August 15, 1986

The 374th Strategic Missile Wing was formally deactivated, and its last launch complex, 374-9 near Quitman (Cleburne County), was slated to be demolished. 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.