https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-town-that-kept-its-nuclear-bunker-a-secret-for-three-decades-180984107/
Thanks to this discretion, nearly 35 years passed before the rest of the country learned the truth: The Greenbrier's West Virginia Wing sat atop a nuclear bunker buried 720 feet underground

https://www.cnet.com/science/features/inside-the-survival-condo-nuclear-bunker-protecting-the-ultrarich-hacking-the-apocalypse/
Inside the luxury nuclear bunker protecting the mega-rich from the apocalypse. A volcanic-ash scrubber, a decontamination room, a waterslide -- when it comes to surviving a nuclear apocalypse, the

https://www.newsweek.com/where-are-all-nuclear-bunkers-1761447
Most of these private bunkers—constructed to protect their owners from a wide variety of large-scale disasters, including nuclear attacks—are concentrated in the American West in such states

https://www.wired.com/story/you-might-survive-a-nuclear-blast-if-you-have-the-right-shelter/
In a flash, a nuclear warhead unleashes the destructive power of hundreds of kilotons of TNT. The resulting inferno, and the blast wave that follows, instantly kill people directly in their path

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200513-the-bunker-builders-preparing-for-doomsday
The bunker Larry Hall has transformed was originally built to launch Atlas nuclear missiles (Credit: Getty Images) Hall says: "We've got a bank of 386 submarine batteries with a life of 15 or

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170103-the-secret-nuclear-bunker-built-as-the-uks-last-hope
The secret nuclear bunker built as the UK's last hope. Dug for an underground 'shadow factory' for aircraft during World War Two, the Drakelow tunnels were re-purposed as a nuclear bunker to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex
The bunker is built to deflect a 30 megaton nuclear explosion as close as 1.2 miles. Within a mountain tunnel are sets of 25-ton blast doors and another for the civil engineering department. The doors were built so that they can always be opened when needed. Should a nuclear blast hit the building, they are designed to withstand a blast wave.

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/21/533711528/in-the-event-of-attack-heres-how-the-government-plans-to-save-itself
In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff describes the bunkers designed to protect U.S. leaders in the event of a catastrophe. One Cold War-era plan put the post office in charge of cataloging the dead.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230501-regan-vest-inside-denmarks-secret-nuclear-bunker
The resulting nuclear-proof bunker was a staggering 5,500sq m behemoth, shaped like two large, connected rings, each with an upper and lower floor, and more than 230 rooms that would house around

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/england-secret-nuclear-bunkers
The York Cold War Bunker is one of the city's best kept secrets, situated out in the suburbs, on a nondescript street, lined with ordinary houses and neatly mowed lawns. At the end of a cul-de

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster
A nuclear bunker buster, [1] also known as an earth-penetrating weapon ( EPW ), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to penetrate soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to an underground target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/digging-up-the-history-of-the-nuclear-fallout-shelter-180979956/
In the 1980s, as global stockpiles of nuclear warheads reached over 50,000, visual culture around shelters got increasingly bleak. With anti-nuclear activism heating up, the arts presented a

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/world/canada/diefenbunker-museum-ottawa.html
It's also a rare opportunity to step inside a bunker built to withstand a nuclear Armageddon. While bunkers from various wars are dotted around the world and open to visitors, major Cold War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIS8llItwiA
Beneath the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia sits a massive subterranean bunker, fit to sustain life in case of a nuclear attack. The Greenbrier Bunker rem

https://www.phillyvoice.com/story-behind-gigantic-not-so-secret-pennsylvania-bunker-where-nuclear-war-us-would-begin/
After the Cold War, many bunkers built in anticipation of nuclear apocalypse became obsolete, such as the fallout shelter underneath a West Virginia resort that's now a museum. Others, like Raven

