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In sci.physics Arny Krueger wrote:

As I've shown, many air defense sites had heavily-used
public roads running right through them!

Since Nike sites in the US were normally deployed around
major cities, it would have been rather hard to place one
far from public areas.

The Union Lake, Michigan site was surrounded by a Little
League ball field, a public golf course, and housing
developments.

If we had had to fire, the boosters would have come down
in a housing tract, but better a Nike booster through
your roof than a Soviet nuclear device.

Agreed. We had a Hawk site in Miami where you could overlook a subdivision
from several radar towers. Eventually the Army sold the site's plot of land
to the developers, and this was the first of the batteries in our battalion
to simply disappear.