How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

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[@dereklawr]

4:43 "tensions might be a little bit high given that both parties have guns and one has a nuclear bomb" is such a great line and the totally casual delivery makes it so much better.

[@jaymzx0]

This was the best line, followed up by, "These agents, with the power to kill you and steal your house..." 😆

[@theharshtruthoutthere]

@@jaymzx0 lets analyse the lies which are world wide believed: lie: schools are of use (fact. schools keep slavery alive and stands for dumbing down the population of mankind) lie: moon and mars landings, (fact: even masons know they cannot leave - earth is closed system, unless you want to drown, there is no other place created for us to live in.) lie: news channels share truth (fact: these are for politic propaganda) lie: voting matters (fact: politic propaganda) lie: money has a value of its own (fact: it is just a tool of this world, which value has been agreed upon world wide) lie: NASA lies (globe and all....) (fact: NASA stands for TO DECEIVE and 2 members expose their own lies, one is still alive, the other (Wernher Von Braun) place a clear clue on his own gravestone) - you havn´t searched - have you? lie: the lgbtq++++ propaganda (fact: it is a part of masonry depopulation agenda, 500 000 000 souls, thats their goal.) lie: Evolution and the dinosaurs. (fact: mankind is not hybrid kind) to keep stating that there was an evolution, then we ain´t humans, we aint then mankind, we are then hybrids. Are you a hybrid? Lie: holidays (xmas, Halloween, new year eve and so on) (fact: PAGAN HOLIDAYS, to praise BAAL, the god of this world) lie: U.F.Os (fact: they are demons/evil spirits in high places, against whom we fight daily = spiritual warfare) lie: rules and laws rule the world (fact: signs and symbols of masonry do) lie: believe in being educated (fact: found daily living with the lack of knowledge) lie: religions are ways to heaven (fact: JESUS CHRIST is only way to heaven. Religions, no matter its name = masonic garbage) lie: our dead loved ones stay around to “ghost” (fact: hunting and ghosting is job of demons, not of humans. We, humans, come from GOD and return back to HIM and all the stories of having been seen a ghost - terrifying, scary, dark, cold - again no job of analysing been done here by you- right?) Lie: Humans have no immune system and we need vaccines as these save lives (fact: humans HAVE IMMUNE SYSTEM and vaccines are created for one or two purpose: to kill or to cripple. Later in life comes all kinds of medical diagnoses = vaccines crippled you) lie: there is no GOD (fact: There is GOD, who redeems sinners and created us directly from the dust of the earth: Psalms 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.) to keep claiming that there is no GOD and we aint created directly from the dust of the earth, we soon run out logic, regardless to we place “evolution” in our claims or not.) lie: 911 was terror attack (fact: 911 was an inside job, meaning the work of your loved government) lie: Tv watching is of use (fact: television (TV) = tell a lie vision, a weapon for our minds, keeping it under MK ULTRA) half lie/half truth: earth is a stage where everyone plays rolls (fact: earth is stage, freemasonry checkerboard, where both side, black and white are masons and humans both in politics and regular souls = the naive public gets daily played) lie: children are government to raise (fact: children are parents to raise, it takes 2 to make them, it takes 2 to raise them). Lie: we live already in the matrix (fact: we live since birth in BABYLON which is to become “matrix”. Man - us, must merge with machine aka take the mark of the beast and then matrix aka false reality becomes to be 100%) 20 lies, should i go on? This world ain´t deceived, out there to deceive?

[@woodwardscreditcard7482]

That describes pretty much the plot of every action movie in the early 90s

[@tajniak0811]

Every US conflict in a nutshell

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@robertk1701]

That was a rollercoaster. From "Oh no, we have nukes just rolling around out there" to "dang, I don't think anyone will mess with them" with a shift to "crap, hope they don't kill each other transporting warheads"

[@mustang8206]

People are people. Just because they're highly trained doesn't mean they don't have the same emotions as everyone else

[@robertk1701]

@@mustang8206 True. If those headlines were indicative of the organization then they likely have some bad cultural issues though. Could boil down to them not having enough people so the same ones are on the road all of the time leading to hightened stress along with other issues. People are people and people have emotions, but it's up to the people in charge to make sure they're not creating a situation where those emotions turn dangerous.

[@Greg-yu4ij]

One of the flaws was drinking too much. If I just got done transporting a nuke, I’d need a drink

[@twistedyogert]

@@robertk1701 So in other words. An armed standoff or shootout between state troopers and the soldiers tasked with guarding the nuke could happen someday.

[@NicitoStaAna]

Wonder how hard it is for someone to steal/use said nuke. Sure it's hard, but not impossible, and some groups might see it as a better alternative than waste Billions of dollars hiring the right scientists/getting the right equipments/rocks Hypothetically speaking

[@882952]

In the 90s I was a cop and I remember the department once gave us a little pamphlet - it was the entirety of our "training" on DOE nuclear energy transports and how to interact with them. There wasn't much to it, but the pamphlet claimed the trucks would have a DOE ID number on the side, (like, "DOE123456") and that would be the only real visual clue. Also, it was said that there was a little hatch down low on the driver's door so he could present his ID and papers to you without opening his actual door, and that was ALL he was required to do for you. However, this would almost certainly never happen because they are not required (or permitted) to stop for you, even if the truck was empty or simply in transit for maintenance, etc. The hatch was only for if you somehow came upon the truck and it was unescorted and disabled somehow. And in the event that we DID come across such a truck in such a condition, we were to ask the operator if he required any help or assistance, and if not, and the presence of the vehicle wasn't creating a public hazard, we were advised to be on our way. None of which ever happened to me in that sleepy little town of 5000 people, lol.

