Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Media inquiries:
NTI: nti.org/newsroom
CNS: Jessica Varnum (jvarnum@middlebury.edu)
While the mineshafts leaders retreat to at the end of 1964’s apocalyptic film Dr. Strangelove seem like dystopian science fiction from the Cold War, both the United States and Russia spend a fortune every year to maintain and improve an extensive complex of underground bunkers.
These sites are designed to maintain continuity of government during a nuclear war, even while the people those governments represent perish. To explain the scale of these facilities, we have reconstructed two, the U.S. Raven Rock and Russian Kosvinsky sites, roughly to scale using the popular immersive gaming platform, Minecraft.
You can play Minecraft in our models of American and Russian bunkers:
For Kosvinsky visit: 185.38.151.2:25566
For Raven Rock visit: 185.38.151.31:25566
(We release the zombie apocalypse on the weekend)
For more information: visit nti.org/minecraft
Music Credit:
“We’ll Meet Again”
Composed by: Ross Parker and Hughie Charles
Performed by: Vera Lynn
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc
Media inquiries:
NTI: nti.org/newsroom
CNS: Jessica Varnum (jvarnum@middlebury.edu)
While the mineshafts leaders retreat to at the end of 1964’s apocalyptic film Dr. Strangelove seem like dystopian science fiction from the Cold War, both the United States and Russia spend a fortune every year to maintain and improve an extensive complex of underground bunkers.
These sites are designed to maintain continuity of government during a nuclear war, even while the people those governments represent perish. To explain the scale of these facilities, we have reconstructed two, the U.S. Raven Rock and Russian Kosvinsky sites, roughly to scale using the popular immersive gaming platform, Minecraft.
You can play Minecraft in our models of American and Russian bunkers:
For Kosvinsky visit: 185.38.151.2:25566
For Raven Rock visit: 185.38.151.31:25566
(We release the zombie apocalypse on the weekend)
For more information: visit nti.org/minecraft
Music Credit:
“We’ll Meet Again”
Composed by: Ross Parker and Hughie Charles
Performed by: Vera Lynn
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc
