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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
World
Paul Speed

Nottingham's Cold War command centre designed to withstand a nuclear strike has been sold

Nottingham’s historic 1950s command centre the War Rooms – dubbed ‘The Kremlin’ by locals - has been sold.

Built to survive an all but direct hit of a nuclear bomb - including radioactive fallout – the building in Chalfort Drive was decontaminated and ready to be re-purposed with a view to bringing it back into use.

Put on the market last year, both the building and its 2.1 hectares of developable land has recently been snapped up.

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