The property is currently owned by CL&P, the local utility. Nike Tykes Daycare occupies one of the building, a private shooting range occupies the former military indoor range. The control site was at 110 Garden Grove Rd currently used by the Town of Manchester. The launch site was on Phelps Rd at what is now the Army Reserve Center. The control site was on Scantic Rd, present site of the New Testament Church. Please contact us at Ajax missiles.Įach of these Hartford Area Nike Sites have dedicated pages above: If you were stationed at one of the many Nike sites in CT, MA or RI we would love to hear from you. Massachusetts Nike sites can be seen in our companion site: There were also Nike housing units assigned to most batteries and a regional maintenance center in Windsor Locks, CT.Įach of the individual CT Nike sites has its own page, see menu at the top of the page. Having nukes go off above the continental US was thought to be much more desirable than having them go in our cities!Įach Nike site actually consisted of two facilities, a control or radar site known as an "IFC" most often located on a hill for maximum line of sight range and a companion launch site also known as a "battery" which was usually within two miles of the control site. The atomic warhead would be detonated in front of an incoming group of bombers and would in theory destroy or damage them by either the blast or by the radiation effects including thermal and EMP. As Soviet bomber production increased the one missile/one bomber scheme was deemed impractical so the decision was made to equip some of the second generation Nike missiles, the Hercules, with atomic warheads in the 1-40 kiloton range (in comparison, the nuclear bomb which destroyed Hiroshima was approx. The original Nike missile, the Ajax, used a high explosive fragmentation warhead that could successfully destroy or at least damage a single incoming Russian bomber. Learn more by visiting: .us/index.While it is well known that Connecticut was home to a number of Nike Missile sites back in the fifties and sixties (12 to be exact), very few people realized that by the early-sixties some of these sites housed missiles with nuclear warheads on them! Q-01 was part of the 90th Strategic Missile Wing/Missile Wing, initially as a Minuteman site (1962-1986) but then as one of rive Peacekeeper Missile control centers in the 400th Missile Squadron., (1986-2005). Delve into the daily lives of missileers, topside personnel, missile technology, the Cold War and the deactivation of this missile system. Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility State Historic Site, once open, will offer the visitor the opportunity to see a military installation that was “hidden in plain sight” and controlled one of the most destructive nuclear weapons ever built by the United States. This site is significant as the only accessible Peacekeeper Missile Alert Facility left in the world and will strive to preserve and interpret the Cold War history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, fostering an understanding of the mission and duties of the personnel and crews assigned to work there. Wyoming State Parks is preparing the Q-01 Missile Alert Facility (Launch Control Facility) as the newest state historic site.
Learn more by visiting: .us/index.php/places-to-go/quebec-01 Q-01 was part of the 90th Strategic Missile Wing/Missile Wing, initially as a Minuteman site (1962-1986) but then as one of five Peacekeeper Missile Control Centers in the 400th Missile Squadron (1986-2005). Delve into the daily lives of missileers, topside personnel, missile technology, the Cold War, and the deactivation of this missile system. Quebec-01 Missile Alert Facility State Historic Site offers the opportunity to see a military installation that was “hidden in plain sight” and controlled one of the most destructive nuclear weapons ever built by the United States. The site strives to preserve and interpret the Cold War history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, fostering an understanding of the mission and duties of the personnel assigned to work there. Quebec-1 is significant as the only accessible Peacekeeper Missile Alert Facility left in the world. Wyoming State Parks opened the Q-01 Missile Alert Facility (Launch Control Facility) as the newest state historic site.
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