Inside the Most Secure Building In The World

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Inside the Most Secure Building In The World

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Inside the Most Secure Building In The World. Fort Knox is renowned for housing approximately 1407.3 million ounces of the United States' gold supply, making it widely considered one of the most secure buildings globally. Its origins trace back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's era in the early 1930s amid the Great Depression. Roosevelt aimed to stabilize the economy and bolster reserves by issuing Executive Order 6102, which required citizens to exchange gold for paper currency, boosting the US reserves significantly.
In 1935, Roosevelt and the United States Treasury Department decided to establish a new depository for the gold reserves in Kentucky, specifically at Fort Knox, known for its military history and strategic location. The decision stemmed from concerns about safeguarding the gold during potential attacks, considering Kentucky's landlocked and geographically isolated position, which made it less vulnerable compared to coastal areas.
Construction of the United States Bullion Depository, commenced in early 1936 and was completed later that year. The building's security features include reinforced materials, a vault gate resistant to torches and drills, and a 100-hour time lock mechanism accessible only to authorized personnel with specific combinations.
The responsibility of protecting the gold falls under the Department of Treasury and the US Mint Police, ensuring stringent security measures to safeguard assets valued at over $300 billion. Besides gold, Fort Knox has housed various valuable items, including historical documents like the Magna Carta, the Holy Crown of Hungary, and even a year's supply of morphine and opium during the Cold War era.
While Fort Knox is renowned for its security, the title of the largest gold depository in the United States belongs to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, housing approximately 7,000 tons of gold, primarily sourced during and after World War II from various countries seeking secure storage. Despite a gradual decline in gold holdings since its peak in 1973, Fort Knox remains a symbol of economic strength and security, upholding its legacy as a pivotal asset repository in US history.
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@BeyondFacts 2 ай бұрын

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@PairedDuck 2 күн бұрын

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@Grump.Epanda 3 ай бұрын

So you move all the gold to Ft Knox from the east coast in case we were invaded from the east, only to now have the largest gold depository located in New York. 😂

@orlandomartinez4085 3 ай бұрын

US government facepalming right now after reading your comment

@Tomo-hb2tq 3 ай бұрын

That’s what I was going to say so there’s no point in having it in the fort then if most of the gold is in New York or what’s the point in having it in New York at all and as well if the sea level rises then New York will be taken out but not the fort cos it’s too far in land

@auxmike718 3 ай бұрын

Do you mean west point?

@jamesclodfelter6569 2 ай бұрын

Key point, most of other countries gold is in New York. Ours is in Fort Knox.

@onionhead5780 2 ай бұрын

@@Tomo-hb2tqObviously I’m not talking about tide changes for the people that like to pick a comment apart but sea level rise doesn’t happen overnight. If that ever does occur then they’ll be plenty of time to relocate the gold. Also for the record. I live in South Florida and according to Al Gore’s prediction years ago, we should be underwater by now. Cue eye roll. 🙄

@ajspice 3 ай бұрын

Dude be struggling trying to figure out where dollar signs are supposed to go.

@davidesp00 3 ай бұрын

and some of the numbers he was saying never lined up with the numbers on screen LMAO

@derekbader130 2 ай бұрын

Decimals in weird places...

@TheBmco99 2 ай бұрын

Funny part is there’s nothing inside of Fort Knox not one piece of gold. Nothing the Democrats have sold everything and anything that would’ve been a value.

@KS-gf3tv 13 күн бұрын

Driving me actually nuts

@chancemathews7057 14 күн бұрын

I was told by someone that lives in the area that if someone tried to rob Fort Knox they would let them in the building then lock the doors and seal them inside. 😮

@chrism2966 3 ай бұрын

Why is the security so high ? Is it to ensure no one gets in and discovers there is NO gold inside ?

@DDK_channel_1 3 ай бұрын

what makes you think that there isnt any gold inside 😂

@ajspice 3 ай бұрын

@@DDK_channel_1 Because thinking everything is a conspiracy and everyone is out to "get" you is trendy amongst losers. It's getting out of control. Yeah, our government has and probably continues to be dishonest in some ways--governments are reflection of people--but to think EVERYTHING is some concocted story or red herring is absurd.

@chrism2966 3 ай бұрын

@@DDK_channel_1 Why would one expect there to be any gold ? The gold standard was dropped by Nixon in the 1970s. Before then, put simply, a country had to have enough gold in its reserves to equal the amount of money it made available via its banking system. Once the gold standard was dropped, the Fed started printing the amount of money IT wanted. Since computerisation, money is now a fiction. A notion. An entity. It is worth a dollar because they say it is worth a dollar. The Fed also made it clear it could not/ would not be audited ( checked ) so why would they keep that gold when they could trade it across the worlds for their own ends ? The Fed also held other country's gold on their behalf, and those countries now want it to be returned, physically as gold, so they can do with it what they wish. The BRICS alliance is issuing a new trading currency backed by gold, so the dollar will not have a value unless it can also show it has adequate gold to make it worth anything at all. How can the gold reserves be validated if they Fed will not allow anyone to see it ? Fun times.

