➡ Today’s video reviews a unique property for sale – a decommissioned missile defense base in North Dakota, near the Canadian border. The base, which is not a target due to its decommissioned status, could potentially be a safe place during an apocalypse. However, the location’s cold climate, lack of trees, and potential water issues could be drawbacks. The property, which has been on the market for a while, is currently listed for around $800,000 to $850,000.
➡ This text talks about a large, fortified facility built to withstand a nuclear strike. It’s located in a remote area, runs on propane and coal, and has plenty of space for storing supplies. However, it’s disorganized and lacks a homely atmosphere. Despite its strong defenses and potential for self-sufficiency, it loses points for being in a potential nuclear target zone and lacking natural resources like above-ground water and biodiversity.

Today on the channel, we’re gonna be reviewing a property that just came across my desk. Apparently it’s been for sale for a long time. It’s a decommissioned missile defense base in North Dakota. Talk about Mad Max. This is a decommissioned one-of-a-kind missile defense base in North Dakota. So just for some perspective, here is where it is. Okay, it’s just south of Manitoba. Not too far from Winnipeg, in fact. So you can see it’s only about 10 miles from the Canadian border. Now this is not one of the Minuteman retired missile silos. This is actually a one-of-a-kind missile defense base.

So this is where they would have fired the interceptors from if there were ICBMs inbound. So before we look at video of this bunker from start to finish, let’s talk about whether or not it’s going to be a nuclear target or whether we’re at risk of radiation and fallout. It’s probably not going to be a target because it’s been decommissioned. However, in North Dakota and parts of Montana, that’s where you’re going to find a conglomeration of missile bases and missile defense systems. And the reason why they put them here, of course, is because it’s incredibly sparsely populated.

Almost nobody lives here, which is a good thing in the apocalypse. However, let’s just say worst case scenario, the Russians didn’t update their systems, and they didn’t realize that this was in fact a decommissioned missile defense facility. Maybe they think it’s a decoy. They decide to hit it anyways. Let’s drop a nuke on it, shall we? So let’s just go over here by Langdon, North Dakota. We’re going to assume that it’s like a one megaton blast. It’s going to be a surface burst because this facility was meant to sustain a nuclear hit.

Okay, so let’s detonate this. You know, I certainly would not want to be in Winnipeg when the shit hit the fan, because I think that that place is going to be inundated with radiation. Now, you can move this wherever you want. You can grab this thing. The prevailing winds are going to kind of blow it that way, but there’s going to be all kinds of missile bases throughout here. Let’s just get the US missile silo map. Now, it looks like they got us pegged. Looking at this map, this is a map of all the potential nuclear targets, and as you can see, there are conglomerations here of missile silos that would very likely be attacked.

However, I’ve been talking to experts lately, and they claim that the Russians likely wouldn’t even waste missiles on these, because if there ever was a full-blown nuclear war, it would be a first strike, then they would attempt to hit all of these missile silos. Right up here, I’m not sure if you can see it, but there’s a black dot, and I think, oh dude, oh dude, that’s it. That’s a target. Look at that. Yeah, I think that’s it. Oh, okay, so this might still be on the target list. This could be a little bit out of date.

I’m sure that the Russians have a more up-to-date target list. I don’t think this is going to be a priority target, because it’s now decommissioned. The only reason why it would be a target, it could be used for command and control, because there is a lot of space underground. It is heavily fortified. Let’s detonate some Tsar Bombas over here, because if they decide to take out these fields, they’re going to hit it with probably 100 megatons, because there are at least 100 missile silos here. So, let’s just detonate that, and let’s see what that would look like.

Oh my god, that’s ugly. That is ugly. Winnipeg, get out of Manitoba. Now, understand this is 100 megatons concentrated. It’s much worse if these 100 megatons are on separate missiles and spread out. So, this is going to be a much bigger radioactive cloud. I would want to hunker down, especially because you’re going to be right in the blast out here. There’s two things that immediately make me averse to ever wanting to purchase a property like this. Number one, it’s in the flats. There’s no trees. There’s no lumber. It’s cold. Let’s look at our weather maps here.

