Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex

The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex (SRMSC) was a cluster of military facilities near Langdon, North Dakota, that supported the United States Army's Safeguard anti-ballistic missile program.

---

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex : brutalism

Insane boondoggle of a backstory. Basically a colossal waste of $6B taxpayer money ($34B in 2024 dollars) because it only operated for 6 months before being decommissioned as ineffective by Congress. Present activity is blockchain mining.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
    ·
    9 months ago

    I'm pretty sure his career was working for a DoD contractor before retiring and settling into a lifestyle of the things you mentioned.

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
      ·
      9 months ago

      Looking it up, yeah he did some auditing for them but I don't think he was ever living in a missile silo in northern Nevada or anything