Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile Site

USA / North Dakota / Nekoma / 81st Street Northeast
 military, closed / former military
The USA's only operational ABM (anti-ballistic missile) site, built within the constraints of the ABM Treaty with the USSR, and operational briefly in 1975. This central complex includes launch silos for 30 Spartan missiles, 16 Sprint missiles, and a Missile Site Radar (MSR). Five remote sites include four other Sprint missile fields, 10-20 miles away, with a combined total of approximately 54 Sprint missiles, plus one Perimeter Acquisition Radar (PAR) site, 25 miles away.

www.paineless.id.au/missiles/HSafeguard.html and srmsc.org
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program
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Coordinates:   48°35'30"N   98°21'52"W
This article was last modified 10 years ago