Name: What It Was Like to Be In a Presidential Nuclear War Bunker
Uploaded: 2021-05-23T12:05:32.000Z
Duration: 10 min 47 s
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The Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal.

In the event of a nuclear war, there will be those who can get

at what it's like inside the bunkers designed

to keep the US government safe during a nuclear war.

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Located in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia,

the Greenbrier Resort was a top tier hotel,

However, beneath the hotel, the US government

built a bunker intended to be used as a living

facility for members of Congress in the event of a nuclear war.

Despite the importance of the people meant to live there,

roughly the size of a Walmart which, come to think about it,

most Walmarts are pretty dreary too, so--

1,100 bunk beds were arranged in long rows.

possibly to prevent congressmen from bickering over

Speaking of bickering, government officials

weren't even allowed to bring their families with them

They were expected to abandon their loved ones

If that sounds psychologically traumatic to you,

To help the situation, the infirmary bunker

was heavily stocked with anti-depressants.

The scenario pretty much assured that the people making

the country's decisions in the most crucial hour

of an atomic war were not only isolated and depressed,

after being exposed by the Washington Post in 1992.

It's now open for tours during non-pandemic times.

So you can go see the cavern the officials would have had

Maintaining the Greenbrier bunker was no easy task.

It required a large team to perform general maintenance,

replace filters, restock expired pharmaceuticals,

and continuously refresh the food supply.

but you have to keep in mind the bunker was top secret.

So they had to do it all without attracting

created a fake company called Forsythe Associates, which

would serve as a cover for employees of the bunker.

As part of the cover, the employees of Forsythe

for the nearly 800 rooms of the resort itself.

They managed to keep the rooms up for 30 years.

But it was the presence of these maintenance employees

that ultimately alerted civilians to the fact

that something strange was afoot at Greenbrier

or, more accurately, underfoot at Greenbrier.

Equipped with fully functional police and fire departments,

as well as its own power plant, this bunker

looks and operates like a full-fledged underground city.

Construction on the complex began in 1951,

The Department of Defense wasn't sure there was actually

a contractor capable of constructing what

that was responsible for the original IRT

I'll wait a second while you post your Harry's Hole comment

As the Cold War came to an end, the fear of nuclear attack

tapered off, which was probably a good thing.

Many officials eventually began to question

as it was incredibly expensive to maintain.

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What It Was Like to Be In a Presidential Nuclear War Bunker

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