SANDY HOOK - It was a typical day at work for Bill Jackson until an electric heater malfunctioned and a fire broke out. But this wasn’t just any job, and it wasn’t just any fire. It happened at the ...

The initial launch in late 1960 was also the first live Nike Hercules test ever conducted adjacent to a metropolitan area.

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It is history now, but the Cold War, 1954 to 1974, was a very real deal. I would bet many of you reading this were not born yet. Most likely you were not alive when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened.

For 14 years, they were the last resort for protecting the Twin Cities in case of a Soviet air attack. With 15 minutes' warning, Nike Hercules missiles could be raised from bunkers, moved to ...

MARIN HEADLANDS, Calif.--It is sometimes amazing to discover what is right in your backyard. I grew up in San Francisco, yet it was only recently that I discovered that just a few miles north of the ...

As Thanksgiving 2021 comes near, thanks should be given for something that never happened decades ago: the use (as planned) of bases built on Long Island armed with Bomarc and Nike Hercules ...