Ohio missile base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Veil of mystery, rust of ages, nature enshrouds missile base to its 
neighbors

By Dave Clark
Journal-News (OH)
June 28, 2004

OXFORD - Sprouting high above the surrounding cornstalks stands a 
functioning emergency communications tower.

Crops creep toward the edges of the barbed-wire fence that walls this 
Cold War outpost from the present and its neighbors, who remain unsure 
what exactly it is they're living next to.

No signs inform visitors that the former missile defense base for 
Cincinnati gathers dust and rust in the midst of this unlikely rural 
patch of Oxford Township farmland along Taylor Road.

Three locked missile silos stand empty of their weaponry while 
contaminated water lies trapped in their underground offices, which were 
designed to provide safe haven during nuclear attack. Grass and trees 
are slowly supplanting the broken concrete driveways. Paint peels on 
light posts and buildings.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.journal-news.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2004/06/27/1088389596.09136.1929.0932.html?urac=n&urvf=10885750923610.76771316007078&urcm=y

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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