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Video about NORAD and no information about how they track Santa Claus on Christmas eve from the North Pole to every neighborhood in the US? My kids used to follow the bleep on the screen showing the route of the reindeers.

This is where I live in Colorado Springs at the foot of the mountains. We have NORAD complex, Peterson Air Force base, Fort Carson (large army base) Falcon Air Force base and the Air Force Academy (we are surrounded)

Yes this was the base for Stargate.

Not necessarily storing explosives there now, they said it is being used to protect "Weapon Systems". These could be Electronic equipment and other highly sensitive stuff that are parts of larger systems rather than the weapons themselves.

i worked in there for 3 years back in the early 90s.. missile warning, intelligence, and space command which tracks every object bigger than 3 inches in orbit about the earth.. i took the bus in there for 3 years of my Air force Career. Loved working there. the 427m system is what i worked on and the new renovation was what was going in when i left.

Look up a video about The Greenbriar Resort in White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia that held a secret bunker beneath the resort that could house all 535 mbrs of Congress. The bunker was a secret until revealed in an article by the Washington Post in 1992, It's since been decommissioned (directly after its existence was revealed) but can be visited now by the public. It was renovated and is currently used by the public sector as an information storage facility.

I believe the Movie Wargames was filmed there in 1983 it is a good movie you should watch it

When my brother lived in Colorado Springs his house had a view of both Pike's Peak and Cheyenne Mountain. He could watch the New Year fireworks on PP, and the start of World War III. Nowdays, most Americans only think of NORAD around Christmas when they "track" Santa's progress.

A tv show called “Stargate” used the Cheyenne mountain base entrance for over 10 years on their TV show and that show is like 20 years old. Not a hidden secret

They've got other places. We don't know about them yet. Maybe a bunker built under a cover such as Greenbriar resort.

I was at Cheyenne Mountains with my Royal Canadian Air Cadets squadron when I was a 15 year old teenager way back in 1974 (I think!) some 50 years ago. It was a gas! We went down to Colorado by air force bus from Regina, Saskatchewan and it was 1 1/2 days of straight driving during Easter holidays through blizzards in North Dakota and Wyoming and finally Colorado.. It was still winter in Saskatchewan but when we got to Colorado Springs it was much warmer, around 70 F. Leaves were coming out on the trees, which they didn't even think about doing in Regina, LOL! The Americans treated us very well, no complaints there! We ate at Peterson Air Force base and there was more good food than you could shake a stick at. All the cooks and mess hall staff were black. Then we got a tour of the Air Force Academy and that is also a _very_ impressive facility. The Vietnam war was still going in 1974 and the Canadian dollar was actually worth more than the American dollar, one of those rare moments! I remember us driving into the mountain in a bus and seeing all kinds of netting attached to the walls of the tunnel to catch any rocks that fell loose. I well recall those giant coil springs all the buildings were sprung from, and the giant blast doors. Then we got to see the James Bond type central command centre with its giant electronic maps on the wall showing everything from every conceivable direction all the way up to the Arctic, which is likely where any Soviet attack would come from. All in all I was one impressed 15 year old and I recommend a tour of the place if anyone ever gets the opportunity. We stopped at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota on the way back. The Black Hills are a place where you half expect a dinosaur to be around every bend in the road, it is so primitive looking, wow! 😎👌💖

That's where the Stargate Command is...not sure about NORAD.

I used to work there in the 1990's.

Great video,. Thank you Amanda for another great choice. Also BP1 love the denim jacket.

There's a little known, smaller sister NORAD facility at CFB North Bay (Ontario, Canada) - my hometown. It's much smaller and the operations have largely been moved above ground. During the cold war, it was a much bigger base with the NORAD "Hole" to monitor for Russian bombers coming over the North Pole; Fighter/interceptor squadron(s); and Bomarc intercontinental nuclear missiles (1961-1972). I've been down in the "hole" 2 times; my Boy Scout leader was the 2nd in command at the base. It has the biggest blast doors you've ever seen and all the underground buildings are built on the biggest springs you will ever see. Fascinating place.

Not mentioned are the different levels, with level four covering many dozens of square miles and having a ceiling of a few hundred meters. This giant level has a perfect duplicate of Disney World. In the Cheyenne Mountain library they have books such as “How to train your giant scorpion” and “zombie STDs: sex with the Undead: know before you blow”. There is also a cookbook “sand, 1001 recipes”

While in the region check out Yuca Mountain.

Just a bit of trivia...each of the blast doors in Cheyenne Mountain weighs 23 tons.

