The Cold War Bunker Beneath the USA's Grandest Hotel (1996)
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- Cold War Bunker (July 1996) -
Beneath the sun loungers and the shaven lawns of the USA's grandest hotel lies a cold war bunker.
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Since 1958, the opulence of Greenbriar hotel, West Virginia, has concealed an underground shelter built to protect the US government, staff and families from a nuclear war. A 25 tonne blast door swings open to reveal a dormitory of steel bunk beds, a sterilised hospital, an industrial kitchen and a cafeteria complete with 1960s vinyl chairs. Frozen in time, long dark corridors lead to the House of Representatives Chamber adorned with a full size American flag and a wooden lectern. Outside, a transmission tower, encased in a metal strongbox, allowed the Senate Leader to address a war ravaged America in its hour of need. For 30 years, Fritz Bugas - Project Manager for this top secret operation - was able to maintain the bunker by posing as an electronic consultant for the Greenbriar hotel. His cover was blown by the Washington Post in 1992 and the bunker was decommissioned last year. Now a tourist attraction, it stands as an eerie reminder of 'Doomsday' paranoia during the Cold War years.
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Ahhh... the good ol' days of the Cold War where the population could be convinced that diving under a picnic blanket or a plywood desk would protect you from a ONE MEGATON NUCLEAR airburst. :)
I took the tour there. Proms and conventions were held in the bunker although people didn’t know they were in a bunker. Also cooking classes were held in the kitchen area.
"I would hope that theres some sort of means or ways to shelter our legislative branch since this facility has been compromised." So I'm hearing theres a new one.. Lol
The numbers look hinky...
Bunks for a little over 1000 people (no official number given),
Congress comprises of over 500 representatives & senators, not including hangers on.
Plus the bunker staff, maintenance, security, medical, catering, communications etc
On top of that places were to be assigned for VIP's immediate family.
Sounds like an impossibly tight squeeze, then there's the uncomfortable fact all these high ranking officials are in one place during a nuclear war and that sort of defeats putting them in the bunker to begin with. Logic would suggest a similar second probably even a third cold-war era bunker complex has yet to be exposed.
There would be tons of bunkers all around the country.
100 bunkers like this...deep underground military base..DUMB
I don’t think it was ever much of a secret and the Soviet Union knew about long before it became public knowledge in 1992. I stayed there in April 1981 when I was 14 years old and was told about it from a relative that worked there. I was even shown the blast door and told that even though it weighed tons that it was easy to open.
I hope the public has access it to now.
No way. Greenbrier charges plenty.
Duck and cover tutorial - “jump to the floor, place your head between your legs and kiss your arse good bye. Safe in the knowledge the rich people are still ok”
Do you think the installer was murdered after they finished with those blast doors? “Honey you’ll never guess what we installed at work today”
Probably not, rumors continued during and after its construction, especially since pouring tens of thousands of tons of concrete into a hole isn’t that conspicuous. Over time though, things died down, and it’s secret remained.
It was the Mosler Company, based out of Hamilton Ohio. They also made a ton of money making safes for the storage of classified material, weapons and precious minerals.
It isn’t a “decontamination chamber”! I toured this place when I was like 10-12 years and old and I realized later on that it was a “Delousing chamber”.
Do you think maybe they told you that as children because they didn't want to scare you with the idea of nuclear war?
Impressive facilities nonetheless 👍
only decommissioned because its old ...prob a few like this ...prob used for storage ...whole network coast to coast by now im sure
Brian Carpenter it was decommissioned the day after an article about the bunker appeared in a newspaper.
A secret bunker that is no longer a secret is of no value, once it became public knowledge it became a target, and as strong as it is, it would not withstand a thermonuclear bomb in the megaton range, it would be fully excavated by such a bomb if it was directly hit.
That was an interesting version of “house of the rising sun” around the middle.
2:22
Wouldn’t it be cool if this was an Easter egg in Fallout 76?
That would require them to care about the game lol
This was a year ago about the last time I played 76 lol game sucks I play fallout 4 more
other videos on this subject said the congress etc. only went in, no family members. Ergo, the antidepressants. I hope they were wrong
I toured it in 2006.
