It was staffed by a group of government employees under the guise of "Forsythe Associates", a fake audio/visual support company. A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Clever! It contained decontamination chambers, 18 dorms that held a total of over 1,000 people, a power plant with water purification systems, a TV production room and audio equipment, a hospital with 12 beds, a laboratory, a pharmacy, a cafeteria, and meeting rooms for the House of Representatives and the Senate. But that's not the coolest part of the resort- that honor is reserved for the ginormous bomb shelter they kept hidden until recently.Ĭonstruction on The Greenbrier Nuclear Bunker began in 1958 and by the time it was completed in 1961, it was a whopping 112,544 square foot complex built into the hill and below the West Virginia Wing, which was being built at the same time. Famous guests to the Greenbrier include Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Indira Gandhi, multiple Presidents and various Kennedys. By the mid-19th century, a hotel was built on the property. The property that the hotel sits on has been used for its healing mineral hot springs since before Columbus arrived.
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