During the 1950s and 60s the United States government constructed three huge underground bunkers as part of the nuclear war 'Continuity of Government' policy. A fourth bunker, at Mount Pony, was opened in 1969 for the use of the Federal Reserve Bank and served also as a standby Central Government bunker. The American bunkers do not have absolute British equivalents.

The Raven Rock Mountain bunker, commissioned in 1953, is effectively 'The Pentagon at War' and serves as a nuclear bolt-hole for the Chiefs of Staff, etc. A similar bunker at Mount Weather is the Emergency Government War Headquarters, otherwise known as the Alternate Joint Communications Centre. This site, opened in 1958, is roughly equivalent to the UK Corsham Complex and was built at much the same time.

The third US government bunker is beneath the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs and provides sanctuary for the Senate and House of Representatives. The UK has no protected accomodation for its elected representatives.

GREENBRIER BUNKER

Built below the West Virginia Wing extension of the Greenbrier Hotel between 1959 and 1962, the bunker would accomodate members of the Senate and House of Representatives in reasonable luxury

GREENBRIER CONGRESSIONAL BUNKER
Eighteen dormitories like that shown below right each housed sixty occupants. More important members had private rooms while the Senate leaders were provided with private offices like that shown below left.

BELOW: - MOUNT PONY - THE FEDERAL RESERVE BUNKER

Completed in 1969, the Mount Pony bunker was operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Its role was to maintain a stock of currency bills sufficient to replenish the money supply of all the States north of the Mississipi in the aftermath of nuclear war