When I was growing up in the 60s & 70s, just to the ESE of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) bases in North Dakota (over 1,000 ICBMs were in siloes in ND, MT & WY), our high school history teacher pointed out that the radioactive fallout from a nuclear war would likely take out our whole area, as the weather normally moved the winds from "hundreds of bulls-eyes" to the west, directly at us. At the time, the state of North Dakota would have been the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world behind the USSR and the rest of the USA - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman

The Cheyenne complex has become very active in the last few years as large power conflicts have reappeared as a threat. Much of it has become active again.

Thanks for yakking over the most critical details guys. I found it so interesting that now I have to go watch the original video AGAIN to hear the stuff ya blabbed over so we couldnt hear what he was saying.

Nice choice Amanda. 😊 Have you found a good video about Norfolk Naval Station and the North American headquarters of NATO located at Norfolk City VA? I've looked and haven't seen any real quality ones. BP2, you have to shoot the complex the email advising they put in a pickel ball court.😅 Yes, when I was in elementary school in the 80's (and maybe part of Middle School)we did drills for nuclear attack and still did air raids.

1.1B in today's money!! Just try to build something like that today for 1.1B. No Way.

I knew about Cheyenne Mountain back in the mid '60s

I think I will go back and watch the old movie Fail Safe. Kind of reminds us how we don't think of everything.

Thinking about it all as a thing of the past is not a good idea. If you got it keep it ready!

Heinlien's Moon is a Harsh Mistress makes refernce to a complex in Colorado that is beneath a mountain. In that fiction, it gets destroyed.

The United States has several (Fallout Shelters) like the Cheyenne Mountain facility. They only publically acknowledge two. The other is the Greenbrier Facility. The rest are classified.

Two Films and TV Series in the Base.

back in the eighties there was a film called war games about a teenage hacker who breaks into NORAD's computers and almost causes a nuclear war. It was mostly nonsense of course but when president ronald reagan saw it he took it seriously and ordered a new government program to stop that scenario from ever happening. Don't know if some kind of early alzeimer's disease was already affecting him then.⚛

I grew up in Colorado Springs and my mom worked at Ent Air Force Base and my dad was a military police officer at Peterson Air Base

Interesting video, nice one Amanda.

they didn't put nukes in Cheyenne mountain 😅 just the controls to launch them

I was born in Colorado Springs in 1982 and just moved away a few years ago. It was always a little intimidating to know how close NORAD was. I thought for sure we would be a huge target if things went badly!

Interesting. I'm pretty sure we have no idea what they are doing at norad.

I’ve been to the (at that time closed) Cambridge Bay facility. Don’t know if current concerns have see it reopen.

They have a taco bell.

Very interesting. Thanks Amanda. Another great suggestion. I've always been a bit curious as to why anyone would build something like that for protection against nuclear attacks. I would suspect there would be multiple attacks on strategic locations and each one could potentially be thousands of times more powerful than the ones dropped on Japan. So When the smoke clears, do the survivors crawl out into a barren world void of living animals, plant life and other humans? Not exactly the best environment to hunt or find other natural food supplies. Or would they stay in the the bunker and wait on the predicted half life of the radioactive fall out to drop hazards to a survivable level, bring out some seeds and plant a garden? Seems they did a great job of planning on how to survive the attack, but I've never heard what their plan was once the attack was over.😁 Thanks again, Amanda. And thanks guys for another eye opening reaction.- Hawk

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The United States spent $820 billion on national defense during fiscal year (FY) 2023 according to the Office of Management and Budget, which amounted to 13 percent of federal spending.

It is manned by joint US and Canadian command.

Yeah…it’s closed, wink wink.

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Stargate needs to be brought back.

My son was stationed there as a Security Forces airman in the early 2000s. He has some interesting stories.

React to te SLAM missile. Project pluto.😱

There seem to be quite a few Brits telling the world the history of other countries. Why is that?

Unlikely Cheyenne Mountain would be the last survivors. You have to remember that there have been more than 2000 above ground tests before they were banned in the early 70's. And some of those were huge. Thought I would come back to see how you blokes were doing.

Would you like to play in a game?

That's exactly why they hire a certain percentage of women to work there....just in case.

Anything the military tells us is, and rightfully so , suspect, and likely a decade, or more , out of date. That phone, or whatever device you're watching this on is probably obsolete when compared to US military capabilities.

Simon wheeler has a great voice but I'm pretty sure he does know fact-checking himself. Over a 2-year period I watched many of his RU-vid's that he voiced. About 50% of what he says in each of those videos is not correct

And to think we've been going back words and are closer to ww3 than any time in the last 40 years. So Norad might be out of anouther time but still relivent.

Maybe you guys can understand him… But in most of his vlogs, we call him mush mouth. Totally unintelligible to the American ear.

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