There were three Air Force personnel in this room around the clock, twenty-four seven, for the four years the site was active. We pretend to have windows.”Įd continued, although he became less lighthearted as he spoke of his living room being the former site of a room that could have literally triggered Armageddon. “There’s probably 10, 15 feet of earth over us here,” he said as we entered another room. I bought the thing for 40 thousand.”Įd continued his tour. “And 25 million dollars in 1960 dollars is a little different than we think of today. “The taxpayers spent 25 million dollars here,” Ed told us in regards to the cost to the government of building his eventual home. The missile that was once housed in Ed’s garage was over seven stories tall and ten times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. “Every home should have one, right? This 47 ton door would open and they could back a large semi truck in here with a missile, and then them missile that was lying horizontal here would be drawn upward, erected, and then it would be fueled, ready for launch.” “There was an Atlas missile here,” he told us. The average American garage is approximately 400 square feet. One of the first places we stopped on Ed’s tour of the premises was his garage. He purchased the thirty-seven-acre Atlas E Missile Base of Dover in 1982, and spent the next twelve years converting its silo into 6,000 square feet of luxury living space for his family.
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