Welcoming Snowbirds from Nuclear Winter
January 11, 2004 6:09 AM Subscribe
Government haven for Nuclear Winter (nytimes reg) Photos of the West German government's secret sanctuary/hidey hole built during the sixties and early seventies. The article talks about the cold, oppressive feel of the accommodations, but it's pretty cool looking in a Danish Modern or Clockwork Orange sort of way. Better than the cheap motel look that Washington had planned.
Extraordinary. I particularly like the mushroom cloud table lamps in the "living" room.
And it make you wonder: how many other nations invested in these massive bomb shelters? Surely the British and former Soviets had sanctuaries like this.
posted by aladfar at 7:39 AM on January 11, 2004
And it make you wonder: how many other nations invested in these massive bomb shelters? Surely the British and former Soviets had sanctuaries like this.
posted by aladfar at 7:39 AM on January 11, 2004
Does anyone besides me find it somewhat creepy that there's been what seems like an unusual number of nuke-related stories on MeFi lately?
whimper
posted by 40 Watt at 9:01 AM on January 11, 2004
whimper
posted by 40 Watt at 9:01 AM on January 11, 2004
What the hell...I guess Cabinet members and their spouses were supposed to sleep Ozzie-and-Harriet style?
Purity of Essence ran pretty deep among the cold warriors, perhaps?
posted by bendybendy at 7:25 PM on January 11, 2004
Purity of Essence ran pretty deep among the cold warriors, perhaps?
posted by bendybendy at 7:25 PM on January 11, 2004
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