Filming this was a blast! It's great to be back making videos

@gamerboy7224

9 ай бұрын

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

@scania9786

9 ай бұрын

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

@dadutchboy2

9 ай бұрын

hehe a blast

@Silent002

9 ай бұрын

Glad to have you back in my feed, man!

@larularae2106

9 ай бұрын

I will use this information responsibly :)

this absolute chad comes back after half a year just to tell us how to launch a nuke

@HeroBear64

9 ай бұрын

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

@stephanieparker1250

9 ай бұрын

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

@brokeloser

9 ай бұрын

Chad frontier

@jimmykreutz6087

9 ай бұрын

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

@originalketchup7498

9 ай бұрын

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

Thanks! Now I know how to launch if I’m ever visiting a missile silo.

@hunterlang578

9 ай бұрын

Bring a stick and some tape for the second key!

@OrangeC7

9 ай бұрын

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

@j100j

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@DylanDoel

9 ай бұрын

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

@josha6118

9 ай бұрын

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

The Butterfly Valve Lock code saying "URDEAD" is a nice touch

This channel is ridiculously underrated. How can someone produce such quality content and only have around 200k subscribers?

@paintpaintpaintco.6039

9 ай бұрын

Algorithms

@user-vi2uc1pz8c

9 ай бұрын

Because people like reels and pornogrphy ⁷more 😊😊😊

@internet_userr

9 ай бұрын

​@@paintpaintpaintco.6039Mister Best

@happyger9753

8 ай бұрын

Numbers are numbers

@happyger9753

8 ай бұрын

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

James Dingley is the 21st century's answer to James Burke. The presentation style is so similar. I still find it hard to believe this is an independent production and not financed by the BBC. It's genuinely incredible.

@liamailiam

9 ай бұрын

The Big Black Cock? What?

@FriedEgg101

9 ай бұрын

His presentation style reminds me of Dan Cruickshank.

@JSDudeca

9 ай бұрын

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.

@raxneff

9 ай бұрын

Its so well scripted and presented

Why has this man not aged in 7 years?

@Shaoraka

9 ай бұрын

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

@theplasmatron3306

9 ай бұрын

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

@guest_informant

9 ай бұрын

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

Finally theres a tutorial on this! I've been trying and failing to launch a nuke for years and this tutorial actually worked for me! Thanks Atomic Frontier!

@MarioGoatse

9 ай бұрын

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.

@whatsthematter8767

9 ай бұрын

@@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!

Your motion tracking has gotten so good! You've really found your own personality and style too. love watching all your videos

@DrowsySquid75

9 ай бұрын

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.

@eoghanley

9 ай бұрын

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

@internet_userr

9 ай бұрын

​@@eoghanleythey meant a mental crisis

The Titan missile museum near Green Valley, AZ lets amateur radio operators use the multiband antenna on special occasions. It's a big flex in the world of radio to say you're talking on an antenna that used to receive launch codes.

@medivalone

9 ай бұрын

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.

@b.buster

9 ай бұрын

@@medivalone Oh cool!!

Nicely done, and that from a former crewmember. There was a minor mistake, but I suspect only an actual crew member would have spotted it. Loved the code for the BVLC. On the simulator where I was stationed, it was SACSUX.

I love the Titan Missile Museum, I'm very happy to see you were able to visit! It's an excellent museum and very much worth the trip.

@carloberruti178

9 ай бұрын

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

The timing whilst walking down the corridor was amazing!

Nuclear weapons, biblically accurate angel antennae, and the Dingley swagger? You know you’re in for a good time! I hope you’ve read Command & Control, it adds so much more context to these facilities.

about 7 years ago, Veritasium made a video on the same topic. I just rewatched it, and your storytelling is SO much more compelling. another great vid!

thank you! i got a nuke off ebay and was wondering how i was ment to launch this thing

@RaptorJesus

9 ай бұрын

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

@Rocketman88002

9 ай бұрын

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

@Motoko_Urashima

5 күн бұрын

Most nuclear warheads were designed to be dropped from planes, but if you have a missile, the security code is most likely "0000"

i bet you could make such an awesome movie with this concept! a crew of 4 stuck inside a missile silo doubting to go outside because the government may longer not exist.

@txoilfield

9 ай бұрын

"The Day After" 1983

Great to see you back! Nice that you got sole access to shoot this video - I think I have seen a few other demonstrations with groups of tourists.

Hands down, one of the best channels on KZread! Glad to see you back.

The editing is insane I couldn't even tell some of the cards were added in post they blend in so well

Thanks a lot. I had forgotten how to launch mine.

Good video. The Titan II silo had side vents for the exhaust plume; two separate tunnels to the surface that exhausted either side of the silo door. They're visible at 9.53 in the vid.

Thanks dude this was extremely helpful I recently got the job of a Commander in the silos and your video was better than my entire training

Awesome video! I could tell you were having an absolute blast filming this.

At 6:01: "Fill the remaining tank with 90,000 tons of liquid oxygen." I don't think the Titan I's thrust was quite up to the task of lifting that much :-)

@Mic_Glow

9 ай бұрын

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

@unixux

9 ай бұрын

So how much LOX ?

@mikejetzer4155

9 ай бұрын

@@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 imagine how buzzing you were to have access to such a cool location!

@AtomicFrontier

9 ай бұрын

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

4:25 "The Titan II missile in her natural habitat" made me think "are we gonna see how the Titan II missiles mate?"

