How do I do research on NIKE Air Defense Missile Sites?
The NIKE air defense program fielded three generations of missiles: the NIKE-AJAX, the NIKE-HERCULES, and the NIKE-ZEUS. The United States Army developed them and issued them to units deployed both inside and outside of the boundaries of the Continental United States. Locating records of the NIKE program involves determining which agency was the originating agency for the information that you need, and understanding how that material was preserved and retired. Research and development records normally were retired in a regular process by the various agencies and subordinate staff elements, and requests for information from or access to those records should be addressed to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Division. Before beginning the search for records, however, a historian would be well advised to contact the various historical offices of the successor agencies to learn if the historians assigned to them ever compiled monographic studies or assembled background historical f
