It’s crazy to think that at the end of a gravel road, amid cattle grazing on peaceful rolling prairies, there was a 90 ton blast door ready to retract and allow a nuke-tipped missile to go annihilate the inhabitants of some Russian town.
This missile silo has of course been decommissioned, but I learned today that at the height of the Cold War, there were 1000’s of active sites like this all over the country, mostly out West. Now there are a mere 500 or so.
Unleashing nuclear devastation from such a serene, beautiful setting is pretty ironic.
I’ll definitely be checking out more Cold War stuff whenever I can.