@ai6yr There's a well-preserved site in Marin County with a museum. You can ride in the launch elevator with the missile (which they assure me is unarmed, but I still wouldn't piss them off).
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What I love about that location is that the barracks are right next to the launch area and would’ve been destroyed by the backblast in an actual Nike rocket launch. Makes you question if the brass really thought the program would work.
@KanaMauna @ai6yr Pretty sure the missile crews were considered single-use.
True, but they put the barracks right behind the rockets. I imagine conversation went like this:
“Sir, shouldn’t we put the barracks off to the side or over the ridge?”
“No, this has the best ocean view and besides we’ll all be dead.“
@mattblaze @KanaMauna @ai6yr so were all of the crews on every strategic platform 😬
@mattblaze @ai6yr No warhead, but did they drain the RFNA? (The concrete all around there has big pits in it from acid spills)
@mattblaze @ai6yr Here on Vashon Island, our former Nike base is now home to our food bank, community health clinic, and a daycare. Count on this place to put a flower in one of the biggest rifle barrels of the Cold War.
@mattblaze @ai6yr I often wonder which will be first to do me in up here: the active volcano, the massive fault and its overdue earthquake and tsunami 1-2 punch, or a strike on Bangor. 😂
@mattblaze @ai6yr - we visited the museum on the day they brought out the demo missiles, also there were cookies.
@mattblaze @ai6yr there are a few at Sandy Hook in New Jersey as well. You can spend the afternoon at the nude beach and then go look at some replica missiles before getting back on the ferry to NYC.
"nude beach Nike Missiles in New Jersey" was not on my bingo card for the day.
@mattblaze @ai6yr I'm surprised the Nike missile site hasn't been bought by some tech bro for their bunker - I bet a few have tried. Also there's that entire, planned not built, town down at Tennessee valley too. I get the feeling that they are all itching to buy up the parks and coast
@Paperposts @ai6yr The Nike sites aren't really good for bunkers. The missile magazines are quite shallow and small (basically freight elevators that go down to a basement level), and the launch control sites are above ground. Decommissioned Titan and Minuteman launch control centers would make much better bunkers, but are less conveniently located if you want coastal access.
@mattblaze Hahahahaha. Maybe not during an earthquake, either!!