nuclear

During the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact prepared for a nuclear attack on Europe, In 1960, exercises were held in conditions similar to warfare, their aim was to test methods of transporting nuclear weapons from the USSR to the territories of western Poland to the strike units. Several methods of...

This is my first official post - I grew up in North Lincolnshire so I am aware the area is full of old military sites from the 2nd World War & the Cold war, before I moved away from the area I worked on RAF Kirton Lindsey for a while & went to primary school at RAF Hemswell - my Dad was also in...

The Nuclear Power Station Before talking about the substation itself, we should mention Bradwell nuclear power station which it was constructed alongside to serve. The nuclear power station began construction back in 1957 on the edge of the site of RAF Bradwell Bay when nuclear power was...

When it comes to exploring, you always want more, something bigger. I keep thinking this is not enough. But it's driving me mad, going out of my head. Is a nuclear power station too much? I keep asking myself, wondering how I keep closing my eyes but I can't block it out. Want to fly to a place...

Hope Cove was a World War II radar station. In the early 1950s it was revamped as part of the RAF’s ROTOR air defence scheme. It was one of five stations equipped with a type R6 (semi-sunk) bunker. The others were Hack Green, Langtoft, St. Twynells and Treleaver. In the late 1950s the site was...

The most secret and fascinating objects left from the former communist state are those that lay in plain sight all along. Today we discover a hidden nuclear bunker on the outskirts of a small Croatian village. Constructed in the 1950s by the Yugoslavian national army, it was part of a top secret...

Me and Angelo this time will explore a unique place for Malta, a run-down nuclear shelter! The structure, dug into the side of Rihana valley was intended as an alternative command post for the British in case of a nuclear fallout during the Cold War. The shelter was built deep into the rock to...

Melbourne Royal Observer Corps Bunker I live within a stone's throw of this place and didn't know it was here!! Many of these ROC bunkers still exist but some have been filled in, or capped off by land owners that inherited the bunkers after they were decommissioned ( approx 1990 / 1991 )...

First report so hopefully I get it right. I've been urbexing with a few friends in the Hertfordshire area since the start of summer, so I've got plenty of sites I need to post about. I was so excited to visit the Region 6 War Room that this had to be my first. Also recently purchased my first...

This is an R.O.C Nuclear monitoring post in northumberland. They were built to detect enemy aircraft and detect radioactivity in the event of an attack from the air. They were all equipped with phone lines, air vents, fixed survey meters, bomb power indicators, and ground zero indicators, they...

This Is My Visit To Reading War Rooms on 6th Of June 2020 Iv Tryed And Tryed To Get Into This Place I Finnaly Found A Way. Most Bunkers I Have Visited This One Really suprrised Me How Clean It Was Inside, Also Cant Beleve The Amount Of Stuff Inside Still Most Of It I Would Say Still Works The...

History: In the begin of the 50s and 60s the fear of a nuclear war was increasing heavily. The direct consequences of this fear was the construction to protect people from this. This was done with nuclear fallout shelters under some major cities everywhere in Europe and the United States. A...

Intro I thought I would post some pics of this for historical records, since it was such a cool site. Pics were taken on 35mm (B&W and colour film) and scanned in, so I don't have a lot of them unfortunately. History The Juragua Nuclear Power Plant in Cuba was started in 1983 which included...

I hade never heard of a ROC Post and stumbled on a video of a couple of guys who pretty much only explore these. Its not something I am goibg to go out of my way to find anywhere but definitely worth a visit to one if you can fnd and open one. The last report on this ROC Psot that I can find...

Initially this morning I had plans to do some university revision and exploring was my last thought, but I received a message regarding the Gillingham war bunker was open. Confused, I searched online regarding posts about it and found nothing as it appears the entrance for that specific bunker...

Qinetiq is a British multinational defense technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire. One of the locations in which they had a Facility was in Malvern, Worcestershire where a lot of people were evacuated to during the second world war. I couldn't quite find out when this...

Hi guys today we went to the secret nuclear bunker in kelvdon hatch I haven't actually ever been in here before today and it was very interesting here are some pics we took while there :) The Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, in the Borough of Brentwood in the English...

Brislington Regional War Room - Region 7 (Flowers Hill), Bristol A brief overview: For an extensive description of the building, see Nick Catford's write up here on Subbrit! As far as sites we've done in Bristol, this has to be in the top three. It's been on our radar for years (tumbles'...

I have been meaning to get to this for a few years, finally I was working on Elvington Waste Water Works today and managed to speak with one of the Yorkshire Water guys who kindly pointed me in the right direction. Unfortunately it was completed welded shut, the guy did say it wasn’t emptied of...

It's not every day you get to visit a nuclear power station, especially one of such notoriety as this! I'd visited the exclusion zone 5 or so years ago, but at that time we were not permitted access into the plant itself, so when the opportunity to have a look inside, including the rarely seen...