Nuclear silos for sale: Silos and Bunkers For Sale

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Nebraska Missile Silo for $550K Quickly Finds a Buyer

Here’s a blast from the past. A decommissioned missile silo in York, NE, has come on the market for $550,000.

If you didn’t know that Nebraska once housed thermonuclear warheads, you’re not alone.

“We weren’t even aware they were around here,” says listing agent Mike Figueroa. He and Polly Figueroa share this unusual listing, which drew hundreds of thousands of clicks and was last week’s most popular home on Realtor.com®.

Social media also went ballistic over the below-ground dwelling.

And, after just 12 days on the market, the 6-acre property already has a buyer attached.

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What lies beneath

The underground complex once housed an Atlas-F missile. The missile was stored vertically in a “super-hardened silo” designed to withstand a nuclear attack.

Door to the underground home

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This missile site in the middle of Nebraska was just one of 12 around the state built in the 1960s.

The missile sites were constructed in the early 1960s and operational from 1962 through 1965. The sites, whose purpose was to serve as a deterrent during the Cold War, were then decommissioned and ultimately sold to private owners.

Underground living quarters

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Bath tub

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For those who like to be prepared for an above-ground catastrophe, a heavily fortified underground bunker might be just the ticket.

Figueroa sees the 2,500-square-foot space as a true bargain.

“We were just amazed at the history of it, the effort it took to construct these. It was a massive undertaking. You see how much money they spent at the time, $17 million to $18 million on one site,” he says.

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Bunker mentality

The facility consists of a two-story underground residence, where crews lived 24/7, as well as the original command and control center, complete with the launch button.

Missile complex

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The undergound dwelling features 1,256 square feet of space on each floor, although the lower level remains unfinished.

The first level is “completely livable” with electricity, hot and cold running water, and a bath tub. There’s heat as well as a kitchen and dining area.

The now-empty silo is 174 feet deep and 52 feet across, with reinforced concrete walls and two massive launch doors that weigh over 50 tons.

Unfinished space

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The original owners purchased the property in 1998, inspired by fears of the impending Y2K crisis and the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000.

Now they live out of state and want to pass the project on to someone else who wants to burrow into a serious project.

While it’s unclear what the next owner will do with the space, options abound. A spruced-up space could work as an Airbnb rental, ultimate man cave, or a prepper paradise that’s ultrasecure.

While this York missile complex is under contract, Figueroa has already received a call from the owner of another Nebraska silo in the Lincoln area. If another missile silo listing comes along, we’ll keep an eye out for a booming response.

“It’s been an adventure,” Figueroa says. “It is unlike anything we’ve ever seen.”

For Sale: One Cold War Missile Silo

Words by Jason Davis, Photos by Porter McDonald

During the heart of the Cold War, 54 nuclear-tipped Titan II missiles sat ready to defend the United States from the Soviet Union.

Buried in Kansas, Arkansas, and Arizona, the 103-foot-tall rockets could leap from their silos in less than a minute after the launch command was given. They would fly over the north pole and deposit nuclear bombs on Moscow — bombs that were 750 times more powerful than the one that hit Hiroshima in World War II. Eighteen of the missiles were scattered around the outskirts of Tucson, meeting requirements that they be near an existing Air Force base — Davis-Monthan, in this case — and pass over rural areas during their initial phase of flight.

In the 1980s, America modernized its nuclear weapons arsenal and retired the Titan IIs. The Air Force destroyed the silos — or at least made them very difficult to access — and either gave the land to other government agencies or auctioned it off to the public.

One Arizona silo was left intact and turned into a museum. The rest became lore: one is part of someone’s living room, another sits beneath a nursery, and one was once rumored to be an after-work party site for pharmacists.

Recently, a new real estate listing appeared for a 12.75-acre parcel of land in Oracle, Arizona.

“FORMER TITAN 2 MISSILE SITE,” the listing reads. “THE SITE HAS BEEN OPENED UP FOR YOUR USE. HAS GREAT VIEWS FOR YOUR HOME WITH UNDERGROUND SHELTER/BUNKER, WORK SHOP, ETC. THIS IS THE SURVIVALIST DREAM PROPERTY.”

