Fallout

So this week was pretty fun! Did some cool missionary stuff, if you're interested to hear about that send me an email. For the rest of you, I think you want to hear more about our trip to a militarily secret: Tito's nuclear bunker.

So during the cold war Tito made this bunker that is literally massive just in the side of a mountain. The entrance is like a normal looking building but its actually just empty. Then you walk into this thick metal doors and into the bunker. If any of you have played Fallout, it's the same vibe. It was made to hold 350 of the most important people in Yugoslavia, and only one woman (Tito's wife). What's crazy is there are tons of other bunkers throughout the Balkans, but this one is the largest. It was kept a secret up until 2012 when they couldn't fund it so they opened it up for tours to make money for it. There was a ton to learn about how they got water, food and electricity. They said that it was able to withstand an attack 5 times bigger than Hiroshima. Also they have these two huge tanks of oil in them and at one point there was an order to blow up the entire bunker so know one would know about it but these two Bosnian dudes intercepted the order. So they were gonna blow it up by putting dynamite in the oil room place and draw a fuse all the way out and blow it up. These two Bosnian people cut the fuse so it didn't go off, thus saving the bunker. It was really interesting and very cool to see all about it. I seriously felt like I was in one of those movies based on the Cold War: military secrets, nuclear wars, bunkers, old typewriters, spies, codes, strategies. It was very cool.

Here are some pictures:

(The last one is of all the mini bunkers they made for all the families in Yugoslavia, now used by homeless people.)