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Canadian Forces Station Carp (also CFS Carp and commonly known as The Diefenbunker) is a former Canadian military facility located in the rural farming community of Carp, Ontario, approximately west of Ottawa. CFS Carp was decommissioned in 1994. It was not until 1998 that it was reopened as a museum and designated a National Historic Site of Canada.〔(Diefenbunker / Central Emergency Government Headquarters ), Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Diefenbunker / Central Emergency Government Headquarters National Historic Site of Canada )〕 Currently, the facility operates as a museum and is open year round for tours.〔In (''Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum'' ) Retrieved April 15, 2013.〕〔(Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum ) in ''Ottawa Museums''. Retrieved March 15, 2013.〕 ==History== In 1958, at the height of the Cold War and the infancy of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) threat, John Diefenbaker, Canada's Prime Minister at the time, authorized the creation of close to 50 Emergency Government Headquarters (called Diefenbunkers by opposition parties〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Diefenbunker: Echoes from our past, or back to the future? )〕) across Canada. These shelters were part of what came to be known as the Continuity of Government plan,〔〔(Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum ). Retrieved March 15, 2013.〕 which was meant to protect various members of government in the event of a nuclear attack.〔 The Carp shelter would be the largest of such facilities (over 〔) and the only one in the immediate Ottawa area. The underground 4-story bunker required 32,000 tonnes of concrete and 5,000 tonnes of steel. The structure was capable of withstanding a nuclear blast up to 5 megatons from away. It had massive blast doors at the surface, as well as extensive air filters to prevent radiation infiltration.〔 Underground storage was built for food, fuel, fresh water, and other supplies. The bunker was built to accommodate 565 people for up to one month without receiving additional supplies from the outside.〔 It included an emergency broadcast studio for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation〔 and a vault on the lowest level to hold the gold reserves of the Bank of Canada. Construction began in 1959 in an abandoned gravel pit outside Carp, and was completed by 1962.〔 The original site, some east of Almonte () was abandoned when ground water proved impossible to remove. These facilities were administered by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (later the Communications and Electronics Branch). A decentralized transmitter site, the Richardson Detachment, with numerous transmitter antenna was located further to the west near Perth Ontario that was supported from a 2 storey underground facility of similar construction to the Carp facility but much smaller. Two radio receiving facilities, the CFS Carp Almonte Detachment and CFS Carp Dunrobin Detachment, with a complete receiving antenna arrays were built in the region but all buildings were above ground.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 CFS Carp - Units )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CFS Carp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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