Forgotten Nike Missile Base
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2022
- On this episode of FORGOTTEN WORLD we explore an abandoned missile defense base that has been abandoned since the 1970s.
What I didn’t realize when I went in, was this location is Adjacent to 20,000 tons of radioactive materials produced during the development of America's first atom bombs.
I didn’t think about radiation. I should have brought a Geiger counter!
As a kid I had always heard the grown-ups saying upstate New York was a nuclear target. I guess this proves it. These missile bases around many major American cities. These bases housed the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, starting in 1953.
Now overgrown and forgotten this place fades into obscurity.
I live in a old Nike base. 16 acres. We made a house in the main building. 3 underground middle silos. An a fallout shelter. It's in lancaster ny
Nike Hercules was not a base it's a battery... missiles were not stored in the silos they were stored in magazines...they we're not called Fallout shelters they were missile blast shelters.
I was a security MP at Site Summit Alaska in the middle 1970's.
Its very deceiving because it's so vast underneath each set of doors. There was a whole field of said silo's. The one were I grew up was in South Jersey. There was the radar station about a 2 miles away with the radar towers we used to climb. My dad was in the army and was actually stationed at the base he worked in the armory during Vietnam. I was actually in the room he worked in. I knew because it was the only room we saw that actually had Metal walls (Armory) they demolished everything years ago but it was really cool because it actually turned into a kind of graffiti art gallery. I'll never forget the first time me and my friends went down into one of the silo's there was this HUGE piece of Eddie from iron maiden and it was absolutely incredible!
Used to visit one of these sites in Southern California. The infrastructure was identical to this. It had become a dump site for old city busses and people would go and graffiti and trash the place. But the locks were removed from an entry hatch and I went in there to explore a few times. I was amazed to find some of the sleeping bunks still intact. It was very cool to see.
I was computer op of nike site in korea from 1996 to1998. Thank u for your video.^^
The doors open down. They fold down. The elevator is 67 feet long an 9 feet wide. In went down 30feet. We still use one for our shop.
Incredible. I'd love to see it!
Great video.
As a Army Vet who worked at Nike Hercules battalions I appreciate your historical videos.
Thank you. I am a hobby history nut. I find it interesting to think about!
Im number 730 subscriber !! Great Explore.
They are referred to as Nike Hercules missile batteries...the missiles were stored beneath the trapdoor which were called magazines... they were in three sections a b c.
Thanks for that clarification. I did not know that.
I'm more curious how you got into that site? I fly drones and have done a few videos of that site and the ones in Cambria. This site is still owned by the government but not those in Cambria, NY. As an adult I would love to do what we did as kids as I grew up in that area, but as kids the authorities would just say aw their just kids being curious. As an adult the authorities would say you are trespassing, didn't you read the sign. And if not you should have known better. Especially since the Army Corp of Engineering is cleaning up that site along with the old Manhattan Project. They just held a hearing last month, February 2024.
Lived on a converted Nike base in Cambria NY
NIKE base on Clausland mountain Blauvelt NY.
I know exactly where that is at I used to pass it all the time on my way to a bar called Jack and Jenny’s right on the water an ex Marine Vietnam Vet owned it Man I played a shit load of pool there
I used to go there all of the time back in the ‘80s. Do you know if it’s still there, I moved from the area years ago.
Where is this site? Can it still be visited?
We have one in issaquah WA on tiger mt
Is it accessible these days?
@@forgottenworld I believe so lots of clay tho
Near Issaquah. Up on Cougar Mountain. Surrounded by suburbs now. Just be careful up there. There are old coal mine shafts camouflaged by overgrowth.
2 Nike bases in Hamburg NY
What town is that in?
Hamburg, NY south of Buffalo@@cliffmorrison1130