“A couple of years ago, some pilot friends and I flew up to
South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Among the sites we visited
while we were in Rapid City was the tour of Ellsworth Air Force
Base, where we were allowed to climb down into an intercontinental
ballistic missile training silo located on the base.“While the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union has long
since faded, it felt more than a little strange being in that
training facility, knowing that at one time real-life versions of
the huge missile mock-up was trained to rain nuclear death on some
Eastern Bloc city…”