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The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, is one of the world’s largest office buildings where over 23,000 employees contribute to the planning and execution of the defense of the US. The building was built during the early years of World War II. It took only 16 months to complete and cost $83 million.
The Pentagon is one of the world’s largest office buildings, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi (28.2 km) of corridors. The Pentagon includes a five-acre (20,000 m2) central plaza, which is shaped like a pentagon and informally known as “ground zero,” a nickname originating during the Cold War on the presumption that it would be targeted by the Soviet Union at the outbreak of nuclear war.
On September 11, 2001, exactly 60 years after the building’s construction began, American Airlines Flight 77 was Hijacked and flown into the western side of the building, killing 189 people (59 victims and the five perpetrators on board the airliner, as well as 125 victims in the building), according to the official report. It was the first significant foreign attack on Washington’s governmental facilities since the city was burned by the British and Canadians during the War of 1812.
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