BBCNEWS The Travel Show September 1, 2021 01:39:00
But there's more to this area than meets the eye. this is a typical arizona landscape, vast desert and mountain ranges. but what the state is less famous for is something that could have changed the course of history in a momentous way, and it's right beneath my feet. an intercontinental ballistic missile complex, one of only two in the world open to the public. now decommissioned, but for two decades, capable of delivering a nine megaton nuclear warhead to targets more than 10,000 kilometres away. that's 650 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on hiroshima.