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Raven Rock Mountain is adjacent to Jacks Mountain on the north while Miney Branch flows west-to-east between them in the Potomac River Watershed.The 1820 Waynesboro-Emmitsburg Turnpike with toll station for the 1787 crossroad was constructed between the mountains, where the Fight at Monterey Gap was conducted after the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (Stuart's artillery at Raven Rock Gap shelled ...
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The Ark Two Shelter is a nuclear fallout shelter built by Bruce Beach (14 April 1934 – 10 May 2021) [1] [2] in the village of Horning's Mills (north of Toronto, Ontario). [3] The shelter first became habitable in 1980 and has been continuously expanded and improved since then. [ 4 ]
The bomb shelter and surrounding 5.85 acres were sold July 12 to South Rock Road LLC for $899,000. According to neighbor Marty Rhoat, speculation about the bunker has grown in the surrounding ...
An area near the Trinity site is designated the Permanent High Explosive Test Site (PHETS) and was used in the 1980s to host very large ANFO blasts for international testing of military gear. The Trinity nuclear site was originally private property taken over by the Army to test the plutonium implosion weapon, the first nuclear explosion on Earth.
Plans to house the USSPACECOM and NORAD command centers in the same location began by July 1994. [47] A $450 million upgrade was made to the missile warning center beginning in February 1995. The effort was part of a $1.7 billion renovation program for Cheyenne Mountain. [48] 'Granite Sentry' was an improvement program for the complex. [49]
Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), which is composed of member companies Bechtel, Leidos, Orbital ATK, and SOC, with Booz Allen Hamilton as a teaming subcontractor. [2] CNS also operates the Pantex in Texas, the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. [3]
Detachment Hotel [a] (also known as "the Kennedy Bunker") is the name used to refer to a small 1,500-square-foot (140 m 2) bunker complex on Peanut Island, Florida.It was originally designed for use by the President of the United States, specifically John F. Kennedy, in the event of a nuclear war.