title: An Introduction to Bunker Operations
author:  Nigel Draffin 
description: 'It covers everything that needs to be understood and remembered, from plugging scuppers to fastening bolts on a bunker flange, and covers storage, measuring, delivery, sampling and handling of bunker fuels and debunkering.' Tanker Operator
zlib_text: Saving Faith
  David Baldacci
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  Chapter 1
  THE SOMBER GROUP OF MEN SAT IN A LARGE ROOM
  that rested far below ground accessed by only a single, high-
  speed elevator. The chamber had been secretly built during the
  early 1960s under the guise of renovating the private building
  that squatted over it. The original plan, of course, was to use
  this
  "super-bunker" as a refuge during a nuclear attack. This
  facility was not for the top leaders of American government; it
  was for those whose level of relative un importance dictated
  that they probably wouldn't be able to get out in time but who still
  rated protection afforded no ordinary citizen. Politically, even in
  the context of total destruction, there must be order.
  The bunker was built at a time when people believed it
  possible to survive a direct nuclear hit by burrowing into the
  earth inside a steel cocoon. After the holocaust that would
  
  annihilate the rest of the country, leaders would emerge from the
  rubble with absolutely nothing left to l