UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES OF THE COLD WAR

After the devastation caused by the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the outbreak of the Cold War, all over the world shelters were constructed deep underground for civilians, government leaders and the military. Wartime structures were taken over and adapted and thousands of men went to work drilling new tunnels and constructing bunkers of every possible size. In some countries an industry of bunker-makers profited from the public's fear of annihilation. These hidden forts of the nuclear age have never before been catalogued and studied in the same way as medieval castles and the trenches and bunkers of WWI. Ozorak describes when and where the bunkers were built, how they would have been used if a nuclear war had broken out, and in the case of weapons bases how these weapons would have been deployed. Includes sites in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Far East and covers government and public shelters, military and weapons bases, storage depots, medical facilities and communication centres and there are over 170 illustrations with clear headers and layout and a glossary. Heavyweight softback, 363pp.