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The following is a list of Nike missile sites operated by the United States Army. This article lists sites in the United States, most responsible to Army Air Defense Command; however, the Army also deployed Nike missiles to Europe as part of the NATO alliance, with sites being operated by both American and European military forces.
This data is from the book To Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program.
For maps showing many of these sites, go to Maps showing Nike sites near U.S. cities. The following are firing batteries only - no area headquarters or radars listed. Sites that were surveyed but never built are not listed below.
The following is a list of Nike missile sites. This article lists sites in the United States, however the United States Army also deployed Nike missiles to Europe as part of the NATO alliance, with sites being operated by both American and European military forces.
The radars there at Oakdale provided the long-range radar detection for the Nike missile batteries around Pittsburgh. The aforementioned Army's Nike "Missile Master" command & control center is still intact (only ten such MM facilities were ever built, and only about half are still extant today).
NIKE MISSILE BASES (1955-71) were built at 7 sites in Cuyahoga County (with an 8th location in Lake County). The bases, constructed at a cost of $12 million by the M. J. Boyle Co. of Chicago, were part of the U.S. air defense system.
A Typical Nike Missile Site. A typical Nike air defense site consisted of two separate parcels of land. One area was known as the Integrated Fire Control (IFC) Area. This site contained the Nike system's ground-based radar and computer systems designed to detect and track hostile aircraft, and to guide the missiles to their targets.
Between 1954 and 1974 many USA cities were ringed by Nike missile sites. These were ground-to-air missiles, intended to protect against attack by enemy bombers.
Nike Site Summit is a former U.S. Army Nike Hercules missile installation that sits atop Mount Gordon Lyon in the Chugach mountains on the eastern edge of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson adjacent to Chugach State Park.
Discover Nike Nuclear Missile Site S-13/14 in Redmond, Washington: This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.