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Deep beneath the surface of the Earth, in remote locations shielded from prying eyes, lie sprawling underground bunkers designed to withstand doomsday scenarios. These aren’t your typical fallout shelters — they are luxurious, high-tech fortresses, complete with pools, cinemas, and even farms. But who are they for? The world’s wealthiest and most powerful. The rise of these so called “billionaire bunkers” has sparked intense speculation. Are they simply precautionary measures, or do they point to knowledge of impending catastrophes that the public isn’t privy to?
The Rise of the Doomsday Luxury Market
In recent years, companies specializing in high-end bunkers — like Vivos, Survival Condo, and Rising S Company — have reported booming business. Their clients? Tech billionaires, CEOs, politicians, and celebrities who are paying millions to secure their spot underground.
Features of Modern Bunkers:
• Luxury Living: These bunkers are equipped with gyms, theaters, spas, and even wine cellars to ensure comfort during extended stays.
• Self-Sustainability: They include hydroponic farms, renewable energy systems, and advanced water filtration to remain functional for years.
• High Security: Many feature blast-proof doors, armed guards, and even escape tunnels to ensure maximum protection.
What Are They Preparing For?
While most bunker owners cite generic “uncertainties,” such as climate change, pandemics, or political unrest, some scenarios are particularly chilling:
1. Climate Catastrophes
From rising sea levels to extreme weather, climate change is a top concern. Bunkers provide a safeguard against the chaotic aftermath of natural disasters.
2. Global Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the fragility of global health systems. For the ultra-wealthy, a secure, sealed-off space offers peace of mind against future outbreaks.
3. Economic Collapse
With fears of hyperinflation, resource scarcity, or financial crashes, bunkers are seen as a refuge from potential social unrest.
4. Nuclear or Biological War
The ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction makes global conflict a real threat. Bunkers are designed to withstand nuclear blasts and biohazards.
5. Artificial Intelligence Takeover
Some tech magnates worry about AI evolving beyond human control. A bunker might serve as humanity’s last defense against rogue machines.
Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Billionaire Bunkers
The secrecy and exclusivity of these bunkers have fueled a range of conspiracy theories:
1. Elite Foreknowledge
One of the most common theories is that the elite know something the rest of us don’t — an asteroid on a collision course, an imminent economic collapse, or even a government cover-up about extraterrestrial threats. Are they preparing for an apocalypse they’ve already been briefed on?
2. A Global Reset
Some theorists suggest these bunkers are tied to the idea of a “Great Reset,” where global elites intend to emerge post-crisis to rebuild society in their image, consolidating power in the process.
3. Depopulation Agendas
More extreme theories argue that the bunkers are part of a depopulation plan, allowing the elite to escape as the masses are left to fend for themselves in catastrophic conditions.
4. Secret Underground Networks
There are claims that these bunkers aren’t isolated shelters but part of a vast, interconnected underground network that could support a self-sustaining civilization, complete with transportation, communication, and resources.
High-Profile Bunkers Around the World
Here are a few examples of known or rumored elite bunkers:
1. The Survival Condo Project (Kansas, USA)
Built in a decommissioned missile silo, this facility offers luxury apartments starting at $3 million, complete with swimming pools, classrooms, and medical facilities.
2. Vivos Europa One (Rothenstein, Germany)
This massive bunker can house 1,000 people in individual suites. It boasts a chapel, a zoo for pets, and high-end amenities for the ultra-rich.
3. The Greenbrier (West Virginia, USA)
Originally built during the Cold War as a government shelter, rumors persist that it’s now a luxury bunker for politicians and elites.
4. Cheyenne Mountain Complex (Colorado, USA)
While officially a military installation, conspiracy theorists believe its underground infrastructure could double as a survival hub for elites in a doomsday scenario.
What Does This Mean for the Rest of Us?
The rise of billionaire bunkers raises unsettling questions about inequality and survival:
1. Access to Safety
While the ultra-wealthy can secure their future underground, what happens to the billions of people left on the surface? Are these bunkers a symbol of abandonment?
2. Secrecy and Trust
If elites are preparing for catastrophic events, why isn’t the public being informed? The lack of transparency breeds distrust in governments and institutions.
3. Survival of the Fittest — or the Richest?
In a world where safety is commodified, survival becomes less about resilience and more about wealth.
Bunkers and doomsday prophecies aren’t a new revelation. This happened before during the 1950’s when the Cold War brought America and Russia close to a conflict. It is estimated that between 1967 and 1986, totalitarian prime minister Enver Hoxha oversaw the construction of more than 700,000 bunkers scattered throughout Albania, many of them clustered along its land borders and coastline. They still dot the country’s surface. Switzerland has 20,000, Denmark 20,000, Finland 50,000, Sweden 50,000 and China and Turkey both have underground cities in preparation for some catastrophe.
Hundreds of thousands of American homeowners and hundreds of millionaires and billionaires have built bunkers under their homes and those are the ones we know about. Every now and then a realtor selling a home will find a secret bunker underneath the house they are selling and it makes local news. But this information is quickly swiped off the internet. Bill Gates has bunkers in all of his homes. Mark Zuckerberg has one in Hawaii. Jeff Bezos has one in Florida where he recently moved to.
