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"Cartwheel" Tower, Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020.
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Obsolete secret infrastructure like CARTWHEEL tower, only revealed decades later, intrigues me not just for its scale and design, but also for the obvious question it gives rise to. If this stuff effectively managed to stay unnoticed for decades, what newer secrets are hiding under our noses today?
@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