Which US Navy Ships Are Nuclear Capable?

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1. The mini nukes that were launched from recoilless rifles are the weirdest ones I've ever seen

2. Edit>> Was thinking power. Not weapons.

   The 10 or 11 main battle carriers. The boomers, missile subs. Ballistic SSBN *14,
   Cruise missile SSGN *4. VLS tomahawks. All Ohio classes.
   Fast attack subs, SSN, Los Angeles class *34, Seawolf *2. Virginia class *24. LA torpedoes can also launch Tomahawks through torpedo tubes. Not sure about Seawolf, if they have vls cells.
   Virginias 4 torpedo/Tomahawk tubes. Some of these do have VLS tubes for tomahawks or other missiles. The Vertical Launch System VLS is flexible, can carry various missile types, tomahawks, harpoon anti ship missiles, and anti aircraft or ballistic defence missile.
   The USN did have a handful of Nuke powered smaller ships in past, think cruiser, destroyer, maybe even a frigate or corvette. Cant remember size below a destroyer.

3. The US Gov tested Nuks, as they wished to push home the civilian fear. That is what it is ALL about.

4. Nuclear shells are definitely the wildest. Taking something as simple as a Gun Shell and making it into a nuclear device is crazy.

5. Honestly? Nukes are nukes – everyone wants to have them; nobody wants to use them.

6. I’ve always loved, we removed the weapons and the capability.
   Right, like that hardware and equipment wasn’t kept in the inventory.
   On the subject of Bikini, my suspicion has always been that the test had 2 components. The one we know about, can these weapons effectively be used against ships. But I also suspect the second component was, that if a ship survived the attack could we get a crew back on it and possibly use it long enough to retaliate. Because I can’t think of to many other explanations for why we had sailors scrubbing them down, not like we had any intention of bringing them back into the fleet or something

7. Y'all forget that almost EVERY naval aviation asset designed for the US Navy since the Korean War had carriage of nuclear/atomic weapons as one of the contract requirements. IIRC, even the old A-1 Skyraider was fitted with the ability to carry and release 'em.

8. Can we get a video on when New Jersey opened fire on the USS Arizona and the condition the Arizona is in now?

9. Speaking about tactical nuclear weapons, I attended Army Chemical, Biological and Radiological (Nuclear) weapons MOS qualification school around 1969. At that time the Army had portable backpack-sized nuclear weapons. So with that size in mind any Navy vessel would be nuclear capable.

10. Davy Crockett. Remember the Alamo.

11. I was stationed on a submarine repair ship in Mediterranean in the early 80's. The weapon techs that were off duty always watched the reload ops and would try to be the first one to id what was being loaded. I watched every sub launched weapon in service be loaded, including sub-launched mines that they identified as having nuclear warheads installed.

12. The tests of 1946 may also have been intended to find out what would happen if nukes were used against the US Navy.

13. I like your dry dock ad.
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14. Well officially, I’ve been instructed to say that I can confirm with an eye, the presence of any nuclear weapon on board any naval ship or sub, but I do know I was on a Garcia class, fast frigate, and we did have nuclear armed asrok

15. Another day another video suffering through Ryan’s “nucyulear” instead of “nuCLEAR”

16. Nu-clear, pronounced "new clear"

17. I was on US CV's and CVN's in the late 80s early 90s. For one I never would have thought we would have had 100 nuclear bombs on board. ? Makes you think a bit more about the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in the documentary "The Final Countdown". I don't know what the requirements would have been for them to be able to use those weapons but they could have easily won WWII with that many warheads.

    Anyway, I remember one of the WT's (weapons techs) transitioning over to being a CT around the time we deployed for Desert Storm. At that point it was George H.W. Bush's police that we wouldn't carry nukes and since the WT had a high security clearance he was switching rates. Or so I assume.

    I was in the space that the nukes used to be in after they were removed. Pretty spacious.

    I was under the impression that the anti-ship tomahawk was removed from service pretty early on. Wikipedia says 1994 but my deployments before that by a few years we were under the impression that they were already gone. When you are on a carrier you aren't too concerned about your escorts needing long range anti-ship cruise missiles.

