Titan I missile silo

Award winning science fiction author Jay Lake took a trip to a remote part of Washington state to visit an abandon Titian 1 missile silo. (http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1277082.html) This is video from what turned out to be a carbon copy of his trip. As I walked around the site I couldn't help thinking of the scene from the 1983, made for TV movie "The Day After" where intercontinental ballistic missiles on the horizon, rise out of farmer's fields, heading off to the Soviet Untion.

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• silo
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• weapons
• Washington
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• ICBM
• space
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• titan

[buggyapp]

Your footage of the doors open is the first I have seen. My father and 3 other men were killed in August of 1961 at a Titan I constuction site (1A) near Denver when the doors fell shut. It took them about 3 days to get the thme reopened because of the force. It was called a "hydrolic failure". I have visited the site with my brother and he went underground in a prior visit. Dor you have any other footage of the site. I would be very interested. Thanks for posting this.

[thomasrchavez]

@buggyapp I'm really sorry to hear about your father. I only recently found out about the other two sites have have looked in the direction of their locations from the road as I drove past. I have no idea how to go about getting permission to visit those bases. I did read that one of them was used for a hacker conference and there should be video of it somewhere on YouTube.

[OsanBlackCat5RS]

hmm i didnt know Wash. had deserty looking places,ill have to travel there sometime.

[thomasrchavez]

@OsanBlackCat5RS The Cascade mountain range makes most clouds dump their rain in the western third of Washington and Oregon. Both states are two thirds desert and mostly uninhabited by people.

[JauhoPeltola]

My penis might fit in there.

[lookslikeabitch]

did you record this with your pipboy 3000?

[34122fernando]

o governo deveria tampar esses buracos e izolar á área d e curiosos ou crianças cairem nessas clateras enormes!!

[saltydog45]

@SuburbAllied Yep,well fucked by a hole :)

[SuburbAllied]

@saltydog45 This is the United States glory holes :)

[Topskinnydipper]

You wouldn't want to be wandering around out there in the dark would you? LG.

[angelkid79]

Have visited a Titan silo north of Cheyenne Wyoming off of Hwy 85 half way to Torrington Wy.. Awesome how they are structured. Was stationed at Ellsworth AFB in the Minuteman 2 program between 1983-85.

[saltydog45]

Christ.Big holes to leave open for anyone to fall down.

[dhsbear]

Why didn't you pull that big lever?

[steelerfreek007]

Hanford area anyone?