Retired Missile Silo Makes Good Spot to Hide Drugs

On November 7, 2000, the US DEA made a drug bust of one of the largest illegal LSD labs in the United States. What made this bust significant was that it was located in a retired ICBM missile silo in Kansas.

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During the 1960's the US, Russia, and eventually other countries constructed mass numbers of underground missile launch facilities to protect their nuclear armed ICBM's (InterContinental Ballistic Missile) from enemy nuclear weapons in order to insure the ability to conduct a counter strike if the enemy struck first. Such was the nature of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and their allies vs. the United States and their allies.

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