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The NYT has a fascinating article about a newly discovered bomb shelter from the Cold War era. What’s so fascinating about the shelter is not only is it basically completely intact, but it’s located on the Manhattan side of the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Also, the city is refusing to reveal the exact location of the bomb shelter adding to its intrigue.

For decades it waited in secret inside the masonry foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge, in a damp, dirty and darkened vault near the East River shoreline of Lower Manhattan: a stockpile of provisions that would allow for basic survival if New York City were devastated by a nuclear attack.

City workers were conducting a regular structural inspection of the bridge last Wednesday when they came across the cold-war-era hoard of water drums, medical supplies, paper blankets, drugs and calorie-packed crackers — an estimated 352,000 of them, sealed in dozens of watertight metal canisters and, it seems, still edible.

I’m sure the city workers must be proud, it only took them five decades of “regular structual inspection” to figure out there was an entire bomb shelter inside the bridge.

It seems that in the 50’s and 60’s people thought that in case of a nuclear attack the only thing you needed to survive was a ton of crackers and giant drums to go poo in.

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