From a secret treasure trove below the memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington DC to a retrofitted quarry in Wales, Europe — world governments have gone to great lengths to protect precious objects from ruin. A new trove of declassified documents shine light on a new, little-known project to…
Back in 1951, the Soviet Union started the construction of the Tangansky Protected Command Point, a secret 7000sqm military complex located 65m under Moscow’s streets, near the Taganskaya train station. The Soviets built this gigantic compound at the beginning of the Cold War, once it was clear that the possibility…
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