The 100,000-square-foot (9,300-square-meter) underground bunker was built between 19 to house more than 500 key civilian, military and government officials to run Canada following a nuclear attack.Īfter 30 days, when radiation was expected to drop to safer levels, "some lucky person would be chosen to go above ground to see what our post-apocalyptic world looked like and how we were going to rebuild the country," McGuire said. In light of war in Ukraine's impacts - as well as the growing climate crisis - the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in late January moved their symbolic "Doomsday Clock" to just 90 seconds to midnight -– its closest approach ever to humanity's "self-annihilation."Īnd on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his country would suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty with the United States - though Moscow's foreign ministry later said it still planned to abide by its regulations. We're seeing remnants of the Cold War with the global tensions." "When Russia invaded Ukraine, we had a lot of public inquiries about whether this museum still functions as a fallout shelter," Christine McGuire, its executive director, told AFP.Īnd the daily barrage of calls has persisted, she said. A Geiger counter at the entrance of the underground fallout shelter would have been used to detect and measure radiation after a nuclear strike © Lars Hagberg / AFP/File
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