The Red Square, St. Basil`s Cathedral, Tretyakov Gallery, the Bolshoi Theatre are amongst the “standard” must-see attractions in Moscow for a foreign traveller. However, there are a number of places in Moscow foreign tourists are rarely shown. One of them is restricted USSR military object – Secured Command Post «Taganskiy» (GO-42), located 65 meters underground.
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Check out the fallout shelters from Safecastle. They make big metal boxes that are then buried several feet underground. This looks like an inexpensive way to to. Although, it’s still not cheap. I’ve listed information from their eBay ad further down the page.
Nuclear / Biological / Chemical Fallout Shelters

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The first rule of Site R is: You do not talk about Site R. Or, as the security guidance about the Pentagon’s nuclear war bunker (AKA Raven Rock Mountain Complex, or RRMC), states: “Avoid conversations about RRMC with unauthorized personnel.” The other two rules of Site R are: “Do not confirm or deny information about [...]

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Shanghai’s Civil Defense Office recently announced completion of the city’s largest subterranean bunker, spanning an area of over 90,000 square meters, reported Shanghai Morning Post. The massive underground shelter is able to accommodate 200,000 citizens at a time, offering protection from ground-level disasters such as nuclear radiation, poisonous gas releases, or terrorist blasts.
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The above-ground Ministry of Defence building at Fort George, Ardersier, was designed to act as a RAF communications centre during a Cold war crisis.
It is built of 2ft thick reinforced concrete and was designed to be totally self sufficient for up to three months in the event of a nuclear attack.
Inverness-based Self Storage [...]

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The former West Germany’s most-secret place — an underground bunker designed to shelter the government in case of nuclear war — officially opened Thursday in its new incarnation as a Cold war museum.
The bunker complex, which includes a maze of more than 10 miles of tunnel, is tucked into the rolling hills west of the [...]

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s residence is being outfitted with a bunker that can withstand a nuclear or chemical attack, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.
Workers at Olmert’s official Jerusalem residence are thickening walls, digging and installing air-purification equipment capable of countering chemical agents, said the report in Yediot Ahronot.
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Israel prepares for Iranian missiles Israel Today
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - In an age of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold war manual to create the nation’s most ambitious fallout-shelter plan, featuring an abandoned mine big enough for 20,000 people to take cover underground.
Others would hunker down in college dorms, churches, libraries and [...]

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The reality of Cold war paranoia is brought home to Sophie Campbell in a nuclear bunker.
Period details include 100ft deep, three-story nuclear bunker with 1½ ton tank-metal blast doors, 10ft-thick walls, Faraday cage and concrete blast caps. Formica cafeteria tables and some signage included.
Luckily Mike Parrish bought Kelvedon Hatch - the [...]

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[All of the articles below are pretty old at about 10 years by 2007]
Russia is continuing a Cold War-era program to build deep underground bunkers, subways and command posts to help Moscow’s leaders flee the capital and survive a nuclear attack, The Washington Times has learned. Among the ambitious projects: a secret subway being built [...]

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An underground Soviet nuclear bomb shelter is remade into a museum.
MOSCOW — Deep underground in a Cold War-era nuclear bomb shelter, guide Alexei Alexandrov did his best to set a spooky mood, starting with his 1960s Soviet army uniform.
“Please don’t split away from the group,” he somberly warned visitors to the labyrinth of tunnels shaped [...]

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It was inevitable: The turmoil in the Middle East, coupled with the ongoing and increasing fears of terrorism, has led to a resurgence of interest in a concept that has been basically dormant in America since the early days of the Cold War: bomb shelters for the home.
The latest wrinkle is a do-it-yourself bomb shelter [...]

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The source for a complete bomb/fallout shelter with every critical accessory such as NBC air filtration systems and blast valves.
We offer a complete kit that provides all of the precision fabricated steel parts and critical component that are necessary to construct a true steel reinforced concrete underground bomb shelter. The bulky and heavy (expensive to [...]

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Thousands of private homes have been equipped with nuclear-proof equipment ranging from air filters to water-decontamination systems. But builders and contractors say that the demand in the past few months for fully fledged atomic shelters has surged, fuelled by speculation that Iran is building a nuclear weapon that it would not hesitate to use against [...]

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Nuclear threats see more citizens expanding underground protection.
When Israeli millionaire Vivian Rakib and her husband were house-hunting a few years back, she had a definite list of must-haves, including a clear view of the Mediterranean Ocean.
But today, the most important feature of her sprawling, $23-million mansion in this posh suburb of Tel Aviv lies three [...]

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Many historians will agree the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War, but in Switzerland the threat of nuclear war has left an unexpected legacy.
If you are driving through Switzerland, south to Italy, you are likely to take the route via the charming town of Lucerne and that means driving [...]

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In Miller’s Cafeteria, in downtown Denver, four young women met for the afternoon coffee break�and almost immediately began talking about what weighed heaviest on their minds. Said Louise Epperson, a bank clerk: “I’d just as soon be killed as come out of a shelter and see the country desolated.” Gail Pitts, an account executive with [...]

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It’s been a busier week than normal for Brian Camden’s bomb-shelter business.
“I can tell you it’s picked up since the test,” said Camden, president of Harden Structures/Harden Shelters Inc. in Virginia Beach, referring to North Korea’s claim of a nuclear test and saber-rattling with the U.S. last week.
“It’s not just across the country but around [...]

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AMID mounting fears that Iran is planning to obliterate their country, wealthy Israelis are shelling out on underground nuclear shelters in the gardens of their luxury homes.
The shelters, which cost at least �60,000 for a bargain-basement version, are built to withstand radioactive fallout, have fortified walls and doors and generate their own electricity and decontaminated [...]

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HONG KONG: North Korea�s nuclear test has unnerved Japanese citizens, who are barely a missile strike away from Pyongyang. In response, home owners and businesses in Japan are increasingly preparing for a doomsday scenario by building underground bunkers that can withstand atomic force explosions.
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Survival kits and disaster preparedness used to be something out of the mainstream. After a brief (and heavily-mocked) period of fallout-shelter construction in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the notion of private disaster preparedness retreated from the mainstream. Survival kits and equipment were available, but mostly through military surplus stores and other specialty sources. [...]

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