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US operates its nuclear arms across 11 states:
New Mexico: Hosts the largest stockpile of weapons at the Kirtland Underground Munitions and Maintenance Storage Complex.
Washington: Home to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, which houses the Pacific ballistic missile submarine fleet.
Montana: Features 150 active Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
North Dakota: Houses 150 active ICBM silos at Minot Air Force Base.
Wyoming & Colorado: F.E. Warren Air Force Base straddles both states, controlling another 150 operational ICBM silos.
Texas: Home to the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, the primary facility responsible for assembling and dismantling the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Georgia: Base for the Atlantic ballistic missile submarine fleet at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.
Nevada: Nellis Air Force Base stores gravity bombs for nuclear-capable aircraft.
Missouri: Whiteman Air Force Base maintains the fleet of B-2 nuclear stealth bombers.
Louisiana: Barksdale Air Force Base is a key storage and operating hub for nuclear-capable B-52 heavy bombers.
I was going to say, there are strategic resources out there that are not at those AFBs and NBs (basically other military bases, refueling depots for example) that are, if not essential, damn important to Statesian nuclear response and deterrent. Just don't have firsthand experience so I have to go off some conversations I've had with AF pilots, and you know how they like to wind people up.
Also i had a grandfather who helped design the minuteman out at thiokol. You know if they have a decent museum near the base in Montana? I've been meaning to take the drive up to boseman. the old thiokol plant in southern utah was a trip.