Carmarthen’s nuclear bunker pictured in 2006 (Picture: Mirror Syndication)

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have been doing their best to make the prospect of World War III at least seem like a possibility.

Whether the two leaders’ sabre rattling actually results in nuclear armageddon remains to be seen, but if it does you better hope you’re somewhere near Carmarthen in Wales.

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The town, which boasts a population of around 14,000, built a bunker in 1986 when Carmarthen District Council took up Margaret Thatcher’s offer of a £400,000 grant to local councils to build nuclear shelters.

The prime minister’s offer was made in the context of heightening international tension during the Cold War, with the US planning to install cruise missile bases in the UK.

There was mass objection to its construction with a young woman losing her finger as thousands took part in a CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) protest in the town.

The bunker is no longer operational (Picture: Mirror Syndication)

History would prove it something of a white elephant as the Soviet Union broke apart only a few years later.


Now it sits under Carmarthenshire Council’s staff car park and is, sadly, no longer operational.

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According to the town’s mayor Allun Lenny the bunker has three rooms, a generator, a map on the wall and a telephone.

He told Wales Online it looks like an ‘RAF control room from the Second World War.’

Unfortunately, he told those hopeful of respite from whatever nuclear disaster heads our way they wouldn’t be able to turn to the bunker.

The bunker has three rooms to cater for those hiding out (Picture: Mirror Syndication)
The stairs now sit under the county’s councils staff car park (Picture; Mirror Syndication)

‘It’s not operational, and I don’t see how it would have been operational back in the 1980s. It was tokenism. It was ludicrous.

‘If there ever is a nuclear war, that’s it. I don’t see how jumping into a hole in a Carmarthen car park is going to save your life.’

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