Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker

Cheyenne Mountain

Entrance of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center

Reinforced door of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Centerbdep2

The Cheyenne Mountain, a mountain in the Rocky Mountains on the south side of Colorado Springs, Colo., has become known through the present in his U.S. military base Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center ( CMOC ) (formerly Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station ( CMAFS ) ) that the North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ) and the space satellite surveillance space Detection and Tracking System ( SPADATS ) included, among other things. Approximately 1,400 people worked under the mountain until the base taken out of service in July 2006 and was transferred to the status of "warm standby". Reason was the absence of the original nuclear threat and the availability of a nearby Air Force base, which could take over the functions of the CMOC.

On the eastern slope of the mountain there is the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun.

Media

The film WarGames, in which a teenage hacker inadvertently brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, shows the complex as one of the main locations of the movie, as it is the authors on criteria such visits during public tours, in the 1980s have presented.

In the television series Stargate - Kommando SG -1, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe and the associated feature films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum is the Cheyenne Mountain location of the " Stargate centers" and includes a " Stargate ".

In many other series and movies the big round entrance of the complex is shown, which was admitted into the mountain.

The future and the slow decay of the building after a fictitious disappearance of humanity will result in 9 of the second season of the docu-fiction series Life After People ( " Danger from the Deep ", USA 2010 ) are shown.