A cluster of nine Atlas E Missile silos surrounds Forbes Field in Topeka. A dozen Atlas F Missile silos were sprinkled in open fields around the former Schilling Air Force Base in Salina.
Owner Brandon Marshall stands in front of the 47-ton blast door at one end of the "coffin" style launch bay of his Cold War missile silo in east central Kansas. From 1961 to 1964, the site was ready ...