Howard Weiss describes his experience as an officer of a Titan II nuclear missile crew in the late 1960s. Tucson was chosen as the ideal spot for missiles, he said, "because of the natural protective barriers of the mountains."

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Archive Tucson is a living and growing collection of audio interviews about life and change in Tucson and Southern Arizona. The Libraries' oral historian and videographer, Aengus Anderson, has spent five years interviewing more than 100 people and recording their stories about our city.