The Government Built a Doomsday Bunker Beneath a Luxury Hotel. For 35 Years, Almost No One Knew It Was There.

For decades, the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, operated under layers of secrecy—until a meeting on May 29, 1992 revealed a long-concealed partnership with the U.S. government. About 20 front-of-house employees gathered with Ted Kleisner, after rumors grew louder and reporters began arriving. The next day, The Washington Post published that the resort had a 112,544-square-foot nuclear bunker built to keep members of Congress functioning after an attack on Washington, D.C. The article says the secret, spanning 35 years, included dormitories, blast doors, air filtration, communications systems and decontamination chambers, with the resort still sheltering the program’s workers.