In a 1981 Department of Defense report a short, seven sentence paragraph revealed a previously unacknowledged event that had occurred near the tiny town of Vale, South Dakota, seventeen years earlier. If nothing else, that time when the warhead fell off a Minuteman nuclear missile reminds us why it is important to use the correct tool for the job.
Solenopsis invicta, the “Red Imported Fire Ant”, native to South America, has proven a tenacious and destructive pest in the United States, costing Americans billions of dollars every year. That is why, in the late 1950s, the United States embarked on an all out war against the six-legged menace.