"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 . . ."
You may be happy that they are re-commissioning the base, but the fact that they ARE re-commissioning it - in an era of Obama military downsizing - is rather ominous. It suggests that they are taking the threat of an EMP attack seriously.
That's very much a good news/bad news situation - good news that they are taking it seriously, bad news that they seem to be preparing for a likely strike. The intelligence community may have reliable information that such an attack is already in the planning stages.
The idea that they are preparing for a “likely strike” is very much a speculative statement. The very same thing can happen (i.e., Cheyenne Mountain) with the military preparing for an “unlikely strike” but it still having an outside “possibility”.
They have to prepare for the “unlikely” in order to not be caught by surprise and to preserve their capability of following up. This can all be from what China is doing, what North Korea is doing, what Russia is doing ... and then ... what Iran is doing (and that being the last on the list).
It’s always been a dangerous world.