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	Minuteman ICBM Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first version of the Minuteman to be deployed was the Minuteman IA, which achieved IOC (initial operating capability) in December 1962 (20 missiles) and a full squadron on alert on 28 February 1963.
		By the time the last Minuteman IIs of the 564th SMS were placed on strategic alert in the spring of 1967, significant progress had been made on the development of the more advanced Minuteman III ICBM.
		The latter effort resulted in the remanufacturing of the Minuteman II second-stage motor and an investigation of the condition of the liner in the Minuteman III third stage.
	www.geocities.com /minuteman_missile/story.htm (6247 words)

	LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM - United States Nuclear Forces
		Minuteman's maintenance concept capitalizes on high reliability and a "remove and replace" approach to achieve a near 100 percent alert rate.
		By the time the last Minuteman IIs of the 564th SMS were placed on strategic alert in the spring of 1967, significant progress had been made on the development of an even more advanced ICBM.
		Final Minuteman missile pulls out of Grand Forks, June 9, 1998 -- Missile handling personnel from the 321st Missile Group pulled the last Minuteman missile of 150 that were assigned.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/icbm/lgm-30_3.htm (1263 words)

	Minuteman Missile NHS: History
		Minuteman's three cylindrical, steel-cased propulsion stages were stacked one atop the other, with each stage slightly smaller in diameter than the one beneath it.
		Called Minuteman II, the new missile offered improved range, greater payload, more flexible targeting, and greater accuracy, leading one Air Force spokesperson to estimate that its "kill capacity" was eight times that of Minuteman I. Minuteman II was deployed first at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota.
		According to Berry, Minuteman II would help Ellsworth AFB remain "one of the nation's most important military installations." In October 1971, Boeing began refitting the Ellsworth silos to accommodate Minuteman II, and completed the project in March 1973.
	www.nps.gov /mimi/history/srs/history.htm (6715 words)

	LAND-BASED BALLISTIC MISSILES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Minuteman silos were upgraded in the early 1980s, against the continual improvements in Russian missile accuracy and a further hardening programme for both the Minuteman III and Peacekeeper missile silos was started in 1990.
		Minuteman III missiles are deployed at Malmstrom (200), Minot (150), and F E Warren (150) AFBs.
		Minuteman II silos were vacated and refurbished at Malmstrom, with Minuteman III missiles transferred from Grand Forks AFB.
	www.aeronautics.ru /archive/wmd/ballistic/ballistic/lgm30g-01.htm (5377 words)

	Minuteman Missile NHS: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 3, Section I)
		Minuteman I was designed based on the theory of "massive retaliation" which required the missiles to launch at one time in retaliation to an attack.
		Minuteman II was designed based on the theory of "controlled response" which required some of the missile fleet to survive a nuclear attack.
		Minuteman III was designed under a theory of "flexible response" which required the missile to be able to fire independently and target multiple potential aggressors.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/mimi/hrs1-3b.htm (1396 words)

	NASM Space Artifacts: Minuteman III
		The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was first deployed with the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1970 and is still the cornerstone of our nation's land-based strategic nuclear arsenal.
		The Titan II, although utilizing storable liquid fuel which enabled it to be rapidly launched from a silo, was not the answer to the problem since this missile was extremely large, complex, and costly.
		The Minuteman ICBMs, the latest version of which is the Minuteman III, have been the primary missile in the land-based portion of the United States' strategic nuclear arsenal since the early 1960s.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/dsh/artifacts/RM-Minuteman3.htm (601 words)

	MissileThreat :: Minuteman II
		Like the rest of the Minuteman missile series, the Minuteman II was designed to be an inexpensive missile deployed in large numbers, and during its deployment it was the backbone of the US strategic nuclear force.
		The Minuteman II was a powerful strategic asset deployed by the United States for the purpose of threatening the Soviet Union.
		The number of Minuteman II missiles in 1990 was 450, evenly deployed among three Air Force Bases.
	www.missilethreat.com /missiles/minuteman-ii_usa.html (591 words)

	The Minuteman III ICBM
		The Minuteman III is currently expected to remain in service until the year 2020, a full 50 years after its initial deployment and 65 years from the inception of the Minuteman program (few of the people who worked on the program's early phases will still be alive when it retires).
		With the completed retirement of the Minuteman II force, the remaining Minuteman missiles are being consolidated at three bases.
		It has been decided to reduce the number of deployed Minuteman IIIs by 50 (to 500) and, since the Minuteman II has now been completely retired, the remaining missiles are being consolidated at three bases instead of four.
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /Usa/Weapons/Mmiii.html (1469 words)

