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Underground 'Cold War City' For Sale 242

Posted by CmdrTaco from the underground-the-weather-is-always-nice dept.
Hogwash McFly writes "A huge underground complex that was built as a nuclear refuge for the British Prime Minister in the 1950s has been put on the market. Code-named Burlington, the bunker now has a population of only four maintenance workers, yet sprawls over 240 acres and accommodates 60 miles of roads. Underground power stations supply energy for 100,000 street lamps and amenities include a railway station and a pub called the Rose and Crown. Among ideas suggested for the £5,000,000 bunker include a data centre, wine cellar, rave club or fifties theme park. It is not clear whether a tank for keeping laser-equipped sharks is included, however."
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  • Very cool! (Score:4, Funny)

    by DotNM ( 737979 ) * <`ac.naedttam' `ta' `ttam'> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:42AM (#13909213) Homepage
    I've always wanted to start my own city.....

    • Re:Very cool! (Score:4, Funny)

      by nkh ( 750837 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:47AM (#13909233) Journal
      Your own city? I have my own country [sealandgov.com], now THIS is being a real geek!

    • Re:Very cool! (Score:5, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:06PM (#13909318)
      The Times carried this story [timesonline.co.uk] during the week with an excellent quote.
      Jock Fraser, chairman of Corsham Town Council, said: "For years the Government denied it was even there but all the talk in local pubs was that if anything did happen, we knew where it was.

      "The politicians might have built it for themselves but we were going to make sure we got there before them."

    • me too (Score:5, Funny)

      by subtropolis ( 748348 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:25PM (#13909404)
      and i've got just the name for it...
    • Two things could be done with this complex. Turn it into a museum, say The Museum of the Apocalypse. Include a amusement park, a bar, a cannabis 'chill center', a dance hall for raves, etc...

      Or sell it to modern billionaires who are more important than the British Prime Minister.

      After all, it's not like the 10000 Hydrogen bombs and 1000 ICBMs actually went away. They're still around. Which means that an underground shelter might still be a wise precaution.

      Better yet, turn it into

      • Re:Keep it. It's still needed. (Score:5, Funny)

        by Meagermanx ( 768421 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:45PM (#13909473)
        How about 'the worlds largest library?'
        Not only would it have tons of books (literally), it would also act as a time capsule when the zombies come.

      • Not needed: Bombs arrive quicker now. (Score:5, Insightful)

        by MDMurphy ( 208495 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @01:27PM (#13909627)
        It's value as a bomb shelter went away when slow flying bombers were no longer the weapon delivery mechanism. As the article says, once the warning time dropped to 4 minutes, evacuating to the shelter became impossible.
        • It's value as a bomb shelter went away when slow flying bombers were no longer the weapon delivery mechanism. As the article says, once the warning time dropped to 4 minutes, evacuating to the shelter became impossible.

          It could still be useful, you would just have to go running to it at the slightest hint of trouble. Just like what our Vice President does all the time on this side of the pond.

      • You're right on your evaluation of power in Britain, but you miss one thing - if there is a nuclear strike, or even just civil unrest - anything that offers protection will be taken by the military. Money has value because it is backed by guns.

        Incidentally, the Corsham site is well known and there is a good book on it here [amazon.co.uk] for anyone who is interested in this.

      • A third thing (Score:5, Funny)

        by Dog135 ( 700389 ) <dog135@gmail.com> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:29PM (#13910187)
        Two things could be done with this complex. Turn it into a museum, say The Museum of the Apocalypse. Include a amusement park, a bar, a cannabis 'chill center', a dance hall for raves, etc...

          Or sell it to modern billionaires who are more important than the British Prime Minister.

        Or... you could put a house on top of the main entrance and have your mom live in the house while you live in the "basement".

        Geez, if you're going to post on /. you need to think more geeky.

    • Re:Very cool! (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Hogwash McFly ( 678207 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:56PM (#13909511)
      I quite like the 50s theme-park idea myself. Well, my version is not so much a theme-park as an 'alternate reality experience'. The fact that it is isolated from the outside world is perfect for a 'blast from the past' opportunity, and already containing a lot of 50s equipment is a bonus.

