First thing this morning, Julie, Ian and I left our hotel for the Titan Missile Museum – the only remaining Titan silo which is now open to the public.
Amazing.
We arrived and signed up for our tour which was given my a lady who used to be a missile control officer during the ‘70s and ‘80s. We were shown the surface facilities and then descended down the entry stairs to the control room and missile servicing areas.
The scale of the engineering was quiet amazing with the entire launch control room being suspended on springs so that it could survive a direct (near?) hit from a nuclear weapon. The Titan II on display in the silo was also mounted on springs. We were shown a simulation of receiving a launch order, authentication of launch orders and operation of the launch keys.
Very interesting, but also strangely chilling.
