Back in the day...

Cold War's secret mountain is undermined by modern menace -

The first thing I saw on my first day at Fountain Valley was Cheyenne Mountain, a few miles from the school. With all the other military bases in the area, it was popularly reckonded to be the most heavily-targetted spot in the U.S., and we had a big picture window looking at it. It as a paranoid time, and there was a lot of gallows humour about living so close. Paul Romberg and I had a pact that, once the Russian missiles were known to be coming, we'd hike to the top and sunbathe under the blast. Kids, eh?