![]() ![]() ![]() Museum visitors will walk two kilometres (1.2 miles) during the 90-minute tour, and still only see about 40 percent of it. "It's a time capsule of papers, pencils, everything is where it was left", Norbach said.Īn exhibit also outlines the main events during the period, with everyday objects on display. Walking through the long, arched corridors, visitors see the basic bedroom intended for the monarch, the cafeteria, the government conference room and 60s-style decor in a dimly-lit lounge. Never used, the bunker was taken out of service in 2003 and first revealed to the world in 2012. "As long as you could have a government here that could claim control of at least some part of the country, and you have a government still rooted in Denmark, then Denmark, as a sovereign democratic state, was still alive", Frandsen explained. The survival of the government in the event of a nuclear disaster was essential to the nation's sovereignty, she noted. So you had to do something new", she said. "The bunkers you already had could in no way withstand the blast from that. "The H-bomb totally altered the situation about how you could react to a nuclear attack", museum curator and historian Bodil Frandsen told AFP. Located almost 400 kilometres (250 miles) northwest of Copenhagen, the bunker was set up to house Danish authorities for 30 days. Nestled beneath trees, 60 metres (200 feet) under a chalk hill, it was meant to be "the last bastion" of democracy in Denmark, museum director Lars Christian Norbach told AFP. The bunker was built between 19 at NATO's insistence, following Soviet nuclear tests and the Cuban Missile Crisis.ĭubbed "Regan West", it was designed to house the Danish government and the sitting monarch in the event of nuclear war. ![]() The underground shelter, where everything is still intact as in a time capsule, becomes a museum from Monday, amid revived fears in Europe of a nuclear conflict following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. OPLEV (DANEMARK) - Hidden deep in northern Denmark's Rold Forest, a sprawling top secret nuclear bunker is opening to the public for the first time, shedding light on daily life during the Cold War. The nuclear bunker was built between 19 at NATO's insistence ![]()
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