Nike BR-15: West Haven launcher and Orange control site
West Haven launcher only within the requested municipalities. BR-15 control was in Orange, outside scope except to explain the paired battery. No Nike installation in New Haven city was identified in the federal Connecticut inventory and checked site lists; this is a documented search result, not proof that every related military property has been exhausted. New Haven County is not New Haven city.

id: NIKE-001
title: Federal inventory entry for Nike BR-15
kind: Historical documents
date: 1996-11
summary: Printed page 478 records BR-15 equipment, West Haven location, active-service dates, and the separate control/launcher afteruses.
url: https://ed-thelen.org/ToDefendAndDeterTheLegacyColdWar.pdf#page=479
credit: John C. Lonnquest and David F. Winkler; U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, To Defend and Deter, Special Report 97/01 (November 1996).
notes: Public-domain U.S. federal government report text; extracted pages contain no separately credited third-party photograph. Full original federal report retained as originals/defend.pdf. PDF index 478 (viewer page 479), printed page 478. Extracted page also includes other Connecticut batteries, which are outside this collection’s municipal scope.
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institution: Nike BR-15: West Haven launcher and Orange control site
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
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id: NIKE-002
title: Federal overview of Connecticut Nike defense areas
kind: Historical documents
date: 1996-11
summary: Printed page 325 lists Bridgeport and Hartford defense-area batteries and distinguishes their municipalities; it identifies BR-15 as West Haven.
url: https://ed-thelen.org/ToDefendAndDeterTheLegacyColdWar.pdf#page=327
credit: John C. Lonnquest and David F. Winkler; U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, To Defend and Deter, Special Report 97/01 (November 1996).
notes: Public-domain U.S. federal government report text; extracted pages contain no separately credited third-party photograph. PDF index 326 (viewer page 327), printed page 325. Statewide context, not a site photograph or municipal survey. Full original report retained.
file: images/nike-connecticut-overview.jpg
text_file: texts/nike-connecticut-overview.txt
institution: Nike BR-15: West Haven launcher and Orange control site
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
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id: NIKE-003
title: Neighboring Connecticut Nike batteries in the federal inventory
kind: Historical documents
date: 1996-11
summary: Printed page 477 separates Ansonia BR-04, Milford BR-17, Fairfield BR-65 and Shelton BR-94 from West Haven BR-15.
url: https://ed-thelen.org/ToDefendAndDeterTheLegacyColdWar.pdf#page=478
credit: John C. Lonnquest and David F. Winkler; U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, To Defend and Deter, Special Report 97/01 (November 1996).
notes: Public-domain U.S. federal government report text; extracted pages contain no separately credited third-party photograph. PDF index 477 (viewer page 478), printed page 477. Adjacent inventory page retained as geography cross-check; these neighboring sites are not represented as New Haven or West Haven installations.
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text_file: texts/nike-connecticut-inventory-context.txt
institution: Nike BR-15: West Haven launcher and Orange control site
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
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id: NIKE-004
title: Nike Ajax cutaway: general missile configuration
kind: Diagram
date: 1996-11 publication; diagram credited to 1995 DOE report
summary: General cutaway showing Ajax components and multiple conventional-warhead positions. This illustrates the missile type associated with BR-15, not a site-specific structure.
url: https://ed-thelen.org/ToDefendAndDeterTheLegacyColdWar.pdf#page=171
credit: U.S. Department of Energy diagram, Ordnance and Explosive Waste Records Search Report, DOE/RL 94-07 (January 1995), figure 6; reproduced by Lonnquest and Winkler, USACERL (1996).
notes: Public-domain U.S. federal government diagram; federal DOE source identified in the report’s illustration credits. PDF index 170 (viewer page 171), printed page 167. Generic technical illustration, not a BR-15 plan. Full source report and uncompressed page render retained.
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text_file: texts/nike-ajax-diagram.txt
institution: Nike BR-15: West Haven launcher and Orange control site
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
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id: NIKE-005
title: BR-15 local site documentation
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Photograph dates not stated; page copyright 2021
summary: Photographs and interpretation of surviving launcher-area structures and the separate control location.
url: https://coldwar-ct.com/Nike_BR-15_West_Haven.html
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Images marked copyright; not downloaded for reuse. Several structure identifications are explicitly tentative and should remain so. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: NIKE-006
title: Nike location directory: Connecticut
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Page dates vary; checked 2026-09-08
summary: Battery locations and approximate separate control/launcher coordinates.
url: https://ed-thelen.org/loc-c.html#Connecticut
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Secondary directory, useful for locating records. Coordinates are not a municipal boundary survey. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: NIKE-007
title: Federal report: original site-record leads
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1996 report; cited Argus issue 1958-06-01
summary: The Connecticut overview cites Nike Quick Look and the June 1, 1958 issue of Argus.
url: https://ed-thelen.org/ToDefendAndDeterTheLegacyColdWar.pdf
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Seek underlying Army battery records and site-specific plans. No verified reusable BR-15 site plan or historic local battery photograph was obtained. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: NIKE-008
title: Supporting source: ct.ng.mil
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source consulted September 2026
summary: Supporting source for the collection history and chronology.
url: https://ct.ng.mil/Units/Separate-Units/103rd-Air-Control-Squadron/
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: External source; consult the original publication for its full context.
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