For the discerning buyer needing a nuclear proof data storage location......

Data storage? That's a man cave! Just needs some carpeting and wallpaper. Read the details. Crazy!

@field-dog

Oh i did!.?ÿ It's just a wee bit larger than I need... ?????ÿ

Northern New York had a bunch of these, most have sold and are in private hands now. My mother told me stories of when she was little that the roads would be shut down for the transport of the missiles, everyone would go out to the side of the road and watch them go by.

We have a lot of smaller abandoned sites around here that were air defense missile sites.?ÿ I surveyed the one on the eastern side of the bay that was being partially used by the county as a roads department maintenance facility.?ÿ?ÿ

@james-fleming

I think the original nationwide air defense missile sites had Nike-Ajax missiles, which were subsequently upgraded to Nike-Zeus. Growing up on Long Island, NY (1958 - 1976) was scary for me; I was afraid the Soviets would attack us. An air raid siren sounded two test blasts every day at 6:00 PM. Soviet submarines sitting off of the east coast could have quickly delivered their missiles to New York City. Movies like Colossus: The Forbin Project?ÿ(1970) made me even more afraid. I couldn't understand why we didn't have a fallout shelter in our basement. I found an old U.S. Government request form for fallout shelter building plans in our basement. I actually mailed the form in! I guess they could tell that an 11 yr.-old filled it out. My fear of nuclear war eventually subsided after I spent a few years reading practically every book on military weaponry and nuclear war in our town library. We had one heck of a nuclear deterrent! In the early 2000s, in Orlando, FL, I met an elderly man wearing an Air Force flight suit in a local supermarket. I noticed a SAC patch on his flight suit. He told me he was a B-17 pilot during WWII and a B-52 pilot during the cold war. He retired from the Air Force in 1964.

When we vacationed through Rapid City SD a decade or so ago, we stopped at the Air Force base museum. There was also a tour there of a former missile crew training silo.?ÿ You just needed to show ID as a citizen.?ÿ Very glad I went.

I was intrigued by the tube in the ceiling that pointed to Polaris.?ÿ That's one of the reasons the Wild T-4 was designed.

Somewhere east of there, there was a little display building at an I-90 exit. A tour left from there to go into a mothballed real silo, but it was booked weeks ahead.?ÿ I got on the standby list, but nobody dropped out so I didn't get to go.

There was also a silo just off I-90 that you could look down in via a window, but they were closing early because of a storm.

@field-dog Nuclear war was the family business growing up: from my dad's obituary (passed away in 2008):

Mr. Fleming attended St. Rita and St. Aloysius grade schools in New Orleans and graduated from St. Rita High School in Chicago in 1955. He obtained a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Dayton in 1960, and a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1965.

He was commissioned as a reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force after attending the Air Force Officers Training School and augmented into the regular Air Force in 1963 while in graduate school. He resigned his commission after 10 years of service to pursue continuing civilian research opportunities with the federal government initially at the Naval Research Laboratory, and subsequently at the Defense Atomic Support Agency (a legacy agency of today's Defense Threat Reduction Agency) in Washington, D.C., from which he retired in 1996.

Mr. Fleming spent his career investigating technology to ensure the survivability of military weapon systems and communications systems in a nuclear weapons wartime environment. His research efforts included planning, executing and directing theoretical and testing programs simulating the weapons environment and evaluating these effects; these included the conduct of underground nuclear weapons tests, rocket-borne geophysical chemical measurements and involved many systems, including defense communication networks and the U.S. Army Anti-Missile Defense System; he conceived and implemented a test facility in use to evaluate effects of nuclear detonations on commercial power transmission systems. He served on numerous Department of Defense advisory committees and U.S., U.K. and NATO working groups.?ÿ

I'm originally from the Denver area and had a friend in high school that lived on large property just south of Denver (at that time) along the foothills.?ÿ When I visited him, he would show the locations of some of the silos near his property.?ÿ Always thought those were cool.?ÿ We have one near us outside of Roseville, CA too.

@ric-moore

Just west of Greeley off of HWY 34 is another one.

These are perfect for HEMP protected data centers.?ÿ?ÿ

Designed that way originally to survive the surface blasts and as luck would have it, earth and water attenuate EMP. Go science!

Additionally switching and isolation to the gamma pulse would also be needed. But meh.

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@james-fleming

Wow! I certainly would have enjoyed talking with him!