A rare look inside America’s underground nuclear missile defense system

March 27, 2018

ABC 15 Arizona:

CHEYENNE, Wyoming — On a windswept road, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, members of 90th Missile Wing from Francis E. Warren Air Force Base are stationed at one of the critical locales to our nation’s defense system.

The only marker is a nondescript, square Air Force building tucked away in the farmlands of Wyoming. It is the entryway to a place few of us get to see, and the people who control our most power weapons. This secret locale in Wyoming is home to some of the nation’s nuclear missiles, which are hidden deep underground.

First Lt. Ramon Ayoade, the combat crew commander with the 321 Missile Squadron, is constantly awaiting word from the US military’s chain of command. He was sitting in front of what can hardly be described as state-of-the-art-looking computers. From a 1960s era console, he and another airman control 10 of our country’s 400 nuclear missiles.

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