Photography by Steve Stephens
Bunker Down
March 1, 2002
Another of his premier property offerings is a luxury Atlas-E base on 28 acres in Wamego, Kan., upgraded with a lavish quarter-million-dollar marble bathroom and hot tub. It has a rather intriguing history, too. It was configured as a world-class LSD factory to the tune of $2 million by drug lord Gordon Todd Skinner, who still retains ownership through the Wamego Trust.; function voidFunc() { } voidFunc(); "Renovated Bathroom")
Not surprisingly, some of these Cold War relics have a karmic legacy of modern crime and atomic age debris. “It’s strange to think that for four years men sat in our living room around the clock ready to blow up a Russian city,” Peden reflects. “Human history pivoted around these structures and their destructive capacity.” (Click image to enlarge)
Feeling a bit depressed after his first winter in a nuclear silo, Peden brought in a Lakota Sioux medicine woman and a shaman to guide friends in chanting, drumming and praying to rid the site of its bad juju. It worked, he says. “Our home used to house a four-megaton warhead. Now it’s been converted to a place of peace.”
Kemnal Manor Estate, Anthony D'Alton
Knight Frank, +44.207.591.8600. www.knightfrank.com
Ed Peden, 20th Century Castles, 785.256.6029, www.missilebases.com
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