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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
This is the 1.5' thick door to the White Sulphur Springs bunker. The bunker where congress was supposed to live out a nuclear attack. I don't know why Reuters circulated this. I guess it's out of commission now. ...
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The location was featured in a recent PBS documentary. It was uncovered about 1991 by a Washington Post reporter although it may be long since been known by the Soviets. It was originally constructed in the early 1960 openly as a nuclear fallout shelter - but for the hotel as they were building a new wing. What was know to some hotel employees was its real purpose, since many of those employees were also military staff for the bunker
The bunker required extensive support since it even had to maintain current perscriptions for each Congressman. Originally, the idea was that Congressman would get on a special train to be whisked to this location. Later it was suppose to be busses. Bottom line is that Congressman were never going to get the 100+ miles in less than 15 minutes.
Other recently opened bunkers include one outside London near Cambridge, one in Scotland, and Canada's version. All were built around Cuban Missile crisis time.
Curiously another exists in FL in a now abandoned Coast Guard base. It was for Kennedy when he vacationed in the Kennedy FL compound. Pictures of Kennedy on his Honey Fitz show them docking at this Coast Guard base.