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D6 Decommissioned Nuclear Silo

In the 1960s the US Army took this land from my father by eminent domain and put a missile silo on it. The blast doors were on this side. There was a control facility along with a couple of 1500 gallon diesel tanks that were suppliers for the generators that were on standby. The missile site itself was an intercontinental ballistic missile that was a deterrent - if the Soviet Union launched missiles at us we were going to launch missiles at them, and the whole world was going to die. Mutual assured destruction was our policy, and in some extent still is, when it comes to nuclear warheads. If you’re going to be a bad person, than we’re going to be a bad person too, and then we’re all going to die.




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