[@III_three]

Thanks for sharing this

[@dustyak79]

When I was an Officer the county set up a drug checkpoint with signs and one called in saying they can’t stop. But it wasn’t a real checkpoint ,just to catch cars exiting before it.

[@hammerdown3876]

lol.. present his ID. Im a cop now.. been for 23 years. I stop him (like thatll really happen as im sure the convoy guards will already be detaining me) and I walk up and he says "hey.. im transporting a nuke." ill be 10-8... not hanging around for that, dont need his ID and papers.. im good... lol

[@pobvic]

@@hammerdown3876 You don't need to see his identification, those aren't the nukes you're looking for

[@nix3001]

@@pobviclol

[@joshuaevans6295]

The Department of Energy is definately the department with the largest gap between "How intense the name makes them sound" and "how intense they actually are"

[@atlas2061]

"Oh, so you handle like power production?" "I transport nukes" "...oh..."

[@Daggerpaw1]

To be fair, there's a lot of energy in a nuclear explosion.

[@ttry1152]

​@Daggerpaw1 bullets have kinetic energy!

[@erichhouchens3711]

Retired railroader here - Some of us are old enough to remember the "White Train". This was a special heavily armored DOD train that you guessed it was painted white. The train was used to ship nuclear weapons and their parts from the Pantex plant east of Amarillo. As you mentioned today these shipments go via highway. Some of the White Train cars are on display at the Pantex plant but I'm pretty sure the plant is NOT open to the public. The train shipments were discontinued due to anti-nuclear protestors blocking the tracks. Today the highway shipments can use several routes to avoid protestors plus the fact that the trucks look pretty much like any other truck on the highway. There is a Wikipedia article on the White Train.

[@perryallan3524]

At least one of the "white train" shipments was totally fake (and who knows how many). No nuclear weapons on board - it was all being shipped by trucks while the protesters stopped the train. Classic misdirection. It's easy to load a mildly radioactive substance in the RR Cars to give off radiation readings which would be typical of a nuclear weapon.

[@matthew8153]

They would lie down in front of a train and survived?

[@russianbear0027]

​@@matthew8153 trains get stopped when word reaches the driver or dispatch of an obstruction on the track.

[@frafraplanner9277]

Ironically, these protestors (who sound like environmentalists) caused the DoE to switch to a more energy intensive method of transportation lul

[@AZaqZaqProduction]

@@frafraplanner9277 I can't say what the intentions of all these protestors were but protesting the proliferation of nuclear _weapons_ was probably what they were after.

[@Yosh1az]

"Bad People" **Display France** edit: tf I started a war

[@quillnsofa8051]

I have the feeling whoever made that graphic is British

[@James-rc6qq]

@@quillnsofa8051 damn right, a wise man once said, france is ruined by the french

[@Code7Unltd]

@@quillnsofa8051 They could be Canadian. Of course, America blames plenty of misfortunes on the French, as it's the go-to for most. I honestly blame the Swiss for misfortunes.

[@youcantata]

@@quillnsofa8051 No, my guess is some US capitalist who hates European socialism and high tax.

[@safrimmons2956]

⁠@@Code7UnltdI’m a big blame luxembourg guy myself

[@telesniper2]

I went through the Swift school a few years back. Great people, and the instructor was awesome. He told us about some high security loads he hauled. He never hauled nukes though. He told us this one story where he noticed someone following him, so he pulled off the freeway to verify it. Then he pulled back off the freeway, and sure enough the guy was still following him. He eventually pulled into the next weigh station (guy still following him) and got out and told the State trooper what was going on. The state troopers pulled the guy out of the car at gunpoint. Well it turned out he was a security guard for that load that was supposed to be there because of the high security nature of the load (probably narcotic pharmaceuticals). They did not inform him that there would be a monitor for that load LOL

[@charlesmaurer6214]

Must have been a new guy doing the tail to be spotted like that.

[@PolarisRider06]

Swift has a school? They should try teaching drivers how to drive instead of telling stories

[@thataytay]

​@@PolarisRider06 Not every driver is going to be bad. Jeezus.

[@moorbish]

The security guard probably shit his pants when the semi started acting weird.

[@thedoctor7158]

Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking

[@ferretyluv]

Fun fact: there are some places that are “nuclear free zones.” They have big signs on the city limits telling you. I’ve driven through them before and always wondered what the hell that was about because it’s not like it’s going to stop a bomb being dropped there. I looked it up recently and it’s about exactly this: transporting nuclear stuff through there. Also, the reason why highways are used is because that’s exactly what the interstate system was designed for: easily transporting troops and supplies from one part of the country to the other.

[@WyvernYT]

Hawthorne Nevada is a "bomb free zone." That sounds dramatic and silly, but no. It's the closest town to, ah, certain military things I won't specify on the internet. So there are a lot of trucks with interesting cargo in the area, and these trucks take the bypass around the northern edge of town rather than driving through the middle where most of the people are.

[@eriksand9262]

​@@WyvernYTHawthorne is literally home to a military muntions depot. So I have a feeling the "bomb free zone" signs are tongue and cheek. 🤣🤣

[@WyvernYT]

@@eriksand9262 More of a "don't drive the explosives through downtown" thing, I'm pretty sure. Have you ever been to Hawthorne? They've got a really nifty museum of old hardware there. There must be stuff there I haven't seen yet; I didn't have time to stop on my last trip through.

[@stoutyyyy]

Do cities actually have the authority to do that?

[@eriksand9262]

@stephenm.stouter2238 of course. Good Luke trying to keep the federal government out of your town though. If they want to come through, they are coming through! Haha

[@Yostuba]

But what about the bricks? Did you know the united states government has very special bricks to build fortifications to withstand nukes and heavy radiation? Said bricks are a massive state secret, no one knows how they're made.