The asking price: $360,000.

One weekend not long ago, ROCKETGUT! — represented by myself, Porter McDonald, and Leigh McDonald — went for a tour. It took 45 minutes to get to the silo, which lies north of Tucson beneath a serene patch of grassy desert covered with mesquite trees, prickly pear, and creosote. There was no hint this was once the potential starting point for nuclear armageddon, except for a few stray slabs of concrete and a 500-square-foot grid of weathered sheet metal covering a 35-foot-deep access portal.

At the portal, we met Rick Ellis, an intimidating-but-friendly former Marine who co-owns the silo. Ellis, who has a graying beard accentuating his square jawline, wore a dark grey T-shirt and jeans, and carried a pistol on his right hip. He politely gave us safety tips on how to climb the 40-foot ladder into the silo — maintain three points of contact and stand on your insteps, not your toes — while being blunt about the risks.

“If you fall, you’ll at least be severely injured, if not killed outright,” he said. “It will be a slow, painful death. We have no way to help you; I have no pain medications, and I’m not a trained EMT. The nearest are in Oracle, 30 minutes away.”

Ellis said he’d been in and out of the silo dozens, if not hundreds, of times. In we went.

The descent was hair-raising; if your steps became too rhythmic, the ladder wobbled until you stopped to let its motion dampen. But we all made it to the bottom safely.

Each Titan II silo had three major sections, arranged inline and connected by tunnels: the silo itself, an access portal, and a control center. The silo held the missile. The access portal, which had stairs and an elevator — features now missing in the silo we toured — is how crews entered and exited. And the three-story control center held all the electronics for monitoring and launching the missile, as well as living quarters for four-person crews.

The bottom of the access portal was filled with a few inches of water and at least a half-dozen drowned tarantulas. Among the venomous creatures Ellis has encountered in the silo are Gila Monsters, which are protected by law in Arizona (he rescues them), and rattlesnakes, which are not (he kills them). Ellis estimates he has killed 10 rattlesnakes in the complex. Once, he came down the ladder to find a rattler waiting for him near the bottom. He showed us a picture and described how he pursued the snake into the water, where, as he put it, the snake gained a “tactical advantage.” He eventually killed the snake and dressed it on the tailgate of his truck.

Off the access portal is a blast lock with 6,000-pound steel doors that lead to the silo in one direction and the control center in another. With the doors closed, the crew in the control center, which is suspended on giant springs, could survive either their own missile exploding or a near-direct hit from the biggest nuke in the Soviets’ arsenal.

Ellis and a friend first heard about the silo when it went up for sale around 2002. The duo planned to renovate it into a secure storage facility in the wake of 9/11, and Ellis, who owns a telecommunications installation company, bought it for $200,000.

It was a business investment. But there was also no denying it would also be pretty fun to own a missile silo.

“I thought it would be cool to have a bunker that could take a direct hit from a tactical nuke,” Ellis said.

In just a weekend of work, Ellis and his friend dug through the dirt and debris dumped by the Air Force into the access portal when the site was decommissioned, and they accessed the blast lock through an ajar outer door. To their dismay, the blast doors leading to the control center and silo were welded shut, and it took another month of heavy work and experimentation to get them both open. When they finally got inside, they brought in beer and cigars to celebrate.

There are no lights in the complex — Ellis used to have a few, but they were vandalized — which gives it the vibe of a spooky cave filled with Cold War ghosts. Turn right from the blast lock, and you are stopped at the tunnel to the silo itself, where dirt spills out into an anteroom. The Air Force used explosives to cave in the actual silo, and Ellis has not been able to gain access.

But turn left, and the rest of the facility is still intact.  A tunnel leads down to the middle floor of the control center, where Air Force crews waited 24/7 for orders to launch what remains America’s most powerful nuclear weapon ever. The launch procedure is dramatic, involving encrypted messages from the president, code books, and the turning of keys by two officers. The crew would be ordered to aim the missile at one of three unnamed targets, never knowing which city they were about to wipe off the map.

