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For sale – Secret N. Ireland nuclear bunker (pics!)

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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 that was built during the cold war in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. 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 Northern Ireland’s strangest real estate offering. 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 grassland northwest of Belfast. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Some of the sleeping quarters inside the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 

The main conference and control room inside the nuclear bunker that was built during the cold war in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. 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 Northern Ireland’s strangest real estate offering. 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 grassland northwest of Belfast. (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 that was built during the cold war in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. 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 Northern Ireland’s strangest real estate offering. 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 grassland northwest of Belfast. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

The electrical control room inside the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 

Interior view of the nuclear bunker that was built during the cold war in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. 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 Northern Ireland’s strangest real estate offering. 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 grassland northwest of Belfast. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Interior view of the nuclear bunker.  (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 

The entrance to the nuclear bunker that was built by the during the cold war in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. 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 Northern Ireland’s strangest real estate offering. 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 grassland northwest of Belfast. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

The entrance to the nuclear bunker. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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Stephen is a U.S. Army veteran with over a decade of combined experience in political commentary, economics, and news.

Comments

  1. rodney says

    YOu suppose they were also afraid GB would nuke them as well? things weren’t going very well in NI at the time.

  3. Stephen Russell says

    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, $$$$