But by 2006, bunkers such as Raven Rock were of “diminishing value,” Paul McHale, at the time a senior Pentagon official, told Naylor. The bunker just wouldn’t work as a pandemic H.Q.

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In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff describes the bunkers designed to protect U.S. leaders in the event of a catastrophe. One Cold War-era plan put the post office in charge of cataloging the dead.

But by 2006, bunkers such as Raven Rock were of “diminishing value,” Paul McHale, at the time a senior Pentagon official, told Naylor. The bunker just wouldn’t work as a pandemic H.Q.