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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Antony Thrower & Poppy Atkinson Gibson

Inside abandoned nuclear bunker once found by one of UK's busiest roundabouts

A busy roundabout hides a forgotten underground bunker which would have been used to defend the UK had the Russians attacked with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cold War.

Coryton, in Cardiff, was chosen to host one of the 13 war rooms across the country in 1952.

They were built in case a nuclear attack destroyed Parliament and left the government in disarray.

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