| Raven Rock Mountain Complex | |
|---|---|
| Liberty Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States | |
 The Site R tunnel entrance with abutments (39°43′47″N 77°25′57″W / 39.729642°N 77.432468°W, white figure in illustration) now has a building that is visible from a public road intersection to the west, particularly when trees are bare. The tunnel's other (east) opening is near the military installation's above-ground support area near the Route 16 intersection with Jacks Mountain Road. | |
  Raven Rock Mountain Complex  Raven Rock Mountain Complex | |
| Coordinates | 39°44′02″N 077°25′10″W / 39.73389°N 77.41944°W[1] (mountain summit) |
| Type | Nuclear bunker |
| Site information | |
| Owner | U.S. government |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1951–1953 |
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The Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), also known as Site R, is a U.S. military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, at Raven Rock Mountain that has been called an "underground Pentagon".[3][4][5]: 2 The bunker has emergency operations centers for the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Along with Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado, it formed the core bunker complexes for the US continuity of government plan during the Cold War to survive a nuclear attack.[6]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
gniswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Communications facilities at a National Level (Report). Defense Communications Agency. 1 March 1961. p. 2. Retrieved 24 October 2011 – via A Secret Landscape: America's Cold War Infrastructure.
...Hardened Emergency Command Post and Relocation site for the Executive Branch of the Government at Mount Weather
(separate webpages for each report page) - ^ "Life on the Newsfronts". Life. 1 March 1954. p. 40.
- ^ Cillizza, Chris (3 January 2018). "There's no such thing as a 'nuclear button'". CNN Politics. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
Quoting Garrett Graff, Raven Rock: The Inside Story of the US Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself -- While the Rest of Us Die.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
DCA61was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Graff, Garrett M. (2017). Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-47673-540-5.