Editing CFB Goose Bay (section)

====1954 – Construction of the Strategic Air Command Weapons Storage Area====
Construction of SAC's [[Weapon storage area|Weapons Storage Area]] at Goose Air Base was officially completed in 1954.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Citation | last = Seaward | first = Larry D. | title = Preliminary Information Sheets, Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office |date=January 1999  }}</ref> The area was surrounded by two fences, topped with barbed wire.  It was the highest security area in Goose Air Base and comprised
* One guard house
* One administration building
* Three warehouses (base spares #1, base spares #2, supply warehouse)
* Six guard towers
* One plant group building
* Five earth-covered magazines for non-nuclear weapon storage
* Four earth-covered magazines for "[[Pit (nuclear weapon)|pit]]" storage (constructed with vaults and shelving to store pit "birdcages")
The design and layout of the Goose Air Base weapons storage area was identical, with only slight modifications for weather and terrain, to the three SAC weapons storage areas in [[Morocco]] located at [[Sidi Slimane Air Base]], [[Ben Guerir Air Base]], and [[Nouasseur Air Base]], which were constructed between 1951 and 1952 as overseas operational storage sites.
The last nuclear bomb components that were being stored at the Goose Air Base weapons storage area were removed in June 1971.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Norris | first1 = Robert S | last2 = Arkin | first2 = William M | last3 = Burr | first3 = William | title = Where they were | journal = The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | date = November–December 1999 | volume = 55 | issue = 6 | pages = 26–35 | doi = 10.1080/00963402.1999.11460389 | bibcode = 1999BuAtS..55f..26N | url = https://www.archives.gov/declassification/pidb/meetings/where-they-were.pdf }}</ref>