Reporter’s Notebook: Testing New Tech At A Forgotten Bunker In The N.M. Mountains

July 06, 2022
The entrance to Plant 1 at Manzano Base, a former presidential bunker turned nuclear stockpile storage facility that now hosts test facilities for the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Credit: Brian Everstine/staff
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, New Mexico—A sprawling complex under arid mountains near the edge of Kirtland AFB here has a renewed life testing cutting-edge technology, more than 70 years after it was built in secret to protect the U.S. president in the event of a post-World War II disaster. Manzano Base...

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