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Originally posted by StumpDrummer
I wonder if this is the deep underground bunker over there that ive heard of...does anybody know the location of that bunker?
Originally posted by defcon5
Originally posted by StumpDrummer
I wonder if this is the deep underground bunker over there that ive heard of...does anybody know the location of that bunker?The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.
Mount Yamantau
Sorry, I'm not good enough with these maps to find if the two are related.
A military bunker would be my first guess as well though.As an ATS Staff Member, I will not moderate in threads such as this where I have participated as a member.
Mount Yamantaw is near one of Russia's last remaining nuclear labs, Chelyabinsk-70, raising speculation that it already houses nuclear weapons. Russian newspapers reported in 1996 that it is a part of the "Dead Hand" nuclear retaliatory command structure.
Originally posted by Flyingclaydisk
reply to post by rimjaja
Theories I have seen on numerous websites run the gamut of possibilities. Everything from 'nothing at all' to 'something of worldly epic proportion', hence my undying desire to find out what, exactly the explanation is.
Originally posted by Flyingclaydisk
You can't see enough to recognize anything, but there's definitely something there.
edit - looks like my image got truncated or auto-cropped, but you can still see what I'm talking about
edit on 2/14/2013 by Flyingclaydisk because: edit comment
Originally posted by NeoVain
Mount Yamantaw is near one of Russia's last remaining nuclear labs, Chelyabinsk-70, raising speculation that it already houses nuclear weapons. Russian newspapers reported in 1996 that it is a part of the "Dead Hand" nuclear retaliatory command structure.
Same place where that meteor hit, chelyabinsk. Concidence??
Too many concidences lately... This thread was even started before the meteor hit or was even known about.
The government is, naturally, concerned about such a large closed military town and such secretive action. While the government insists the site is being used most likely as a bunker, the facts about the region don’t lie. Mount Yamantaw is located suspiciously close to Chelyabinsk-70, the last known nuclear lab in the country. The proximity of the two have led global leaders to conclude that the site may indeed already be housing a series of nuclear weapons.
But how can this be? The international community has already made a huge financial contribution towards helping Russia disarm whatever nuclear weapons they once had. Is it possible they’re mining a place to hide what they never actually diffused?
So what’s the truth? The complex being built within the mountain may be more than meets the eye. Sure, it may be a bunker for government officials to use in the event of a nuclear emergency. Sure, it may be a place to store food and clothing. In reality, it’s probably a combination of every excuse ever given for the site’s existence.
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The Soviet Union is no stranger to secret underground military bases. At the end of the Cold War, the Soviets used bases throughout Eastern Europe to house their nuclear weapons. In fact, at the time they had hidden more than 73 missiles known as the SS-23. Each one could do more than 350 times the damage the bomb at Hiroshima did.
In June of 1988, the Soviet Union was found in violation of the INF Treaty and supposedly disarmed its remaining nukes. The United States gave the government of Slovakia a grant to help destroy the last remaining missiles.
The real kicker is that the United States Government has intelligence proving that the base beneath Mezghorye is not the only underground base in Russia. In fact, it is only one of six, each of which have received significant upgrades over the past few years.
So there you have it. Mezghorye is a secret city sitting on top of a secret mining project with no real explanation. Speculate as you wish, but don’t try to visit. You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone willing to admit the place exists, anyway.
This declassified Defense Intelligence Agency map [right] shows the relative location of the underground Yamantau Mountain complex. Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, U.S. intelligence sources believe the Russian government has pumped more than $6 billion into Yamantau alone, to construct a sprawling underground complex that spans some 400 square miles.
In 1998, in a rare public comment, then-Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Gen. Eugene Habinger, called Yamantau
"a very large complex -- we estimate that it has millions of square feet available for underground facilities. We don't have a clue as to what they're doing there."
It is believed to be large enough to house 60,000 persons, with a special air filtration system designed to withstand a nuclear, chemical or biological attack. Enough food and water is believed to be stored at the site to sustain the entire underground population for months on end.
"The only potential use for this site is post-nuclear war..." --- Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
Bartlett is one of the handful of members of Congress who have closely followed the Yamantau project.
The Yamantau Mountain complex is located close to one of Russia's remaining nuclear weapons labs, Chelyabinsk-70, giving rise to speculation it could house either a nuclear warhead storage site, a missile base, a secret nuclear weapons production center, a directed energy laboratory or a buried command post. Whatever it is, Yamantau was designed to survive a nuclear war.
In response to repeated U.S. inquiries, the Russian government has provided no fewer than 12 separate and contradictory explanations for the site, none of them believed to be credible.
Peter Pry, a former CIA analyst and author of a new book on Russian nuclear operations, said the continued construction of the Russian strategic defense sites is ominous and cannot be dismissed by U.S. officials as "inertia" from Cold War-era strategic policies. "It shows they take the threat of nuclear war so seriously that they're willing to spend scarce resources on it," Mr. Pry said, adding that he was not familiar with the CIA report. "These things are tying down billions of dollars in rubles that could go into other enterprises the Russians need - for example, providing housing for Russian military officers." Mr. Pry said Russian press reports say the underground facility at Yamantau Mountain covers an area as large as the Capital Beltway.
Russia is continuing and possibly intensifying the proliferation that has made a U.S. national missile defense essential. As recently as June 2000, just weeks before President Putin's visit to Pyongyang with its ostensible purpose of ending North Korea's missile program, missile component companies in Russia and Uzbekistan were reportedly collaborating to sell North Korea a special aluminum alloy, laser gyroscopes used in missile guidance, and connectors and relays used in missile electronics.129
The Russian government is accelerating its rapprochement with the rogue's gallery of former client states that the Soviet Union supported during the Cold War--not only reviving the Soviet intelligence relationship with Castro based on the listening post at Lourdes, Cuba, but also working with Beijing to renew both political and military ties with the pariah regimes in Iraq,130 North Korea, and Libya,131 and cultivating the Milosevic dictatorship in Belgrade. A more troubling contrast to the atmosphere of the early 1990s could hardly be imagined.
Originally posted by flexy123
Well the first thing which is apparent is that this site is not "somewhere in Russia", but on the utmost edge to the East close to Alaska. I bet 99% it's some sort of IBCM missile site, there is no reason to speculate anything else BUT that it's some military site.
HOWEVER - the real mystery is how comes that OUR (Western) images sources are blurred? I didn't even know that Russia has this authority to tell us what to show and what not?
SOMEONE has cut/blurred this area by request of Russia (which, IMO, is already noteworthy to mention)...and if someone cut/blurred the area out this means logically also that someone (in the West) KNOWS what that area is. (Respective, where this request to blur came from)
edit on 14-2-2013 by flexy123 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by lacrimoniousfinale
Having said that, actually blacking something out (as some agencies have done) is a surefire way of raising everyone's suspicions.edit on 24-2-2013 by lacrimoniousfinale because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by defcon5
Originally posted by StumpDrummer
I wonder if this is the deep underground bunker over there that ive heard of...does anybody know the location of that bunker?The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.
Mount Yamantau
Sorry, I'm not good enough with these maps to find if the two are related.
A military bunker would be my first guess as well though.As an ATS Staff Member, I will not moderate in threads such as this where I have participated as a member.