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diameter at its widest point. The fully outfitted missile weighs almost 80,000

pounds and can eventually reach a speed of about 13,000 miles per hour or

approximately 3.6 miles per second. Members of my tribe live with nuclear missiles on the Fort Bearthold Reservation.

The weapons sit in underground concrete silos that are surrounded by antennas in small fenced-off

areas.

The missiles are armed and ready to launch in 60 seconds. This is one reason they are called the Minutemen missiles.

We are fully aware that should these weapons ever be used. The final page of history is in our hands.

You can't live your life within inches of a nuclear weapon. in our mission is to

and not feel the weight of the world.

Our mission is to carry that weight.

Theodore Roosevelt said, speak softly, and carry a big stick.

Sticks don't get much bigger than this. The You're listening to Scientific Americans podcast series The Missles on Our Reds.

I'm Ella Weber, a member of the Mandan, Hidezah, and a Ricarah Nation.

Or I Mychay Nation, a Princeton student, and a journalist.

This is episode four, catastrophic risks. After learning that the Air Force had not explained to my tribe what the new nuclear missiles were for, which the Air Force intended to deploy for another 60 years on a reservation.

I decided to dig deeper.

I wanted to know what role the missiles and their silos play today in U.S. nuclear strategy

and what the risks were for the tribe in hosting them, something that the tribe never agreed to in the first place.

When looking at each leg of it with the ICBM force, it's clear that they are so buried out in the central US that any enemy that wants to take

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