AT&T Archives: A 20-Year History of the Anti-ballistic Missile (Bonus Edition) 

43:04 , the “He is Risen” in the shape of a missile in the base chapel. In that 1970’s acid trip font too.

I was a kid on Kwajalein in '68-69. I think it was primarily Nike-Zeus at the time moving to Nike-X. When they launched the island shook. Neat to see this video but it was before they put a temp-housing trailer park on one end of the island. The radar at 18:18 must've been decommissioned when we were there because it was being used as a golf driving range. Just a kid but I remember repeatedly going-for and hitting this piece of sheet-metal way up there which really gave off a 'wang' (early form of reactive targets :-) Always barefoot, the smell of the Creosote at the pier...a lot of great memories!

This was actually a very fascinating film. Well detailed and not boring. And I liked the background music too.

Having this period footage available makes for a fascinating watch - many thanks for this 👍

Well, there's nothing we brits enjoy more than a good documentary.Thx AT&T T CH

Both were very good documentaries on these important past projects. I worked on advanced sensor systems and strategic weapons for 25 years through the 80's and 90's. Love to see documented prior work that led into work I did.

We owe so much to Bell Labs!

I'm watching this and thinking all that concrete, steel, tons of electronic equipment built in N. Dakota. And all those communities with housing etc. in an area that becomes bitter cold for months like Scandinavian countries. wow. And at end of this video there's Norm Augustine of the Augustine Commission I and II for the space program (but that's another story). Note that telephones made by Ma Bell same time this film was made were built of steel chassis, tough kevlar like plastic housing, and electronics that can withstand a nuclear blast from 50 yards. And they said, "Bell System Property, Not For Sale."

Oh how cool you can see the 1971 storage media.

This is a testament to the power of cooperation... Ironic.

And to say thank you to AT&T for their efforts in our middle defense system and for building the phone infrastructure and developing the integrated circuit we declared them a monopoly, destroyed the retirement savings all the employees had and ended the very concept of corporate sponsored research laboratories. America.... Always looking to slow progress to keep in line with the election cycle.

Heart goes out to the agents who died to bring us the Intel used to develop these systems

As a former Bell Labs employee (1978-1984), I think it safe to say that there probably wouldn't have been an Internet had the Bell System stayed united. Bell Labs was a great place to work, and I often miss it, but it was a creature of a bygone age in which a single large monopoly completely controlled the public telecommunications infrastructure. The only entity able to meaningfully compete with it on a technical level was the US government. AT&T actually refused an invitation by the DoD to operate the early ARPANET because the technology was too radical and too threatening to the way they did business; a little-known company called BBN got the contract instead. While it did provide reliable funding for Bell Labs, AT&T was extremely jealous of their monopoly and they tried very hard to slap down any and all competitors. You only have to look at how some present-day government telecom monopolies in other countries deal with VoIP to see how AT&T would have reacted had they retained their monopoly. They tolerated the ARPANET only because, at that time, it was an internal network of the US Defense Department and restricted to government contractors and a few lucky university researchers.

The spokesman looks like he just stepped off a '60's TV soap opera.

Anyone wish we had this 17 site system in place now? I sure do.

Very Nice !! Thanks for posting !!! 21 year USAF Central Office Tech with 10 years in Space Command ! ( not the "new one " ) ( granted it , my Air Force time , was all on the dirty NTI shit ! haha :) )

I love Sprint!

This kind of reminds me of my learning process

oh my god you guys radar is super!

We went to the MSR site. It's still standing. It's been sold to hutterites and I think they sold it to someone else. The buildings are run down, but the pyramid and missile field is still there. I don't know where the remote missile fields are. The PAR is still standing and active. It's east of the MSR. Nekoma N.D. The Ronald Reagan minutemen silo is south of the MSR in Cooperstown. If you're in the area, it makes for a good nuclear tour.

18:40 demonstrates the importance of NFL football music in winning a nuclear war.

A really great video and thanks for posting it up. I read the comments and see a few good ones, but most are drivel. As far as BMD goes: good tactics, but poor strategy.

Straight out of Orwell's 1984. War equals peace.

Yes. A united Bell in the Internet Age would be very interesting!

Old is Gold

The music 19 minutes in is very similar to the old NFL Monday Night Football music.

There are many people who are far more intelligent than I am. I can barely get my trousers on in the morning and look at these people.