	February 1998 Engineer Update
		With a muffled thump, the last of 150 Minuteman II missile silos in Missouri is destroyed.
		The star of the show, a decommissioned Minuteman II missile silo, was just a few hundred feet from the crowd.
		Under terms of START II, the Russians and other former Soviet Bloc countries are monitoring the U.S. program of destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, just as the U.S. monitors their program.
	www.hq.usace.army.mil /cepa/pubs/feb98/story5.htm (405 words)

	Minuteman ICBM
		The Minuteman was the first United States solid-fueled ICBM and its third operational system.
		Known as America’s “Ace in the Hole,” the Minuteman was at the ready during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
		Production of the Minuteman I ended in 1965 and the missiles were soon replaced with the improved Minuteman II, which had a greater accuracy.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1952.html (533 words)

	Minuteman Missile National Historic Site - Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
		Minuteman Missile makes it possible to revisit a time when the threat of nuclear war haunted the world.
		Minuteman Missile is now offering educational programs to schools via Long Distance Learning technology.
		Minuteman Missile is looking for a few good volunteers to become part of another chapter in the Minuteman's history.
	www.nps.gov /mimi (488 words)

	Minuteman Missile Site Coordinates
		Minuteman was named for the American Revolutionary War militia who could (as legend has it) be ready to fight in one minute.
		Minuteman I was known as SM-80, LGM30A/B, and HSM-80A/B. Minuteman II was known as LGM-30F.
		But some Minuteman I sites were upgraded to Minuteman II and the capsules are quite different from "real" (original) Minuteman II which are called "Deuce" (which refers to the weapon system not the sites).
	w3.uwyo.edu /~jimkirk/minuteman.html (2505 words)

	Boeing: History -- Jets and Rockets Take Off - Boeing LGM-30 Minuteman Missile
		Boeing-built Minuteman missile systems, operated by the Air Force Combat Command, are long-range, solid-fuel, three-stage, intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying single or multiple nuclear warheads.
		Minuteman II, first launched in 1964, was capable of striking from six to eight targets with far greater accuracy than its predecessor.
		By 1975, the 1,000 Minuteman U.S. missiles were either Minuteman IIs or IIIs.
	www.boeing.com /history/boeing/minuteman.html (234 words)

	Minuteman Turns 40--March 2001
		Minuteman was to have an all-inertial guidance system and be launched from hardened, widely dispersed underground silos.
		By the time the last Minuteman II was in place, the Air Force already was well on the way toward developing an even more advanced Model G. This Minuteman III would have a still better guidance system.
		Minuteman held that distinction until the first deployment in the 1980s of the 10-warhead Peacekeeper.
	www.afa.org /magazine/March2001/0301minute_print.html (1862 words)

	MINUTEMAN UPS Protects Power For New EDS Experience Marketing Center
		Six MINUTEMAN UPSproducts are built into the network infrastructure of the 10,000-square-foot marketing center that offers visitors a demonstration of EDS’ capabilities and accomplishments for its clients around the world.
		MINUTEMAN UPS is a worldwide provider of power protection products and services for telecommunications equipment, comm/data networks, retail point-of-sale devices and networks, sensitive electronic equipment, and security installations.
		MINUTEMAN UPS was founded in 1982 as Para Systems, Inc. The company is wholly owned operating subsidiary of Components Corporation of America, a privately held corporation.
	www.minutemanups.com /news/06_27_01.php (897 words)

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launches
		A Minuteman III missile was launched on a suborbital trajectory toward Kwajalein Atoll from LF-10 at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:01 A.M. on Thursday, February 16.
		A Minuteman III missile was launched on a suborbital trajectory toward Kwajalein Atoll from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1:53 A.M. on Wednesday, September 7.
		A Minuteman III missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base to the Reagan Test Range at Kwajalein Atoll very shortly after the beginning of the launch window at 1:01 A.M. on Wednesday, September 15.
	www.air-and-space.com /vafb.htm (5108 words)

	Minuteman launch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Minuteman I (LGM-30A/B) is a three-stage, solid-propellant, rocket-powered ICBM with an all-inertial guidance system and has the capability of being fired from hardened and widely-dispersed underground-silo launchers.
		In the late 1950s the Air Force developed its first solid-fuel ICBM, the Minuteman I. The Air Force put its first ten Minuteman ICBMs on operational alert at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., in October 1962 and within five years 1,000 of the solid-fuel missiles stood poised in their silos.
		A consortium of five contractors produced four distinct models of the Minuteman ICBM weapon system, each model being an improvement over the former: Minuteman I (models "A" and "B"), Minuteman II (model "F"), and Minuteman III (model "G"), which was capable of carrying multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles.
	www.af.mil /history/spotlight.asp?id=123032522 (521 words)

