Cheyenne Mountain SFS - References

Part of: Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station Cultural Resources Archive

Site Name Keywords
Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center • CMOC

Site Type Keywords
Non-Domestic Structures • Governmental Structure • Historic Governmental Structure • Military Structure

Other Keywords
NORAD • COC • Cheyenne Mountain • North American Air Defense Command • Underground Combat Operations Center

Culture Keywords
Historic

Investigation Types
Historic Background Research • Heritage Management

Temporal Keywords
Cold War Era • Cold War

Geographic Keywords
El Paso County (County) • United States of America (Country) • Colorado (State / Territory) • Pueblo County (County) • North America (Continent) • El Paso (County) • USA (Country)

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  • Documents (2)
  • A Brief History of NORAD (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text North American Aerospace Defense Command Office of History. Charles H. Jacoby, Jr..

    History of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

  • Legacy of Peace: Mountain With a Mission, NORAD'S Cheyenne Mountain Combat Operations Center, The Cold War Years: 1946-1989 (1996)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard G. Chapman. The New Mexico Engineering Research Institute.

    The story of the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Combat Operations Center (COC), the nerve center for the defense of North America during the Cold War. During the Cold War period, from March 1946 to November 1989, the free world faced the threat of a hostile Soviet Union and the specter of global nuclear war. As the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, strategic bomber capability, and space delivery systems, the United States and Canada joined forces to defend North America from the threat of...