SANDY HOOK - It was a typical day at work for Bill Jackson until an electric heater malfunctioned and a fire broke out. But this wasn’t just any job, and it wasn’t just any fire. It happened at the ...

A snapshot in time from another era of American history rises right in the middle of town, a somewhat unsettling reminder that preservation-minded residents hope to safeguard. On Tuesday, a small tour ...

It is history now, but the Cold War, 1954 to 1974, was a very real deal. I would bet many of you reading this were not born yet. Most likely you were not alive when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened.

Nike Park in Isle of Wight County isn’t named for the athletic wear company, although it has plenty of sports fields and trails. It’s actually named for the Nike Ajax missile, a 1950s-era ...

For 14 years, they were the last resort for protecting the Twin Cities in case of a Soviet air attack. With 15 minutes' warning, Nike Hercules missiles could be raised from bunkers, moved to ...

Someone broke into a historic Nike missile defense site outside San Francisco, leaving extensive damage, National Park Service rangers said. The vandal or vandals spray-painted hate speech and dumped ...

MARIN HEADLANDS, Calif.--It is sometimes amazing to discover what is right in your backyard. I grew up in San Francisco, yet it was only recently that I discovered that just a few miles north of the ...

Nestled into what are now parks, picnic spots and soccer fields are the scattered remnants of an era gone by. The left behind ruins of when Detroit was on the literal front lines of the Cold War.