Code Red

The control room, where operators were lowering a missile back into the 160-foot deep silo when it exploded during a testing exercise in 1960. None of the 25 men in the underground launching facility were injured in the blast, which hurled debris up to 4000 feet away.

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• Jan 2009
• Taken with a Nikon D300
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• More like this: Ground-based Photos, Cold War, Urban Exploration, Abandoned, Military Decay, Nighttime, Light Painting, Titan I Missile Silo, Vandenberg AFB, California, Horizontal