Short Stuff: Greenbrier Bunker

# Stuff You Should Know Episode Summary

During the Cold War, the U.S. government secretly built an enormous underground bunker beneath the luxurious Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia to house Congress in case of nuclear attack. Josh and Chuck dive into this wild piece of Cold War history, explaining how the government disguised the 112,000 square-foot, 720-foot-deep bunker as a TV maintenance operation and hid it in plain sight at a popular resort just four hours from Washington, D.C. The guys cover everything from the bunker's decontamination chambers and dormitories to its fake congressional meeting rooms and surprisingly, its jail cells complete with straight jackets for any congresspeople who might lose it underground.