Analysts have discovered more than 100 new missile silos in China. The silos are the largest expansion of China’s nuclear weapons program in recent history.
Located in the Adirondack Mountains in Saranac, New York, this unique property with its own FAA-approved airstrip was converted to a luxury home from an nuclear missile silo. During the Cold War, this Saranac site was part of the Atlas missile system developed by the United States government...
BURIED TREASURES Nine Missile Silos near Spokane Sit Abandoned or Fill Nonmilitary Uses, but in the Fall of 1962, Their Nuclear Warheads Were Poised to StrikeBack in 1961 the U.S. Air Force, without any attempt at secrecyor stealth, hauled nine...Sowa, Tom...
Ukraine was a nuclear state after the collapse of the USSR, when 1,700 active atomic warheads remained in the country. Its politicians of that time had the prudence to abandon this status. The weapons were taken to Russia under international control, and their means of delivery were destroyed....
Interview: Ryan Bakken describes the implosion of the last of the Minuteman III nuclear missile silos in North DakotaLINDA WERTHEIMER
silos. (Previous missiles were stored on aboveground launch pads.) Between 1966 and 1973 the Minuteman I was replaced by theMinuteman II. Improved propulsion gave this missile a longer range of about 13,000 km (8,000 miles), and its reentry vehicle, carrying a 1.2-megatonthermonuclear ...