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  2. 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 the...

  3. Dec 1, 2023 · These fallout maps show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S. heartland. By Sébastien Philippe. New Town, N.D., has 14 ballistic missile silos within a...

  4. Oct 20, 2020 · Nukewatch’s Missile Silo Project, which resulted in the mapping of one thousand missile silo sites across the country, was intended to be a high profile project capable of furthering public discussion on nuclear weapons. At all six missile fields, local activists volunteered to drive the countryside and record driving directions to all ...

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    Underground launch control centers, called Missile Alert Facilities (MAF), that are within miles of the missile silos, control missile launch for 10 silos normally,and up to 50 silos if necessary. The MAF and its ten silos is called a ‘flight’. If those centers fail to carry out a launch order, specially-configured E‑6Bairborne command posts, nickn...

    The people who work in the Missile Alert Facilities are called missileers. Until 1978, all missileers were men. The National Park Service has a history of how women became missileers. Figure 4 shows an underground launch control center.

    Not all silos have missiles. Press reports and Pentagon briefings have put the number of ICBMs at 400. So, 50 silos are empty, but the enemy may have a difficult time knowing which ones. Figure 6 shows satellite views of a normally unattended silo (left) and one undergoing maintenance (right). Although silos are unattended, they are monitored with ...

  5. ACM: advanced cruise missile; AFB: air force base; ALCM: air-launched cruise missile; ICBM: intercontinental ballistic missile; GLCM: ground-launched cruise missile; SLBM: submarine-launched ballistic missile; SLCM: submarine-launched cruise missile

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  6. This map visualizes the average risk of radiation exposure for a large portion of North America in the event of a concerted nuclear attack on US missile silos. It is based on computer simulations for each day of 2021 of the fallout that would result from such an attack on that day.

  7. Apr 30, 2022 · U.S. Nuclear Missile SILO Fields Maps and Coordinates. Here are some maps showing the locations of U.S. Minuteman III ICBM silo's along with coordinates. These are MAJOR nuclear war targets, each one of these silo's will be hit with minimum one warhead with a fairly large yield as part of a Russian counterforce attack.

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