Fort Hancock’s secret: Nuclear warheads just miles from Manhattan

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Fort Hancock’s Twenty-Year Nuclear Vigil Over Manhattan

Fort Hancock held nuclear missiles just miles from Manhattan, and most New Yorkers never knew.

From 1954 to 1974, this Sandy Hook base housed Nike Site NY-56, part of a secret ring of missile sites protecting the city from Soviet bombers…

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