China Sends Message With Underground Super-Sized 'Pentagon'

Chinese President Xi Jinping. China is building a massive underground military command center, signaling its strategic ambitions and posing a challenge to U.S. defense dominance. (Getty Images)

By    |   Friday, 07 February 2025 07:18 AM EST ET

The Pentagon was the largest military command center in the world.

When it was finished in record time in 1943, the construction manager, Col. Leslie Groves, did so well that he was promoted to major general and put in charge of something even bigger, the Manhattan Project, which built multiple, large facilities across the United States to put together the world's first atomic bomb.

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