✅ The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex near Nekoma, North Dakota, cost around $5.7 billion and had a radar system that resembled the shape of a pyramid. ❌ However, the base remained operational until Feb. 10, 1976.
In the video, @benben.son said that the site “cost $6 billion to make” but “was only operational for a single day”:
“There was a year or so in the mid-’70s during which the base had its full complement of personnel — 500 military and 1,200 civilians,” the Post reported. “Its 200-unit subdivision was full of military people and their families. Its commissary was running. Its all-faiths chapel was planning an addition.”Dates of OperationA 1971 photograph of construction on the radar system for the Mickelsen Safeguard Complex. An “escape tunnel” is pictured below.
On Nov. 24, 1975, the El Paso Herald-Post published that the first of 12 planned bases was essentially used as a “bargaining chip” with Russia. That country was purportedly impressed with the base in North Dakota. The Kremlin saw what that $5.8 billion was buying and agreed to limit Russia and the United States to one ABM site each, thus saving the United States untold billions. Seen in that light, Safeguard was a multibillion-dollar bargaining chip that worked.
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