Why is NORAD moving to peterson AF base?

If you read the rest of the wikipedia article, there was a link to the Washington Post article announcing the move from CMOC to Pete:

'"Moving the missions from a hardened facility to Peterson AFB does not change the level of security," Keating told reporters Friday. "An assessment is underway to ensure that the security level is commensurate with threats."

"A missile attack from China or Russia is very unlikely," Keating said, according to a transcript of a recent interview with the Denver Post.

With a minimal threat of bunker-busting missiles from overseas, the military decided that the convenience of locating its surveillance operations in one place was more valuable than the protection Cheyenne Mountain offered.

The commander of NORAD works from Peterson Air Force Base, and the trip to Cheyenne Mountain can be time-consuming if traffic is bad. On Sept. 11, 2001, Colorado newspapers have reported, the commander spent 45 minutes on the road between his office at Peterson and his communications center under the mountain while the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were taking place. The Cheyenne Mountain center, at the eastern foot of the Rockies near the base of Pikes Peak, was constructed underground in the mid-1960s'

So the answer is: money and time. Obviously they feel that should international tensions heat up, there will be enough forewarning from intelligence sources (pause for laugh track) to "warm up" CMOC and get everybody inside before the missiles are airborne.

Just because you have a nuclear bomb doesn't mean you can get it to anywhere in the world you might want. India and Pakistan have been unstable regimes (how nervous does it make the world every time there's a military coup in Islamabad?) with nuclear weapons for years now, yet neither has an intercontinental delivery capability (so far). Neither does North Korea. Just the United States, Russia, China, France and the British.

NORAD isn't needed nowadays. Who is going to shoot an ICBM into Colorado? Certainly not the North Koreans or Iranians. Even though NORAD is being closed, it can be stood back up at any time. I think they call it warm standby or something.

Didn't know they were moving. Where did you hear this?

Interesting, please provide a link or a source. I'd like to investigate this further.