Or perhaps to a realization of how insane it was to set off a nuclear
explosion above your own city to protect your own city from a nuclear
explosion.

I recall wandering around in a decommissioned Nike-Zeus site just west of
Milwaukee in the mid sixties. It had been converted to sort of a
miscellaneous military site, and happened to be the depot that the MARS
(Military Affiliate Radio System) folks used to store the surplus goodies
that they were giving away to hams in return for staffing a civilian-based
military radio network. Every 6 months or so the MARS participants got to go
to Lapham Peak and haul home stuff (generators, R390's, lots of parts, etc.)
based on how many hours you stood watch on MARS frequencies. It was quite an
installation, with lots of bunkers, silos, and the like. I wonder if it is
still there...Google doesn't tell me much, other than there is a club in MKE
for ex-military folks that worked there.

Ed
>
> Both ultimately fell victim to party politics and the ABM treaty.
>



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