Posted on 04/08/2015 2:49:04 PM PDT by Teflonic
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is one of the icons of the Cold War - a self-contained and sufficient town buried under the Rockies meant to be impervious to a Soviet nuclear barrage.
It was home to the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD), scanning the skies for Russian missiles and the military command and control center of the United States in the event of World War Three.
The high tech base entered popular culture with appearances in the 1983 Cold War thriller War Games and 1994's Stargate - which imagined the complex as a clandestine home for intergalactic travel.
It shut down nearly ten years ago as the threat from Russia seemed to subside, but this week the Pentagon announced that Cheyenne Mountain will once again be home to the most advanced tracking and communications equipment in the United States military.
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.'
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, airmen were poised to send warnings that could trigger the launch of nuclear missiles.
But in 2006, officials decided to move the headquarters of NORAD and US Northern Command from Cheyenne to Petersen Air Force base in Colorado Springs. The Cheyenne bunker was designated as an alternative command center if needed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
ever wonder why NSA moved to Utah? far from the east coast...
The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center,[1] is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger.[2] Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is classified.[3] The National Security Agency (NSA) leads operations at the facility as the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence.[4] It is located at Camp Williams near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake and was completed in May 2014 at a cost of $1.5 billion.[5]
According to an interview with Edward Snowden, the project was initially known as the Massive Data Repository within NSA, but was renamed to Mission Data Repository due to the former sounding too “creepy”.[6]
This article is the first I’ve read about the Rocky Mountain Base.
I’m in Texas so don’t know about Colorado but this post #88 has the link to the best information about Jade Helm.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3272859/posts?page=88#88
My father-in-law (now 74) was a concrete foreman on that job.
I’m having a vision of Slim Pickens riding the bronco A-bomb to oblivion. Obama is going to get us all killed and a police state installed where America used to be.
I think it’s because the decision-makers (retirement-age midgrade officers) grew up watching “War Games,” and everyone junior to them saw fifteen seasons of “Stargate: SG-1.”
There are three types of potential EMP originating from a nuclear explosion. The worst requires a very high altitude burst that excites the atmosphere and creates a very widespread, fast-acting, high energy pulse. The other two which would be more likely from a scud-like missile capable of fitting in a shipping container, and thankfully tend to be area-effect weapons with much more limited range.
Sure they would screw up the coastal cities but the entire country would not descend into the 11th century. At least not immediately.
Best to read up on HEMP and SHREMP. Learn the difference; but it’ll all ruin your day.
On “cities,” high altitude electromagnetic pulses may shut down nearly all vehicles for broad areas under the sources of pulses (micro-components in vehicles). Routes in and out of cities would be blocked by vehicles. Such transportation would cease. Some have said that vehicles are shielded from RF pulses and rays by their steel bodies, but that would require tight seals at all joints between body panels and heavy connections to ground. Body panels (like cases around electronic equipment) would also likely go high in voltage potential to cause damage to components from ground, so to speak. Gas stations would also cease to operate (microelectronics needed for dispensers and likely lack of power for pumping in such an event).
I suspect Iran has the software to simulate the results of the nuclear material they have for a EMP type reaction. They do not even need to do a test.
1 acre ~ 210 ft x 210 ft
1/2 acre ~ 105 ft x 210 ft
Very small area. No way it’s that small.
Die Welt: Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela (17 May 2011)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721122/posts
Russia, N.Korea, China give Iran missile aid -CIA
09/08/01
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/519198/posts
Iran military engineers on hand for N. Korea missile launch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664760/posts
(7/12/06)
10 Iranian Missile Engineers Visited N. Korea:Sankei reports(check on NK’s Chinese equipments)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658850/posts
(07/01/06)
S. Korea, U.S. verifying reports on test of new N.K. missile in Iran: source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834307/posts
(4,000 kilometer rangewill reach the VaticanMay 16th, 2007)
“coffee makers...non necessary electronic items”
My God, Man. Are you insane?
For creepy, nothing beats “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.” It always reminded me of my college days for some reason.
Thank you for the info.
North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Russia and China... you know - Obama’s friends...
Russia makes nuke threats on the days Iran does not.
Railroads... and everything that services them... If trucks, cars, and planes are knocked out it'll be trains that keep us alive.
Active Duty ping.
You’re most welcome, and thanks for the motivation.
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