IKS Exploration

Exploring the largest city on Earth, Tokyo, Japan.
Neon streets, hidden corners, and a city that never slows down. If you want to experience the scale, atmosphere, and chaos of Tokyo, make sure you check out the new video now live on the Escape the Chaos YouTube channel.

Big respect to our number one fan over at Escape the Chaos, go and show the video some love 👊

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☢️ Did you know we detonated nuclear weapons in space?

During the Cold War, the US and USSR didn’t just test nukes underground or in the atmosphere, they actually exploded nuclear weapons above the Earth, in near-space.

In 1962, a test called Starfish Prime was detonated over 400km up, higher than the ISS. The blast created artificial auroras, knocked out streetlights and communications in Hawaii, damaged satellites, and proved that a single nuclear detonation could cripple modern technology via EMP.

Even worse, these tests created artificial radiation belts that lingered for years.

The lesson?
Space isn’t empty. Nuclear weapons don’t stay contained.
And humanity learned this the hard way.

It was so dangerous that in 1963, nations quietly agreed to ban nuclear explosions in space.

Cold War logic at its peak:
test first, understand later.

More unsettling history coming soon. 👀

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☢️ Your Fallout Shelter in the 1980s: Rations & Water Supplies ☢️

If nuclear attack had occurred in the 1980s, survival in a UK fallout shelter would have depended almost entirely on what you already had at home.

Government advice made it clear: there would be no emergency food deliveries, no organised rescue in the immediate aftermath, and no guarantee of help for weeks. Families were expected to shelter in place and survive on carefully rationed supplies while radiation levels outside slowly fell.

🍞 Food
Households were advised to store long-life foods that required little or no cooking:
• Tinned meat, vegetables, soup, and fruit
• Dried foods such as rice, pasta, biscuits, and cereals
• Sugar, jam, and fats for energy
• Baby food and special dietary items if needed

Food would be eaten cold or minimally heated, with strict rationing. Comfort foods were often recommended, not for nutrition, but morale.

💧 Water
Water was even more critical than food.
Advice suggested storing water in bottles, pans, and even filling the bath before fallout arrived. Once sheltering began, taps could not be relied upon, contamination, loss of pressure, or power failure were all expected.

Water was to be rationed carefully:
• Drinking
• Minimal washing
• Basic food preparation

Every drop counted.

🕯️ Reality of Shelter Life
Life in a fallout shelter wasn’t about comfort, it was about endurance. Families were expected to remain inside for days or even weeks, listening for official broadcasts, watching radiation levels fall, and making supplies last.

The message was blunt but honest:
Your survival depended on preparation, not rescue.

💬 Do you remember being told to stock food and water?
Would your household have been ready?

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🎄 Christmas in Cold War Britain 🎄

While families gathered around the table for turkey, tinsel and the Queen’s Christmas Broadcast, the shadow of the Cold War was never far away.

Beneath the festive normality sat a quiet anxiety, news of nuclear tensions, civil defence warnings, and the ever-present idea of the four-minute warning. Sirens were still maintained, Royal Observer Corps volunteers remained on standby, and some households even checked tinned food, water, and candles “just in case”.

By the 1980s, Protect and Survive leaflets and nuclear debate had become part of everyday life, an eerie contrast to carols, Christmas TV, and family traditions. Dark humour often filled the gap, jokes about fallout shelters and where the Christmas dinner would fit if the worst happened.

Christmas during the Cold War was a strange mix of hope and fear: festive lights on the surface, and the possibility of total destruction quietly sitting in the background.

🎅 A season of peace… lived under the threat of the unthinkable.

#ColdWar #ColdWarBritain #ChristmasHistory #CivilDefence #ROC #NuclearAge #IKSExploration

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🕵️‍♂️ Cold War Bunker… Turned Into a Housing Estate! 🏠☢️

How we doing folks!
Here’s something a bit different from the usual ROC posts and tunnels…

In Mistley, Essex, there’s a full-blown 1951 Cold War bunker, once an Anti-Aircraft Operations Room and later an Emergency HQ, that’s now been converted into modern homes known as the “Secret Bunker” development.

We’re talking 600mm-thick concrete walls, original blast doors, Cold War ventilation systems behind glass, and even the old radio mast still standing. What was once a nerve centre for tracking enemy aircraft and preparing for nuclear war is now… someone’s living room. Absolutely mad. 🤯

It used to be the Essex Secret Bunker Museum in the 90s, then closed, left to decay, and eventually transformed into a housing estate, a proper “then and now” Cold War story.

Would you live in a nuclear bunker house like this?
Let me know in the comments, folks! 👇
More bunker history coming soon on IKS. 🛠️☢️

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🕳️ LOST LONDON FALLOUT SHELTER — TOTTERIDGE, 1980 🏠☢️
Bunker Wednesday Sneak Peek!

