With all the nuclear posturing these days, we dug through our archive of photos of a Titan II ICBM nuclear missile that is still in its bunker. Although it has been disarmed, the photo shows the warhead atop the missile, ready to go. The control room is still in its original 1963 condition. Your mobile phone could probably replicate all the computing power that it contains.
Below is a photo of the “long cableway” which connects the control room to the missile by cable. It also shows the rows of shock absorbers damping the power of the missile blast:
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