I've been doing some research and actually, the roughly 280 Nike Sites in the US all had the Nike Hercules missiles, some also kept a few of the Nike Ajax, which were a conventional (not nuclear) missile with a shorter range of 28 miles. The Nike Ajax could be used to take out a single aircraft with a non-nuclear payload. The Nike Hercules program was continued on our bases overseas longer than in
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My father commanded the Orland Park Nike Missile Site during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was born a month later. I have no memory of living there (on the site) for obvious reasons, but I did get to visit it when I was 15. However, it has only come to my attention in the past couple weeks that the Nike Hercules Missiles there, and at every other Nike Site, carried nuclear warheads up to 30 kilotons
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