The stone basement contains 5,000 impregnable gold tons
Equipped with a door weighing 90 tons, capable of resisting atomic bombs . bunkers containing thousands of tons of gold or this seed is inviolable!
Breaking into special government, private or military shelters or shelters is extremely difficult, not as simple as in Hollywood movies.
Here is a list of basements that are considered sacrosanct:
Fort Knox - The underground cell of the US government
In fact, this is a castle with extremely strict security . There are about 5,000 tons of gold in Fort Knox.
The basement is built by monoliths. The wall is nearly 1.2 meters thick and reinforced by steel frames.
Fort Knox looked from the outside.
Protection of the building is a security team equipped with both machine guns and modern security systems. Surrounded by four barbed wire fences, two of them were electrically charged. Nearby is a military barracks with 30,000 armed soldiers .
Even if you overcome all the obstacles, the main door weighs 22 tons and is a problem. The key to opening the door belongs to a group of 10 people. The door is only open when all 10 people work together.
007 Spy and the match inside Fort Knox in the movie.
Until now, no public theft has occurred at Fort Knox. In the movie 007 " Golden Finger ", James Bond agent had a performance to live in the context of Fort Knox.
Federal gold bunker in New York, USA
Beneath the streets of Manhattan, New York is a gold vault bigger than Fort Knox. The basement is about 25 meters deep underground and surrounded by solid stone blocks.
The main door weighs 90 tons and is resistant to all kinds of explosives. The outer guard team is specially trained with shooting skills more than sniper soldiers.
The door to the tunnel.
No one can enter the cellar, the work of arranging gold is done by the robot. Not only storing gold for the United States, many other countries also sent gold here.
An estimated 25% of the world's gold is in this gold tunnel.
British gold storage and silver vaults
This is the second largest gold tunnel in the world, containing more than 5,000 tons of gold. During the war, it was used as a bomb shelter.
The door is bomb-resistant and is locked by the voice recognition system. Sub-keys with a length of nearly one meter cannot be copied. Some other security systems are not published.
Queen of England during a visit to the gold tunnel.
Bank of England refused to provide details about the cellar. However, it is estimated that it has a larger floor area than the London Tower.
Like his brother, the British silver cellar is also considered impossible to break into. It has the ability to resist atomic bombs , the 37 kiloton type ever tested in Nevada, USA.
JPMorgan gold bunker, USA
When the world economy plunged, many people turned to gold reserves to avoid inflation. This is an opportunity for JPMorgan-Chase to establish a gold storage cellar in Manhattan, USA.
Located tens of meters deep underground and wider than a football field, this is one of the largest gold tunnels in the world.
The main door of the cellar.
What's interesting is that the gold bunker of the US Federal Reserve is also close. It is thought that there is a secret tunnel between the two sides and the US economy is governed by the government and JPMorgan.
JPMorgan's second basement is located in the London capital of England. Similar to the US, this cellar is also located near the bank of England.
Swiss bank
Famous throughout the world and a topic of discussion of many bank robberies. This is one of the safest banks in the world.
Over the past 200 years, individual boxes deposited at Swiss banks are believed to be used by the elite around the world.
The storage compartment in the bank.
Customers are protected identity when using the bank's system. Therefore, many criminals and wealthy politicians use Swiss banks to hide their assets and evade taxes.
In some cases, banks are not allowed to contact customers to ensure safety. When the customer dies, it is difficult to return the account to the relatives of the customers.
Iron mountain tunnel
At Germantown, New York (USA) has a quite special cellar. It is open to all customers in the world hosting their goods . Built on an old mine, it used to be a mushroom farm before being turned into a storage cellar.
The picture of Einstein stuck his tongue at the Iron Mountain Tunnel.
The original picture of Einstein stuck his tongue in front of the lens or the patent of Edison's light was all here. Bill Gates is also named in the list of customers of the Iron Mountain Tunnel.
Path to the basement.
The company owns a basement that takes advantage of people's fears in the Cold War to attract customers. The large basement located in the heart of the mountain is likely to become a bomb shelter when nuclear war breaks out.
To get inside, you need to provide different types of licenses as well as special permissions. In addition, there are two strict protection classes.
They ransacked anyone who came into the cellar without embarrassing the sensitive positions. Finally, the main door weighs 28 tons with a three-layer locking mechanism separating the outside world and the deep tunnel of nearly 400m in the mountain.
Mormon Tunnel
The basement is also known as Granite mountain storage cellar. It is dug 200m deep into the rocky mountain in Little Cottonwood, Utah, USA.
Surrounded by stone and reinforced with steel, it can withstand a variety of explosives to drill into the tunnel. Completed in 1965, it is considered a library hosting a lot of religious-related documents .
All come from more than 100 countries with about 3.5 billion images of all kinds.
Outside the path into the tunnel.
The owner of the basement belongs to the church. Inside contained a lot of secrets that even church members could not reach. Many people believe that it also holds evidence against Christianity.
The top managers of the basement deny all doubts, saying that the church only stores common texts before digitizing them.
Pionen cellar
The basement is 30m deep underground of Stockholm, Switzerland. It used to be a nuclear bomb shelter, now a data center.
The main owner is Bahnhof, the manager of WikiLeaks. The most important data of WiliLeaks is here. This is something that the US government and some countries are extremely concerned about.
Data center inside the tunnel.
There was only one tunnel to enter the tunnel and the door was nearly half a meter thick enough to protect anyone inside.
The design of the Pionen cellar is quite bizarre, very suitable for wanted people like Julian Assange, who holds a lot of secrets of the governments of the countries.
Global seed tunnel for the end of the world
In Norway there is a special cellar, which is supported by governments of many countries as well as special economic organizations. The basement is designed to store all kinds of seeds around the world.
It ensures diversity and seed sources for humanity when disaster strikes the Earth. Currently it is storing about 500,000 different types of seeds.
Svalbard cellars store seeds.
Built in Svalbard, a remote place and not easily accessible. The basement, located more than 100 meters deep in the mountain, was a copper mine on a rocky island in the Arctic.
The tunnel door is 130m higher than the sea level to ensure sea level rise. The seed storage safes are placed behind the anti-bomb door, special sensor and door systems.
In addition, it was added a one meter thick concrete wall. The special location of the cellar ensures the safety of the seed regardless of the disaster.
The family of Bill Gates, Rockefellers and GMO companies are very interested in this cellar. There is a theory that they are trying to dominate the world by collecting and storing valuable seeds.
Once a disaster happens, they will be the most powerful people.
Antwerp diamond bank, Belgium
The secret basement contains about 70% of the diamond work in the world with more than 1,500 customers. Security systems include temperature sensors, Doppler effect radars, magnetic and motion sensors and extremely sophisticated locking systems.
If the lock code is entered incorrectly twice, the system will lock it all within a few hours. The door weighs 3 tons and needs 12 hours of continuous drilling to be able to penetrate.
Model of sensors in the famous diamond theft.
Ironically, in 2003 it was stolen. At that time Antwerp kept diamonds worth hundreds of millions of US dollars.
The " Turin Society " bandits act like in the movie, somehow they turn off all alarms. By the next morning, the security officer discovered the intrusion.
Police then arrested a man named Leonardo Notarbartolo with a trace of DNA at the scene. He claimed that a customer offered a robbery to steal diamonds for insurance purposes.
However, the way to break in and the number of lost diamonds is never found. Many theories suggest that bandits have a hand in helping to exploit security holes.
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