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What Happened to Canada’s Cold War Relics?

The living would truly envy the dead. CBC had a studio in the Diefenbunker.

Few of the sites built to protect Canadians from a radioactive cloud of destruction have been preserved.

Recently I made several trips to the Diefenbunker, the underground complex in the village of Carp, Ontario, that — assuming everything went to plan — would preserve Canada’s political and military leadership when nuclear warheads fell from the skies. Those plans, as I wrote in an article published this week, relied heavily on wishful thinking.

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