The bottom floor of the control center was used for electronics storage. On the top floor were living quarters with a bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. A sign ordering crews not to smoke in bed is stenciled on the wall.

”When we got in the bathroom, there was still a toothbrush on the shelf,” said Ellis.

He wages a constant war against vandals, thieves, and explorers, some of whom are quite industrious. Ellis lives nearby, and once discovered a pickup truck stuck in the mud carrying a stainless steel sink from the silo’s control center kitchen. He called the sheriff, but by the time help arrived, the thieves were gone. Another time, he confronted a would-be explorer equipped with professional climbing gear. Every time sheriff’s deputies come out, he invites them on a silo tour. Some take him up on the offer.

By 2006, Ellis’ friend backed out of the business venture, so Ellis found a new partner, a retired orthodontist. Together they formed Titan Secure Storage, LLC, which now owns the property. Ellis estimates the LLC has spent between $75,000 and $100,000 getting the silo into its current state, which included removing the rest of the debris from the access portal.

Over the years Ellis has come close to finding storage tenants, going so far as to secure letters of intent and get the land zoned for commercial use. But the deals all fell through. He’s considered alternate ideas, including turning the complex into a restaurant, but at this point his business partner is ready to move on, so they put the property up for sale.

They have yet to get any serious offers. One person offered to pay in bitcoin (Ellis declined), and he said he gets a lot of “lookie-loos” who want to see the silo but aren’t interested in buying it.

Braving the ladder once more, we emerged sweaty and tired into the midday Arizona sun. Ellis, on the other hand, seemed to have been energized by the tour. He said he and his wife may offer to buy the silo from the LLC outright if it doesn’t sell. He walked us around the property, describing how he’d use the land: put a house over there, maybe, with the access portal in the living room. A pool and wet bar down there. Maybe a picnic area up on that butte, and a zipline.

I told him I’d buy it if I had the money.

“I’ll give you a good guy discount,” he said. “Five percent off.”

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due to numerous statements that North Korea may have its own nuclear weapons, underground sales have increased in the US bunkers. One of the companies involved in the production and installation of such bomb shelters noted that sales have doubled recently. Wealthy citizens are not stingy to spend a lot of money on the arrangement of such bunkers, inside which there is everything necessary for a comfortable life.

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Where are the bomb shelters at the Ural Federal University, photo report from a bunker in Yekaterinburg, September 2022 | e1.ru

The bunker was built at 1955 – ten years after the first nuclear strike in history

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Today there are more than 900 bomb shelters in Yekaterinburg. In them, according to the assurances of officials, there will be enough space for all the townspeople – no one specified about the guests of the city. Several bunkers are located at the Ural Federal University. One of them is in the building of the Institute of Physics and Technology. We walked along its corridors and learned a few secrets.

A bomb shelter at a university can be called elite with some stretch, because in case something bad happens, not ordinary students or townspeople will take refuge here, but rectors and the administration of the university. It was built according to project 1947 years old. Despite the fact that the equipment installed here is obsolete in places, it is still in working order.

One of the 900 Ekaterinburg bunkers is located under the walls of UrFU

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The entrance to the bunker is located just behind the spacious hall. It is easy to confuse it with the descent to the basement, when viewed from the side of the main staircase. The bomb shelter is preceded by a massive iron door, similar to the one installed on ships. If you tighten the levers, then the bunker will be effectively cut off from the world.

The path to the bunker resembles a road to a regular basement

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Distinctive Metal door

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We go down and get into a long corridor

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Behind a small vestibule a long narrow corridor opens, from where rooms diverge to the right and left. Immediately to the left is a small room with an air filtration unit.

“Conditionally, if a city is hit by a nuclear attack, radioactive dust will be in the air,” explained Alexander Rodin, Deputy Head of the Department for Civil Defense and Emergencies of UrFU. These units will purify the air. The power supply of the bunker is autonomous, it is supplied with light by a gasoline generator. Filters work from it, but even if there is no electricity, the installation can be put into operation manually.

