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<p>In this March 30, 2010 photo, Jancy Kowalski stands behind the counter of the Judith Gap Mercantile, where she makes milkshakes for Air Force service members who maintain the intercontinental ballistic missiles housed nearby, in Judith Gap, Mont. In America's nuclear heartland, where underground missile silos dot the landscape, a proposed U.S.-Russia treaty to reduce nuclear weapons is nothing short of alarming. The military workers who maintain those missiles support cities as large as Great Falls, where 40 percent of the economy depends upon Malmstrom Air Force Base, and businesses as small as the Judith Gap Mercantile, where passing airmen buy milkshakes by the dozen. If they follow the missiles out of town, the economies here could be crippled. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)</p>

<p>In this March 30, 2010 photo, Jancy Kowalski stands behind the counter of the Judith Gap Mercantile, where she makes milkshakes for Air Force service members who maintain the intercontinental ballistic missiles housed nearby, in Judith Gap, Mont. In America's nuclear heartland, where underground missile silos dot the landscape, a proposed U.S.-Russia treaty to reduce nuclear weapons is nothing short of alarming. The military workers who maintain those missiles suppo…

April 4, 2010

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JUDITH GAP, Mont. - Here in America's nuclear heartland, where underground missile silos dot the landscape, a proposed U.S.-Russia treaty to reduce nuclear weapons is nothing short of alarming.