[@Codewow]

Lego. They're made out of lego.

[@squessi]

lego and recycled nokia phones@@Codewow

[@Lindrios]

@@squessi Nokia phones turned into Legos 😉

[@bigmike1432]

@@Codewow you can't recycle Nokia's, they would break the recycler

[@stevena105]

I wouldn't have any issues with this turning into a brick oriented channel.

[@dummyfarm]

"...distribute large quantities of ammunition over a large area in an extremely short time frame" This is the most beautiful description of a weapon I have and will ever hear.

[@tigerstein]

And in reality its just a little dump truck that would just dump the ammo on the highway. But technically it would "distribute large quantities of ammunition over a large area in an extremely short time frame"

[@SalisburySnake]

Also known as the DLQOAOALAIAESTF for short.

[@Hurricayne92]

Based on that description and that the report of working with Australian contractors, my money is on Metal Storm.

[@Xudmud]

They must have one of those Aperture Science Turrets and fire the whole bullet. It's 65% more bullet per bullet after all, so in gross terms it would be a larger quantity of ammunition.

[@12what34the]

YOU GET A ROUND! YOU GET A ROUND! YOU GET A ROUND! EVERYBODY GETS A ROUND!

[@4RILDIGITAL]

Who knew moving nuclear warheads was such a huge deal? Kinda spooky, but also super interesting. Thanks for the info, really puts things into perspective.

[@luv2bike02]

A young semi-truck APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) technician here. I don't work for the government, but I have had to service the APU of a truck that transports military arms. Definitely didn't have the security of those nuclear missile transporters, but that could be because the truck wasn't pulling any trailer. Inside the truck cab, I discovered a red button protected by a clear plastic cover. I was told that pressing that button would instantly summon unmarked SUVs. Pretty cool. Not something to mess around with.

[@FreeRangeFurball]

Yes, I had that button in my truck, we hauled other military/government loads that were not for public knowledge. You push that button in emergencies only, big trouble for messing about with it.

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

“To here, where the bad people are” FRANCE?! 😂 💀

[@siyutex6101]

literally what I thought

[@ven5159]

france is full of evil baguettes

[@nedim2204]

@@mhkk1491 there is a lot of algerian people :D

[@slightlyillegal7166]

facts

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

Yes.

[@TrevorSmithy]

As someone who lives in ND, I've only ever driven by one of these convoys once, and lemme just say: passing a nuke on the highway is surprisingly normal.

[@bowez9]

Having been in and around Oakridge for 30+ years the only thing that stands out there (beside Y12 and K25) is all the nondescript black Suburbans/Yukons with tinted windows usually sitting around the area.

[@AkomishTiddies]

I had a similar experience, but in Russia. It's a road police car followed by a few (3-4 I think) trucks with very distinctly shaped containers, there was a semi there too that didn't stand out at all, except for ADR plates with radioactivity symbols and amber beacons on truck cab. These were not warheads likely tho, just radioactive material maybe

[@richardgentry6996]

Did it from 1982-1985. Air Force Grand Forks AFB ND. Another day at the office. 😊

[@monhi64]

How did you know it was a nuke they’re supposed to be near impossible to identify

[@Gamer3427]

@@monhi64 "Discrete" security is still security, so it's actually pretty easy to notice that something is up if you're keeping an eye out. It's just meant to be less obvious than normal, generally for the sake of 1) Making it hard to identify how much security is present, and 2) Keeping people who aren't keeping an eye out from noticing something is up too easily and getting curious. That later one is probably particularly useful for something like this, as being completely open with "hey, watch out, we're transporting nuclear weapons here" is a good way to cause panic for the average person. Even more so if they're not a HAI viewer and don't know why said nukes are being transported.

[@Thomash613a]

I remember in 1971. The interstate was only open on one side while construction was ongoing on the West bound side. Here comes A military convoy consisting of five heavy armed Jeeps, a large Chevy suburban and a large transport carrying a 40 to 45 foot missile. To our work crews surprise, it got off at our towns exit and as they say, "Disappeared into the hills". Five years later while working as a realtor, we were looking at a piece of property, when a armed, Green uniformed young man appeared from nowhere to inform our group we were on the wrong parcel of land and to please leave. Off to the side was a enclosed fenced lot with three raised concrete slabs. There are no reported silos in our state, but our group was convinced that was what we stumbled across. Maybe a "interceptor" site? Less than a mile from a major interstate. Have NOT returned to look. Too old to wander the hills now..

[@Nick-Edwards]

Where was this at?

[@FC-qe1wl]

@@Nick-Edwards If you want to know, ask China they have all the info and more.

[@user-in8wc5kf8s]

Russia taking notes

[@abdirahmaanmohamed1582]

Russia already knows

[@scottmadison4380]

I worked for OST. You are correct in stating that the security guards can pretty much 'unalive' anyone person at any time they feel like and get away with it. -HAS NEVER HAPPENED, but hey, it's nice to have options... They also deserve some credit in that they are the only federal government to have a 100% success record. They've never lost a 'package' enroute from point A to point B. -Even though a couple of times local law enforcement 'didn't get the message' and has tried to stop these trucks (Hilarity ensues...).

[@coreybabcock2023]

Prove it !

[@DescendingVelocity]

I like to imagine some poor bastard doing truck weight checks didn’t get the radio warning and the next thing he knows is an unmarked van full of navy seal looking armed psychos pulls up next to him. Pants shitting commenced.

