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The Army built a giant concrete pyramid in North Dakota and used it for 6 months

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The interior of this place looks like something from The Last of Us. We had a client make a 360º tour of it ages ago, and they let us use it on our examples page. It's the last example here: https://seekbeak.com/examples/

You can use the drop down to jump around to different places, or do the tour and use the various navigation hotspots. They're usually located by looking down-ish on each image.

In a year or two Graham Hancock can visit the site and speculate about how a mysterious ancient civilization must have built that pyramid.

The countermeasures would have been a spectacular lighshow for the end of the world, as the system was overwhelmed.

Those airbursts, conventional or not, and a consequent rain of partially burnt, somewhat atomised fissile material over Canada and .. a lot of protected asset in North America. Assuming even a limited engagement, there was a lot of consequences afterwards.

Still, MAD did it's job.

The most interesting phenomenon of nuclear-tipped ABM systems is that exoatmospheric nuclear explosions create a pulse of X-rays that travels through space until it hits the atmosphere where it creates a plasma explosion that creates a strong and dangerous electromagnetic pulse.

Aside from the effects on people 1000s of miles away (the plasma travels that far) the EMP is a direct threat to the radar, computers, communication links, etc. In an engagement that lasts a few minute it needs to recover from any upset quickly; note Spartan uses a track-via-missile system (common in anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems that engage fast and distant targets) which would also impair missile control during an upset.

To that end they did all kinds of work including developing a unique computer

https://srmsc.org/ref1040.html

What on earth do crypto bros need a concrete pyramid for?

> The Army built a giant concrete pyramid in North Dakota and used it for 6 months

Biden, first US president laying in a pyramid. /s

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