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Mountain complex in colorado springs opened 25 ton doors. it took years and a million and a half pounds of dynamite to blast through thousands of feet of solid granite. cheyenne mountain is the most fortified military installation in north america. conceived and constructed during the cold war when a soviet nuclear attack was a chillingly real possibility. as americans learned to prepare for the worst-case scenario of all-out nuclear war. >> first, you duck, and then you cover. reporter: the arm...

Installation, the cheyenne mountain complex in colorado springs opened its 25 ton doors. it took years and a million and a half pounds of dynamite to blast through thousands of feet of solid granite and build this complex. today cheyenne mountain is still the most fortified military instation in north america, conceived and constructed during the cold war when a soviet nuclear attack was a chillingly real possibility. as americans learned to prepare for the worst-case scenario of all out nuclear...

Each rests on massive springs, shock absorbers shoe the building, people and equipment can rise out any seismic event, including shock weighs from a nuclear detonation. >> this was born out of the fears of the cold war and nuclear attack, right? >> it was. early design, concepts were developed in the late 50s with construction starting in 61. >> the idea is that you have a for tres in here inpenetratable from the outside. no electromagnetic pulse, nuclear attack. >> correct. designed to survive ...

Of their nuclear detonation facility. so already we have them. so i think setting up the expectation that it has to be denuclearization now is nothing -- that is not going to work. we have to be martyr -- we have to be patient and let the process and net negotiations continue. >> quickly, the three americans being detained in north korea, do you believe their release is imminent in these pre-trump and kim jong-un meeting discussions? >> i would certainly hope so. i know ive spoken to my colleagu...

Great to always have both of you here on this topic. lets talk about this. what are we missing in the story? what is kim jong-un giving up as tensabas -- ostensibly? that test site worth shutting down? >> theyre going to have to shut it down anyway because after the sixth test, the mountain became unstable. if they had another detonation there the whole thing could have collapsed. you would have had radioactivity short of floating into china. ki kim didnt want that but had to. this sort of goes ...

Explosive, dynamite. and in concert, you see those charges in the ground. and the detonation in which initiatives. >> how much in terms, and 1000 pounds. and set off at the same time. >> how much damage you can do and what of these cartridges is dangerous if used the wrong way. commercial products in a safe handle so they can be used on the ground by the industry. if you put those together, more importantly hurt somebody else. of the 20 why were they taken? is this something to be concerned abou...

Up. >> i think people are going to be extremely relieved. this is a city thats remained on edge. authorities have been urging the public not to open any packages that appear suspicious. so people have been wary of that. i think the sense of fear and dread and anxiety really intensified over the weekend. when we saw an additional explosive. then certainly in the past couple of days with that detonation at the fedex store, that again raising the anxiety because it really shows an intensification b...

The materials are the same, the explosive chemical content of the bombs are the same in each one of these cases. even though the detonation has been different with a couple of different devices such as the pressure switches versus tripwire. >> last night the chief of police in austin was saying to me some of the components of these devices are the same. >> right. ando the fact that this much speed of the device dwooevices the locality of being in that part of texas as opposed to a month goes by ...

Nightclub bombings. >> the one bomb that did not explode, was there a wealth of information inside of that for investigators? >> that was kind of the holy grail of this kind of case, to be able at some point to have your strategy and planning that you can be lucky enough to get a bomb that is not been detonated. you have everything. you can get in there, control the detonation of it. you can preserve the parts. maybe you have better possibilities of getting fingerprints, dna. you have the dna of...

Reports of that incendiary device was in a box that was right next to the nation been, and when the employee went to check the donation bin, that is when the incendiary device went. this, of course, laura, on the heels of five explosions that have rocked austin, texas, since the beginning of this month. then tonight the atf also confirmed that a bomb was found inside a package at an austin fedex distribution center right next to the international airport here in austin. but they found it before ...