@user-sj7fu6es3y 2 ай бұрын

@@chrism2966 🎯🎯🎯🎯and 🎯🎯

@Rocketman88002 2 ай бұрын

@chrism2966, Fort Knox is an economics placebo!

@shawndmiles6747 2 ай бұрын

Interesting fact. Gold bars have to be restacked every year. Reason why is that the bars will weld thems together because of the weight of the bars. History channel. Personally I think the vault is empty of the gold reserve.

@duaneayers6117 2 ай бұрын

It's hard to still believe that there are people living today 2024 that believe 100% percent that Fort Knox is loaded with GOLD.

@TheSilmarillian 2 ай бұрын

Yep .

@joshstephens6574 2 ай бұрын

Computer servers and drives would be my guess. But I only passed by in in route to a land-nav course as an E2.

@colinchapman3658 2 ай бұрын

Lol what are you actually saying that you believe our nations gold reserves were looted by whom exactly? Aliens? Obama?

@clementgoetke2385 3 ай бұрын

inside the vault is an iou

@markomib 2 ай бұрын

at the end of the day, it is just a yellow metal that could be shrunk to worthless with a large find of new gold. not likely, but let's not pretend gold is actually worth what we think it is. If you're in a post nuclear holocaust, i promise you - vodka or gin, or antibiotics, are worth more to you. An "IOU", or fiat currency, is actually more valuable provided you've the economic means to back it up. (there was a time in human history, when aluminium was more valuable than gold.....would you sleep better with the same weight of aluminium?)

@user-gs1ji7dj3n 20 күн бұрын

my grandfather worked on an upgrade in the late forties. He claimed that it is capable of being flooded with water. The part he claimed to have worked on were the guard posts or machine gun posts on the corners of the building.

@rxb364 2 ай бұрын

And it's empty ... That's the secret.

@FrankAk911 2 ай бұрын

Right?? That’s what I’m thinking. Why would they announce the place where they keep the very vulnerable things? I assume that they might keep those golds or other things somewhere very secure and private, not there.

@soacespacestation8556 2 күн бұрын

@FrankAk911 Well they say the president lives at the White House, and a president is considered highly valuable so by your logic, US presidents don't actually live at the White House

@rxb364 2 күн бұрын

@@soacespacestation8556 first of all you believe everything they say , they love people like you, second, you statement sounds like Biden is highly valuable ... What a joke.

@soacespacestation8556 2 күн бұрын

@rxb364 I like how none of your reply actually contain any logical arguments, only insults. If you want it to be an insult throwing party then sure, just ask.

@c.rutherford 3 ай бұрын

The original theory was when they took everyones gold coins in 1933 and went with the Federal Reserve System..... that every note of money in every hand has something real "in Reserve".... backing it assumedly in Fort Knox right. Only nobody is allowed in there to see if its really there. On paper it says something more vague: "Congress has specified that Federal Reserve Banks must hold collateral equal in value to the Federal Reserve notes that the Federal Reserve Bank puts in to circulation. This collateral is chiefly held in the form of U.S. Treasury, Federal agency, and government-sponsored enterprise securities." IDK, lol

@Little_Man152 3 ай бұрын

It's a decoy most likely

@didbiddy3480 2 ай бұрын

Or it's such an obvious decoy that you put all your gold there

@MrJuninho11 3 ай бұрын

Jeremy Irons: "Hold my beer"

@Colorado_Native 2 ай бұрын

No problem for Auric Goldfinger during his Operation Grand Slam in 1964. Well, except for that pesky British 007 guy.

@Olliethelabradane 2 ай бұрын

My favorite Bond film!

@michaelc6100 Ай бұрын

The title was misleading (lied). Never mentioned anything about what was under Fort Knox.

@powell1333 3 ай бұрын

Why would anyone turn in their gold ?

@dylanpeterson6192 3 ай бұрын

Why not? Surely paper(ish?) notes backing up precious metals hold just as much value?! And the 1s and 0s that make up my digital money hold that same value, right?

