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The Dallison family leave their Anderson shelter to view the wreckage caused by a nearby bomb explosion the night before, January 1, 1940. Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images.
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A Swiss soldier inside an atomic bomb shelter in Switzerland. (Photo by �� Vittoriano Rastelli/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Petra Reuter, owner of the Bundesbank Bunker Museum, walks past storage rooms for the substitute currency in the former vault of the bunker museum in Cochem, western Germany on February 8, 2022. The Bundesbank Bunker was a bunker of the German Federal Bank in Cochem for the storage of an emergency currency. From 1964 to 1988, up to 15 billion marks were stored in the top-secret facility to protect Germany from a national economic crisis in the event of hyperinflation caused by the Cold War. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)
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A private group bomb shelters, dug into San Francisco's seven hills by house-holders and apartment owners, came into realistic use as air raids and blackouts entered the city's life, December 11, 1941. Bettmann via Getty Images.
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August 10, 2018. Long corridors form a labyrinth that leads to the different rooms of the anti-atomic shelter in Avdeevka, Ukraine. Photo by Gaelle Girbes/Getty Images.
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The Control Room at the York Bunker which was used at the height of the Cold War following its construction in 1961. (Photo by John Giles - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
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Posted on Sep 7, 2024

Families walk down the driveway while touring a model site home with a concrete basement fallout shelter, Texas, 1961. Photo by Shel Hershorn/Getty Images.
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Bunker Talk: Labor Day Weekend Edition

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Aug 31, 2024

Underground Cold War-era vault
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Posted on Aug 24, 2024

3/12/1941- New York, NY: Hotel completes air raid shelter. A few of the Allerton House's guets showed how comfortable and practical are the conveniences incorpoarted in the new air-raid shelter completed in the sub-basement of the hotel. The shelter is approximately 45 feet underground, and an auxiliary lighting system has been installed in case the hotel's own light plant goes out of order. Here, four women are shown cooking and reclining on the bomb shelter's beds. A bannerhung on the wall next to a hurricane lamp says "God Bless America."
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Posted on Aug 17, 2024

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - JULY 14: A resort employee passes by the Hotel Blast Door, which weighs 18 tons and serves as an entrance to a former government relocation facility, also know as "the bunker," at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The bunker, codenamed "Project Greek Island" and planned by the Eisenhower Administration, was a 112,000 square-foot shelter constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort's West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. soil. The facility was built between 1958 and 1961 and was maintained in a state of operational readiness until the government terminated the lease with the resort in 1995. The bunker will be reopened for public tours on August 20 after a two-year-long renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Posted on Aug 10, 2024

October 1917: A crowd lining up to enter an air raid shelter at Hither Green. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
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Posted on Aug 3, 2024

A 1950s civil defense shelter
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Posted on Jul 27, 2024

Tourists visit an underground bunker in Germany, 2023
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Posted on Jul 20, 2024

Life in an underground shelter during World War II, Paris, March 1940
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Posted on Jul 13, 2024

A C-130J Super Hercules rests on the flightline under a fireworks display, July 3, 2018, at Yokota Air Base, Japan.
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Bunker Talk: 4th Of July Edition!

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 4, 2024

An officer of the Swiss Civil defence of the canton of Geneva closes the door of a private concrete nuclear fallout shelter located underneath a residential building in the city of Meyrin near Geneva on March 25, 2022. - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has awakened long-slumbering anxiety interest in Switzerland in concrete nuclear fallout shelters built across the country during the Cold War, with spots available for every single resident. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Posted on Jun 29, 2024

Family Fallout Survival Plan @ Levittown Shopping Center, 1960's
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Posted on Jun 22, 2024

Circa October 1st 1914. Local Caption: Published Daily Mirror Page 9 October 12th 1914 (Photo by WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
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In this photograph taken on February 2, 2020, Astrit Imeri, a former soldier, walks inside The Cold War Tunnel Museum at Gjirokastra, Albania. - Snaking beneath a fortress in southern Albania, a covert tunnel network built during the country's communist era captures the secrecy and paranoia that defined the long rule of former tyrant Enver Hoxha.Today communism is gone and the military bunker is a tourist attraction, still drawing rare visitors during the pandemic, when themes of fear, isolation and confinement are particularly resonant. The sprawling underground complex, now dubbed the Cold War tunnel, is part of a vast and costly "bunkerisation" project spearheaded by Hoxha, who was gripped by anxiety of a possible foreign invasion during his 40-year isolationist rule. (Photo by Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP) (Photo by GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP via Getty Images)
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Posted on Jun 8, 2024

A government approved air raid shelter on display at Stern's department store
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Posted on Jun 1, 2024

