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A C-130J Super Hercules rests on the flightline under a fireworks display, July 3, 2018, at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

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By Tyler Rogoway

Jul 3 9:30 PM EDT

An officer of the Swiss Civil defence of the canton of Geneva closes the door of a private concrete nuclear fallout shelter located underneath a residential building in the city of Meyrin near Geneva on March 25, 2022. - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has awakened long-slumbering anxiety interest in Switzerland in concrete nuclear fallout shelters built across the country during the Cold War, with spots available for every single resident. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

Jun 28 9:30 PM EDT

Family Fallout Survival Plan @ Levittown Shopping Center, 1960's

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By Tyler Rogoway

Jun 21 9:30 PM EDT

Circa October 1st 1914. Local Caption: Published Daily Mirror Page 9 October 12th 1914 (Photo by WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

Jun 14 9:30 PM EDT

In this photograph taken on February 2, 2020, Astrit Imeri, a former soldier, walks inside The Cold War Tunnel Museum at Gjirokastra, Albania. - Snaking beneath a fortress in southern Albania, a covert tunnel network built during the country's communist era captures the secrecy and paranoia that defined the long rule of former tyrant Enver Hoxha.Today communism is gone and the military bunker is a tourist attraction, still drawing rare visitors during the pandemic, when themes of fear, isolation and confinement are particularly resonant. The sprawling underground complex, now dubbed the Cold War tunnel, is part of a vast and costly "bunkerisation" project spearheaded by Hoxha, who was gripped by anxiety of a possible foreign invasion during his 40-year isolationist rule. (Photo by Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP) (Photo by GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP via Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

Jun 7 9:30 PM EDT

A government approved air raid shelter on display at Stern's department store

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By Tyler Rogoway

May 31 9:30 PM EDT

250,000 American flags are placed at the foot of every headstone in the Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day Weekend. Arlington National Cemetery has evolved from a place of necessity to a national shrine to those who have honorably served our Nation during times of war – including every military conflict in American history – and during times of peace. The cemetery is the final resting place for service members, veterans, and their families. “Service to country” is the common thread that binds all who are honored and remembered here. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Sarah Villegas

Bunker Talk: Memorial Day Weekend Edition Bunker Talk: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

By Tyler Rogoway

May 24 9:30 PM EDT

Flourescent light and two metal doors - concrete bunker style. Lausanne Switzerland

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By Tyler Rogoway

May 17 9:30 PM EDT

A black-and-white photo shows a man standing next to a surface (above ground) bomb shelter that is advertising Victor J. Nelson's sales and distribution business, circa 1951. (Jim Heimann Collection/Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

May 10 9:30 PM EDT

British telephonists on duty in a bomb-proof shelter on the southwest coast of Britain, in readiness to go into action with their artillery company against invading German soldiers. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

May 3 9:30 PM EDT

American chemist and Nobel laureate Dr Willard Libby (1908 - 1980) in the fallout shelter he built himself near his home in California, USA, circa 1960. The shelter, intended to withstand a nuclear blast, burnt down in the Bel Air Fire of November 1961. Libby was on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. (Photo by/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

Apr 26 8:00 PM EDT

Londoners emerge safely from underground bomb shelters after an air raid. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

Apr 19 7:00 PM EDT

Cold War nuclear bunker supply check

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By Tyler Rogoway

Apr 12 7:00 PM EDT

A woman selling biscuits to people using an underground tube station as an air raid shelter, U.K., January 1, 1940. Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images

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By Tyler Rogoway

Apr 5 7:00 PM EDT

Patrick Mueller opens a bunker door of the Deltalis Swiss Mountain Data Center, a former Swiss Army bunker built in the Alps during the Cold War, on November 18, 2013, near Attinghausen, Central Switzerland.

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By Tyler Rogoway

Mar 29 7:00 PM EDT

15th June 1939: Workmen digging deep air raid shelters in Stockport. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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By Tyler Rogoway

Mar 22 7:00 PM EDT