs1770 BULLSHIT
i do believe they have several options but would most likely choose balmoral. its literally a defended estate. you could probably pack five thousand royal marines onto its grounds i would think. good frickin luck storming that lol.
Ok, here's the scenario. The Bombs gone off approximately 70 to 80% of the population Dead or maimed who would run around keeping the the Queen and others supplied with Toilet rolls, Bread etc.if any Cows survived who would milk them ?.
Great video, Simon, on one of my favourite subjects. A few recommended books, if I may:
'Underground Structures Of The Cold War', by Paul Ozorak;
'Secret Underground Cities'
'Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers', both by Nick J. McCamley, the latter carrying some chilling facts on what the USSR planned to drop on the UK, by region.
'The Secret State', by Peter Hennessy. A classic.
I lived through the latter parts of the cold war, and, as kids, we would often hear them testing a nearby air-raid siren. Asking my parents why, I'd be told it was for the fire brigade. In reality, it was the 'You've just time to boil an egg' alert. Where I live was once within 25 miles or so of six RAF and USAF airfields, the hub of the UK Radar system, a ROTOR Radar site, the NATO secure telecommunications hub, the British Telecom laboratories, Colchester Garrison, Felixstowe Docks, Sizewell Atomic power station... I can see the Soviet map, in my mind's eye, with my little corner of England full of pins, looking like a hedgehog. Our old borough council offices (long demolished) had no provision made for a bunker underneath it, in case of armageddon. There was no point. We would have been ash, and nothing or nobody left to govern. To me, the 1980's were most definitely the best of times, and the worst of times. Movies like 'War Games' were terrifyingly possible; the war scenarios shown near the end were all completely real, and it's still frightening to see. Computer glitches happened on both sides, and we are lucky, so lucky, that intelligent people were on duty at those times. On duty too, and for the duration of the cold war, were members of the Observer Corps, in their tiny underground bunkers, just big enough for four men, 20 feet underground. They would observe, via outside instruments, the location and power of the falling bombs. All over the UK. These were brave people, sitting in their little boxes. Waiting for the end of the world. They need a video, Simon.
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Great taste in books Brian. Nick McCamley is a great researcher, as is Nick Catford. I would recommend Nick Catfords latest photobook, super reference work.
"Sir Humphrey: annihilation is bad enough without anarchy on top of it.
PM Hacker: you can"t have a lot of rebellious cinders can you?"
~Yes, Prime Minister.
Thanks for the fantastic upload which was both entertaining and informative and all the more due to living on the hill (Rudloe just outside Corsham) that Burlington Quarry cuts through.
Thanks Simon love your content always interesting listen 👍👍
Been a subscriber since the beginning. Just watching and thinking to myself, this is a very well written, delivered and produced channel. Always is mate. Thanks Simon. The world would be a better place if more people were as interesting as you.
Yeaaaaah, Simon totally writes the scripts and edits... xD (There are a lot of other people involved in Simon’s various channels. He’s an absolute workaholic though)
There's a similar bunker west of Ottawa, Canada called the Diefenbunker that's now a museum. Would be worth an episode of Geographics.
Blast tunnel, super thick doors, decontamination showers, giant vault for the country's gold, a gap around the vault with mirrors at every corner so you can look in either direction and see the back of your head, etc.
Why is it necessary to look at your head?
Genuine question, I might he stupid
Of course there wouldn't be a Mad Max scenario in England! Stiff upper lip and so on. There would at most be a Miffed Max scenario.
lmfao. How about "Brassed Off Max" handy with the "BOM" ;~)
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@@pegasusted2504 Brilliant, nearly spat my tea out !
This time last year I'd have agreed with you. 2020 has taught me that most of my compatriots are infantile selfish hackwits. We'd be at full Mad Max before the doilies ran out.
I live in Corsham and about half a mile from the quarry entrance. You used to able to walk down to track level at the quarry which is alongside Box Tunnel, but it's locked tight and the tracks have been lifted, but there are various entrances to the quarries scattered around the surrounding hills and woods, and every once a blue moon they let the public in
I live near the bunker it's a running joke that there's a road sign directing to the "secret nuclear bunker"
No tourist ever gets a straight answer for humour purposes of course
what was the sign before the site was declassified?
