Buried in the Arizona desert lies a Cold War giant—the last Titan II missile silo, once armed and ready to launch the most powerful ICBM America ever built. Now a museum, this underground fortress ...

A deactivated Titan II nuclear ICMB is seen in a silo at the Titan ... What Minuteman missile launch failure means for US nuclear deterrence Nuclear bomb map shows devastating impact if new ...

map of Titan missile base near Lincoln showing plume ... because the county had built on the site after the missile silos were decommissioned and used it as a shooting range.

In September 1980, one dropped socket inside a Titan II missile silo triggered a countdown to catastrophe. Beneath a farm in Arkansas sat a 9-megaton nuclear warhead—armed, leaking fuel ...

"It just kind of goes to show what it was like to operate a Titan missile silo." The highlight of a visit to Titan Missile Museum starts with a descent underground. "When we go down into the silo ...

But in Faulkner County, guests can spend the night in a decommissioned Titan II nuclear missile silo complex. Arkansas hosted Titan II nuclear missile silos that were decommissioned and abandoned ...

But one silo and its defanged missile near what would become a retirement community in southern Arizona called Green Valley, were preserved as a museum, a monument to the cold war. The Titan ...

Crews clean up the Titan II missile silo in Damascus following a 1980 explosion. This story, published in the January 1981 issue, serves as a reminder of the perils of the nuclear age. John Stacks ...

Deep inside the ICBM silo, surrounded by 3-foot thick walls, Pierce recalls the chore of opening the massive door designed to protect the Titan II Missile. “I can’t tell you how many times I ...

The silo is one of 11 missile complexes built across the Front Range as part of the former Titan and Atlas missile programs, according to the state Department of Public Health and Environment.

According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, there are six former Titan missile complexes in Colorado. The silos were decommissioned by the federal government in 1965 and ...

As she began finding out more, Birge collected documents, newspaper clippings and maps that now fill ... one of the 160-foot deep silos of the former Titan-1 nuclear missile base in Placer County ...