      Imagine going on a weekend trip with your significant other and/or a group of mates. When you get to the bunker you are given a change of 50s clothes and assigned rooms. You are told that the year is sometime in the 60s and the that nuclear strikes have devastated England, forcing many underground. The country is at war, and some of our brave men are fighting on the Russian front. Reports of troop advancements are broadcast over the sound system, and even the 'Prime Minister', who is living in a secured section of the bunker, could broadcast morale-boosting speeches during your stay there.

      There could be a cinema showing old movies, and short propaganda films could even be appended. The article states that there is already a pub there - build a few more, perhaps even a 50s nightclub (cabaret?) and similar amenities. Basically, there would be the normal level entertainment found at any holiday camp, but with a twist - it's a different time/dimension and you are 'living there', wishing that the troops fighting alongside the Americans will come home safely, even though it's all fictional. Actors could summon people at random to perform 'important tasks' like tending to wounded soldiers fresh off a plane or manning a radio station.

      It could be like a LARP, but more mainstream and far less geeky, i.e. a theme-park that tells you it's not a theme-park.
      • I mean, in the 50s, a pint of beer was 9 and half pence, a pound of hash were 10 bobs and a good meal under one pound....

        If you truly respects this price scale, you can consider me your first landlord 8)

      • Your vision sounds like a milder version of the Stanford prison experiment [prisonexp.org]. You could really mess with some people's psychology.

  • Canada has something like that. (Score:4, Informative)

    by CyricZ ( 887944 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:42AM (#13909214)
    I recall some Canadian relatives discussing a bunker called the Diefen Bunker. I think they said it's a tourist attraction now. They give tours as if it were a museum.

    • Re:Canada has something like that. (Score:5, Informative)

      by ergo98 ( 9391 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:43AM (#13909220) Homepage Journal
      I recall some Canadian relatives discussing a bunker called the Diefen Bunker. I think they said it's a tourist attraction now. They give tours as if it were a museum.

      Good research.

      http://www.diefenbunker.ca/ [diefenbunker.ca]

    • Re:Canada has something like that. (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I for one woull like to welcome our new wine and sherry drinking techno raver subterranian overlords

    • Re:Canada has something like that. (Score:5, Interesting)

      by earthforce_1 ( 454968 ) <earthforce_1 AT yahoo DOT com> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @01:52PM (#13909737) Journal
      http://www.diefenbunker.ca/ [diefenbunker.ca]

      Quite an interesting tour - when the military decided they didn't need it anymore, they initially put it up for sale. One of the only bidders was the Hell's angels - it would have been fun to watch the RCMP try to conduct a drug raid on a facility designed to resist a nuclear attack.

      Eventually the local townsfolk in Carp Ontario decided it would make an interesting museum, and I was one of the first to tour it.

    • Re:Canada has something like that. (Score:4, Interesting)

      by whamett ( 917546 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:26PM (#13910163)

      It's an interesting place indeed... built in the Cold War under Prime Minister Diefenbaker (hence the name Diefenbunker [diefenbunker.ca]).

      From the outside, it looks like an unassuming shed, but inside is a blast tunnel that leads into the hillside and down to a four-storey complex beneath. First stop: the radiation decontamination chambers. Last stop: the gift shop, which offers official Cold War-era federal government publications—in English and French—about how to build a bomb shelter at home. Along the way are a room where federal leaders would meet, a room for the Prime Minister (cot-sized only—no spuose allowed), a room for the Governor General, backup headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a sizeable cafeteria, bunk beds (each shared by three people in eight-hour shifts), a filtration system for extracting radioactive particles from surface air, etc.. The transmitters are located something like 14 kilometres away to prevent locating the bunker through triangulation.

      At the lowest level is the Bank of Canada vault that would store gold in the event of a disaster (radioactive gold is not so valuable); it has the biggest vault door I've ever seen, and has a rectangular hallway around it with a mirror in each corner so a guard standing in one place could see all the way around.

      It's an interesting piece of history that may yet come in handy if the Chinese Communist Party deploys biological or nuclear weapons [theepochtimes.com].

  • Hydro Setup (Score:5, Funny)

    by Luke Psywalker ( 869266 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:42AM (#13909215)
    Imagine the killer bud you could grow in that place.

  • too many ads (Score:5, Funny)

    by cacoe ( 870499 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:42AM (#13909216)
    as stated before, we really need to filter out these damned ad articles.

