The Area in Question
Graff had discovered a structure that was formerly called “Site R.” In the later notes recorded about the building, it was referred to as the Raven Rock Mountain Complex. The blueprints that Graff found indicated that the entrance to the Raven Rock Mountain Complex led to a series of descending tunnels that were hollowed out into the mountain. All of these tunnels led to an underground chamber that appeared to be a nuclear fallout shelter...
The Soviet Nuclear Threat
According to Graff’s research, this area was designed as part of the United States government’s nuclear contingency plan. Evidently, the Truman administration sanctioned construction on the shelter in 1951 when the Cold War began. They hired the same team that carved out the New York City subway tunnels to conduct the excavation, and they kept the project a secret by refusing to tell the workers why they were digging…