250,000 American flags are placed at the foot of every headstone in the Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day Weekend. Arlington National Cemetery has evolved from a place of necessity to a national shrine to those who have honorably served our Nation during times of war – including every military conflict in American history – and during times of peace. The cemetery is the final resting place for service members, veterans, and their families. “Service to country” is the common thread that binds all who are honored and remembered here. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Sarah Villegas
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Bunker Talk: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on May 25, 2024

Flourescent light and two metal doors - concrete bunker style. Lausanne Switzerland
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Posted on May 18, 2024

A black-and-white photo shows a man standing next to a surface (above ground) bomb shelter that is advertising Victor J. Nelson's sales and distribution business, circa 1951. (Jim Heimann Collection/Getty Images)
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Posted on May 11, 2024

British telephonists on duty in a bomb-proof shelter on the southwest coast of Britain, in readiness to go into action with their artillery company against invading German soldiers. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
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Posted on May 4, 2024

American chemist and Nobel laureate Dr Willard Libby (1908 - 1980) in the fallout shelter he built himself near his home in California, USA, circa 1960. The shelter, intended to withstand a nuclear blast, burnt down in the Bel Air Fire of November 1961. Libby was on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. (Photo by/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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Posted on Apr 27, 2024

Londoners emerge safely from underground bomb shelters after an air raid. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Apr 19, 2024

Cold War nuclear bunker supply check
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Posted on Apr 12, 2024

A woman selling biscuits to people using an underground tube station as an air raid shelter, U.K., January 1, 1940. Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images
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Posted on Apr 5, 2024

Patrick Mueller opens a bunker door of the Deltalis Swiss Mountain Data Center, a former Swiss Army bunker built in the Alps during the Cold War, on November 18, 2013, near Attinghausen, Central Switzerland.
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Posted on Mar 29, 2024

15th June 1939: Workmen digging deep air raid shelters in Stockport. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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Posted on Mar 22, 2024

Nuclear bomb drills, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 18, 1964: Some volunteers line up to get their bedding during a test held at the air raid shelter beneath the Cambridge City Hall Annex.
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Posted on Mar 15, 2024

A photo taken on February 8, 2022 shows an underground passage in the former vault of the Bundesbank Bunker Museum in Cochem, western Germany. The Bundesbank Bunker was a bunker of the German Bundesbank in Cochem for the storage of an emergency currency. From 1964 to 1988, up to 15 billion marks were stored in the top-secret facility to protect Germany from a national economic crisis in the event of hyperinflation caused by the Cold War.
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By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Mar 9, 2024

3/12/1941- New York, NY: Hotel completes air raid shelter. A few of the Allerton House's guests showed how comfortable and practical are the conveniences incorporated in the new air-raid shelter completed in the sub-basement of the hotel. The shelter is approximately 45 feet underground, and an auxiliary lighting system has been installed in case the hotel's own light plant goes out of order. This photo shows four women happily playing cards under a sign that says "Shelter." Bettmann via Getty Images.
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By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Mar 2, 2024

U.S. soldiers take time out to read newspapers and magazines above and below their sandbagged bunker in a base camp set up in a jungle clearing in South Vietnam near the Cambodian border on November 28, 1966. AP Photo/Horst Faas.
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Posted on Feb 24, 2024

Study in Survival. Lake Charles, Louisiana: Leading a sheltered life at Lake Charles, Louisiana, McNeese State College students, Kelly B. McRight (left) and Dan R. Sistrunk, are deep in a survival test. They spent three days inside this fallout shelter in an experiment conducted by the college and civil defense officials. October 9, 1961. Bettmann via Getty Images.
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Posted on Feb 17, 2024

A family, each carrying their gas masks in a little box, enter the dug-out air raid shelter in their garden, 1939. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Posted on Feb 10, 2024

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Posted on Feb 3, 2024

The vehicular entrance to the massive underground Marieberget bomb shelter in Vasteras, Sweden
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Posted on Jan 27, 2024

A small group of shelterers knit and read the evening newspaper in this small section of an air raid shelter under the railway arches, somewhere in South East London. Makeshift beds have been constructed from crates and planks of wood. This photograph was probably taken in November 1940
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Posted on Jan 20, 2024

Marines, wounded in the battle for Iwo Jima, are sheltered in a Japanese concrete air raid shelter which was not completely destroyed in the three-day bombardment and aerial attack preceding the landing.
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Posted on Jan 13, 2024

Nuclear bunker in Northern Ireland built during the Cold War
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Posted on Jan 6, 2024

Sailors observe fireworks behind the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Benfold on New Year's Eve 2015, Yokosuka, Japan.
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Bunker Talk: New Year’s Edition

