Titan II Missile Complex No. 571-7
15 July 1963 - 11 Nov 1982
The Last saved ICBM Silo in the world

"Peace only be achieved when we are more capable than our enemy"

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"Nations will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place.
All these are the begining of the labor pains...

And then many will be led into sin;
they will betray and hate one another.
Many false prophets will rise and deceive many, and because of the increase of evildoing,
the love of many will grow cold.
But the one who perseveres to the end will be Saved.

And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to All Nations,
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and
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the End will Come."

Matthew 24:7-14


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The Titan Missile Museum is the only publicly accessible Titan II missile site in the nation.
The Titan II ICBM was the first liquid propellant missile that can be launched from underground. Equipped with a nine-megaton thermonuclear warheads, the Titan II was capable of reaching its target--more than half the world away--in less than 30 minutes.

During the post cold war the construction took a rapid 29 months, required 29,000 yards of concrete and 2,200 tons of steel. This was one of the 18 sites preserved in Tuscon, typically took an effort of 5,000 people laboring 24 hours/day x 364 days/year, except for Christmas during the era of rapid armed races. The rest were destroyed per SALT II Treaty in 1982. All remaining silos were blasted off, and filled with concrete and exposed for USSR reconnaissance satellites for confirmation.


The Titan Missile Museum's new education and research center opened in 2004. Tour the underground missile site. See the 3-ton blast doors, the 8-foot thick silo walls, and an actual Titan II missile in the launch duct.
Visitors come in a group at a scheduled tour of the facility. The Guide are volunteers, mostly retired, who sustain the operations of the museum.

www.titanmissilemuseum.org
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