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I could tell you about number 10, but I won't. It was about 1970 and I was operations officer at a Strategic Communications Center. My duty officer called me in the middle of the night and said I should come to the tunnel right away. When I got there I found a flurry of highly classified messages passing between commands and the DEFCON hovering near hysteria. I went home, changed into my fatigues and strapped on my personal sidearm, reminded my wife where the shelter was located and kissed her goodbye. I then returned to the tunnel to discover the the DEFCON had ratcheted up another notch, so I sent the civilians home and locked us in. When I returned home 48 hours later, my wife asked what had happened. Nothing. (Nothing I could tell her about) And nothing ever appeared in any public forum or media. That's why, after my posting there ended and the vault door on the tunnel locked behind me (and the combination changed) I was never comfortable with "the news". I knew there were things happening that I once knew of but would never know again.