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Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers (Paperback)
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Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers (Paperback)
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Loot Price R459
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You Save R95 (17%)
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"Nuclear Bunkers" tells the previously undisclosed story of the
secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War
years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of
radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the
north Atlantic from the Aleutian islands through Canada to the
North Yorkshire moors, all centred upon an enormous secret control
centre buried hundreds of feet below Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.
This is complemented in the United Kingdom with a chain of secret
radars codenamed 'Rotor' built in the early 1950's, and eight huge,
inland sector control centres, built over 100' underground at
enormous cost. The book reveals the various bunkers built for the
U.S Administration, including the Raven Rock alternate war
headquarters (the Pentagon's wartime hideout), the Greenbrier
bunker for the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Mount
Weather central government headquarters amongst others.
Developments in Canada, including the Ottawa 'Diefenbunker' and the
regional government bunkers are also studied. In the UK there were
the London bunkers and the Regional War rooms built in the 1950's
to protect against the Soviet threat, and their replacement in 1958
by much more hardened, underground Regional Seats of Government in
the provinces, and the unique Central Government War Headquarters
at Corsham. Also included in the UK coverage is the UK Warning and
Monitoring Organisation with its underground bunkers and
observation posts, as well as the little known bunkers built by the
various local authorities and by the public utilities. Finally the
book examines the provision, (or more accurately, lack of
provision), of shelter space for the general population, comparing
the situation in the USA and the UK with some other European
countries and with the Soviet Union.
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