Oct 20, 2020 · The first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos arrived on the Great Plains in 1959 when Atlas sites were constructed in Wyoming. Since that time there have been hundreds of Atlas, Titan, Minuteman and Peacekeeper sites constructed all the way from Texas to North Dakota, New Mexico to Montana.

May 17, 2024 · The Minuteman Missile remains an iconic weapon in the American nuclear arsenal. It holds the power to destroy civilization, but is meant as a nuclear deterrent to maintain peace and prevent war. Read More

Dec 12, 2023 · Located twenty-five miles north of Cheyenne, the Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility was restored by the US Air Force on behalf of Wyoming State Parks and opened to the public in August 2019.

Oct 20, 2020 · The six Minuteman missile fields were located in the states of Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Missouri. NPS. The Air Force wanted to deploy Minuteman as a single, immense, "missile farm," equipped with as many as 1,500 missiles.

Oct 20, 2020 · The MX or Peacekeeper Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was the last type of ICBM deployed by the U.S. Air Force in the Twentieth Century. Several innovations made the Peacekeeper one of the most lethal nuclear weapons in history.

Jun 12, 2024 · We're Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, and we're unusual because we preserve both a control center and a completely intact missile silo launch facility with a missile inside it.

Nov 19, 2003 · The number and scope of missile silo actions increased in the 1980s as the anti-nuclear/peace movement gained momentum. Anxiety over new missile systems, such as the mobile MX missile, drew 400 people to an anti-MX rally at silo Q5 outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the late 1980s.

Mar 31, 2016 · Map showing the areas of the six Minuteman Missile wings on the central and northern Great Plains. The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile wings.

The Atlas F was by far the best of the Atlas missile types ever deployed. At 82 feet it was a bit taller than its predecessors. The gain in height was mostly from its 4.5 megaton warhead. It was held in a blast proof silo-lift configuration and could be launched in approximately ten minutes.

Fifteen miles west of the visitor center is the Delta-09 missile silo, where visitors can see a Minuteman II missile in the silo. When is the park open? During most of the year, the visitor center is open 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. mountain time, daily.