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/realestate/could-doomsday-bunkers-become-the-new-normal.html
The basic model at Northeast Bunkers is a cylindrical steel vessel eight feet in diameter, in 13- or 20-foot lengths, welded from quarter-inch plate steel and equipped with an entrance hatch on top.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/forgotten-story-britains-nuclear-bunkers-would-make-guest-list/
A third, in Somerset, was turned into a five bedroom eco-house - on the market for £700,000 in 2015. And they still come up on the market. As recently as the end of January, a 5,300 square ft

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/can-underground-bunkers-withstand-modern-nuclear-weapons.html
An underground bunker's ability to withstand nuclear bombs depends on two parameters—the bunker's design and the bomb's explosion dynamics. Thus, a detailed understanding of nuclear explosions and bunker design helps to answer this question. Bunkers are underground war shelters that safeguard occupants against the impact and aftermath

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32733175/white-house-bunker/
NPR reported in a 2008 book review that the bunker was "one of several Cold War-era nuclear-hardened subterranean bunkers built during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, the nearest of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker
Nuclear bunkers must also cope with the underpressure that lasts for several seconds after the shock wave passes, and block radiation. A bunker's door must be at least as strong as the walls. In bunkers inhabited for prolonged periods, large amounts of ventilation or air conditioning must be provided.

https://theskilledsurvivor.com/survival-guides/how-to-build-a-nuclear-bunker-3-methods/
How to Build a Nuclear Bunker - 3 Makeshift Methods. 1. Converted Basement. Converting your basement into a nuclear bunker isn't as difficult as it sounds. Tt doesn't have to cost an arm or a leg either. All you will need is of course your basement, some basic handyman skills and around $500-$1000 worth of materials.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/07/map-reveals-countries-nuclear-bunkers-around-europe-20983475/
European nuclear bunker map shows the locations of Cold War era bunkers in case of World War Three, including in the UK, Sweden and Germany. The threat of a nuclear war hasn't been this high since

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170825-the-bunkers-built-to-survive-an-apocalypse
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threat of nuclear confrontation has lessened - and the nuclear fallout bunker business has also appeared to have faded. Now, shelters - like this one in

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-congressional-nuclear-bunker/id1023774600?i=1000660067258
Matt Farwell of The Hunt for Tom Clancy is here to tell that story and others from the golden age of Atomic America. There was a time when Las Vegas casinos sold tickets to watch nuclear tests. It was an era when the concrete flowed like water and America built bunkers under a hotel and a military base in the heart of a mountain.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-if-a-nuclear-weapon-goes-off-in-space/
The auroras over Hawaii on the night of July 8, 1962, were unlike any that humans had ever witnessed. "N-Blast Tonight May Be Dazzling; Good View Likely," read a headline in the Honolulu

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-stashing-years-of-food-in-secret-nuclear-bunker-under-siberian-mountains/ar-BB1ohOTQ
An anonymous source has claimed that Vladimir Putin is stashing massive quantities of food in a bunker equipped for nuclear fallout. Food to feed up to 300 people 'for several years' has

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/planned-nuclear-fuel-has-higher-proliferation-risks-than-thought/
DARPA's planned nuclear rocket would use enough fuel to build a bomb The US is still regulating some enriched uranium based on an analysis from the 1950s. Jacek Krywko - Jun 10, 2024 6:56 pm UTC.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170821-how-prepared-are-we-for-the-impact-of-a-nuclear-war
In the event of nuclear war, the British government has at its disposal at least one bunker hidden away in the very heart of London. It's called Pindar. It shares its name with an ancient Greek

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/us/politics/putin-kim-russia-nuclear.html
Vladimir Putin promised unspecified technological help to North Korea, which could allow it to advance its nuclear weapons program. By David E. Sanger As Vladimir V. Putin's Russia and Xi

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/19/us-air-force-bunker-buster-penetrator-bombs-weapons-bombers/
Iran has dug underground bunker complexes to house rocket launchers, fighter squadrons and critical parts of its growing nuclear-weapons enterprise. A new underground nuclear complex is apparently