![]() NPR reported in a 2008 book review that the bunker was “one of several Cold War-era nuclear-hardened subterranean bunkers built during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, the nearest of which were located hundreds of feet below bedrock in places such as Mount Weather, in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, and along the Maryland-Pennsylvania border not far from Camp David.” And before the end of that year, he’d sequestered himself somewhere in the network of bunkers. ![]() The Drive links to a National Archives collection of photos that follow then Vice President Dick Cheney on September 11, 2001. (In the most immediate sense, directly beneath the White House is a layer of more offices-and the iconic bowling alley.) The White House had to be retrofitted for the new threat of nuclear weapons, including the ability to “whisk” the President and other leaders and officials to a safe location deep underground. The gutted interior of the White House, May 1950. ![]()
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