"secret" nuclear bunkers

[crash commader]

Found this site.

 

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/

 

Never realised how many of these bunkers were in the uk..... How much must it have cost!....

[doc_newstead]

Is this the Royal Observation Corps business? One of our instructors was on the local news talking about these.

[Night_raven]

Yeah, the ROC (Royal Observer Core) task was to record the detonation of bomb, using flash paper, and fallout meters.

 

Flash paper was used to determine whether it was a ground burst, or an air burst, in which case the altitude was recorded.

 

 

Look up Kelvedon Hatch if you want to know about Bunkers, thats 3 floors down.

 

 

[tom lawson]

Look up Kelvedon Hatch if you want to know about Bunkers, thats 3 floors down.

 

 

yah, kelvedon hatch is impressive, i went there with the scouts..

 

 

its quite interesting seeing it, especially as it was never needed, and seeing how they would have lived, and imagining what it must have been like..

 

[Night_raven]

yah, kelvedon hatch is impressive, i went there with the scouts..

 

 

its quite interesting seeing it, especially as it was never needed, and seeing how they would have lived, and imagining what it must have been like..

 

Yeah, it was there as a secondary post, should the main one be struck and destroyed.

 

It wasn't designed to be lived in permenatly, year or 2 was maximum, enough for the radiation levels to drop so far down, that it was safe to go outside again.

 

Heh, i could explain about Essex's nuclear defence but it would take a bit.

 

 

[Skarclaw]

There is a big place near me, not next door though, designed to keep government officials safe. The rest can hide under our door frames :/

[BenjaminRombough]

Essex secret nuclear bunker was quite a fun day out and would have been Awesome for a skirmish

[Night_raven]

Essex secret nuclear bunker was quite a fun day out and would have been Awesome for a skirmish

 

Your sooooooo overlooking it's outpost Bunker!

 

(Fallout Airsoft is a Bunker).

 

Though so much for it being "Secret", it's a bungalow on top, with .. wait for it ... a huge sodding ariel next to it!

 

How secret is that!? .. not very secret is it?

 

 

[my_plague_666]

theres a bunker in kelvedon??? thats like a 10 minute drive from my village.

[Night_raven]

theres a bunker in kelvedon??? thats like a 10 minute drive from my village.

 

Ja, look up Kelvedon Hatch.

 

Edit: here - OMFG Secret Nuclear Bunker NUKE EEETTT!!

 

 

[BenjaminRombough]

Your sooooooo overlooking it's outpost Bunker!

 

(Fallout Airsoft is a Bunker).

 

Though so much for it being "Secret", it's a bungalow on top, with .. wait for it ... a huge sodding ariel next to it!

 

How secret is that!? .. not very secret is it?

 

No not really but the big freaking road signs dont help either but im sure they werent their during its operational time.

 

So fallout wheres that? any good?

[Night_raven]

No not really but the big freaking road signs dont help either but im sure they werent their during its operational time.

 

So fallout wheres that? any good?

 

Near a town called Basildon, here's the link:

 

Fallout Airsoft

 

it's a 2 level bunker, first level being above ground, second level is below ground, during the winter months it does get a little flooded, but not enough to stop games.

 

It's good, and very dark when the lights are turned off.

 

 

[snorkelman]

No not really but the big freaking road signs dont help either but im sure they werent their during its operational time.

 

probably just pointed in the opposite direction back then Have to admit i love the logic of these things

 

"corporal crawford Inform the MOD theres been 75 strikes in London and let me know their reply!"

 

"they told you to f--- off sir, seems they're all too aware of that already"

 

"right well never mind them, we've done our bit best we settle down for the next two years then. There'll be a medal in this for you lad at the end of this maybe a promotion too"

 

 

 

[Night_raven]

probably just pointed in the opposite direction back then Have to admit i love the logic of these things

 

"corporal crawford Inform the MOD theres been 75 strikes in London and let me know their reply!"

 

"they told you to f--- off sir, seems they're all too aware of that already"

 

"right well never mind them, we've done our bit best we settle down for the next two years then. There'll be a medal in this for you lad at the end of this maybe a promotion too"

 

Idea was that London would be targetted with 4 warheads, each in the 50 megaton range.

 

Each subsiquent city would be targetted by two 50 megaton warheads.