You can see North Dakota, average temperature. It is by far one of the coldest places in the United States, and it also doesn’t have a whole lot of precipitation. Water is going to be a problem. There’s nothing above ground. Plus, you have big agra surrounding this site, which means if you were to drill wells, a lot of those chemicals could possibly be leaching into your water supply, which is something that can be mitigated with a good water filtration system or reverse osmosis, but just something to consider. In terms of your solar exposure, you can see the solar exposure map.

Not the greatest, certainly enough that you could establish some kind of solar system and still get a decent amount of solar energy. This is a map of solar radiance. Obviously, in the places down south, that’s when you’re going to get the most amount of sun exposure. However, solar panels tend to work very well in the cold as well. They’re actually more efficient. However, you do have shorter days, so that’s something to keep in mind. Now, there is a website that gives you all kinds of video information about this property. We’re going to watch some of the videos and I’ll give you my reaction to it.

Depending on where you go on the internet, it’s anywhere between 799,000. Greenberg Realty lists it for 850,000. Zillow, at one point, if we go back through the history, we see that in 2019, it was being offered for 550,000. 2019, that went up to 1.5 million, and then now it went back down to 850,000. Again, it’s being advertised here for 800,000. So there’s an above-ground building here, which is made of concrete built to withstand a blast. This is going to offer some ballistics resistance, and as you can see, there’s internal and secondary fencing as well.

Anything less than a nuclear war, this thing is going to be able to see you through the apocalypse. Really, it’s just a matter of how much food can you store. You can grow food in North Dakota, but without a reliable water source, you roll in the dice. Whoever’s doing this drone work is complete s***. Let’s see this drone operator. I bet you they’re a communist. This guy is clearly using some cheap Amazon piece of garbage. F***ing horrendous. Alright, let’s not watch that one anymore. Let’s do this. So this is the above-ground building on the compound, and I gotta say, this is an ideal situation from a security standpoint, because there’s no places where people can hide in the surrounding region.

It’s very Fort Knox-like. You can see there are barbed wire fences there. Everything’s concrete. This is all bulletproof. Steel doors with bars on all the windows, and there’s a security counter. So I mean, this is set up for the apocalypse, right? You got a fence there. People have to come through this metal turnstile in order to get in. So you have to go through many levels. It’s not much to look at, and the wife’s not gonna be happy with it, but probably will be happy when there’s marauders trying to get in and they can’t get in.

When you’re talking about defense, there’s two strategies, really. The bottleneck approach, where you try to funnel people into a kill zone, and then there’s the wide-open approach, where you can see them and you can snipe from miles and miles away. If there’s fortifications in the landscape, that could be potentially used against you. So the fact that it’s so open is important. So there’s a three bay garage, and it looks like that garage also has bars on the windows. This place is not surviving a direct nuclear hit, but it might survive it if you’re outside of the blast radius.

Certain components of it are gonna get destroyed, but a lot of this concrete is made to withstand a blast, an actual blast. This was a part of the Stanley Mickelson Safeguard Complex, located in northeast North Dakota. The property is for sale by owner and was one of four sprint missile sites located approximately 10-20 miles from a central radar control site that was constructed in the early 1970s. These bases were a last line of defense, bent to intercept ICBMs coming over the North Pole. There was only one Safeguard Complex ever completed, making this unique property an incredibly rare opportunity.

See, you could use these as like Bastion’s watch towers. They definitely are meant to withstand a blast. So, you know, that could probably withstand artillery fire. The apocalypse is going to happen before these hitchers load. There’s some above ground water here. Huh, there is a chance that there’s some above ground water accessible. Not much, and probably only in spring and the early parts of summer, but there’s potential there for you to get water if all else fails. Now, there is a house component to this. You could see that they’re living in this place. It’s a family, so they’ve kind of made it into a home.

