Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba O by 2 Winnipeg free press , april 1981 Vij r v i i j w y y in to twi Peg free press a nuclear warhead contain King three bombs sits atop a minuteman Iii missile in a North Dakota silo awaiting a launch signal from the command console in the missile s fire control Centre. St soldiers awaiting a doomsday command by Gregg Shilliday Winnipeg free press grand Forks air Force base resting deep in a Concrete silo the minuteman Iii missile rises ominously along its 18-metre body to a gleaming nuclear warhead. Weighing about kilograms it carries three warheads each with enough explosive Power to obliterate a City the size of Moscow. While the missile s target May be secret its lethal purpose is As Clear and final As death itself. About 300 of these powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles Are ranged across North Dakota to within five Kilometres of the Manitoba Border. Their function is unambiguous to reduce to radioactive dust As much of the soviet Union As possible in the event of a nuclear War. The vice commander of the 321 mis Sile Wing stationed at grand Forks col. Ronald Buchert says responsibility for such awesome Power is not As intimidating As one May first think. Primarily you have to understand we re just soldiers. We do the Job that we re paid and trained to do. Philosophers Are trained to worry about the morality of people s actions. That s Fine. Our Job is much More straight for Buchert said his missile officers Are among the Best educated and trained air Force personnel but this fact does t deter them from simply carrying out their i m not saying we re robots Here. Far from it. But major decisions Are made by Sac strategic air com Mand Headquarters or in the event of an order to launch from the presi Dent Buchert laughed ruefully when asked who was second in command if the president should be incapacitated. Well our National command authorities inca Are designated presi Dent first then Secretary of defence. Hot the Secretary of state i m . Secretary of state Alexander Haig caused a minor uproar after the assassination attempt on president Reagan two weeks ago when he claimed precedence Over Secretary of defence Caspar Weinburger. Buchert denied that such events resulted in an upgrading of missile Alert status. He said the purpose of the icbms system is to be on Alert at All times. He said Security around the Man base Lias Bien increased recently to combat the International terrorism t threat. About soldiers at grand Forks Are military police. Our real enemy these Days is perceived to be the terrorist. The Security Force Here has been increased by two four residents of the Long Plains Indian Reserve have discovered that their rights on provincial Crown land change when the land is leased to the Federal government. The four residents of the Reserve near Portage la Prairie Learned of the quirk in provincial court after they were found dressing freshly killed Elk on the Canadian forces artillery Range near Sis ii. The men and a Porge la Prairie resident appeared in two provincial courts in Brandon for Hunting out of season charges Laid under the wildlife act of and in Winnipeg for trespassing on a military base charges Laid by the military Brandon judge Rodney Mykle fined each of them on the Hunting charge and Winnipeg judge John Enns added 350 each yesterday on the trespassing charge. However the Hunters were allowed to keep the four Elk the carcasses were stored in a Freezer when the charges were Laid in november and their rifles were ordered returned. Both judges discounted arguments from the Hunters lawyer Brenzia Keyser who contended they were Sim ply exercising their rights As treaty indians. Her Law firm has fought various Indian rights Battles to the supreme court of Canada and the court has backed her Contention that indians have guaranteed Access to provincial Crown land. However judge Mykle said in this Case the land had been leased by the province to the Federal government and Federal rules superseded those of the province. The Hunters had been caught within metres of a no Hunting sign erected Fay a Federal decor tinting. The judge said his ruling applies even though the Federal government opens the area to Hunting for two weeks each year. The men were caught on nov. If Only six Days before the opening of last fail s season. Keyser said she Felt she Hue a Good Chance of winning an Appeal but her clients decided to accept the Fine. She said the thrust of the ruling is that the province theoretically could lease the whole province to the Federal government and deprive indians of their right of Access to any land. A Story saturday snid wrongly that san fax a chemical used to kill roots growing m sewer pipes was suspended from use by the City of Brandon two weeks ago after an employee who came in Contact with in suffered a prolonged nosebleed. In fact the chemical involved was rh230, made by chem manufacturing of Mississauga ont. A Brandon Public works official provided the wrong name. Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny this morning with variable cloudiness ibis afternoon. Today -1 in i. Mainly Clear tonight with a Lew near -10. Sunny Torii Tow with a moderate Soulac Ray wind and a High 5 10 8. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba run hikers thursday Friday and saturday. Temperature.1 near Normal readings of -2 and 0. Northern Manitoba Snow flurries with temperatures below Normal readings of -6 and s. Northwestern Ontario ruins overs with temperatures near Normal readings of and s. 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Steve o Connell stands in front of the command console in one of the 10 launch control centres operated by the grand Forks base. Along with a second Junior officer he is responsible for launching up to 50 missiles in the event of a nuclear Exchange. It is a responsibility he takes seriously. Sure the significance of what i May have to do someday is Clear to me. I think about it sometimes. But i m like a technician. I be been trained to do a certain task and that s what 1 try to think o Connell said that during various training sessions he has inserted the key which in conjunction with another key turned by his partner metres away will launch a wave of minutemen at enemy targets. Those moments of actual insertion left him a Little scared the first time. But you quickly learn to accept it. We re so Damn Busy most of the time that you develop mind sets. Everything is done Over and Over so there will be no safety is stressed in every step of the missile officer s shift. For example in order to activate a launch or set the system at enable safety lock has to be decoded. It has More than variations and can Only be decoded by an order from Sac Headquarters. As Well if officers in another launch control Centre Monitor unauthorized launch activity they can shut ii Down until they get confirmation of an at tack. But when and if the time conies to actually launch we can get these away pretty Damn Quick. That s the name of the d. D d Buchert is understandably biased when expounding on and importance of his missile com Mand. But he is Quick to acknowledge that the icbms Are Only one third of the american nuclear attack Force. In this triad system no one Arm is perfect. All have their drawbacks and their advantages. The nuclear submarines Are Good because they can t be tracked. Their missile accuracy in t perfect however. The b-52s Are particularly useful As a show of Force. Their relative slowness can be an advantage in that they can be turned around. 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