    • Re:too many ads (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Indeed. We have a slightly smaller bunker in Chislehurst, in SE London, and our local estate agents went out of their way to let prospective customers know that Madonna had had a look (or maybe they had sent her a flyer). Not as good value as this one though. £3m was the asking price for our titchy bunker, which I spent many happy childhood hours trying to break. Some childhood friends advised that an old codger who wandered in as they were piling up the milk crates in the corridors, in preparation fo

  • He's going to need it! (Score:3, Funny)

    by ArikTheRed ( 865776 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:42AM (#13909218) Homepage
    But... isn't he going to need it when the terrorists attack?

  • For the übergeek. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Psionicist ( 561330 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:44AM (#13909221)
    I think it's worth spending that money just so you can say you live in motherlands basement.

  • a Debunked story (Score:2, Interesting)

    by tommyleebyron ( 601830 )
    Actually I remember an episode of "The Avengers" where emma and steed were trapped in an underground city..
    • In this story, featuring Friends Of Ghosts (FOG) and their rival organisation Scientific Measurement Of Ghosts (SMOG), the city was built by unspecified enemies of the state (probably Russians) so that they would have a foothold in the UK after the radioactive clouds cleared.

  • Diefenbunker (Score:4, Informative)

    by gandalf_grey ( 93942 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:48AM (#13909235) Homepage
    The Canadian version is the Diefenbunker [diefenbunker.ca]. Located in the village of Carp (near Ottawa), it's now decomissioned, and a tourist attraction. Guided tours are available in the summer.

  • I don't know about anyone else... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Manchot ( 847225 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:50AM (#13909245)
    I don't know about anyone else, but I'd like to turn in into my own British Bat Cave. Kind of like where a combination of James Bond and Bruce Wayne would live.

  • Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Chickenofbristol55 ( 884806 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:50AM (#13909248) Homepage
    Do I get the "four maintainance workers" with the city? Is slavery illegal underground? Oh, and I welcome our new underground mole-people overlords (couldn't help myself)

  • Formerly inhabited by Thatcher's unknown geek son (Score:5, Funny)

    by ChePibe ( 882378 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:51AM (#13909252)
    For a time, the massive bunker's only inhabitant was Margaret Thatcher's previously unknown geek son, who wasted away his days coding, playing D&D with his online friends, and playing scrabble against himself while sheepishly avoiding the opposite sex.

    He is noted to have posted on many USENET boards, "oh yeah? Well you should see MY mom's basement, where I live. It's soooo much cooler than yours."

  • Hmmm (Score:5, Insightful)

    by TRRosen ( 720617 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:52AM (#13909259)
    Sorta makes you wonder what kind of place they replaced it with.

    • Re:Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)

      by QuantaStarFire ( 902219 ) *

      It's now comprised of 8 McDonalds and 11 Starbucks.

    • Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Insightful)

      by magarity ( 164372 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:58AM (#13909282)
      Sorta makes you wonder what kind of place they replaced it with.
       
      Probably a very deep basement directly under the Parliment building with tunnels to the same under 10 Downing St and Windsor castle. The problem with bunkers out in the countryside is getting to the thing when a nuclear missile submarine can wipe out the city with about five minute's notice. Any modern equivalent can't be further away than a run down the hall to an express elevator.

      • Re:Hmmm (Score:3, Informative)

        by someonewhois ( 808065 )
        And that's about the point in time when we all decide to RTFA:
        Code-named Burlington, it was never used and as the timescale for a perceived Soviet nuclear onslaught shrank to the notorious four-minute warning of armageddon, the whole concept of evacuating the Queen and her government became obsolete.

      • indeed (Score:5, Informative)

        by subtropolis ( 748348 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:38PM (#13909448)
        Which is why the Yamantau Mountain [globalsecurity.org] complex in Russia, some 1 300 km from Moscow, has raised so many eyebrows.
        • Hmm, as with all Russian military projects, you can safely divide all figures by ten. You will then be no closer to the truth, but it will be less ridiculous...
        • No, that works: they've replaced the working politicians with expendable clones, while the real ones stay in Yamantau.
        • Yamantau [google.com] is quite close to central asia. Central Asia is considered the strategic core of the planet by a lot of strategists, politicians, reporters etc. The reason it is so important is because of the abundance of resources in the region. According [globalpolicy.org] to energy analyst Michael T. Klare "... the region, which stretches from the Ural Mountains to China's western border, has now become a major strategic prize, because of the vast reserves of oil and natural gas thought to lie under and around the Caspian Sea."
      • Would be useful if you're planning to start a war, or if you suspected someone else was going to very shortly.

