At Harrington most of the buildings, runways and taxiways were demolished in the 1960s, though part of the western perimeter survives as a bridleway, and part of the original operations building is in use as the Carpetbagger Aviation Museum. It closed as an airbase in 1997 and reopened the following year as the St George's Barracks of the Royal Anglian Regiment. North Luffenham was the last of the bases to close as a nuclear site. The Cuban crisis fizzled out in a compromise, and the Thor missiles were phased out the following year. The Thor missiles could be brought to operational readiness in 15 minutes after receiving the authenticated order to launch, and in October 1962 59 of the 60 missiles were made ready. The missiles were British property, manned by RAF staff trained for the task by the US air force, but the actual nuclear warheads remained under US control. At each base there were specially adapted or newly built hangars to store the missiles, other equipment, fuel, and for maintenance and inspection, protected by earth banks, blast walls, satellite stations, and double wire fences. The missiles were 20 metres long and 2.5 metres in diameter, with a range of 1,500 nautical miles, and 60 were deployed at 20 sites in the east of England under the codename Project Emily. Harrington was under its command and was armed with Thor missiles in 1959. North Luffenham was built as a second world war airbase and selected in 1958 as a main Thor missile site.
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The anniversary will also be marked by special events at the York Cold War Bunker, and the cold war tunnels under Dover Castle. The federal government was looking for This wonderful Bunker was abandoned by Military in 1970 FSBO. One of Americas most top secret places is now on the market This complex is twelve minutes to the town of Benson. They form part of a chain of cold war sites, some still covered by classified information, many only identified and listed in the past 10 years. The two bases being listed at Grade II are the former RAF North Luffenham in Rutland and RAF Harrington in Northamptonshire. It is ancient history to children and teenagers, but anyone in their mid-50s or older will remember the days when the world held its breath in what is regarded as the closest ever approach to nuclear war: in at least one Irish convent school the children were sent home at lunchtime on the day when many expected bombs could fall, so they would at least be with their families if the insanity of mutually assured destruction became fact. In the Cuban missile crisis there was a 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, when the US president, John F Kennedy, ordered the Soviet leader, Nikita Krushchev, to disarm the nuclear missiles he had placed in Cuba on threat of invasion.
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