Cold War Missile Defense Systems U.S. Army Nike Hercules Nike Zeus and Spartan Anti-Ballistic Missile Development Photo Archive, 1957-1970
[Cold War] [Rocketry] U.S. Army missile defense and interceptor testing photographs, 1957–1970, document the United States military’s earliest sustained effort to design weapons capable of destroying incoming nuclear warheads during the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union. Created during the period when American defense planners sought technological defenses against.....
