• Minuteman Silo Image

    Minuteman Missile

    National Historic Site South Dakota

Photo Gallery

A Window Into a Secret World

Because of the intense security regarding nuclear weapons, few citizens were ever able to take a look inside Minuteman missile sites. By viewing the following photo galleries you can now draw back the curtain and look inside this once secretive world!

 

Did You Know?

Launch Control Center under construction

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).