 

And the targets were chosen to bring a country to ruin, however it was known that civilian casualty would be incurred.

 

Russia wouldn't launch, on the ground that it had NATO to contend with, of course, it was Russia's intention to destroy Britain completely, and Europe itself so that it could not be used as a subsiquent base for operations against the USSR itself.

 

Anyway, going back to britain:

 

If the USSR intiated a first strike, Britain only had 15 minutes to respond, to get her missiles launched, bombers in the air and on there way to Moscow, (15 minutes was the realistic time, 30 minutes in a USSR <> USA Exchange), once that had been done, then the Civil defence plans would be activated by the following:

 

Radar would track the incoming Missile's, there path and there intended targets

This would be then forwarded onto the Police Station

Sirens sounded (By then, 4 minutes would be remaining before an intial EMP blast)

2 seconds after EMP blast has disabled all electronics, the first strikes hit, targettng industry and military.

Cities would be flattened in the first strike.

 

An exchange, some experts claim, could last up to 2 hours, with the following second and if possible 3rd strikes.

 

People would spend 2 weeks down a bunker, this is said that the radiation levels drop so much, that after 2 weeks it is safe enough to go outside for a limited time, though a year seems more likely before spending a day outside would be safe.

 

After a year or 2 has gone, the country could then focus on re-building, re-storing power, water, food and anything else.

 

Of course, they had the dead to contend with, which tolling in the millions, could take years to deal with.

 

Speaking of warning procedure's, here's how it was properly done:

 

1. Threat of attack identified by RAF Fylingdales Ballistic Missile Early Warning system (BMEWS), or by ground or airborne radars of NATO or the RAF.

2. Assessment of attack by United Kingdom Regional Air Operations Centre (UK RAOC). Decision to alert warning network.

3. Start of simultaneous TV and radio broadcasts through BBC and commercial stations.

4. Key-switch turned to alert 250 Carrier Control Points (CCP) in major police stations. These would in turn trigger :-

1. Up to 7,000 power sirens triggered by area, or throughout the whole of the UK, from CCP.

2. Up to 11,000 other Warning Points triggered in key establishments and in rural areas. Some of these (including many ROC Posts) would use hand sirens to re-broadcast the warning.

5. Nuclear detonations would be monitored by ROC underground posts, as follows :-

1. Pinhole cameras (Ground Zero Indicators, - GZI) record altitude, size and bearing of detonation

2. Blast sensors (Bomb Power Indicator, - BPI) record peak blast pressure level of nearby explosions.

3. Fallout radiation sensors (Fixed Survey Meter, - FSM) record levels of fallout gamma radiation, to give time of onset, peak radiation values and measurements of fallout decay rate.

6. Readings from clusters of 2 to 4 Posts plotted at Group and Sector Control Centres to triangulate detonation points, give an assessment of damage, and to display and forecast movements of airborne fallout.

7. Information transmitted by data line and radio link to user services - local authorities, Emergency Services, service and transport utilities, the BBC, Armed Services, - for relay to their staff and to the public.

8. Information on phased release from shelter, - and/or possible re-sheltering, in case of alternative conventional warfare, - passed through BBC, Emergency Services and local authorities' emergency administrations to public at community/parish and street levels.

[my_plague_666]

i cant help but notice the 'hire the bunker' link on the kelvedon hatch site.

 

i wonder...

[Brick]

And I can't help but say I've been playing airsoft games at the Kelvedon Hatch Bunker for 5 - 6 years

[Brick]

The bunker near nantwhich has a film showing what the proceedure during an attack should be, it also shows what the aftermath might be like, very depressing watching.

 

K-hatch bunker is also now hosting a military vehicle festival every year.

[my_plague_666]

And I can't help but say I've been playing airsoft games at the Kelvedon Hatch Bunker for 5 - 6 years

 

interesting.

 

also just realised that K hatch is actually the other side of chelmsford to kelvedon talk about deceptive naming

[ruzzz]

The broadcasts from the BBC mentioned above would have come from the basement of Breedon wing at Wood Norton hall in Evesham.

 

This is a 10 level bunker that everyone who has worked there denies all knowledge of, but knows where it is. In the mid 80's I had lectures in the bunker and there are lines to and from kelvedon hatch there.