They're closing NORAD

[acroyear]

Well, the mountain, anyways...

Report: Military Closing Mountain Complex:

The military is virtually closing the secretive defense complex carved into Cheyenne Mountain that for decades has monitored North American skies for threats, a newspaper reported.

The Denver Post reported late Thursday that the North American Aerospace Defense Command operations center will be moved to nearby Peterson Air Force Base, which is home to the U.S. Northern Command created after the Sept. 11 attacks.

NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian command, was set up in the 1960s to monitor the skies for threats like missiles, aircraft and space objects.

Adm. Tim Keating, who commands both NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command, said the government's best intelligence "leads us to believe a missile attack from China or Russia is very unlikely."

Granted, since the end of the cold war, the most any of us ever saw it was in repeats of Wargames, but still...I'm constantly seeing my present-past, stuff I always expected would exist forever (at least in my lifetime) disappearing...

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ah a piece of SF lore gone forever. Not just Wargames, but Stargate is set there.

But at least NORAD is still around, if not in the mountain. Because if they went away, who would track Santa on Christmas Eve? :>

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

That's a good cover story. I suppose stargate command gets the whole installation to themselves now.