Cold War Experience

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A long-buried secret lies a minute’s walk north of Broadway Tower, in the cramped cellar-like form of a bunker where, until 1991, members of the Royal Observer Corps watched out for nuclear attacks. On summer weekends, regular tour groups descend its steep access ladder to find themselves in a tiny room holding astonishingly low-tech devices like the ‘Bomb Power Indicator’.

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