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==Famous installations== Famous bunkers include the post-World War I [[Maginot Line]] on the French eastern border and [[Czechoslovak border fortifications]] mainly on the northern Czech border facing Germany (but to lesser extent all around), [[Fort Eben-Emael]] in Belgium, [[Alpine Wall]] on the north of Italy, World War II [[Führerbunker]] and in Italy, industrial [[Marnate's Bunker]], the V-weapon installations in Germany ([[Mittelwerk]]) & France ([[La Coupole]], and the [[Blockhaus d'Éperlecques]]) and the Cold War installations in the [[United States]] ([[Cheyenne Mountain Complex]], [[Site R]], and [[The Greenbrier]]), United Kingdom ([[Burlington (UK)|Burlington]]), Sweden ([[Boden Fortress]]) and Canada ([[Diefenbunker]]). In Switzerland, there is an unusually large number of bunkers because of a law requiring protective shelters to be constructed for all new buildings since 1963, as well as a number of bunkers built as part of its [[National Redoubt (Switzerland)|National Redoubt]] military defense plan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forti.ch/files/2014/10/Foppa-Grande-Fortificazione-del-San-Gottardo-VBS-armasuisse-Bauten-2004.pdf|title=Foppa Grande}}</ref> Some of Switzerland's bunkers have since become tourist attractions housing hotels and museums such as Sasso San Gottardo Museum.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Nalewicki|first1=Jennifer|title=Switzerland's Historic Bunkers Get a New Lease on Life |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/switzerlands-bunkers-get-new-lease-life-180958233/|access-date=4 April 2016|magazine=The Smithsonian|date=23 March 2016}}</ref> The [[Soviet Union]] maintained huge bunkers (one of the secondary uses of the very deeply dug [[Moscow Metro]] and [[Kyiv metro]] systems was as nuclear shelters). A number of facilities were constructed in China, such as [[Beijing]]'s [[Underground City (Beijing)|Underground City]] and [[Underground Project 131]] in [[Hubei]]; in [[Albania]], [[Enver Hoxha]] dotted the country with [[Bunkers in Albania|hundreds of thousands of bunkers]]. In the United States, the [[Presidential Emergency Operations Center]] underneath the [[East Wing]] of the [[White House]] serves as a secure shelter and communications center for the [[President of the United States]] in case of an emergency.
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