The U.S. Military Has A New Command Center To Conduct Nuclear War

Image: US Army Corps of Engineers

David Axe, Motherboard: The US Military Has a New Facility for Overseeing Nuclear War

The C2F, as it's known, is unlikely to survive very long during a full-scale nuclear war.

The US military is getting ready to move into a new, $1.3 billion command center for conducting nuclear war.

The Command and Control Facility at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska boasts upgraded electrical power, cooling and networking infrastructure for sophisticated communications systems connecting planners to missile silos, nuclear-armed bombers, ballistic-missile submarines, and other nuclear forces all over the world.

The C2F, as it's known, is also shielded from the computer-frying electromagnetic pulses that result from atomic blasts. Some of the most important parts of the building are below ground level.

However, the facility is unlikely to survive very long during a full-scale nuclear war.

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WNU Editor: In an all-out nuclear war, this place will be gone within one hour.