Apr 10, 2015
WHY IS THE US MILITARY MOVING BACK INTO ‘STARGATE’ BASE DEEP UNDER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS A DECADE AFTER IT WAS ABANDONED?
Shut down nearly ten years ago as the threat from Russia seemed to subside
Image Credits: U.S. Air Force, Wikimedia Commons.
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…
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