It has no windows — but offers unrestricted views of Armageddon.
Northern Ireland is selling its Cold War-era nuclear bunker, an underground installation with room for 235 beds that sellers imagine could be transformed into a tourist attraction or blast-proof storage facility.
Journalists took a tour Thursday of one of Northern Ireland’s strangest real estate offerings. For 575,000 pounds ($850,000), the successful buyer could acquire a 46,363-square-foot (4,300-square-meter) grass-topped building discretely situated on 3.74 acres (1.51 hectares) of rolling fields northwest of Belfast.
Northern Ireland’s leaders have decided they can survive without the bunker, which was built in the 1980s to protect key government and legal figures from a Russian nuclear strike. The facility includes a conference room and broadcasting suite. Its existence was a state secret until 2007.
Some of the sleeping quarters inside the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
The main conference and control room inside the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
The electrical control room inside the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Interior view of the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
The entrance to the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
YOu suppose they were also afraid GB would nuke them as well? things weren’t going very well in NI at the time.
Nice!
Reuses for:
TV & Movie shooting
Archieve
Labs
Storage
Services
Museum to Cold War
Use in 007 movie.
Clinic
School
R&D Lab
Gun Range.
Hostel
Hotel
Spa?
Innovation Lab.
Be huge for tourism, $$$$