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The Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site consists of two former missile sites around
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that were part of North Dakota military activities during the
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years: the Oscar-Zero Missile Alert Facility and the November-33 Launch Facility. The site is operated by the
State Historical Society of North Dakota The State Historical Society of North Dakota is an agency that preserves and presents history through museums and historic sites in the state of North Dakota. The agency operates the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck, which serves as a hist ...
. The two facilities are the last of the 321st Missile Wing, a cluster of
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launch sites that were spread over a area around the
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. These facilities played a major part in how the United States responded to the training and testing of responding to a nuclear threat. The Oscar-Zero Site is the last launch control center intact for the public to visit, along with the top-side access to November 33 missile facility.Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Site
/ref> Visitors access the sites through guided tours of topside facilities to learn about daily life of the people who monitored the missiles, and also can tour the underground launch control operations.


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List of museums in North Dakota This list of museums in North Dakota, United States, is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, ar ...
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Minuteman Missile National Historic Site The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is an American national historic site established in 1999 near Wall, South Dakota to illustrate the history and significance of the Cold War, the arms race, and intercontinental ballistic missile ...
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Titan Missile Museum The Titan Missile Museum, also known as Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 or as Titan II ICBM Site 571-7, is a former ICBM ( intercontinental ballistic missile) site located about south of Tucson, Arizona in the United States. It was constructed ...
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Strategic missile forces museum in Ukraine The Strategic Missile Forces Museum in Ukraine (Ukrainian: ''Музей ракетних військ стратегічного призначення'') is a military museum located near the town of Pobuzke (Побузьке), in Kirovohrad Oblast ...
– Similar museum in the former
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...


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Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site
- State Historical Society of North Dakota Museums in Griggs County, North Dakota Military and war museums in North Dakota Cold War museums in the United States North Dakota State Historic Sites Nuclear missiles of the United States Protected areas established in 2009 2009 establishments in North Dakota