  • Bullshit (Score:5, Informative)

    by John Hasler ( 414242 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:53AM (#13909263) Homepage
    > ...sprawls over 240 acres and accommodates 60 miles of roads...

    60 miles of 30 foot wide road covers 218 acres.

    > ...100,000 street lamps...

    That's 417 street lamps per acre, or one for every three feet of your 60 miles of road.

    • not necessarily (Score:5, Informative)

      by no reason to be here ( 218628 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:11PM (#13909343) Homepage
      60 miles of 30 foot wide road covers 218 acres.

      umm...yeah, you see, in the middle of the american heartland, in the south, southwest, and west, 30 foot wide roads are pretty common place. However, in places that are really cramped for space (New England and old England, for example) you have roads that are noticably less wide. Some one way roads in my neck of the woods (Boston) are barely wide enough to accomodate 1-way traffic. The street on which I live, on which it is permitted to park on both sides of the street mind you, is about 12 feet across. There are even some "roads" in Boston's oldest neighborhoods that really are just narrow alleys that could never accomodate a car.

      By road here, they could mean a series of very narrow one way roads and well-paved footpaths. Or maybe everyone in the underground city was supposed to be riding a vespa (a very logical idea, I'd think), or something similar, in which case all of one's roads could essentially be well-paved footpaths. In fact, in such a situation, electric scooters would be the ideal vehicle (low-power requirements, non-polluting, not very loud).

    • Re:Bullshit (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Alioth ( 221270 )
      Dunno whether you've been in any older tunnels recently, but typically, they are lit by low pressure sodium lights that are very close together - typically less than 3 feet apart.

    • Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)

      by rubycodez ( 864176 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:26PM (#13909408)
      you're also asuming the whole thing has one level? one description I read had that it was "catacombed with tunnels"
    • That's 417 street lamps per acre, or one for every three feet of your 60 miles of road.

      You do realize this entire location is underground? One lamp every 3 feet on the roads would probably be good enough to keep the road visible, especially if they're sodium vapor (vapour, in the spirit of the article) lamps. Seeing as there are lots of tunnels, there's probably 1 lamp per 6' on each side.

    • Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Informative)

      by skatingloon ( 927138 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @08:03PM (#13911785)
      Actually, it's not bullshit. If it's the place I'm thinking of (I'm pretty sure it is), it's called Monkton Farely, and like one of the comments says, everyone in the town of Bath knew it was there.

      About 15 years ago, the place was bought for a nominal sum (5 million pounds is a hell of a lot more than they bought it for!) by a family who had the idea of creating a tourist attraction down there. They didn't do too well, but while they were in business we did manage to get down there. It was barely an 'attraction', but incredibly interesting, nontheless.

      It's a truly amazing place. A lot of the infrastructure was decommissioned, so we had to use hand lamps - it was pretty spooky since it's obviously completely dark down there, and your head lamp doesn't do a whole lot to penetrate into the deeper bays and tunnels. Some of the major tunnels are indeed 30ft wide, and the lights are actually low wattage bulbs strung along the way.

      One funny thing is that they stored a *whole lot* of ammunition down there just prior to D-day (I believe), and the only fire management equipment was a bucket of sand under each light - every few feet. I guess they figured that if there was a problem, all the fire extinguishers in the world wouldn't deal with it!

      The there are a few things I remember particularly: The built-in power plant, air conditioning system (three huge stations with 30 foot fans) and the indentations left in the concrete from the bigger ammunition.

      Apparently the train station intersects with the Box Tunnel outside Bath, Wiltshire. Every time I travelled from London to Bath I used to look out of the window of the train to see if I could see it, but no luck unfortunately. Apparently it's possible to find old quarry workings which lead you into the complex, but that sounds a bit dicey to me!

      Here's an article about it - I'm not sure if this was the original one, but it might give you a flavour of what it's like down there.

