Event

Nike Hercules, Washington Nuclear Air Defense in the Cold War

• 09/08/2018 Location: Ranger Station, | Map Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Fee Information: FREE Contact Name: Park Ranger John Reid Contact Email: E-Mail Us Contact Phone Number: 301-344-3944
  Talk on the missile defenses of Washington and Baltimore during the Cold War:  first anti-aircraft guns, then conventional warhead Nike Ajax surface to air missiles, and finally, until 1972, nuclear warhead Nike Hercules SAMs defended the cities from swarms of Soviet bombers that never attacked.  Learn about the abandoned sites nearby that once were armed with nuclear missiles in a “ring of supersonic steel.” \