"The abandoned ruins of this unfinished missile defense radar
site dominate the Montana prairie. SAFEGUARD was the predecessor to
the ill-fated “Star Wars” program of the Reagan era, and the
current missile defense system being deployed in Alaska and
California. The Montana site was ten-percent complete when
construction was halted by the signing of the SALT 1 ABM Treaty in
1972. Its sister site in North Dakota was deactivated in 1975 after
only four months of operation. The total cost for development and
construction of SAFEGUARD was more than twenty-five billion dollars
(in current adjusted dollars), approximately one-fourth the cost of
the Apollo moon-landing program."(by permission Paul Shambroom
2006)
Cache contains information sheets about the PAR building,
logbook, pencil, trade items include mini pack, air force cap,
Geocaching stickers, geocaching patches, playing cards, geocaching
pin, compass, and other small items. Please do not take the
laminated information sheets. Enjoy reading them and return them to
the cache. Thanks