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.

While rarely deployed against military targets, long-range missiles are a critical part of the defensive posture for the ...

Call it a chain reaction. A month after a decommissioned Titan II missile silo northwest of Tucson sold for more than the asking price, two more of the Cold War castoffs have hit the local real ...

Deep inside the ICBM silo, surrounded by 3-foot thick walls, Pierce recalls the chore of opening the massive door designed to protect the Titan II Missile. “I can’t tell you how many times I ...

Buried in the Arizona desert lies a Cold War giant—the last Titan II missile silo, once armed and ready to launch the most powerful ICBM America ever built. Now a museum, this underground fortress ...

Stratolaunch tests reusable hypersonic rocket plane. Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world's largest airplane. Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle ...

The museum houses the only preserved Titan II missile silo in the world. The 103-foot intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) inside once stood ready to launch with just 58 seconds notice ...

But one silo and its defanged missile near what would become a retirement community in southern Arizona called Green Valley, were preserved as a museum, a monument to the cold war. The Titan ...

LONDONDERRY — What was it like to serve on a launch crew at a Titan II missile site during the height of the Cold War? As a young U.S. Air Force officer in the 1960s, Carl Stidsen commanded a ...