[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "After 20 years, a former Cold War missile site in Watertown [WI] may finally get cleaned up"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

After 20 years, a former Cold War missile site in Watertown may finally get cleaned up

By Frances Stevenson 
SW News Media (WI)
August 15, 2019
 
WATERTOWN — An empty field in Watertown is surrounded by farmland and a golf course. It’s fenced off — warding off trespassers — but the land looks abandoned.

Under the overgrown land are large bunkers that decades ago played an important role in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The bunkers held missiles and large elevators that could move the missiles to the surface to launch them at soviet aircraft, if needed.

They were never used though, and the bunkers are now empty. The doors are soldered closed. The buildings that once stood over them, torn down.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.swnewsmedia.com/lakeshore_weekly/news/local/after-years-a-former-cold-war-missile-site-in-watertown/article_fba99e36-0e70-5191-999c-1876cba27e4c.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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