July 14, 1987

The 308th Strategic Missile Wing at the Titan II Launch Complex 373-8 near Judsonia (White County) served its final day of operation. 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.