Cart
Free Shipping in Australia
Proud to be B-Corp

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers Nick McCamley

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers By Nick McCamley

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers by Nick McCamley


46,79 $
Condition - New
Only 2 left

Summary

* A fasinating expose' of previously highly classified subject matter. * The extent, cost and secrecy of these vital installations will amaze the reader. * Likely to attract media attention.

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers Summary

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers by Nick McCamley

Nuclear Bunkers tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the north Atlantic from the Aleutian islands through Canada to the North Yorkshire moors, all centred upon an enormous secret control centre buried hundreds of feet below Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. This is complemented in the United Kingdom with a chain of secret radars codenamed 'Rotor' built in the early 1950's, and eight huge, inland sector control centres, built over 100' underground at enormous cost. The book reveals the various bunkers built for the U.S Administration, including the Raven Rock alternate war headquarters (the Pentagon's wartime hideout), the Greenbrier bunker for the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Mount Weather central government headquarters amongst others. Developments in Canada, including the Ottawa 'Diefenbunker' and the regional government bunkers are also studied. In the UK there were the London bunkers and the Regional War rooms built in the 1950's to protect against the Soviet threat, and their replacement in 1958 by much more hardened, underground Regional Seats of Government in the provinces, and the unique Central Government War Headquarters at Corsham. Also included in the UK coverage is the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation with its underground bunkers and observation posts, as well as the little known bunkers built by the various local authorities and by the public utilities. Finally the book examines the provision, (or more accurately, lack of provision), of shelter space for the general population, comparing the situation in the USA and the UK with some other European countries and with the Soviet Union.

About Nick McCamley

Nick McCamley was born at Bradford-on-Avon, in 1950. Always passionately interested in local history and industrial archaeology, his accidental stumbling upon the remains of Corsham Ammunition Depot in 1967 resulted in a research project that became a thirty year obession. Secret Cold War Nuclear Bunkers is the revealing and dramatic sequel to Nick McCamleys highly successful 'Secret Underground Cities'.

Additional information

NGR9781783030101
9781783030101
1783030100
Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers by Nick McCamley
New
Paperback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2013-10-01
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers