Inside the tiny southern town at the heart of America’s missile shortage

On any given weekday morning, traffic heading into this tiny south Arkansas town backs up along a tree-lined highway around 6 a.m. The cars are bound for a sprawling industrial complex on Camden’s outskirts, where thousands of workers are helping to rebuild America’s depleted missile arsenal.

Camden has about 10,000 residents. But each workday, its population swells as some 4,000 employees stream into a cluster of defense plants that manufacture Patriot interceptors, multiple-launch rocket systems, solid rocket motors, warheads and other critical components that are in short supply. The traffic is a daily measure of Camden’s growing importance. As part of an expansive campus with some of the country’s top defense contractors, Lockheed Read More......