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The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a United States Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, [2] at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, [a] which hosts the activities of several tenant units.
[55] [56] In January 2016, North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, [57] although only a magnitude 5.1 seismic event was detected at the time of the test, [58] a similar magnitude to the 2013 test of a 6–9 kt (25–38 TJ) atomic bomb. These seismic recordings cast doubt upon North Korea's claim that a hydrogen bomb was ...
Some installations are still called "Air Force Base", although operated by the US Space Force. [1] Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado [2] Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California [3] Patrick Space Force Base near Satellite Beach, Florida. [4] (Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is also located in the area, near Kennedy ...
Peterson Space Force Base, previously Peterson Air Force Base, Peterson Field, and Army Air Base, Colorado Springs, is a United States Space Force base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport and is home to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the Space Force's 21st Space Wing, elements of the Space Force's Space Systems Command, and United ...
Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station (CMSFS) is located in Cheyenne Mountain on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to Colorado Springs, [1] The Cheyenne Mountain Complex, an underground facility within Cheyenne Mountain SFS, was first built for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Combat Operations Center, though NORAD moved ...
The off-ramp on NORAD road has been staffed by Air Force Security Police since September 11, 2001. [3] Most of the center's operations were moved to Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs in 2006, [33] then in April 2015, the Pentagon reported that a few operations would be moving back in. [citation needed]
The United States was the first nation to develop the hydrogen bomb, testing an experimental prototype in 1952 ("Ivy Mike") and a deployable weapon in 1954 ("Castle Bravo"). Throughout the Cold War it continued to modernize and enlarge its nuclear arsenal, but from 1992 on has been involved primarily in a program of stockpile stewardship .
[1]: 4 The Air Defense Command was transferred to Colorado Springs' [2] Ent Air Force Base on January 8, 1951. [3] [a] Starting September 1953, the base was the headquarters for the U.S. Army Anti-Aircraft Command. [4] [b] The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was established and activated at the Ent Air Force Base on September 12, 1957.