A nuclear capable Nike Hercules missile and its crew in action at U.S. Army Air Defense Command missile site C-03 on Montrose Beach (now the Lincoln Park Yacht Club) during a readiness drill. (1959) ...

Nearly 300 Nike missile sites were built across the United States from 1953 to 1979, rangers said. The sites were intended to shoot down enemy bombers carrying atomic weapons. Photo from National ...

It happened at the Nike missile site at Fort Hancock, the U.S. Army base on the northern end of Sandy Hook. And Jackson’s task at that moment was to emergency-disarm the Hercules missiles that ...

Someone broke into a historic Nike missile defense site outside San Francisco, leaving extensive damage, National Park Service rangers said. The vandal or vandals spray-painted hate speech and ...