Posted on 04/11/2015 12:43:19 PM PDT by Dave346
Days after Iran deal, Pentagon acts fearing nuclear missile attack that would burn out America’s electronic-based defenses.
The Pentagon has decided to reopen the Cheyenne Mountain Air Defense facility, which housed the heart of America’s air and missile defense of North America. The facility had been mothballed in a “cost-saving” move in 2006.
Last week, Admiral William Gortney, head of US NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) and US Northern Command, reversed that decision and announced the Pentagon was spending an opening ante of $700 million to oversee reactivation of the Cheyenne mountain-embedded facility.
The reason - the Pentagon's fears of a nuclear Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack by a missile that would burn out America’s overly-dependent defense, which is based on modern electronics.
US NORAD and US Northern Command aren’t just acronyms. They represent the last-ditch American defense of the continental United States homeland. NORAD originally stood for North America Air Defense Command, but now stands for North American Aerospace Command. US Northern Command is the area-specific designation of the US military command that is responsible for the continental United States homeland.
Given the current US military fear of an inter-continental ballistic (ICBM) missile attack with an EMP nuclear-device, Admiral Gortney explained 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 [in the Pentagon] to put [military] capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there."
In early 2013, this author warned against a similar Iranian “Fatwa-compliant” EMP attack against Saudi Arabia, and a North Korea EMP attack against South Korea.
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I supported Cruz for senate, but right now I'm concerned about the Goldman Sachs connection. I'm leaning Walker because of that.
Born and being Polish is the norm here.
Understood, but the stories I've seen about the Goldman Sachs connection seem to be designed to slam him and scare people off. Unless something actually blows up, I'll stick with him and leave Walker as my second choice.
If what one's wife does for a career is used to disqualify someone like a Cruz, then we really have nobody who can't be connected to something by some string of relationships and might as well kneel to the democrat overlords and their RINO minions.
Well, it didn't do Phil Gramm's political career any good; although it didn't end up hurting the family financially.
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