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  2. Nike sweatshops - Wikipedia

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    In a Vietnamese Nike factory, a worker accused his employer of striking him. After contacting a factory advocate, the worker was interviewed by a news station. The video eventually reached an ESPN affiliate in Vietnam, where millions of people viewed it before officials in the United States had formally heard of the incident. [25]

  3. Project Nike - Wikipedia

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    Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory") was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for ...

  4. East Point Military Reservation - Wikipedia

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    East Point Military Reservation. /  42.4199944°N 70.9099583°W  / 42.4199944; -70.9099583. East Point Military Reservation was a World War I and World War II coastal defense site located in Nahant, Massachusetts. In 1955–62 it was a Nike missile launch site. [ 1] In 1967 the site was converted into the Marine Science Center of ...

  5. Nebraska Ordnance Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Nebraska Ordnance Plant is a former United States Army ammunition plant located approximately ½ mile south of Mead, Nebraska and 30 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska in Saunders County. It originally extended across 17,250 acres (69.8 km 2) producing weapons from 1942-45 after which the Army used it as a bomb factory during the Vietnam War.

  6. 'Last line of defense': Cold War reheats at Nike missile ...

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    For more information about the Fort Hancock Nike Site NY-56 Volunteers Association, their free tours, getting involved or making donations, visit www.ny56nike.weebly.com, find them on Facebook (Ft ...

  7. RMK-BRJ - Wikipedia

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    RMK-BRJ. RMK-BRJ was an American construction consortium of four of the largest American companies, put together by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to build critically needed infrastructure in South Vietnam, so that the Americans could escalate the introduction of American combat troops and materiel into Vietnam.

  8. Nike Missile Site C-47 - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. January 21, 2000. Nike Missile Site C-47 is a former missile site near Portage, Indiana. The Nike defense system was a Cold War -era missile system in the United States. Nike missiles were radar guided, supersonic antiaircraft missiles. The planners hoped that Nike would make a direct attack on the U.S. so costly as to be futile.

  9. Nike Live, a new ‘lab-like’ store, is opening in ... - AOL

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    October 31, 2022 at 4:43 PM. Nike is bringing its latest store concept to Fort Worth’s University Park Village with some major differences from a traditional retail store. Nike Live will open on ...