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As you enter this amazing underground labyrinth and walk down
the 150 metre tunnel, from the innocent looking farmhouse to
the bunker, consider for a moment the events that would be played
out behind the hermetically sealed three tons of blast proof
doors through which you are about to pass.
World War II ended with the detonation of two atomic bombs on
Japan. The Secret Bunker Science had opened up a sinister and
potentially much greater threat to mankind Our relationship
with the Warsaw Pact countries-dominated by the USSR- who had
been our wartime allies, dramatically deteriorated resulting
in what was to be known as The Cold War The Governments plan
at the end of World War II was to establish a chain of early
warning radar stations along the east coast of the UK.
Those built in areas of greatest risk were sited underground. Here at
Troywood in Fife, close to the key enemy targets of the Royal Navy's
Rosyth dockyard and the fighter aircraft of RAF Leuchars, was one of
these. There were several sizes of bunkers and this is one of the largest.
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