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The Titan Missile Museum, also known as Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 or as Titan II ICBM Site 571-7, is a former ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) site located about 40 km (25 mi) [3] south of Tucson, Arizona in the United States. It was constructed in 1963 and deactivated in 1984.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Arizona designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
Intercontinental ballistic missile silos (ICBMs), military bases, and nuclear storage are spread out across the US. The map was initially issued in 2015 (Published CBS 2015)
Access to the missile was through tunnels connecting the launch control center and launch facility. An example of this can be seen at the Titan Missile Museum, located south of Tucson, Arizona. Notable accidents: Fire in Titan II silo 373-4 – 1965 Searcy missile silo fire; Titan II explosion in silo 374-7 – 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion
Also difficult to see from the road, they are the only visible signs of a once fully operational nuclear Titan-1 missile silo site that the U.S. government built in 1962 for $44 million, or ...
Sites SF-87 and SF-93 were deactivated in 1971. Three years later, the U.S. Army Air Defense Command deactivated the remaining missile batteries. When the Army abandoned the launch area of SF-88 at Fort Barry in 1974, the National Park Service assumed custody of the site, incorporating it into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Through ...
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The site is mostly abandoned, but remains home to a reconstruction of a historic schoolhouse. [27] Town was sometimes called Bundyville, after the family that settled the area. As of 2006 one member of the Bundy family still lived alone on a 320-acre ranch near the abandoned town site. [28] Nothing: Mohave: 1977: 2005: Abandoned site