Deep Underground Support Center

The Deep Underground Support Center (DUSC) was a

Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker started in 1961), the DUSC was to be 3,500 ft (1,100 m) deep and be "able to accommodate some 200 people for [30 days] to handle the large volume of data processing and analysis required for strike assessment, as well as follow-on strike and other decisions."^[2]^: 325 Cost estimates for the SAC Control System facility increased to $200 million, and when the operational year slipped from 1965 to 1969, SAC decided in 1963 "for a long-endurance, all airborne concept instead" (Wainstein), and the JCS and OSD concurred with the DUSC project cancellation.^[3]

References

^ Wainstein cites: Historical and Research Division, Strategic Air Command, History of the Strategic...1962
^ Wainstein, L. (Part 1, Part 4, Project Leader); Cremeans, C.D. (Part 4); Moriarty, J. K. (Part 2); Ponturo, J. (Part 3) (June 1975). The Evoluition of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning, 1945-1972 (Report). Vol. Study S-467. Institute for Defense Analyses.{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Wainstein cites: Deputy Secretary of Defense (5 February 1962), Deep Underground National Command Center (declassified "Memorandum for DDR&E"), Office of the Secretary of Defense and a Joint Chiefs of Staff^{[verification needed]} "Draft Memorandum for the President": National Deep Underground Command Post, 7 November 1963, TOP SECRET.

[1] Wainstein cites: Historical and Research Division, Strategic Air Command, History of the Strategic...1962

[Wainstein-2] Wainstein, L. (Part 1, Part 4, Project Leader); Cremeans, C.D. (Part 4); Moriarty, J. K. (Part 2); Ponturo, J. (Part 3) (June 1975). The Evoluition of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning, 1945-1972 (Report). Vol. Study S-467. Institute for Defense Analyses.{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] Wainstein cites: Deputy Secretary of Defense (5 February 1962), Deep Underground National Command Center (declassified "Memorandum for DDR&E"), Office of the Secretary of Defense and a Joint Chiefs of Staff^{[verification needed]} "Draft Memorandum for the President": National Deep Underground Command Post, 7 November 1963, TOP SECRET.

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