At the height of the Cold War, America's underground was rife with dozens of hidden nuclear-missile units.
Some of these systems contained Titan II missiles , which carried the largest single nuclear warhead of any missile of its kind before or since.

Titan II was a guided ballistic missile that was also the largest, most powerful nuclear weapons system ever deployed in the US. And it served one purpose: deterrence.
"The idea behind Titan II was to instill enough fear in the mind of the enemy to cause them to think twice about launching an attack against us," Chuck Penson, the archivist and historian at the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona, told Derek Muller, the host of the YouTube channel Varitasium

In his latest Varitasium episode, Muller takes us inside an underground base where one of these monster Titan II missiles still stands, and he learns about the insanely complicated steps it would have taken to actually launch this terrifying piece of human engineering in the event of an attack.

Yes? Yes?

Inside the missile was a weapon with incredibly destructive potential — 650 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Therefore, it's no surprise that on the entry door into the silo, where the Titan II missile stands, there is a sign that reads "CAUTION."

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Though the Titan II missile still stands, it no longer carries its dangerous cargo.
The Titan Missile Museum in Arizona, where this empty missile is located, includes the original site for one of the 54 underground silos across the country where deterrent missiles, such as Titan II, were hidden during the late 1950s and mid-'60s.
The control center with all of the gadgets, switches, and buttons — including those that would initiate a launch — is located far from the missile, beyond a series of long underground tunnels.
Another benefit, besides secrecy, to an underground launch site was that if the enemy successfully detonated a bomb in the US, the site's occupants would be shielded from the radiation as long as their base was not destroyed in the attack.

Once in the control room, Penson takes Muller through the multistep process of what it would have been like to launch a Titan II missile.

First, the speakers in the room sound an alarm that is followed by a message with a series of random numbers and words.
This message should have reached them only if the US president had ordered it.
Everyone in the room copies down the message and compares notes, and if they agree on what they heard, then they go to a red safe — which is locked, of course — containing a series of what Penson calls "authentication cards."

Each card contains two letters. If one of the cards has the two-letter combination that matches the first two letters in the secret message transmitted through the speakers, then the control room is officially "go" for launch.

After that, you just have one more six-letter code and two keys separating you from World War III. But the six-letter code is on a wheel with 17 million possible combinations, and the key slots are far enough apart that you must have two people turning them at exactly the same time.

After you insert the six-letter code, the commander counts down to the final key turn. The commander and his partner hold the keys down for five seconds, and then a terrifying green light illuminates the "Ready to Launch" panel.
"For all intensive purposes that should say, 'Welcome to World War III,' because that's pretty much what it boils down to," Penson said. "When you turn the key you are committed. There is no 'oops' switch."

These precautions were taken to prevent a single person from launching a missile. After all, people can get pretty crazy and paranoid during times of war.
Though Titan II was never launched to prevent an attack on US soil, several of these missiles were launched. In fact, some were used to launch American manned missions through NASA's Gemini program to space.


http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-arizonas-titan-ii-missile-museum-2015-7

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Titan II launch...never pray for third world war o

It shall never launch on my lifetime.

Amen.


But if I die and Robinhez is still alive, then it can launch.

Thanks.

Teempakguy:
It shall never launch on my lifetime.

Amen.


But if I die and Robin hez is still alive, then it can launch.

Thanks.

Goat!
How old r u, how old am I??

But on a serious note...
I've been reading about "how to survive a nuclear attack" for some months now...dunno why?!

I just pray b4 WW3 starts...I should be old enough to have a house of my own...I'd definitely build an underground bunker

America and security threat. Humans and hate. May God help us.

RobinHez:

Goat!
How old r u, how old am I??

But on a serious note...
I've been reading about "how to survive a nuclear attack" for some months now...dunno why?!

I just pray b4 WW3 starts...I should be old enough to have a house of my own...I'd definitely build an underground bunker

do u think dat will work considerin the amount of nuclear radiation. Unlez u wil neva cum out of ur bunker. Radiation is highly dangerous.

HiggsBoson:
America and security threat. Humans and hate. May God help us.

America may be the trigger that would end human race. And also not forgettin North Korea.

ikbnice:

do u think dat will work considerin the amount of nuclear radiation. Unlez u wil neva cum out of ur bunker. Radiation is highly dangerous.

Yeah...If I'm rich enough...
Or do u think those who produced the bombs dnt have a plan to be safe frm it?

I'll just have to have everything I need there...nd remain in there till its safe to come out.

RobinHez:

Goat!
How old r u, how old am I??

