Through a set of steel doors at the bottom level of the command center, you can access the 185-foot deep silo where the missile was kept. The bedrooms and bathrooms are located in the underground command center with 3,000 square feet of living space. The silos were built to house Titan I missiles during the early 1960s and were dismantled and abandoned in 1965. The current owners purchased the home with 19 acres of land and began transforming it into a livable residence.Ī decoy house sits on top of the command center with 2,000 square feet of space including the kitchen and the living room. 3485 Keefer Road The missile silos (its formal designation was Beale 851-C and was also known as Complex 1C) were part of an Air Force installation located north of the Chico Municipal Airport in between Keefer Road and Cohasset Road. In 1965, the missile silo was decommissioned and the land was auctioned off. The underground missile silo contained the Atlas F missile which was connected to an underground missile launch control center. The launch facility consists of a silo 12 feet in diameter and 80 feet deep made of reinforced concrete with a steel-plate liner. In total there were 1,000 Minuteman missiles deployed from the 1960s into the early 1990s. Then it would retract back into the ground.Located in the Adirondack Mountains in Saranac, New York, this unique property with its own FAA-approved airstrip was converted to a luxury home from an nuclear missile silo.ĭuring the Cold War, this Saranac site was part of the Atlas missile system developed by the United States government. The Delta-09 missile silo was one of 150 spread across western South Dakota. “I would stand here when they would bring the missile up at about five o’clock at night, and it looked like a silver bullet coming out of the earth. The last of the main equipment was removed about 15 years ago. The abandoned missile silo has been sitting and rotting for almost 50 years. Fifty years later, the long abandoned missile silo continues to cause him sleepless nights. This community of a whopping 2M members has people sharing the weirdest, creepiest, and most unsettling pics of random objects, from natural artifacts to computer-generated images. In theory, they could reach Moscow.ĭuring the Cuban Missile Crisis, Wimett remembered coming home to Lewis to find the greatest firepower in the world in a deep, bomb-proof underground silo next to his family’s Adirondack woods. Air Force installed 12 Atlas missiles in a ring around the old Plattsburgh Air Force Base. “That’s where it would come up out of the earth when they would bring it up.”īy 1962, the U.S. A recent report in the Guardian says that there’s one for sale near Tucson, Arizona, for a fairly reasonable price, just under 400,000. “This is where the pad was, where the missile was,” John Wimett, of Lewis, N.Y., said. It’s located in Abilene, Texas and from above, looks like an empty lot with a flag and some solar panels in the middle of nowhere. One just sold for more than asking price, while the other took a 20,000 price. He purchased the 2,2000 square foot Atlas F silo in 1997 at a price of 99,000. 2 Cold War-era nuclear missile silos that sat abandoned for decades went on sale in Arizona for 495,000 each. In the shadow of Whiteface Mountain, it was the only site east of the Mississippi. This abandoned missile silo complex in Kansas built in the 1960s is on the market for just 380,000. Wired Magazine ran a cool piece on a guy, Bruce Townsley, that bought an abandoned missile silo and built a home in it. At the height of the Cold War, they were hidden in the Adirondacks of Northern New York State. The first intercontinental ballistic missiles were Atlas Rockets. ( NEWS10) – More than 30 years ago, missiles were ready to launch in Upstate New York. The Cold War is over now, but some military waste is still inspiring fear in the North Country.
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