Chapter 21
NO-LONE ZONE
MONTANA
For decades, The LGM-30G series of Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) was the backbone of the United States Air Force nuclear arsenal. They were the ground force part of the nuclear triad. The L in LGM was the military’s designation for a ground or silo-launched missile. The G stood for a surface attack, and M indicated a guided missile.
Three solid rocket stages and a fourth liquid stage powered the Minuteman missile. The newest and fifth iteration of the missile system communicated with an AI called Nuclear Nathan to, among other things, fine-tune the missile’s navigation settings while in flight based upon weather and other atmospheric conditions.
Nate’s systems involved several innovations, but the launch codes still existed on pap
