DEFCON Traditional Cache
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Krypton
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Silly little grab and go. I generally don't hide these types any more, but this place had some significance, so for that reason I put this cache here. I had a container, but just used scraps of papers for a log, no I was not prepared.
Right in the middle of the road, just north of the gate there used to be a guard shack. On that guard shack was a sign where a placard could be hung indicating the DEFCON level, so you'd know right off when you went to work. DEFCON being the "defense condition", how close we were to going to nuclear war with the Soviet Union that particular day. Work at Skaggs Island was communicating with our submarines around the world. There were two sets of communication facilities and antennas. One for routine communications and one to transmit launch codes to start Armageddon. The building that housed facility that could transmit the launch codes was rather spooky and abandon when I saw it. Concrete block construction with no external handles on the doors (you had to be let in by someone on the inside), a moat (really), and a single lane wooden bridge over the moat that I was told (don't really know) had been rigged with explosives so it could be blown up if necessary. Half of the structure was fuel storage and a generation facility so you they could still transmit if the electrical grid had been knocked out.
A scary period in our history, the cold war. But then again Isaac Asimov suggested that atomic weapons were actually a blessing. He said this because the consequences were so dire, that 50 years following their invention were the most peaceful world history. The only 50+ year period in history where there had been no major war in Europe. Hmmm.
And as to how I know the above, none of the above is secret anymore plus I worked on some of the projects cleaning up Skaggs Island about a decade ago.
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