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Abandoned Cold War relics found right in our own suburban backyards. Missile bases with nuclear capabilites! Excerpt from our History Channel series produced by KPI.

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  • It was a fascinating part of history. One of my jobs was decoding flash traffic in the wee hours of a West German winter night. The message usually began " Russian batallions invade Fulda Gap. " One never knew if it was the real deal or not until the Officer on duty decoded his "cookie".....

  • Want weird? Try diving the Texas Tower 180' deep on air.

  • It's NuClear, not Nuculear.

  • my teacher told us stories of when he was little he went inside of the misile silos and it was like people droped everything where they were and just left....everything was ther......it was like the power went out

  • cool story bro

  • @ypdave01 Actually the missile (MTR) radar tracked electronically, not mechanical.

  • The base in the Watchung, NJ mountains was flooded underground and sealed long before being converted to a stable.  In S.Plainfield (or is it Piscataway), where the Hadley Shopping Mall now stands was anothe Nike base. Explored the above grounds sections of it long before it was razed. You could just walk right in from a suburban road, the fence had long ago fallen down.

  • Nothing protects you from a nuclear bomb better than hiding under a school desk.

  • @WeirdNJTV

    My backyard is where one of these things exploded back in 1958.

  • @matt605 Commercial power was used for normal operations but we had our own generators and 3 self-contained methods of communicating between operational areas for tactical operations. In the Ice Storm of '73 we had no commercial power on the 'Hook for days. The site stayed up and maintained its readiness.

    You, me, anyone alone and unauthorized, unaccompanied and unbadged would be German Shepard poop if we tried to penetrate the Exclusion Area.

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