ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Bloomberg
28January2011 1:09pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A nuclear bunker in Scotland built as the Cold War thawed is drawing interest from a U.S.-based group worried about another possible threat: doomsday.
The Vivos Group, a Del Mar, California-based company that provides protection against what it calls “end-of-the-world scenarios,” is considering buying the two-story bunker constructed for the U.K. government in 1990 near Comrie, 67 miles (108 kilometers) northwest of Edinburgh.
“We have been evaluating it, but it has issues,” Robert Vicino, the founder of Vivos, said in a telephone interview yesterday while travelling in Arizona. “The biggest one is altitude. It is also well known, so there would be diminished secrecy. But we haven’t ruled it out.”
Large nuclear bunkers that are no longer needed by governments have been converted into a variety of uses. One in Switzerland has been turned into a hotel, while others have become wine cellars, museums or data-storage centers. One in Berlin now houses a private art collection. (read full report)
