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

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...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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