While there, learn about a former missile launch facility and the Minuteman Missiles used to protect the U.S. There’s even a deactivated Minuteman Missile, still housed in its silo.

A look down into a missile silo where a deactivated Minuteman nuclear missile sits at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, near Wall, South Dakota.

The Minuteman III missile features a three-stage booster design that propels it from its silo into space to release its nuclear warheads.

Existing Minuteman III silos are clustered in missile fields across areas of Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, and Nebraska.

America’s nuclear arsenal is active, massive, and, maybe surprisingly, highly concentrated in just a few places.

A Minuteman III missile silo can be seen near Lewistown. Missiles in the Malmstrom Air Force Base complex will be upgraded to the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter-continental ballistic missile silo to record a hopeful reminder that nuclear war is not inevitable.

Children's playground equipment stands near a Minuteman I nuclear missile display in a Lewistown, Montana city park. The U.S. Air Force has 400 ICBMs distributed among 450 silos throughout 40,000 ...

The Air Force is asking Congress to pass legislation to restrict further construction of towering wind turbines that have edged in closer to its nuclear missile sites. The ground-based silos share ...