The one in Waukesha was in use from the 1950s until 1972 when it was decommissioned. It's not the slickest footage ever, but it's compelling nonetheless. Google Earth There were eight different sites all around Wisconsin. Source: While the name might not be very catchy, this nuclear silo near Dear Trail, Colorado is significant in that it held the first multi-stage ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) for the US military. Ellsworth AFB, is comprised of an 80-foot-deep underground missile silo and. The enormous concrete underground structures that were once used to launch missiles, have now been filled with water and left to rot. Martin Marietta SM-68A-HGM-25A Titan I, Colorado. An Alvo man recently put a missile silo east of Eagle on the market for 250,000. Strength in Numbers: The Missile Gap / 28. In this very raw footage, the two explorers head into the silos through the above ground entry way, and give us a tour of the decaying missile silo. In case of an emergency, there was an escape hatch, but it could only be opened from underground. If you didn’t know that Nebraska once housed thermonuclear warheads. The only way to enter the silos was through an above ground entry way. A decommissioned missile silo in York, NE, has come on the market for 550,000.
Most of these silos were built on about 20 acres of land, far away from where the average person would want to live, and five of those acres would be enclosed by a chain link fence. These Atlas missile silos were actively used from 1959 to approximately 1965, and some were even used into the 1990s for space launches. Atlas F (ICBM) missile silo from the 1960s, at an unnamed location in the Midwest. Many buildings are still standing, and one of the covers of the missile silo is opened. Two urban explorers from the YouTube channel Backyard Exploration, recently ventured deep down into an abandoned underground U.S. Discover LA-88 Nike Missile Site in Chatsworth, California: Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.
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