![]() ![]() The idea was that if central government was lost, the response to the attack would be co-ordinated from the shelter in Reading. It was built big enough to house the Regional Commissioner and 50 staff during an attack. The University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus was the site chosen for the bunker. READ MORE: The secret radio station in a Berkshire village that helped our war heroes defeat the Nazis This fact was acknowledged back in the 1950s, during the early stages of the Cold War - and a bunker was commissioned for the area. The well-known fact we have not one but two very much not top secret Atomic Weapons Establishments within a few miles of each other - and a few miles of Reading. It's fair to say, in the event of nuclear war breaking out, the people of Berkshire might be in a spot of bother.
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