Michael Loewinger
speaker
1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When TV crews arrived at the crash site, they discovered rather ominously that Mount Weather had already been sealed off on the orders of Federal Security Agents.
The crash had inadvertently uncovered a tightly guarded Cold War secret.
Inside Mount Weather was a massive covert facility.
And somehow that undersells it.
Through a tunnel that burrows into the mountain, and behind a 34-ton blast door lies a subterranean, strange Loveyan lair.
A freestanding city with a hospital, a crematorium, an emergency power plant, and even a broadcasting studio.
Everything that the White House and thousands of federal workers would need to run the country underground while millions melted on the surface.
I expect your people to save our government.
That's what president Dwight Eisenhower told the first director of Mount Weather after it was built in 1955.
It's still operated by FEMA today, it's actually being renovated as I speak.
But back in the nineteen fifties, Mount Weather was run by FEMA's predecessor, the Federal Civil Defense Administration, the FCDA, which poured billions into making America nuke proof, or at least lulling people into the belief that with enough preparation they might survive atomic hellfire.
The FCDA was behind this delightful, if slightly morbid, PSA, instructing schoolchildren to hide under their desks during bomb drills.
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For adults, the FCDA organized Operation Alert, a series of dramatic exercises where millions of people acted out the day of their likely demise, emptying the streets of America's biggest cities.
Operation Alert was also the first time that Mountweather saw action.
As
kept secret until that terrible plane crash in 1974.
Fortunately, nuclear obliteration never came and Mountweather was never truly put to use.
But there's something ironic and revealing that a single storm brought more death and destruction to the base than thirty years of the Cold War.
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