Air force lgm 25c titan ii icbm loaded with a 9 megaton w 53 nuclear warhead had a liquid fuel explosion inside its. The incident occurred on september 18 19 1980 at missile complex 374 7 in rural arkansas when a u s. Broken arrow incident involving a titan ii intercontinental ballistic missile icbm.
The damascus titan missile explosion also called the damascus accident was a 1980 u s. The cold war may have ended a generation ago but a fascinating new map put together by mother jones magazine shows exactly where highly radioactive nuclear material is situated on mainland america. But to the imagination it is the end of the world.
To the eye it is almost nothing just one or two acres of ground with a concrete slab in the middle and some posts and poles sticking up behind an eight foot high cyclone fence. Nps haer a nuclear missile silo is one of the quintessential great plains objects. Aerial view of the delta 09 launch facility view towards southwest 1992.
In 1988 nukewatch published the book nuclear heartland which mapped missile silo sites by state and provided an overview of the history of icbm deployment and the development of national and local resistance movements. Foxtrot 01 is right there on google maps. It showed the location of a missile alert facility along with the silos for 10 nuclear weapons.
One diagram in particular raised a few eyebrows. While it mixes other nuclear facilities with bomb locations you can use the grouping feature to select just the locations of nuclear weapons. Research by magazine mother jones plotted locations on the batchgeo map above from data released in 2011.
Nuke facilities in the us in a full screen map. What was also good after all on the other side was a 30 meter high titan ii intercontinental missile with a warhead hundreds of times more powerful than the bombs of hiroshima and nagasaki. Then and only then would the door have opened in front of him.
The structures typically have the missile some distance below ground protected by a large blast door on top.
Us nuclear silo map. A map of all the locations in the united states where nuclear weapons are kept some are actually within major cities. While there are hundreds of silos around north dakota wyoming nebraska. This map was created by a user. Learn how to create your own.
A missile launch facility also known as an underground missile silo launch facility lf or nuclear silo is a vertical cylindrical structure constructed underground for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles icbms.
A missile launch facility also known as an underground missile silo launch facility lf or nuclear silo is a vertical cylindrical structure constructed underground for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles icbms. Learn how to create your own. This map was created by a user.
While there are hundreds of silos around north dakota wyoming nebraska. A map of all the locations in the united states where nuclear weapons are kept some are actually within major cities.
