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Buyer or investors sought for abandoned missile site (USA)
[Posted April 23.]
BATUM, Adams County — Bari Hotchkiss envisions a day when sightseers flock to his 57-acre plot of land, though looking at it, you couldn't imagine why. The desolate swath 35 miles northeast of Moses Lake is little more than mounds of dirt and sagebrush encircled by a forbidding chain-link fence.
But what rests underneath, he says, is a link to our nation's history. Five stories below the surface sit more than a dozen shock-proof structures connected by thousands of feet of tunnels. Three hulking silos descend 155 feet. Forty years ago, each housed a nuclear-tipped Titan I rocket aimed at the Soviet Union.
See: The Seattle Times.
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RAF bases axed in defence review
[Posted April 23.]
A number of RAF operations face closure or being scaled down as part of a defence review by Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram.
Plans will see RAF Sealand in Flintshire closed while RAF Boulmer in Northumberland and RAF Neatishead in Norfolk will be downgraded.
See: Government News Network.
Also: BBC News
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BAPT has now changed its name
[Posted April 13.]
The Bunker Archive Preservation Trust (BAPT) has now changed its name to Defence Archives Trust to better reflect its establishing the defence archives at Holmpton.
The website address is: www.defencearchives.org
James Fox (jamesATdefencearchives.org)
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Cold war bomb warmed by chickens!
[Posted April 1.]
Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War.
Civil servants at the National Archives say it is a coincidence the secret plan is being revealed on 1 April.
The Army planned to detonate the seven-tonne device on the German plains in the event of Soviet forces retreating.
Operation Blue Peacock forms part of an exhibition for the National Archives, in Kew, London, on Friday.
Professor Peter Hennessy, curator of the Secret State exhibition, told the Times: "It is not an April Fool. These documents come straight from the archives at Aldermaston. Why and how would we forge them? See: BBC NEWS
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15/2/02
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