Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Apocalypse on the count of three: inside a Soviet missile silo https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Gabor Toth https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366601#post366601 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366601#post366601 2017 : War with Russia. The book is one of the most interesting pieces of bad writing I have come across recently; it makes Tom Clancy look like a Booker Prize winner. The writing is… ]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:03:47 +1200 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366272#post366272 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366272#post366272 the sign saying no loan zone is terrfiying

As the old saying about mutually-assured destruction goes: 'never a borrower nor a lender be'.

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:30:46 +1200 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366245#post366245 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366245#post366245 the sign saying no loan zone is terrfiying

Not at all unusual. It's just good security practice to not let individuals be in high-sensitivity areas.

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:22:24 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366225#post366225 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366225#post366225 how primitive all the equipment looked

Time gets telescoped. It was only 15 years from the V2 to the Titan, which first flew 57 years ago.

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:13:25 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366224#post366224 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366224#post366224 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:09:29 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366223#post366223 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366223#post366223 How was he able to take these photos?

It's a tourist attraction now.

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:46:11 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366222#post366222 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366222#post366222 We also visited the Titan missile museum in Tucson Arizona and it really was interesting. Just as strange. The oddest part was how primitive all the equipment looked.

We only lived in Tucson for 7 months but it proved to be a really cool place, The Pima air and space…

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:45:38 +1200 Tristan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366220#post366220 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366220#post366220 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:28:18 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366218#post366218 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366218#post366218 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:03:12 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366213#post366213 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366213#post366213 Clinton also provided some matching pictures from his 2006 visit to the Titan nuclear missile facility in Arizona.

1. A US Titan nuclear missile sitting in its Cold War silo waiting to be launched at the USSR.

2. The control centre for the Titan nuclear missile.

3. Launch controls for…

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:20:21 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366212#post366212 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-apocalypse-on-the-count-of-three/?p=366212#post366212 Discussion from blog post.

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