Dave. Do you remember if there were many protests while the sites were active? I was wondering if there were any protest in the early 60 when they were doing the site surveys.
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--- In vanishingtucson@..., "davidjohnrobson" <DavidJohnRobson@...> wrote:
I remember a Committee Against Ringing Tucson with Titans (CARTT) that tried to argue against putting the silos all around the city (which made us the center of the bullseye and also subject to fallout no matter what direction the wind was blowing). I also remember talk about how high we were on the list of Soviet ICBM targets for a sleepy little desert town. But the counter argument was that we would have been almost as high because of the B-52s at Davis Monthan. (This reminds me of the roar you would hear whenever the B-52s came back from patrolling off Alaska.)
--- In vanishingtucson@..., "Sean" <oper_12m_sean@> wrote:
Carlos. Thanks for that story, second hand or not it is a good one.
Some of the best stories come from the transport/propellant truck drivers. Fortunately for Tucson and all of us we never had that war with Russia, if we had not much of Tucson would have been left if any.
Sean
--- In vanishingtucson@..., "MisterCopacetic" <mistercopacetic@> wrote:
Hello Sean,
Good question about an interesting aspect of Tucson history. Sorry, but my only story is second-hand, from a retired Airman who drove the truck transporting one of the missiles to it's silo. He described how the truck moved incredibly slowly along the temporarily closed highway. He said he was issued a shotgun with heavy slug ammo. His instructions, if attacked, was to use the shotgun not to defend himself or the missile, but to disable the vehicle with rounds through the radiator and/or engine block.
A native Tucsonan recently remarked how, at the time, most Tucsonans were unaware that the installation of the Titan II missiles around Tucson instantly boosted the Old Pueblo into the top 10 targets for nuclear obliteration in the event of war with the Soviet Union. This was at a time when Tucson was a relatively small town, where many residents still left their doors open, and cars unlocked. I know I did, up through the mid 1980's.
Thanks,
Carlos
--- In vanishingtucson@..., "Sean" wrote:
My name is Sean and I volvolunteer at the Titan Missile Museum, I would
like to get to know if any of you have any pictures or stories of the
Tucson sites. If you were involved with the program or a civilian with a
good story to tell would love to hear from you.
Thanks
Sean