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/the_exchange/connec t/bunker.shtml [bbc.co.uk]

  • First a mine, then a WW2 ammo dump (Score:5, Insightful)

    by magarity ( 164372 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:54AM (#13909265)
    The history of the place has to be put together from different parts of the article. At first glance it seems that it was created from scratch for government officials but read the whole thing: First it was a mine which was worked out. The mine was converted into an ammo dump for WWII, at which time it became a military installation. And then in the 50's, before ICBMs and missile submarines, it was finally made into a bomb shelter. Fairly reasonable then when nuclear warheads numbered in the dozens worldwide. The only real question is why it wasn't decommissioned in the 70's (when ICBMs and subs made getting there from London unlikely) and turned into something else instead of waiting til now.
    • The only real question is why it wasn't decommissioned in the 70's (when ICBMs and subs made getting there from London unlikely) and turned into something else instead of waiting til now.
      Because a normal civilized war (whatever that is) is usually not started with a nuclear strike... the potential risk would have been clear for several hours or even days.
      The reason for decommission is not the 4 min. timeframe caused by the ICBMs and subs, it is the "decommission" of the potential enemy. This kind of instal

    • Re:First a mine, then a WW2 ammo dump (Score:5, Informative)

      by steve_l ( 109732 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @02:33PM (#13909890) Homepage
      I know the place they are talking about; I live about 30 miles away. The whole area is near the village of Box: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Box,+Wiltshire,+SN 13&spn=0.062548,0.158512&hl=en [google.co.uk]

      -It was a sandstone quarry, not a mine. The sandstone that was used to build my house (and many others in bath and bristol) came from it. The way the sandstone deposits were the quarry was at the same height as the London-Bristol railway tunnel, so they built a special stop off the tunnel to get the rock and transport it to bristol, bath and london, which, back in 1850, pwas the main long haul transport.

      -It just so happened that before WWII the air force grabbed it to be an arms store from conventional air attacks; it was used as that and later there were underground airplane factories nearby.

      -when the cold war came along, it became the secret seat of government, though not that secret after a while, which, with better precision weapon delivery, meant it was not that useful.

      Post cold war, a lot of the quarry has been abandoned. the local cavers know this and pop down the old shafts sometimes. Security used to rely on above-ground troops with guns, but as that has been rolled back, things are more accessible. Even then, the main burlington "citadel" is something they have always been scared of going to.

      I think it survived till now as an underground seat-of-government is often useful, even outside a full-blown east-west nuclear exchange, where the place would last only a few minutes into the conflice. For example, after 9/11 dick cheney went off to the US equivalent to run the country (!), but I guess eventually the operational costs are too steep.

      interestingly, the area has very good transport (railway, nearby motorway) and communications infrastructure. A lot of the main telecoms lines go through those railway tunnels, probably because the govt. told them to.

  • They should make a movie (Score:4, Interesting)

    by totallygeek ( 263191 ) <sellis@totallygeek.com> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:55AM (#13909269) Homepage
    Starring Christopher Walker, Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, and Sissy Spacek. Oh, nevermind [imdb.com]!

  • Photos of this bunker 'Burlington' (Score:5, Informative)

    by thrill12 ( 711899 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @11:57AM (#13909278) Journal
    Here is a report on the bunker with many photos [nettleden.com]. It is actual the "Burlington [corshamtown.co.uk]" bunker in Corsham, declassified [news.mod.uk] by the MOD (==DOD). More photo's here [wanadoo-members.co.uk].

  • WELCOME to Cold War City (population: 4). ... It even includes a pub called the Rose and Crown.

    I hope one of those employees is the barkeep.

    The only sentry is a garden gnome outside one of the entrances.

    Dave: "'E's got gno-o-omes"

    Gaz: "Aye, 'e bloody well would have."

    /Full Monty

  • Cold War Bunkers aren't selling well (Score:5, Interesting)

    by WalterSobchak ( 193686 ) * on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:02PM (#13909300) Homepage Journal
    The Federal Government of Germany tried to sell of its bunker [dienststel...ienthal.de] some years ago.
    Despite some more or less reasonable offers it never got sold as the potential buyers were not willing to accept certain obligations, such as equipping it with a new structural fire protection. It is now sealed and flooded.

    Too bad, actually

    Alex

  • I searched Google maps... (Score:5, Funny)

    by chriswaclawik ( 859112 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:04PM (#13909313)
    But I just could not find an aerial photo! WTF!

  • Half-Life (Score:5, Funny)

    by xerid ( 235598 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:10PM (#13909341)
    They should make it into a real life Half-Life theme park. That would kick ass.

  • We've got one too (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Deadstick ( 535032 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:18PM (#13909370)
    ...under the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. It's open to tourists now.

