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Contemplating the unthinkable (ICBM)

This is a real launch control bunker where nuclear tipped missiles would have been launched from the USA against an attacking enemy.

 

Fortunately it's now disused and a visitor attraction at the Titan Missile Museum, deep underground and behind several blast doors, not far from Tucson, Arizona.

 

Visitors, like the man seen here are shown round the complex by staff and are shown the launch control center and also a missile sitting in the silo. On the panel in front of him is one of the two keys that would be turned to send the unstoppable missile on it's way.

 

The man is contemplating the awesome power and responsibility that the original crew had.

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Uploaded on January 29, 2020
Taken on October 6, 2013