@terryjohnson3479 2 ай бұрын

The law said you could only own so much gold and that would be in the form of jewelry. No bullion, raw gold nuggets, gold certificates could be sold , traded, or used in any way so for the common person gold would have been valueless. If you were a placer gold miner and pulled out a few ounces a year with a pan your only customer was the U.S. government who set the price of it. Think about peoples mindset back then after having a world war and knowing the likelyhood of another they would have turned in their gold out of patriotism. There were people who kept their gold and you can find videos of people finding caches buried or stashed by them.

@ryandefranco7740 Ай бұрын

To get cash. He explained it in the video.

@powell1333 Ай бұрын

@@terryjohnson3479 fuck the country ill keep my gold

@MAM-zb1bx 18 күн бұрын

The penguins of Madagascar already broke into this place.

@TrendingintheWorldToday 2 ай бұрын

I am from the Radcliff, right beside Fort Knox. I had a friend who worked there; she swore there was Gold stored there. Just not how much.

@MasterMadLad 4 күн бұрын

The safest place on earth is one where few know it even exists.

@Soilfoodweb31 2 ай бұрын

And each ounce of gold has been rehypothecated 1:100. No matter how good security is you cannot protect us from a banker.

@destructoau7526 3 ай бұрын

I always enjoyed 007 Golden Eye, not just theft but devaluation.

@Redcrown77 2 ай бұрын

I thought Cobra robbed fort Knox in the 80’s. The Joes had to borrow those horses and chase down the train.

@joenop3393 2 ай бұрын

0:10 $1407.30 isnt ounces.......its dollars......come on man!! Thats on 290 Million Dollars.

@theredrighteye4380 3 ай бұрын

Imagine a new money heist series where they are trying to get the gold. 😅😅😅😅😅😅

@rongendron8705 6 күн бұрын

I believe that the narrator contradicted himself! He said that the Ft. Knox depository was constructed to keep US gold reserves away from the coastal cities,i.e. NYC & Philly! Later, he said that the NYC Fed. Reserve Bldg. holds twice as much as Fort Knox! Why have that much, today, in a coastal city? Didn't he see "Die Hard, with a Vengeance"?

@lioneldickerson1550 9 күн бұрын

Inside Fort Knox is Oddjob and his hat.

@arddel 3 ай бұрын

By far, most of the increase in Gold reserves between 1933 and 1939 were the result of gold imports from abroad and totalled 277 million troy ounces (8,620 metric tons). This consisted of 174 million troy ounces (5,421 metric tons) out of foreign mines (mainly from South Africa), 89 million troy ounces (2,755 metric tons) out of foreign central bank reserves (mostly France and the United Kingdom), with the balance from other sources (principally private holdings in India). Only 6 million troy ounces (178 metric tons) came from gold acquired in January 1934 under the gold-buying program of Executive Order 6102 (which required individuals and institutions deliver to the government all but a small amount of their gold coin and bullion), and 26 million troy ounces (800 metric tons) from domestic production and return of scrap gold and coin after January.

@cliveosbourne3712 4 күн бұрын

Maybe SMAUG is in there protecting it, that's why the building and it's compound and the gold is so heavily secure that no one can get in and SMAUG can't get out.😅😂

@Shannon-ij1pm 2 ай бұрын

Since 1973 when the US went off the gold standard the need to guard a supply of gold became irrelevant. The reason for going off the gold standard was basically because the US economy got so large, there was no amount of gold that could back the country's money supply. With a GDP measured in the tens of Trillions of dollars, the US economy is as big as the next three countries combined.

@Balderthan 2 ай бұрын

Super Max Florence Colorado may disagree about which facility is more secure

@preetisheoran9463 3 ай бұрын

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@MichaelDomer 3 ай бұрын

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@pezraya5210 10 сағат бұрын

Good luck my friend

@whiteskyflyer 2 ай бұрын

You ever wonder who took the aerial photo in the thumb nail? That’s closed airspace

@OuterEastLLC 2 күн бұрын

Title is answered starting at 4:13

@rodrowland8884 3 ай бұрын

Why do you use a $ when you’re talking about ounces of gold it’s not like you’re talking about dollars of gold just wondering

@Colorado_Native 2 ай бұрын

Like $12,000 tons of gold?

@kennguyen8038 Ай бұрын

Exactly. I had to rewind to make sure I saw it correctly.

@JoshCork 3 ай бұрын

Number formatting worse than an excel spreadsheet. $$$$$

@YoungBlue69 3 ай бұрын

Immediately discredited if you don't know the difference between $140M and 140 million oz of gold 🙄

@ajspice 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, whole country backed by what Elon Musk has in his wallet 😄

@morkbov 3 ай бұрын

Your use of the dollar sign is almost abusive. It doesn't impress people, its simply strip out your report from its credibility.

