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From: pokey@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer)
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Subject: Re: Nuclear Anti-aircraft Weapons
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Date: 11 Aug 89 05:51:06 GMT
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From: Jef Poskanzer <pokey@well.sf.ca.us>

In the referenced message, OCONNORDM@CRDGW2.crd.ge.com (Dennis O'Connor) wrote:
}Nuclear Aint-Aircraft weapons have been studied, I don't know
}if any are in use. I believe one of the Nike series of
}ground-to-air missiles was nuclear-capable.

Right, the Nike Hercules was nuclear capable.  It had a ~70 mile range
and the warhead was allegedly between 10 and 20 kilotons.  I visited a
restored Nike site north of San Francisco this past Sunday, it was
pretty neat.  They have two missiles there, one a training dummy and
one real but deactivated.  The doors and elevator are working, but the
erectors are not.  Maybe next year.

It was interesting to finally see what one of those places looks like
with the lights on...

Then there was the Nike Zeus, renamed the Spartan.  It was of course
also nuclear capable, but was not an anti-aircraft missile.
---
Jef

    Jef Poskanzer  pokey@well.sf.ca.us  {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey
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