Out in the Mojave Desert sits Test Area 1-100 at Edwards Air Force Base, the first U.S. site built to test-fire the Minuteman missile. In the late 1950s and early ’60s, rockets tethered here blasted skyward, shaking the desert floor as engineers perfected America’s solid-fueled ICBM. Beneath the sand still lie the remains of underground silos, control rooms, and escape tunnels—a secret Cold War world hidden in plain sight. Once a proving ground for weapons that could reach across the globe, toda