Read more: The rarely-noticed underground bunker hidden in a Cardiff suburb that once held Wales’ Cold War secrets The bunker is among many that were built across the UK in the 1950s and 1960s at a time when nuclear war a tangible fear among the public, particularly following the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, North Wales Live reports. Pictures have emerged from inside an abandoned underground bunker in Wales that dates back to the beginning of the Cold War.ĭozens of bunkers that were built to be used as Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear monitoring posts remain scattered across northern parts of Wales to this day, though the majority of posts were demolished, vandalised and flooded with rainwater, or left to fall into disrepair after the ROC was stood down following the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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