Pink.

This is coolbert:

Here, from the web site SiloWorld, the threat to the USAF Minuteman missile nuclear retaliatory force was primarily if not exclusively seen as an attack by Soviet/Russian in-bound intercontinental ballistic missiles [ICBM] traveling over the arctic toward American targets.

"By the late 60s, the accuracy of ICBMs on both sides had improved tremendously. U.S. war planners worried that it might be possible for the
enemy to stop an entire squadron of fifty missiles by destroying just the
five LCCs."

The U.S. Air Force totally ignored or precluded the threat as posed to the Minuteman missile force by Soviet/Russian ground forces? Those ground forces comprising the unconventional warfare/ranger/commando/special operations units of the Red Army Spetsnaz!!

The Soviets [Russians?] recognized three distinct and definable stages of terror. These being:

Gray - - occurring months prior to the outbreak of overt hostilities, and not being traceable to the Soviet Union.

Red - - occurring subsequent to the outbreak of overt hostilities and absolutely attributable to Soviet forces.

Pink - - occurring in the few hours JUST PRIOR TO AN OUTBREAK OF OVERT HOSTILITIES.

Pink terror, carried out by the Spetsnaz forces of the Soviet Union/Russia. Carried out by the professional full-time soldier/athletes of the most elite Red Army special purpose units. Athletes, men and women both of Olympic caliber, trained with the primary mission of being able to attack and destroy world-wide to the greatest extent possible the nuclear weapons assets of the United States.

Attack and destroy world-wide, to include WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CONTIGUOUS FORTY-EIGHT STATES, ALASKA AND HAWAII!!

The "professional full-time soldier/athletes of the most elite Red Army special purpose units" carrying out terrorist attacks on American soil! This is far-fetched, "way out there", implausible, etc.? The "professional full-time soldier/athletes of the most elite Red Army special purpose units" infiltrating American soil in the months prior to the commencement of overt hostilities, "laying low" all the while, waiting the go-code, the signal!! You decide!

ONE MOST PRIMARY TARGET OF THESE SPETSNAZ FORCES WOULD BE THE MINUTEMAN MISSILE SILOS OF STRATCOM AND THE ESPECIALLY THE COMMAND SILO [launch control center [LCC]] FOR EACH GROUP OF TEN MISSILES!!



[one man, using a rail-bender jack, can defeat a Minuteman missile!! And do so within seconds! ]

Soviet/Russian special purpose units, attacking the Minuteman LCC's with a variety of weaponry, could have rendered ten Minuteman missiles ineffective with each LCC destroyed.

Attacks by small numbers of highly trained and motivated troops of the Soviet/Russian Spetsnaz, against both the missiles themselves and the controlling LCC's, might have actually disabled and placed in jeopardy a goodly portion of the main American nuclear retaliatory striking force, with all that might have meant in case of overt war with the Soviet.

A potentiality not totally appreciated perhaps EVEN NOW by USAF commanders!

coolbert.