[@MABfan11]

US law enforcement being shitty as usual, pretty funny to have the situation flipped on them where they're not the ones carrying the big guns

[@catdogmousecheese]

However, the US military has accidentally dropped live nukes before. Don't believe me? Look up "operation Chrome Dome" and "Goldsboro, NC"

[@notpocky9806]

@@coreybabcock2023no one has to prove anything to you or any other NutJob. Join the forces and see for yourself

[@jbllc6873]

Had an uncle who was an OTR truck driver. He was once given an unknown load, local police escort through every state along with plain black suburbans. Eventually he dropped it off at some unmarked warehouse, middle of nowhere, flyover state kind of location.

[@rubiconnn]

Weird, In my hometown I was out one night going to the nearby gas station for the usual libations after work. I saw a completely blacked out coach followed by around a dozen completely blacked out SUVs drive through red lights in a convoy like 10 years ago. My town is in between a nuclear research area and a large air force base so I wonder if it had to do with that.

[@Dudeguymansir]

@@rubiconnnit likely did.

[@mtrps_]

​@@rubiconnnoh that one? no no no. that was aliens

[@HostageAsker]

It wasn’t a nuke. DOE Office Of Secure transportation are the only ones allowed to transport nukes. Could’ve been anything from rockets to explosives. Some loads we do require federal escorts.

[@coreyglenn6068]

Almost Sam. Thing is, for the most part, it’s the Tritium that needs to be replaced. Some of the older weapons also need their plutonium replaced, but for most weapons, the tritium is the main issue. This is due to the much shorter half life of the tritium (12.5 years) than the plutonium pits (around 60 years). Source: I grew up in Aiken, SC.

[@enginerdicon2233]

Came here to say this. Source: also grew up in Aiken lol

[@ListenToGlobal]

Love the video! Wish there would've been some footage of one of the nuclear relocation convoys included in the video though, I've seen a couple of those on KZbin and they are pretty impressive to see.

[@fedoralord3607]

Who doesn't like having a nuclear warhead right next to you on the highway 😂

[@Bigglesworth_OWeezer]

Its inert when being transported. Youre safer next to the convoy than you would be next to the average US driver.

[@Paulftate]

​👍 straight-up answer .... short sweet and to the point .. semper fi

[@Paulftate]

yet you're all down with Brandon calling the surrender in Afghanistan a orderly withdrawal

[@floridaboz1]

Does not bother me any

[@fhudufin]

road rage with the driver is another level

[@ajohndaeal-asad6731]

My neighbor used to be nuclear logistics manager back in the 70-90’s (during height of cold war). He’s retired now but he told me about some wild stories and how high stress it can be to make sure things get transferred.

[@randomname285]

Who the hell would want that job - don't think I'd make it to 40

[@ajohndaeal-asad6731]

@@randomname285 Yeah he had nerves of steel. He said there was one time where they had to place a nuke under a beach (in a secret bunker) in Italy during the 80’s because there was a Soviet submarine moving through the mediterranean and they just had to be prepared. It was a little unnerving knowing you are driving a literal nuke under a place where people are having a blast. But no one was none the wiser because like this video stated it looked like a regular semi truck.

[@ajohndaeal-asad6731]

@@randomname285 Yeah he later retired and became a deputy in my town before retiring like 15 years ago

[@creid7537]

@@ajohndaeal-asad6731 whoa yeah. Those beach goers could've ended up having a totally different kind of blast - and a more extreme version of sunburn. That's why I always recommend SPF 1, 500, 000.

[@treemallow757]

lmfaooooo@@creid7537

[@Zytron]

I love how you're so serious and comical at the same time about everything.

[@ZimLanfire]

Former USAF 2W2 (Nuke) here. This is a very *civilian* video. The real trucks are wrapped in turrets with E4's and E5's standing around them, slammin' energy drinks and chest bumping. The whole trip. A10's do flyovers constantly, blasting "Black Betty" by Spiderbait the entire time.

[@sayeed335]

Surprised he didn’t mention bricks in the beginning of the video to deter feds from watching it 😮

[@chrisbiebel6205]

I was just about to post that.

[@greenerell484]

yes

[@theunknowman12]

The feds surely already know that this video is just about the transportation of a brick so they did not need to check

[@JuneNafziger]

My favorite tidbit about the sign-countersign is that if local law enforcement has failed to properly do that, the DOE’s advice is to *Take Cover*

[@dustinbrueggemann1875]

The one time a sheriff tried to stop the convoy, they left him hog tied in the back of his own car and told his boss where to pick him up.

[@coolsnake1134]

​@@dustinbrueggemann1875sounds kinky

[@Nazuiko]

@@dustinbrueggemann1875 The perfect response to an arrogant pig

[@Anankin12]

That'sa much kinder fate than the same cop would have reserved them, statistically speaking@@dustinbrueggemann1875

[@MTGeomancer]

@@Asymmetrical-Saggin The source is Mr. Urban Legend.

[@Simonsimon-fy3hq]

Brit here. I worked with some of these guys in the States. The ones I came across fell into two types. The cowboys or the Hells Angels.Vehicles that had some very interesting added equipment on board. Excellent times fantastic people and parties I cannot remember much about. One of their bosses had some sort of ID that would have got him into the Oval Office and put his feet up on the desk and no one would have challenged him. Happy days.

[@Kyles_kittens]

New subscriber here , love the content and your delivery, I can't wait to dive in to what you have done so far and so excited for what's to come thanks man👍👍👍👍

[@kylekankelberg2293]

Driving through western Montana. Pass two police cars. A mile later, a humvee. Then a military helicopter flys past. Then two more police cars and followed close behind are two humvees bumper to bumper with an unmarked reinforced semi truck within inches of the humvees rear bumper. Behind the truck were two more humvees just as tightly packed. Following that was a copy of what came first, just in reverse. The humvee helicopter and police cars. I figured they weren’t just transporting cheese.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

I think they'd benefit from "security through obscurity"

[@x--.]

