"The fall of a thermonuclear warhead after it was accidentally blown off the top of a missile in a western South Dakota underground silo is described in this page from an Air Force report on the 1964 accident. U.S. Air Force"
"The fall of a thermonuclear warhead after it was accidentally blown off the top of a missile in a western South Dakota underground silo is described in this page from an Air Force report on the 1964 accident. U.S. Air Force"
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I was stationed at Ellsworth from 1983 to 1986. We heard about this all the time. My job was to maintain and repair computer equipment in the launch control capsules...the capsule underground where the officers controlled and launched the missiles from. Very interesting times. I didn’t have much appreciation for how cool the job was at the time. It was just another job basically.
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Thus may be of some interest to you.
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Lived through the era laughing at liberals who genuinely believed the Russians were absolutely going to nuke us at any time if we so much as farted wrong.
I mocked them mercilessly.
In the early 1970s, I periodically drove by those missile silos when traveling the state as part of my job with the South Dakota Department of Health. That section of South Dakota is very remote with few towns or even ranches. When making those trips in winter driving notoriously unreliable cars from the state motor pool, I took comfort seeing those silos knowing that if I became stranded with a breakdown I could go over and kick the well monitored fences and someone would certainly come to investigate. Better to be arrested than freeze to death in the brutal Dakota winters.
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