Take The Red Pill Now: Pics Of The Secret World of Underground Government Bunkers

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Pics Of The Secret World of Underground Government Bunkers

The German Government Bunker (Regierungsbunker), 16 miles (25 km) south of Bonn, Germany

Officially named Emergency Seat of the Federal Constitutional Organs for the State of Crisis or State of Defence to Maintain their Ability to Function, (Ausweichsitz der Verfassungsorgane des Bundes im Krisen- und Verteidigungsfall zur Wahrung von deren Funktionstüchtigkeit, or AdVB) and built between 1960 and 1972.

(via Leralle/Ralf, Jan Griesbaum and Felix/fxp)

Burlington Cold War City (but known as Stockwell, Subterfuge, Turnstile and Site 3), Corsham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

This is the former emergency relocation site for the British government in the event of nuclear attack.

Coffee machine in the main canteen, of course.

The BBC's underground broadcasting studios for the Prime Minister to address the nation.

A wooden telephone switchboard from the 1950s

This butterfly valve could be closed to prevent nuclear fallout or chemical contamination from entering the ventilation system.

The storage area, containing everything from glass ashtrays to stationary and unused telephones.

This telephone exchange was maintainted by British Telecom until the mid-80s.

The Prime Minister's private bathroom

(via Burlington Bunker, The Blog Below)

The Greenbrier (or the Project Greek Island, Project Casper or Project X), the former U.S. Government Relocation Facility, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

This emergency shelter under the Greenbrier Hotel was never actually used, and its existence was revealed thirty years after its completion, in 1992 by Ted Gup of The Washington Post.

(via Bobak Ha'Eri, The Blog Below and Not Purfect)

Emergency Government Headquarters, built for the Government of Canada

These bunkers are called Diefenbunkers, after the Prime Minister of the day, John Diefenbaker.

War Room

Nuclear Room

The Prime Minister's office

At the subterranean dentist's office.

The doctor's office

Teletype machines

Cafeteria

(via I. Gouss, Auto Exposure Canada and Amy Allcock)

Underground Project 131, Hubei province, China

This system of tunnels was constructed in the 1960s and 1970s for the Chinese military command headquarters in a nuclear war. It was never fully completed, and now it functions as a museum.

"Visitors not allowed beyond this point."

Communication center

(via Wikimedia Commons)

Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker (NORAD), near Colorado Springs, Colorado

The complex was designed to withstand a 30 megaton nuclear explosion within 1.2 mi (1.9 km). It was built between 1961 and 1966, and used for forty years.

(via Wikimedia Commons, USAF 1 - 2)

Bonus: A bunker, used during the two World Wars, somewhere in France

Abandoned since the 1970s.

Office space

Left: "From Hell to Heaven", right: mushrooms.

A 77mm Model-1896 WWI field cannon

Panhard VCR

A French military truck

ERC-90, designed in the 1970s

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