Top Secret Transport Nukes on the highway

[@juanbayron1243]

Nukes don’t just go off, trust me. Even if the truck got crushed, smashed, turned to Swiss cheese the nuke isn’t gonna go off.

[@亡智鹌喝经血]

But rays will go off😂😂😂

[@bradleycittel1156]

Isn't that why the government created the highway system? Every single other item you could possibly use in your day to day life is moved by semi trucks. What makes this any different?

[@calebdrake3544]

No...the highway system was to be able to land planes and take off in planes. Notice how every couple miles, you hit a couple miles of straight highways? Yea, so you can land planes on them.

[@robotic1352]

@@calebdrake3544 is that true? And wow this comment is so fresh compared to that comment from Bradley Cittel **3 Years ago**

[@amistrophy]

@@calebdrake3544 The interstate system was created for rapid mobilization of ground elements and to provide improv land strips, countries such as russia have similar missions for their roads

[@Bradystone01]

@@robotic1352 there is videos of A-10's landing on highways for training its pretty cool.

[@michaelegotti6439]

the government didn't really make highways or I mean create the idea of

[@wallybrown9509]

There are good reasons why LE and everyone doesn’t know about moving nukes on the highway. And there is nothing to worry about. It’s extremely safe, and more safe then a truck load of gasoline.

[@Trashman702]

If y’all knew all the shit we haul on the roads you would never leave home

[@pjneslo8979]

Big deal, the men and women that are part of the transport are highly trained and are professionals.The government has redundancy on everything to ensure there is not an accident.

[@jakethedog2934]

Eustace bagge?

[@waynejohnson1786]

You made me feel safe until you said “the government”

[@firstlast9731]

@@waynejohnson1786 Well that sounds like a you problem.

[@thomasgladwin2975]

That’s cute

[@nancyfontain4033]

On our highways the inner state system was built to mobilize the military

[@mwhitelaw8569]

it is why we have a freeway system to aide in the ease of goverment transport .....don't fool yourself in thinking it's there for your convienence.

[@Justin.D.DC4L]

M Whitelaw And interstate commerce of course. Interstates belong to 18wheelers not 4 wheelers

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

The Autobahn was designed for defense-related purposes... Eisenhower started the I system based on the autobahn and for the same purpose.

[@mwhitelaw8569]

Justin D yeah i know we pay the vast majority of highway use tax. I cough up a bunch of cash monthly. I've been considering eliminating a bunch of states from my authority (currently 48) maybe cutting it down to 35 or so.

[@FORTUNENGLORY]

The dingbat says OTS the whole time when it's OST. The scariest part is this passes for news.

[@theanarchonazbolinquisition]

43 years and nothing has happened, seriously, it's not that dangerous.

[@yuvegotmale]

They are actually pretty easy to spot. They have Govt GSA plates. and are totaly un marked. Often a one ton vehicle is following that looks a bit odd. It kinda looks like a camper but much different. No windows and bristles with antennas . The also have Govt GSA type plates and very dark tinted windows. They by pass all truck stops and will not pull over for highway patrol car for any reason. I have heard that some have aerial escort.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

My dad is a veteran (92 Foxtrot) and career truck driver. There are more than just that, there are non DoE and non DoD related loads that are extremely hazardous on the Interstate highways all the time. It is best that people do not know... The do not need to know.

[@tcg1_qc]

doe and dod?

[@shunacadie4119]

@@tcg1_qc department of energy maybe? and dod is department of defense

[@tcg1_qc]

@@shunacadie4119 ah I see

[@seasawwoodworking]

DOE = Department of Energy DOD = Department of Defense

[@fullsalvo2483]

You can't miss these convoys when they move. Usual 8-10 armored trucks, with a couple helicopters and a full complement of local LEOs to handle traffic. And the security detail doesn't allow cars anywhere near the transporter.

[@saladbreath607]

You've accurately described the Minuteman III missile transports between their field silos and Minot, Warren, or Malmstrom AFBs. The transports in this segment are DOE transports between facilities like Pantex, Y-12, and Savannah River complexes. They are FAR more discreet than the missile transports.

[@Dujuan_Thomas]

Back in ny Army Guard days. We transported 100k lbs of explosives from North Carolina to Oklahoma over the highway. I was 19 at the time.

[@johnbull9195]

In Britain the trident nuclear missiles are transported from Aldermaston in England, where they are built, to the Faslane submarine base in Scotland, not in apparently ordinary trucks but as part of military convoy. I suppose you could argue the American method is safer because a miltary convoy would be more prone to terrorist attacks. Although, surely the safest method would be to build the weapons as close to the base as possible?

