William Leonard Pickard used a former facility for these devices near Wamego (“wah-MEE-goh”) to make most of America’s LSD in the 1990s. These devices were rated at “Mount Olympus” near Roi-Namur, which fishermen occupied in 1982 to demand compensation from Project Nike. The Safeguard program protected a line of these devices that debuted at facilities named for Malmstrom and Warren and inspired historic sites near Grand Forks and Wall. A museum near Tucson showcases a line of these devices that was canceled due to a Damascus, Arkansas “broken arrow” incident. Redstone’s ABMA (“A-B-M-A”) developed these devices even before the Gaither Report and the Kennedy campaign stoked fears of their namesake “gap” compared to the Soviet Union. For 10 points, what devices, often with “intercontinental” range, were stored in Minuteman silos or launched from “cruise” systems? ■END■
ANSWER: missiles [accept cruise missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, ICBMs, anti-ballistic missiles, ABMs, guided weapons, missile silos, V-2, Titan II, Atlas, or Nike Zeus; accept Minuteman until read; prompt on rockets by asking “used in what devices?”; prompt on thermonuclear weapons, nukes, warheads, explosives, payload, ballistic systems, weapons of mass destruction, WMDs, or payload; reject “bombs” or “bombers”]
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