Air Force Plant PJKS, Systems Integration Laboratory, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO

Significance: The Laboratory was constructed on Air Force property adjacent to the Glenn L. Martin Company to conduct system integration evaluations for the fuel (hydrazine-based) and oxidizer (nitrogen tetroxide) supply systems of the Titan II ICBM - the largest and most powerful weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War. The hypergolic propellants that fueled the new missile ignited upon contact with each other and were storable at room temperature, thus enabling the missile to be fired instantaneously from a hardened underground silo launcher...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N490
Survey number: HAER CO-88