{"id":47565,"date":"2022-05-30T23:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47565"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T15:26:25","slug":"visiting-the-last-silo-of-a-titan-ii-nuclear-missile-where-you-can-still-see-this-icbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/30\/visiting-the-last-silo-of-a-titan-ii-nuclear-missile-where-you-can-still-see-this-icbm\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the last silo of a Titan II nuclear missile where you can still see this ICBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), with nuclear warheads, were in service with the United States between 1962 and 1987.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/05\/26\/vistula-program-the-terrible-secret-that-the-ussr-hid-from-the-poles-on-their-own-soil\/\">Vistula Program: the terrible secret that the USSR hid from the Poles on their own soil<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/07\/04\/aralsk-7-abandoned-ships-in-a-desert-and-the-dark-secret-of-a-communist-regime\/\">Aralsk-7: abandoned ships in a desert and the dark secret of a communist regime<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Last year we saw here an exploration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/03\/30\/ruinas-de-la-guerra-fria-explorando-el-silo-de-un-misil-nuclear-intercontinental-titan-ii\/\">an old Titan II missile silo<\/a> at Vandenberg AFB, California. That silo was abandoned and in poor condition, and it no longer had a missile. However, <strong>in Arizona you can visit a museum installed in an old silo that still preserves its Titan II missile<\/strong>, although inert, of course. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/titanmissilemuseum.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Titan Missile Museum<\/a>, located 40 kilometers south of Tucson and managed by a non-profit organization, the Arizona Aerospace Foundation. <strong>It is the only Titan II silo that is currently preserved with its missile.<\/strong> The silo was built in 1963 and decommissioned in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>This museum has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/titanmissile\/videos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its own YouTube channel<\/a>, with many videos about its contents. <strong>In this video they show a summary of what you can see there:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1vux0W72-KM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCn-HUipJWRYtcvXpQ0gZIww\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Hunger<\/a> visited this museum, which is in perfect condition, and published a longer video in which, among other details, you can see that<strong> the old control room of the silo still has the two keys with which its managers could have launched the ICBM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TeL7Ak_4c3M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In case you ever pass by this place, <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/J1EJBXCgZvDZe3K46\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here is its location on Google Maps<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3066.358423178756!2d-111.00147198520274!3d31.902746235353447!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x86d683f7f9e4183b%3A0xfe610ded575e1bf7!2sTitan%20Missile%20Museum!5e1!3m2!1ses!2ses!4v1653944669108!5m2!1ses!2ses\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), with nuclear warheads, were in service with the United States between 1962 and 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16888],"tags":[2669,16714,13921,14877,16713,10431],"class_list":["post-47565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-museums","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-aerospace-foundation","tag-cold-war","tag-icbm-lgm-25c-titan-ii","tag-titan-missile-museum","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}