Cheyenne Mountain's Fate May Lie in Study Contents
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › June 16, 2006
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A study being done by the military suggests scaling back the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, a symbol of the Cold War and the nation's most heavily fortified military station.
The analysis of the 40-year-old center, which was carved deep into the rock of Cheyenne Mountain and was designed to be a command post in the event of nuclear war, was commissioned in February by Adm. Timothy Keating, chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command, based at Peterson Air Force Base.See the full content of this document
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Cheyenne Mountain's Fate May Lie in Study Contents
The Cheyenne Mountain center monitors the skies, oceans and space for threats. A dramatic curtailment of its missions has never been seriously considered, said John Pike, executive director of the defense think tank GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va. Pike has analyzed defense issues for 25 years.
The Cheyenne Mountain base was built amid the Cold War when the United States feared a Soviet nu...See the full content of this document
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