With Vladimir Putin issuing another thinly veiled nuclear threat to the West, I’ve come to one of Moscow’s Cold War bunkers to gauge the mood.The entrance is through an apparently ordinary building, not far from the Kremlin.
But inside, there are 18 flights of stairs, which take you 65m (213ft) underground and into a sprawling network of tunnels and chambers.Almost immediately, it feels as though I’ve travelled back in time. There’s Soviet memorabilia everywhere, even a mannequin of Stalin.Bunker-42 was built as a top secret command centre for Moscow’s strategic bombers, and it remained so until 1986.
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Moscow’s Bunker-42 was a top secret command centre
It’s now a museum and my trip coincides with a Russian tour group.So what do they think of Vladimir Putin’s latest threat – that Russia could hit the red button if struck by conventional weapons?
“Everyone…
