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 UN had completely moved out of its Lake Success headquarters by May. The construction of the General Assembly Building was delayed due to a shortage of limestone for the building, which in turn resulted from a heavy snow at the British limestone quarries that were supplying the building's limestone. The erection of the building's framework began in February 1952. The Manhattan headquarters was declared complete on October 10, 1952. The cost of construction was reported to be on budget at $65 million. In 1953, twenty-one nations donated furnishings or offered to decorate the UN headquarters. A new library building for