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Nike Missile Control Area W-25, now known as the Davidsonville Recreation Center owned by Anne Arundel County, was an Integrated Fire Control (IFC) base for the US Army's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike Nike anti-ballistic missiles] from the 1950s until 1974. <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>
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W-25 was originally to be constructed on Kent Island, but due to high real estate costs, the US Army moved it to an area off Queen Anne Bridge Road in Davidsonville in 1954 <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>. In 1958, land for a 16-unit Armed Forces Housing Project for the families of those stationed at W-25 was purchased on the north side of Queen Anne Bridge Road. In 1963, W-25 was given the honor of being named "the National Nike Missile Site" <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>.
In the event of a nuclear attack, W-25 would have been responsible for defending the Washington-Baltimore area <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>.
==Operation==
Had there been a nuclear attack, W-25's IFC base would have tracked the target vehicle and the Nikes fired at it using its three radars <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>. The Acquisition Radar would detect the approach of an incoming bomber plane or ballistic missile, then the Tracking Radar would feed the target vehicle's location and details about its movements into the computer, and then the Missile Tracking Radar would follow the Nike <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>. The computer would then guide the missile towards the target and calculate the nearest intercept point <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>.
==Davidsonville Recreation Center and Anne Arundel County Police Academy==
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