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Sep 23, 2020 · This is Charlie-03, one of more than 150 retired Minuteman II sites in Missouri. Each of these sites housed underground nuclear missiles during the Cold War, part of an effort to hide our doomsday arsenal in the middle of the Great Plains. Nate Hofer’s father was a Mennonite teacher in Nigeria. He was born in Nigeria, but soon his family ...
Online maps to accompany the revised edition of the book Nuclear Heartland: A guide to the 450 land-based missile silos of the United States Each of the red markers corresponds to a Minuteman III ...
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- What Are The Minuteman II sites?
- The Problem
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- What’s Left
- Looking to The Future
Whiteman AFB housed the USAF 351st Strategic Missile Wing, which managed the Minuteman II ICBM deployment area in west central Missouri. The wing operated 150 Minuteman II missiles in underground launch facilities, or silos, and 15 launch control facilities that were scattered across a 16,000 square mile area encompassing sections of 14 counties. M...
During the closure process, the USAF discovered that waterproofing materials used in the construction of the missile silos and on underground storage tanks (USTs) contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Non-liquid PCBs above 50 parts per million were found on the outer surface of the silos and in and around the USTs and associated piping. Sever...
As required by the 1995 Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement (FFCA) and 1995 Participating State Attachment to the FFCA, the USAF buried and capped all PCB-containing debris inside the silos. Above ground and underground portions of the launch control facility structures were left in place and not imploded. Pipes from the USTs to each support bu...
Today, most of the former Minuteman II sites are used for secure storage of hay, equipment and vehicles. Many of the sites continue to be used to support farming operations since being transferred into private ownership. Some sites remain vacant.
The former Minuteman II sites will continue to undergo long-term monitoring, as described in the Long-Term Stewardship Agreement for the Missouri Minuteman II Missile Sites, June 2007. Adherence to land use restrictions through property owner education is a critically important part of the department's continued stewardship of the former missile si...
Nov 13, 2020 · One such result was the creation of the Kansas City Defense Area in 1959. It included four bases armed with Nike missiles — Pleasant Hill and Lawson to the east, with Fort Leavenworth and Gardner on the Kansas side. A command center operated out of the Olathe Naval Air Station. Unlike ballistic missiles, the Nikes were not launched from silos.
This doctrine was known as “mutually assured destruction.”. During the first decades of the Cold War, Atlas missiles were at the heart of the American arsenal. The first ICBMs developed by the US Air Force, they were equipped with nuclear warheads and had a range of about 8,700 miles. Such missiles were stored in underground silos ...
Oct 20, 2020 · Aerial view of the Delta-09 launch facility view towards southwest, 1992. NPS HAER "A nuclear missile silo is one of the quintessential Great Plains objects: to the eye, it is almost nothing, just one or two acres of ground with a concrete slab in the middle and some posts and poles sticking up behind an eight-foot-high cyclone fence: but to the imagination, it is the end of the world."
May 20, 2019 · From 1963 until 1995, Missouri was home to 150 Minuteman II missile sites. Whiteman Air Force Base’s 351st Missile Wing had 15 missile alert facilities, each one in command of 10 Minuteman II ...
