Bay Curious listener Chris Johanson wants to know whether the Nike Missile site in the Marin Headlands ever housed nuclear weapons. It's true. Veterans say the Cold War missile batteries that ringed the Bay Area housed warheads that more than equaled the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined.

Additional Reading:

•  Marin Was Once Armed With Nuclear Missiles, Luckily They Were Never Deployed

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