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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, and seconds ...
LONDONDERRY — What was it like to serve on a launch crew at a Titan II missile site during the height of the Cold War? As a young U.S. Air Force officer in the 1960s, Carl Stidsen commanded a ...
Instead, he was assigned to ‘Site 571-7’ in Green Valley, Ariz., a then-brand-new underground Titan II missile silo, one of a network of 54 similar silos that served as part of the nation’s nuclear ...
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 ...
But if Tehran had truly developed a hypersonic ballistic missile, everyone knows which nation it would be first to target. Fattah-1 is described as a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM ...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday announced the approval of a $1.04-billion sale of up to 200 each of AIM-120C and AIM-120D air-to-air missiles and related equipment to Australia.
Just south of Tucson, the Titan Missile Museum offers a rare glimpse into Cold War history — and the chilling reality of ...
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 ...
The Air Force has to dig new silos for its Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, instead of reusing Minuteman ...