This 1963 San Francisco Examiner drawing by newspaper artist Chris Nordhaug, shows why there's a Hole in the Head and what Pacific Gas & Electric planned to put in that hole - a nuclear power plant.
November 09, 2003
Books
Tom Vanderbilt: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
Mark Morgan & Mark Berhow: Rings of Supersonic Steel: An Introduction & Site Guide Air Defenses of the United States Army 1950-1979
New expanded edition featuring new photographs, updated site guides, Nike battalion guide, 300 color plates of distinctive insignias, new information on nuclear weapon tests and warheads.- James N. Gibson: Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History
Learn to identify common nuclear weapons. Stephen Haller & John Martini: The Last Missile Site: An Operational and Physical History of Nike Site SF-88, Fort Barry, California
An operational and physical history of the inner workings of Nike site SF-88 located just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.Brian B. Chin: Artillery at the Golden Gate: The Harbor Defenses of San Francisco in World War II
Read about the people who guarded the Golden Gate during World War IIMark A. Berhow: American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898-1945 (Fortress, 4)
Cold War & Nike Missile Links
- A site advocating a strong missile defense
- About the Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum
- All About the Chrysler Air Raid Siren
- Atomic Archive
- BUY - Rings of Supersonic Steel - HERE
- Civil Defense Museum
- Cold War Leftovers: Exploring America's Secret Landscape
- CONELRAD: All Things Atomic | The Golden Age of Homeland Security
- Defending Gotham
- Ed Thelen's Nike Missile Web Site
- Got Bunker?
- Historic Missiles of White Sands
- Nike Hercules Missile Data
- Research Study Group: Cold War Sites in the UK
- San Francisco Area Nike Sites
- Seattle Area Nike Sites
- Subterranea Britannica: Home Page
- Swords of Amageddon: History of the U.S. Development of Nuclear Weapons
- The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
- The Cold War Museum
- U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945
- Wedge Oldham's Nike Launch Report
- Your Portal to the Atomic Age
Military Booksellers
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