Alert Nuclear Weapons Storage Facilities Eyeball

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22 November 2008. A most informative site on nuclear weapons storage:

http://www.nukevets.info/

22 November 2008. A sends:

Weapons were not stored inside these facilities. These are "A Structures", used for storing nuclear capsules inside special carriers known as "birdcages." These carriers were pressurized to keep contaminants out, and were fitted with standoff struts to prevent any criticality incidents with other capsules. More pics and info (most informative):
http://www.3084adg.us/capsule_storage_and_maintenance.htm

20 November 2008

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:21:./temp/~ammem_sIWm::

Travis Air Force Base, Building No. 925, W Street, Fairfield, Solano County, CA

Survey number HABS CA-2669-A

Significance: Building 925 represents an important link in the design and development of nuclear weapons storage facilities during the early Cold War period. It is one of only five alert nuclear weapons storage facilities of this type built in the United States. Building 925 is a distinguished contributing element of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project Q Area at Travis Air Force Base, which has been recommended as a historic district eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places under criterion c.

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Three of the alert weapons storage facilities remain at Barksdale Air Force Base, LA (below).

Alert Nuclear Weapon Storage Facilities

Eyeball

More: http://www.nukevets.info/Fairfield%20AFS.htm
Travis Air Force Base, 16 June 1993, Showing the Alert Nuclear Storage Facility
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Travis Air Force Base, circa 2007, Showing the Alert Nuclear Storage Facility Removed.
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Travis Air Force Base, circa 2000. Images from the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) (www.loc.gov)
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These are medium-resolution images. High-resolution images (each ~22MB) are available at the URL above.
Structure built in 1959.
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Construction drawings show the windows are fake, applied to a 10-foot-thick reinforced concrete wall. The roof is 17-feet thick;
the floor 10-feet thick. Interior space is 9-feet high.
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Weapons are stored in stacked cubicles.
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