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Missile silo for sale9/4/2023 ![]() The descent was hair-raising if your steps became too rhythmic, the ladder wobbled until you stopped to let its motion dampen. The nearest are in Oracle, 30 minutes away.”Įllis said he’d been in and out of the silo dozens, if not hundreds, of times. We have no way to help you I have no pain medications, and I’m not a trained EMT. "If you fall, you’ll at least be severely injured, if not killed outright,” he said. He politely gave us safety tips on how to climb the 40-foot ladder into the silo - maintain three points of contact and stand on your insteps, not your toes - while being blunt about the risks. Ellis, who has a graying beard accentuating his square jawline, wore a dark grey T-shirt and jeans, and carried a pistol on his right hip. There was no hint this was once the potential starting point for nuclear armageddon, except for a few stray slabs of concrete and a 500-square-foot grid of weathered sheet metal covering a 35-foot-deep access portal.Īt the portal, we met Rick Ellis, an intimidating-but-friendly former Marine who co-owns the silo. It took 45 minutes to get to the silo, which lies north of Tucson beneath a serene patch of grassy desert covered with mesquite trees, prickly pear, and creosote. One weekend not long ago, ROCKETGUT! - represented by myself, Porter McDonald, and Leigh McDonald - went for a tour. HAS GREAT VIEWS FOR YOUR HOME WITH UNDERGROUND SHELTER/BUNKER, WORK SHOP, ETC. "THE SITE HAS BEEN OPENED UP FOR YOUR USE. "FORMER TITAN 2 MISSILE SITE," the listing reads. Recently, a new real estate listing appeared for a 12.75-acre parcel of land in Oracle, Arizona. The rest became lore: one is part of someone’s living room, another sits beneath a nursery, and one was once rumored to be an after-work party site for pharmacists. ![]() One Arizona silo was left intact and turned into a museum. The Air Force destroyed the silos - or at least made them very difficult to access - and either gave the land to other government agencies or auctioned it off to the public. In the 1980s, America modernized its nuclear weapons arsenal and retired the Titan IIs. Eighteen of the missiles were scattered around the outskirts of Tucson, meeting requirements that they be near an existing Air Force base - Davis-Monthan, in this case - and pass over rural areas during their initial phase of flight. They would fly over the north pole and deposit nuclear bombs on Moscow - bombs that were 750 times more powerful than the one that hit Hiroshima in World War II. For Sale: One Cold War Missile Silo Words by Jason Davis, Photos by Porter McDonaldĭuring the heart of the Cold War, 54 nuclear-tipped Titan II missiles sat ready to defend the United States from the Soviet Union.īuried in Kansas, Arkansas, and Arizona, the 103-foot-tall rockets could leap from their silos in less than a minute after the launch command was given. ![]()
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