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Missile silo tourist attraction. Cold war missile relics in new jersey. Delta 09 is the world s only preserved minuteman ii missile silo. Visitor center located just off the interstate and certainly worth a stop. Ukraine has put an ss 18 on show at a museum in.
Lonely planet writer 15 october 2015 a recent agreement between a historic preservation society and a wyoming air force base has paved the way for a cold war era missile silo to become a tourist destination. These missile sites diligently watched the skies between the 1950s and the 70s. In 1999 the silo was made part of the minuteman missile national historic site and the dummy missile and glass roof were installed in 2001. Located in close proximity to badlands national park and an hour s drive from rapid city this silo was one of hundreds nuclear missile sites deactivated in 1991 and the only silo in south dakota designated by congress as a national historic site.
After the fall of the soviet union similar missiles called ss 24s ended up in the hands of ukraine which agreed to decommission them. This facility gives insight into the cold war era duck and cover classroom contingencies petrov s heroic prevention of ne. What a great site to actually see an icbm in its silo and to better understand how they operated. The delta 09 missile silo allows a rare opportunity to view a nuclear missile once on constant alert during the cold war.
Quebec 01 will join a number of former missile sites turned tourist attractions including the ronald reagan minuteman missile site in north dakota the minuteman missile historic site in south. Less renovated than the plokštine silo this site is sold as a tourist attraction with paintball among the activities offered. Today visitors are free to hop off of the nearby interstate and peer down at a replica nuclear warhead pointed directly at them. Writing about the minuteman missile national historic site tourist attraction down in south dakota the national park service states it was operational 24 hours a day seven days a week for 365 days a year for thirty years.