Welcome to Scotland's Secret Bunker. As you enter this amazing underground labyrinth and walk down the 150 metres of tunnel, from the innocent looking farmhouse to the bunker, consider for a moment the events that would be played out behind the hermetically sealed three tons of blast proof doors through which you are about to pass.With hindsight, you may want to reflect that the policy of deterrence pursued by successive British governments since the end of World War II has worked... which is why Scotland's ever - so - secret bunker is a museum today.
World War II ended with the detonation of two atomic bombs on Japan. Science had opened up a sinister and potentially much greater threat to mankind
Our relationship with the Warsaw Pact countries - dominated by the USSR - who had been our war - time allies, dramatically deteriorated. Thus there existed a lethal and unstable combination of weapons and ideology which, for nearly the next half century, combined to create what came to be known as The Cold War.
The Government's plan at the end of World War II was to establish a chain of early warning radar stations along the east coast of the UK. The radar technology of the time, with its limited range of about 75km involved a massive building project. Those built in the areas of greatest risk were sited underground. Here, at Troywood in Fife, close to the key enemy targets of the Royal Navy's Rosyth dockyard and the fighter aircraft of RAF Leuchars, was one of these. There were several sizes of bunkers and this is one of the largest.