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The north entrance to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado, United States. A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks. Bunkers are almost always underground, in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground. [1]
Warrenton Training Center. Categories: Nuclear bunkers by country. Military command and control installations. United States nuclear command and control. Continuity of government in the United States. Bunkers in the United States. Nuclear bunkers in North America.
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a United States Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, [2] at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, [a] which hosts the activities of several tenant units. Also located in Colorado Springs is Peterson Space ...
The bunkers (Albanian: bunkerët) were built during the Hoxhaist government led by the Leader Enver Hoxha from the 1960s to the 1980s, as the government fortified Albania by building more than 750,000 bunkers. [1][2][3] Hoxha's program of "bunkerization" (bunkerizimi) resulted in the construction of bunkers in every corner of the then- People's ...
The nuclear bunker buster is the nuclear weapon version of the bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to greatly enhance the penetration into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to a target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers deeply buried.
Vivos (underground shelter) Vivos (also known as The Vivos Group) is a California -based company that built underground shelters designed to withstand future disasters and life-extinction catastrophes. [1] Robert Vicino founded the company. Shelters 10,000-square-foot (0.093 ha) have been completed in Indiana, 575 bunkers each 2,150 square feet ...
Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships (such fuel is referred to as bunker), [1] including the logistics of loading and distributing the fuel among available shipboard tanks. [2] A person dealing in trade of bunker (fuel) is called a bunker trader. The term bunkering originated in the days of steamships, when coal was stored in ...
Detachment Hotel[ a ] (also known as "the Kennedy Bunker") is the name used to refer to a small 1,500-square-foot (140 m 2) bunker complex on Peanut Island, Florida. It was originally designed for use by the President of the United States, specifically John F. Kennedy, in the event of a nuclear war. Constructed in 1960, the bunker was closed ...