@@PsRohrbaugh Most times discretion is powerful but sometimes it's easier to be intimidating and have the firepower to back it up.

[@313comput]

Nobody benefits from security through obscurity. Its not a good way to do security.@@PsRohrbaugh

[@juliogonzo2718]

Have you seen the price of parmesan lately?

[@SoWhat1221]

@@PsRohrbaugh Security by obscurity is unreliable, and also pointless when you have the resources to ensure that any conceivable attack will fail. It doesn't matter that you know it's a nuclear transport, because you stand zero chance of hijacking it. You'd need a small army. The worst you could feasibly achieve is immobilizing it, which would be inconvenient, but it'll still get there in the end.

[@dustinboyce25]

I live how France was chosen as the bad guys 😂. Must be all those European data rules that make Nord necessary

[@adamazingballs]

You don't need a vpn, fed of youtube cnuts shilling that garbage

[@jon9103]

Except it's our lack of online privacy laws that would make Nord useful if it actually worked as their marketing would have you believe.

[@mobiusflammel9372]

@@adamazingballs Huh. I think you’re literally the first person I’ve ever seen be upset about VPNs. Not trying to be rude, I legitimately didn’t even know that was a position anyone held.

[@Reinforce_Zwei]

Nah, it's because they're insisting on propping up houthi terrorists and want other countries to protect their ships without sending any warships themselves. That's why France is the "bad guy"

[@James-un8io]

​@@adamazingballsthere are various use cases for it. But I don't trust VPNs tho on their no logs policy n stuff So I kinda go for VPNs where you give no info

[@Swinq_next]

I always find it amazing when I see missile heads being moved, I live in North Dakota so I see it very often and every time I see it I’m in awe

[@PolarisRider06]

Hang out in north dakota along highway 2 west of minot for a while, you'll see them get moved, the aerial support consists of multiple helicopters, the convoys have multiple humvees with mounted guns spaced out ahead of and behind the unmarked truck pulling the plain white "van" trailer (that has hazmat placards), ahead of the front of the convoy and in the rear there are typically state troopers with their lights on and there are a bunch of other vehicles that run along the route and block traffic from entering the roadway from side roads in the middle of the convoy, you sit and wait a few minutes, convoy passes, black SUV drives away and you go on with your day.... on rare occasions, if the move is happening after dark and you end up on a road the blocker vehicles are already past because they had no traffic on it to worry about and you're on an intercept course with the convoy you may suddenly be driving in broad daylight when your vehicle gets lit up by a spotlight mouted on a blackhawk helicopter like what happened to a friend of mine after work one day 😂

[@Zerobar78.]

Highest security load I ever hauled was Victoria’s Secret. $1.2m worth of cargo, team load, GPS security seal, no stops for the first 200+ miles…

[@dereklawr]

It's a highly-classified secret. I'm surprised there wasn't more security for it.

[@pauldunecat]

To think how many babies that haul was involved in. Congratulations! 😂

[@Zerobar78.]

Well she gave it up to me! :)@@dereklawr

[@Harmonikdiskorde]

@@pauldunecat I feel like most (born) babies are made well after the VS portion of the relationship

[@ilhamrj2599]

yup, very overpriced secret 😂... There are cheaper Target alternatives though.

[@Xdgvy]

I've seen six of these. All on back roads. They're about as subtle as a freight train.

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@waffletracktor]

0:42 "Nuclear warheads in the United States live here" -very questionale use of the 49th parallel including blatently north of Vancouver Canada

[@Sp00kq]

Minooooor mistake

[@philc.2504]

I know you're just reading a sponsor slot but I live in the UK and I've never, not even once, had any trouble accessing a US website because of data protection laws

[@adamsfusion]

They might do it once or twice to "make an example" out of some US side company, but even the EU/UK don't really want or care enough to do high-maintenance enforcement.

[@SoWhat1221]

I don't know if it's still the case, but a lot of American news sites used to simply block European visitors, rather than bothering to comply with GDPR.

[@Ryan.Matlock]

I can imagine this being the basis for a Broken Arrow type movie. Hell, why not make Christian Slater a small town sheriff after he retired from the Air Force, and the bomb just happens to get stolen as it's passing through his jurisdiction? The guy with the glasses from Sicario seems like he would make a great OST agent gone rogue because the thieves would definitely need a guy on the inside.

[@shellshoxx333]

Michael Westen. The guy with the glasses is Michael Westen. He used to be a spy, until…

[@jay130me]

As a trucker, I’ve seen the convoy a few times. Even have a coupe of videos bc they’re so rare

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@Hardsource_]

These new preparations for haste in GTA 6 are sick

[@KickFuse]

💀💀

[@TheJimJonesKC5DOVChannel]

I saw a couple of these convoys on I-20 years ago. First thing I noticed was the escort SUV's with the big mosquito catcher antennas.

[@doughudgens9275]

In West Germany in the 80’s, nukes were transported by CH-47’s with a backup and escorting attack helicopters. I was on perimeter guard duty when they flew one into a warhead storage site.

[@craigwatt1303]

here in the uk they went the opposite route. a convoy of 3-5 specialised trucks carrying trident misiles, in a convoy of about 12-15 heavily armoured police and military veacles, followed by an aditonal truck without trailler a recovery veacle and an mod fire engin.

[@patrickwalsh2884]

Used to be called Safe Secure Transports. Marmon tractors were modified to security standards (DOE) and 40 ft trailers reworked with security devices. I loaded/unloaded many of these in my AF career. Don't ever cross these Team members, it will be deadly.

