I'm inclined to place a backup base somewhere in the US North East. To the west of Lake Champlain in Vermont. The base would be 95% automated with a minimal complement of base personal frozen.
One of the biggest problems to having a backup base is the cost involved to creating all of these bases around the country, let alone 1 large primary base and possibly a smaller secondary base.
The more you build, the harder it becomes to keep the project hidden. The costs alone to get everything completed before 1989, without fusion technology would bankrupt a small country, let along the leading industrialists of the day. Post fusion that is another large out poring of cash to get the technology produced and then if so inclined to retrofit all of the structures previously built.
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