Secret Bunker hosts CND exhibition

IT WAS Scotland’s best kept secret for more than 40 years.

Hidden beneath a Fife farmhouse, a tunnel leads to 24,000 square feet of secret accommodation on two levels 100 feet underground.

Had there been a nuclear attack during the Cold War era, this is where Scotland would have been governed from within.

But while the Cold War might be over, nuclear weapons remain a major issue today, as a new exhibition which launched on Saturday at Scotland’s Secret Bunker reveals.

The exhibition by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) tells the history of the peace movement and explains how nuclear weapons remain a threat.

Chairman of Scottish CND Arthur West said: “The Secret Bunker is a very suitable site for this new exhibition. Although the Cold War is over and the bunker is now a tourist attraction, there are still thousands of nuclear weapons in the world today and more than 200 in Scotland.”

The display includes rare details of the Trident nuclear weapon system and its effect. There is also information on the operational bunkers which Britain maintains today and on the range of Scottish organisations working for disarmament.

Scotland’s Secret Bunker, at Troy Wood, near Anstruther, is open seven days a week from 10am, with last admission 5pm. The season runs until the end of October.