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Minuteman II
"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." -- Ian Frazier, Great Plains, 1989.
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota.
As someone who grew up at the end of the Cold War, and who was shown "The Day After" in school, this was unspeakably exciting to me.
Minuteman II
"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." -- Ian Frazier, Great Plains, 1989.
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota.
As someone who grew up at the end of the Cold War, and who was shown "The Day After" in school, this was unspeakably exciting to me.