{"id":36329,"date":"2019-02-26T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36329"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:20:50","slug":"target-jim-creek-is-an-obscure-washington-state-naval-radio-facility-in-russias-nuclear-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/target-jim-creek-is-an-obscure-washington-state-naval-radio-facility-in-russias-nuclear-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Target Jim Creek: is an Obscure Washington State Naval Radio Facility in Russia’s Nuclear Crosshairs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new article in the Seattle Times<\/em> newspaper discusses a large VLF radio facility that many people even in nearby Seattle, WA are not aware of:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/obscure-snohomish-county-navy-radio-station-named-as-top-russian-target\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This story reminds me of my 1960s childhood, growing up with a father who worked on the USA’s Minuteman ICBM missile defense program. This Cold War era missile system was a cousin to the submarine-based nuclear weapons. The Jim Creek transmitter was–and still is–a vital communications link to U.S. subs stationed worldwide.<\/p>\n

Guy Atkins is a Sr. Graphic Designer for T-Mobile and lives near Seattle, Washington. \u00a0He\u2019s a regular contributor to the SWLing Post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new article in the Seattle Times newspaper discusses a large VLF radio facility that many people even in nearby Seattle, WA are not aware of: https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/obscure-snohomish-county-navy-radio-station-named-as-top-russian-target\/ This story reminds me of my 1960s childhood, growing up with a father who worked on the USA’s Minuteman ICBM missile defense program. This Cold War era missile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,81,3,288],"tags":[752,7645,4012,7644,7647,7646],"class_list":["post-36329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-current-events","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-cold-war","tag-jim-creek","tag-navy","tag-seattle","tag-submarines","tag-us-navy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9rX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64879,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/cold-war-vlf-and-a-bobs-homemade-lwl-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":36329,"position":0},"title":"Cold War VLF and a Bob’s Homemade \u201cLWL\u201d QSL Card","author":"Thomas","date":"December 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Bob (K7ZB), who writes: Hi Tom, Bob, K7ZB here, and I was just looking at a post on your SWL site for NSS, the US Navy station which was activated back in 1918. 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