I visited the USA in 2017 to see the total solar eclipse, and visited many historic sites and museums. But didn't see the Trinity site or museum. The USA is a massive country with so much to see, so hopefully one day... Greetings from Australia.

It was such an honor to see Tim's German uranium cube and overall research progress/presentation a few years back. Getting a chance to see that piece of history up close and personal was truly special. So happy to see it now in the museum and so nicely displayed for all to enjoy and learn from.

Been going to this museum since the 80s in all 3 of its former locations (Kirtland, old town Abq and now its current awesome location) It was my favorite museum as a kid and still is as an adult. (It was called the National Atomic Museum when it was on Kirtland AFB grounds)

Wow, what an incredible museum. Thanks for showing all the great stuff they have there.

I have been there and it is an incredible museum to visit. Some of it can be a bit dark, but it really does an amazing job of preserving our history of nuclear weapons. Being I am a huge Extreme Machines fan, I was super thrilled when I saw the conning tower from the USS James K Polk there.

This video brings a refreshingly different perspective to the topic of nuclear energy, which is often neglected in the public discussion. As a German who witnessed the decommissioning of all nuclear power plants in my country, I think it is important to critically question this decision. It seems as if politicians have acted out of excessive fear of the potential dangers of nuclear energy, without taking into account the real and immediate effects of the alternatives. It is worth noting that we now get a significant part of our energy from fossil fuels such as lignite. It is undeniable that nuclear power plants can pose an enormous danger in the event of a disaster. But it is also important to remember that the burning of fossil fuels actually leads to many deaths every year. In other words, nuclear energy can kill, but other forms of energy actually do. One aspect that particularly fascinates me about this video is the fact that places that were actually hit by nuclear bombs can be visited today without any particular danger. This suggests that the radiation in the environment has reduced considerably. This leads me to a question I would like to pose: How has radiation levels in the oceans changed as a result of the discharge of highly radioactive water, as was the case after the Fukushima disaster, or as a result of the disposal of radioactive waste in the sea? Have these radioactive materials been dispersed and diluted in the vastness of the sea to such an extent that they ultimately do not have a major impact on the radioactive contamination of the environment?

6:35 Minuteman III is the only silo launched platform currently in service. The Titan and Peacekeeper are both retired. “Worldwide delivery in 30 minutes or less!”

Thank you Drew, For some of us across the world, it is extremely unlikely we will be able to visit this particular museum. I really appreciated the few seconds on the description cards for some of the exhibits. Love your work, keep it up mate, cheers from down under 👍

I work for a company as a cyclotron engineer that makes the nuclear medicine. Enjoyed the video.

We were there at Trinity Site the same day...looks like you were there either earlier or later than us due to the apparently smaller crowd size. I brought a 65 year old Godzilla figure and posed him in front of the bomb casing that was on display. Also got interviewed by a Japanese film crew, which was really interesting.

Boy that was something! Thanks for taking the time to show it to us.

those uranium cubes have to be one of my favourite things. so futuristic looking

I am from Albuquerque NM but moved away around a year and a half ago. I am going back this upcoming December to visit and this museum is on my priority list of things to see!

I was born in Richland Washington and have always been fascinating with nuclear power. My Father worked as a manager at Hanford for about 40+ Years. I last year toll a tour of Hanford B reactor. The town of Hanford is about gone. The old high school is still there but not much else. I wish the government would do another blast and sell tickets. I think they would make allot of money. I watch all your blogs. Keep up your great work!

Drew, I just found your channel yesterday. It was the video of your visit to the Trinity site from April. I just wanted to say your videos have been awesome. The quality of video, your ability to let exhibits speak for them selves, and your thoughtfulness of additional information on the content within the video is so good. Appreciate your work

Titan was replaced my Minuteman. Minuteman was support to be replaced by Peacekeeper but then Peacekeeper got canceled and Minuteman is still in use today, over 50 years since it was introduced. Note: the German WW2 reactor program was an experiment to produce electricity through nuclear power, the German physicists involved did not think nuclear weapons were possible. They also got the physics wrong for producing electricity, their design was theoretically impossible.

