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INTERCONTINENTAL
BALLISTIC
MISSLE
SILOS
MICHAEL FIRMIN and J. DAVID ROGERS
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Plan View of a Typical Titan II ICBM Complex
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Access Portal
Fuel Hardstand
Blast Lock
Silo
Control CenterCableway
Oxidizer Hardstand
Oblique photo of a Titan II Complex, as viewed at the ground surface
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Control Center Access Portal & Silo
Blast Lock Area
Cutaway view of a typical underground Titan II missile complex
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Giant springs which served to attenuate harmonic dynamic motions created by missile launching, as seen inside the Titan II Missile Museum in Tucson, AZ
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TITAN II ICBM systemDeactivated in Mid - 1980’s
Capabilities
Range: 6000 miles
Velocity: 17,000 mph
Length: 103 Feet
Time to Target: 35 min
Green Valley, AZ (museum open to public)
Vandenberg AFB, CA (active test site, not open to public)
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Titan I Launch Sequence photographed at Vandenberg AFB, CA in 1961
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Launch Control Capsule module under construction at Malstrom AFB, MT in Nov. 1961
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Launch Control Capsule module under construction at Ellsworth AFB, SD in July 1962. Note cut-and-cover method being employed.
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Close up of Launch Control Capsule under construction at Ellsworth AFB, SD in Sept.1962
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Cut away model of a Minuteman missile launch complex
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Construction of Minuteman Launch Silo B-11 at Whiteman AFB, MO on June 18, 1962
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Crafting housing for Minuteman launch silo B-11, after the steel casing has been lowered into the neat excavation. At Whiteman AFB, MO in June 1962
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Blast Door to Delta I Launch Control Capsule Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD
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Minuteman II Missile being loaded into underground silo at Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD
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MINUTEMAN III
The Last of its Kind
Range: 8080 Miles
Velocity: 15,000 mph
Length: 60 Feet
Ceiling: 700 miles
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PEACEMAKER
Range: 6000 miles
Velocity: 15,000 mph
Length: 71 Feet
Warheads: 10 Avco MK21 re-entry vehicles
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STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION TREATY
(START I)
Signed by US and Soviet Union on 31 JUL 1991
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia signed on 23 MAY 1992
Ratified on 5 DEC 1994
Joint reduction to 6000 Deployed warheads reached on 05 DEC 2001
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STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION TREATY
(START II)
Signed by US and Russia on 3 JAN 1993
Ratified on 14 APR 2000
Interim limitations must be completed by 31 Dec 2004
All limitations and reductions must be completed by 31 Dec 2007
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START
•Phase One (Completion Date: 31 December 2004) •Phase Two (Completion Date: December 31, 2007)
•3,800-4,250 actual Strategic Warheads
•1,200 MIRVs with ICBMs
•2,160 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs)
•650 heavy ICBM Warheads
•1,100 mobile ICBM Warheads
•1,600 Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles (SNDVs)
•3,000-3,500 actual Strategic Warheads
•Zero MIRVs with ICBMs
•1,700-1,750 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs)
•Zero heavy ICBM Warheads
•1,100 mobile ICBM Warheads
•1,600 Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles (SNDVs)
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Concrete Barriers on exhibit at the Titan II Missile Museum near Tucson, AZ
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Disarmed Warhead on inert Titan II Missile at the museum near Tucson, AZ
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REFERENCES•Daviss, Bennett. “Heavens on Earth.” Air and Space Mar. 1995: 34-41.
•Folger, Tim. “Shield of Dreams.” Discover Nov. 2001: 58-66.
•Krantz, Marshall. “The Museum of Modern Death.” Invention & Technology Fall 1992: 63-64.
•http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/default.htm
•home.teleport.com/~boelling/titan.html
•http://world.std.com/~bor/arizona/arizona.htm
•http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Usa/Weapons/Mmiii.html
•http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/acda/factshee/wmd/nuclear/start2/start-95.htm