Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker

[Jim R]

The wife and I have just returned from a trip out to Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker in Cheshire. A really fascinating and educational place. In one room they showed a BBC film from 1965 entitled The War Game. It was deemed too horrific to be shown at the time. It was eventually shown in 1985 for the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of the most thought provoking and terrifying things I've seen.
I don't know if anyone has been to this museum but if you're in the area it's worth a visit.

[langy71]

Used to pass this on a regular basis, never could work out why a secret nuclear bunker had road signs leading to it.... not very secret really.

[Tim Marlow]

Used to pass this on a regular basis, never could work out why a secret nuclear bunker had road signs leading to it.... not very secret really.

Bit like Porton down…..not on OS maps but you can see it on Google earth and the road signs start several miles out.

[Tim Marlow]

The wife and I have just returned from a trip out to Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker in Cheshire. A really fascinating and educational place. In one room they showed a BBC film from 1965 entitled The War Game. It was deemed too horrific to be shown at the time. It was eventually shown in 1985 for the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of the most thought provoking and terrifying things I've seen.
I don't know if anyone has been to this museum but if you're in the area it's worth a visit.

I saw The war game in the sixth form at school in about 1979 as part of a disc about nuclear deterrence. Saw the 1985 showing as well. Utterly terrifying! If you haven’t seen it watch the series Chernobyl Jim. Equally thought provoking for entirely different reasons.
Must have been quite a progressive school in its time because I also remember a topical debate about apartheid, at which the SA government representative (we had a black South African on there as well) on the panel walked out because she didn’t like the questions from the kids.

[Guest]

Bit like Porton down…..not on OS maps but you can see it on Google earth and the road signs start several miles out.

Or the BT Tower

For the opposite kind of silliness, look up the Royal Military Museum in Brussels on Apple Maps (satellite view, of course). It used to be the same on Google Maps, but they seem to have changed it (I just checked).

[Airborne01]

Early on in my time we had films about the effects of nuclear warfare, Nagasaki and Hiroshima etc - quite sobering! And even more so when we saw the next level up films at Porton Down on the NBC Instructors course :sad-face:
Steve

[langy71]

Bit like Porton down…..not on OS maps but you can see it on Google earth and the road signs start several miles out.

Yep, you're right there buddy.. never needed any maps when I used to go to it..

[langy71]

Early on in my time we had films about the effects of nuclear warfare, Nagasaki and Hiroshima etc - quite sobering! And even more so when we saw the next level up films at Porton Down on the NBC Instructors course :sad-face:
Steve

Remember those well mate, certainly made you wanna wear your PPE.