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 30, 2023

U.S. Air Force Maj. Zach “Santa Badger” Overbey, Operation Christmas Drop 2023 (OCD 23) mission commander and pilot, stands before three U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 36th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 436th Transport Squadron C-130J Super Hercules, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) C-130H Hercules assigned to the 401st Tactical Airlift Squadron, and a Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) C-130H Hercules assigned to the 251st Airlift Squadron in support of an OCD 23 elephant walk at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 9, 2023. Throughout OCD 23, USAF, RCAF, JASDF, and ROKAF crewmembers delivered 210 bundles to 58 islands over the span of six days. The deliveries of humanitarian aid reached over 42 thousand remote Micronesian islanders across 1.8 million square miles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brooklyn Golightly)
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Bunker Talk: Santa’s Airlift Operation Edition

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Posted on Dec 23, 2023

The British Telecom telephone exchange inside the former RAF Hack Green secret nuclear bunker on May 24, 2023 in Nantwich, England. Hack Green played a central role in the defence of Britain for almost sixty years. It was chosen during WW2 to protect the land between Birmingham and Liverpool from hostile attack and as a location for the new RADAR equipment. The bunker went on to be used for shelter and protection during the Cold War. The Secret Bunker is now privately owned by the Siebert family and is run as a museum trust. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.
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Posted on Dec 16, 2023

German officer's underground bedroom bunker, 1916.
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Posted on Dec 9, 2023

27th February 1941: Catering staff preparing sandwiches for the air raid shelters in London. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 2, 2023

A photograph of a family in an Anderson air raid shelter
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Posted on Nov 18, 2023

A U.S. Marine Corps Korean War veteran searches the names of those who lost their life during the Korean War at the Korean War Memorial during a reunion for those who fought at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Washington, DC on Nov. 3, 2023. Veterans of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as The Chosin Few, traveled from across the country to meet with other Marines who fought by their side
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Bunker Talk: Veterans Day Weekend Edition

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 11, 2023

Thomas Otto (non-party), mayor of the municipality of Saterland, pries open a heavy door to the deconsecrated shelters in the basement of the town hall
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Posted on Oct 28, 2023

23rd January 1981: A woman in one of the government approved nuclear shelters in York. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images)
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Posted on Oct 21, 2023

This photograph depicts a fallout shelter being furnished with Civil Defense survival rations at Villa Augustina Academy in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Mother Wilfred and Mother Superior Liguori of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, the religious order that founded and operated the school, appear in the photograph, holding a fallout shelter sign.
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Posted on Oct 7, 2023

A reading and discussion session in an air raid shelter in Bermondsey, south London, during the Blitz, March 1941. Original Publication: Picture Post - 655 - Down In The Shelter There Is Life - pub. 29th March 1941 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Posted on Sep 30, 2023

BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, GERMANY - MAY 03: The command central of the Cold War-era former West German government bunker pictured on May 03, 2023 near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. The bunker, built at the site of a railway tunnel inside hills, had the capacity to sleep 936 people, had over 800 office rooms and would have served as a shelter to keep the West German government functioning in the event of war. Russia's current war in Ukraine and its recent stationing of nuclear missiles in Belarus has revived memories of the Cold War. Both West and East Germany had extensive bunker systems that Germany's post-reunification government chose to abandon in 2007, citing the post-Cold War era peace dividend and claiming that bunkers would be largely useless in the event of a nuclear war anyway. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
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Posted on Sep 23, 2023

Two massive steel doors weighing 30 tons each are among the devices that will seal off the North American Air Defense Command's underground combat operations center in the event of an attack, shown Jan. 26, 1966. The doors, 26 inches thick, are installed in 17-feet thick reinforced concrete barriers in the tunnel leading go the defense command post inside Cheyenne Mountain, near Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo)
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Posted on Sep 16, 2023

French officers in an underground HQ on the western front during world war one, 1916. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)
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Posted on Sep 9, 2023

Bunker Talk: Labor Day Weekend Edition
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Bunker Talk: Labor Day Weekend Edition

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Sep 2, 2023

World War II London air raid shelter
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Posted on Aug 26, 2023

Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) activities during Apollo 11's re-entry on July 24, 1969. NASA
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Posted on Aug 19, 2023

American soldiers inspect one of the machine shops at an underground robot bomb factory at Thil, north of Metz, France on Sept. 28, 1944, which yanks captured on September 11. From 100 to 150 bombs were said to be produced per day in this factory, which was located in an iron ore mine. (AP Photo)
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Posted on Aug 12, 2023

Technical center of the nuclear bunker in Harnekop near Bad Freienwalde, eastern Germany, March 1996.
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Posted on Aug 5, 2023

World War II bunker, London, England
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023

NASA 1960s control room
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Posted on Jul 22, 2023

Anti-aircraft troops who guard the Pacific Northwest are resting in a comfortable underground bombproof shelter on Jan. 19, 1942, as they wait a call to man their large anti-aircraft gun. Specific location is unknown.
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Posted on Jul 15, 2023

NANTWICH, ENGLAND - MAY 24: A general view inside the former RAF Hack Green secret nuclear bunker
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Posted on Jul 8, 2023