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March 21, 2006
There's probably stuff like this all over the place
Via CNN:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York workers have discovered a trove of Cold War-era supplies within the masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge, a cache meant to aid in survival efforts in the event of nuclear attack.
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Some containers were marked with two dates notorious in the annals of the Cold War: 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space, and 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis when the two superpowers may have come closest to war.
Salin said one of the containers was marked, "To be opened after attack by the enemy."
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"It's hard to believe that the space was meant to be a fallout shelter, because it is not underground and light and air does get inside it," she said. "Could it have been a bunker for the mayor? We don't know."
I'd have to imagine that the mayor would have a better bunker than the Brooklyn Bridge. Maybe it was some government employee's private stash. One can only wonder how many such treasures await discovery in little closets and bunkers that time forgot.
Posted by William Polley at March 21, 2006 2:49 PM
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