In Popular Culture
- In novels, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) has the mountain destroyed, in For Special Services (1982) the bunker is infiltrated, and in Footfall (1985) the government uses the bunker after aliens attack.
- In films, WarGames (1983) is set partly at the command center, and Independence Day (1995) identifies that aliens destroyed the installation.
- In television, Stargate SG-1 and Jeremiah series are set partly in the bunker.
- In games, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (2001) uses the complex for cryogenic stasis after a nuclear war, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 uses filmed video of the base.
| Canadian Armed Forces portal | |
| Military of the United States portal |
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker |
| External media | |
|---|---|
| Images | |
| construction scaffolding | |
| c. 1972 Space Defense Center | |
| BMDC Operations Room (p. 12-4) | |
| Space Computational Center | |
| Mtn from former Ent AFB | |
| Videos | |
| Super Structures of the World | |
| 1970s footage of mountain (minute 6:50) | |
Read more about this topic: Cheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
Related Phrases
Related Words