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Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Significance: The Boswell Bay White Alice Site (49COR312) is significant because it played an essential part in the air defense system for the United States as one of the communication links between the radar s... More

Nike Hercules Missile Battery Site Summit, Mount Gordon Lyon, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK

Nike Hercules Missile Battery Site Summit, Mount Gordon Lyon, Anchorag...

See also HAER AK-18 for additional documentation. Significance: Military period of significance: 1959-1979. Site Summit, a former United States Army Nike Hercules missile installation, is one of the most intact... More

March Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command, Combat Operations Center, 5220 Riverside Drive, Moreno Valley, Riverside County, CA

March Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command, Combat Operations Center,...

Significance: Building 2605 was determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places on November 27, 1995 under Criterion Consideration G as a significant Cold War-era structure. The Co... More

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Ex...

Significance: The Missile Launch Area comprised the Spartan (facilities 501-530) and Sprint (facilities 541-556) Launch Stations, allowing for both long- and short-range defense against every Intercontinental B... More

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Ready Alert Facility, 12 Bomber Road, Mountain Home, Elmore County, ID

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Ready Alert Facility, 12 Bomber Road, Mo...

Significance: The ready alert facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB) represents the best extant example of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) bomber alert complex. The complex was home to four squadrons of ... More

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Tropospheric Antennas, Chugach National Forest, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Tropospheric Antennas, Chugach National ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Floating Dry Dock Quay, Hurt Avenue at northwest side of Magazine Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Floating Dry Dock Quay, Hurt Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Floating Dry Dock Quay, Hurt Avenue at northwest side of Magazine Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Floating Dry Dock Quay, Hurt Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Floating Dry Dock Quay, Hurt Avenue at northwest side of Magazine Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Floating Dry Dock Quay, Hurt Avenue at ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Technical Support Building, Napa & Alden Roads, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Technical Support B...

Survey number: HAER CA-133-1-E Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Meteorological Shed & Tower, Napa & Alden Roads, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Meteorological Shed...

Survey number: HAER CA-133-1-G Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, S...

Significance: During the Cold War years, the Nation's nuclear arsenal included 1,000 Minuteman missiles. The Oscar-01 Missile Alert Facility (MAF) at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) was an integral part of that ... More

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, S...

Significance: During the Cold War years, the Nation's nuclear arsenal included 1,000 Minuteman missiles. The Oscar-01 Missile Alert Facility (MAF) at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) was an integral part of that ... More

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, S...

Significance: During the Cold War years, the Nation's nuclear arsenal included 1,000 Minuteman missiles. The Oscar-01 Missile Alert Facility (MAF) at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) was an integral part of that ... More

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, S...

Significance: During the Cold War years, the Nation's nuclear arsenal included 1,000 Minuteman missiles. The Oscar-01 Missile Alert Facility (MAF) at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) was an integral part of that ... More

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, S...

Significance: During the Cold War years, the Nation's nuclear arsenal included 1,000 Minuteman missiles. The Oscar-01 Missile Alert Facility (MAF) at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) was an integral part of that ... More

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, S...

Significance: During the Cold War years, the Nation's nuclear arsenal included 1,000 Minuteman missiles. The Oscar-01 Missile Alert Facility (MAF) at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) was an integral part of that ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Recreation Building, 1312 LeMay Boulevard, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Recreation Building, 1312 LeMay Boulevard, B...

Significance: The Recreation Building (Youth Center) was constructed in 1954-55 to serve as a center for supervised youth activities. The building was donated by the General Richard E. Ellsworth family to serve... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Recreation Building, 1312 LeMay Boulevard, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Recreation Building, 1312 LeMay Boulevard, B...

Significance: The Recreation Building (Youth Center) was constructed in 1954-55 to serve as a center for supervised youth activities. The building was donated by the General Richard E. Ellsworth family to serve... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 Vandenberg Court, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 V...

Significance: The Operations Tower and Fire Station was built in 1951 as a combination operations control tower and crash truck building containing eight crash stalls for the Fire Department. The building repre... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 Vandenberg Court, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Base Operations Tower & Fire Station, 1820 V...

Significance: The Operations Tower and Fire Station was built in 1951 as a combination operations control tower and crash truck building containing eight crash stalls for the Fire Department. The building repre... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127 off Interstate 90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127 off Interstate 90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127 off Interstate 90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127 off Interstate 90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Road T512, south of Exit 116 off I-90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Roa...

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Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Road T512, south of Exit 116 off I-90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Roa...

Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Radio Station, Operations Building, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Radio Station, Operations Buildin...

Significance: Facility 294, the operations building for the AN/FRD-10 Circularly Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA) at NCTAMS, was a part of the United States' Cold War efforts to gather foreign intelligence informa... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Radio Station, Operations Building, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Radio Station, Operations Buildin...

Significance: Facility 294, the operations building for the AN/FRD-10 Circularly Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA) at NCTAMS, was a part of the United States' Cold War efforts to gather foreign intelligence informa... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Napa & Alden Roads, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Napa & Alden Roads,...

Significance: Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) is one of the first operational installations in the United States military space program. The complex was constructed in 1959 to launch satellites into polar orbit... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Airforce Station, A.C. Warehouse Miscellaneous, 841 White Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Airforce Station, A.C. Warehouse Mi...

