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Originally Posted by nuke11
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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Money really is not an issue. With all of the finance options of stocks, bonds, loans, derivatives, etc. available to multinational corporations and conglomerates with the ability to file bankruptcy to dismiss the accrued debts and restart anew under a different name without consequence the project is easily funded. Besides if the corporations finance the debt repayment dates beyond the day the war starts there is no bank nor court to face in default.
Using out of state contractors and imported labor force building the structures in stages is feasible. Dummy corporation hires a contractor who imports a labor force to lay the foundation then files bankruptcy. Three months later a new company buys the site and hires a contractor with out of state labor force and builds the structure. After completion the company files bankruptcy. Repeat the process until the site is completed. No contractor nor labor force sees the entire structure's construction. The final fitting out is done by a Morrow Industries subsidiary.