The Titan II missile program was part of the second generation ... each carrying a nine-megaton nuclear warhead. "If you take every bullet and bomb used in World War II, by every side, including ...

the launching of the nuclear warhead. 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.

Crews clean up the Titan II missile silo in Damascus following a ... U.S. Air Force Titan II whose warhead contained a hydrogen bomb with the explosive power of nine megatons.

“The re-entry vehicle carrying the warhead would re-enter the earth ... This site is all that remains of the 54 Titan II missile sites, across several states, that were on alert from 1963 ...

The museum houses the only preserved Titan II missile silo in the world ... “It carried a nine-megaton warhead — the most powerful nuclear weapon ever deployed by the U.S.” Eighteen Titan ...

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 ...

Standing next to the sliding door, the missile silo goes about ... you'll find the last of southern Arizona's Titan II missiles. Its nine-megaton nuclear warhead is now on display in the museum ...

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 ...