Titan Missile II silo

Polar Inertia has a picture gallery documenting the only remaining preserved example of a Titan Missile II silo. This Site (in Green Valley Arizona) was on alert from 1963 to 1982 with a single 110 foot tall 330,000 pound Titan II missile armed with a nuclear warhead.

The control center was a buried three-level, reinforced, concrete structure designed to withstand a nearby nuclear blast.

In the mid-’80s as part of the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT) with the Soviet Union, the other 53 Titan II sites were destroyed or filled with concrete to make innoperable.

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Don’t miss the other photo sets on Polar Inertia: Airplane salvage yards, air raid sirens, intermodal terminals, freeway overpasses, alert hangars, air raid sirens and Cuban TV sets.

Via Edgar Gonzalez weblog.