A place like this would cost millions of dollars to make. Probably in today’s dollars, 20, 30 million dollars to build a facility like this. I mean, that’s a hell of a lot of concrete. This is 12,000 square feet for all of the infrastructure, you know, above ground and below. This is a massive complex. The actual physical materials that went into building this place, incredible amounts of money. Now, this place is on grid. There’s no solar system. You easily could create a solar system without much fuss. It runs on propane heat for the above ground and coal in below ground.

When you enter in through the initial doors, those weren’t the blast doors, but you have to go down this hallway and then you actually get to the blast doors that are built to survive the wrecked nuclear strike. Really thick concrete, more than enough to protect you from the gamma radiation. When we first get in here, we can see that this is 12,000 square feet, but it’s very compartmentalized. So 12,000 square feet is a lot of space. All kinds of rooms and hallways and the hallways are very wide, so you can move big stuff around, which is very good.

Although you could see it’s incredibly cluttered. In fact, I would have a panic attack going in here because organization is one of my things, and I could not live in a place in an environment that was this disorganized. When it looks like a tattered ass, you know, the rust and all this stuff, it’s kind of hard to even want to commit to making your stuff look nice inside it. It just turns into a place to dump stuff. So it looks like here they got a bit of a workshop. So there’s a lot of multipurpose, flex space.

I mean, this is a Mad Max building. I mean, these guys could fabricate by the looks of things, anything they needed. And this is the heart of the facility. This is the coal boiler. So this is going to provide them their hot water. This is going to keep the facility warm. It’s very well insulated, and apparently it doesn’t take a lot to heat. There’s plenty of space to store copious amounts of provisions. So if you could afford it, you could potentially swirl away 20 years worth of food and never have to come above ground ever.

If we’re talking anything less than a nuclear war, pandemic, civil war, financial collapse, then this would be probably a perfect facility. For one, there’s not a lot of people around that you’re going to have to contend with resources for. It’s probably not going to be a sought after location due to the risk. Of the nuclear arsenals in close proximity. There really isn’t much to be desired here in the middle of North Dakota. So you’re not going to be attracting a lot of people. However, I’m sure that there’s probably some people who know about this spot, but I highly doubt they’re going to make a run at it.

Simply because it’s too fortified of a position and you’re going to be so dug in and you’re going to have such a home field advantage. You could just poke your head out or send a drone up. If you did have to go outside, use your thermal drones to survey the area before you go outside to do whatever work you might have to do. But this is one of those situations where you probably never really have to go outside. If you could get some sort of cool fired electrical generator, you could potentially just live off of the fuels and the foods that you have stored down below, presuming that you have a reliable working pump.

Now there is part of it that is far more livable. So the above ground portion has a bit of a homier atmosphere to it, a more modern look. Now, if I was a billionaire, probably would just build this and build it better. But if I was like a multimillionaire, is this property worth it? In my opinion, it really depends on how hardcore of a prepper you are. I mean, you’re absolutely 100% serious about surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it and you’re not really too concerned about nuclear Armageddon, then yeah. Is it a place to raise a family? Obviously not.

This is a place where you throw a bunch of stuff in the ground and you probably forget about it. From a prepping for the end of the world point of view, it has everything you want. The reason why it has everything you want is because it was built because they thought they were going to be a direct nuclear target. The population is going to be so sparse that the human threat risks are going to be very low and whatever human threat risks there are that present themselves, you’ll be able to handle because this is a very fortified position.

So using our algorithm, our property resilience rating scale determined that this property scored 64 out of 100. It lost points for being in a prime nuclear target zone and lacking above ground water and biodiversity. It did however gain lots of points for its defensibility and security. If you put this same bunker set up in a forested region with more biodiversity and above ground water, that would almost be a perfect score. But that’s a unicorn I just can’t seem to find. Let me know what you guys think about this in the comments section below. I think it has potential, but myself personally, I’m staying away because I love my trees.

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