Headquarters of the United Nations the building is vaporised by Dreyfus with a doomsday device. The final Roadblock of the 21st season of the American version of "The Amazing Race" also took place inside the gates of this building and had teams associating national flags with the different "hellos" and "goodbyes" they heard during the race. In the first issue of "Atomic War!" published in November 1952, New York City is hit with a Soviet atomic bomb in 1960, the Headquarters of the United Nations. the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building are all shown collapsing during the bombing of the city. The building is
Headquarters of the United Nations Apartments across First Avenue from the Zeckendorf site. The city, in turn, spent $5 million on clearing the land. While the United Nations had dreamed of constructing an independent city for its new world capital, multiple obstacles soon forced the organization to downsize their plans. They ultimately decided to build on Rockefeller's East River plot, since the land was free and the land's owners were well known. The diminutive site on the East River necessitated a Rockefeller Center-type vertical complex, thus, it was a given that the Secretariat would be housed in a tall office tower. During daily meetings from