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Greetings from Colorado Springs

Greetings from the 2006 Forum on Defense and Space from Colorado Springs.

The large mountin topped with all manner of antennae, visible from the conference hotel, is Cheyenne Mountain—home of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, which serves as the command center for both NORAD and USNORTHCOM.

It is the central collection and coordination center for a worldwide system of satellites, radars, and sensors that provide early warning of any missile, air, or space threat to North America.

The box store at the foot of the mountain is, naturally enough, a Target store.

That must amuse the hell out of Russian targeteers.

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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