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Fort Knox

Fort Knox

About Fort Knox

Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.

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In 1943, he's the only U.S. president to have visited Fort Knox. He was concerned that it wasn't secure enough to be protected from foreign invasion if the worst happened in World War II.

from No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 at 00:50:49 · read transcript

Other times Fort Knox came up

  1. In, so obviously, conspiracy theorists again, like, oh, there's no Fort Knox. There's nothing inside there. There's just like Vaseline and Fluff. Presidents were actually denied access to Fort Knox, apart from one president. Do you know which one? First half of the 20th century. Often known by three initials. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. No, B.J. Oh, but joy. FDR, yeah, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1943, he's the only U.S. president to have visited Fort Knox. Really?

    No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 · listen

  2. Faraday cage sort of element. I'm going to say under the earth. deep enough. You're thinking more along the right sort of scope that I was looking for rather than James's smaller. Practical. This isn't practical. Fort Knox or something like this. A plate, is it a particular place? No, I'm going to tell you, it's that C. Lightning does not strike at sea. I've seen lightning striking.

    No Such Thing As Lightning At Sea, 2024-08-22 · listen

  3. Reading about UK car parks, and I found that in 2004, Focus, the Science magazine, they were given a brief to come up with the 10 most secure places on Earth. and those places included Saddam's Baghdad bunker, the Mormon Church Records, Fort Knox, Air Force One, and a car park in Derby called Bald Lane.

    No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club, 2025-08-14 · listen

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