Inside the bunker that was a secret for five decades and designed to hold all of Congress after a nuclear strike – that you can visit today

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Inside the bunker that was a secret for five decades and designed to hold all of Congress after a nuclear strike – that you can visit today - Lemmings.world

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If you find yourself in Ottawa, Canada, check out the Diefenbunker, built by the government of PM John Diefenbaker during the Cold War

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Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum

Experience Ottawa's immersive history destination. A former Cold War communications headquarters, now a one-of-a-kind museum and national historic site.

Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum

The subterranean hideout boasts more than 1,000 bunk beds, a 400-seat cafeteria, a full kitchen, and numerous offices.

“Once the blast doors were sealed, no one could enter or leave until the crisis had passed,” Gup noted.

Its pretty hilarious to think of modern-day congress being sealed up together. They would probably just go nuts and start taking each other out after a few days

Its also weird to think that there is most certainly a modern version of this somewhere that no one knows about

Fuck I would pay so much to watch this lord of the flies shit play out with a couple hundred rich entitled power-hungry egomaniacs
Now im sorta wondering if some of the movies with this in it actually did filming there given the tours since 95 thing.