Nike Missile Barn

This is where the assembled missiles were stored. Four launch pads were mounted on the concrete in front of the barn but were removed when the site closed. There were three barns, each with four missles for a total of 12 missiles always ready to be fired if the need arose. Eight missiles had nuclear warheads, four had conventional explosives. Fortunately none were ever fired from this base - in anger or otherwise. All training and test firings were done in New Mexico.

Everglades National Park

January 20th 2011
Geo: 25.3945, -80.5818Won't add much information here. Just click on the first picture to see all of the pictures on this page in an album with comments. When you finish with the ones in this album click on "Close" at the top right of the screen to be returned to this page. Then click "Next entry" at the botom of this page to go to pictures of the next park. This page h ... read more

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