"WARSAW, Poland — Two stories beneath a modern steel production plant on Warsaw's northern edge lies an untouched Cold War relic: a shelter containing gas masks, stretchers, first aid kits and other items meant to help civil defense leaders survive and guide rescue operations in case of nuclear attack or other disasters. A map of Europe on a wall still shows the Soviet Union — and no independent Ukraine. Old boots and jackets give off a musty odor. A military field switchboard warns: ‘Attention, your enemy is listening.’ Until now, nobody had seriously considered that the rooms built in the 1950s — and now maintained as a ‘historical curiosity’ by the ArcelorMittal Warszawa plant, according to spokeswoman Ewa Karpinska — might one day be used as a shelter again. ...”
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Switches and gauges on a control united of power generators in Josip Broz Tito's underground atomic war command in Konjic, Bosnia, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. ... It was built to withstand nuclear war.
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