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May 16, 1963
Titan II Launch Complex 373-4 near Pangburn (White County) became the first in the 308th Strategic Missile Wing to be placed on strategic alert, ready to launch its missile at any time. 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 away as 5,500 miles.