January 3, 1961

Construction began on Launch Complex 373-4 for the Titan II missile program near Pangburn (White County). The Titan II missile program was a Cold War weapons system featuring fifty-four launch complexes in three states. Eighteen were in Arkansas, from which intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying nine-megaton nuclear warheads could be launched to strike targets as far as 5,500 miles away.

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