RGHQ Hack Green
Starting life as a WW2 decoy station and later a Ground Controlled Intercept (GCI) radar site, the site at Hack Green was upgraded as part of the ROTOR programme in the late 1950's. Building a R6 type, two level concrete bunker for military command and control (C2) and serving as a joint military and civil air traffic control centre. This function ceased in around 1966 when the complex was mothballed but remained under Government ownership.
In 1976 the site was given a new lease of life when it was taken over by the Home Office, modernised once again and operated as a Regional Government Headquarters; coordinating the civil response in the event of nuclear attack. The cold war was coming to an end, and eventually in 1993 the site was decommissioned.
Now in private hands, the bunker has been a cold war museum since 1998 and boasts some very unique exhibits including what is reputedly the largest collection of decommissioned nuclear weapons in the world, and a rare Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) console from RAF High Wycombe.
RGHQ Hack Green
Starting life as a WW2 decoy station and later a Ground Controlled Intercept (GCI) radar site, the site at Hack Green was upgraded as part of the ROTOR programme in the late 1950's. Building a R6 type, two level concrete bunker for military command and control (C2) and serving as a joint military and civil air traffic control centre. This function ceased in around 1966 when the complex was mothballed but remained under Government ownership.
In 1976 the site was given a new lease of life when it was taken over by the Home Office, modernised once again and operated as a Regional Government Headquarters; coordinating the civil response in the event of nuclear attack. The cold war was coming to an end, and eventually in 1993 the site was decommissioned.
Now in private hands, the bunker has been a cold war museum since 1998 and boasts some very unique exhibits including what is reputedly the largest collection of decommissioned nuclear weapons in the world, and a rare Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) console from RAF High Wycombe.