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US aerospace command moving comms gear back to Cold War bunker (EMP fears?)
Yahoo News ^ | 4-7-2015 | AFP

Posted on 04/07/2015 11:09:06 PM PDT by tcrlaf

The US military command that scans North America's skies for enemy missiles and aircraft plans to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era mountain bunker, officers said.

The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command's sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said.

The Pentagon last week announced a $700 million contract with Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work for North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command.

Admiral William Gortney, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said that "because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain's built, it's EMP-hardened."

"And so, there's a lot of movement to put capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there," Gortney told reporters.

"My primary concern was... are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody who wants to move in there, and I'm not at liberty to discuss who's moving in there," he said

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cheyenne; cheyennemountain; colorado; dod; emp; norad; spacecommand; warisboring
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To: tcrlaf

Mr GG2’s nephew used to work for a consulting company at NASA. He told us their number one fear is an EMP.


21 posted on 04/08/2015 6:01:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: tcrlaf

As best I can tell, there is no country with the ability to adequately strike with an EMP force. Russia is barely able to get anything to work. China has a good option but it is largely untested and they have no interest in blowing up all their Walmart stores. North Korea is just making noise.


22 posted on 04/08/2015 6:05:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: driftdiver
I could see the entrance from my barracks at Fort Carson in 1973. But never saw a traffic in or out. Odd. LOL
23 posted on 04/08/2015 6:05:46 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin)
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To: tcrlaf

Sounds like a 1970s type threat. Maybe North Korea?


24 posted on 04/08/2015 6:06:42 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin)
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To: tcrlaf

Recent declassification of EMP studies by the U.S. government has begun to draw attention to this dire threat. Rogue nations such as North Korea (and possibly Iran) will soon match Russia and China and have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as Scuds that could be launched from a freighter near our shores; space-launch vehicles able to loft low-earth-orbit satellites; and simple low-yield nuclear weapons that can generate gamma rays and fireballs.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/james-woolsey-and-peter-vincent-pry-the-growing-threat-from-an-emp-attack-1407885281

August 2014


25 posted on 04/08/2015 6:30:17 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin)
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To: logi_cal869
The pole shift will be mostly calm, save for the deadly pall of cosmic radiation primarily from the sun that will rain down on all living things until the field strength is restored. That is the dirty little secret they don’t talk about...

That's probably true. However, I believe their is Biblical evidence for a coming pole shift.

Isiah 24: 19-23

Despite what many scientists say (that pole shifts will be gradual), I believe they can happen suddenly. Moreover, it is a document fact that the magnetic pole is literally racing during the last few years. I believe the poles will shift, perhaps sooner rather than later.


26 posted on 04/08/2015 6:52:24 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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