Nuclear Bunker Falling Into Ocean
Frank Landymore
created: Jan. 18, 2026, 8:45 p.m. | updated: Jan. 28, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
How’s a literal nuclear bunker hanging off the side of a crumbling cliff face for portent symbols of how our society seems to be teetering on the edge of some imminent catastrophe?
The brick building, located near Tunstall on the East Yorkshire coast in the UK, is thought to have been built way back in 1959 as a lookout post in the event of a nuclear war.
But it’s now just days away from falling into the sea, the BBC reports, as coastal erosion eats away at the cliff top it’s lodged in.
The bunker, officially known as the Tunstall Royal Observer Corps Post, is a relic of Cold War era paranoia.
“This whole area is eroding at a rapid rate and to see an actual physical thing moving it just shows what’s happening really,” Robinson told the BBC.
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