[@bnctaj]

With the 5,000 or so nuclear warheads the US has, stretched from coast to coast, it's not as easy to make things close like they are in the UK. And making the housing bases closer increases first strike risk, particularly against US ICBMs or (grounded) air leg of the trident. Submarines not already in their deterrent patrol boxes, too, would be highly vulnerable. That said, there are plenty of videos that show how NNSA precautions vary dependent on the locale through which they're driving, road conditions, and (presumably) cargo.

[@MihirK007]

What did these people think? They ship them via FedEx or Priority Mail?

[@memezoffuckery3207]

Fully armed nukes (with the enriched uranium core inserted into the device) are never transported through public highways. The components of fully assembling one are transported *separately.*

[@SloaneLasers]

Thank you! I posted the exact same thing here five years ago. I'm also suspicious of their claim that some nuclear convoys are heavily guarded but others not at all.

[@dennissvitak5475]

This common sense reply will never make it to the Chattanooga news. Not sensational enough.

[@sbreheny]

This is irresponsible reporting. They never interviewed an expert regarding the actual danger. The only real danger is that someone could try to steal the cargo - and that's what all the precautions are for. There is no realistic way that a nuclear weapon could go off with a nuclear yield due to a highway truck crash. (This is because there are multiple detonators inside that have to go off in a specific sequence to produce the precise implosion pattern that starts the nuclear reaction. There are also several other things that have to happen in order for the yield to be significant - such as the neutron trigger going off when it should). On top of that, the material inside is only moderately radioactive (far less so than spent reactor fuel).

[@jamesluck2969]

Agreed, the cores only real danger is if it was powder, as a alpha emitter. Even than if the government is still following its rules of transport as they did in the 50s the cores and assemblies are separated when shipped on ground, or until use/ readiness is needed.

[@deathwrenchcustom]

100%

[@MeerkatADV]

OTS? You couldn't even get the name right? It's the Office of Secure Transportation (OST). Seems like alarmist crap considering they've been doing this for 71 years and you're only having a problem with it now...

[@dennyfrontier]

how the fuck else are you gonna move it

[@PoplarForest]

I'd worry more about the truck full of black powder

[@flightmasterr231]

The interstate highways were literally built for military transportation

[@Trevor.OKeefe]

my uncle works for the gov and transports those things. he said its best people do not know at all and it is much safer they don't know

[@seyfuayub1863]

Damm fbi what are u doing here 😂😂

[@MegaNiQ]

It’s better that way.

[@waynejohnson1786]

For real, imagine if people knew they were driving next to nuclear warhead components. I can picture it now; some moron knows he’s driving behind a truck carrying these components, suddenly the truck sways in the wind and the person behind it freaks out thinking they’re gonna die in a nuclear explosion so they do something stupid they usually wouldn’t do and cause a major accident..

[@chosenone5473]

These people don't seem to understand that there not transporting armed warheads on the highway

[@doodar21]

Fear Mongering

[@mattsprayberry0]

Well this is why the interstate system was built for fast transportation of military servicemen and women materials and vehicles

[@stevebrewer3174]

That woman in the car is sheer ignorant

[@TheDeltaboss]

How to stoke unjustified fear

[@kalebcasey7759]

It's OST not OTS

[@miker6967]

How do people think the government moves things around, teleportation?

[@SloaneLasers]

I find it VERY unlikely that a fully assembled nuclear warhead is transported without any type of protection. Why would some nuclear convoys be heavily guarded but others not at all?

[@jamesluck2969]

I mean at that a fully assembled war head is unlikely, I'm betting more on the cores and assemblies than a fully constructed one. Assembly in one truck core in another, even with the dead key in you still have a risk of explosives. Talk to anyone who's had experience in and around nukes, for example with the nike program. You keep a few with warheads ready but transport is done with cores out.

[@jamesluck2969]

It's also the thing of how do these people expect the government to move around a nuclear device, everyone with a functioning mind ( to a degree ) knows we have them. Hell we know our enemy does.

[@evanmorris6508]

They do carry nuclear weapons. They have to get them from Pantex out to bases somehow.

[@Mike-01234]

Those are transported but heavily armed convoys have armored trucks with MK19 40mm machine guns. Also overhead have usually a fully armed UH-1 huey circling overhead for air support in case of any attack on the convoy. They also have highway patrol that runup ahead block streets. Obviously, the weapons are not armed.

[@Kevin-if6vp]

"I'm probably gonna stay away from unmarked trucks" Good lord they picked some real dummies to interview

[@ebblue81]

That's why the we have the US interstate system to begin with. To access the sites.

[@samyrodriguez5036]

Well I’m at truck driver with more than 10 years experience sign me up if the money is good

[@berner]

Yeah I heard the base's transporter was down that day. It was supposed to be Team AlphaZetaWhiskySevenBlack's job to maintain it, but they were blocked off by some rather angry Playadians and wouldn't you know it, the metaphasic conductor blew its energy. Being a highly sensitive cargo, they couldn't wait any longer and then just shipped them out on trucks because every single thing the government does is highly suspicious and if anything normal happens without it being a conspiracy, like an unscheduled fart in the broom closet of FLoor 12 of the Decagon, then it's highly out of the ordinary and very suspicious. I mean is this what people really want reality to be like?

