OTTAWA, Feb 26 — A shed on a hillside on the outskirts of Canada’s capital hides a Cold War bunker that has been fielding a surge of queries since Russia’s invasion of...
OTTAWA, Feb 26 — A shed on a hillside on the outskirts of Canada’s capital hides a Cold War bunker that has been fielding a surge of queries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, asking if it is operational.Inside, past displays of atomic bombs, a blast tunnel opens up to decontamination showers. There’s also a medical clinic, a vault for gold bullion, a radio studio, and a sparse chamber for the prime minister.
And the daily barrage of calls has persisted, she said. “That fear is still very real. Anxieties are coming back. We’re seeing remnants of the Cold War with the global tensions.” After 30 days, when radiation was expected to drop to safer levels, “some lucky person would be chosen to go above ground to see what our post-apocalyptic world looked like and how we were going to rebuild the country,” McGuire said.
Speaking in what was the war cabinet room deep inside the four-level facility, McGuire said it remains “an important reminder of how close we all came to global annihilation during the Cold War.”Some 2,000 government and private bunkers in back yards or basements were built across Canada at the onset of the Cold War, far fewer than in the United States or Europe, estimates Andrew Burtch, a Cold War historian at the Canadian War Museum.
Canada planned to deal with radioactive fallout, but was less concerned about threats of direct strikes on its cities.
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