Minuteman
Minuteman missile above-ground alert facility Golf-01 caught fire Nov. 30 and, while it burned, kept two crewmen trapped underground beneath closed blast doors at Minot AFB, N.D. However, the hardened facility and its 10 missiles were never threatened and the crews rotated normally at shift's end.
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