TLDR:

In use: no

Quantity: 2

Built: in the 60s

Cost: 15 mil ea

Used: 3 years

Pointed at: Russia

The lady working at the Vermont Welcome Center in Alburgh, which is next door to the silo, told me that she remembers them being raised up out of the silo on occasion for drills etc.

Unlike the Minutemen missiles that replaced them, these had liquid fuel that had to be loaded before they could be fired and they could not be fired from inside the silo.

Very cool, I never knew that Vermont has any of these, thanks for this.

When the nuclear war happens. We are all gonna turn into v a p o u r.

These look like atlas F silos. If I recall it took something like 2 hours to get the 75 ton doors open, the rocket lifted out on an elevator then fueled on the surface before the could launch.

The idea was these location could withstand a direct nuclear blast. Inside the missile tube the whole lift assembly and missile were attached to the rock via massive springs to absorb the shock waves from a direct strike, the control room were the men were simmally suspended but on pneumatic air shocks. Ceazy stuff.

Pretty sure both Boston and Montreal would be hit so we’d be dead pretty quick no matter what.

Those cities are far away, we're well outside of the damage radius, and radioactive fallout wouldn't be a huge threat given the prevailing jet stream direction would take it away from us for the most part.

check this out... https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

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if you detonated the largest nuke "in use" right now in Montreal or Boston, it wouldn't touch most of VT.

Where are they located?

Article says simply Swanton and Alburgh

Edit: spelling

The true great reset.

On Rte 2 not too far from the bridge to Rouse’s Point. The Welcome center is right near the aptly named Missile Base Road.

Honestly Vermont is a stupid safe place to hide from a nuclear war.

Unless you're in Burlington :)

We are actually a really big target. Tons of early warning bases, chip manufacturers, MIC manufacturers and silos. Im a nuclear war our entire state would probably be vaporized which is why I made that comment

Nah but early warning bases in vt, a few millitary manufacturers. The silos and burlington woulf be hit. Most of the state would be fucked

If you detonate one on every millitary target that would have been high priority during the cold war the state would be fucked though

I think the targets are all around the Lake Champlain area, including the bases, chips, and silos.

KI4U has an old FEMA map that shows only Burlington and Montpelier as a potential target, and there's another nuclear target map floating around on reddit somewhere where only Burlington is a major target.

Do you know of any more recent maps that might have better info?

for sure. In an all out nuclear war, the F35s at BTV are probably a secondary or tertiary target for ICBMs as it'll take out camp Johnson too. this'll seriously diminish US capacity to intercept bombers and other aircraft coming in from the north and hamper ground response around the region.

Those silos have not been used since 1963 or so, targeting them would be just a waste of a MIRV.

Essex junction is an obvious target.

Yeah, with Ethan Allen and all that.

It's still in the Lake Champlain area though, I'm more curious about the areas away from Lake Champlain

I mean, Rutland still has GE right? There are all sorts of boutique fabricators across the state.