Visited a Nike Missile base today

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by trekkor

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I'm sad that so much of our technology is for killing.


KT

The nike was the first missile project my dad worked on while at white sands.

The missiles he worked on (nike, minute man, MMII, MMIII, MX) did not kill. They protected us and saved millions of lives.
By making great weapons you can prevent war. There is nothing sad about that at all.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by J P Stein

Youz' guys would would not believe all the nukes we had spread all over the world....back in the day. AA missiles were a very small part of it.

I was part of SASCOM back in 69-70. The first two letters in the acronym are "Special Ammunition". My detachment alone kept about 40 of em'. Pick a NATO country....they were there.

Wow, I figured back when you wuz young all they had was rocks and catapults.

How ya doing JP?