Alexander Rodin shows how the air filtration unit works

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The bomb shelter is designed for a maximum of 200 people. Stay time – two days, then you have to evacuate somewhere else. In addition to the top of the university, attendants will hide here, who will be able to establish communications, repair ventilation and electrics.

The next room on the right is a conditional bedroom. There are three-tiered bunks for the entire length of the room. The lower shelf is seated, the upper one is for sleeping.

And these are bunk beds, on which, in case of emergency, the inhabitants of the bunker will sleep

. Journalists were forbidden to take pictures of the map – and even look at it.

This headquarters will decide how to live and act further

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from there are almost all ways of communication: radio, internet, telephone cables

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Further down the corridor is a locked room. This is a special unit where the most important documents and scientific developments, as well as secret works of scientists are evacuated. On the left is the same room with bunks and a passage to the generator. Suitcases with a cheerful pattern of Turkish cucumbers now huddle on the shelves. Some bags have inscriptions: for example, “Happy” (“happy.” – eng. ).

Documents are stored here. And in the next room under the key – top-secret papers

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“With the outbreak of hostilities, the university, like many enterprises, must be evacuated to safe areas,” continued Alexander Rodin. – For everyone to do this in an organized manner, suitcases are needed, they contain documents describing the distribution. People arrive at the collection point and receive passes. Then they are formed into columns and sent to trains, electric trains, buses.

A simple gasoline generator is also installed here. On closed racks behind him are canisters of fuel. The exhaust from it leaves through one pipe, and the inevitable suspension appears through the other.

This generator can supply the bunker with electricity for two days

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Electric lamp with a finished repair set

The second ventilation installation

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According to our guide, the loss of control of the university will be a nuisance within the university, and the loss of control, for example, of the region, will immediately paralyze the entire region. Here, as in the economy, there is a question of priorities.

The bunker ends with a kitchen, toilets and a wash area. Moreover, the dining area is quite small, it is designed for about a dozen people. Accordingly, people will eat in turn. No dry rations have been prepared here yet.

Bunker kitchen, from here you can get to the bathroom and back door

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“Food arrives here during a special period,” explained Alexander Rodin. – As soon as the command comes from above that it is necessary to prepare a protective structure, everything is brought here in accordance with the norms and regulations. Nothing is permanently here.

Radio should be literally at every step in the bunker

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What should be included in the diet of a refugee resident, you can look at the stand. For example, per person should consume 250 grams of rye and white bread per day, 60 grams of cereals, 20 pasta, 200 grams of milk or dairy products, 60 grams of meat, 25 grams of fish and one gram of tea. Moreover, the number of calories is calculated in different ways. So, the victim has 2300 kcal, and for rescuers who work on the rubble – 4200.

Water container is designed for 1000 liters

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more row. one room is a radiochemical observation point. Immediately on the table is a special suitcase with meters, consumables and equipment. From this room, a small nook leads to a back door. There is exactly the same hermetic door as at the entrance, it leads to the courtyard of the university.

Using this equipment and consumables, you can check the composition of the air on the street

of course, if the atomic bomb explodes not in the area of ​​\u200b\u200b1905 Square, but somewhere far away. But the bunker will withstand a direct hit from a conventional rocket. Which one and what class, Alexander Rodin did not specify.

Where would we be without a fire shield!

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Mandatory attribute of bomb shelter – Dressings and flags

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There are even Soldiers’ belts of the Soviet model

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After two days in the bunker, people will need to evacuate to the next shelter

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Now this place is used for excursions and safety classes

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How often do you look around and notice signs like this?

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Earlier, we told you how to find one of the 900 active bunkers throughout Yekaterinburg, and also explained why there is no list of bomb shelters on the Internet.

The city has not only active bunkers, but also abandoned ones. Many do not even suspect that entire mini-cities are located under their houses. See a fascinating photo essay from such a shelter in Vtuzgorodok.