Resolution to recognize Eaker AFB nationally passes in Senate Bill to designate national Cold War center By Monae Stevens | February 25, 2021 at 6:55 PM CST - Updated February 25 at 7:52 PM The alert base in Mississippi County was the only publicly accessible and fully intact Alert 7 Facility and Weapons Storage Facility in the United States. Senator Wallace says it will help people near and far understand Blytheville’s significant role in the Cold War. “It’s history,” Senator Wallace said. “We don’t realize, but at one time, and I’m glad I didn’t know this when I was younger, we were number nine or number ten on the nuclear target list for the Soviet Union there on Blytheville Air Force Base because of the said base that was there.”