Cold War secret nuclear bunkers. The passive defence of the Western world during the Cold War. - N.J. McCamley.
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Secret Cold War Nuclear Bunkers tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defense structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the North Atlantic from the Aleutian Islands through Canada to the North Yorkshire Moors, all centered upon an enormous secret control centre buried hundreds of feet below Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. This is complemented in the United Kingdom with a chain of secret radars codenamed 'Rotor' built in the early 1950's, and eight huge, inland sector control centers, built over 100' underground at enormous cost. The book reveals the various bunkers built for the U.S Administration, including the Raven Rock alternate war headquarters (the Pentagon's wartime hideout), the Greenbrier bunker for the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Mount Weather central government headquarters amongst others. Developments in Canada, including the Ottawa '...
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2002Uitgever: Barnsley, Pen and Sword Books,292 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0850527465ISBN-13: 9780850527469Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original red boards, gilt lettered spine, price clipped dust jacket, illusrated in b/w, index, 8vo. [Auteur: McCamley, N.J.] [Pagina's: 281] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Barnsley : Leo Cooper] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers: The Passive Defence of the Western World During the Cold War]
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Bound, red cloth, dustjacket, 281pp., 16.5x24cm., as new. ISBN 9780850527469.
Barnsley Pen and Sword Books 2002 [Auteur: N.J. McCamley.] [Titel: Cold War secret nuclear bunkers. The passive defence of the Western world during the Cold War.]
Barnsley Pen and Sword Books 2002 [Auteur: N.J. McCamley.] [Titel: Cold War secret nuclear bunkers. The passive defence of the Western world during the Cold War.]
