Entrance to control room area and missile silos
Equipment stripped out by locals after fall of Soviet Union
Turbine to power facility I think.
Missile silo
Missile silo
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Places
Wayne´s photos from the Titan Missile Museum, Trinity site, Los Alamos, Hiroshima (Circus of Life)
Or places listed on these websites - Atomic Tourist or Atomic Traveler
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Here are some Youtube videos about the Titan Missile Museum:
Slideshow of Titan Missile site from Youtube user ---- Launch Sequence simulation
Titan II Missile Launch
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A nuclear reactor's next life: Tourist destination? (Seattle Times Newspaper)
Old Soviet Missile Base
Near Klaipeda, Lithuania
If you want to visit - Wayne stayed at the Klaipeda Traveller´s Guesthouse.
Learn more here -- Lithuanian Hostels YHA or direct link to YHA page - Klaipeda Hostel
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Entrance to control room area and missile silos |
Equipment stripped out by locals after fall of Soviet Union |
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Missile silo |
Missile silo |
Lithuanian Diggers - Good panoramas of site - Soviet R-12U Dvina missile silo close to the lake Plateliai, Lithuania, built December 1962
Soviet Missile Complex (killerjeanne) - Deep in the Woods - (Lithuania World) no photos, just text
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A barbed wire fence tries to keep out vandals.
Bottom line - this site is in poor condition compared to the Titan Missile Museum located in Arizona.
The Titan Missile received roughly 60,000 visitors per year. This site, not anywhere near that.
Wayne, and two others were the only ones there when they visited.
