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BOMARC Site RW-01 is a 75-acre (30 ha) [1] fenced-off site contaminated primarily with "weapons-grade plutonium (WGP), highly-enriched and depleted uranium." On 7 June 1960 an explosion in a CIM-10 Bomarc missile fuel tank caused the accident and subsequent contamination.
The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc ("Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center") (IM-99 Weapon System [4] prior to September 1962) [5] [6] was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America.
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In 1962, command of the BOMARC base transferred from Col. John A. Sarosy [11] to Col James L. Livingston. [12] The site was the first BOMARC B launch complex to close, on 31 December 1969. [13] [14] The closure was part of a realignment of "307 military bases". [15] The missile site was vacant until turned over to the Niagara Falls Municipal ...
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The Bomarc missile was phased out in 1972 and the CF-104 Strike/Attack squadrons in West Germany were reduced in number and reassigned to conventional ground attack at about the same time. From late in 1972, the CF-101 interceptor force remained as the only nuclear-armed system in Canadian use until it was replaced by the CF-18 in 1984.