And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was driving through Kansas north of Salina in the early 60's when something caught my eye over in the middle of a wheat field. It was an Atlas being lowered into its silo; sobering to say the least. Salina had a SAC base and B-52s flew around at a couple hundred feet just like General Buck Turgidson described it in Dr. Strangelove. Neat!
Awesome. Visited the Titan Missile museum in Green Valley, AZ outside of Tucson back in the 90’s. The blast doors, the control room and the inert missile in the silo was right out of Dr. Strangelove. Now we do it with Boomers.
9 megatons. As ICBMs and SLBMs got more accurate, the smaller the warheads needed to be. By the time I was targeting the Peacekeeper and Trident warheads for the JSTPS, the CEP was so small that we could do the job with a tiny fraction of that. Too bad they got rid of the Peacekeepers and kept only the Minuteman III's, with only one warhead each. At least we do still have the Boomers, too.
Lately anyway….
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DeleteI was driving through Kansas north of Salina in the early 60's when something caught my eye over in the middle of a wheat field. It was an Atlas being lowered into its silo; sobering to say the least. Salina had a SAC base and B-52s flew around at a couple hundred feet just like General Buck Turgidson described it in Dr. Strangelove. Neat!
ReplyDeleteAwesome. Visited the Titan Missile museum in Green Valley, AZ outside of Tucson back in the 90’s. The blast doors, the control room and the inert missile in the silo was right out of Dr. Strangelove. Now we do it with Boomers.
Delete9 megatons. As ICBMs and SLBMs got more accurate, the smaller the warheads needed to be. By the time I was targeting the Peacekeeper and Trident warheads for the JSTPS, the CEP was so small that we could do the job with a tiny fraction of that. Too bad they got rid of the Peacekeepers and kept only the Minuteman III's, with only one warhead each. At least we do still have the Boomers, too.
ReplyDeleteLooks like an Atlas D.
ReplyDeleteAtlas Erectus?
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