The portal entrance there is a small personnel hatch, two large 3 ½įoot thick silo doors that hide the freight elevator that runsĪdjacent to the 7 story stairwell, and a monitoring camera and Nuclear warheads, and play out cool scenes of airmen turning their Nothing else, we got to put big metal tubes underground housing Perhaps their silent vigil 24×7 watch was deterrent enough. Nuked, and this was during the height of the Cuban missile crisis, so Did they do their job? Who’s to say, but we didn’t get Magnificent facilities were shut down, decommissioned, and later The Titan II program was set to replace it, and in 1965 all of these The USSR, and kicking off the famous “30 minutes or less to yourįront door, or it’s free” delivery campaign (I cannot back thisĬomplex consisted of 3 missile silos (missiles included!), severalīlast locks between them and the rest of the facility, a power house,Ĭontrol center, portal entry, and two antenna silos.īack in the 50’s, this place must have looked right out of buckġ962 all of the complexes were operational, but only for 3 years, as Strike, ensuring that our payload was on it’s way even if we wereġ959 the first complex was open for business, standing guard against To get the missiles in the air quickly in the event of a retaliatory Sufficient, protect against a very near impact, and was also designed Was the largest, and most complex weapons system the US had everĪttempted, to provide a retaliatory, or preemptive strike in the case Sputnik, perceiving a big technology gap between the two nations. Union scared the bejesus out of the US with the successful launch of The program was up against theĪtlas program, and under much budgetary scrutiny, until the Soviet Way through 1955, the US Air Force started accepting proposals for a This was intended to allow for the United States to ride out a nuclear first strike by an enemy and be able to retaliate with a second strike response. Titan missiles were designed to be launched from underground missile silos that were hardened against nuclear attack. Of an attack, even if it was just gloat from our radioactive
We’d get our missiles off the ground one way or another in the event (Mutually Assured Destruction) was becoming all the rage, and by god Project know as Titan (named so after the Greek Mythology gods of theĮarth and the stars, and subsequently known as Titan I after the next Were also, apparently, starting an ambitious underground ICBM missile
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Kids at Jefferson High were trying to figure out how to get into Hot rods, mom was busy at home fixing dinner for Ward, and all the The 1950’s! Teenagers were cruising up and down main street in their
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