Subotai/196; take a look at the 05/13/04 entry: Grey Terror.

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This is fun, too.

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The great Judi McLeod, one of the stalwarts against the IPCC, has weighed in with among other things this:

“According to U.S. Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md), Yamantau is “the largest nuclear-secure project in the world.”

The Yamantau mountain complex covers an area of some 400 sq. miles, or as Rick Lowry (National Review, Feb. 25, 2002) puts it, “as large as the area inside the Washington Beltway”.

Construction of the mammoth facility began during the 1970s during the Soviet Union era of the Leonid Brezhnev administration.

Geographically located in a closed zone near the city of Mezhgorye, in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan, north of the Kazakhstan border, it’s a huge underground facility, complete with railways, in a huge underground facility embedded deep within Yamantau mountain. Costing over $7-billion, the complex is supported by some 60,000 workers who live in the nearby towns of Beloretsk and Tirlyanskiy.

Ever pressed for more details by the guys who sign their pay cheques, spies with the National Security Agency (NSA) are nonplussed about the intriguing absence of notable telecommunications support facilities for the complex. An underground network, KGB style Yamantau is believed to be an alternate “doomsday” command center for the Russian government and military in the event of a nuclear, biological or chemical attack.

U.S. intelligence agencies are reportedly under order to make Yamantau a top priority. Evil Mountain has intrigued the likes of President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield, UN ambassador nominee John Bolton and representatives Curt Weldon (R-Pa) and the previously mentioned Bartlett

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Note in this WSJ article on the deal underway this sentence:

“…monitoring of a key ballistic-missile site in Russia, which ended in 2008, won’t resume, according to officials familiar with the accord.”

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(that’s gonna be Yamantau, is it?)