Hack Green nuclear bunker

Hack Green secret nuclear bunker - darkometer rating : 5 - A former secret nuclear government bunker in the middle of Cheshire, Great Britain . Now decommissioned and converted into a quirky but cool kind of Cold War museum. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > photos More background info: The installations at Hack Green, a tiny hamlet in rural Cheshire, started life as a radar station in WWII , and later served the RAF as one of the "Rotor" long-range radar interception systems, until it was closed in 1966. During the 1970s the site lay abandoned. It was only in the 1980s when it was bought from the MoD by the Home Office and, under great secrecy, converted into one of the fallout shelters for regional government relocation headquarters in case of a nuclear attack on Great Britain . From here, early warnings would have been distributed, communications directed, and afterwards some form of government control exerted and rebuilding of society co-ordinated, rising from the ashes of World War Three so to speak. As if! You can only shake your head at the naivety of such a concept – especially if you've seen the film "Threads", the most realistic ever dramatization of what it would most probably be like after a nuclear holocaust: whatever may be left of society would soon collapse back into some kind of barbaric Stone Age level. In any case, the threat of all-out nuclear Armageddon seems to have gone away since the Cold War fizzled out with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc .