COLD WAR SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKERS

"The huge concentration of American military assets in the United Kingdom is the reason that her countryside and cities are littered with bunkers built to protect key elements of the nation's military and administrative establishment. There are great, complex bunkers for Central Government deep underground that have cost tens of millions of pounds to build and millions more each year to maintain; there are bunkers for regional government controllers who might or might not lead the post-holocaust national recovery; there are bunkers for the County Councils from which they would enact the local plans they often as not had never prepared; there are bunkers for water-board engineers who would ensure that every survivor had two litres of fresh water daily; bunkers for electricity board engineers who would ensure that the street lamps worked even if the buildings that lined those streets were swept away; there are bunkers large and small for the thousands of Royal Observer volunteers who thought that they were protecting their own neighbours and community but were in fact just cogs in the vast machine that protects the American homeland; and there were bunkers for the radar stations built to give timely warning for the fighters and guns supposed to protect Britain's airborne nuclear deterrent but in fact just protecting the US bomber bases in East Anglia and the great US early warning station on Fylingdales Moor."

"Within a fifteen-mile radius of the house in which I live there are some thirty nuclear bunkers, including six underground ROC posts, a UKWMO Sector control bunker, the Emergency National Seat of Government, three military communications bunkers, a Regional War Room from 1955, an underground telephone repeater station, at least eightlocal authority bunkers and at least three belonging to the pre-privatization water-boards, a ROTOR radar station, an undergroundf radar Sector Control Room, and three Civil Defence bunkers dating from 1957"