@ThomasLyons-qj3ch 3 ай бұрын

I vote that you make it the way that you want and present it. The way that you want it is your work. Thank you for the information. Tom

@bolo2546 15 күн бұрын

I hope they add it to project zomboid

@Emphasis213 3 ай бұрын

Let me get this straight, the video just said the us military is not responsible for protecting fort knox? Instead the fed reserve has their own agency to protect it?

@turbo5053 3 ай бұрын

Pilnują żeby nie wydało się że złota tam nie ma

@ajspice 3 ай бұрын

"What time is it?" "$4:00."

@JohnDoe-bi4ho 2 ай бұрын

Back in the early 50s people said no gold was there. But Fort Knox did a photo shoot of an old woman holding a big gold brick to show they have the gold. Now that brick of gold that old lady would not be able to hold that brick. And the gold brick she held was so shiny. Now a gold brick would not be shiny

@bikeradam 2 ай бұрын

How much is 12 tons dollars? This new math is hard

@petersabolewsky4983 2 ай бұрын

Eleventy seven, give or take

@markomib 2 ай бұрын

Why are you putting a dollar sign in front of the number of ounces - that is completely incorrect. With gold at over $2342 an ounce, that's how far off a dollar sign is from reality here.

@hookem3083 Ай бұрын

They said 147.3 million but wrote out 1407.30? Yeah I’m not gonna get my information from a channel that can’t even proofread correctly.

@trip9919 3 ай бұрын

143.7 or 1407.3?

@ajspice 3 ай бұрын

You forgot the $

@kengraham2367 2 ай бұрын

So the entire world knows where the loot is?

@davidtrujillo5581 12 күн бұрын

Yk this video gonna be bad when they use a modem day German borders instead of post WWI German borders

@ricardopolanco9477 2 ай бұрын

Moon Rocks 🪨

@gustymaat7011 2 ай бұрын

Lol.. oh I've a memory from Ft. Knox... not gonna tell it.. but oh my... it was a dumb thing to do, but I did it.. and in the end.. everyone laughed, nobody cared... was a priceless dare /haze of a new recruite in the military... because I did it where my fellow soldiers, didn't

@Rhifan01 2 ай бұрын

4000 square feet? That is not huge.

@bluecollarnobody4217 19 сағат бұрын

Their ain’t no gold there JUST IOUS

@200cdl 2 ай бұрын

My hunch is, it's empty, knowing our government, is say, ye Empty

@Deveroe 2 ай бұрын

Truly beyond facts. Some of the research in this video is terrible

@7timecenturycyclistvespada982 2 ай бұрын

I believe in wearing shoes…

@skiyalater626 2 ай бұрын

Holding gold, printing money. Where does this end?

@pezraya5210 10 сағат бұрын

Capitalism

@neddannenberg100 3 ай бұрын

Rather than making the entire video out of generic stock footage, the creator could have included real photos from inside the gold room, taken in 2017 when treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin made a controversial trip to the site.

@c.rutherford 3 ай бұрын

Most Americans when they hear "Fort Knox" they basically picture a hoard of stacked gold bars in a concrete castle surrounded by barbed wire and uniformed soldiers with Uzis. Or something like that. Though some claim its been emptied and its all a sham now. If there really is a Gold Room in there... then hey lets see pics! I don't remember seeing any

@neddannenberg100 3 ай бұрын

Well go ahead and Google. They are low quality black and white photos because that’s all the government would release in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. But there are definitely bars of something stacked up.

@c.rutherford 3 ай бұрын

@@neddannenberg100 😅

@Texas157 2 ай бұрын

Why North Carolina

@glennjeffers9692 3 ай бұрын

Listen to the beginning of this it sounds like Hitler with the gold stuff 🤣🤣🤣

@CarmieThompson 2 ай бұрын

I'm done w/ video's that use AI narration & the author's won't check their work. The video is a fail.

@garbo8962 2 ай бұрын

Could call Gold Finger from the James Bind movie to help break into Fort Knox. Did not make sense our government moved a very large maybe a battalion of tanks from this sits a few years ago. Besides Abramson tanks being the best in the world think they are constructed to be resistant to biological attach.

@robanderson84 3 ай бұрын

the best way to hide wealth is in plain sight, just make it something the general public doesn't know what they are looking at.........water for example.....

@jasonsimpkins9069 2 ай бұрын

Is there really anything in there? Don't believe we've seen anything in decades. Correct me if I'm wrong.

@tdestroyer1882 Ай бұрын

Jesus Christ, stop stealing Neos thumbnail designs. This is a ripoff from his Kowloon Walled City video

@cliveosbourne3712 4 күн бұрын

Nothing is in there, all was transported into the Deep Underground Military Bases long ago, which would indeed be more secure.😅

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