THESE TWO MASSIVE STEEL DOORS, each weighing 30 tons, are among devices that will seal off the North American Air Defence Command’s underground combat operations centre in the event of an attack. The doors, 36in thick, are installed in 17ft-thick reinforced concrete barriers in the tunnel leadtog to the defence Command post inside CheydAne Mountains, near Colorado Springs.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30973, 1 February 1966, Page 17
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58THESE TWO MASSIVE STEEL DOORS, each weighing 30 tons, are among devices that will seal off the North American Air Defence Command’s underground combat operations centre in the event of an attack. The doors, 36in thick, are installed in 17ft-thick reinforced concrete barriers in the tunnel leadtog to the defence Command post inside CheydAne Mountains, near Colorado Springs. Press, Volume CV, Issue 30973, 1 February 1966, Page 17
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