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Very cool story out of Wisconsin about a family that discovered some interesting items in a fallout shelter from the 1960s in their backyard.
Here's an interesting video on the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia.
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 10:44 PM
14 Comments:
Im glad the cold war ended before i came around!
9:45 AM
Very interesting. I wonder if there is any new bunkers that we don't know about.
10:59 AM
I hope i'm part of the 1.75 students that you referred to....but anyways its crazy how that one Ted dude totally compromised millions of dollars of government investment in the bunker. Makes me wonder about other government secrets that we don't yet know about, or possibly ever will.
11:34 AM
That is a very interesting video, Im glad that
1:06 PM
This is really cool, it's too bad Ted Cup released that article. They had invested so much into keeping it up to date and secret. It also makes you realize how real the fears of nuclear attack were.
2:38 PM
I wish we still had bomb shelters in our backyards... you never know.. It's best to be prepared!!
5:09 PM
How common was it to have a bomb shelter? Was it just radical people that believed in a total fallout, or was it a common thought thing?
7:17 PM
I wouldn't having a bomb shelter. I think it'd be pretty cool
7:18 PM
Those bomb shelters seemed bigger and more secure than I thought, especially since the duck and cover commercial showed little protection. The food stocked in it doesn't seem very practical... you can't live off cookies and tang orange drink.
It would be cool to see a bunker in person!
7:35 PM
Nick,
Having a bomb shelter was not abnormal during the cold war. I think the people who could afford to have built did so. Public buildings in every city in the U.S. were usually designated as fallout shelters. They were stocked with abundant supplies for the general population.
7:37 PM
This bunker was made to hold every person necessary for congress to run..? Does that mean the House of Representatives and all state senators? Also, did the filtration of the air actually have the capability to filter out radioactive materials?? Seems a little futuristic to me!
7:41 PM
The government was very lucky that the Soviet Union collapsed not long after Ted Cup exposed the bunker. Imagine if two political enemies had to sleep next to each other.
7:48 PM
The bunker underneath the hotel looks cool. I wonder if there was a movie room or something to keep them entertained. To bad that reporter had to screw it all up for everyone.
8:11 PM
It's amazing to me that they were able to keep it a secret for as long as they did. Makes me wonder whats out there now that we dont know aobut.
9:38 PM
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