But on a serious note...
I've been reading about "how to survive a nuclear attack" for some months now...dunno why?!

I just pray b4 WW3 starts...I should be old enough to have a house of my own...I'd definitely build an underground bunker

haba!
Goat ke? Shebi nah you talk say atomic battery go kill me na . . . you wey atomic battery no kill, dey dodge Titan II nah.

RobinHez:

Yeah...If I'm rich enough...
Or do u think those who produced the bombs dnt have a plan to be safe frm it?

I'll just have to have everything I need there...nd remain in there till its safe to come out.

It may never be safe to cum out nd u liv in there in finito.

Teempakguy:
haba!
Goat ke? Shebi nah you talk say atomic battery go kill me na . . . you wey atomic battery no kill, dey dodge Titan II nah.

Nobody wan die!

ikbnice:
It may never be safe to cum out nd u liv in there in finito.

Wrong! Radiation can't go on forever
Dats why we have half-life

ikbnice:
It may never be safe to cum out nd u liv in there in finito.

Wrong! Radiation can't go on forever
Dats why we have half-life

Teempakguy:
haba!
Goat ke? Shebi nah you talk say atomic battery go kill me na . . . you wey atomic battery no kill, dey dodge Titan II nah.

Urs is a deliberate attempt to die

I didn't start ww3...so I have to avoid it

RobinHez:

Wrong!
Radiation can't go on forever

Dats why we have half-life

i knw but u may nt liv long enuf to witness when it wil be safe to cum out. Residual radiation may take a long time by causing radioactive contamination.

ikbnice:

Nobody wan die!

hahaha. Tell that to these guys.

ikbnice:

i knw but u may nt liv long enuf to witness when it wil be safe to cum out. Residual radiation may take a long time by causing radioactive contamination.

See there?
Not only living under a bunker...there are other things involved too dat can keep one alive...

Just google up the stuff, nd prepare 4 war!

RobinHez:

See there?
Not only living under a bunker...there are other things involved too dat can keep one alive...

Just google up the stuff, nd prepare 4 war!

see this one . . . which war?
Abeg, nor pour sand for our garri. Humanity has reached an equilibrium of world peace.

Teempakguy:
see this one . . . which war?
Abeg, nor pour sand for our garri. Humanity has reached an equilibrium of world peace.

Dey there...

U remember how those Korean guys hacked Sony? Dats how a war starts...

RobinHez:

Dey there...

U remember how those Korean guys hacked Sony? Dats how a war starts...

yes I know. But I am counting on the ability of men to restrain themselves.

Trust me man, if a nuclear war starts, no bunker will save you. Even the radioactive fall out will ruin the human chromosome forever.
Which I why I pray it will never launch during my lifetime. But if i should die and you're still here, then it can launch. After all, you've got a bunker.

Teempakguy:
yes I know. But I am counting on the ability of men to restrain themselves.

Trust me man, if a nuclear war starts, no bunker will save you. Even the radioactive fall out will ruin the human chromosome forever.
Which I why I pray it will never launch during my lifetime. But if i should die and you're still here, then it can launch. After all, you've got a bunker.

He keeps saying dat

I'd need ur help and other scientists to save the world from total annihilation na

Dats why they (America nd Russia) are colonizing other planets already.

RobinHez:

He keeps saying dat

I'd need ur help and other scientists to save the world from total annihilation na

Dats why they (America nd Russia) are colonizing other planets already.

oh no!
I sense a conspiracy! The whites want to run away to mars and nuke us blacks, hereby wiping us from the face of the earth!

Okay, seriously. We have to find a way to deactivate evey single nuke im the world.
Remotely, if possible.

Teempakguy:
oh no!
I sense a conspiracy! The whites want to run away to mars and nuke us blacks, hereby wiping us from the face of the earth!

Okay, seriously. We have to find a way to deactivate evey single nuke im the world.
Remotely, if possible.

Hmm...r u serious abt that theory, cuz I have my own theory...

They'd destroy their lands in war...nd then come to colonize africa again!

RobinHez:


Hmm...r u serious abt that theory, cuz I have my own theory...

They'd destroy their lands in war...nd then come to colonize africa again!

at this rate ehn, I am sure the anti spam not is eyeing us.

Okay, nice theory, but won't work, if they destroy their lands, we will have the advantage. Land is of the utmost importance in war. (Kindly watch ironclad or 300 for examples.)
So, unless they're total idiots. Or . . . o my God! They are the ones behind the terrorists! They are trying to divide and conquer!
man, we need to build a bomb for this country,

pinky n the brain rme