[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, FUDS: Old Missile Sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old missile sites hold Cold War mystique

By Jeff Martin
USA TODAY
December 5, 2008

Merle Paaverud was raised on a farm near a nuclear missile site outside 
Finley, N.D.

He remembers how missile sites in the area were "shrouded in mystery."

"Here we were farming around them, raising kids and going to school, and 
we were sitting in one of the most powerful areas in the world as far as 
nuclear weapons," Paaverud, 59, says. "We never really knew what was 
going on, but it was life and death, part of the chess game that was 
going on in the world."

Today, Paaverud is the director of the State Historical Society of North 
Dakota. Next summer, he will oversee the opening to the public of the 
former Oscar Zero missile silo and launch facility near Cooperstown, N.D.

The museum, set to open next July, is one of several new uses being 
found for missile sites, ranging from homes and businesses to recreation 
and tourist attractions. There is increasing interest in these sites, as 
Americans who came of age during the Cold War want to learn more about 
the history of the era, Paaverud and others say.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-12-03-oldmissilesites_n.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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