ALASKA: How did the Space Race fuel early Cold War military-industrial buildup?

[@ankushgaur9367]

Welcome back Professor :)

[@UncleBildo]

Good to see a new vid pop up! I grew up in a missile base rich environment. Rural eastern Washington. We had Nike Zeus sites, I think both types of Atlas, and another that escapes me currently. Nearest was 13 miles from home. Moses Lake area and around Medical Lake area were where the biggest newest ones went in. When they were abandoned, they sold CHEAP! I want to say one outside Wilbur, WA was purchased for $3K. Farmer has used it for storage of equipment since.

[@TheNomadicProfessor]

That's wild!

[@rvanstar]

The Space Program / US Space Command will surely gain further importance

[@philipvecchio3292]

In Upstate New York we had more nuclear bombs than we knew. Missile silos in the Adirondack, bombs stored in bunkers on the finger lakes, B-52 bombers in Rome, NY ready to fly over the North Pole.

[@TheNomadicProfessor]

Crazy! And they weren't meant for the British or Canadians just to the north, but for a global adversary on the other side of the planet...