article_snippet.sent: The high tech base entered popular culture with appearances in the 1983 Cold War thriller War Games and 1994's Stargate - which imagined Cheyenne Mountain Complex as a clandestine home for intergalactic travel.
article_snippet.sent: Excavation on the site began in 1961.
article_snippet.sent: Sci-fi movie Stargate (1994) was set inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex while 1983's War Games also imagine a nuclear standoff operated from inside the nuclear bunker .