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PRIVACY

Inside the Prime Minister's nuclear bunker: A TV studio, a map of Iran and enough toothpaste for months

If World War Three erupts the Prime Minister can go to the Ministry of Defence's nuclear bunker - a world of secret briefing rooms and decontamination suites

Back door area(David Moore)

Deep beneath central London lies a massive nuclear proof bunker which will house Theresa May and the nation's military leaders if Britain is attacked.

If World War Three erupts and the Prime Minister launches Trident Missiles she needn't worry because she has the ultimate bolt hole.

And these photographs offer a rare glimpse into it - a world of briefing rooms, decontamination suites and communication and command and control offices.

Inside the bunker
Stockpiled supplies

 

It can be cut off from the outside world at a few minutes notice and has it's own ventilation system to allow people to breath without ingesting outside air.

The Pindar Bunker lies four stories deep, even deeper than the Tube lines which criss cross the capital, and is crammed with modern technology, including the ability to take over Britain's entire communications network.

Changing area(David Moore)
Broadcast studio(David Moore)

Its construction - which took ten years and reportedly cost £126.3 million - was finished in the mid 1990s and was highly secret with plans being held back from public records.

More than 100 top politicians, generals and others could live in the bunker, built on the orders of Margaret Thatcher in the Eighties, in the event of nuclear war, a chemical weapons onslaught or other major attack.

It's name comes from Greek lyric poet, Pindar, whose house was apparently spared when Alexander the Great sacked Thebes in 335 BC.