Dyess Air Force Base, Atlas F Missle Site S-8, Launch Facility, Approximately 3 miles east of Winters, 500 feet southwest of Highway 1770, center of complex, Winters, Runnels County, TX
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Significance: The threat posed by intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) lay at the heart of nearly all foreign policy decisions during the Cold War Era. The Atlas Program produced the United States' first operational intercontinental ballistic missile and served as the template for the technological and organizational aspects of later ICBM programs. The Atlas F missile represents the culmination of this pioneering effort and the launch facility at Atlas F Missile Site S-8 at Winters, Texas is a representative example of a crucial facility at one the first operational ICBM launch complexes in the United States.
Survey number: HAER TX-25-B
Building/structure dates: HAER TX-25-B
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