June 22, 1960

The Air Force announced plans to establish eighteen Titan II missile launch sites near Little Rock Air Force Base (LRAFB) in Jacksonville (Pulaski 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.