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Built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum that sheds light on Cold War paranoia.. H..
Hidden in northern Jutland's Rold Forest, some 400km north-west of Copenhagen, is the sprawling bunker complex of Koldrigsmuseet REGAN Vest (The Cold War Museum REGAN West)..
Secretly built in the 1960s at the height of Cold War tensions, this is where the Danish government and even the queen would have been evacuated if nuclear war broke out...
The Cold War was a period of acute political and military tension between Western and Eastern blocs, aligned with the US and Soviet Union, that spanned from shortly after World War Two until the early 1990s, triggering a nuclear arms race..
From basements in kindergartens to military forts, approximately 14,000 Cold War-era structures were erected across Denmark and I was surprised to learn that another similarly large complex exists, called Regan st (East)...
