A domed powerplant made up the largest capsule in the complex (and I understand the capsule is huge) with a sizeable launch control center as well. A Titan-I complex supported three massive 160 foot deep silos all interconnected via underground tunnels. Titan-I complexes are what people think of as something of an underground survival town. A fair number had flooded with groundwater over the years with 174 foot deep silos lacking much on the walls (the “cribbing” was often torn out for scrap metal). Many of these sites too suffer from contamination issues (the Lincoln AFB field for instance only has a single silo out of twelve declared “clean” by the US Army Corps of Engineers). At least one in the Schilling field (Salina, Kansas) was converted into a true doomsday bunker while a number of others have been built into homes. Everything is underground, the Launch Control Center and the hardened silo, and they are fairly inconspicuous. It’s 100 psi rating and a great number of silos available (72 of them across the US, even upstate New York) made them effectively the de-facto missile silo doomsday bunker.
Minuteman missile silo tour series#
While the -D and -E series were stored horizontally, the Atlas-F was stored vertically in a true missile silo. One can visit an Atlas-E site at Missile Site Park northwest of Greeley, Colorado. Another Topeka site instead became Jackson Heights High School near Holton, Kansas. Astoundingly, the DEA reported a two-year 99.5% drop in availability of LSD within the entire United States after the site was raided. 548-7 near Topeka, Kansas was once planned as a massive LSD manufacturing site (although the drug was not yet in production there). The interesting thing about Atlas-E sites is that they have a fairly checkered past across the board. The missile bay that sat within the complex would make a great garage for your Mad Max-style vehicles. They’re partially buried and were once rated to 25 psi (not great but not bad). Of all the old missile sites, Atlas-E seems to make the most sense as a good little doomsday bunker. Bunker aside, looks like it would be a cool paintball course. Ruins of an Atlas-D installation in Eastern Nebraska. Neat little complexes, unfortunately like many other Atlas sites, a few suffer from trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination along with diesel contamination. At the time, they were only rated to 5 psi (pounds per square inch) overpressure protection so a nearby nuclear hit would have easily destroyed them. Warren AFB in Wyoming and Offutt AFB in Nebraska. The first launchers were on gantry towers at Vandenberg AFB in California however eventual deployment saw aboveground “coffin” launchers constructed near F.E. The Atlas-D was America’s first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and its deployment was greatly varied. In this blog, let’s take a rundown of each missile system and its benefits in protection against an alien invasion. A few of which have transformed into what some may call doomsday bunkers.
There are however a great number of other missile silos that were effectively abandoned in 1964-1965 time frame that make up the bulk of the “old abandoned missile silo” mystique. Minuteman sites didn’t really provide the true “bunker” capability considering the bunkers were made inaccessible via treaty. It is a question that often comes up on tour – did doomsday preppers descend on the area once the former Missile Alert Facilities were closed down? Not that we’re aware of. Periodically, news interests shift back to the idea of a doomsday bunker, and more often than not it will include an old missile silo. And why not? It makes for good drama and a plotline that can continually offer fruit for writers. Such extreme plot lines make up a great number of modern television and video games like The Walking Dead, Snowpiercer, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and the popular Fallout series of video games. I learned of an interesting term the other day TEOTWASKI – the end of the world as we know it – and delved into a book that considered all sorts of scenarios like meteors or supervolcanos, financial collapse to a personal interest – nuclear war. The more extreme stuff goes a little above and beyond for me. A good first aid kit is important, and a few days of water and food is a good idea if a blizzard is severe enough to snow you in. I suppose the difference would be that preparing for common disasters that might befall an area – Earthquakes, tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, or even a house fire – is just common sense. I’m not a prepper, although I do believe in being prepared. Underground silos can possess areas of “dead” air, lethal build-ups of other gases, and have a risk of deadly falls. *Not to be used as a literal buying guide nor should you attempt to explore these places without permission.
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