Sam Champion and the Top Secret Nuclear Bunker
-- ABC News
-- ABC News
West Virginia's Greenbrier Hotel Housed a Top Secret Government Nuclear Bunker
For more than a century, the Greenbrier Hotel has been a summer home for the wealthy and elite, from princes to presidents.
But throughout the Cold War, the West Virginia resort also kept one of the nation's most important secrets.
Flashback to 1956: The fear of nuclear attack on Washington was real.
That spring Congress sent the Capitol's architect on a mission: persuade the Greenbrier to build a new underground wing. The new wing was to be a top secret bunker, designed to house more than 1,000 members of Congress and staff.
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