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If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It?

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.2

After over 50 years of incredible service, the Minuteman 3 will be replaced and modernized with a new generation ICBM.

0:40.3

The ground-based strategic deterrence systems directorate team will deploy 400 new missiles, update 450 silos,

0:48.3

and modernize more than 600 facilities across almost 40,000 square miles of U.S. territory. This undertaking is a true mega project that will require radical teamwork,

0:58.0

disciplined execution, and historic resolve.

1:06.0

This true mega project is now called the Sentinel Missile Program.

1:11.6

It's the Air Force's most ambitious military construction and weapons project in decades.

1:17.6

The new weapon is one part of the plan that was started under former President Barack Obama.

1:22.6

It was accelerated by the Trump administration to replace and upgrade the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal

1:28.6

at a projected cost of upward of $1.5 trillion over the next 30 years.

1:34.0

It's a project that will perpetuate until at least 2075,

1:37.7

the little-known role that my tribe, the three affiliated tribes of the Fort Barthold Reservation in North Dakota,

1:43.3

plays in U.S. national security policy to be a nuclear target.

1:49.7

You're listening to Scientific Americans podcast series, The Missiles on our Res.

1:54.7

I'm Ella Weber, a member of the Mandan Hidotza and Erika Ra Nation, a Princeton student, and a journalist.

2:01.4

This is episode three, the Air Force's new nuclear missile.

2:07.1

In this episode, we'll be talking about how the Air Force came to our reservation to present

2:11.1

its new missile project to the tribe, and how this fits into the broader patterns that have

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