Once a key part of America’s nuclear deterrent, this silo in Green Valley now serves as a museum. Its deactivated launch doors and preserved command center offer a sobering glimpse into Cold War ...

A seemingly harmless everyday accident was responsible for the destruction of an Arkansas nuclear missile silo. Here's how the incident happened.

In 1980, a dropped socket wrench triggered a chain reaction inside a Titan II missile silo—putting a 9-megaton warhead at the brink of detonation. The world came terrifyingly close to disaster.

What was once part of the blast lock and the 250-foot long access tunnel to the missile silo has been partly excavated at the Titan II Strategic Missile Site 571-3 near Empirita Road and I-10.

The Titan I might not have been America's most successful missile, but the lessons learned from it were invaluable when developing the Titan II — a missile that stayed in service from 1963 until ...

In 1963, the United States armed 54 missile silos with launchable nuclear bombs, which could travel some 6,000 miles each and kill millions of people, flash-blind hundreds of thousands and leave a ...

The main underground control room of Titan II missile silo 571-7 in Green Valley, Ariz., where USAF Maj. Carl Stidsen was stationed during the Cold War.

Confidence surged last week through the U.S. missile program, which suddenly had a new hero: the Titan II, a radically new missile that moves the U.S. a giant step forward in space and nuclear ...

Fire crews rescued a teen who fell about 30 feet into an abandoned missile silo in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Wednesday afternoon.

Arkansas had 18 of the 54 Titan II missile sites, four of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but not the one in Searcy. The Titan II program was ended during Ronald Reagan’s ...