The Pentagon Had A Plan To Build A Command Bunker 3,500 Feet Under Washington D.C.

A map showing the locations of, left to right, the Pentagon, the State Department's headquarters, and the White House. The DUCC would have been located underground somewhere between these buildings underneath the Potomac River. Google Maps

Warzone/The Drive: The Pentagon's Plan To Build A Secret Super Command Bunker 3,500 Feet Under Washington D.C.

Unlike any fortification on earth, the Deep Underground Command Center was intended to withstand multiple direct hits from giant nukes on Doomsday.

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the topic of "continuity of government," plans in place to ensure critical elements of the U.S. government can keep functioning in the midst of an extreme crisis, back into the general public consciousness. It has also sparked renewed interest in the hardened, underground facilities where those personnel would work, such as the U.S. military's "underground Pentagon" at Raven Rock, which you can read about more in this past War Zone feature. Had the U.S. government made different decisions during the Cold War, some of these teams might be sheltering inside a massive, very deeply buried bunker unlike any on earth, intended to shrug off direct impacts from nuclear bombs with huge yields of hundreds of megatons.

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WNU Editor:  3,500 feet underground is definitely deep.