Nuclear Reactions: Atomic Diplomacy at the Marin Headlands

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  Nuclear Reactions

  This short video introduces your students to the Nike Missile site.

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  2012-01-26

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  Nuclear Reactions (English Captioned)

  This short video introduces your students to the Nike Missile site.

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  2012-01-26

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  Nuclear Reactions (Audio Described, English)

  This short video introduces your students to the Nike Missile site.

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  2012-01-26

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  Nuclear Reactions (Captioned, Spanish)

  This short video introduces your students to the Nike Missile site.

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  2012-01-26

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  Nuclear Reactions (Captioned, Chinese)

  This short video introduces your students to the Nike Missile site.

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  2012-01-26

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Nike missile storage facility, Marin Headlands

Teachers who are new to this program must attend the Teacher Workshop on February 4, 2012. All teachers who would like to request a program date must complete an application.

The essential question: How do we protect both our borders and our ideals?

Nuclear Reactions: Atomic Diplomacy at the Marin Headlands is designed to supplement your unit on the Cold War. Resources on this web site introduce students to the Nike missile site that operated in the Marin Headlands during the 1950s until 1974. The missile site, located near a major urban area, offers students the opportunity to consider the national significance and impact of the Cold War from a local perspective: its definition of security, the technology it spawned, the role of diplomacy, and public perceptions of the era. Using these resources, students also can conduct research into primary and secondary sources that continue the story of nuclear technology in our political and economic world of today.

Students reflect on the implications of the Cold War, and its relevance for discussion of current events, by thinking about the following questions:

How do we protect both our borders and ideals?

What is my definition of national security?

What is my definition of public health?

Do my answers to these questions contain contradictions?

 

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Students prepare to enter the Nike missile magazine

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