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The Cold War - Nuclear Fear | 3

American History Tellers

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Raven Rock: A History of the American State

The government built nearly a hundred bunkers in an arc surrounding Washington, D.C., in the 1950s. The mountains and caves of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina held the infrastructure to run a shadow government in the event of nuclear war. No one seriously thought that democratically elected officials would make it out of Washington alive.

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