Fighting around Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons have reawakened fears in Europe, especially in Poland and Romania. Some old shelters are relics of an earlier era of nuclear fears with no real protection.
During the Cold War there were hundreds of thousands of shelters in Europe. Some dated from the buildup to World War II, while communist-era authorities also ordered that new residential and production facilities include underground shelters.
The most famous of all, in a mountainous area 60 kilometers from Sarajevo in Bosnia, is a vast underground fortress built to protect military and political leaders. Known then only to the Yugoslav president, four generals and a handful of soldiers who guarded it, the Konjic site was turned in 2010 into a modern art gallery.
Many urban dwellers also go past shelters every day without realizing it while riding subways in cities like Warsaw, Prague and Budapest.
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