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Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Warhead Handling Building, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

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Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Warhead Handling Building, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

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Significance: The building provided temporary storage for Sprint warhead sections and space for checkout and temporary storage of Spartan warhead sections prior to their installation on the missiles within their launch cells/chambers within the respective silos. This building also provided for replacement of selected components of the Spartan warhead section fairing assembly. The fairing was a structure that reduced air resistance or drag.
Survey number: HAER ND-9-E
Building/structure dates: 1972 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1977 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ralph M. Parsons Company
Morrison-Knudsen & Associates
Jackson, Christiana, transmitter
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