A nuclear capable Nike Hercules missile and its crew in action at U.S. Army Air Defense Command missile site C-03 on Montrose Beach (now the Lincoln Park Yacht Club) during a readiness drill. (1959) ...

Fired from New Mexico’s White Sands missile range, a Nike Zeus locked on a ranging Nike Hercules; in the first real test of its interceptor capacity, the Zeus homed in and detonated close enough ...