Titan II Missile Combat Crew

Two-officer-plus-two-enlisted crew, 24-hour alerts, sitting underground at Little Rock, Davis-Monthan, or McConnell waiting for a launch order on a liquid-fueled, 9-megaton ICBM — the largest the US ever fielded.

The Story

One crew, one missile, one 9-megaton warhead. That warhead was about three times the combined yield of every bomb dropped in WWII, including both atomic weapons. Each Titan II crew controlled exactly that, for 24 hours at a time, for 24 years.