Yvonne the titan iis mission was peace through deterrent. Our job was to project a credible threat. To be here every day demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise first strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and retaliate quickly and with enough force to devastate the soviet union, even if they launched their missiles first. We are at the Titan Missile museum 25 miles south of downtown tucson. We are in the Launch Control center of the missile site. That is essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. From here, using all this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. Then it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. So, in order to launch a titan ii missile, the crew needs a number of things. First of all they have to , receive a launch order that will tell them to execute their missile and what time they will do that. In order for
This weekend, the cspan cities tour is visiting tucson looking at the citys history. We are headed to a former Nuclear Missile site, located 25miles south of town. It was shut down in the late 1980s near the end of the cold war. Today, it is home to the Titan Missile museum. We will learn about cold war era history. Yvonne the titan iis mission was peace through deterrent. Our job was to project a credible threat. To be here every day demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise first strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and retaliate quickly with enough force to devastate the soviet union, even if they launched their missiles first. We are at the Titan Missile museum 25 miles south of downtown tucson. We are in the Launch Control center of the missile site. The nerve center of the missile site itself. From here, using the equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. It is also from here that t
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