How to launch a nuclear missile 

woah woah woah calm down james. dont blast anything!!

Not sure "Keep looking up" is the suitable catch phrase when talking about nuclear missiles :-)

hehe a blast

Glad to have you back in my feed, man!

I will use this information responsibly :)

This information is going to be useful in the near future.

I was thinking the same thing, glad he’s back!

Chad frontier

Eh!..did a dam good job doing it!!!..got my attention

58 stations seems low, even for un-classified numbers......

Bring a stick and some tape for the second key!

​@@hunterlang578But you'll need to get it past security... The best excuse I can come up with is "I'm blind"

@@OrangeC7 Just tell the security the plan and they will just laugh it off. Works every time. I managed to launch 24 ICBMs this way without the security noticing a thing. Update: 24 is the limit on how many times you can get away with it.

@@j100j Man you got it good apparently its a violation national security

@@j100j oh it was you launching it on my neighbours...

The Big Black Cock? What?

His presentation style reminds me of Dan Cruickshank.

My thoughts have also gone to James Burke. Connections was a mainstay of my childhood. James's timing is amazing. There are so few presenters out there who actually move and hit their marks as well as him.

Its so well scripted and presented

It's the Tom Scott Paradox of science youtubers, just don't question it.

It’s obvious, he’s probably a vampire or he’s been cryogenically frozen like fry.

He's got a painting in his attic :-)

Algorithms

Because people like reels and pornogrphy ⁷more 😊😊😊

​@@paintpaintpaintco.6039Mister Best

Numbers are numbers

Because the host only uploaded every 6 months a video. That's why

I’m stuck on the big red button part. Do I press it once? Or do I press the green button at the same time? This guy from New Zealand is telling me that had relations with my mum. I hope it’s not true.

@@MarioGoatse Apparently it's some sort of "safety switch" where you have to press both at the same time to avoid accidentially pressing it, so you need to press both at the same time, I hope I helped!

Doesn't need to be a special occasion. They just need to be open, you need to sign the logbook, then you can plug in and Ham away. I don't think the cable is even locked.

@@medivalone Oh cool!!

I was actually having a crisis last night because I wasn’t sure if he was actually at a silo or it was all green screen. I’m still not sure if it is or not.

@@DrowsySquid75 a crisis ? he is clearly at the silo, if he wasn’t it would be the best CGI ever seen…

​@@eoghanleythey meant a mental crisis

Why be a mere spectator in Gotterdammerung when you can *participate!*

@benkloos2827, maybe exchange it with one of the 400 Minuteman III nukes!

"The Day After" 1983

I can see how someone not using the metric system can make this mistake... the fact that "a ton" has double meaning in english probably doesn't help either

So how much LOX ?

@@Mic_Glow In the areas where I've lived for the past 55 years, a "ton" has always meant "2,000 pounds", unless it had a "long" or "metric" specifier (and it wasn't used to generically mean "a lot", as in "that cost me a ton of money").

I would love to visit it too. For the time being, I saved the location on Google Maps :-). Very close to Tucson, I see

When a Titan I and a Titan II love each other very much, they share a special hug, then 9 months later; out pops a Minuteman III.

That would be the Agena dockings of the Gemini program. What you will observe is that the Titan II pretty much only mates with Atlas Agena.

Yes! Was so happy when they said I could come!

...if a nuke actually lands something has gone wrong

You are joking but I would actually be interested in how the nuke finds its target

@@dXXPacmanXXb doesn't 'find', it's aimed. As he relates: preprogrammed engine controls.

@@thekaxmax I dont think its all pre-programmed. It wouldnt be that accurate if it was just all pre-programmed behavior. They are only programming in the target and the launch sequence is probably also preprogrammed. But once its going back down towards its target it cant just hope the wind is going in the right direction

@@thekaxmax it would be also hella unreliable if there was no on-the-fly correction going on

It wasn't really that bad. Politics aside, we had a very macabre sort of trust with the opposition. We trusted each other not to go off half-cocked. We knew that they knew that we were ready to pull the trigger, and they knew the vice versa. Unless something really crazy happened, we felt pretty sure it was going to be a slow day.

