The Once and Future Adak

This smart little town, busy with 4000 people in 1991, furious then with construction of a key US submarine base, is all but empty - Adak, Alaska. With an unused high school, elementary school, and big swimming pool, Adak is down to 300 people, now owned by an Aleut corporation.

I like the optimism of Adak's website - not only was the bulk of this city built fresh in the late 1980's and early 1990s, and is all still in excellent shape, this is one of the few towns with a complete SOSUS network under its control, still able to monitor submarine traffic throughout the north Pacidic. It was a center for submarine monitoring operations when it was all but abandoned by the Navy in the early 1990's, due to the Cold War draw down.

It was a bit of a multi-billion boo-boo.

But fear not, we've got another one. We're towing an incredibly expensive (built in Texas and towing around the Horn, which was supposedly cheaper than building in Adak) and useless X-Band missile tracking floating radar unit there to guide the non-functioning missiles in Delta Junction that will fail to intercept the intercontinental ballistics that North Korea won't fire at Anchorage, because frankly there are much easier ways to destroy Anchorage (insert your own joke) and anyway there are certain limitations with the laws of physics the Pentagon has been poo-poohing in building this $53 Billion dealy-bob.

Still, that leaves Adak, an all-but empty perfectly modern city in the middle of the North Pacific, ready for something. Waiting.

Please refer all enquires to the Godot Development Group.