Nuclear security

World War 3: US facility below Colorado mountains exposed after nuclear blunder

WORLD WAR 3 was more than a possibility during the Fifties, provoking the US to build a secret facility in the mountains of Colorado to help monitor the skies - but a blunder two decades later exposed it to the world.
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a military installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, next to the city of Colorado Springs, which hosts the activities of several tenant units. But it was first built in 1957, to host the NORAD Combat Operations Centre, to provide aerospace warning, air sovereignty and protection for North America and was active during the height of the Cold War as an early warning system in the event of a nuclear attack on the US from the Soviet Union. But in 1979, the facility was exposed following a horrendous blunder, it was revealed by historian Lance Geiger on his channel “The History Guy”.