The Camp Pedricktown radar station was a Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 Missile Master installation with a United States Army Air Defense Command Post (AADCP) in a nuclear bunker and associated search, height finder

Height finder

A height finder is a ground based aircraft altitude measuring device.Early height finder implementations were optical devices and later migrated to radar devices. Devices combining both optics and radar were deployed by the U.S...

, and identification friend or foe

Identification friend or foe

In telecommunications, identification, friend or foe is an identification system designed for command and control. It is a system that enables military and national interrogation systems to identify aircraft, vehicles, or forces as friendly and to determine their bearing and range from the...

 radars. The station's radars were subsequently replaced with radars at Gibbsboro Air Force Station

Gibbsboro Air Force Station

Gibbsboro Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located south-southeast of Gibbsboro, New Jersey...

 15 miles away.http://alpha.fdu.edu/~bender/N-A-pedricktown.html The obsolete 1957-vintage vacuum tube computer

Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System

The Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System was an electronic fire distribution center to computerize Cold War air defense command posts from manual plotting board operations to automated command and control of remote surface-to-air missile launch batteries...

 was removed after command of the defense area was transferred to the Highlands Air Force Station

Highlands Air Force Station

Highlands Air Force Station was a Navesink Highlands military installation in Middletown Township near the borough of Highlands, New Jersey. The station provided ground-controlled interception radar coverage as part of the Lashup Radar Network and the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment network, as...

 command post near New York City

New York City

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 which controlled the combined New York-Philadelphia Defense Area.

The site is used by the Sievers Sandberg Reserve Center which occupies 39 acre (15.8 ha),http://www.cbp.ctc.com/current_projects/pedricktown/camppedricktown_final_rev_9.pdf and the station with intact bunker was designated an historic site in 1998 by the Salem

Salem County, New Jersey

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 64,285 people, 24,295 households, and 17,370 families residing in the county. The population density was 190 people per square mile . There were 26,158 housing units at an average density of 77 per square mile...

 Historic Preservation Office.http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/salem.pdf The 2000 environmental report for the station is the Recordation of the Nike Missile Master Complex Pedrickstown U.S. Army Reserve Support Facility.