I went there last year, and it was amazing! Need to go back and spend another afternoon there. Just a quick drive from where I live. The displays are amazing and a lot real items that were in service. What freaked me out was that "physics" package that was on the floor. It was so small, but so deadly.

WOW, just WOW!!! Thank you sir for sharing this with us! I would absolutely LOVE to go there in person and it has GOT to be on the bucket list before I die. What a treasure and a treat! Thanks again man 👍

🤩🤩🤩 Kolejna rzecz na mojej liście "Musisz zobaczyć przed śmiercią". Dziękuje za świetny film. Twój kanał jest genialny !!!

Really cool history! I happen to live not far from a decommissioned Nike missile site. It’s insane that not many people knew these weapons were even there.

Was working at Holloman AFB a few years back and went to the museum then. It was featured in one of the early episodes of Breaking Bad.

Watching you pat the ICBMs is a little Dr Strangelovesque

Scary as that technology is your music choice made it a relaxing experience haha! Love the video and keep up the good work!

Fiestaware and uranium glass are some of the most vibrant things i've seen

14:49 An original cube from heisenberg test reactor is shown at haigerloch museum in south of germany. these were the last produced uranium cubes - after that a massive bomber raid in november 1944 destroys degussa plant located at frankfurt/m germany

wow, they put any effort into this with the polyethylene bricks and lead castle and the gadget, great filming and story telling !

I'm sure he's read it before, but the book Command & Control by Eric Schlosser really got me interested in nuclear history. Also scared the ever-loving shit out of me lol

What an awesome place. I now know why you suggested it on one of my previous comments on your Trinity Site video. Thanks for the brilliant video😊

The unit that dropped the two atomic bombs, the 509th Bomb Wing, is my current unit. There may be a controversy in the civilian world about the decision, but we prominently display two mushroom plumes on our patch for the two atomic bombs. It's a source of pride for us knowing that our unit ended the largest war in history

That metallic uranium cube is so cool, I would love to own something like that!

I saw one of those shoe sizers in a shoe store when I was very young, maybe 1973? I was 3 or 4. I was not tall enough to look inside and have my foot in it at the same time. It was not one of the department stores, it was an old store that was busy, dusty in places only kids can see and cramped. It had an animatronic acrobatic monkey in the window, that did flips holding onto a bar. It had a red and white stripe outfit. I had a good memory, but it filled up fast. I have memories from before I was born. Dozens. Hated slamming car doors, and clapping, though, I only figured out what these sounds were later. I liked the purr of the cat, when he was held. I don't remember my birth itself. If someone says they remember something that far back, that is usually the thing they remember. I think I must have passed out from too little oxygen. I remember what I presume was the same day. The cool air on my face was unpleasant, and the lights were terrible. I could not make any sense of anything I was seeing...but it all seemed terribly unfair. Definitely felt victimized. And to me my home was me too. Like I was pulled apart from myself. Yeah, way, way off on a rabbit track, this time. It just seems so odd to me that there are people who remember nothing until 5 or 6. Feels like half my life was over by 8. The passage of time perception seems to be basically exponential. I have hours of mental movies of watching slugs oozing down the wet sidewalk and their cool eyes retracting when touched, don't worry, I was gentle. Too bad I did not learn any math, physics, and chemistry equations then. They sure did not want to stick later. I think people don't remember because their thinking is too different from the way adult culture/language interprets things. They just discard the whole structure they had and build anew. I still remember the original structure I built before language. It was very different. Less focus on individual things, everything was mutual interaction. For example, in a car going down the road both the car is moving and the road, our motion was mutual and shared. In English, we have some words that enable expression of concepts like these, even if most people don't use them. Maybe that helped me hold the structure together. Concepts like "one another", "each other", "astride", "in between". Though, I normally just go with the way we are taught to see the World. But in the back of my mind sometimes I compare evaluating which is superior or inferior in different cases. I suppose, in my mind, one of the biggest differences is that causation was limited to something a person/mind could do. Intention was required. You would be surprised how thoroughly that one little thing changes world view. My nonlinearity, also caused issues. It delayed speech somewhat. My mind just was not ready for that kind of arbitrary ridged linearity. I also expected a consistent but subtle system of rules for the creation of words. I had not considered that it could be arbitrary but fixed. It had some order...prefixes, suffixes and such. I was just looking for more than was there. I also expected emotions to alter the words, to morph them. Each emotion in a different way. So many inaccurate assumptions. I sometimes wonder if it is possible to engineer the language I was looking for. And if that would be easier for kids to learn, or just harder for the other 90% that might have been expecting something else. It is a wonder that the vast majority of people learn to speak, regardless of what society they are born into. All those kids are geniuses, every one of them. I guess, if you read to the end of this rabbit track, you are a glutton for confusion.

