History Guy Takes a Look at BOMARC Missile Site, In Colliers Mills

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JACSKON, NJ – If you follow Hawkin road south past the main entrance to the Colliers Mills Wildlife Management area, eventually to the right, you’ll see a fence as you travel deep into the reserve.  That fence is the former BOMARC nuclear missile base and site of a devastating fire.  Today, you can walk around the edge of the site, but it’s not advised that you actually enter the site, which is monitored by CCTV cameras.

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“When the Soviet Union acquired nuclear weapons, the United States decided to field nuclear surface to air missiles to defend against Soviet bombers. Less than a year after being deployed, one of those missiles caught fire and exploded in rural New Jersey. The History Guy recalls a forgotten accident that occurred at the height of Cold War tensions,” said the History Guy.

 

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