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Date Posted: 12:10:15 03/16/09 Mon
Author: Randall K. Wilson (1970)
Subject: Re: Tech Triva Question (answer)
In reply to: Donna Ray '51 's message, "Re: Tech Triva Question" on 06:45:31 03/09/09 Mon

TECH TRIVIA QUESTION ANSWER:

The tower is tall-- one hundred and three feet to the top of the parapet wall--

*Source* Page 19, January 1940 Arsenal Cannon Yearbook

Randall K. Wilson
Class of 1970

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[> [> [> Re: Tech Triva Question (answer) -- Glenn Holle (1951), 12:19:49 03/17/09 Tue

To show how armaments have grown in the century and a half since the Arsenal was built, The Titan II ICBM would not fit into the Arsenal Tower. Everything modern is "bigger and better" like changing the Tech student's nickname from "Greenclads" to "Titans".

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[> [> [> [> Re: Tech Triva Question (answer) -- Randall K. Wilson (1970), 16:38:23 03/17/09 Tue

If we stacked the Stuart Hall tower on top of the Arsenal tower...would the Titan II ICBM fit into that?

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Tech Triva Question (answer) -- Glenn Holle (1951), 19:56:22 03/18/09 Wed

Easily Randall,
The Titan II was the largest ICBM in the US arsenal at 103 feet tall... with its standard Mark 6 warhead it stood 110 feet tall.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Tech Triva Question (answer) -- Randall K. Wilson, 21:54:30 03/18/09 Wed

Thanks Glenn, Not being an expert on military weaponry...for the sake of this discussion, if a Titan II with the 6 foot warhead, were to be detonated/dropped etc. on basically a populated city. How much of an area would be destoyed? I'm assuming something of that size would surely be devasting to it's intended target?

Randall K. Wilson
Class of 1970

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