How did they keep the people who built it quite?
Simon s I’ve toured it. According to them and photos the blast doors were delivered at night by train and installed by out of state contractors. (Yet they let someone take a picture)
For a place like that to build an underground tunnel isn’t nuts.
According to the tour guides the largest room of the bunker under the addition was an activity rec room where the kitchen was and the room was used all the time by the hotel.
Still assuming all space was utilized for storage and sleeping and I asked if they utilized battery power and seeing their generator and water purification room I’d give 100 people maybe a month or two inside. Then again my memory is based off that of a 10-12 year old.
It was even said that from time to time the hotels guest would be served tiny hamburgers to not waste the expiring vacuum sealed meat. It’s been 25 years and I was a kid
Joel Louzy having a lot of trade work and manual labour in my life I know how frustrating it can be and how often you are treated poorly by the people in charge. I would have thought someone would have gotten pissed during construction at some point enough to blow the cover. I’m not suggesting they were killed or anything but I just find it hard to see how things like this were ever kept a secret at all. Maybe just good old fashioned introduction into the belief it’s the right thing to do
@@Bikeadelic The general contractors probably didn't know WHAT they were building or were told "it's a fallout shelter" for the masses. Back in the '50s, many schools, libraries, and government buildings were "overbuilt" to act as shelters for the populace. So pouring a LOT of concrete wasn't "abnormal" back then. The other systems (blast doors, filtration and power systems) would have been installed by the Army Corp of Engineers who were given Top Secret security clearance and sworn to secrecy. The same guys also built missile silos all OVER America. When I left the Army, the LAST THING I was told was that IF I talked about the specifics of the W33 Nuke round I worked with (now LONG out of Service), they would arrest me, put me on trial, and then HANG ME for Treason. This is why I'm upset with the Hillary Clinton investigation. The FBI claimed there was "no intent." WE (US Army soldiers) were told that "intent" didn't even factor in. IF you left Classified Material where people could access it, you WERE GUILTY of "mishandling Classified Material!" PERIOD! Today "it's rules for thee, but not for me!"
I need to find the Washington Posts article that blew the cover… why would they do that anyway?
The WaPo hates Americs, the only good thing they did was the exposing of watergate.
Maybe they were tired of millions of tax payers dollars being pissed down a tunnel
This one site might be comprised _ theres entire networks underground _ plus these bunkers might have been to confuse the enemy about how our actual construction methods
I wonder where the Protectrons are.
There's medication available for most human conditions.. Especially paranoia..
Duck and cover
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Proverbs 11:4 New International Version (NIV)
4 Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
God bless you!
Grateful for Christ NO SHIT SHERLOCK! What an amazing revelation you discovered! The lines you gave us says the rich and powerful and the free or slave can not buy their way out of God’s wrath.
First nuclear war isn’t gods wrath and apparently some people can buy their way out of dying from a nuclear holocaust.
Say it was going to be a a few meteorites the size of cars and trucks impacting on the east coast wiping out 1/2 of planet and sending us into an ice where others run to caves and survive the ice age. I’m betting that would be God’s will too?
Yeah it doesn’t matter if you run to cave and hide.
I’m curious if you were implying this was a futile attempt to survive? Cause if I remember revelations correctly these is NO HIDING no matter who you are where you are?
I’m sure the people of Pompey thought they world was coming to an end, but it didn’t unless you were someone in Pompey who didn’t know you were living on an active volcano.
Hell the people on the Titanic knew the world wasn’t coming to end. If they had spent their entire lives on the boat I imagine it would have seemed that way. Is that allegory?
Can you imagine four democrat senators trying to share one locker together. I'd almost like to see that happen. Almost!
AldoSchmedack or Republicans
face off soundtrack for music ?
Macgyver1986 I thought it sounded like house of the rising sun without letting the notes ring. But I liked the FaceOff movie.
Trump will forever be know as Bunker boy
Peanut island was jfk's bunker.