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So Long, Cheyenne Mountain

Well, the folks at the Target Store in Colorado Springs can breath a sigh of relief: NORAD is moving up the road to Peterson Air Force Base and putting Cheyenne Mountain on standby.

The Denver Post has some nice images and graphics.

GAO, in a report ominously number 06-666, recently described the Cheyene Mountain upgrade program as “over cost, behind schedule” adding that “some capabilities have been deferred indefinitely [that] could pose risks to performing some future operations.”

Paul Shambroom, in my opinion, still took the best pictures of the complex, inside and out, including the one above.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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