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Placed in some of the highest orbits for protection, flying as high as 22,000 miles above us. losing just two of them could leave the u.s. military mostly blind to part of the planet. >> you're looking at about a 30 to 40-minute flight time of an intercontinental ballistic missile. >> colonel david miller commands the missile warning team. >> that may sound like a lot of time, but when you are providing warning and trying to inform decision makers on what the response should be, you can imagine that the expectation for us as the first detector and first reporter of that information is signific...

Time. >> standby! data building in florida! check sources! >> intelligence confirmed. >> we are the first news crew allowed inside their highly classified operation center, where the team demonstrates how they watch every ballistic missile launch on the globe. >> this is siefers. we're detecting a space launch out of cape canaveral, florida. >> the u.s. nuclear early warning system satellites are placed in some of the highest orbits for protection, flying as high as 22,000 miles above us. losing just two of them could leave the u.s. military mostly blind to part of the planet. >> you're lookin...