What an awesome place! Especially when I was young, I paid very close attention to the Space Race and strategic armaments, so this place was one immense nostalgic callback to what mattered a lot when I was growing up.
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Carbon, the most-versatile of elements! (Mendeleev Periodic Table of the Elements embedded in the floor of the museum).
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Little Boy and Fat Man.
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Fat Man.
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Gadget (Trinity Site).
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Holy crap! Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs), the highly-destructive payload of what appears to be a Titan II missile! Top secret stuff!
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Close-up of the MIRVs.
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Titan III?
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Miss Atomic Bomb.
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Fail-Safe: What a great movie!
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Outside the museum, they have what they call Heritage Park, where they keep the really impressive stuff. Here is my favorite from childhood, the B-52 strategic bomber. I remember one day, we had one of these circling all around the North Valley, to what purpose I could only imagine.
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B-47 bomber.
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Peacekeeper MX warhead.
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Thor, the IRBM that President Kennedy had already posted in Turkey and which he used to menace the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
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Titan II missile.
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Jupiter. Awesome!
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First generation Minuteman missile.
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Titan II engines. I still remember fourth grade, and watching the shutdown of Gemini 6's engines on TV during their aborted first attempt at launch - in 1966?
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Titan II missile - the Martin Marietta workhorse of the Space Age! Built just outside Columbine, CO.
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Matador missile?
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MK-17 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb.
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B-52 strategic bomber.
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MK-53 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb.
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B-29 Stratofortress, akin to the Enola Gay (Hiroshima) and Bock's Car (Nagasaki).
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One massive warhead!
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Without You, There Is No Security.
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Help Us - Be Secure.
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If You Want To Fight! Join The Marines.
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