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One morning I was reading about nuclear missile silos when I found a link for a silo in my town here. I live about forty miles from Sacramento, although we do have an Air Force Base twenty miles from us. I didn't believe it at first. It was right outside of town - actually on the street I live on. I researched it on Google Maps and sure enough it's still there.
Turns out in the 1960s my town here was a small town with a very small population. They built three missile silo sites, each with three missiles. They were built in a ring around the Air Force Base. They were in operation for seven or eight years and then forgotten.
Recently it became front page news here locally due to environmental issues.
Local history can be amazing. Our town started here because it was a brothel stop on the train route. The town north of us had an Asian prisoner camp from WWII.
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