	Boeing LGM-30 Minuteman
		The Minuteman IA missile was somewhat limited in firepower (its W-59 warhead had a yield of 1.2 MT) when compared to the contemporary SM-65/CGM-16 Atlas and SM-68/HGM-25 Titan missiles.
		The Minuteman II initially experienced a lot of reliability problems with its new guidance unit, because soild-state electronics were very new at the time, but the problems were eventually solved.
		The LGM-30G Minuteman III was an improved LGM-30F with a new enlarged third stage (with the same diameter as the second stage), using an Aerojet SR73-AJ-1 motor, and a radically new warhead section.
	www.designation-systems.net /dusrm/m-30.html (1560 words)

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		The Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, authorized in 1958, became a symbol of the tensions that prevailed for over four decades during the period of history known as the Cold War.
		In 1965, as the first Minuteman II was being deployed at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, it was announced that the Ellsworth Air Force Base would also be receiving the new missile system.
		Although the work to refit the Ellsworth silos to accommodate the Minuteman II began in 1971, by the summer of 1968, a new generation missile, the Minuteman III, was ready for testing.
	www.doi.gov /ocl/s382.htm (615 words)

	NRDC: Nuclear Data - Table of US ICBM Forces, 1959-2012
		By 12 July 1975 the Minuteman ICBM force consisted of 450 Minuteman IIs and 550 Minuteman IIIs.
		Single Mk-5 reentry vehicle on the Minuteman IA. The W59 (1 Mt) nuclear warhead entered Phase 5 (FPU) in June 1962, the date the first warhead was produced by the Atomic Energy Commission.
		Between December 1979 and February 1983 300 Minuteman III ICBMs were retrofitted with Mk-12A reentry vehicles with the W78 warhead.
	www.nrdc.org /nuclear/nudb/datab3.asp (879 words)

	Cape Canaveral Rocket and Missile Programs:
		Designated Wing VI, Grand Forks Air Force Base was activated as a Minuteman II base and was the only Minuteman Wing that never deployed the Minuteman I. Wing VI was structured in an identical fashion to Wings I through IV, with a total of 150 missiles deployed.
		With a force made up of a combined Minuteman I and Minuteman II fleet, the full 1,000-missile deployment was achieved by April, 1967.
		Following this full deployment, aging Minuteman I missiles were eventually phased out and fully replaced by the Minuteman II and Minuteman III.
	www.spaceline.org /rocketsum/minuteman-II.html (279 words)

	Cold War Memories
		The unassuming face of Minuteman missile facilities: nondescript surface buildings of Delta One (left) [LARGER IMAGE] beneath which launch crews manned a subterranean capsule controlling ten missiles; launch facility (silo) Delta Nine is marked only by a fenced enclosure scarcely noticeable against the Badlands in the background (right).
		The story of the Minuteman missile system and the creation of this new historic site is the story of the Cold War itself.
		In 1993, the Air Force and National Park Service had recognized the importance of preserving a Minuteman II launch control facility and launch facility at Ellsworth in 1993 because they were closest to the original Minuteman installations.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/icbm/index.html (1619 words)

	About Facts Net
		Since the Russians and Americans have begun to destroy many of their missiles, the once populous Minuteman II silo has disappeared.
		The Minuteman I and Minuteman II had a long life, from 1960 to 1997.
		The Peacekeeper was developed to replace the Minuteman system but since the cold war ended, the Department of Defense has recommended the deactivation of this system by this year (2003).
	aboutfacts.net /Weapons9.htm (585 words)

	A Lawn Chair, A Cell Phone and a Pair of Binoculars - The Minuteman Project - article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Minuteman Project has no affiliation with, nor will we accept any assistance by or interference from separatists, racists or supremacy groups or individuals, no matter what their race, color, or creed.
		After the death of Pope John Paul II, the Minuteman project hit American and foreign airwaves like a bull out of a chute, ending the "official" and "media" silence on our dangerously porous borders.
		Despite the dismissive attitude of the President and his appointed DHS officials who insisted that the Minutemen should stay home and "leave immigration enforcement to trained law enforcement officers," it's clear that the Minutemen played a critical role in forcing official attention to the most serious security issue in America.
	www.minutemanhq.com /project/articles/art2005apr26d.html (992 words)

	LGM-30 Minuteman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a guided missile, with three solid-fuel stages, and in addition, in the post-boost stage (“bus”), a liquid-fuel propulsion system rocket engine used to fine-tune the trajectory of the reentry vehicle and/or dispense individual warheads to separate targets across a broad area.
		With START II’s ban on multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) now a dead letter, earlier plans to reduce the number of warheads per missile to one have been revised: the United States is now considering keeping 800 warheads on the Minuteman force.
		The author Thomas Pynchon worked as a technical writer for the field support unit for the Minuteman missile, something that is probably reflected in the narrative of his novels The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minuteman_II (3040 words)

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