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Old 02-05-2018, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by rcaf_777 View Post
Also the Mount Pony facility in Culpeper, VA housed a Federal Reserve Board which operated a 140,000 square foot radiation hardened facility.
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Until 1988 the facility stored a $1 billion stock of currency to be used to reactivate the American economy following a nuclear attack.

https://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/mt_pony.htm
Much of which was in the unpopular US $2 bill, IIRC.
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