Today, the gate protects the decaying legacy of Atlas missile site No. 3, punctuated by concrete and steel. But the most concerning remnant of the silos’ glory years can’t be found above ground.

Now, you don’t have to imagine it. You can spend the night in a decommissioned Atlas Missile site in Ellsworth County. During the 1950s, the U.S. government spent billions on bolstering our ...

An ENR reporter visited the first Atlas missile site during construction at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in 1958. The resulting article described a 44-ft-sq, 5-ft-thick concrete launch ...

The 548th Strategic Missile Squadron operating out of Forbes Air Force Base was responsible for this and eight other Atlas E ...

An official investigation was scheduled today into the accident at an Atlas missile launching site which took the lives of six men Thursday afternoon. An official of the Corps of Engineers ...

the Oplin Atlas Missile Base was used as the VIP site for important ranking visitors to Dyess Airforce Base. “It had some special attention given to it in its construction," said Bruce Townsley ...

The U.S. government decommissioned the Atlas-F sites in 1965. While operational, the missile itself was in a vertical silo that was connected by a 40-foot tunnel to an adjoining control center ...