How many of you knew that in 1980, a North London family had a full nuclear fallout shelter craned over their house and buried in their back garden?

Meet the Millett family of Totteridge, Lionel, Phyllis, and their daughters Roberta & Katie, who became national headlines when they installed a NESST (Nuclear Emergency Survival System) bunker capable of keeping 12 people alive for four weeks during a nuclear attack.

Press photos show the steel shelter being dropped into a huge pit… and the family even lived inside it for a 5-day trial.

But here’s the mystery:
🔍 No modern source reveals the exact house.
🔍 The bunker’s fate is completely unknown.
It may have been removed… filled in… or it could still be buried beneath a quiet Totteridge garden today.

A real Cold War time capsule lost beneath London.

👇 Would you like me to dig deeper into tracking its possible survival or location?
👇 Have any of you ever seen odd hatches or manholes in Totteridge gardens?

#BunkerWednesday #IKSExploration #ColdWarHistory #FalloutShelter #LondonHistory #HiddenBunkers #NESST

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DEAL’S HIDDEN FALLOUT SHELTER – A COLD WAR SECRET IN THE HEART OF TOWN!

Most people walk down Middle Street in Deal without ever realising that this quiet little road once hid one of Britain’s earliest nuclear fallout shelters.

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as Cold War tensions grew and the threat of nuclear attack felt very real, Deal became the focus of several experimental civil-defence projects. One of these was a private, purpose-built fallout shelter constructed opposite what used to be Skardon’s Fish & Chip Shop.

It was featured in the 1962 British Pathé film “Want a Fallout Shelter?” which showed families in Deal preparing for the unthinkable. The shelter was built in what later became a small car park, right in the middle of town, a stark reminder of how close nuclear fear came to everyday life.

📍 Location: Middle Street, Deal

🏗️ Era: Late 1950s / early 1960s

🎥 Seen in: British Pathé civil-defence film

❓ Does it survive today? Its exact fate is unclear. Many believe the structure was either sealed or demolished during later redevelopment, but traces may still lie beneath the surface.

Deal’s hidden Cold War history is everywhere if you know where to look, from coastal defences to lost shelters like this one. Another fascinating reminder of Kent’s role on the front line of 20th-century tensions.

If anyone local remembers the shelter, or has photos, newspaper clippings, or family stories, drop them in the comments. Let’s uncover the history together!

#Deal #KentHistory #ColdWar #FalloutShelter #IKSExploration #BunkerHistory #NuclearPreparedness

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📘 NEW COLD WAR FIND! – The 1965 Police War Duties Manual 😳☢️

Look what’s just landed in the IKS Bunker…
A restricted Home Office police manual from 1965, quietly explaining what British police officers were expected to do if the Bomb ever dropped.

This little blue book looks innocent, but inside you’ll find a roadmap for surviving nuclear war:

🔹 Setting up wartime police HQs
🔹 Guarding key points and vital services
🔹 Controlling public panic, food supplies & traffic
🔹 Locking down contaminated fallout zones
🔹 Emergency powers during total national collapse

It’s basically the police version of Protect & Survive… 15 years earlier.

Hardly any of these survived because they were RESTRICTED and meant only for officers. Mine still has the original markings. A proper Cold War treasure.

If you love the behind-the-scenes planning for nuclear war in Britain, you’re going to enjoy this one.

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NEW SERIES COMING SOON!
Farleigh Down Tunnel, one of Britain’s most fascinating hidden underground complexes,is about to get the full IKS Exploration treatment, folks!

Get ready for a deep-dive into its wartime history, forgotten spaces, and everything left behind in the dark.

This is going to be a serious exploration series… and you won’t want to miss a single episode.

🔦 Farleigh Down Tunnel Series – Coming Soon!

Stay tuned, subscribe, and keep those notifications on. Big things are happening underground…

#FarleighDownTunnel #IKSExploration #BunkerWednesday #UrbanExploration #UndergroundHistory

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💥 Why Were People Told to Paint Their Windows White During the Cold War?

In the UK, one of the strangest pieces of Cold War advice was to paint your windows white. But it actually had a purpose:

✔️ To reflect the thermal flash from a nuclear explosion
A nuclear detonation releases an intense burst of heat and light. White paint reflects far more of that heat than clear glass or dark colours.

✔️ To reduce the chance of fire
The thermal flash could ignite curtains, furniture, carpets and anything flammable inside a house. Whitewashing the windows helped lower the heat entering the room.

✔️ To limit glass shattering inward
While it wouldn’t stop a blast wave, the layer of paint could help hold smaller fragments together and reduce the dangerous scatter of glass.

✔️ A cheap, fast civilian defence measure
The government needed solutions that anyone could do within minutes, using common materials. White emulsion was cheap and widely available.

This advice appeared in civil defence guidance long before Protect & Survive and continued into the 1960s–80s as part of “instant home protection.”

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