LINKS
TO COLD WAR DEFENSES
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JP Moore's
Red Canyon Range Camp Historic Website where Nike Ajax Missiles were launched
at RCATs ... many great pictures and stories
http://home.sport.rr.com/nikeajax/rcrc_welcome.html
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Ed Thelen's Nike
Missile Website ... loaded with Nike historical,
technical and operational Information
http://ed-thelen.org/index.html#ppl
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Stanley R. Mickelsen
Safeguard Complex in North Dakota. This complex was the only operational
Anti-Ballistic Missile defense system in the United States during the 1970's.
Congress voted to deactivate the system one day after it had gone to full
operational status in 1975 ... much information
and many great photos.
http://srmsc.org/
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Nike Missiles
& Missile Sites by Don Bender
http://alpha.fdu.edu/~bender/nike.html
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Doyle Piland's
Website of Nike Ajax and Hercules Ordnance Support Units ... much
information and personnel rosters of worldwide Nike support units
http://www.nikeordnance.com/
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Site
Summit, Alaska - Nike Hercules ADA
http://home.att.net/~nikealaska/summit/siteSUMMIT.html
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This is a link
to the Second Edition of Rings of Supersonic Steel - Air Defenses of the
U.S. Army 1950-1979 - An introductory history
and guide.
A
book that lists all of the Nike sites in the United States.
http://www.rings-of-supersonic-steel.com
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B Btry 2nd BN
56th ADA Veteran's Website
http://www.bravo256ada.org
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Online Air Defense
Radar Museum
http://www.radomes.org/museum/
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Conelrad - Remember
this?
http://www.oldradio.com/current/bc_conel.htm
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Air Defense Artillery
School Gallery
https://www.bliss.army.mil/Default.htm
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Nuclear ABM's
of the U.S.A.
http://www.paineless.id.au/missiles/index.html
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Many great pictures
and stories about the Early Warning System known as White Alice during
the Cold War.
http://www.geocities.com/~billev/wacs/
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Nike Historical
Society's Restored
Army Air
Defense Artillery Hercules System SF-88
http://www.Nikemissile.org/
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The best website
I have seen devoted to the Cold War Civil Defense years. Many pictures
and much information about the various aspects of fallout shelters, the
supplies and equipment used in them and different Air Raid warning systems
is
here at the
Civil Defense Museum.
http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/
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Installing Nike
Hercules Missiles in Alaska by Bill Momsen
http://home.earthlink.net/~nbrass1/nike/nike.htm
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Link to information
about the SAGE system at Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology ca 1958
Please
click here
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An outstanding
declassified pdf file of the Research, Production, Testing,and Deployment
of the Nike Ajax from 1945 to 1959.
13 MB file
well worth downloading and saving for reading from
Redstone
Arsenal, AL
http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/pdf/welcome.html
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The Cold War
Museum ... A historically accurate record of the
people, places
and events of the Cold War.
http://www.coldwar.org/index.html
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Interesting website
about the last Nike Sites and AADCP in Alaska during the Cold War. Site
Point suffering thru an earthquake in March 1964.
http://home.att.net/~nikealaska/INDEX.html
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