[@gunsofthephoenix6101]

I have lived near Livermore CA, where some of the assembly/testing of warheads/components are done, and the place is super heavily armed. The NNSA guys that guard the place have things like M134 Miniguns, M19 grenade launchers and Anti-Armor weapons. Basically, according to the public documents, they have to have the ability to go up against a "professional" military force and stave them off for long enough for probably National Guard (or Army) troops to arrive. They are also authorized to chase after and recapture any nuclear components if they have been captured and moved off site. Also regarding the Safeguard truck, I think the rear of the truck can only be opened by the facility it was designated to go to, the driver and the NNSA guards have no ability to open the truck up, outside of its loading/unloading areas. The weapons themselves have critical components removed and transported separately, so a complete weapon is never transported at once. There is probably a lot more, but thats just what the public released docs say.

[@TomServo1969]

All of the techniques used to transport nukes down the interstate have been developed over decades through trial and error. Pretty much like every other thing involving nuclear bombs. I remember hearing a story decades ago about one of these trucks being stopped by transportation police. In the time it took for security forces to arrive onsite the cops had the driver at the back of the trailer demanding to inspect the contents. They soon found themselves surrounded by armored vehicles while facedown on the pavement with automatic weapons pointed at their heads. It was not a good day for anyone involved. Nowadays I'm pretty certain there are multiple drivers locked in the cab who must be released from the outside. And the vehicle is never out of sight of other agents.

[@Ivan_Ooze]

As someone who works in shipping and receiving this is like top tier of the job ladder

[@diltzm]

From: Harry S Truman To: Hirohito

[@Ivan_Ooze]

@@diltzm you want air express I assume… would you like to insure the package?

[@terranaut3314]

Bro I got my forklift ticket too, wanna hang out?

[@johnladuke6475]

@@terranaut3314 Forklift's cool, how about cranes?

[@IWantMoneyForgpnvgs]

3:11 technically 3 ways cuz there’s a nuke in the back I’m pretty sure.

[@michaelkelleypoetry]

I've actually known about this since I was a kid in the 1990s. My dad is a truck driver and he told me that some unmarked tractor trailers were actually transporting nuclear weapons. I would always watch tractor trailers when we got on the Interstate and see if I could spot one that might be carrying one.

[@Stonerman135]

I think i got stuck behind a truck transporting a nuke at one point. I was traveling a back road to get home from out of state and there was so many cars in front of me I couldn't see what was causing the slow traffic until eventually I passed a tractor trailer that had pulled over on the side of the road to let cars traffic go around them with four SUVs (two front, two back) and you could see the silhouette of heavily armed men inside the SUVs. Along that route there was also a hell of a lot more cops sitting on the side of the road than you normally see on that road.

[@japonte173]

likely not, SGTs have humvees in the convoy and typically aerial support. i used to be stationed at kirtland a few years ago. other than that the only mode of transportation is by c17.

[@toddkes5890]

The other method to transport nuclear warheads cross-country is when the bomber pilot only checks the right weapons pylon and not the left weapons pylon. (The '2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident')

[@Simon-hb9rf]

well every now and again they have to give those NEST teams something to do. :)

[@Kriss_L]

When the young Airman walks up to the just landed bomber, and realizes Generals are going to be relieved of command.

[@DarkSideMaceWindu]

​@Kriss_L Funny it was 3 days before anyone noticed

[@Rebelinoo]

yet another piece of logistics i never thought of but now can't stop thinking about

[@itsclout5612]

I think Neo just had terrible timing but they posted the same vid 2 hrs ago lol

[@Chris_winthers]

Thanks, this really helped me steal a nuclear warhead while it was being transported

[@BEM684]

If you somehow open those 12 inch steel doors you're gonna come down with a bad case of turret syndrome....

[@Paulftate]

In this woke world? nobody wouldn't even notice

[@Paulftate]

​ like the Jack-in-the-Box effect😂

[@Chris_winthers]

@@Paulftate what does equality and human rights have to do with a nuclear warhead being stolen?

[@Chris_winthers]

@@BEM684 nah, i'd win

[@phillipdavis3316]

You should also do a video on how the warheads are exchanged in missile solos. Warheads are exchanged and serviced all the time. They use different, purpose-built semis for that. Also escorted. Heck yall could do a whole series on accessing, servicing, and maintaining the ICBMs.

[@emperornike]

Yo keep doing this style of video it's way better than your old ones

[@bloop_official]

Neo made a video on the same topic and I consider that one alot well thought of the one with better graphics. Just love Neo. It is crazy that both youtubers released videosof the same topic at the same time with a gap of one day.

[@jonathanhoward562]

This is the only channel on KZbin that I’ve watched every single video of and plan to continue doing that until you stop, absolute bangers every single time. 👏

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History shows all this. I just visited

[@qverk1427]

Lagrange Wyoming we have tons of convoys go by each year. There's silos littering the countryside on every-side of the town. I drove to a friends house on his ranch and i passed two. My dad took me to an abandoned silo once.

[@chrisspayder8790]

As someone who knows a bit about this, its a good video. they guys escorting are amazing and have some great stories. Favorite has to be a cop who tried to pull em over so they had an escort peel off and cuffed the cop to the car. Called their dispatch on Their radio and told em to come get their FNG. you'd be surprised how crazy those vehicles are.

[@Bruce-qb3vu]

I was looking for this comment because that's what I'd figure would happen

[@AS-R-bx3zi]

Then I remembered why the US built the Interstate Highway system.

[@matthew8153]

And every so often there’s a very flat, straight section for planes.

[@Matt-xc6sp]

Thank you Eisenhower, very cool 😎 👍🏻

[@UnnDunn]

@@matthew8153that’s a myth. I mean, yeah there are lots of flat, straight sections on the interstates, but that’s simply because it’s the cheapest way to build them, not because they were designed for planes to land on.

