![]() Three of those explosions occurred in Roswell. Throughout the Atlas F project, four silos malfunctioned and were destroyed by the missiles they harbored. In the ’90s, the missiles were salvaged and parts of the silo were used for other programs, essentially destroying any knowledge of the once-ambitious project. “Can you imagine playing in these things and then taking it a little further?” Baker used to play in them in the ’70s when he attended the New Mexico Military Institute. Purchasing two of the silos 25 years ago for $55,000 a pop, Baker turned one of them into his home. “It took barely two and half years to build them and two years to operate them.” “It held an intercontinental ballistic missile with a 4-megaton warhead on her,” said Gary Baker, the current owner of two missile silos in Roswell. Each silo cost $22 million to build, and there were 72 constructed for the project throughout the whole U.S. More shocking, there were once 12 of these missile silos surrounding Roswell where Walker Air Force Base once stood. It’s a missile silo that once housed an intercontinental ballistic missile beginning in 1962 under the Atlas F project. You won’t be able to spot it from the road very easily. ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – There’s a piece of Cold War history just east of Roswell, New Mexico, and one businessman wants to make it into an attraction.
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