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HS 104 Hardened HF Transmit Antenna
This Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch control center is among the best preserved examples of United States military nuclear weapons technology developed and deployed during the Cold War era. Minuteman was both the first solid-fueled and the first remote launch ICBM. The fact it could be launched by simply turning four keys simultaneously in a control facility many miles removed from the actual missile represented a dramatic advance in missile design. Launch Control Center Delta-01 remained on continuous alert for almost 30 years, from 1963 until 1991. If orders had been received to launch a nuclear weapon during the Cold War, that launch would have been controlled from within a launch control facility such as Delta 01. As deactivation of Minuteman II sites in South Dakota proceeded, the U.S. Air Force and the National Park Service selected Delta 01 for preservation as one of the few remaining launch control facilities that had not been significantly altered since its original construction.
The blast-hardened HF antenna was designed to allow continuous communications with the launch control facility during the event of a nuclear war.
Northeastern elevation
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Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, Code: MIMI
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota
Latitude: 43.8776206970215, Longitude: -101.961402893066
Latitude: 43.8776206970215, Longitude: -101.961402893066
02/05/2009
02/05/2009
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