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British English: Former RAF Greenham Common missile bunkers. On the south-west edge of the former Greenham Common airfield you can still see the GAMA site - missile silos in which ground launched cruise missiles of the 501st tactical missile unit USAF were stored, 25 January 1989. The GAMA site (GLCM Alert and Maintenance Area) on Greenham Common is the high security area that housed the cruise missiles, their transporters, and other support vehicles. Six hardened shelters were constructed in the early 1980's to protect the GLCMs from possible nuclear and conventional attack. Each shelter was designed to withstand a thermonuclear airburst explosion above Greenham Common and Newbury or a direct hit from a 500lb conventional bomb.

It is believed that the shelters, that stand around 10 metres high, were built with a reinforced concrete ceiling about two metres thick, below a steel plate, around three metres of sand, a further reinforced concrete slab, all covered with tonnes of soil. Each shelter had six bombproof steel doors, three at each end.

GAMA remains a very visible reminder of Greenham Common's past, and the history of international conflict during the late twentieth century. It is still separated from the rest of Greenham Common by seven high-security fences.

The GAMA Site is now owned by 'A' Flying Services.

The site is now being restored back to Original Common Land. If you are interested in helping with this work, please see http://gvcv.org.uk/