    In the plains east of Denver there are a number of abandoned Titan missile silos. They were built under land leased from farmers and ranchers, and when the missiles and classified equipment were removed the government returned the structures to the landowners. For many years, teenagers snuck into them at night to toke up and hook up, and the owners had little success trying to block the entrances.

    Occasionally a developer would announce a plan to turn them into energy-saving underground homes, but none of those schemes got very far...by now, I understand most of the owners have sprung for a load of Ready-Mix to close the entrances for good.

    rj

  • Articel Update (Score:5, Funny)

    by gfordham ( 609304 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:21PM (#13909380)

    SOLD

    I hear some company by the name of, The Umbrella Corporation, just bought it.

  • bring the whole family... (Score:3, Funny)

    by moviepig.com ( 745183 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:25PM (#13909405)
    ...ideas suggested for the £5,000,000 bunker include a ... fifties theme park.

    ...where the theme presumably is nuclear annihilation. And down the street, a shopping-mall features food and fashion from the Black Death...

  • The purpose of these bunkers was so the political elite could survive the nuclear holocaust brought upon their subjects. In my opinion they ought to have suffered the same fate as the people if anything really bad happened.

    Of course only essential people were allowed--cabinet ministers, and attractive secretaries, and a few maintenance people. This way, the politicians could restart civilization with their superior genes and the young ladies who worked in their office.

    • Re:purpose of these bunkers (Score:5, Funny)

      by frogstar_robot ( 926792 ) <frogstar_robot@yahoo.com> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:44PM (#13909472)
      General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

      Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

      Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

  • Image tour of Burlington bunker (Score:5, Informative)

    by Animats ( 122034 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:34PM (#13909438) Homepage
    Here's a tour. [ufon.org] It's a huge installation. Not in bad shape for a bunker, but will need considerable work to be usable.

  • Relocation (Score:5, Funny)

    by ArhcAngel ( 247594 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @12:52PM (#13909495)
    If I purchase it will they deliver it to my Texas ranch?

  • Lets collect the money (Score:5, Interesting)

    by slashflood ( 697891 ) <[moc.wolfwoh] [ta] [wolf]> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @01:03PM (#13909539) Homepage Journal
    ... and buy that thing for the slashdot community! It's only 5.5 £ / user.

    We could do whatever we want with it. Put in a thick internet pipe and have some fun. Lan parties, new secure location for the /. servers, underground soccer, ...

  • I can't believe.. (Score:5, Informative)

    by ezzzD55J ( 697465 ) <slashdot5@scum.org> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @01:11PM (#13909562) Homepage
    That nobody has mentioned this:

    "Hundreds of swivel chairs delivered in 1959 are still unpacked."

    Frickin' rotating chairs!

  • But does it come with sharks with friggin lasers on their heads? All good underground bunkers come with sharks with friggin lasers on thier heads. :)

    The U.S. has a hotel outside Washington that had an underground bunker that was kept secret for many years. It was decommissioned a few years ago. The hotel on top of it continues to operate.

  • In case anyone's interested, (Score:4, Informative)

    by NeuroManson ( 214835 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @02:04PM (#13909786) Homepage
    I believe I found a page with photos of the shelter in question. Not as glamorous as the article makes it out to be, but meh, it would make a good film location for a remake of Day of the Dead, perhaps.

  • Neverland East (Score:3, Funny)

    by seven of five ( 578993 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @02:17PM (#13909827)
    Crikey, just sell it to Michael Jackson.

  • Paintball (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Literaphile ( 927079 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @02:25PM (#13909855)
    Imagine the possibilities!

  • No wonder it's so hard... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Lars T. ( 470328 ) <[moc.liamelgoog] [ta] [regearT.sraL]> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @02:29PM (#13909874) Journal
    ... to find Vault 13. It's in England!

  • Comment removed (Score:3)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @02:45PM (#13909938)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • underground!
    Make sure to have a light, or you will be likely eaten by a grue.

  • Two thoughts: (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Thedalek ( 473015 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @06:38PM (#13911344)
    First, pictures? Please? Someone?

    Second, think for a few moments: Great Britain, while a major world power, is hardly going to have been the only nation to think of this sort of thing. Moreover, I'd be a bit surprised if they built the biggest or even the nicest of the underground Cold-War cities. I'm not saying that the US did: Most likely some OPEC Sheik created something to make the brain stagger in the middle of some unknown desert.

    Point is, how many of these things exist? How fancy do they get?

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