Inside Scotlands Secret Nuclear Bunker (32 Photos)

Scotlands Secret Nuclear Bunker

Scotland’s best kept secret for over 40 years is hidden beneath a traditional Scottish farmhouse in sleepy Anstruther, Fife, near the famous St. Andrews golf course.

A tunnel leads 100 feet underground to 24,000 square feet of secret accommodation on two levels.

It was transformed in the 1950s from an RAF radar station to an emergency nuclear bunker for government bigwigs to hide out and run the country in times of nuclear attack.

The air is purified to weed out radioactivity, gas and biological warfare and can be refrigerated/heated, ozonated/deozonated, humidified and de-humidified – whatever that means.

There are “hot beds” in the 6 dormitories, more luxurious accomodation for the ministers, an RAF control room, a telephone switchboard with 2,800 outside lines enclosed in a “Faraday cage” which is built to withstand an atomic blast.

And if the red telephone should ring, there’s a BBC Sound Studio for broadcasting the news of a nuclear strike to lesser-protected mortals in the outside world.