Barnham Nuclear Bomb Store 

Very nice chap had so much information bless him :)

@@IKS-Exploration Indeed. Did he tell you the story of how he came to own the site? Also you made getting out of the tower look easy, I found that first ladder on the way out quite difficult.

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I'm glad that you understood that the fissile material was not called 'Fission' and the 'samples' are not taken to be an 'atom'. Ha ha bless him. I really enjoyed this video though. I'd love to go there. Have you been to this place Sam or do you have a connection to it or the UK Nuclear Weapons program?

I actually never realised that cores or fissile material was stored like that above ground in a little brick hut in a casing sunk into the floor! The radioactive sources at our local DSTL establishment are stored like that so I guess it makes sense, however I just never imagined it to be like that with something so important. It was pretty mad just getting into Aldermaston and I was supposed to be there so I imagined all the fissile material to be in seriousus bunkers and such. I live next to RNAD Frater where the Nuclear Depth Charges (and whatever else) were stored for the Navy, and the bunkers there for any of the weapons are pretty beastly. I used to always marvel at what came across from there when we ammunitioned ship in the Navy!!! We used to get chucked out from the public land round the back by the fence by the MOD security as kids. Even if we were trying to go fishing in the harbour. They didn't even like us round the back bit at all and there was some cool looking stuff round there. I just remember living in the middle of so much military land and the Nuclear siren being tested every Monday morning at around 1000!!! We have Fort Monckton and Fort Nelson/Fort Southwick and the training establishments and not to mention the Dockyard so we were toast during a Nuclear exchange for sure...holy cow ha ha. The Kinetic place is here where the hydrodynamic test tank is for the submarines and warship hulls, the DSTL places and whatever else is here. Even being in the military we couldn't be told what was happening at some of the places.

Oh and they filmed some of Transfomers 5 at the Submarine Museum just down the road from my house in Gosport and we also have Explosion Musuem which was the old Royal Armouries.Its Death by big bang city in this town ha ha

Sounds interesting Paul, what is Harwell? heard it mentioned a few times but l know nothing about it.

Harwell is a nuclear power plant in Oxford. It was used for experimentation and weapons research. I don't know the accessibility now, it's been a few years since I went there. Best wishes.

@@paulcarpenter2800 Ok cool. Thank you for taking the time to reply. ATB

@@nicko500s please let me know if you need more info or a sidekick. Paul

Estate for companies now

Used to be mushroom farm

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that is kind of the point...

I was feeling sketchy lol

It feels spongy in places I'll admit

was thinking the same plus a mask googles and gloves in case of contamination

Thank you :)

Yeah wed to Friday folk

Ok we are in plot Q14 guys hope to see you there we are just leaving Scotland now

The Blue Danube was designed to be carried by the Vickers Valiant, the first of Britain's 'V' Bombers. The other two were the Avro Vulcan, and Handley Page Victor. All three could have carried it, but by the time they came into service, the Blue Danube had been replaced by the Blue Steel 'Stand Off' weapon.

Victor, Valiant or Vulcan. They were our frontline nuclear bombers

Carried by Vickers Valiant, Victor and Avro Vulcan

There shouldn't be any, do some research on nuclear weapons and you will see that the weapons themselves are very safe until you WANT them to be deadly! You could blow the explosives in one up and if not set up to go Nuclear, they would not. So you could stand just outside of the range of the explosive charge and be perfect,y fine. Nuclear weapons are not dangerous, unless used in anger. Obviously precautions were taken, but the chances of radiation exposure is pretty much nil.

Really?