It was a top secret Chinese nuclear facility with a deadly Cold War mission – to make plutonium for an atomic bomb – but these days its doors are wide open as a tourist attraction.
The cavernous “816 Nuclear Military Engineering” installation was burrowed into lush green mountains in southwest China over a 17-year span by 60,000 soldiers toiling day and night in dangerous conditions.
Construction on the vast site began in 1967, three years after China successfully tested its first atomic weapon as it hurried to catch its nuclear programme up with that of cold war rivals the
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/17/china-rebrands-cold-war-nuclear-bunker-as-tourist-attraction/
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