Harley
9th April 2015, 20:57
This is probably not a good time to be sticking your head in the sand.
NORAD: DC Power Outage, North Korea Mobile ICBM's, and Cheyenne Mountain
http://i.imgur.com/Cnuw4iUl.jpg
07 April 2015
1. DC Power Outage Shows Nation's Infrastructure Vulnerability
The brief power outage that hit the White House, the State Department and other government buildings Tuesday demonstrated the vulnerability of the nation's power grid, the head of U.S. Northern Command said.
"All of our critical infrastructure is fragile," said Adm. William Gortney, commander of NorthCom and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) with responsibility for defending the U.S. against external attack and coordinating the military's efforts with civilian agencies.
A power blackout "could be a mission kill for NORAD and NorthCom," Gortney said, and the outage in Washington, D.C., showed that "we have a lot of vulnerabilities out there."
2. North Korean Mobile Nuclear ICBM ‘Operational Today’
http://i.imgur.com/6dwHTyil.jpg
The head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday that North Korea is continuing to develop a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system capable of firing nuclear weapons to U.S. shores.
Adm. Bill Gortney said the U.S. believed that the long-range KN-08 ICBM missile was “operational today.” He further explained that North Korea’s military could miniaturize a nuclear to mount on the missile.
“We haven’t seen them test the KN-08 yet and we’re waiting for them to do that, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will fly it before they test it,” Gortney said.
The Pentagon has released previous intelligence reports saying the North Koreans could miniaturize nuclear warheads and mount them to the KN-08. *Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, made the same assessment last October at a press briefing.
3. NORAD Moves Back To Cheyenne Mountain
http://i.imgur.com/8fYjSanl.jpg
NORAD is moving it's comm gear back into Cheyenne Mountain to protect it from electromagnetic pulses, said Adm. William Gortney, commander of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD.
“There is a lot of movement to put capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there, because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain is built, it’s EMP-hardened. It wasn’t really designed to be that way, but the way it was constructed makes it that way.
My primary concern was... Are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody that wants to move in there, and I'm not at liberty to discuss who's moving in there... but we do have that capability.”
Last week, the Pentagon awarded defense firm Raytheon a $700-million contract to install new equipment inside the mountain. The company said the contract, which runs through 2020, will “support threat warnings and assessments for the North American Aerospace Defense Command Cheyenne Mountain Complex.”
The Pentagon’s March 30 contract announcement said Raytheon will provide sustainment services and products supporting the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract covered systems. “The program provides ITW/AA authorities accurate, timely and unambiguous warning and attack assessment of air, missile and space threats,” it said.
The Colorado complex is the embodiment of the Cold War, an era when bunkers were built far and wide to protect people and infrastructure. Cheyenne Mountain was the mother of these fallout shelters, a command center buried deep to withstand a Soviet nuclear bombardment. The complex was locked down during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
Air Force Space Command runs the mountain and maintains sleeping quarters, fresh water and a power station that would be used during an attack.
Links:
Military.com (http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/04/07/general-dc-power-outage-shows-nations-infrastructure.html?ESRC=dod-bz.nl)
DefenseTech.org (http://defensetech.org/2015/04/08/norad-chief-north-korean-mobile-nuclear-icbm-operational-today/?ESRC=dod-bz.nl)
DefenseOne.com (http://www.defenseone.com/management/2015/04/pentagon-moves-more-communications-gear-cheyenne-mountain/109549/)
U.S. Naval Institute (http://news.usni.org/2015/04/07/norad-chief-north-korea-has-ability-to-reach-u-s-with-nuclear-warhead-on-mobile-icbm)
And there are many more current news reports which are seriously leaning toward the same conclusion:
The Nuclear Threat
NORAD: DC Power Outage, North Korea Mobile ICBM's, and Cheyenne Mountain
http://i.imgur.com/Cnuw4iUl.jpg
07 April 2015
1. DC Power Outage Shows Nation's Infrastructure Vulnerability
The brief power outage that hit the White House, the State Department and other government buildings Tuesday demonstrated the vulnerability of the nation's power grid, the head of U.S. Northern Command said.
"All of our critical infrastructure is fragile," said Adm. William Gortney, commander of NorthCom and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) with responsibility for defending the U.S. against external attack and coordinating the military's efforts with civilian agencies.
A power blackout "could be a mission kill for NORAD and NorthCom," Gortney said, and the outage in Washington, D.C., showed that "we have a lot of vulnerabilities out there."
2. North Korean Mobile Nuclear ICBM ‘Operational Today’
http://i.imgur.com/6dwHTyil.jpg
The head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday that North Korea is continuing to develop a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system capable of firing nuclear weapons to U.S. shores.
Adm. Bill Gortney said the U.S. believed that the long-range KN-08 ICBM missile was “operational today.” He further explained that North Korea’s military could miniaturize a nuclear to mount on the missile.
“We haven’t seen them test the KN-08 yet and we’re waiting for them to do that, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will fly it before they test it,” Gortney said.
The Pentagon has released previous intelligence reports saying the North Koreans could miniaturize nuclear warheads and mount them to the KN-08. *Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, made the same assessment last October at a press briefing.
3. NORAD Moves Back To Cheyenne Mountain
http://i.imgur.com/8fYjSanl.jpg
NORAD is moving it's comm gear back into Cheyenne Mountain to protect it from electromagnetic pulses, said Adm. William Gortney, commander of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD.
“There is a lot of movement to put capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there, because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain is built, it’s EMP-hardened. It wasn’t really designed to be that way, but the way it was constructed makes it that way.
My primary concern was... Are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody that wants to move in there, and I'm not at liberty to discuss who's moving in there... but we do have that capability.”
Last week, the Pentagon awarded defense firm Raytheon a $700-million contract to install new equipment inside the mountain. The company said the contract, which runs through 2020, will “support threat warnings and assessments for the North American Aerospace Defense Command Cheyenne Mountain Complex.”
The Pentagon’s March 30 contract announcement said Raytheon will provide sustainment services and products supporting the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract covered systems. “The program provides ITW/AA authorities accurate, timely and unambiguous warning and attack assessment of air, missile and space threats,” it said.
The Colorado complex is the embodiment of the Cold War, an era when bunkers were built far and wide to protect people and infrastructure. Cheyenne Mountain was the mother of these fallout shelters, a command center buried deep to withstand a Soviet nuclear bombardment. The complex was locked down during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
Air Force Space Command runs the mountain and maintains sleeping quarters, fresh water and a power station that would be used during an attack.
Links:
Military.com (http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/04/07/general-dc-power-outage-shows-nations-infrastructure.html?ESRC=dod-bz.nl)
DefenseTech.org (http://defensetech.org/2015/04/08/norad-chief-north-korean-mobile-nuclear-icbm-operational-today/?ESRC=dod-bz.nl)
DefenseOne.com (http://www.defenseone.com/management/2015/04/pentagon-moves-more-communications-gear-cheyenne-mountain/109549/)
U.S. Naval Institute (http://news.usni.org/2015/04/07/norad-chief-north-korea-has-ability-to-reach-u-s-with-nuclear-warhead-on-mobile-icbm)
And there are many more current news reports which are seriously leaning toward the same conclusion:
The Nuclear Threat