20 Jul
2005
20 Jul
'05
3:55 p.m.
John,
After reading this description of the building, I immediately recalled a
building that I've seen around here. While helping my sister and her
husband move, I saw a very solid looking building, that had Go Away
written all over it. I wondered what it had been, or what was in it
now. After doing a bit of reasearch, I now find that it was part of a
SAGE installion! Wow, something really cool in my very own home town!
Here it is then:
http://www.radomes.org/museum/photos/FortCusterMISAGEcenter.jpg
Here it is now:
http://www.radomes.org/museum/recent/FortCusterMI.html
As you can see, it looks to be in pretty good shape!
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
STORY AS FOLLOWS:
Anti-blast from the past was built to last
If it goes, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment building won't go
easily. Its thick, lead-reinforced concrete walls were intended to
withstand the ravages of a nuclear holocaust. Only a direct hit could
have taken it out.
The building was designed in the mid-1950s as part of a network of
identical information-gathering centers built throughout the country
that was supposed to protect the country's nuclear bomber fleet. Its
designers intentionally made it so nondescript that only a handful of
military personnel even knew of its existence or purpose.