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Dec 1, 2023 · A concerted nuclear attack on the missile silos in the U.S. heartland would generate radioactive dust that travels with prevailing winds.
To produce Under the Nuclear Cloud, we simulated the radioactive fallout resulting from a concerted nuclear attack on the 450 US missile silos 365 times, once for each day of 2021. Each silo is targeted with one warhead generating an explosive yield of 800 kilotons of TNT equivalent.
Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as Broken Arrows. A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon.
Dec 10, 2023 · The $96 billion Sentinel overhaul involves 450 silos across five states, their control centers, three nuclear missile bases and several other testing facilities. The project is so ambitious it has raised questions as to whether the Air Force can get it all done at once.
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November/December 2006. Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, stores more than 1,900 war-heads that are either part of the inactive/ reserve stockpile or awaiting ship-ment across Interstate 40 to the Pan-tex Plant outside of Amarillo, Texas, for dismantlement.
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Mar 18, 2022 · During the Cold War between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, government officials began to install intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos in the middle of the country, specifically in...
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Silos have been deactivated because of treaty obligations, missile obsolescence, and Congressional belt-tightening. Deactivated silos were located in Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, New York, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington.
