Cheyenne Mountain Facility, Built to Withstand Direct NUCLEAR Strike, Reopens

Last week the Pentagon announced that Cheyenne Mountain will once again be operational. According to them, it was shut down nearly ten years ago because the threat from Russia began to subside. The return to Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is apparently designed to safeguard the command’s sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, according to certain military officers. This is a distressing development, because Cheyenne is also designed to withstand NUCLEAR attack. Reopening this base is thus very telling of what is expected in the coming decades.

The Pentagon paid $700 million to Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work.

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. And so, there’s a lot of movement to put capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there. My primary concern was… are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody who wants to move in there, and I’m not at liberty to discuss who’s moving in there,’ he said. Of course you aren’t….

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, radio-operators were poised to send warnings that could trigger the launch of nuclear missiles.

Cheyenne Mountain Complex is 2,000 feet below the surface. It consists of 15 three-story buildings protected from nuclear blasts and seismic movement by a sophisticated system of…. 1,000 giant springs.

Designed to withstand a direct hit by a 30 megaton nuclear explosion and has 25-ton blast doors surrounding the complex. Nearly 1,100 people work in the mountain, the complex includes banks of batteries and its own water supply. Excavation on the site began in 1961.

That move was touted a more efficient use of resources… but had followed hundreds of millions of dollars spent on modernization that was carried out soon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. A white elephant is pretty efficient if you already wasted most of the money needed to upkeep it, and chose only to count the last five bucks needed to polish its nails…

And the best part is that they had been modernizing the place since September 11^th, an event that had nothing to do with EMPs OR a nuclear attack, suggesting that their decision to isolate Russia and surround China was in fact much older than some coup in Kiev… The move out of the base to begin with was likely just so that they could give the crew some space to work, rather than an actual sense of budding friendship with Russia and China.

Raytheon’s contract also involves unspecified work at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Under the 10-year contract, Raytheon is supposed to deliver ‘sustainment’ services to help the military perform ‘accurate, timely and unambiguous warning and attack assessment of air, missile and space threats’ at the Cheyenne and Petersen bases.

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