Significance: This building possesses documented historical association with the base's initial construction, and with its operation during World War II. The building continued to be used by the base during the... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Airforce Station, A.C. Warehouse Miscellaneous, 841 White Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Airforce Station, A.C. Warehouse Mi...

Significance: This building possesses documented historical association with the base's initial construction, and with its operation during World War II. The building continued to be used by the base during the... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Airforce Station, A.C. Warehouse Miscellaneous, 841 White Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Airforce Station, A.C. Warehouse Mi...

Significance: This building possesses documented historical association with the base's initial construction, and with its operation during World War II. The building continued to be used by the base during the... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Radio Station, AF/FRD-10 Circularly Disposed Antenna Array, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Radio Station, AF/FRD-10 Circular...

Significance: The AN/FRD-10 Circularly Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA) at NCTAMS (Facility 314) was a part of the US' Cold War efforts to gather foreign intelligence information. Along with fourteen other FRD-10 ... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant...

Significance: For nearly four decades, the Fuel Reprocessing Complex (Buildings CPP-601, CPP-603, CPP-627, and CPP-640) at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP) recovered usable uranium from spent reactor ... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant...

Significance: For nearly four decades, the Fuel Reprocessing Complex (Buildings CPP-601, CPP-603, CPP-627, and CPP-640) at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP) recovered usable uranium from spent reactor ... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Fuel Reprocessing Complex, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Chemical Processing Plant...

Significance: For nearly four decades, the Fuel Reprocessing Complex (Buildings CPP-601, CPP-603, CPP-627, and CPP-640) at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP) recovered usable uranium from spent reactor ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Shed, Supply & Equipment Depot, Quesada Drive, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Shed, Supply & Equipment Depot, Quesada Driv...

This structure was relocated in 1962. Significance: This building possesses documented historical association with Rushmore Air Force Station, an early 1950s federal storage and maintenance facility for nuclear... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Shed, Supply & Equipment Depot, Quesada Drive, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Shed, Supply & Equipment Depot, Quesada Driv...

This structure was relocated in 1962. Significance: This building possesses documented historical association with Rushmore Air Force Station, an early 1950s federal storage and maintenance facility for nuclear... More

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rolette County, ND

Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant, 213 First Street Northwest, Rolla, Rol...

Significance: The Turtle Mountain Ordnance Plant is significant as the only large-scale, diversified manufacturing facility for the production of jewel bearings in the United States. Jewel bearings were consid... More

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Columbia Falls Radar Site Receive Sector One Receiver Building, At the end of Shadagee Ridge Road, Columbia Falls, Washington County, ME

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Columbia Falls Radar Site ...

Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio tran... More

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Radio Relay Building, Chugach National Forest, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Radio Relay Building, Chugach National F...

Significance: This structure is part of the Boswell Bay White Alice Station, which was a component of the detection and communication system bridging the North American continent and directly related to the DEW... More

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array Warning System, End of Spencer Paul Road, north of Warren Shingle Road (14th Street), Marysville, Yuba County, CA

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: It is one of four large phased-array radars designed and built by Raytheon. PAVE PAWS was the first solid-state, phase-phase steered array radar operational in the world. The PAVE PAWS at Beale an... More

Loring Air Force Base, Alert Area, Southeastern portion of base, east of southern end of runway, Limestone, Aroostook County, ME

Loring Air Force Base, Alert Area, Southeastern portion of base, east ...

Significance: The design of the structures in the Alert Area at Loring Air Force Base (AFB) represents special, strategic modifications of standard Air Force design in response to Soviet weapons advancements. ... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, KS

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, KS

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhaw...

This structure was demolished in 1996. Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base Dormitory is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of the early 1950s. During ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhaw...

This structure was demolished in 1996. Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base Dormitory is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of the early 1950s. During ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhaw...

This structure was demolished in 1996. Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base Dormitory is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of the early 1950s. During ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Readiness Building, 810 Kenny Road, Blackhaw...

This structure was demolished in 1996. Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base Dormitory is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of the early 1950s. During ... More

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Tulelake Radar Site Receive Sector Six Antenna Array, Unnamed Road West of Double Head Road, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, CA

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Tulelake Radar Site Receiv...

Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio tra... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, SPERT-I & Power Burst Facility ...

Significance: With the inauguration of nuclear reactor research after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tried to anticipate and prevent possible nuclear accidents. In 1954, it began the Nuclear S... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Airmen's Dormitory, 1529 Ellsworth Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Airmen's Dormitory, 1529 Ellsworth Street, B...

Significance: The Airmen's Dormitory possesses a documented historical association with base activities during the early Cold War era, a period of substantial military activity and growth. During this period, E... More

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of base at northern end of Maine Road, Limestone, Aroostook County, ME

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of ba...

Significance: The Weapons Storage Area (WSA) stands as the first operational storage site constructed for the storage of atomic weapons under control of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War, and has ... More

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of base at northern end of Maine Road, Limestone, Aroostook County, ME

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of ba...

Significance: The Weapons Storage Area (WSA) stands as the first operational storage site constructed for the storage of atomic weapons under control of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War, and has ... More

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of base at northern end of Maine Road, Limestone, Aroostook County, ME

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of ba...

Significance: The Weapons Storage Area (WSA) stands as the first operational storage site constructed for the storage of atomic weapons under control of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War, and has ... More

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