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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2026 14:01:56 JST Matt Blaze

   Titan II ICBM, Launch Complex 571-7, Sahuarita, AZ, 2009

   All the pixels, but probably no warhead, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4185185541

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2026 14:01:54 JST Matt Blaze

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     More ICBM photos and discussion here: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/titans/

     According to https://thebulletin.org/, it's currently 85 seconds to midnight.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2026 14:01:55 JST Matt Blaze

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     Captured with a DSLR and a Zeiss 21mm Distagon lens. Handheld (there was no room to set up a tripod).

     In 2009, I was fortunate to join a "top to bottom" tour of former Air Force Titan ICBM site 571-7, now preserved as a museum. Titan II missiles carried a nine megaton(!) "physics package" in the "reentry vehicle" (which they emphatically assured me had been removed from this missile, but I still wouldn't advise upsetting them too much).

     Kim Scheinberg repeated this.