Raven Rock Mountain Complex
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Sep 12, 2026
Jack MurphyHOST
Right.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
For the Pentagon, it's Site R, um, well outside the Beltway.
Jack MurphyHOST
Was it, was it Raven Rock?
Matthew KlimowGUEST
Yeah.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
There is a great quote from Rumsfeld's autobiography, Knowns and Unknowns, where he-- [laughs] Paul Wolfowitz's deputy, uh, defense secretary comes in and, um, I remember him walking in.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
I could see it clearly, and he said, "You know, Mr.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
Secretary, you're supposed to leave and go to Site R." And he said, "I'm not going to Site R.
Matthew KlimowGUEST
That's what deputies are for.
Eric EdelmanHOST
Hadley said, look, the vice president's down there.
Eric EdelmanHOST
Go down and tell him we think he ought to evacuate to Site R, which was one of the alternative command posts dating back to Cold War days.
Eric EdelmanHOST
And I was part of the emergency staff under the continuity of operations, continuity of government program.
Eric EdelmanHOST
So I had the tickets, I had a badge that literally could get me down to the bunker.
speaker_1HOST
The leader of the state, the president or the prime minister, is subjected to a meticulously planned evacuation protocol.
speaker_0HOST
They're surrounded by Secret Service agents, rushed on to Marine One, and transferred to the E-4B night watch, the airborne command post, or taken to a subterranean fortress like Raven Rock.
speaker_0HOST
The most powerful individual is immediately granted the absolute maximum level of physical protection available to human engineering.
speaker_1HOST
Why? Because of the grim logic of decapitation strategy.
Drew MillerGUEST
So they are taking a lot of resources.
Drew MillerGUEST
There's Raven Rock.
Drew MillerGUEST
There's a great book on this called Raven Rock.
Drew MillerGUEST
But Raven Rock, not Weather Cite, are hundreds of government facilities.
Drew MillerGUEST
So they do have facilities for top government leaders in the U.S. And they'll provide some of the police protection and food for that.
Drew MillerGUEST
But yeah, you're going to lose policemen very quickly.
19 MINS LATER
Drew MillerGUEST
They're all over the place with the government.
Drew MillerGUEST
They do not only nothing for us, executive orders in the government.
Peter KnightGUEST
and it just reinforced in my mind the importance of crisis action contingency planning and being able to rehearse those things And, you know, it was an eye-opener for me as a young captain.
Peter KnightGUEST
I went out to our contingency site, Site R, okay, which I can't tell you any more about.
Peter KnightGUEST
But, you know, if all hell breaks loose, nuclear holocaust, what have you, we have places where we bring our national command authorities to safeguard them in the event of calamity.
Peter KnightGUEST
And just to see all that that had already been out there and put in place many years before I joined the Army.
speaker_0HOST
And as the technology advanced, the Looking Glass network expanded.
speaker_0HOST
They integrated with the Alternate National Military Command Center, known as Site R, which is literally a city buried inside Raven Rock Mountain in Pennsylvania.
speaker_1HOST
A whole underground complex.
speaker_0HOST
And eventually they deployed the National Emergency Airborne Command Post, or NEAC.
Daniel DavisGUEST
I was working in the Pentagon in the preparation for that.
Daniel DavisGUEST
And so when it came time to start the war, out of precaution, they said, we're going to reposition half of our Pentagon staff to a place called Site R, which was a Cold War bunker that's built under the mountains somewhere in Maryland.
Daniel DavisGUEST
That's designed to survive nuclear warfare.
Daniel DavisGUEST
And so we went way under this thing.
Rebeka ZeljkoGUEST
Mm.
Tim PoolHOST
Mount Weather and Raven Rock.
Tim PoolHOST
It would be a, uh...
Tim PoolHOST
So if we, if, if it's, if there's-
Rebeka ZeljkoGUEST
Mount Weather and Raven Rock? What is this, like a-
Tim PoolHOST
You are not familiar.
Rebeka ZeljkoGUEST
No, I'm-
Rebeka ZeljkoGUEST
I know.
Daniel DavisGUEST
I was working in the Pentagon in the preparation for that.
Daniel DavisGUEST
And so when it came time to start the war, out of precaution, they said, we're going to reposition half of our Pentagon staff to a place called Site R, which was a Cold War bunker that's built under the mountains somewhere in Maryland.
Daniel DavisGUEST
that's designed to survive nuclear warfare and so we went way under this thing and so you know this is big blast doors and the whole thing you have to take a bus underground etc that's what they have those things are designed to survive nuclear blast no conventional munition will have any effect on those things we knew that ahead of time so for us to say no i don't care we're america if i say we're going to do it it's going to work it will Forget about reality.
Daniel DavisGUEST
Forget about geography, geology.
Daniel DavisGUEST
And listen, in the 2003 war, I was working in the Pentagon in the preparation for that.
Daniel DavisGUEST
And so when it came time to start the war, out of precaution, they said, we're going to reposition half of our Pentagon staff to a place called Site R, which was a Cold War bunker that's built under the mountains somewhere in Maryland that's designed to survive nuclear warfare.
Daniel DavisGUEST
And so we went way under this thing.
Daniel DavisGUEST
And so, you know, this is big blast doors and the whole thing.
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