Talk:Vale of Leven Hospital

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Design and atomic bomb[edit]

The page claims the hospital was built with a design to resist an atomic bomb being dropped on Faslane submarine base (HMNB Clyde). The source for this is an architect writing decades later and further sources online are from newspapers. This has the feel of an urban legend. HMNB Clyde became a nuclear submarine base in the 1960s and was a standard navy base before that; Vale of Leven Hospital was built in the first half of the 1950s. Yes, as a result of civil defence programme but this is too specific a detail. Also, topographically, there is a line of hills between HMNB Clyde and the hospital that would disrupt a shockwave more than just being built on two floors. And if the hospital was designed to resist a nuclear shockwave, why is it so glass sided? 82.45.225.26 (talk) 17:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I have removed the comment. Dormskirk (talk) 17:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]