TITKOS ! Nice exploration. That's a lot of maps, but I suppose it makes sense. Every military commander would need to be able to check a map before giving orders.
the thing with the circles is a map overlay for calculating the damage of various bombs and for different conditions, basically the bunker would be told "town X so hit by bomb of Y size airburst/groundburst" and so on and they'd go get one of the overlays that related to that bomb and conditions (just for an example say a 4 megaton bomb airbursting) and put it over a map of the town with the Smallest circle in the center over ground zero (where the bomb detonated) the circles show the damage from the atomic blast from completely destroyed (small circle in the center) to light damage (largest outer circle) so they would know where to send help, how many, what protections and equipment they'd need, estimated casualties and so on, the numbers relate to some code for damage or possibly a way of calculating the radiation in the area, I'm not really very familiar with this exact model but NATO also used them as well as USSR.
I recall from a former government nuclear communication bunker in the UK, now a museum, that they stocked some poison in the event that nuclear blast damaged the facility or blocked the exits/evacuation routes so that the occupants did not have to suffer the prolonged fate of being trapped.
I don't know how you did it. I get a butt load of grief taking a woman to the wrong place for lunch. Eliana and Ester didn't flinch for bats in a moldy bunker. Good on them! I enjoy your rotating supporting cast, Elco, Fredrick, Jonathon, the blond girl that hated cows, all good!
Haha thanks again bender! Yeah it’s nice always different trips with different people. Everyone has its own vibe😁 The girls are bad ass, The cowgirl is my gf, but she’s not too keen on exploring haha, funny you remember that.🤩
@Exploring the Unbeaten Path, So the 2 wooden boxes with curtains I believe would be for encoding or decoding signals prior to despatch or arrival Or they are for viewing negatives in a dark environment
re: 2:57 That device has a 'Bar Code' tag on it. While it may seem like barcodes have been with us forever, they didn’t really make an impact until the 1970’s. It wasn’t until 1974 that the first barcode scanner was employed. So, there's some 'Dating' evidence.
The cold war was from 12 March 1947 - 26 December 1991, so bar codes would have been used for at least 20 years during the cold war so makes sense, I'd date the bunker to be 70's made looking at the set up and engineering of it.
@@wes5150. Yeah it lasted a long time, almost 20 years of my life I lived in the cold war, it's insane to think of the money spent on paranoia, the Titan missile complexes in the US were $8 million a piece and they had lots and lots of them, (368) now they are selling them off for a minuscule amount of money compared to the cost of making them, but here lies the rub.. They may have decommissioned the 60/70's bunkers but more took their place post cold war.. "5,428 nuclear warheads. Of the approximately 1,744 warheads that are deployed, 400 are on landbased intercontinental ballistic missiles, roughly 944 are on submarine-launched ballistic missiles, 300 are at bomber bases in the United States, and 100 tactical bombs are at European bases" So there are more nukes and bases now than during the cold war..😑
You ubexers should wear respirators when you go in moldy places like that, and take geiger counters when you got in old power plants. Black mold and radiation exposure are serious health risks for which the effects don’t show up for a long time after exposure and can be terminal.
Well didn’t know it was going to be THAT moldy inside… 🥹 with masks it’s also hard to make an episode. I use them when I know in advance it’s really bad. And a geiger counter? I only take those in radioactive places.coal mines there’s no radiation and nuclear plants you don’t get inside when there’s still radioactive material inside
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath and you trust your health on a statement of a municipality and it’s partners who bilked the place of all it’s worth, that they totally cleaned it up. Mold you can see and might only get a debilitating pulmonary fibrosis, but you can’t see smell or taste radiation. You should have a respirator and a Geiger counter on your kit, regardless.
Interesting it looks like wherever they touched the map with a finger is where the mold spread more touches more mold...kind of like the bread experiment with mold you can do with washed vs unwashed hands ..the unwashed hands transfer a lot of mold etc..cool vid
kinda sad, all the maps. if the unthinkable had happed all they would have been able see is what was gone and where things were glowing in the dark all over the world.
Don't complain, there was that final gift... Well, with the Danish/Dutch/German meaning of the word, of course 🤣 Well, come on, this bunker was a bit emptier than others, but I did enjoy the video!
