The Soviet Nuclear Threat
According to Graff’s research, this area was designed as part of the United States government’s nuclear contingency plan. Evidently, the Truman administration sanctioned construction on the shelter in 1951 when the Cold War began. They hired the same team that carved out the New York City subway tunnels to conduct the excavation, and they kept the project a secret by refusing to tell the workers why they were digging…
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