@@Satters The "Secret Nuclear Bunker" roadsign exists, but is for another bunker up in Norfolk I think. It's an air defence bunker IIRC.
We had a fair few bunkers back then. Just makes you wonder what they use now?? ;)
The bunkers they didn't make public of course. The internet makes you need far fewer
It's the bunker in fife it's a Scotland secret bunker it's a privately owned bunker museum
The footage at 10:50 is Kelvedon Hatch bunker, the main government bunker for most of the Cold War.
Near me there's a similar (but smaller) place called Hack Green Nuclear Bunker. It's open to the public and well worth a visit.
When you say you didn't live through it... You know that those missiles still exist, they are on hair triggered alert and still aimed at the same targets. Nobody told the bombs that the cold war is over.
(yes there are fewer bombs, but still enough to destroy all the targets)
They are apparently detargetted, aiming at the middle of various oceans but of course they can be retargetted in minutes.
Have you done the bunker at the Greenbrier hotel in White Sulfer Springs, WV USA? It was pretty interesting to see.
Agreed it is really interesting
You can visit various "Secret Nuclear Bunkers" in the UK. I went to one in the north west, funny seeing a big signpost say "this way to the secret nuclear bunker". They are very cool, creepy and have a sinister cold war feel to them. Worth visiting. Kelvedon Hatch is a famous one near london
Even modern Special forces. chemical weapons and intelligence bases are labelled “works only unit” on major motorways. There’s nothing secret in the UK. It’s almost tragic.
@@jugganaut33 Yes with big red signs making you instantly think whats there, best one is on the M4 near Swindon. USAF weapons storage facility I think. These nuclear bunkers say they are secret as a joke, they are effectively frozen in time museums.
I've got a suggestion for a episode. I live near whitby, Ontario. There was a secret spy camp during WW2 there. It was called Camp X.
I like in a small town in north Carolina where there's a 14 mile underground bunker called bunker BS
Oh Canadians, so inventive in naming their secret bases.
North Bay, Ontario. The NORAD regional command centre (another episode suggestion), the only one of NORADs regional installations to be built underground, designed to withstand a direct hit of 4 megatons. What did they name it? The "Underground Complex (UGC)" or as locals know it "The Hole". You would think with a winter that lasts 8 months we would have time to think up more creative names.
Camp x was where British sis and soe officers trained the first members of the oss. It was the first of a network of over two dozen such camps. One of which trains cia officers to this day. Camp x is very real and very worthy of an episode.
@@UnchainedAmerica The original name was actually Camp X, Eh?
Went to one of the government bunkers once, might have been this one. Standing in the war room with the giant map was a pretty interesting experience
Corsham bunkers are still in use by MOD/ government , but a lot of the outlying bunkers in the area are used by data companies and storage companies.
There's a lot of urbex videos on UA-cam just search Burlington bunkers.
“There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.”
― George W. Bush
He wasn't the best at talking was he?
@@gamersrepublic6920 you think so? I thought he wasn't good at remembering things. But I might be wrong.
@@QuestionEverythingButWHY honestly, I was too young at the time to really have an opinion on him based on his actions live. From what speeches and stuff I've seen he seems to me to be kind of like biden, tripping over himself and getting all tongue-tied really easily
@@gamersrepublic6920 actually Biden has a stuttering problem from his childhood. Bush could sometimes make people laugh with his words and action.
@@QuestionEverythingButWHY bush moved kinda like a chicken, haven't seen if he still does.
I've been in some of the old mines around Burlington Bunker and they are impressive dating back to the late 1800's to early 1900's/mid 1950's. They are called Box mines and they are some of the biggest mine workings in Europe with miles of passageways that connect up to the Bunker itself which has distinct red doors blocking the entrance in.
Another fact that's missing here is that the Bunker was converted from an underground ammo dump where several old quarries in Wiltshire got transferred into underground manufacturing and storage of bombs during WWII which at the time, also had the largest stockpile of bombs in Europe.
It may be the apocalypse, but by God I will have my scones!!
This video was so cool! More like this please!!!
Hey Geographic can you make a video about the Bataan Peninsula and why was is the place General MacArthur picked it as the place where he decided to make his defense against the Japanese in the ww2 and its history.
