Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Remote Launch Operations Building, Near Service Road exit from Patrol Road, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Significance: It is believed that the plans for deployment and initiation of construction of this facility were instrumental in obtaining Soviet agreement to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and a subsequent decline in Cold War hostilities between the Superpowers.

Survey number: HAER ND-9-AD

Building/structure dates: 1973 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1991 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1977 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980

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