That’s physics.īack when humans were cold warring, one of these doors stayed closed. They’d have to make that perpendicular turn and then swim upstream. It's coming from deeper in the mountain, the result of a purposeful over-pressurization so radioactive or bio-particles won’t seep inside the complex. We pass through one open 25-ton door-it'll get closed in the event of a potential or impending threat to the area-and enter a rock-walled room with a second such door at its far end. Visit the Nuclear Bunkers That House a Million People in Beijing Arrow But I'm allowed: I'm here for a rare tour of the mountain’s innards. And with escalating fears about North Korean aggression and nuclear capabilities, Cheyenne Mountain’s ability to predict and survive a nuclear attack resonates more than it did just a few months ago.Īs I drive up the hairpinned road toward the entrance to the mountain, made famous in fictional form by War Games and Stargate, signs warn me off with increasing aggression. It’s designed to do its job, and let those inside do theirs, in the worst of worst-case scenarios. Their military mole-city, completed in the mid-1960s amid Cold War worries, is-when fully buttoned-up-highly resistant to nuclear bombs, electromagnetic bombs, electromagnetically destructive behavior from the sun, and biological weapons.
Shielded by 2,500 feet of granite, these people gather and analyze data from a global surveillance system, in an attempt to (among other, undisclosed things) warn the government’s highest officials of launches and missile threats to North America. But deep inside the mountain, a crew of humans toils in one of the nation’s most secure military installations.
Cheyenne Mountain-a rounded, rocky thing that rises 9,565 feet above sea level-looks wild and quiet. But just to that mountain’s southeast looms another geological ripple. In the background of Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak dominates the sky.
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