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===ICBMs=== [[File:ICBM Wrights Gap Banner Co NE.JPG|thumb|alt=Fenced area with wind vane and antennas near base of rocky hills|ICBM silo on southern slope of Wildcat Hills in Banner County]] Beginning in the early 1960s, [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s (ICBMs), based at [[Francis E. Warren Air Force Base|Warren Air Force Base]] near [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]], were installed in western Nebraska, [[Wyoming]], and [[Colorado]]. From 1960 to 1963, 90 [[Atlas (rocket family)|Atlas]] sites were constructed in Nebraska. Construction of the launch sites, and upgrading of the roads leading to them, led to an economic boom in western Nebraska. Beginning in 1963, the Atlas series was replaced by [[LGM-30 Minuteman|Minuteman]] missiles, which used solid instead of liquid fuel, and which were launched from underground silos. In the 1970s, there were 82 Minuteman III sites in the Panhandle, of which 20 were located in Banner County.<ref name=HB/>
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