SECRET BOMBER GENERATION 2008
Castle AFB was a Cold War era Strategic Air Command installation in central California. It was converted to civilian use in 1995, but it still has some restricted areas that are spectacular relics of the war on American soil that never happened.

This backlit marker board used to organize the planes in the air and on alert was hidden behind curtains inside the "War Room", the nerve center of the base. Most of the movable equipment in the room had been removed years ago and everything that was left had a thick coating of dust.

THE CUBE 2007
This seven-story concrete cube once housed some of the most advanced radar equipment in the world, protecting America from missile attack. Built in 1957, this Air Force Radar Station was closed in 1980.

UNDERGROUND CASTLE 2008
This is a semi-blastproof, partially underground, barracks-bunker at Castle AFB was where B52 and KC135 crews lived on 2 week shifts. On an alert they'd run out of these tunnels to their waiting aircraft. The crews could have their aircraft in the air in 15 minutes, 24-7.

MICRO MARSH 2007
A marsh grows in the pool outside the gym at a long abandoned Air Force Base. Mysterious nocturnal animals were splashing and rustling in the reeds during this exposure.

CHERNOBYL 2007
The smell of kerosene hangs heavy in the air inside the control room of the powerhouse at a decommissioned Air Force Radar Station.

CYCLOPS 2007
A decrepit truck scale in the industrial section of Fort Ord Army Base, demolished in 2007.

CAFETERIA 2004
The Hunters Point Shipyard's gigantic cafeteria, once capable of feeding thousands every day, it has been locked down and dormant since the seventies.

DANGER ZONE 2007
Inside Building 4900, a factory-like heavy-industries structure at Fort Ord Army Base in Monterey, California.

ON THE QUAD  2008
Abandoned dormitory buildings at Castle AFB under churning winter skies. This entire complex is scheduled to be torn down in late 2008.

IN THE KEYHOLE  2007
Shooting from the three-point line, in the desolate gym of an isolated mountaintop Air Force Radar Base. Abandoned and untouched for almost thirty years.

SCRAMBLE! 2008
Another view of the barracks-bunker at Castle AFB was where B52 and KC135 crews lived on 2 week shifts. Imagine flight-suited crews sprinting out of this tunnel to their idling, nuke-laden jet.

THE BLUE ROOM 2006
Sunset and nearby sodium vapor lights bruise the fog creeping over this quiet corner of Fort Ord Army Base in Monterey, California.

ENGINE TEST BUILDING 2008
Along the perimeter fence of decommissioned Castle AFB.

FIRE PLUG 20056
Just a few of the dozens of dilapidated homes, quietly decaying, at Skaggs Island Naval Base, near Sonoma, California. Once a thriving community, it’s now a lonely ghost town.

WOODEN CONSOLE 2008
Inside the surprisingly low tech "War Room" at Castle AFB, a decommissioned Strategic Air Command base in Central California.

HOVERING MATTRESS  2006
On the north side of the decommissioned Fort Ord Army Base in Monterey, California is a huge tract of abandoned housing. Hundreds of homes stand open to the elements, and salvagers have dragged anything left inside into the streets.

STRATO-TANKER IN ACTION 2008
KC-135 and F-106 Delta Darts painted on the wall inside the barracks-bunker at Castle AFB where B-52 and KC-135 crews lived on 2 week shifts.

DATA CONVERSION 2007
Inside one of the 4,000 abandoned buildings at Fort Ord Army Base in Monterey, California.

FROG FARM 2005
Record rainfalls flood part of the residential section of decommissioned and abandoned Skaggs Island Naval Base, as another storm prepares to blow in.

THE POINTY ROOM  2008
Inside a second story rec-room in one of the abandoned dormitory buildings at Castle AFB. Scheduled for demolition.