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Site Supervisor Rob Branting said the Fairdale site — one of four — helped protect the Nekoma base, the only one of its kind, which was armed with dozens of anti-ballistic missiles.

More than 1,200 nuclear weapons were housed in North Dakota during the Cold War — “just a great amount of nuclear deterrent firepower,” Branting said.

Lincoln native Rob Branting told the Lincoln Journal Star that the group is trying to form a nonprofit that would allow pursuit of grants to fund the museum.

The museum idea came to him he was 15 years old, Branting said, and he began collecting photos and videos.

“I’ve always been an aviation fan, and there’s just not a lot of Lincoln-centric aviation history being shown,” said Branting, who works at the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site near Cooperstown, North Dakota.