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

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.

MIAMI (Reuters) - In October 1962, as fears of mushroom clouds and radioactive fallout gripped the United States in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a battery of anti-ballistic missiles near ...