1960 ... "all aboard!" ICBM's


... the USAF's desire to have it's ICBM force invulnerable by making it 'mobile' is a dream that has taken several fantasies. Shuttling atomic missiles around the country on special trains has been proposed at least twice. Here we see a nifty Minuteman train-table set up in a Boeing hangar for the benefit of the press and VIP's. Twenty six years later a similar plan was proposed for the Peacekeeper missile.


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