[CPEO-MEF] Missile Silos

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Cold War’s cool real estate
For sale: underground missile silos and vaults with uses the military 
never envisioned.

By STEVE ROCK
The Kansas City Star
November 6, 2006

As he descends more than 25 feet below the earth's surface, Gary Pipes 
steps into a forgotten world.

Remnants of the Cold War era abound, conjuring up a time of nuclear 
armament, international unrest and frosty relations with the then Soviet 
Union.

...

It's virtually impossible to pinpoint the status of each of the missile 
structures or how many are still intact. The federal government sold 
most of them to the private sector, but other sites are owned by federal 
agencies, state governments and other entities.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said many of them 
have environmental concerns that need to be addressed, such as 
contamination from substances like trichloroethylene, a colorless liquid 
used to clean the metal parts of rocket motors.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/15939419.htm

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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