Car Club Field Trip

Way cool. Especially hearing from the guys who were actually down there ready to launch when the word was given!!

This Silo was saved from destruction by a group of people including its last commander. They still had to de-militarize the site to satisfy the the SALT requirements. If you notice the picture of the missle there’s a window cut out so that the Soviets could verify there was no warhead. The missle in the picture was a training missile. The guys giving the briefing were actual silocommanders back in the day. There was some ream doomsday stuff discussed.

Real 60s technology. The info for the guidance system was on tapes and manually loaded into the computer. The crew had no idea what the target would be. They actually went through a launch sequence.