Great thinkers have all said, in their own ways, there is no better teacher than history.
In Green Valley, you can walk through a snapshot in time, when southern Arizona had a crucial role to play in the Cold War; and while there are a few newer things to see, the team of people who keep the museum running find it’s important that some things never change.
Standing next to the sliding door, the missile silo goes about 150 deep. Brad Elliott says the 103-missile sitting still and inside is a beast. “This is the only place in the world you could come see this magnitude of a weapon,” he said.
Here, on the now museum grounds, you’ll find the last of southern Arizona’s Titan II missiles. Its nine-megaton nuclear warhead is now on display in the museum lobby.
For a stretch of time, the United States government ran 54 facilities just like this across the country.
Nowadays, the museum staff walk guests through the very same paths and stairs that mission crews did up until 1982. That was as responsibility that Elliott, a marketing mananger for Titan and the Pima Air & Space museums, said he hinds hard to fathom.