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Sep 23, 2020 · A Kansas-based artist has created a photo series documenting former sites of nuclear warhead silos in the Midwest.
The ones deployed around Topeka, Kansas, were under the control of the 548th Strategic Missile Squadron, based at Forbes Air Force Base, which operated 9 missile sites in the area until they were decommissioned in 1965. One of the sites was located south of Lawrence, Kansas, near the town of Worden.
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Feb 28, 2022 · The sprawling site in Abilene, Kansas, boasts more than 6,900 square feet of space set on 11 acres, according to the listing, along with outbuildings. Realtor John Dautel, from Hirsch Real Estate ...
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Oct 20, 2020 · Map showing the areas of the six Minuteman Missile wings on the central and northern Great Plains. The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile wings. Minuteman Missile Fields in the United States during the Cold War and after.
Feb 12, 2022 · Joshua Zitser. Feb 12, 2022, 3:22 AM PST. Interior and exterior shot of the decommissioned Atlas-F missile silo complex in Abilene, Kansas. Hirsch Real Estate. A 1961 decommissioned Atlas-F...
Jul 31, 2014 · July 31, 20143:30 PM ET. Geoff Brumfiel. Earlier this week, NPR ran a short series I did on America's land-based nuclear missiles. One diagram in particular raised a few eyebrows: It showed...
Shown here is a Convair SM-65F Atlas Missile at the Abilene, Kansas, site circa 1962. Photo is courtesy of the U.S. Air Force. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 43 (Spring 2020), 28–40. Kansas Missiles: Central Kansas and the Nation’s Cold War Nuclear Arsenal, 1959–1965. by Landry Brewer.
