Cheyenne Mountain is closing down:
Posted by binky at July 29, 2006 08:02 AM | TrackBack | Posted to War and HistoryThe mountain, about 80 miles south of here on the Front Range, was carved out in the 1960's to house the early warning system for nuclear war, and its accouterments and image became the stuff of a whole generation's anxieties.
But those anxieties shifted after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's and even more after Sept. 11, and on Friday military officials in Colorado announced that Norad's day-to-day operations would be consolidated, for purposes of efficiency, in an ordinary building at Peterson Air Force Base in nearby Colorado Springs.