Here's a website that has documented the Royal Observer Corps bunkers such as the one pictured below.
Royal Observer Corps Post
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Cold War & Nike Missile Links
- A site advocating a strong missile defense
- About the Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum
- All About the Chrysler Air Raid Siren
- Atomic Archive
- Atomic Ice Cream
- BUY - Rings of Supersonic Steel - HERE
- Civil Defense Museum
- Cold War Communications
- Cold War Leftovers: Exploring America's Secret Landscape
- CONELRAD: All Things Atomic | The Golden Age of Homeland Security
- Defending Gotham
- Ed Thelen's Nike Missile Web Site
- Got Bunker?
- Historic Missiles of White Sands
- LUNOR Swiss Specialists in Fallout Shelters since 1947
- Nike Hercules Missile Data
- Research Study Group: Cold War Sites in the UK
- San Francisco Area Nike Sites
- San Francisco Cold War Era 1952-1974
- Seattle Area Nike Sites
- Site Summit Alaska
- Subterranea Britannica: Home Page
- Swords of Amageddon: History of the U.S. Development of Nuclear Weapons
- The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
- The Cold War Museum
Military Booksellers
Books
Tom Vanderbilt: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
- Henry E. Guerlac: Radar in World War II (The History of Modern Physics 1800-1950, Two volumes: Sect. A-C, and Sect. D-E w/ Appendices)
A very detailed history of the RAD Lab and those who worked on America's World War II radar program. - James N. Gibson: Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History
Learn to identify common nuclear weapons. MICHAEL SCHEUER: Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
(*****)Brian B. Chin: Artillery at the Golden Gate: The Harbor Defenses of San Francisco in World War II
Read about the people who guarded the Golden Gate during World War IIGreg Palast: Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
"Upsets all the Right People" - Noam ChomskyMark A. Berhow: American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898-1945 (Fortress, 4)
Richard A. Clarke: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
Read the book before the movie comes out. (****)
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Royal Observer Corps Cold War Posts
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