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« on: April 22, 2017, 05:48:58 PM »

Yes. Along with friends we've explored an abandoned school in Łomianki (a suburb of Warsaw) which actually had one.
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2017, 05:55:29 PM »

Bomb shelters were a trendy expensive addition to suburban houses built in the 1950's-1960's. My uncle's house had one. Of course they weren't going to do that much good in an all out nuclear war, but neither would the "duck and cover" drills that I had to practice in grade school. Many of those shelters have been repurposed to uses ranging from tornado shelters to wine cellars.
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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2017, 06:06:26 PM »

Bomb shelters were a trendy expensive addition to suburban houses built in the 1950's-1960's. My uncle's house had one. Of course they weren't going to do that much good in an all out nuclear war, but neither would the "duck and cover" drills that I had to practice in grade school. Many of those shelters have been repurposed to uses ranging from tornado shelters to wine cellars.

I believe in many Swiss homes, where having such places is mandatory, people pretty much use these shelters for storage.
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« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2017, 06:12:35 PM »

Bomb shelters were a trendy expensive addition to suburban houses built in the 1950's-1960's. My uncle's house had one. Of course they weren't going to do that much good in an all out nuclear war, but neither would the "duck and cover" drills that I had to practice in grade school. Many of those shelters have been repurposed to uses ranging from tornado shelters to wine cellars.

I believe in many Swiss homes, where having such places is mandatory, people pretty much use these shelters for storage.

Yeah, I've got one in my basement. It is pretty much a legal requirement to keep alcohol, tinned food and empty suitcases in your abri.

The bomb shelters used to be a legal requirement, but rules have been relaxed in recent years, so some new builds don't have them.
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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2017, 07:41:49 PM »

My prior school and my current schools have one.
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« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2017, 08:57:08 PM »

My elementary school had a fallout shelter, but the only reason I know that is because of the classic sign on the front of the building.

I'm not even sure where it was (presumably in "the basement", wherever that was) and AFAIK none of us ever actually saw it. It might have not even been usable by that point, for all I know.
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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2017, 01:48:26 AM »

I may have been in a place that was originally designed as a nuclear bunker, but now serves some other purpose. No idea to be honest.

I have, however, been inside a decommissioned nuclear reactor, originally used to produce plutonium for Trinity and Fat Man.
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« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2017, 03:45:01 AM »

Yes. In Berlin. It was really interesting.
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« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2017, 10:13:35 AM »

Yes I was in the Prague bunkers. Very cool.
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« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2017, 12:32:56 PM »

The Scottish Office one in Fife. Built and hidden underneath a farmhouse minutes away from where I used to go my childhood holidays.
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« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2017, 09:55:25 PM »

Yeah, there was a fallout shelter in the basement of the main building of my middle school (which had been the high school when it had been designated one). Doubtful it could have held even the students in that building, let alone the entire school.  Not much point to having one where I lived.  Nothing nearby that would have been a target of a limited nuclear attack, but multiple targets that were nearby for a full scale attack.  Even if it had been a working shelter, there was no real chance that if it had been needed that the radiation count would have gone down quickly enough for us to be rescued.
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« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2017, 09:03:15 AM »

Define "nuclear bunker".
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« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2017, 09:06:17 AM »

The Scottish Office one in Fife. Built and hidden underneath a farmhouse minutes away from where I used to go my childhood holidays.

Is that Scotland's Secret Bunker, possibly our most poorly named tourist attraction, given that you can not travel more than 5 miles on a motorway anywhere in scotland without being informed of how far away it is?
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