This turnstile bunker was an open secret in the area, my father and grandparents lived about a mile from the entrance, one thing you didn’t mention is this is a siding off of the famous Box tunnel built by IK Brunel and was used as a munitions manufacturing and store during WW2
That was cool! I had no idea Britain had a setup like that.
Oh there's lots below
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The Irony is that by the time it was operational Burlington was already obsolete. It had been designed with a long slow journey into war in mind and the Cuban Missile Crisis showed there might not be time to man the bunker before nukes delivered by ICBM arrived. And as you say the bunker could not survive a direct hit and relied on secrecy, which was blown soon after. As with so much of civil defence, it was passed on by events
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The Diefenbunker does have some quirky stories of its own, in a similar vein!
Their used to be a fallout shelter near where i live for the primer that got sold off to the hells angels after the cold war...not sure who in the Canadian government figured selling a nuclear bomb shelter to an organized crime group was a good idea but no ones ever called the canadian government smart. They did buy it back but im pretty sure they paid more than sold it for.
@@vonfaustien3957 Precisely one of the few stories I was talking about 🤣
I live near one! Museum now!
There's a (former) "Secret Nuclear Bunker" in Essex. Because it's a tourist attraction, it's fully signposted, but when people see photos of the signs online they often assume they're fake. 😁
Massive co-incidence that you posted this today, Simon; as my family and I only yesterday visited a nuclear bunker in Nantwich Cheshire. It’s been turned into a museum with lots of Cold War era artefacts and mock ups of how the bunker would have been used in the event of war.
In 12 months it will just be a beard with glasses and a voice.
Maybe Simon is planning to challenge Tundra Tactical to a "beard off".
Reminds me of the waldo moment episode of black mirror
Canada had the Diefenbunker it's become a tourist attraction after the fall of the old Soviet Union
However the Diefenbunker was extremely modern for it's time considering it was built back in the early 1960s
You should research Mount Weather government facility in Virginia in the US!
ah yes, Blackpool. the perfect place for level-headed thinking. nuclear genocide of seagulls imminent
You mock having a bakery but flour is more versatile and shelf stable compared to bread. US Navy ships can have bakeries.
21:40 with the UK a sea of molten glass they might as well put Monty Python in charge.
Well, you gotta always look on the bright side of life. Even when the brightness is from an incoming nuclear explosion.
The Governments plans were actually called
Python
"you can focus on the learning, and not get distracted by adverts" -- well there's a whollop of irony
Er... did I hear correctly? "...4000 key officials would be mobilised to reach TURNSTILE within 2 hours or less preferably by RAF helicopters." Where on earth did that misinformation come from? The real plan was to transport the 3,760 TURNSTILE staff from Kensington Olympia Station (London) in chartered trains over a 14 hour period, to Warminster Station in Wiltshire (codenamed CHECKPOINT). They would then go to the nearby School of Infantry, be fed and watered and assembled for oneard transport by Army convoy to the CGWHQ at Corsham. And GRANDEE HOTEL wasn't the code to man - that was GRANDEE DELTA 4. GRANDEE HOTEL 1 was the code to signify that TURNSTILE was manned and would now take control of the UK .
You know of the
War book
White Papers
I would love to see more of these from other countries as well
The Canadians also made one of these, called the Diefenbunker in Carp, Ontario (just outside of Ottawa). I've been, the whole thing is a really ugly shade of pinkish-grey and somehow smells like paint however many decades later but the whole thing is incredibly neat.
The beard has had a boost :) its looking wonderful Simon.
Love Simon’s videos
We really enjoyed this one Simon
Simon...I love all your channels!!! I have a suggestion for a video, although it is not as exciting as a nuclear buncker or a super volcano but a it is a bit interesting. There is an area in the state of Minnesota that is totally cut off from the rest of the United States. It goes by some different name but "The Angle" is I believe the most used. For example the childern have to go through Canada back into Minnesota to attend school. Many of the residents commute via Canada to work, shop, doctors etc. I believe the only "city" or town in the area is called Angle Inlet. Check it out to see if it is of interest for your use.
