![]() ![]() As its still in full operation, you won't find much info online about it (aside from some wild speculation) but a contemporary article in the New York Times will give you some info. The Denton FEMA site serves as the first prototypical continuity-of-government site for the United States. Why partially? Because the FEMA site is the far more interesting reason. By the time the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty went into effect, there were about 250 such sites in the US and Europe. I believe the current FEMA building is the one with the massive underground bunker that was built during the cold war and could withstand a close proximity nuclear blast.Īs has been discussed, and as was a favorite topic in the PoliSci department, the Locust sites are one of several NIKE-system batteries built - partially - to defend the DFW area from ballistic missiles in case of attack. Upon the proliferation of the ICBM these sites, which were all over the country, became obsolete and were closed down. The site itself is a big let down but fun to walk around and think of the history. I kicked around there back when I was in school mid 90's. I believe there were 36 elevators to do all this secretly. The long tunnel to locust was cemented after UNT bought the building and you can see where the new cement was poured. Upon completion it was sent back down into the tunnels and hauled to the missile site on locust via a long ass tunnel. This allowed them to be manufactured secretly. As the project reached the next phase it was sent down the elevator and moved down the tunnel and up into another part of the building via tunnel and elevators. Back when these missiles where being manufactured, parts would come in and get sent down into the basement. ![]() If you go to the basement of Discovery Park there are huge tunnels and a configuration of elevator bays. I only skimmed through the article and didn't see a reference to UNT but I do know that UNT's Discovery Park (once owned by TI) was a major contributor to this missile site. i once took a tour of the place.impressive. The other interesting site is the complex west of denton, just south of university dr, that was one of three or four that was a massive underground bunker complex that was designed to house the president and his staff in case of war. This site was built to protect dallas/ft worth from incomming. A buddy of mine leased some space, at this site, for part of his photography studio. NT leased the site for a while and I took an astonomy class (pass/fail) one summer to qualify for enough full time hours to get full benefits for my G.I. ![]()
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