Is it just me or does the guy at the beginning make out they invented radar?I don’t think so mate

*currently waiting for at&t wifi to connect

00:18 In the age of Mutually assured destruction I'm pretty sure the best offense was _offense_ , not defense. Hence the whole Mutually assured destruction name? Both of our offensive capabilities are so great that it's guaranteed both will go down in a shooting war. If one side had an "impenetrable defense" then MAD as a concept wouldn't apply...

they (US Gov't) spent untold billions of dollars on this program.. its one of those defense programs no one knows about but consumed an ungodly amount of money to get to an operational state (which, BTW, lasted ONE DAY). This thing was enormous..

are these north dakota and montana facilities still used for newer systems or abandoned? If the latter, what is now with all these bunker complexes?

i gotta find out the name of that KPM track that starts at 7:52.

43:05 That altarpiece looks like something Stanley Kubrick would have come up with.

Love this. Only thing that purely defensive in the nuclear arms race.

TESLA!!!! Thanks, Oatmeal.

Stick Vehicles🎓💫super serious circuits

I wonder how many hydro encabulators it had or dingle arms

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What is the name of the song at the 30:00 mark?

10 dislikes were from verizon clients

I enjoy the AT&T Tech Channel and appreciate the innovations that At&T have accomplished, but to suggest that AT&T were the great pioneers at the beginning of radar and ignoring the British is just wrong, and in the eyes of historians almost criminal. Without the groundwork provided by the British, such technologies would have been ignored by the USA for a long time because they considered it as a useless technology. History shows that even as the Japanese were flying towards Hawaii to destroy Pearl Harbour, basic radar developed by Britain showed that they were on their way and the information was ignored. I understand who sponsors this channel but for everyone's sake, please at least be partially honest.

I here the NFL theme song!! What's up with that? The song got a name? Did it originally come from ATT in some way?

What about the cavity magnatron???????????????

27:37 - I knew it! The Yetis are involved in secret Canadian research!

18:40 Who's ready for Monday Night Football?!!!

Didn't it operate for just 8 months and then it was shut down?

18:40 MONDAY NIGHT MISSILE COMMAND!

At 31:38, a view of the initial ground clearing for the proposed PAR, located off Route 114 in North Andover, MA. The PAR, a newly developed phased array antenna, was opposed by many liberal groups in the area and even Teddy Kennedy couldn't resist putting in his 2 cents.....the project was never completed at this site. But for all the arguments/criticism, just where do you think the PAR ( later name changed to PAVE PAWS) was built.........on good ole Cape Caahhhhd at Otis AFB.

they're using the old monday night football theme

Primitive war like planet.

So wait the ABM preceded Reagans SDI program? Really?

mad saved our lifes. abm could make nuts leaders do things ! cause they think they can do it without to be destroyed themself

Anyone know what overpressure the PAR and MSR were designed to take? What about the criticism that the PAR and MSR would have been severely degraded if not useless after the detonation of one or several Spartan "neutron bomb" type warheads? Was that accurate, or just liberal bloviating to oppose a major defense program? I tend to think the latter, especially with the number of communist/Soviet fellow travelers in the US then, and now.

Its such a huge difference between the stuff coming out of USSR and USA at the same time.... Even now, if you look at Russians what they use and what west/NATO uses, its like Russia is still stucked 30 or minimum 20 years back. Sometimes even more. Thanks God we joined NATO as soon as possible after the 89' happened. We DREAMED about all the stuff you were using normally in everydays life. Hell, chewing gum was precious! Coloured magazines made of wax paper, almost everyone has a car, some families two. There is no queue for bananas, and you have tangerines whole year, and all the yoghurts...we had two or three flavours, one brand. Everything was colorful not grey commie blocks like us with battered centers which, once beautiful, had to be braced because the facade was falling off... You - in the west - please never EVER swallow the lies and poison of utopia, socialism or communism. It does not work, and Czechoslovakia was a lucky country, others to the east had it much worse than us. Healthier, center with right and left stances is a key. Never go left, it sounds good maybe, but brings misery, corpses starvation, fear and tyranny. Whole generations grew in fear, stealing, bribing circle, untill today people are paying bribes at the doctors to get the care you have much cheaper and better. If you got all the way here, wish you a happy life! 😀

30:39 Sprint!

Stuff like this makes me feel bad for AT&T. Uncle sam asked so much, and took so much away. Then again I don't agree with monopolistic thinking or corporate cartelism. I don't believe in corporate welfare either, regardless of how it's repaid. I think the lesson is stay married to america when they put that ring on your finger, unless you're prepared to cut the thing off.

Crap, remember 911 where was the defence then🤔🤔🤔

What a waste of money and effort , all this hysteria over the goddam russian cost us plenty