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Air & Space · Page 6

Minot Air Force base launches search for missing minuteman nuclear missile

By Duffel Blog Staff · Air & Space Bureau · 1 minute

Filed 5 October 2022 · 1533

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — Airmen stationed at a North Dakota base known for housing the land-based leg of the nuclear triad are frantically searching for a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile that went missing earlier this week, sources confirmed today.

"It was just here," said Lt. Jenna Singleton, a missileer. "Where the hell could this thing go?"

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