I'm glad we get mentioned once in a while
When I was a little Scroggie, anytime my family (I am the last of 8, from my mother, 10th from my father) in the 1960s and early 70s, anytime my family went on trips to see my Aunts in Manitoba, Canada, my father would always say something about a "mushroom plant" he worked on building. Naturally, I thought "yummy! Mushrooms", as I loved eating fried mushrooms.
Later 1970s, in the Canadian Army, given a tour of the first floor of the "Diefenbunker" (still active at that time bomb shelter for the Manitoba government, built by our PM John Diefenbaker) at CFB Shilo, Manitoba. Was also told that I would probably never get the clearance to see more of it. I mentioned it to my father the next time I saw him, and he said: "Oh, the Mushroom Plant!"! Seems he had designed and installed the alarm system in it. Told me more about the place than the Sagent knew!
Looking like a whistler morning for me!
Is that english english slang?
@@SizzStarr probably because his name is somon whistler you goon
CraigHalliday02 copy over my head this morning.
Time for Simon Says lol. Anyway, I love this channel
Hahaha if it is slang then it’s lost to me. Was playing off his name. This is his 3rd upload this morning
"Provided said table had not been vaporized..." I'll be laughing all day at that line...
just lovely how the boy with the blaze is slowly taking over the other simon whistler channels
Simon, you could have done a video on Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker. That one was the one the Prime Minister would have gone to. And we’ve been there!
The T2 scene was really clever, I don't think I caught that the first time I watched this.
Excellent, very detailed
Thank you
Nothing like 4 simon whistler videos at 11 in the evening
3:52 if you haven't seen Threads then try and locate a copy. It's a very powerful film that showcases the horrors of a nuke conflict in the UK. Well worth a watch.
This man has more channels than I have strands of hair .
15:17 you should do a video on ancient warlords of Japan (around nobunaga) good luck on dealing with all the constant name changes
Just the mention of Threads makes me shiver.
No "Threads" scenario? Having seen "Threads" I find that very comforting!
Agreed!
It's so surreal watching a Geographics video about the town I live in. Unfortunately the entrances to the quarries and tunnel systems have been largely sealed off, though I did manage to have a brief look around in one many years back.
At 10:35 I was unsure if you said "support staff" or "sports bar", both make perfect sense tbh
Hey Simon and Crew, can you do an episode on Bletchley Park? I know there are probably a lot of vids on this, but I trust y’all and like the spin y’all have on subjects. Thanks for all y’all do!
I live not far from a local government emergency planning bunker.
Now disused and turned into housing but the underground planning room is still there and open to the public 1 day a year.
I remember the school cartoon on what to do during a nuclear hit during the 80s, painting windows and hide under a staircase or table.
The scary part was that we were supposed to take it seriously ! WE ALL KNEW !
I was at school from 85 onwards and never saw these but I'm aware of them through the Raymond Briggs graphic novel, When The Wind Blows.
@@Clarkyboy1979 I grew up in So. Cal during the Cold War and I don't remember doing any nuke drills either. May have been more common the closer one got to the various bases. I remember the earthquake drills.
So even in the UK contractors do that shit, huh?!! It must be literally everywhere!
extremely interesting content.
"An undisclosed quantity of" oh I do like that .. Great vid thank you.
I actually went into this place during the summer of 1982. I was 17 and a member of the Air Training Corp ( a youth program of the Royal Air Force a bit like the US ROTC program). We had a summer camp in Wiltshire and one of the trips was to this bunker.
You can't fight in here! This is the war room!
'Mr President, I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed...'
How about a documentary on the Russian bunkers during the cold war? I'll acknowledge that this would be difficult to research due to the political differences, but it would be interesting to see what a potential opponent was planning to do with regards to continuation of Government in the event of total nuclear war.
Could you do a video on the Hungarian Arpard line it overshadowed by other defensive lines like the Magiont.
You should do a video on Osowiec Fortress. I was the site of a battle in ww1 where after being gassed the half dead russian garrison counter charged and routed a much larger german assault
Very informative Simon. Hmmm 🤔
I lived in Corsham for a year and I kept complaining that nothing ever happened there, unbeknownst to me that there was super secret nuclear bunker beneath me the entire time..
Ah! The flavour of Business Blaze slipped in. The toaster and cat clip was great! Does Sam edit this channel too?
"There would be no Mad Max scenario here..."