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

Hell yeah!

[@josephastier7421]

I don't think I've even seen one of those trucks or their accompanying SUVs, and one of their routes was shown to come right through my town. I guess there isn't much need these days to move nukes around.

[@stevebrewer3174]

News Media is so damn ignorant an should know everything has to be transported some time

[@itoldyouso2137]

Man these 4 wheelers don't care. They'll still cut us off lol

[@Sam11747]

"If you've never heard of them before, its because in the four decades of the program, there's never been a single incident that would put highway drivers in danger." Not true. There have been multiple incidents over the years. A major one was in 1996 during a snowstorm a convoy ran off the road and flipped on its side with nuclear warheads inside.

[@elianioriofarrell]

What's the big deal?

[@Greg_call]

That lady in the car was funny.

[@djung9064]

Oh you'll know when they're transporting that cargo. OST doesn't mess around. I passed a convoy a few years ago on the interstate. Wait until you hear about what's transported via rail.

[@honglee6100]

this is why u only need to know stuff and not other things your mind is small and stupid.

[@Demicron]

So if there has not been an accident, why are you hyping it up?

[@michaelegotti6439]

even if there was, it takes several thousands newtons of force to make one go boom, i'd assume 900,000 newtons of force

[@trob0914]

I call B. S., this is putting fear into people's heads!

[@jamesluck2969]

@@mikedryman1905 really the Nevada test sites in Nevada

[@tgs9034]

Putting big nuke in transit on the side of a truck would cause people to freak out. to be honest, If its a Actural fully built nuke they would escort it. I dont think they move whole possible armed nuclear warheads on the highway without escort theres a specified unit in security forces for that.

[@arandomhuman1996]

You would never tell they would be transporting a nuke unless you opened the truck also uhh they most the time aren’t fully assemble and if they are they would put the core in another truck so it would not explode if you got in a very very very bad wreck

[@user-uv8rw1qm3u]

Theyre carrying antioppressor technology

[@ahmedhasanain882]

Let the government do their job please 🙏

[@matthiasknutzen6061]

It's built to withstand a crash and fire

[@matthiasknutzen6061]

"...recapturing and recovering ... Nuclear arsenal" what?

[@a-totally-random-person]

Simple question: how the hell did you think they got around?

[@bonzo354]

One more thing you don't need to worry about.

[@goobertuber4642]

You sure as hell don’t want them flying overhead, so how do you think the military transports that kinda stuff? Of course they transport via the interstate…it isn’t magic!

[@arandomhuman1996]

They do transport them via air tho..

[@RogueNation554]

There all heavily guarded when they do move them Not big news

[@arandomhuman1996]

No not at all sometimes there is not even a single military man guarding it sometimes a whole convoy...

[@silvesta5027]

Dude imagine this was your job, transporting nuclear weapons

[@arandomhuman1996]

It’s not a set job the US hires trucking company’s like any other business

[@adampatterson5475]

How dare them move freight on the highway.

[@turtletouche]

would you like for them to use airplanes?they are still looking for the one that fell out of a plane back in 1962 in S.C.

[@finnlikesplanes7110]

that was a bomber, you could easily transport nukes in a transport aircraft safer than a truck. The issue is you need a fighter escort

[@CAPEjkg]

People are way too scared and timid

[@SMcCaskill]

Y'all are a bunch of calamity howlers. Just calm down! These guys know what they are doing.

[@texasblaze1016]

Theyre all usually coming out of or going to Amarillo Texas. Incase you didn't know, that is the only place where America makes and disposes of all of its nuclear weapons

[@arandomhuman1996]

I’m in Montana and uh no no no there are sites everywhere where you would need to ship them not just texas

[@DustDevilRage]

Chattanooga is full of kitty. Donkey all over the place. Good bars downtown. If you can’t sling some donkey in that town you gotta problem.

[@legal7693]

if those trucks got into an accident you would be perfectly fine as nuclear warheads have a very thick layer of armor on the outside to withstand re-entering earth and IF this armor was broken you would be fine still as the military has a shield they lower onto the warhead and everyone within a 50 mile radius will be taken to a hospital where plenty of radiation treatment options are available

[@MeerkatADV]

Literally the only thing correct about what you said is that if the truck crashed everything would be fine.

[@davidransom4476]

We can neither confirm nor deny........................

[@silverback8183]

There are far worse things hauled in semi's and no,you don't want to know

[@Doorcake011]

Well how else are you supposed to do it. Like the highway is the best option.

[@texansandcandy9217]

Not surprised.

[@EODSnowboarder]

Its OST, not OTS. Office of Secure Transportation.

