W
hen Cold War tensions reached a peak in October 1962 and the world stood on the brink of a thermonuclear apocalypse, the intercontinental ballistic missile silos around Roswell were hardly a place for a relaxing night’s sleep.
Just a couple of feet of concrete and steel separated the crew bunker from an Atlas-F missile poised in a 186ft vertical launch tube, ready to strike Soviet territory with 250 times more power than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Now silo number four, buried in the high desert plains of southeastern New Mexico, is an Airbnb, inviting guests to take rest in the underground spot where the US came close to unleashing the end of civilisation.
Inside the nuclear missile silo turned Airbnb