Great tour. We go there whenever we visit Albuquerque. My wife purchased some Tritium from the gift shop but they were out last time we were there. I got a couple of old civil defense dosimeters and they work great. I have the reset device for them.

If I ever get to visit the USA this is a must to visit. Thank you for showing.

That's a fascinating place. The outdoor static displays are in remarkably good condition.

I visited that museum 10 years ago. It was great and I see there have been many changes to the exhibits since then. I also visited Los Alamos, but was unable to go to the Trinity site as the open day had been cancelled due to a national funding problem. I was NOT happy about that as it was one of the main reasons for my coming to the USA!

Congratulations on 40k subs! You still deserve much more attention, but it's a lot better than 5k subs when I found the channel!

That's absolutely fascinating. If I'm ever there I'm definitely gonna have to visit. Thank you so much for sharing this.

It is my favorite museum. I go there every once in a while.

Nice job of museum tour guide! ❤ Enjoyed!

When people tell me they are scared of nuclear weapons I tell them about the Thoriated water and Radium tonics. Now those are scary. The clock face painters? The lack of knowledge in the early years of the atomic age were terrifying in hindsight.

A former co-worker, when I worked for Cumberland Science Museum (now Adventure Science Center) in the 1980's, early 1990's, Jim Walther was the exhibits director there and later on, was the Executive Director for the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History for 26 years, and retired March 3rd, 2023. Jim was responsible for building up the impressive exhibits and visitor experience at the museum. If you ever make the trip to visit the Trinity site, you should also make a trip to visit the museum. It is amazing. Because of the popularity of the Oppenheimer motion picture, the site will probably be packed with visitors for the October 21, 2023 and April 6, 2024 upcoming dates, when the Trinity site will be open to the public. I agree with Drew that the April date is a nice time to visit.

So many of us have worked in the fields of technology involved in making these weapons to actually get a better understanding of what we helped build.

2:47 - The outside exhibits also include the USS James K. Polk SSN 645 nuclear submarine sail. It looks like the sub is surfacing in the desert.

Good stuff Drew. Really enjoyed this one. Thanks

I found your channel to be very interesting and informative. Was always fascinated by nuclear power and weapons. Plus 1 subscriber. Great channel

Man, what a cool premise for a channel. You got my subscription!

I visited this fascinating museum a few years ago. It's a great destination if you're interested in nuclear science.

Just found your channel love your videos man :D they are really coool cant wait to see more

Although I'm pro military and pro nuclear, when I see millions of dollars worth of nuclear war technology on display (and knowing that these examples are just tips of the iceberg), I can't help but be reminded of President Eisenhower's warning regarding the "military industrial complex."

Saw this museum a few years ago. It has come a long way since then! So cool. Thanks for the video.

This video is great, this museum really puts into perspective just how terrifying but also incredible this machinery is. It's always difficult for me to fathom how humans were able to engineer incredible science...something that always makes my head spin is perspective as well...in 1903 humans just barely understood the concept of flight and within just a few decades we theorized and created nuclear technology and the capibility of wiping our existence of this planet; it's absolutely mental to think about. Also, can you imagine what it must have been like for the generation just born at the dawn of the 20th century lol? I dont think humanity will ever see such a rapid progression in science for a long time.