@playgroundchooser

9 ай бұрын

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.

@dannypipewrench533

3 ай бұрын

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.

I liked your large Coke bottle with Mentors to demonstrate the hypergolic reaction between hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide. Well produced video, compliments! Greetings, Anthony

I always like your commitment to remembering the script in one take lol

when the world needed him, he returned; with info on nuclear weapons no less!

this is the bomb

Hey man, thanks for the tutorial! I've found it really helpful. Edit: Could you please also make a tutorial on how to land a nuke? Thanks.

@thekaxmax

9 ай бұрын

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

@dXXPacmanXXb

9 ай бұрын

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

@thekaxmax

9 ай бұрын

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

@dXXPacmanXXb

9 ай бұрын

@@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

@dXXPacmanXXb

9 ай бұрын

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

Hey guys, it's Lockpickinglawyer, in the missile silo

About a week ago the Corridor Crew had a video about the true size of a nuclear explosion, putting a lot of it into perspective. And now... Now we have been taught how the nukes would have been launched. Remember people, nukes are not cool. Nukes destroy a LOT. Amazing video as always, James. ♥

amazing. how did you get access to this ? this site is decommissioned but still I can't imagine someone could visiting and filming. Congrats, great video !

@b.buster

9 ай бұрын

It's the titan missile museum south of Tucson az

@AndreaZzzXXX

9 ай бұрын

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

@J-1410

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

It's great to see you back to making videos!

My grandfather worked in one of these titan II silos in Arizona, and it is so cool to be able to see the type of space he worked in.

I live in Arizona and I have gone down into that facility twice. It is quite fascinating.

Yay, you're back! Thanks for another great video. :)

i really needed this

"Backup coffee reserves." The important stuff.

Sitting in one of these must be one of the weirder Jobs you can do. You know... waiting for doomsday knowing you might even catch a Nuke before/after you fire yourself one. Just a though also is that there might be an US Silo pointing at a Russian one wich has the same target in vise versa.

@sparc77

Ай бұрын

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.

@NewRSM1994

Ай бұрын

@@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?

@sparc77

Ай бұрын

@@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.

I actually got to visit this museum a few days after your video and your video was a big reason why, so thanks!

Thanks! I followed your guide and it worked!

Thank you for the advice! I will try to apply this to my projects!

Another great video! Thanks for sharing this with us!

This was top notch, thanks mate.

Great to see you back!

Great to see you're back, lovely content as always

Thanks for this simple tutorial. Simple to understand.

This is crazy I was literally just there at that same silo on a tour! Amazing place, I'd totally recommend it.

Thanks, will try it!

Thanks for the help!

Incredible quality, subscribed!

I'm new to the channel and I gotta say your content really hits the Rollercoaster, your channel is underrated and it hurts me to see other people with unbelievably unnecessary waste of time contents get more than 1 or 2 mil subs and when it comes to science or to something educational you only get the crumbs. What a generation we live in eh? Keep doing what you're doing, it will prosper sooner than you think. Kudos 👍

Thanks for the tutorial.

great to see you back

Wonderful vid, it's insane how terrifying ICBM test launches are.

Great video as always!

Thanks! I'll know for next time.

Well done! Many Thanks for the video!

Thanks for the tutorial

Best way to start my morning before work. Welcome back!

Well done, James!

Thanks. I needed a tutorial, just what I was looking for.

Thanks man, I was really looking for a tutorial on this particular topic.

I visited the place 3 years ago. A MUST go when you are in the Phoenix area. Beautiful but deadly.... and an MUST see for Star Trek "First contact" fans. Very nice video. Thanks

good to see you back!

Very useful tutorial! Im gonna use it later.

4:30 i like how they left the gaping cut out to remove the plutonium sphere of the warhead, certainmy with a circular saw, and left a gaping hole in the missile like that.

I loved this video! Please keep making more. Your style is refreshing and has a unique charm that keeps my attention.

Awesome you're back!

Thanks for the toturial 👍 ima test it real quick

Thanks for the tutorial it really helped!

VERY WELL DOCUMENTED .... gaind my subscription.....keep up the good work

I’m incredibly impressed with your production quality and presentation style

Love your energy dude - your presentation style is top tier

Thanks bro, helped alot

One of the well-choreographed videos I've seen!!

Welcome back! great vid on Titan II, also lol nice one on the butterfly valve code.

Thank you, I can now use my knowledge to practice!

Thanks bro I couldn’t figure it out myself this video was really helpful

Helped. Thanks

Excellent. Thank you.

This will be very helpful for my next project

Thanks big dawg will be sure to use

thanks i really needed this info

thanks for tutorial

Amazing quality! This is such an underrated channel, hope you get the subscribers you deserve. Keep up the amazing work mate

This is amazing, great video 👍

oh hey this channel still exists

@AtomicFrontier

9 ай бұрын

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

@coffe1mmm

9 ай бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier That's worth the wait!

@mega3185

9 ай бұрын

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

This information is definitely going to come in handy

Excellent video!

This was fascinating, thank you!

Shocking brilliant video

Thanks it was really helpful

You are REALLY good at this. Hope you keep making videos. I'll keep watching. Subscribed.

thanks for the tutorial video! i was looking for something like this for my home nuclear missile

Why is this the first time i find this channel?! The video was simply BRILLIANT.

Titan silos are so cool, the MMIII ones are very cramped