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Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the mission of Minuteman missiles, a key part of the U.S. nuclear triad, has been Nuclear Deterrence. Display at Malmstrom Museum Air Park.

Built in 1962 just before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the underground silo is one of 12 within 60 miles of Lincoln that once housed the 82-foot-tall ICBMs.