Welcoming Snowbirds from Nuclear Winter

January 11, 2004 6:09 AM

Government haven for Nuclear Winter (nytimes reg) Photos of the West German government's secret sanctuary/hidey hole built during the sixties and early seventies. The article talks about the cold, oppressive feel of the accommodations, but it's pretty cool looking in a Danish Modern or Clockwork Orange sort of way. Better than the cheap motel look that Washington had planned.
posted by bendybendy (4 comments total)

What the hell...I guess Cabinet members and their spouses were supposed to sleep Ozzie-and-Harriet style?
posted by alumshubby at 7:05 AM on January 11, 2004

Extraordinary. I particularly like the mushroom cloud table lamps in the "living" room.

And it make you wonder: how many other nations invested in these massive bomb shelters? Surely the British and former Soviets had sanctuaries like this.
posted by aladfar at 7:39 AM on January 11, 2004

Does anyone besides me find it somewhat creepy that there's been what seems like an unusual number of nuke-related stories on MeFi lately?

whimper
posted by 40 Watt at 9:01 AM on January 11, 2004

What the hell...I guess Cabinet members and their spouses were supposed to sleep Ozzie-and-Harriet style?

Purity of Essence ran pretty deep among the cold warriors, perhaps?
posted by bendybendy at 7:25 PM on January 11, 2004