I got a chance to visit the museum when it was at Kirtland where I was stationed and some years later at one of the other sites. Nice video

The film The Day After scared the crap out of us as 80s kids in England. Threads too. There was also stuff on the BBC about London getting hit and how big the blast radius would be etc. The USAF had a base near us and were very annoying flying their tactical nuclear bombers low over our school several times per day. We knew the base was a prime target and would be hit early if the war kicked off. We argued about what yield of weapon would put us in the blast zone. It did not feel like a safe place. I remember one night hearing lots of those jets racing off, sounding really urgent. I wondered if it had begun and I lay there waiting for the flash. I was 13. I have had a morbid fascination with nuke stuff ever since. Moving to NZ when I was 15 felt like a much safer place than living next to that base (it had just gone nuclear-free, so does not host nuclear forces). P.S. Nuclear medicine. I had an injection of iodine isotopes, so they could use a gamma scanner to see how much my thyroid adsorbed within a certain time, which resulted in a Graves Disease diagnosis that required me to take pills for a year until it came right. They said the isotope is harmless. I hope they are right. If the condition comes back, they said they will nuke the thyroid. No thanks.

Thanks Drew that was a great watch 👍‼️✌🏽

In the kindest way I want to correct your pronunciation of “nuclear”. It’s pronounced “newclear” Not “nucular”. It is easy to do. I’ve done it to. Thank you for the videos, they are fascinating. I do enjoy them. ❤

This channel you have had opened a whole world of things I never knew about this stuff, I knew of the mines and that stuff but all the other aspects such as whats here is stuff I never considered.

11:56 - the 16” W23 variant of the W19 nuclear artillery shell for the US Navy's 16-inch (406 mm) main battery found on the Iowa-class battleships.

How fascinating! Id love to visit this museum if I ever get a chance to come back across the pond! I'm curious as to how the staff manage their dosage and what safeguards are in place??? Of course I'm not suggesting for one minute that the establishment doesn't have such arrangements, I wouldn't even know how long the prolonged exposure would need to be to cause concern!

Me and a friend actually went here a few weeks ago. It really is a cool place.

If you were westbound through the city, you had to make Bugs Bunny's "left turn at Alburquerque." I was fortunate enough to tour that museum last month. There was so much to take in. I was impressed that there's a submarine there (okay, just the sail).

I drive by there every morning on my way to work! I haven't had a chance to go visit yet, thanks for the tour!

Thanks for the tour;looks like a vary informative and nice museum.

A small pile of the german cubes were found buried I believe, but not all of them. Not enough cubes to go critical with that german reactor I read. They were a few shy of really poisoning themselves. They would have stubbornly thought nothing of it, until the main scientists started dropping. WE were very lucky. No Sprint Interceptor, that flies to mach 10 in 15 seconds with a W66. Thought the museum would have one. A neat walk-thru. Thanks Drew.

If you ever make it over to Tucson, I have some passes for the Pima Air and Space Museum along with the Titan 2 Missile Museum. Both are sites to see. Local antique shops have Bauer pottery too.

Great vid! I have the John Coster Mullen publication detailing the precise outer dimensions of both LB and FM, so some construction is in order!

Very interesting. I definitely want go see this museum.

Wonderful video, Drew! When I was little I remember a shoe store in Atlanta and I walked up to the XRay device and I saw my feet and shoes in the Xtay machine. I never saw that machine again. Thanks Drew for this video!

I had a Tc-99 injection to have my heart checked, before I got my RadiaCode 103 (darn!). I put a GQ GMC radiation detector over my heart as soon as I got home. I got a reading of over 300,000 CPM. I even took a picture of it. It took about 2 weeks to get low enough I could be around my grandkids again. I told my heart doctor I was going to check it with my Geiger counter when I got home. He said "You have a Geiger counter? I do nuclear medicine and I don't have a Geiger counter!" I told him he should get one, I have about 8 of them. 🙂

Back in the late 70's one of the local department stores had a shoe sizer and my siblings and me would play with it! They still had it untill they closed in the late 80's.

