Today Is The 60th Anniversary Of NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Base

Some 2,000 feet below the surface of the Cheyenne Mountains lies American's most secure intelligence and data center. The massive underground fortress is a short distance from NORAD and UNSORTHCOM headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Daily Mail: The 'Most Secure Place on Earth': Top secret NORAD base buried deep inside Cheyenne Mountain opens its 23-ton blast doors as the Cold War relic reinvents itself for the 21st century

* The warren of tunnels blasted from mountain granite is known to some as the most secure place on earth
* Built in Cold War to monitor Soviet threats and ensure central command could not be wiped out by attack
* North American Aerospace Defense Command still uses site to keep track of states including North Korea
* Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the bi-national organization created by the US and Canada to protect the skies over both nations

A quarter-century has passed since the end of the Cold War, but a top secret NORAD base buried deep inside Cheyenne Mountain has offered a rare tour to show how it is still tracking nuclear threats from America's enemies.

Behind 23-ton blast doors lies what it known as the most secure place on earth - a warren of tunnels blasted out of Colorado granite in the 1960s teeming with high-tech surveillance and monitoring equipment.

NORAD, which is 60 years old on Saturday, called off its 'nuclear watch' in 1992 after the Soviet Union disintegrated, but the site's 300 staff are still monitoring threats to the US around the clock - including, despite the recent detente,Kim Jong-Un's North Korea.

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