From David McKinney Jr via Facebook (2)
Who remembers this? Looking up the steel ladder at the RSL emergency escape hatch located in the Remote Launch Operations Building (RLOB) and to the left of the guard station security area.
As I recall there was an electric motor that would operate pneumatics and lift the hinged hatch to escape. The hatch was hardened steel and very heavy.
I always thought that if there was an actual nuclear attack that the hatch/door was a weak point in the RSL.
Speaking of blast doors, as you walk down into the RSL concrete entrance, there were two large sliding blast doors and 2-hinged personnel doors that would seal via pneumatic gas seals
if the site was in attack alert conditions or test status mode. Seems like they always had operational issues. The RSL would also switch to local generator power
(2-turbines: rectifier-battery-motor-generator system) and activate the decontamination air supply (CBR filtered).
Additional Photos
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7489: RLOB roof and tunnel plan showing "Personnel Emergency Exit Hatch".
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U056: Equipment blast doors (left), personnel blast doors (right).
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K041: Blast doors with warning sign.
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K042: RLOB entrance tunnel with equipment blast door at bottom end.
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