Exclusive: An inside look at America’s aging ballistic missile arsenal

The unassuming site with the innocuous name Oscar-6 barely protrudes from the expansive landscape only a few miles away from the Canadian border. Were it not for the barbed wire fence, the nondescript patch of land could be mistaken for an abandoned construction site a 45-minute drive from the nearest town.

Underneath the blast door stands one of the most powerful weapons in the US inventory, a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. Sitting atop the towering missile is its polished silver nuclear warhead, capable of hitting virtually any spot in the world, with booster rockets that can propel the missile to 15,000 miles per hour.

We have the security forces guarding it. We have people back at base supporting training. We have groups supporting us, making sure we can go out here. It takes the entire wing to get this mission done.” The young officers who sit inside the capsule are often less than half the age of the missiles weapons they control. The Minuteman III ICBM was first deployed in 1970, less than a decade after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Production of the long-range missile came to an end in 1978.

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