Airborne Launch Control

protocol-driven responsive high-stakes decisive

Airborne Launch Control manages real-time coordination during Minuteman ICBM launch sequences. Silo crews debate directly with them alongside Cheyenne Mountain Operations Centre when confirmation lags, as in a two-minute false alarm from a meteor. They enforce missile defense protocols under pressure, where delays test institutional reliability amid human judgment calls. Will recounts their role to underscore the razor-thin margins separating routine drills from catastrophe.

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Missile Defense Operations

Airborne Launch …'s Journey

A timeline through the narrative

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S4E20 · Evidence of Things Not Seen

Poker Night: Faith Tested

Impersonal and procedural—its presence in the anecdote raises questions about coordination and timeliness rather than emotional reaction.

Referenced as the airborne command entity the silo crew debated with during the two-minute launch sequence; functions as a distant, procedural interlocutor in the story Will tells.

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