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A complex of buildings of the research base of Association "Science" (NEBO "Nauka"), built to a depth of between 180 m (590 ft) and 200 m, is the largest underground bunker in Moscow. [23] According to the same source, it is connected with other secret underground facilities, and appears to be able to house up to 15,000 people. [24]
Crystal City in Arlington County, Virginia, an underground city. An underground city is a series of linked subterranean spaces that may provide a defensive refuge; a place for living, working or shopping; a transit system; mausolea; wine or storage cellars; cisterns or drainage channels; or several of these. Underground cities may be currently ...
From the mid-1950s Drakelow Depot, as it had become, was initially used by the Ministry of Supply for storage. Around 1958 the part of the site in the area north of tunnel 4, formerly occupied by the RAF stores area, was developed by the Home Office as a Regional Seat of Government (RSG 9.2).
Photos show the inside of the well-preserved hidden tunnels. Secret underground passageways discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old city in China Skip to main content
London, like most other major cities, established an extensive underground infrastructure for electricity distribution, natural gas supply, water supply and telecommunications. Starting in 1861, Victorian engineers built miles of purpose-built subways large enough to walk through, and through which they could run gas, electricity, water and ...
When John F. Kennedy began his presidency at the height of the Cold War, a secret bunker was constructed for him on Peanut Island. The dingy, steel fallout shelter was made to protect the leader ...
Using the sturdy Treasury Building as a refuge of last resort has some precedent. Immediately after the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861, there was concern about an imminent attack on Washington. [2] General Winfield Scott had the building readied to be used as a "last stand" by the federal government in the event the capital city was overrun. [3]
Police in Kansas City, Mo., have uncovered an "underground suburb" where homeless people have been living, the likes of which homeless outreach groups have never seen, local station KMBC-TV reported.