SANDY HOOK - It was a typical day at work for Bill Jackson until an electric heater malfunctioned and a fire broke out. But this wasn’t just any job, and it wasn’t just any fire. It happened at the ...

This collection consists of technical manuals for the Nike-Ajax missile system. Most of the manuals cover the electronic, electrical, and guidance equipment for system testing and operation. The Nike ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a model of unknown scale of ...

Before the 526th AAA Missile Battalion installed batteries of Nike-Ajax missiles in northern New Jersey three years ago, the Army carefully explained that the 21-ft. TNT and shrapnel projectiles were ...

MARIN HEADLANDS, Calif.--It is sometimes amazing to discover what is right in your backyard. I grew up in San Francisco, yet it was only recently that I discovered that just a few miles north of the ...

Nestled into what are now parks, picnic spots and soccer fields are the scattered remnants of an era gone by. The left behind ruins of when Detroit was on the literal front lines of the Cold War.