I'm suprised I didn't see The Davey Crocket there.....Maybe cause it wasn't used but still would be nice to see it IRL.....

Super cool. Gets on the list for my USA trip i dream of.

that was awesome Drew, and it was even in 4k! Thanks!

Wow, had no idea this place existed. Now on my list. Thank you for sharing!!!

Thanks for taking your detectors along on the tour. It adds another dimension to the experience.

I have uranium sitting right next to me in my cupboard. Dug it up myself in Utah :D And in my vault there's test materials like Cesium-137 and Polonium-210 (well that's dissipated by now) . You can legally obtain any of those.

6:20 Titan II removed from ICBM service in 1987. Some were used for space launches from Vandenberg until 2003. Peacekeepers removed from service in 2005. The current US land-based ICBM force consists of Minuteman III missiles.

I got to see the actual Enola Gay at the Air & Space museum outside Washington DC. Really interesting to see in person.

I didn't know this place existed. Gonna try and make a road trip to go visit this summer. Thanks!

I remember when I was a child they had this shoe-xray device in use. These days no one cared about radiation danger. It was just another new technology toy. Must have been in the early 60's in Germany.

Nuclear science is such a useful tool. There is still a lot more we can do with it for the good of mankind.

One more history location I need to visit. Very cool.

That was a great virtual tour.

Another great video. Didn’t know about this museum and will check it out next time I’m there. Was just at the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley AZ. Very cool tour of the launch complex and a sobering experience. The tour guide emphasized peace through deterance.

I have had disagreements with this content creator in the comments. But I support this channel because of the amazing content. -- BTW, I have been contaminated going into an abandoned uranium mine, I fell and my hand broke the fall. No gloves. After washing my hair with both hands, my right hand that contacted the dirt was still spicy. I had to scrub my hand with soap and a brush to get it back to background.

Thanks for taking us along Drew.

My mother told me that she remembers that in Toronto shoe stores in the 40s they had those shoe machines. Kids used to come and fool around for a long time before a salesman would shoo them out. Hope they didn't too much exposure!

Last time i was in Vegas I went to The Atomic Museum and it was truly informative and interesting.

Seeing so many people get butthurt about the pronunciation has switched me to the nu-cular way of saying it 👍 keep up the great videos

very atmospheric music choice, i love it

Hey Drew, I love the videos brother. My friend Bob told me when he was a kid they had that machine you could look at the bones of your feet through the shoes right here in Massachusetts crazy stuff man. Stay safe and thank you for the videos they are awesome

The U.S. Army Redstone Solid Rocket Fuel Pellets are essentially what fires the air bags in vehicles today.

13:23 I noticed they have ”Fail Safe”, and “The Bedford incident”, but they are missing one movie that stands out from all others, “Dr Strangelove, or how to stop worrying and love the bomb”… also with the “The Bedford incident”, directed by James B Harris, is an excellent nuclear war movie, and a collaborator with Stanley Kubrick on “The Killing”, “Paths of Glory”, and “Lolita”…

I didn't even know this museum existed - got to go check it out. Thanks Drew

Thank you for showing this, not everybody has a visa to actually see this

Adding this to my bucket list for sure

I wanted to get to the Trinity site this year. I'm from England and unvaccinated so I'm inadmissible to the USA, sadly. I hope they relax the rules because I really want to visit.

amazing !! regards from Mallorca, Spain !

What an incredible place! Thank you for sharing.

Wow that Atomic Annie is in great shape. While stationed in Germany in the 80s got to see the GLCM bunkers at Ramstein Air Base and also stationed down the road from a former MIM-14 Nike Hercules nuke storage site, it was no longer used for nuke storage but it still had all the fences, guard towers and lights.

Been there - but its worth a repeat visit