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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, PX Service Station, 860 Ellsworth Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, PX Service Station, 860 Ellsworth Street, Bl...

Significance: The P.X. Service Station (Building No. 2801) is located on a main entrance road to the base. It served as the P.X. Service Station until replaced by newer facilities located closer to the military... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, PX Service Station, 860 Ellsworth Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, PX Service Station, 860 Ellsworth Street, Bl...

Significance: The P.X. Service Station (Building No. 2801) is located on a main entrance road to the base. It served as the P.X. Service Station until replaced by newer facilities located closer to the military... More

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of ...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 Control Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery because it was here that all radar facilities were placed which were used to launch m... 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

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Tulelake Radar Site Receive Sector Five 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

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...

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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

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

Bolster, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

Bolster, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Solano County, CA

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Bolster was the first ship in a class of six salvage vessels built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Bolster performed numerous salvage operations during its car... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Mess & Administration Building, 2279 Risner Drive, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Mess & Administration Building, 2279 Risner ...

Significance: The Mess and Aministration Building (Building No. 1101) is one of at least four enlisted men's halls constructed at the base during the early 1950s; all are of a similar configuration, and are pro... 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

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

Vulcan Crucible Steel Company, 100 First Street, Aliquippa, Beaver County, PA

Vulcan Crucible Steel Company, 100 First Street, Aliquippa, Beaver Cou...

Significance: The Vulcan Crucible Steel Company was one of a number of American companies chosen to process uranium for use in the development of atomic weapons. In 1948-49 the company rolled uranium billets i... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Naval Air Station Fallon, 100-man Fallout Shelter, 800 Complex, off Carson Road near intersection of Pasture & Berney Roads, Fallon, Churchill County, NV

Naval Air Station Fallon, 100-man Fallout Shelter, 800 Complex, off Ca...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Tulelake Radar Site Receive Sector Four 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

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Transmitter Building, 200 yards east of County Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Transmitter Building, 200 yards east of Coun...

Significance: The Transmitter Building (Building No. 11000) was constructed in 1953 as a Communications Transmitter Building to house radio-based aircraft navigation and communication equipment, reflecting the ... More

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Installation Headquarters Building, South of Fourth Street & Avenue A intersection, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Installation Headquarters Buil...

Survey number: HAER ND-9-H Public domain photograph - historical image of North Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Airmen's Dormitory, 1392 Ellsworth Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Airmen's Dormitory, 1392 Ellsworth Street, B...

This structure was demolished in 1996. Significance: The Airmen's Dormitory Building (Building No. 1115) was one of seventeen dormitories built in 1951 to house seventy-four men each. It represents Ellsworth's ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Recreation Building, 1190 Chennault Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Recreation Building, 1190 Chennault Street, ...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base performed a significant role as a flight training facility during the war, and the base as a whole is reflective of the American military buildup necessitated by World War... More

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

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Pyrotechnic Shed, N...

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

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

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Vehicle Support Bui...

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

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virginia

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

Nike Hercules Missile Battery, Tare Site, Launching Structure, Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK

Nike Hercules Missile Battery, Tare Site, Launching Structure, Fairban...

Survey number: HAER AK-20-B Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orphan Lode Mine, Headframe, North of West Rim Road between Powell Point and Maricopa Point, South Rim, Grand Canyon Village, Coconino County, AZ

Orphan Lode Mine, Headframe, North of West Rim Road between Powell Poi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Mess & Administration Building, 1561 Ellsworth Street, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Mess & Administration Building, 1561 Ellswor...

Significance: The Mess Hall and Administration Building (Building No. 1107) is one of at least four men's mess halls constructed at the base during the early 1950s; all are of a similar configuration, and are p... More

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