Titan Missile Museum A Rare Journey Into Cold War History

Titan Missile Museum

A Rare Journey Into Cold War History

 

 The Titan Missile Museum is the only remaining Titan II site open to the public, allowing you to relive a time when the threat of nuclear war between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union was a reality.

The Titan II was capable of launching from its underground silo in 58 seconds and could deliver a nine megaton thermonuclear warhead to its target more than 5,500 miles away in less than thirty minutes.

For more than two decades, 54 Titan II missile complexes across the United States stood "on alert" 24 hours a day, seven days a week, heightening the threat of nuclear war or preventing Armageddon, depending upon your point of view.

This is how the 3 man relief crew arrived. 

This is the silo cap.

 This is the only gate into the site.

 This is a liquid oxygen fueling truck.

 This is part of the radar anti intruder alarm system.

This is all you see of the site from ground level.

This is the main entrance.

 This is the control room.

The whole complex is anti sway proof due to these large springs.

Test equipment and the safe that holds the launch code.

Seismographs and Manuals.

Access to the crew area.

The hallway to the silo and missile.

Protective suits.

Part of the missile

More of the missile

 One of the umbilical cords.

Looking up at the warhead

Looking down to the access  platforms.

Looking down at the warhead.

"Duck and Cover!" Bomb shelters, the Berlin Wall, weekly tests of the Emergency Broadcast System, the piercing sounds of air raid sirens, and the Space Race. These are the hallmarks of the "Cold War" era.

The Titan Missile Museum showcases the dramatic vestiges of the Cold War between the U.S. and former Soviet Union and provides a vivid education about the history of nuclear conflict-a history of keeping the peace.

At the Titan Missile Museum, near Tucson, Arizona, visitors journey through time to stand on the front line of the Cold War. This preserved Titan II missile site, officially known as complex 571-7, is all that remains of the 54 Titan II missile sites that were on alert across the United States from 1963 to 1987.