Canal St. Chicago, IL 60606-7206 (312) 353-6400 x2020 [email protected] In 1954, the U.S. Army deployed the world’s first operational, guided, surface-to-air missile system. This system, ...

That’s when eight fully armed Ajax missiles at the Nike base in the Chapel Hill section of Middletown blew up “in a furious mushroom of fire and death,” as the Associated Press reported.

a Cold War-era Nike missile. Though the Nike Ajax missile launch site is no longer active, there’s more than just the missile there that serves as a reminder of the site’s history. An ...

Someone broke into a historic Nike missile defense site outside San Francisco, leaving extensive damage, National Park Service rangers said. The vandal or vandals spray-painted hate speech and ...