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The United States Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Transport Train, known as the White Train, was used to transport nuclear weapons for most of the Cold War.
31. Juli 2019 · PantexPlant. 451 subscribers. Subscribed. 811. 55K views 4 years ago. Beginning in the 1950’s, one of the main components of shipping warheads to and from Pantex was by rail - on the aptly named...
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For as long as the United States has had nuclear weapons, it has struggled with the question of how to transport America’s most destructive technology throughout the country without incident. “It’s the weak link in the chain of nuclear security,” said Dr. Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Today the United States relies almost entire...
The epicenter of nuclear transit was the Pantex Plant, about 17 miles outside of downtown Amarillo, Texas, a maze-like complex of dozens of buildings located on 10,000 acres of land. Amarillo was the final destination for almost all of America’s nuclear trains and the Pantex Plant was the nation’s only assembly point for nuclear weapons, a role it ...
Anxieties about nuclear war loomed heavily in the national psyche at the turn of the 1980s, and as a growing roster of cities became involved in U.S. nuclear development, Americans began to express (often very justified) fears about the materials being stealthily moved around amid the backgrounds of their lives. In his first term in office, Preside...
While the white trains came to an unceremonious end in 1987, the Department of Energy didn’t abandon all hope for using trains in experimental national security measures. In 1986, President Reagan approved a system for launching intercontinental ballistic missiles from railways, an initiative known as Peacekeeper Rail Garrison. The plan would park ...
8. Okt. 2021 · The Department of Energy decided it best to use “white trains” to transport nuclear weapons across the country. These were “safe, secure railcars,” or SSRs, built in such a way that they could withstand an attack. They featured heavily armored boxcars between “turret cars,” through which armed guards stood ready to defend ...
Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch and starring Brad Pitt as a former assassin who must battle fellow killers while riding a bullet train.
2. Okt. 2020 · Von der Presse als „the train out of Hell“ und „Armageddon Express“ bezeichnet wurde der WT 1981 zum Fokus von Ground Zero, einer Gruppe pazifistischer Aktivisten, die Widerstand … gegen Atomwaffen. James Douglass, einer ihrer Mitglieder wird in einem Artikel des People Magazine von 1984 zitiert:
11. Juli 2018 · The “White Train” consisted of secure railcars, buffer cars, and courier escort coaches that were painted white to provide thermal protection for the heat-sensitive weapons they contained. The white paint also made the railcars easier to identify than unmarked tractor-trailers on highways.
