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

A Cold War missile base that opened in rural Dakota County in 1959 to defend against enemy aircraft is now a luxury family ...

China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN ...

A piece of Cold War history is up for sale in Dakota County, Minnesota. The former NIKE missile site is on the market for $2.25 million. It originally opened in 1959 and was one of four bases ...

As the Cold War heated up, America turned to the skies for defense. Project Nike became the nation’s first missile shield against a nuclear attack. Senate Republicans defy Vance's warning, vote to ...

The U.S. conducts several intercontinental ballistic missile test launches each year to maintain its nuclear deterrent.

Nuclear-armed North Korea has warned that it will not ignore Japan’s acquisition of long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States, which the regime has called a “first-strike” capability ...

There has been a "flattening of the earth" by new radar and missile technology, a Royal Air Force official said. The long-running assumption that ultralow flying would prevent detection is "obsolete," ...

William (Bill) Richard Siebert, 86, passed away surrounded by family on October 13, 2025 at Wausau Hospital. Bill was born in Berwyn, IL on August 30, 1939 to William H. and Ruth (Eck) Siebert. At the ...