[@nikolaideianov5092]

Its not like they cant land there​@@UnnDunn

[@matthew8153]

@@UnnDunn Myth or not, it’s still true.

[@lukemilner8908]

I LOVE how we all unanimously agree who the bad people are 😂😂😂😂

[@tsartomato]

usa

[@ikat_tracer]

Ah yes. The french.

[@lukemilner8908]

@@ikat_tracer Blackadder quote? 😂

[@whysix3417]

Russia and China.

[@kristoffer3000]

@@whysix3417 ok, fascist. The REAL bad guys are the US and that's without a question.

[@photosbyjf]

As a trucker I used to see these vehicles often . Between 2000 and 2010 i would notice them mostly out west. there was a yellow one and a tan one and don't remember other one. Always a normal window van front and rear, these had windows but dark glass. In the right sunlight you could see thru and I noticed what looked like a computer console with one person moniortirng something, there would be 4 small antenna on top corners. Never saw them stop anyplace for fuel or anything else

[@ronunderwood5771]

Take a close look at the windshield and door windows. Most trucks built after the early 90’s have a one piece curved windshield for aerodynamics. Armored glass at this level AFIK is only made flat.

[@benashcroft4104]

I was at the old Titan Missile silo in Az just last week, those things are massive

[@majorjohnson8001]

3:20 - "Causes anyone within the vicinity of the vehicle to become afflicted with high velocity lead poisoning."

[@PaulCashman]

Some DOD fissionables are also transported in special "caskets" on trains...with an armored caboose.

[@QDWhite]

I used to be a truck driver. One time 20 years ago when I was driving east from Great Falls, MT, I saw a helicopter swerving back and forth over the highway ahead of and approaching me. When it passed me, I realized it was an Apache, which was really cool to see for the first time (I’m Canadian). After that were three or four heavily armed humvees then one very average looking semi-truck, just like the one in this video. Then about three more humvees and another Apache bringing up the rear. Didn’t take long to guess what that truck was carrying.

[@JoeThomas202]

Got to see a convoy moving a warhead in Cheyenne WY it was one of the craziest things I’ve seen

[@sloth0jr]

At least for some transport needs (maybe not core recycling), the convoys are not that inconspicuous - can see them coming out of Malmstrom. Maybe that is core to silo transport, though. For some reason, they haven't let me know exactly what and where they're transporting...

[@DarkSideMaceWindu]

Those aren't DOE convoys you're seeing, it's Air Force convoys. They aren't quite as long distance as the DOE shipments and they have way more manpower backing them up.

[@sloth0jr]

Ah, @@DarkSideMaceWindu yes - that absolutely follows. I blurred the distinction between DOE and AF here.

[@triple7988]

I've seen some weirdly build trucks that look armored before. Was hard to tell from the angle but the driver didn't make eye contact and looked like an unusual uniform. One was sitting at an intersection for several hours with a little drone hanging around it watching.

[@KeithGlass]

I would guess that the plutonium is not the only thing maintained. Extended exposure to radiation tends to embrittle metals, so you probably want to keep an eye on the structural components of those bombs .

[@ethanhoward498]

This channel is slowly turning into "Unveil as Many Closely Guarded US Government Secrets as Possible" and I am all for it

[@japonte173]

if he found the DOE video on youtube and i can pretty much guarantee you it’s nothing china or russia doesn’t already know lol

[@Jamie_ThatJamGuy]

Darn, and here I thought it was transported with a fleet of futuristic demolition vehicles and mechs to create a path for it. It seemed a lot cooler in Blast Corps 🤔

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

I had no idea but now I'm gonna be on the lookout for these transports and see if I can tell a difference.

[@NiccyDom]

We love our writer Ben!! (Don't forget to pay Adam too!)

[@Utkarsh_Chauhan21]

So 0:20 you are saying France is the bad people 😂

[@kitothefeizi]

their president wish to ban planes

[@LEL7567-ABCDEF]

yeah why france??? us and france are both nato

[@teamcoltra]

@@LEL7567-ABCDEF Because jokes?

[@kristoffer3000]

@@LEL7567-ABCDEF NATO is one of the biggest forces of evil the world has ever seen. At its inception it was literally filled with "former" Nazis and its goal was to destroy the Soviets, literally just the NSDAP under a different banner.

[@SuperHGB]

​@@LEL7567-ABCDEFbecause the French suck (this is a haha funny)

[@slothfulcobra]

It's a lot safer than the way they used to transport bombs by plane and sometimes they'd fall out by accident. Which luckily wouldn't lead to a detonation because nuclear weapons are more complicated than that, but there are some bombs that they didn't fully recover after dropping so there's just a chunk of radioactive material buried in the mud in like North Carolina somewhere.

[@CyphDragon]

I believe you're referring to the 1961 Goldsboro crash of a B-52 that was carrying a pair of nuclear bombs on it. That wasn't the same thing as this video is discussing - that was a "Broken Arrow" incident. The B-52 was part of the aerial leg of the US nuclear triad deterrence plan (the most well-known part of which was called Operation Chrome Dome), and it broke up while in flight, dropping both of the bombs in N Carolina. We still have warplanes in the sky, even right now, carrying nuclear bombs routinely as part of that deterrence.

[@thedapperdolphin1590]

I know that the US and other countries have lost nuclear weapons before. I think the US is missing 6 of them, and they’re just chilling in the ocean somewhere.

[@dukeford8893]

The Air Force moves nukes around via transport planes like the C-17.

