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Bunker↕ | Location↕ | Country↕ | Built↕ | Purpose↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuhrerbunker | Reich Chancellery Garden, Berlin | Germany | 1936-1944 | Hitler's final WWII command post | Site of Hitler's April 30, 1945 suicide, demolished by Soviets, parking lot today with small marker |
| Churchill War Rooms | Whitehall, London | United Kingdom | 1938-1939 | WWII Cabinet command center | Churchill directed Britain's war effort from beneath Treasury building, now Imperial War Museum site |
| Cheyenne Mountain Complex | Colorado Springs, Colorado | United States | 1961-1966 | NORAD command and Cold War nuclear shelter | Carved into granite mountain, 25-ton blast doors, iconic setting in WarGames and Stargate SG-1 |
| Greenbrier Bunker | White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia | United States | 1958-1961 | Secret US Congress relocation shelter | Hidden beneath luxury resort for 30 years, kept secret until 1992 Washington Post expose |
| Raven Rock (Site R) | Adams County, Pennsylvania | United States | 1951-1954 | Backup Pentagon command center | Underground Pentagon, rumored destination during 9/11 for Cheney, known as Site R |
| Bunker 42 (Taganksy) | Moscow | Russia | 1951-1956 | Stalin-era nuclear command bunker | Built 65 meters below Moscow near Kremlin, now a Cold War museum under a fake mansion facade |
| Albanian Bunkers (Enver Hoxha) | Throughout Albania | Albania | 1972-1984 | Hoxha paranoia fortifications | Roughly 173,000 concrete pillboxes built nationwide, symbol of Stalinist paranoia and isolation |
| Atlantic Wall Bunkers | Norway to Spain coastline | Germany (occupied Europe) | 1942-1944 | Nazi coastal defense against invasion | Thousands of Todt Organization bunkers, storming of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day, still dot beaches today |
| Kanzlerbunker (Berlin) | Under New Reich Chancellery | Germany | 1943 | Earlier Nazi government bunker | Precursor to Fuhrerbunker, demolished postwar, less famous but larger complex than the Fuhrerbunker |
| Burlington (Corsham) | Wiltshire | United Kingdom | 1950s | UK Cold War government relocation | Massive 240-acre underground city for 4,000 officials, kept classified until 2004 |
| Kelvedon Hatch Secret Bunker | Essex | United Kingdom | 1952 | UK Regional Seat of Government | Famously signposted secret nuclear bunker, now museum under farmhouse facade, dark tourism staple |
| Sonnenberg Tunnel Shelter | Lucerne | Switzerland | 1971-1976 | Civilian nuclear shelter | Largest civilian fallout shelter ever built, room for 20,000 people, Switzerland's bunker culture |
| Presidential Emergency Op Center | Under White House East Wing | United States | 1942 (expanded) | US President emergency shelter | Where Cheney operated on 9/11, Bush II also sheltered, rebuilt during Obama East Wing renovation |
| Metro-2 Tunnels | Beneath Moscow | Russia | Stalin era onward | Rumored secret government metro | Unconfirmed but widely believed secret tunnel network connecting Kremlin to bunkers and FSB HQ |
| Yamamoto Bunker (Tinian) | Tinian Island | Japan (WWII) | 1944 | Japanese command shelter | Concrete bunker used by Japanese command, nearby site where atomic bombs were loaded onto B-29s |
| Diefenbunker | Carp, Ontario | Canada | 1959-1961 | Canadian government relocation shelter | Nicknamed for PM Diefenbaker, four stories deep, now Canada's Cold War Museum |
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