Just realized the old missile silo tour in Kansas made me rethink the whole 'underground cities' thing

I took that tour near Abilene last month and the guide said the decommissioned site was sold to a private group in 1996. The scale down there is crazy, like a 9 story deep concrete tube. It got me thinking about how easy it would be to hide a whole facility if you had the money and land rights. The official story is it's just for storage now, but what if some of these old Cold War spots never really closed? Has anyone else been to a place like that and had the same weird feeling?

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reese_nelson1d ago

That Atlas F site near Abilene is a trip. My weird feeling was less about secret bases and more about how they turned a doomsday hole into a climate-controlled wine cellar for some rich guy. The real conspiracy is that we spent billions digging these tombs just to store cabernet.

bennett.nora1d ago

My buddy Greg got a tour of that converted missile silo in Kansas last year. He said walking past racks of thousand dollar Bordeaux where the launch controls used to be gave him serious whiplash. The guide kept talking about "ideal humidity for vintages" while Greg was staring at the original blast door. It's the most perfect example of late stage capitalism I've ever heard, turning a monument to nuclear fear into a fancy basement for a hedge fund guy.