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Subtitle: > The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort’s bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden fro

Subtitle: > The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort’s bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden from 1958 to 1992 Before anyone gets excited about this awesome demonstration of secret-keeping by the general public - do recall the "We are only X seconds from nuclear doomsday" vibe of that era. If you were born & raised in a kinda-insular little town, and knew that blabbering the town secret might result in you & all your family & your neighbors & etc. being vaporized when the Soviets saturated your hometown with nukes - just how tempted would you feel to blabber?

labster 3y ago
I wouldn’t blab, I’d just share the bunker’s armor specs with my buddies on the War Thunder forums.
- leetrout 3y ago
  For those out of the loop, there have been multiple leaks of classified info on military assets on the War Thunder forums. Wikipedia has a list of the leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Document_leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Document_leaks
- throwup238 3y ago
  I’d put it up on my Neopets page. Anything for internet street cred!
baybal2 3y ago
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0xDEADFED5 3y ago
if the awesome secret-keeping seems a little too clickbaity, here's this to consider. from the OG 1992 article "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/brier1.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/br..." : ```One former government official says he was told that so many people in the White Sulphur Springs area knew about the facility that the government dispatched two men who had not been briefed on the project to mingle with the locals, posing as hunters, to learn just how much was known and what was being said. According to the official, the two returned to Washington a few days later with so many details about the facility that they had to be given top-secret clearance.```

labster 3y ago

I wouldn’t blab, I’d just share the bunker’s armor specs with my buddies on the War Thunder forums.

leetrout 3y ago
For those out of the loop, there have been multiple leaks of classified info on military assets on the War Thunder forums. Wikipedia has a list of the leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Document_leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Document_leaks
throwup238 3y ago
I’d put it up on my Neopets page. Anything for internet street cred!

baybal2 3y ago

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0xDEADFED5 3y ago

if the awesome secret-keeping seems a little too clickbaity, here's this to consider. from the OG 1992 article "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/brier1.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/br..." : ```One former government official says he was told that so many people in the White Sulphur Springs area knew about the facility that the government dispatched two men who had not been briefed on the project to mingle with the locals, posing as hunters, to learn just how much was known and what was being said. According to the official, the two returned to Washington a few days later with so many details about the facility that they had to be given top-secret clearance.```