A pair of Convair F-102 Delta Daggers of the 317th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, cruise past the summit of Denali in the late 1960s. US Air Force official photograph. Private collection of William Stein. Courtesy of Friends of Nike Site Summit.

Join CIHS and Friends of Nike Site Summit for a lecture series event.

Where: In person at the Anchorage Museum Auditorium or online via Crowdcast.

To register for the online event, click here. No registration required if attending in person.

Free and open to the public. Please use the museum’s 7th Avenue entrance.

Speaker: Ivan Hodes

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At the time of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Alaska was an armed camp, the front line of Cold War homeland defense. Recent research has underscored the critical role that events in Alaska played in nearly bringing about—and then helping to avert—nuclear catastrophe. Explore the dramatic story of Alaska’s Cuban Missile Crisis with Friends of Nike Site Summit, a non- profit organization dedicated to preserving and interpreting Alaska’s Cold War heritage.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ivan Hodes is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and a former educator in the Anchorage School District. He holds a degree in European history from the United States Military Academy. A member of the Friends of Nike Site Summit Board, he is the principal author of “Alaska’s Cold War Landmark: Nike Site Summit in Arctic Valley,” an illustrated guide to the Nike-Hercules missile battery overlooking Anchorage.