But in 2008, NORAD officially moved to the nearby Peterson Air Force Base. Still, even to this day, it maintains an alternate command center at Cheyenne Mountain that it shares with U.S. Northern ...

Although NORAD called off its “nuclear ... did not have missiles capable of reaching Colorado. Cheyenne Mountain became the alternate command center, but operations regularly return there ...

The Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the alternate command center for the North American Aerospace Defense command (NORAD), has captured the imagination of storytellers since it was constructed in the ...

The Command Center plays a pivotal role in the 1983 ... command historian at NORAD. Cheyenne Mountain now shares duties with nearby Peterson Air Force Base when it comes to monitoring threats ...

The base at Cheyenne Mountain was built in the 1960s as the headquarters for North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. NORAD is a joint U.S.-Canadian military command tasked to keep a ...

For one, the Cheyenne Mountain complex is very much still ... Air Force Base to form a combined U.S. Northern Command and NORAD command center. Today, the day-to-day NORAD mission at Cheyenne ...

The threat of nuclear-equipped bombers from the Soviet Union flying over American cities was serious during the height of the Cold War in the 1950s. This potential threat forced U.S. defense ...

It sits inside Cheyenne Mountain, where North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) crews in front of ... covers sit over equipment in the Command Center during a media tour at Cheyenne Mountain ...

CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN AIR FORCE STATION, Colo. (AP) - A quarter-century has passed since the end of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the former Soviet Union, but the famous U.S ...