Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Warhead Handling Building, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND
Summary
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
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ralph M. Parsons Company
Morrison-Knudsen & Associates
Jackson, Christiana, transmitter
Location
Nekoma, 48.57722, -98.37039
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html