Anyone with a shortwave radio can listen to US nuclear launch orders on 11175 kHz
Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
Missileer Watch streams and transcribes Emergency Action Messages — the encrypted, preformatted launch orders of US nuclear forces — read aloud in the phonetic alphabet on the High Frequency Global Communications System. The site lets you copy a real broadcast character by character, then check your work against the station's own transcription. It also walks through the network, the underground capsule where an EAM would arrive, and the two-officer, two-key ritual that follows.
Nobody outside the force can decode an EAM. All you can do is hear it — and if a launch order ever came, it would arrive as one of these and in the same form you can hear here.
- rafram
> Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't.
> Preformatted is what you can hear: the same shape every time.
> hearing it is all anyone outside the force can do.
> The day has a shape.
I would recommend switching to a newer Claude model.
- LeoPanthera
This is a cool idea. I'm actually quite glad that AI generated stuff is still so very obvious. The world will be a darker place when it isn't.
- none_to_remain
A weird little trivia: for some time period the Skyking test messages used band names and other pop culture references as the content of test messages. Iron Maiden, The Cure, Duran Duran, Rush, Hansen... And of course test messages may be sent erroneously so we end up with the nuclear command channel carrying messages like "DISREGARD 'THE CURE' TRANSMITTED AT 19" (https://eam.watch/view/d4272f25-fd33-47a4-9b37-6c55a8ea3d0e)
- ytxm
More on "Skyking" here: https://lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/skyking/
- loeg
Is there some reason it's written 11175 kHz instead of 11.175 MHz?