See? This is what happens when I start trolling the internet at 2 AM.
I grew up in Lynn, Mass, directly on the East Coast. After getting my license, the best places to go parking were along Nahant and the causeway (actually, during the late 80's there was a DPW lot that the police did not patrol, for those necessary, steamy moments). Anyway, for those who don’t know, Nahant is an island. Or it should be, there’s a thin stretch of beach making it a peninsula that they built the causeway next to.
Growing up we used to hear they had some kind of missiles stationed out there for World War Three during the 50's or the 60's. When you drove out to the causeway, you had to bang a U-turn and sometimes I didn’t and I cruise around the island. There are some places along the far side that had these giant concrete bunkers, or walls that seemed really out of place. But it always seemed like an urban legend. I mean, missiles? In a tiny little New England town?
Well, there were.
Apparently, right before the days of ICBMs, there was an honest to God program to use missile batteries to shoot down Soviet bombers on their way to bomb big U.S. cities using Ajax and Nike missles (and if that doesn’t qualify as Optimistic, I’m not sure what will). Some were apparently equipped with nukes themselves (although it’s probably still classified if they actually did or not).
And damnit all if there wasn’t actually a rocket battery out on Nahant.
posted by Evil Wayne @ 2:54 AM
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