Minuteman Missile National Monument, South Dakota

The Minuteman II was a missile system designed to protect the U.S from nuclear threats. This kind of protection was call mutually assured destruction (M.A.D) It basically entails that if you destroy our country with bombs we will destroy you the same way.  This is why on July 31, 1991 President George Bush signed The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (S.T.A.R.T) which made both the U.S, and the Soviets greatly reduce their nuclear arms possession.  The Minuteman site we visited wasn't actually the real silo where the disarmed missile still sits, but we did see the museum where they talked about the Minuteman project.  The only funny thing in the museum was a video from the Cold War.  It was a little cartoon that the government would put on TV called "Duck and Cover". It described what to do if a bomb dropped.  It was just so different from what our cartoons are that it was funny.  I have enclosed a link in case anyone wanted to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9scNl9h4Q
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