New Mexico Is Hiding Something Nobody Talks About...

Three miles from downtown Albuquerque, at Kirtland Air Force Base, sits the largest known repository of nuclear weapons in the world. The complex covers 54 acres and contains over 300,000 square feet of underground storage vaults. New Mexico already has Los Alamos, which designs nuclear weapons. And Sandia, which engineers them. And WIPP, which buries the waste. The largest stockpile in the world is the part the city of Albuquerque does not put on its tourism brochures. In 1986, cave explorers broke through a rubble blockage at the bottom of a dead-end cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. They had been digging for two years because they could hear wind roaring up from the floor. What they found was Lechuguilla Cave — more than 150 miles of passages at depths exceeding 1,500 feet, containing formations found almost nowhere else on Earth. The cave has never been open to the public. Bacteria isolated inside it for four million years have since given scientists clues to fighting antibiotic-resistant infections. These are 30 facts about what New Mexico is hiding. We count down to Fact 1. In a remote canyon accessible only by an unpaved road that washes out in rain, a civilisation built 800-room stone structures five stories high — with no metal tools, no wheels, and no draft animals. They left around 1150 CE. Two to three percent of the site has ever been excavated. Most of Chaco Canyon is still in the ground. We are Unreal Earth. Subscribe for more geography that actually surprises you. #NewMexico #Geography #ChacoCulture