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Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers N.J. McCamley

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers By N.J. McCamley

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers by N.J. McCamley


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Tells the story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. This book describes, in detail, the radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the North Atlantic through Canada to the North Yorkshire Moors, all centered upon a secret control centre in the Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers Summary

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers: The Passive Defence of the Western World During the Cold War by N.J. McCamley

Secret Cold War 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. 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 N.J. McCamley

Nick McCamley specializes in World War II History.

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GOR004377320
9781844155088
1844155080
Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers: The Passive Defence of the Western World During the Cold War by N.J. McCamley
Used - Good
Paperback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2007-01-18
270
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