When Things Go Boom: Former Top Secret Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility (San Antonio, Texas)

[@BillSprague]

I did my USAF Officer Training at Medina in 1968. We were “incarcerated” in those igloos during escape and evasion training.

[@Cevans3535]

Great video. I was a munitions troop stationed at Medina from 05-09 and watching your video brought back a lot of memories. The great thing about being stationed at a munitions depot that is missing a building, and the fact that this accident is hardly known by the average person, was when new troops showed up and we got to pull the prank on them where we'd send them out to the bomb dump at the end of the day telling them that building 572 was accidentally left unlocked. Our control center even had a set of building keys stamped for building 572 that they would issue to the airman to use to lock up the building. Something that would usually take 10 minutes to do would inevitably take an hour or two before they would return. Even funnier would be the airmen who would claim they locked it up and took care of it 😂. I miss those days.

[@leeanntrain8835]

My dad was working there when it exploded. His job at the time I believe was to deactivate the enriched uranium . He ran these chambers. He said the concrete floor looked like a wave. My mother did not know if he was dead or alive. He had to shower all day until the radiation was low. He was sworn to secrecy. I do not know if this has been declassified.

[@leonardtrevino8436]

Hey, native San Antonian here. Great work! I see this from adjoining highway, and have found local newspaper article as you referenced. Too young to remember this happening, but how in the world did you get into this area to film??? I recall years ago reading how the Air Force was periodically doing surveys to examine for remnants of this event. Wasn’t the work done here moved to Pantex??

[@ClarkyMalarky]

Another small part of my brain has been fulfilled with this info .. hahah thx

[@BrentNoll]

I was looking at Lackland on google maps and suddenly came upon this area, I had no idea where to find out what it was, but then I came across your video. You're doing amazing work, I have always wanted to see the logistics of old national defense stuff and your videos are wonderful. thank you so much!

[@WideWorldofTrains]

If you come here to western New York there is a place called West Valley Demonstration Project, it is a cleanup site of a abandoned nuclear fuel reprocessing facility. My Dad worked there during construction in the early 60's

[@AdamWellsMusic]

Wow

[@rowbow7977]

nice video, i always saw that field of bunker looking things on google earth and wondered what they were

[@CSltz]

I’m damn surprised that this hasn’t been mentioned in someone’s conspiracy theory. I used to work in these areas. Had a guy with me once that asked where do we go if one of these goes off? I wish I would have had this back then. Please drive carefully and man! You do good work.

[@CSltz]

I did a lot of training there. Never even heard this story before. At least don’t remember it.

[@AtvCamper]

Do you plan on going to Arkansas? Do you think you will look into the demascus titan 2 missile silo accident?

[@RadioactiveRoadTrippinRR]

Hi there - I just left Arkansas where I stayed overnight inside a former Titan II missile silo. I didn't visit Damascus because there's nothing there, but will talk to the accident when I work on that episode

[@AtvCamper]

@@RadioactiveRoadTrippinRR I think I saw that on your Facebook page for the channel. Looked like GT’s place? Very cool! Do you think if the crew stayed in the LCC at the demascus site when the missile blew they would of survived? Did they ever say how the LCC faired after the explosion?

[@RadioactiveRoadTrippinRR]

@@AtvCamper Yes, it was GT's place. I assume the command center was destroyed.