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New Raymer, Colo., Cold War-Era Silos Are Still Ready for Battle.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2003
The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 13--NEW RAYMER, Colo.--Guests who make their way up the driveway to an oversized yellow house here on the Colorado prairie are not greeted with country hospitality or a cup of tea.
Instead, two men in camouflage green, one carrying two M-16 rifles and the other toting a grenade launcher, march to the fence.
In the "basement" of this yellow ranch house, 65 feet below ground in a steel capsule, two-person crews from Wyoming's F.E. Warren Air Force Base monitor and control intercontinental ballistic missiles, the most powerful weapons in the world.
This "house" is actually a Missile Alert Facility, one of 20 on the plains of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. From these...
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