This is a subject I know a little something about, for several reasons. > when in reality it might have been at the very top > make Congress think there's a safe place for them > Then why would they have kept it going? Just to > was common knowledge of our enemies all along. > newspaper can figure out the Big Secret maybe it > in its decommissioning but one wonders if a > Well, the Post was who first revealed it resulting > somewhere for some other idiot news source to > dollars will have to be spent building another one > No, but I'd rather see this left secret as there's Since its reopening this summer after a two-year renovation, it has again become a popular, if somewhat dreary, tourist attraction. "Officially designated Project Greek Island but known colloquially as the bunker, it was decommissioned after its location was revealed by The Washington Post in 1992. Strangelove, of nuke-u-lar combat toe to toe with the Rooskies. Built during the cold war and operated in secrecy for 30 years, it is a gargantuan underground fallout shelter, intended for use by the entire United States Congress in the event, as it was put in the movie ∽r. "But its most notable facility is far from luxurious, its grim purpose the antithesis of recreation. It includes a spa, three golf courses, horseback trails, trout streams, skeet shooting, bowling, opulent shops, a culinary school, a museum and its own Amtrak station. And what began as an inn and scattered summer homes is now a 6,500-acre luxury resort, the Greenbrier, owned by CSX Corporation. "THE town of White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in the Allegheny Mountains has been a vacation spot for the powerful and the privileged since the early 1800s. In today's New York Time's Travel Section:
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