In the 1990s, during our nuclear disarmament initiative, Congress preserved two intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos as historic sites. Today, the public can visit and follow a National Park Ranger loosely on scripted tour all the way down into the launch control center itself, which covers the basic history of the Cold War, provides fun facts and trivia about the silo, and asks visitors to contemplate unleashing nuclear Armageddon.