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Old 08-17-2017, 12:57 PM
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Bunkers present an interesting paradox in that they are simultaneously the toughest and most vulnerable sites most forces have.

You can't pack them full of mouseholes to sally or sneak out of. Firstly because a bunker maybe behind hundreds of feet of granite or rebarred concrete that stuff is hard to dig through and if you dig enough holes you're also going to compromise the integrity of the whole structure.

Not to mention any tunnel wide enough for a man to crawl through to get to the door, will allow somebody else to sneak back through. The doors however tough they are will stuff need to be able to move and thus will have weak spots such as hinges.

Even if you were to come up with a truly impregnable fortress, then the kind of foes the Project were planning on would simply think,
"hmm suspicious lets drop a largish nuke just to be sure."

The trick would be to come up with a base that was both as bomb proof as possible, as life proof (e.g. people could live in it for decades with no contact with the outside world), defensible in a pinch and completely secret. Pretty tall order.

As such I suspect the project would build a tough underground structure with automated defences.

But at the same time would try and keep people away by "Scooby Dooing it"
Creating an atmosphere that would keep meddling kids away.

The easiest way would be set off a very small nuclear device the bunker could survive.

Then maybe put together a security team designed to look like a terrifying gang of marauders.

Or release zoo animals and put up signs indicating they were escapees from eccentric animal owning billionaire who couldn't take care of them after civilisation ended.

The trick being to have a simultaneously impenetrable and uninteresting base.
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