Short video clip of a Nike-Ajax launch at the White Sands, NM Missile Range.
Nike Hercules Story (1960) - 30-minute public affairs film produced by the Army in 1960 to educate the public on the NIKE HERCULES air defense system
Big Picture: The Steel Ring: The threat of atomic attack hangs over America in these times of lukewarm peace. An enemy can choose his time and place. There will be no warning. Our only defense is to be ready. THE BIG PICTURE camera shows you "The Steel Ring," the complicated defense lines of radars and guns which surround our country and cities.
Big Picture: Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM): The Inner Ring . This film shows how the soldiers of the Army Air Defense Command used the Nike Hercules and other missiles in their control to defend the U.S. against imaginary enemy attack. Scenes also describe the development of the newer Nike X missile.
