Minuteman Missile Delta 01 Launch Control Facility Near Philip, South Dakota

The Minuteman Missile Delta 01

Launch Control Facility is a few

miles from the Minuteman Missile

Historic Site & Visitors Center.

The Launch Control Buildings

are behind secure fences.

Warning Signs are posted

on the fences.

When this Facility was operating, it was secured by Military Personnel.  

This poster shows the two

Air Force Officers working

a 24-hour shift in the

Control Center.

The START Treaties of 1991 and 1993 created the timeline for disarming and dismantling US and Soviet Nuclear Weapons.  

The white blob on an upright

is a Satellite Dish used for

communications.

The Minuteman Missile Sites have been preserved as part of American History and to remind everyone who visits here that there are no winners in a Nuclear War.