The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was
developed by the United States military to bolster the size,
strength, and speed of the nation's strategic weapons arsenal in
the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead -- the
largest in U.S. inventory -- used liquid fuel propellants, and was
stored and launched from hardened underground silos. The missiles
were deployed at basing facilities in Arkansas, Arizona, and Kansas
and remained in active service for over twenty years. Since
military deactivation in the early 1980s, the Titan II has served
as a reliable satellite launch vehicle.
This is the richly detailed story of the Titan II missile and
the men and women who developed and operated the system. David K.
Stumpf uses a wide range of sources, drawing upon interviews with
and memoirs by engineers and airmen as well as recently
declassified government documents and other public materials. Over
170 drawings and photographs, most of which have never been
published, enhance the narrative. The three major accidents of the
program are described in detail for the first time using
authoritative sources.
Titan Il will be welcomed by librarians for its prodigious
reference detail, by technology history professionals and laymen,
and by the many civilian and Air Force personnel who were involved
in the program -- a deterrent weapons system that proved to be
successful in defending America from nuclear attack.
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