Cold War Bunkers

The U.K.’s Cold War Defences    http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/index.shtml

Sponsored by The Research Study Group (RSG), a sub group of the of the Subterranea Britannica Website http://www.subbrit.org.uk/ . The RSG specializes in Cold War material (bunkers in general, the Royal Observer Corps and UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, etc), and is specifically devoted to the study of structures related to the Cold War period. It contains a great deal of information and thousands of photos covering hundreds of UK sites and 1566 of the UK's Monitoring Posts. This site is a gold mine of detail about every conceivable aspect of the U.K.’s vast system of CW bunkers (and other related locations) and is frequently updated.

The Regional Emergency Govt HQ Penhold (Alberta)   http://www.pinetreeline.org/photos/p31-01.html

This site pictorially documents the destruction of the REGHQ at Penhold AB.  It was one of six such fallout shelters located across Canada and part of a system of bunkers that included the blast and fallout protected Diefenbunker.  The REGHQs were intended to be used by federal and provincial officials in the event of nuclear attack on North America. The Penhold bunker was completed in 1964. The bunker was 77,000 square feet and there was also a smaller bunker (17,000 square feet) south of the base which is also being demolished. As well as being the location from which Survival Operations/ Re-entry into target areas would have been coordinated the regional bunkers also served as Provincial Warning Centres and as military communications centres. This site has great photos (6 to 13; 15 to 50; 52 to 82) and a copy of a newspaper article on the demolition (83).  This is the only such bunker that has been destroyed; most of the other REGHQs have been simply sealed.

The Regional Emergency Government HQ at Debert ( Nova Scotia)http://www.debertmilitarymuseum.org/diefenbunker3.htm

This bunker is now part of the Colchester (Industrial) Park -the former CFB DEBERT - which is located 4 kms north of Exit 13 on Nova Scotia’s Highway 104. This bunker is in excellent condition, virtually unchanged (with the exception of some missing furniture and equipment) from its operational days in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It is only open for tours a few weekends every year so monitor the DEBERT MILITARY MUSEUM http://www.debertmilitarymuseum.org/ website for tour details.  This bunker is in the best shape of any such facility in Canada (and in the authors view is worthy on being declared a national historic site as a natural complement to the Diefenbunker and the role it played in Canada’s Cold War history.

The U.S.'s Greenbrier Congressional Bunker 

http://www.greenbrier.com/site/bunker.aspx

http://www.conelrad.com/groundzero/greenbrier.html 

A former secret Eisenhower-era underground relocation bunker(code name "Project Greek Island,") designed to house members of Congress and their staffs during [and after] nuclear attack, is open to tours in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.  The 112,544-square-foot bunker is 700 to 800 feet below the West Virginia Wing of the Greenbrier resort. The resort is a national historic landmark. The three links provided are among many that you can obtain by searching the net for “Greenbrier Bunker”.  The first is the most informative.