Above: A nuclear-tipped missile once sat at Titan II ICBM complex 570-9 southwest of Tucson . Eighteen of the missiles ringed Tucson from the 1960s to 1980s, controlled by the 390th Strategic Missile Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Right: Richard Kampa, who served as a maintenance technician in the Titan ll missile silos , points out some details of the silos during Thursday’s dedication of the Titan II interpretive exhibit inside Ironwood Forest National Monument near Avra Valley Road and Johnson Mine Road. The silo site is now buried under earth and concrete. For more photos of Titan missiles that once circled Tucson, go to tucson.com/retrotucson
