It would house one of the most important telecommunications hubs in the United States - the world’s largest center for processing long-distance phone calls, operated by the New York Telephone Company, a subsidiary of AT&T. Rather, the fortified skyscraper would safeguard powerful computers, cables, and switchboards.
It would have no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels, and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of a catastrophe.īut the building’s primary purpose would not be to protect humans from toxic radiation amid nuclear war. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City.
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