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Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
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Did You Know?
To construct and deploy all 150 silos and 15 adjacent support structures for South Dakota’s Minuteman Missile field cost $56 million in the early 1960s ($9.2 billion in 2005 terms).

Last Updated: February 15, 2008 at 16:00 EST