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While the only Peacekeeper to come to mind today might be the fictional DC Comics anti-hero played by WWE superstar John Cena, the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison from the 1980s is something else entirely.

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 in the country.

Three years after the Pentagon OK’d the Rail Garrison for full development, President George H.W. Bush terminated the program in 1991 as the Soviet Union crumbled and the Cold War ended.

Russia plans to create a rail network carrying nuclear missiles that can launch from the train cars. Once upon a time, the United States wanted this, too.