First day out of San Francisco and a cold-war relic caught my eye. In the late 50s and early 60s the US built a network of 280 'Nike' Missile sites, dotted around the major strategic bases and population centres (Nike after the greek goddess of victory - the sneaker gods hadn't been invented yet). Whilst initially the missiles in these batteries were conventional high explosive, as the Cold War deepened, they were soon replaced with nuclear warheads...
