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It looks tranquil enough, but this Peacekeeper site at Warren AFB packed a tremendous amount of firepower under the surface. The Air Force says that the Peacekeeper was the first U.S. ICBM to use "cold launch" technology: high-pressure steam would pop it out of the silo, at which point the first-stage, solid-rocket motor would take over.
October 19, 2009 11:00 AM PDT
Photo by: TSgt. Rose Reynolds/U.S. Air Force
| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings
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