Yes, They nearly did. In the 1980s, the U.S. developed the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison program: a fleet of heavily armored trains capable of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles from anywhere ...

the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison from the 1980s is something else entirely. English author George Orwell was uncannily prescient about the Cold War when he wrote in 1945, "two or three monstrous ...

to develop the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison program. A Peacekeeper missile is launched during a test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in 1990. (U.S. Air Force photo) According to a 1992 ...

The idea is similar to one proposed by the United States Air Force in 1986 as a possible way to launch Peacekeeper ICBMs ... the price tag for a rail garrison mobile launch system would be ...