![]() ![]() It was going to have air conditioned guest rooms, the Greenbrier Clinic, and then we’d have this wonderful exhibit hall, and a reason to have all this large construction going on, ” Hylton added. “The West Virginia wing is actually on top of the bunker, so that was released to the media, employees, guests, that The Greenbrier would be expanding and adding on this wonderful West Virginia wing. He was really concerned and he felt that our government needed to have a survival plan in place to make sure that democracy and our country would continue on, ” Deanna Hylton, Manager of Bunker Tours at The Greenbrier Resort, said.Īs part of the plan, bunkers were built all across the nation to protect government officials, so they could survive a nuclear blast. But all of the construction needed to have a cover story for what was actually being built. “Eisenhower actually addressed Congress in 1955 basically saying nuclear disaster was imminent. Since A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier is happening this week, we’re taking a look some of the things you can do there. Nuclear war has been possible since the 1940s, but there was a hidden spot in our backyard that would have been the safe-haven place for one branch of the United States’ government.įor thirty years, The Greenbrier held one of the nation’s top secret relocation shelters. During the Cold War, nuclear war was imminent and President Eisenhower wanted to be prepared for the worst.
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