Funny coincidence but I was involved with excavating one here in Manitoba a few years back. It was getting to be a hangout for druggies and the like so the province decided that it was time to just bulldoze the thing. At that point the Manitoba historical Society got involved and a plan was made to preserve the shelter for future generat…
Funny coincidence but I was involved with excavating one here in Manitoba a few years back. It was getting to be a hangout for druggies and the like so the province decided that it was time to just bulldoze the thing. At that point the Manitoba historical Society got involved and a plan was made to preserve the shelter for future generations. The one below isn't the exact one(there were several dozen identical shelters scattered across the country to be used as monitering stations) but it gives you the idea of what the shelters were like:
One thing really struck home was the description of the end of one training films, the one where the observers walk out of the bunkers to a world that was completly destroyed. The dazed look on the actors faces reminded me of a remark that was made to me about the bunker that we excavated: the man asked his superior what they were supposed to do after the supplies in the bunker ran out and he was told simply that at That point he was on his own and would have to make his own arrangements. Pretty stark and cold but I guess that it was a realistic appraisal of a post nuclear exchange world,....
Funny coincidence but I was involved with excavating one here in Manitoba a few years back. It was getting to be a hangout for druggies and the like so the province decided that it was time to just bulldoze the thing. At that point the Manitoba historical Society got involved and a plan was made to preserve the shelter for future generations. The one below isn't the exact one(there were several dozen identical shelters scattered across the country to be used as monitering stations) but it gives you the idea of what the shelters were like:
https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/falloutpostjg3.shtml
https://civildefencemuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/5-Burtch-Fallout-report-system.pdf
You might like this video about similar monitoring stations in Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50aJla1IWtU
Cool!
One thing really struck home was the description of the end of one training films, the one where the observers walk out of the bunkers to a world that was completly destroyed. The dazed look on the actors faces reminded me of a remark that was made to me about the bunker that we excavated: the man asked his superior what they were supposed to do after the supplies in the bunker ran out and he was told simply that at That point he was on his own and would have to make his own arrangements. Pretty stark and cold but I guess that it was a realistic appraisal of a post nuclear exchange world,....