Me: Laughs in THREADS.
ETA: For anyone with Prime, if you want to see one of the most horrifying, realistic nuclear war/apocalypse films ever made, THREADS is now available for Prime users (it used to be on the channel "Shudder").
Also available on a free channel - can't remember which one at present...
Saw it in 1984, at age 11. Horrifying then, still creepy now.
"Why is Babel better than the rest?" Because Simon says so.
There's a big underground mine digging out fertiliser. Hopefully it will be made into a permanent usefull space that will not collapse that might be used in the future. The underground space is being created by the miner. One simple use of an extremely large space that is built (if it could be kept dry) would be to help to provide housing to people. And or to creat a usable space for an underground military base that could be used for a long time if desired.
Any chance you could do a show on Maralinga?
"Scattered across the countryside" was a strange way to put it. It made it sound like there aren't other cities in the UK. The other nukes that didn't hit London or military targets would have hit the other cities.
Bro, how many channels you need?
I live above a hidden nuclear bunker in Merseyside. I personally can't find any information on the internet. But its common local knowledge its there and a collage use to be directly ontop. A old tutor there told a story about getting opening the shaft witch lead to the bunk. I seen loads of pictures from there and its like it has never been touched. Fully stocked awaiting use..
Could you do a story about the Climax Mine outside of Leadville Colorado? Its a massive mine that's taken an entire peak off of a mountain and poisoned the lakes below it. Making the water turn several shades of rust at once. A state highway runs right by it. So its easy to find.
"Ministers need cigars in order to function", hhhhhhhhhh - Thanks for the laugh!
Don't underestimate the need for recreation and some luxuries: left-wing planners always forget that, unless such luxuries are for the people on top.
Very interesting video boi with the blaze.
I have a question.
If england was hit with nukes, could this bunker communicate with american government? Or european governments?
I guess the russians could track communications though....
Yes they could. Another benefit of this Bunker is its proximity to the trans-Atlantic telegraph line.
Frazer Guest
Oh ive seen THAT megaprojects video
Davon Garcia huh?
Davon Garcia
I didnt learn about it in school.
Davon Garcia
Im not anerican im canadian.
I spent middle school in special needs classes
I think those 2 things contributed to me not knowing most of these megaprojects
Hey how about doing a video on the bay of fundy. Include grand mannan island, largest tides, stuff i dont know
The book by Duncan Campbell, UK War Plan made the Burlington (one of several names assigned over its existence) central government seat of power public information in the mid 1980's.
For anyone interested in this type of stuff the podcast "The Atomic Hobo" by Julie McDowall might be of interest. The amount of procedures that institutions came up with "to deal with it" were interesting and at times quite disturbing.
The
WHITE PAPER
A video on the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System would be pretty interesting
Live near it, never been but a few of my mates have, definatley interesting
It was never used and there should never be a situation when it should be used
Zombie Apocalypse: "Am I a joke to you?"
don't know which channel this belongs on, but i would love to see a video on the AK 47. a massively influential weapon in the past century
Crikey. Great vid. I live in Corsham.
Very interesting.
Simon's beard is starting to look pretty luscious.
or creepy
Yoooooow. As I opened the video I was like bumboclaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttt that beard.
But on second glance I really really liked it
He's just compensating for what's not on top
I hate beards full stop ,
nothing more than shit catchers
@@johnharrop5530
There's a widely advertised tool available for keeping things like this in check. It is called Lawnmower3 by Manscape. It is designed for tough course hair, cattle and sheep, but is just what Simon needs just now, before it's too late and he is suffocated, insects start breeding in there, or his child takes fright and leaves home.
Huw Williams lmao y’all are horrible 😂😂 I really like his beard. It looks so healthy and manly.
I love the use of the Final Fantasy VII Sound Track in these videos. :)
Do a video on the Diefenbunker!
This kind of plan is not only about what to do during such an attack and in the immediate aftermath, but about getting things back up and running properly. You would eventually want Parliament to reconvene; keeping a copy of their rules would be handy to have.
The plans are called
The WAR BOOK
And are documented in
The WHITE PAPER
Reform a Government,
Not Parliament
As there would be no need for a Parliament..
But the reality is..
There wouldn't be anything left of the UK to try and govern ..