@@sparc77 You actually worked in one of these? Thanks for the comment then i feel honored! May i grab the opportunity and ask what like the average workday looked like? As a Kid i always thought they had to provide some sort of entertainment so you dont get bored to sleep beeing there. Is there actually something to do apart from beeing ready for the worst case all the time?

@@NewRSM1994 It did get boring at times. I was in the 533rd SMS at McConnell AFB in Kansas. I was in my early 20s at that time. A typical day (it was called an "alert") started with predeparture briefing at 0700. For the most part that consisted of them telling us if there were any issues going on that we needed to know about. Then we would load up in our crew vehicle and drive out to the site (unless it had snowed and then we would take a Huey out to the site). Once there, our commander would authenticate our identity and then we would go downstairs to the control center and do a crew changeover where we verify that all the classified documents are accounted for and we are up to date on the status of the missile. After the other crew departs, we would do some daily operations which included a top to bottom inspection of the site. That usually took a couple of hours. If there was any maintenance going on, we had to keep track of what they were doing. The rest of the regular day we would do training packages, receive many communications, and support any other maintenance requirements. After the maintenance teams had left for the day, we would settle down (often switch to more comfortable clothing) and spend the rest of the afternoon, evening and night studying for college classes (if you were taking one) watch TV (believe it or not, the most popular TV show among the crews was "The Muppet Show"), read, play music etc. After 6pm, we went to split shifts. Two people would go to bed and two people would stay awake. Then at midnight, we would do a midnight walk through and then the two who had stayed awake would go to bed and the two who had slept early would remain on duty the rest of the night. During all that time, we constantly got messages from the HQ which had to be checked to see if they were launch messages or not. Finally, somewhere between 8am and 9am the relief crew would arrive and we would do the reverse of when we arrived. Once the relief crew took possession of the site, we would go topside and take the same vehicle they had arrived in back to the base and then stand down. Overall, an alert would last about 30 hours. The day we returned was a recoup day and were had the rest of that day off. Then next two days would usually involve some form of training (unless it was a weekend). Then the whole thing started over again. All in all we went on an alert every 3 days. For the most part, it was a good job to have. We didn't have to worry about being deployed overseas or anything like that. But it also had some down sides. In those days, college age kids had a lot of animosity toward missile crewmen. But overall, we had each others' backs so we never lacked for friends.

Nuke submarines deffenatly and maybe they have hypersonic drone deployment system

It's the titan missile museum south of Tucson az

@@b.buster thank you, I didn't know (I am from Italy)

@@AndreaZzzXXX There are also multiple Minuteman missile museums across the midwest too, with the full bunker, command center, etc setup, very similar to those still used today, like the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site by Cooperstown, North Dakota.

You can do just as much testing as a normal rocket. Just make it hit a place in the US without a payload.

@@mbg8733 they launch missiles all the time in nevada or something, theres like thousands of holes in the desert

In theory you can test the launch site however many times you like with a missile without payload. There should be plenty of chances to test things out.

@@mbg8733 Even in case of payload you probably could test without need of an actual nuke. Basically the implosion system stays intact but fissile material is removed, in addition you put special "computers" in to make sure that the implosion works well that transmit data to other computer that transmits it out to be received (all in almost an instant before they all are destroyed). Name of it is "High Explosive Radio Telemetry" if anyone is curious.

​@@dadutchboy2or if you're testing with an actual nuclear warhead, you ideally aim at something in the South Pacific, not at your own country.

Yup, been more than half a year since the last one! In that time I finished my Master's thesis, got really sick (serves me right), toured the continent (I've now got enough videos for month episodes until ~April), and started a Phd in space robotics. It's good to be back publishing videos again

@@AtomicFrontier That's worth the wait!

@@AtomicFrontier woah congrats on the masters! glad to hear youll be posting again!!