Mar 15, 2024 · The Titan II ICBM Missile Silo 374-7 Site, located west of U.S. 65, 1.7 miles north of intersection with Arkansas Highway 124 near Southside in Van Buren County, is nationally significant by virtue of its unique and exceptionally important history within the Titan II program: it was the site of a September 1980 accident that severely damaged ...

May 3, 2023 · Keep reading to hear more about these abandoned missile silos hiding in Arkansas. Did you know that Arkansas could've been the site of a major nuclear catastrophe? There were 18 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) scattered throughout several counties in …

Jun 23, 2020 · The first Titan II missile in Arkansas was installed in a silo near Searcy in 1963. On September 19, 1980, a second tragedy struck the 308th Strategic Missile Wing. Two airmen were performing maintenance at Missile Complex 374-7, located 3 miles north of Damascus, the evening of September 18th.

You can scroll and zoom this map to see individual missile silos. The control in the upper-right corner of the map (it shows the four corners of a box) allows you to see the map full-screen. The markers are color-coded by ‘flights’. Each flight is a group of 10 missile silos controlled by a Missile Alert Facility (MAF).

Dec 4, 2024 · Now, Newsweek has looked at Scientific American 's previous fallout maps of a nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S. heartland—Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota—to...

Dec 12, 2024 · The Titan II Missile program was a Cold War weapons system featuring fifty-four launch complexes in three states. Eighteen launch complex sites were in Arkansas, from which intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying nine-megaton nuclear warheads could be launched to strike targets as far as 5,500 miles away.

The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9-megaton W-53 nuclear warhead experienced a liquid fuel explosion inside its silo.

Here's a map showing all historical ICBM silo locations for the United States and the Soviet Union. The MAFs are shown in red but you'll probably need to zoom in to see them. Help using Google Maps

Welcome to the “Walks through History” tour of the Titan II Complex 374-7 Site. Our agency provides free walking tours of historic sites and districts all over the state each month from March to December. You may visit our website at ArkansasPreservation.com for more information on …

Sep 11, 2020 · Based on the site maps and survey, the remaining cement pads and back-filled silo are located behind the tan barn pictured below. Unfortunately, this piece of history is not readily accessible by simply showing up.