The Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, long dubbed “America’s fortress,” is a bunker like no other. It sits 2,000 feet below solid granite, hidden deep in a mountain, and was ...

From 1985 to 1988, in the waning years of the cold war, as a young Air Force lieutenant, my job took me inside that mountain citadel. The approach to it wasn’t in any way awesome, since the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - The tunnel to the Air Force station inside Cheyenne Mountain is iconic. For 60 years, North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs has been ...

Should Cheyenne Mountain be shut down for any reason--what is known in the complex's parlance as a "button up," the personnel left inside "can maintain fitness" at the gym, Gentry said.

America's nuclear bunker hit middle age Friday with a 50th birthday party that drew hundreds to the tunnel entrance at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. Leaders said the 5-acre underground ...

America’s underground command post got a new landlord Friday when the 721st Mission Support Group was folded into the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base.

Cheyenne Mountain sits just south of Colorado Springs, the state's second-largest city. Peterson Air Force Base sprawls about 20 miles away, while Fort Carson, an Army post, is just across the street.

Cheyenne Mountain AFS branch chief for NORAD/NORTHCOM, Lt. Col. Tim Schwamb said, "This is where the best minds in NORAD and U.S. Northern Command are, so that we can see, predict, and counter any ...

The establishment of Cheyenne Mountain created a central brain for air defense command and control and not just for the United States. Thanks to the Ogdensburg Declaration of 1940, the U.S ...