Something for color for your PacNw supplement

[Southernap]

A minuteman silo in Seattle (https://kuow.org/stories/boeing-engineer-reveals-secrets-behind-cold-war-missile-program/)

There’s a mysterious object standing in a parking lot just eight miles south of downtown Seattle. From the surface, it looks like a grayish-green dome on a pile of rubble. But dig a little deeper and you’ll discover a forgotten link to Seattle’s Cold War past.

Retired Boeing engineer Dan Witmer is one of the few remaining people in Seattle who knows what that dome is covering up: a defunct Minuteman missile silo.

[Tegyrius]

Plot hooks are everywhere! Nice find. :)

- C.

[Matt Wiser]

No Minutemen were ever in the Pacific NW: he's probably misidentified an old Nike-Hercules site, of which Seattle had several. Unless it's a company silo used for training only....

[Southernap]

No Minutemen were ever in the Pacific NW: he's probably misidentified an old Nike-Hercules site, of which Seattle had several. Unless it's a company silo used for training only....

Nope. It is a Minuteman silo, just not an active one. It was a test site for Boeing to work out the bugs with the software and the missile since Boeing was the prime contractor for the missile. The interviewee was an actual engineer talk about working at that site since the Phantom Works facility was just down the street from that location. IN addition I have heard him speak at the Seattle Museum of Flight talking about rocketry in the Pacific Northwest.

Though even if it isn't active. One has to wonder if the Soviets didn't have a target on it because of their paranoia.

Also the spot on the Duwamish River wasn't where a Nike Hercule site was located. Most of them were up on the mountains or on selected islands (https://www.historylink.org/File/9711#:~:text=The%20first%20Nike%20Hercules%20sites %20became%20operation%20in,possible%20to%20reduce% 20the%20number%20of%20missile%20sites.)