The Luxury Hotel with a Secret Cold War Bunker built for Congress

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

(A 1962 Life magazine; a bygone era). 

For thirty years, a luxury resort hotel in West Virginia played host to the world’s wealthiest holidaymakers, all the while covertly moonlighting as the secret underground bunker built to house the United States government in the event of a nuclear fallout. Continue reading