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Cheyenne Mountain
submitted 2 months 4 days 2 hours ago by: shakeel333 : 1 comment
The underground Combat Operations Center (COC) was designed to ensure 70 percent probability of continuing to function against a five megaton weapon with a three mile circular error probability (CEP), be self-sufficient for brief emergency periods, have backup communications and television intercom with related commands, limited, but adequate, sleeping facilities are available within the main Complex for use during button-up exercises or actual emergencies, and protection against fallout and biological and chemical warfare. The facility was ultimately designed to withstand a multi-megaton yield weapon at a range between 1 ½ nautical miles.
http://www.norad.mil/about/cmoc.html
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Virginia and West Virginia are literally riddled with such facilities; if I were to take a guess, there are probably more people living underground than above ground in those sparsely populated states!
Interestingly, the idea behind such facilities is the preservation and continuation of the government while the people who the government purports to serve are expected to fend for themselves with little or no education, training or resources to survive a nuclear attack. The secondary aim is to make sure that access and ability to launch a counter strike is not compromised.
Apparently governments around the world have their priorities right