The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command's sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said.
The Pentagon last week announced a $700 million contract with Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work for North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command.
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."
The Cheyenne mountain bunker is a cavern carved into a mountain in the 1960s that was designed to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack. From inside the massive complex, airmen were poised to send warnings that could trigger the launch of nuclear missiles.
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Awesome job obama
Raytheon Corporation now trading at about $110, up 1% today. Dividends modest but steady.
Might be time to jump on the war machine's gravy train.
The Stargate is at hand!
Somebody is waking up to what's going on in the world!
Where's that libtard group of concerned scientists and their nuclear war clock?
This shows that they're finally taking the EMP threat SOMEWHAT seriously.
Might be too late, though. Russian subs in the Gulf of Mexico, who knows what else off the coasts.
We could get nuked back to the 1800's before the sun sets today.
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