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Nuke-Proof Bunker Turns Out Not Waterproof

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the maybe-send-it-to-cuba dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The AP reports on the opening of a vault in Tulsa, OK which was designed to withstand a nuclear attack by the Russians. 50 years ago they put a Plymouth Belvedere in the vault to preserve it so that we could get a good look at it in the (for that time) magical year of 2007. Unfortunately it turns out that the vault wasn't even waterproof. The once beautiful car is now a literal rust bucket."

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  1. Waterproof? by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even if the container were waterproof the car would still rust if the humidity wasn't controlled.

    Dan East

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  2. Re:Duck and Cover by saibot834 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Duck and Cover: Watch on youtube / Download at archive.org (avi/mpg/mp4) / Wikipedia article
    Nowadays we can laugh about it but consider that people might laugh in 30 years about what we think now.

  3. Re:Hey, they never claimed it was! by Vellmont · · Score: 4, Informative


    It was built to shelter people against radiation, not water.

    The article is quite misleading. The "survive a nuclear attack" thing was just a boast about how strong the vault was. It wasn't a fallout shelter, it was a vault designed to hold a car for 50 years. On that level it failed miserably.

    It looks to me like whoever designed the vault didn't think about water, or at least had little idea about underground vaults. Looking at this picture:
    http://www.motoring.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=388 5529&fSectionId=751&fSetId=381
    doesn't make this vault look terribly waterproof.

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