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Just... Why would they bother to hide a bunker a Washington DC? They'd just say they built a bunker in Washington DC. I don't think anyone would be particularly shocked that they built a bunker for Congress in the general capitol region.
Just like no one was shocked that they evacuated Congress through the capitol buildings egress tunnels on January six.I think the more surprising thing would be if they put a bunker under a prominent statue that would be a target in its own right.
Not that they don't have secret bunkers, I just don't think they would put it under a target directly adjacent to where everyone would expect a bunker to be.
Although good luck if you're in a bunker in D.C. because that is going to be a direct hit.
No, the Lincoln statue is actually going to stand up and sucker punch that baby right into Baltimore, where less important people live
I know a lot of bunkers are pretty robust and can handle just about anything short of a direct hit to the bunker with a decent sized nuke, but yeah, being in DC during a nuclear exchange is probably amongst the less ideal locations to be, along with "hiking on Cheyenne Mountain", or "delivering pizza to the Pentagon".
We used to rent a house in middle L.A. and someone had built a "fallout shelter" in the back yard back in the 1960s. It was a concrete box just below ground about the size of an average panel truck with a single light bulb outlet and nothing to sit on. You climbed down a rickety ladder after lifting the wooden door at the top.
Why the hell anyone thought they would survive in that is beyond me.
That's potentially not great for survival outside of a nuclear blast.
To be fair, it might do an okay job protecting them from one part of a nuke if it was a moderate distance away, like the middle of LA wouldn't be.
A couple miles out the shockwave will be basically horizontal, so it being buried would potentially help you skip that part. That just leaves "firestorm making it an oven", "ground vibration making the roof fall on you", "suffocating due to no air circulation", "fallout falling through the ceiling hole making you sick", "dying of dehydration before enough fallout clears to leave", and "sitting in a dark room with a bucket of your own feces for the rest of your life because your ladder broke".A desk might actually have been a better plan.
Maybe, but the couple of times I opened that lid of a door, I sure as hell didn't want to go down into that spider-infested hole. I'll take my chances with a hydrogen bomb. Ick.
Oh, I didn't even think of the spiders, or how it's probably damp and covered in mold. I only thought about the suffocation hazard.