"Beneath The Plains" Film Clips

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 20 seconds

This excerpt from the park film explores the concept of mutually assured destruction and depicts a missile combat crew reporting for a twenty-four hour alert at the Delta-01 Launch Control Center during the Cold War, including descending underground to the control center.

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 33 seconds

This excerpt from the park film tells the story of a near miss incident in the fall of 1979 when NORAD detected a massive Soviet nuclear strike underway and America’s nuclear forces prepared to respond to what ended up being a false alarm.

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 17 seconds

This excerpt from the park film tells the story of a once secret near miss incident in 1983 and how a Soviet missile officer refused to follow orders and launch a counter-strike when radar detected American Minuteman Missiles on their way to Russia.