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"Cartwheel" Tower, Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

@[email protected] If you're ever in Scotland you might want to visit the Secret Government Bunker attraction in Fife, just over the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. It's a former ROTOR nuke-hardened air force control centre turned continuity of government HQ, and it's run as a cold war museum. Up top, it's disguised as farm buildings. Underground? Three levels of accommodation for a couple of hundred military and civil servants in event of nuclear war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I remember something like that just outside London, now a privately operated museum. Looks like a suburban house from the street.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected]
Yeah. Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker.

It's great, but strange. The owners have a very weird and dark sense of humour. It's also very,... British eccentric, I think is the best way to describe it.
The audio tour is definitely worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] yeah, that’s what I was thinking of

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] I can second this. It’s only a few miles from where I grew up up. Never knew it was there until years later when I found out a friend’s dad (who worked at the Uni) was on the list of people supposed to head there in the event of nuclear tits up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] My spouse says we're going to visit the moment Scotland leaves the UK and rejoins the EU. Whether I like it or not. She can park me in a pub with wifi somewhere.