Photo gallery: JFK’s nuclear bunker

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  • This photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, shows the dock and U.S. Coast Guard boat house of President John F. Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The bunker where President Kennedy would have been whisked if World War III erupted while he vacationed in Florida may face a bigger threat than Soviet missiles ever posed: a battle between its operators and the Port of Palm Beach. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, a replica of the wooden desk where President John F. Kennedy would have worked sits in Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The bunker where President Kennedy would have been whisked if World War III erupted while he vacationed in Florida may face a bigger threat than Soviet missiles ever posed: a battle between its operators and the Port of Palm Beach. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, a replica of the wooden desk where President John F. Kennedy would have worked sits in Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The once top-secret fallout shelter, code name “Hotel,” and the retired Coast Guard station on Peanut Island are now a tourist attraction and the focal point of a long-running legal war between the port, which owns the island, and Palm Beach Maritime Museum, which leases the attraction. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, a view of the inside of President John F. Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The once top-secret fallout shelter, code name “Hotel,” and the retired Coast Guard station on Peanut Island are now a tourist attraction and the focal point of a long-running legal war between the port, which owns the island, and Palm Beach Maritime Museum, which leases the attraction. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, photos of President John F. Kennedy, flowers, an American flag, and a photo of a a mushroom cloud, are displayed inside a bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The bunker where President Kennedy would have been whisked if World War III erupted while he vacationed in Florida may face a bigger threat than Soviet missiles ever posed: a battle between its operators and the Port of Palm Beach. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • This photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, shows the communication center inside President John F. Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The bunker where President Kennedy would have been whisked if World War III erupted while he vacationed in Florida may face a bigger threat than Soviet missiles ever posed: a battle between its operators and the Port of Palm Beach. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, two bunk beds sit inside President John F. Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The once top-secret fallout shelter, code name “Hotel,” and the retired Coast Guard station on Peanut Island are now a tourist attraction and the focal point of a long-running legal war between the port, which owns the island, and Palm Beach Maritime Museum, which leases the attraction. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, Anthony Miller, who operates the site for the museum, poses for a photo at the entrance to President John F. Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The once top-secret fallout shelter, code name “Hotel,” and the retired Coast Guard station on Peanut Island are now a tourist attraction and the focal point of a long-running legal war between the port, which owns the island, and Palm Beach Maritime Museum, which leases the attraction. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • This photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, shows the entrance to President John F. Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The bunker where President Kennedy would have been whisked if World War III erupted while he vacationed in Florida may face a bigger threat than Soviet missiles ever posed: a battle between its operators and the Port of Palm Beach. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • This photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, shows Geiger counters where entrants would have checked themselves before entering the room in the bunker where President John F. Kennedy and members of his family, aides and military advisers would have lived for up to a month on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, the door where entrants would have checked themselves with Geiger counters and, if radioactive, stripped and showered in President John F. Kennedy’s bunker on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The bunker where President Kennedy would have been whisked if World War III erupted while he vacationed in Florida may face a bigger threat than Soviet missiles ever posed: a battle between its operators and the Port of Palm Beach. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, Anthony Miller, who operates the site for the museum, poses for a photo, at the entrance to President John F. Kennedy’s bunker, on the right is pet cat Marilyn, on Peanut Island in Riviera Beach, Fla. The once top-secret fallout shelter, code name “Hotel,” and the retired Coast Guard station on Peanut Island are now a tourist attraction and the focal point of a long-running legal war between the port, which owns the island, and Palm Beach Maritime Museum, which leases the attraction. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)