A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city. Become an Atlas Obscura Member Join our community of curious explorers. Follow Us Get the app Download the App Questions or Feedback?Contact Us...
The Thorp building was guarded by the CIA, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.
was significantly more advanced than anything the US military had developed at the time. Scientists couldn't determine how it hovered or flew. They believed Nazi aerospace engineers Walter and Reimar Horten designed the flying disc. When the US tracked down the Horten br...
Not all Intelligence agencies have had a discrete architectural past, Franco’s House of Screams, or the Soviet Lubyanka are demonstrably terrifying. Mossad’s HQ, until the 60s or the current Australian Secret Intelligence Service look quite modest compared to the hardly known Ministry of National...
(called Raven Rock) just miles from Camp David, as well as dozens of other bunkers the government built its top leaders during the Cold War, from the White House lawn to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to Palm Beach, Florida, and the secret plans that would have kicked in after a Cold ...
In terms of preparing the national economy for war, Russia continues to observe the principles set down in Sokolovskii’s book. Today, military industries have been moved to underground caves, bunkers and tunnels. This is something the Russians have worked on for many years. Secret underground...
As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the U.S. government devised top-secret plans to ensure its survival if the Soviet Union launched a nuclear attack. These “Continuity of Government” preparations included building dozens of underground bunkers and arranging to move high-ranking government...
Those craters that could be more recent, from the 1980s or even 1990s, would still be obscure, known to a small number of military and intelligence professionals late in their careers, bound not only by legally binding vows of secrecy, but by the knowledge of the immense environmental damage...
Photography was banned for so long because the Metro was considered to be a military installation because it was going to be used a nuclear bunker, if that was ever required. I guess you can now take photos partly because the authorities have decided that a nuclear war is unlikely (or mayb...
Mount Weather is the location of a control station for the FEMA National Radio System (FNARS), a high frequency radio system connecting most federal public safety agencies and U.S. military with most of the states. FNARS allows the president to access the Emergency Alert System. ...