A Wonderful Place To Hide
The shelter would have been used to provide a safe space for residents of the property to go to in the event of a nuclear blast. An air filtration system existed to pump safe air from the surface to the people hiding below.
Making It Look Presentable
Sims estimates that it was filled in at some time between the late 1960s and the mid-1970s, a period of relaxing of political tensions when the U.S. pursued arms limitation treaties with the Soviet Union.
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