Minuteman Missile National Historic Site: Cold War Nuclear Silos Under the South Dakota Prairie

Walk this quiet South Dakota grassland and you would never guess what it was built to do.

A narrated walk through Minuteman Missile NHS, Wall, South Dakota. Real footage from the trail, with the deep history and natural history of the place: the geology that built it, the people whose homeland it is, and how it came to be protected.

Filmed June 2025.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Hook
0:58 Where We Are
1:52 First Impressions
2:32 The Prairie
3:29 Hidden In Plain Sight
4:11 The Badlands Next Door
5:02 A World Split In Two
5:53 Thirty Minutes
6:37 The Minuteman
7:38 Delta Nine
8:21 Under The Lid
9:14 Pouring The Arsenal
10:04 Two Acres At A Time
10:47 Neighbors To The Unthinkable
11:32 October Nineteen Sixty Two
12:21 The Forty Fourth
13:14 One Thousand Minutemen
14:02 A Ranch House With Secrets
14:45 The Capsule
15:33 Missileers
16:22 Humor At The Bottom Of A Shaft
17:04 Thirty Minutes Or Less
17:53 Upgrades And Vigils
18:38 Meanwhile, Above Ground
19:29 Wall Drug Country
20:14 The Thaw
20:59 Stand Down
21:40 Implosion
22:24 A Silo Under Glass
23:15 A Park For The Cold War
24:09 The Arsenal That Remains
24:56 Outro

CREDITS
Music: Earth Prelude by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0.
Narration is AI generated; history verified against public sources.

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