Why is the military moving back into base deep under the Rocky Mountains?

Daily Mail ^ | 4/8/15 | James Nye

[bayliving]

Well, there was a news report the other day about Russian missile launching platforms that have been made to look like sea cans...

If true, it wouldn't take much to position a cargo ship off of the coast and shoot a large nuke high into our atmosphere before we would even have any idea what was happening or why...

I just wanted to add another layer of tin foil to your hat :-)

[SunkenCiv]

Obama's having the place spruced up for the arrival of the Iranian and Russian treaty monitors.

[Steve_Seattle]

"The Cheyenne mountain bunker is a half-acre cavern carved into a mountain in the 1960s that was designed to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack. From inside the massive complex . . ."

They've got this muddled - a half-acre cavern isn't a "massive complex." The half-acre probably only refers to one small area of the complex.

[Publius]

Cold War version 2.0.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Well, there was a news report the other day about Russian missile launching platforms that have been made to look like sea cans..."

It's entirely possible that the two stories are related.

[Night Hides Not]

Maybe a sequel to “War Games”?

[Ouderkirk]

I thought the same thing....100’ x 200’ doesn’t seem all that large of a space to me either. Hard to put a “whole town” in that space.

[George from New England]

Want to play tic-tac-toe, again ?

Paging Matthew Broderick ?

[CodeToad]

Maybe this is because there are funds to remodel a facility but none to build a new building and the other facilities at Peterson, Buckley, and Schriever are full? They really could downsize the space programs. Few Air Force do much of anything other than babysit contractors with the contractors doing all the work.

[Gaffer]

I worked inside it in 1970-71. It is much larger. Writer is clearly sitting far removed from there.

[Publius]

"The only way to win is not to play the game."

A brilliant movie where almost every scene was set up to be an anti-Reagan polemic.

[refermech]

Thanks, I think I’ll retreat to my bunker about now...

[Sooth2222]

Why is the military moving back into base deep under the Rocky Mountains?

Because they have been listening to what Obama has been saying, and maybe that means it's time to clean out that old fallout shelter?

[spokeshave]

Too bad they shut down the "Space Fence"

On August 6, 2013, news broke that the commander of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), General William Shelton, had ordered the shutdown of the Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS) by the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1. This article aims to shed some light on the technical, budgetary, and political considerations behind the decision to shut down the AFSSS. The loss of the AFSSS is not likely to have a significant impact on the accuracy of objects in the existing satellite catalog or the ability of the US military to track medium to large size objects in orbit.

The real impact will be the loss of the AFSSS’s ability to do uncued detection of breakups and maneuvers across a huge area of Earth orbit and act as a “trip wire” to warn about events in space.

Thus, the shutdown of the AFSSS is more likely to negatively impact broad area surveillance aspect of space situational awareness (SSA) than the tracking accuracy aspect of space surveillance.

[BigEdLB]

Psssst! Don’t tell Obama.....

[SandRat]

StarGate soon to be real?

[BigEdLB]

Half Acre 148 feet x 148 feet

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Its a hell of a lot bigger than a half acre !

[BigEdLB]

Half Acre 148 feet x 148 feet seems small for what they are doing