August 18, 1987

The 308th Strategic Missile Wing and 373rd Strategic Missile Squadrons in the Titan II Missile program were formally deactivated, ending more than twenty-five years of service. 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.