Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base: Difference between revisions

'''Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base''' (''Base Aérienne 942'') is located to the northwest of [[Lyon]]. It was built as a duplicate of the now-deactivated headquarters of the [[French Air Force]] nuclear strike force at [[Taverny Air Base|Taverny Air Base – BA921]] near Paris, with an underground alternate command center<ref name=ba942-2>{{cite web|title=Les missions de la Base aérienne|work=Base Aérienne 942|url=http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232|publisher=Ministry of Defense|language=French|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> buried at a depth of {{convert|125|m|ft}} and hardened against chemical and nuclear attack.<ref name=ba942-1>{{cite web|title=Organization générale|work=Base Aérienne 942|url=http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232|publisher=Ministry of Defense|language=French|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref><ref name=arkin1985>{{cite book|last=Arkin|first=William M.|title=Nuclear Battlefields: Global Links in the Arms Race|year=1985|publisher=Institute for Policy Studies|isbn=0-88730-002-2|page=285|coauthors=Fieldhouse, Richard W.}}</ref><ref name=nwdbv1>{{cite book|last=Norris|first=Robert S.|title=Nuclear Weapons Databook Volume V: British, French, and Chinese Nuclear Weapons|year=1994|publisher=Westview Press|isbn=0-8133-1612-X|page=236|coauthors=Burrows, Andrew S.; Fieldhouse, Richard W.}}</ref>

The location includes the South Sector Operations Center of the ''Commandement de la Défense Aérienne et des Opérations Aériennes'' (CDAOA or Air Defense and Operations Command), which is connected to [[NATO]]'s Air Command and Control System (ACCS).<ref name=ba942-2>{{cite web|title=Les missions de la Base aérienne|work=Base Aérienne 942|url=http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232|publisher=Ministry of Defense|language=French|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="ssi1">{{cite book|title=Command in NATO After the Cold War: Alliance, National and Multinational|editor=Young, Thomas-Durrell|publisher=Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College|date=1997|pages=116}}</ref>