[@SamaelVR]

Goated for putting the ad at the end

[@LD-dt1sk]

"Tensions might get a little high give that both parties have guns and one has a nuclear bomb" Im dead

[@Chrischi4598]

Are there actually silos in Canada or is that just some editing mistake 😅

[@l0lLorenzol0l]

>he doesn't know about the Canadian backup silos

[@SkylineFTW97]

We have Silos in the EU and Japan. Canada isn't that much of a stretch.

[@TheBlopNC]

*Nuclear bombs there are no american ICBM silos in Europe@@SkylineFTW97

[@meganegan5992]

​@@SkylineFTW97I thought Japan put a ban on nukes in its country? Like, I know they had some when the US was occupying Okinawa up until the 1970s, but I can't see much more besides how sometimes subs with nukes will dock at Japanese ports.

[@TheQWER9]

I dont see much reason to put silos in Canada honestly. Alaska is massive and right next to Russia so they probably focus there. I dont see much reason to put it farther away into Canada which would just be more complicated

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

So first they will unalive you, then they will pick your house up by the handle and run off with it.. sounds like a nice group of fellows

[@matthew8153]

Not to mention what they’ll do to your wife.

[@SgtSupaman]

@@matthew8153 , I assure you, it's only for the sake of national security.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

@@matthew8153 Not my non existent wife! 😱

[@michaeldunn1754]

0:42 You've got a dot on, more or less, Vancouver, BC, that I think you intended to be further south, over Kitsap County, WA, where the US Pacific Trident Submarine Fleet is home ported.

[@ScottPizio]

Do you have a link to the video you referenced or is it no longer online

[@petersmythe6462]

I question if the doors are really over 12 inches of solid steel, considering that this would add around 16 tonnes to the weight of the trailer, on top of whatever side, top, and front armor is present. I suspect that some kind of spaced or composite armor is likely used instead of solid steel. Like, perhaps layers of spaced angled glass textolite with steel backing and some internalized blocks of heavy explosive reactive armor behind the facade of the door, not a solid chunk of metal.

[@recompostion]

The highway systems was built for national defense. Citizen get to use it. In fact the military wants the citizen to use it, so they can covertly move munitions. Notice we don’t use those missile trucks in our military parades… wait we don’t do those either.

[@RandomBogey]

It’s kind of like the analog V1 version of Tor- created by the government, for encrypted government coms, and allows civilians to use it to populate the network to better disguise their own communications and make it more difficult to single out any one user

[@MrQuantumInc]

We definitely have military parades, they just tend to be relatively low budget affairs. (Ironic, but we have the USA has other ways of showing off.) One tank instead of an entire column, the local JROTC instead of the spec ops. I know because I was in JROTC in high school, but I suspect the audience was more interested in the lone tank rather than the formation of highschoolers in uniform. (My time in JROTC is also why I am never joining the real military.)

[@recompostion]

Of course the Us military has parades. ROTC is vocational training for basic. Parade is also known as drilling or marching. It used to be a major part of battle. We don’t parade our nukes through our Capitol on the leaders birthday.

[@ElaineVanDoren]

This will be very useful. Thanks for the information!

[@Simonsimon-fy3hq]

We also get these here in the UK. Small convoys. Troop carriers, a few vans and a tow truck.Sometimes an unmarked police car.

[@juliegolick]

RIP writer Amy, who could not possibly have survived the research required for writing this video

[@justonefra]

At 02:00 there is a typo in Components (written Componenets)

[@qushendrefelida2128]

From the like 50k people who saw this, and 200 people who commented, you were the one to spot an error. Legend

[@justonefra]

o7

[@SeedSnatcher]

Can't wait for this American Truck Simulator DLC

[@oliverfalco7060]

The background music of this video is unnecessarily amusing... I like it

[@DallasCrane]

Interstates were built primarily for military movement

[@ewill3435]

So despite only being 23, I've done a lot of highway time, and I now think I may have seen one of these... I was long hauling across a few states and I ended up setting cruise control behind a plain trailered grey semi. There was a black SUV ahead of the semi and one in the left lane matching speed (hence why I set up behind the semi, I thought the SUV was being a dick, blocking the passing lane). I followed them for well over an hour before they took an interstate exchange. I wonder if/how close I was to getting pulled over by G-men and questioned. Or maybe they just saw the tired guy chewing beef jerky behind the wheel and wrote me off as "not a threat" lol!

[@Simon-hb9rf]

or they possibly had a rifle trained on you the entire time until you moved out of the way and they could resume their convoy position.

[@WyvernYT]

@@Simon-hb9rf My money would be on both. They've seen plenty of bored truckers *and* had a rifle on him all the time just in case.

[@Grocel512]

The right man in the wrong place makes allll the differencczcze. -GMan

[@DarkSideMaceWindu]

Last thing they're gonna do is waste their time and stop the convoy for some random on the highway being a dick.

[@PeterParker-tb7ce]

I helped build some missile hauler trailers 30 years ago. It was one of my first jobs. Don't know if it carried Nukes though. Just that it carried missiles. It was bullet proof, torch proof, etc..

[@ELIJAHLICHETTI]

I knew that I've did a security detail on several of them from the Cheyenne mountain complex all the way to Andrews Air Force Base

[@randoliof]

Military police can set up NSA's as well. We received extensive training concerning NSA's while I was in the Air Force.

[@japonte173]

these days they’re called NDAs, national defense areas.

[@fauthsie]

I like how the map of silos has a bunch in Canada

[@nothingloz9942]

I've only seen a Convoy once in CA and it was late at night at around 11. There were some Armored Trucks, Police cars and some Helicopters flying by. And then the Big ass Semi-Truck they were guarding.

[@abdullahjutt3680]

I gotta say that intro was phenomenal