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"Cartwheel" Tower, Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020.
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@mattblaze@federate.social 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.
@cstross@wandering.shop I remember something like that just outside London, now a privately operated museum. Looks like a suburban house from the street.
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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.
@b3cft@infosec.exchange yeah, that’s what I was thinking of
@cstross@wandering.shop @mattblaze@federate.social 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.
@cstross@wandering.shop @mattblaze@federate.social 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.