18. I don't hear anything wrong with how Ryan pronounces "nuclear". Sounds normal to me. Also, my relatives from Missouri tended to pronounce it "Missourah". I figure he's doing that on purpose as a bit of a joke. ?

19. Usually when an internet video poses a question the answer is no, but in this instance the answer is yes.

20. ALL OF THEM!

21. Great video as usual, well done Ryan + Libby et al! Also enjoyed the ad spot for dry dock tours, it had me looking at flights ?

22. "When in doubt sanitize the area." Heard in many CICs back in the day along with "Weps got wood". People have no idea that the first nuke exchange will be at sea.

23. So two non descript tomahawks had marine protection for…uh, reasons. Do pure nuke mission subs have a marine detachment onboard?

24. The wildest type of nuclear weapon deployed by the US Navy? I'd say the Regulus missile submarines. They had to surface and move the missile from the hangar to the launcher, then fire the missile. They were then supposed to prep and fire a second missile. I used to work with a guy who served on USS Barbero, one of the five Regulus subs. According to him, it was generally accepted by the crew that there was almost no chance they would survive long enough to fire the second missile.

25. The closest I've ever been to nuclear weapons that I now know of was as a blissfully ignorant kid a couple of hundred miles away north east from "Whiskey on the rocks"…

26. So when they removed nuclear capability was it just as simple as you said, ripping out a console? Or was there more involved than that? Like could they have just stuck the consoles in closets and plugged them back in if needed?

27. In 1985 the New Zealand government refused permission for the USS Buchanan (DDG-14) port visit. Although the Buchanan was conventionally power, it was capable of carrying nuclear weapons and the US Navy refused to confirm or deny it was carrying nukes.
    This policy continued until 2016 when the USS Sampson (DDG-102) visited Auckland.
    This video helps explains why this was allowed, if US warships no longer carried non-strategic nuclear weapons.

28. It so cool someone from your family was at Bikini. We can't really imagine what it looked like. My father was at the Bikini tests and 3 others when he was in the Navy. He was at Ivy Mike, too.
    I wish I could see the battleship. Sometimes you know the right people and I got to board a floating drydock in MS that had a frigate raised in it. That was cool. I'd rather walk under a battleship, though. I hope the tickets are a sellout and as many people as possible get to walk under her.
    Anyone know anything about ball caps in the Ship's Store online?

29. Backpack nukes
    Put in position,set the timer and run.
    Going to bet the timer was a 0 second timer no mater what

30. And that slimy worm Putin is warning the entire planet he'll do end times with these barbaric weapons if he doesn't get his way. I'm pretty sure we have the means under water (submarines….) to turn the USSR, or Russia, into a crater several times over.

    It was and is pure madness!

31. Strangest Navy nuke idea: Operation Plowshare. Use some nuclear warheads to carve out a new harbor

32. hey Ryan you sure they've been taken off all the ships? just because they said they did doesn't mean they did!!!

33. I grew up near Earl Naval Base in New Jersey.I could see all kinds of ships dock there. I was two blocks from the railroad. I still can hear the locomotive switcher with only one boxcar in tow. Also a helicopter doing slow orbits. ???

34. When I was in the Navy, my first boat I was assigned, the USS Salt Lake City, was certified and authorized to carry nuclear weapons. Officially speaking, I cannot confirm nor deny that nuclear weapons were ever carried aboard the USS Salt Lake City.

35. Dr. J. P. Dantic says it's "Nook Lee Ur" … not "nook EWE lur" … ?

36. Does anyone know if the msn article on Iowa and Wisconsin going back to NVR have any truth to it?

37. Dude, I love your videos – BUT – Nuclear only has one "U". It is NOT Nucular. Whats the matter with y'all Yankees up there 😉

38. Drink when Ryan mispronounces nuclear
    Edit *don't try it. You'll die.

    Ryan, I don't mind that you say Missour'uh, but PLEASE stop saying "newk-u-ler"

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