[@Mr100irvin]

Our highways and railways are only here because of possible war.. be grateful

[@georgeheld1901]

What else are they supposed to transport them by? By air??? That would be so much more dangerous

[@arandomhuman1996]

They do transport them by air sometimes lol and we have lost about 4 that we have not found yet 1 in a swamp two off the coast one over Sweden (don’t ask) and yeah pretty hard to find those

[@georgeheld1901]

@@arandomhuman1996 exactly (I know about broken arrow incidents) trucks are much safer

[@arandomhuman1996]

@@georgeheld1901 but I mean you still implied that they never transported via air also via air is somewhat smarter don’t get me wrong trucks are great but planes are simply faster and still pretty safe

[@georgeheld1901]

@@arandomhuman1996 yeah true, I meant they aren’t routinely transported by air anymore

[@arandomhuman1996]

@@georgeheld1901 yes yes they still are

[@joshriles84]

Uh, how did you think they transported them

[@michaelegotti6439]

what’s the problem

[@davidshaffer4649]

how do you people think things move around this country.road and rail.it isnt like a genie can cross her arms and blink her eyes and poof,it is magically there.how bout you drive safe all the time and dont worry,we'll do the same.

[@GM8101PHX]

I can not stand the over reaction as though these weapons will self detonate!!! The weapons are not an entire weapon armed and ready, there are missing parts that prevent them from going off, and the trucks hauling them are very safe vehicles. Another click bait as though the country is at risk, give me a break!!!

[@roachdoggjr45]

Thanks chris!

[@ThatsKD]

We would you even let them make a story about it come on now kept it secret the public doesn’t need to know everything.

[@seanberthiaume6909]

Why gee gomer what 2/12 tons of C4 duhhh

[@Padoinky]

They go in convoys, so this story is BS

[@erich84502ify]

Dont crash too hard

[@m24qanov20]

Hilarious “top secret”😂 lmao post on KZbin for billions of people

[@kevo8498]

What a click bait story..

[@Xx_nobody_xX]

Figures

[@JCmilwaukee]

Ok so they are just helping America how else are they going to ship it plane

[@arandomhuman1996]

Yes.

[@jakk222]

That’s awesome

[@yegygh9282]

By law even the feds have to mark the container if its radiated eeleven if its tiny IT HAS TO FECKING HAPPEN

[@awesomeat9113]

No it doesn’t.

[@WinterBass]

They don't just ship those they are escorted by armored vehicles and police humvees and a 2 gunships one toys over

[@MasterFalconer-pv8zb]

So?

[@paidjay2x138]

“I don’t think anyone would b to happy about this”... Me: Oh shut up 😑nobody cares

[@donpiercy1060]

I need to do is

[@jamescarpenter7161]

This is BS

[@alexleza9669]

D

[@EngelmanRanch-h5e]

Minimal danger. Tanker of gasoline is much more dangerous. Nothing secret about it though. It’s a big production and they mean business.

[@tnmwheatley]

There are extremely more dancargo out there. I have been driving a truck since 2000. In 2003, I picked a load up in Tracy, CA. It was a government load. Yes I had my hazmat endorsement. I had 2 stops. 1 at Hill AFB, in Utah. I delivered hydraulic fluid there. The extremely flammable kind. 2nd stop in Fort Carson, in Colorado. There I delivered Grenades. Now this was in 2003, when Afghanistan War was ongoing, and Iraq War was just starting. So when the U.S. Government ships loads, alot of times There is NO Manifest. I was only told what I was healing after delivery. Yes they can do that. They made sure I was properly licensed! But extremely flammable hydraulic fluid and grenades? It was secret. But I will tell you. If I had known about what I was healing, I would have refused the load. I did another load from the Denver Mint! Had to follow more security rules than the first load I talked about. Made it to Houston Federal Reserve! They secured the street for about 1 hour, while they transported the $80,000.00 worth of pennies off my trailer. PENNIES. Yet it was treated with higher security than this last load I am going to talk about. I picked up a load from southeastern Massachusetts! From a computer Manufacturer . RAYTHEON! Backed my trailer up. 4 hours to load. Pulled out. They secured it with the most interesting lock I ever seen. Took it all the way to Fort Hood. Went to the AH-64 APACHE MAINTENANCE BUILDING. They unloaded my trailer and then told me I was hauling 60 New Upgraded Computers for the APACHE! Told me the shipment was worth just over $60,000,000.00! I was in shock. And then he told me, nothing to worry about, dude, you were followed by 6 heavily armed Federal Agents. I could not get out of there fast enough. That sent Spiders crawling up my back. Not that I was followed, but the fact I was hauling soooo much expensive cargo, and yet was never told anything on my end, I mean it was my ASS they put on the line, for shit pay!!!!

[@johnhagen31]

And this is secret? Come on, be serious. The is a waste of time.