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The US Navy began to use Bangor as a base of operations in 1942, when it used it as a port for shipping ammunition to the Pacific theatre. In 1944, the Navy obtained over 7,000 acres of land to expand its operations, removing 350 families, to open what it called the "Bangor Naval Magazine." This opened in 1945. The Navy continued to use Bangor as a shipping port during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. In 1964, Naval Base Kitsap at Bangor had its role expanded further to provide storage for the new Polaris series weapon, a solid-fuel, two-stage, nuclear-armed, submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) produced by the Lockheed Missiles and Space Division in Sunnyvale, CA. The first Polaris missile was tested at Cape Canaveral in 1960, and distribution had begun widely by 1963 and 1964. In the 1970s, the Navy planned for the deployment of Lockheed's Trident missile, a SLBM with a MIRVed capability. Bangor's infrastructure was expanded by 1977 to handle this larger and far more complex missile program. Richard M. Tracey, George M. Ewing, Sr., John Carl Warnecke collaborated on the Trident facilities at Naval Submarine Base Bangor. The association was known as Tracey-Brunstrom-Ewing-Warnecke. Trident I was delivered in 1979.

In 2007, this base had one of the largest caches of nuclear warheads in the United States arsenal.

PCAD id: 9861