The historical and cultural aspects of the Cold War have been much studied, yet its physical manifestations in England its buildings and structures have remained largely unknown. To the great landscape historian WG Hoskins writing in the 1950 s they were profoundly alien: England of the electric fence, of the high barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment. Barbaric England of the scientists, the military men, and the politicians . Now these survivors of the Cold War are, in their turn, disappearing fast, like medieval monasteries and bastioned forts before them only with more limited...