CSPAN3 American Artifacts November 5, 2016
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 eno...