Al Corbi, president and founder of Virginia-based SAFE (Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments), which caters to custom designs for the uber-rich, notes that many billionaires are particularly focused on how to survive power grid failures, including buying cars and planes that are less reliant on computer interfaces. “A lot of these guys are buying up King Air or older planes that don’t have the electronic avionics, and keeping one or two older cars built before 1986 in their collection, so they’ll still function in an EMP [electromagnetic pulse]. The newness is it’s shifting from the idea of nuclear ka-boom to protection against local threats. The real threat is the power grid, which is ironically the plot of Leave The World Behind. In situations like this, sustaining your life is as important as food and water.”
The average shelter that Hubbard sells “on a daily basis” — consisting of a prefab modular steel bunker — is in the $200,000 to $400,000 range (“It’s like buying a Ferrari,” he says) and 50 percent of Atlas Survival Shelters clients are women. (Hubbard appeared on an episode of the final season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians in 2021 in which Kim and Khloé Kardashian tested out one of his 500-square-foot, $200,000 bunkers.)
Due to global demand, bunker air filtration systems (which run $3,000-$10,000) are becoming scarce, says Hubbard, so he bought up 711 of them in December (more than he has purchased in the past 13 years combined) to keep up with growing clamor. He says that the company is currently working with two billionaire customers in the U.S., “both related to Facebook,” but their bunkers cap out below $500,000.
At the highest end, “I hear there are a couple of big bunkers being built in the United States in the $5 to $10 million range,” adds Hubbard, who is currently constructing a $5 million bunker for a client in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that will also house his car collection.
Corbi — who worked on the palatial 27-floor, $4.8 billion Mumbai residence of business mogul Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries — reveals to THR that his most spectacular project, due to be completed in 2025, is an island fortress created on a 200-acre property in the U.S., with cutting-edge tactical systems.
“The shelter can withstand a blast one mile from ground zero,” says Corbi. “But that was almost incidental. The client [a business mogul] was saying, ‘I want to make sure that no one can get to my family,’ so we wound up literally building a 30-foot-deep lake [around the compound] skimmed with a lighter-than-water flammable liquid that can transform into a ring of fire. The only access to the island is a swing bridge.”
Also at Corbi’s project, “there are water cannons that can take down parachuters, Apache helicopters, whatever’s coming your way 500 feet in the air,” he says. “Then we took all the dirt removed for the lake to literally build a mountain as natural fortification around the property. And we cut a tunnel through with flame-throwers, gassing systems, a steel wall that closes midway that could stop a 16-wheeler going 80 miles an hour, and bollards at both ends.”
While Zuckerberg may be leading the pack, he’s not alone in having a secret getaway plan. Metro discloses that Peter Thiel, the PayPal magnate, is working on his own bunker-style refuge in New Zealand, possibly sharing it with Sam Altman from OpenAI. In a revealing meeting with Douglas Rushkoff, five other wealthy individuals hinted at their desire for secret safe spots. However, the claim that 15 billionaires are simultaneously constructing bunkers lacks evidence.
It is not illegal to build a bunker. All you need is the proper zone permits and find out how deep you can dig. You might run into a problem with your local HOA because you may need permission. And the problem with building one, is your neighbors will know you have one, therefore you are susceptible to them trying to get in if there was a disaster.
Doomsday bunkers, while appealing to some as a way to survive catastrophic events, face several significant problems including: the potential for false security, logistical challenges in sustaining long-term survival, environmental concerns, high cost, the difficulty of managing social dynamics in a confined space, and the possibility of being targeted in a crisis situation; experts often argue that focusing on preventing such catastrophic events is more productive than building bunkers.
There are many key issues with doomsday bunkers like a false sense of security. Many argue that bunkers can give people a false sense of safety, potentially discouraging them from addressing the root causes of potential disasters and promoting complacency about preparedness strategies. Sustainability challenges: Maintaining a self-sufficient environment in a bunker for an extended period is extremely difficult, requiring complex systems for food production, water purification, waste management, and air circulation, all of which are prone to failure.
Psychological impact: Living in a confined space with limited contact with the outside world for a prolonged period can lead to significant psychological stress and mental health issues. Social dynamics:
Managing social dynamics within a group of people in a bunker could be challenging, especially if there are power struggles or conflicts over resource allocation. Accessibility and cost: Building and maintaining a high-quality doomsday bunker is extremely expensive, putting it out of reach for most people. Target vulnerability: In a catastrophic scenario, a high-profile bunker could become a target for looting or even attack by others seeking resources. Environmental concerns: The construction and maintenance of large bunkers could have negative environmental impacts, especially if they require significant energy consumption and resource extraction. Legal and regulatory issues: Depending on location, building a large underground bunker may require permits and face legal challenges related to land use and construction regulations.
Dr. John Leach, a senior research fellow and expert in survival psychology at the Extreme Environments Research Group based at the University of Portsmouth, U.K., says that bunkers as a concept have been around for a long time; we’ve been hiding out in them since at least World War I.
In fact, during World War II, many British homes had an “Anderson shelter” in their backyards. And you don’t need to be Dr. Strangelove to understand that most governments likely have their own emergency shelters prepped and ready at all times.
“This idea of prepping, which I think came out of America, is not a new concept at all,” Leach says. Nor is it an elite concept. During the Covid pandemic, I wrote a piece for National Geographic on “the survivalists who saw lockdown coming.” The idea was to find out whether, among prepper communities, there was a sense of justification when events like Brexit and the Covid lockdowns occurred.
These weren’t billionaires, but average people, including a mother who was concerned about her daughter’s medicine supplies, and a colleague of Leach’s, Dr. Sarita Robinson, principal lecturer in the University of Central Lancashire’s School of Psychology, who told me that “My childhood seemed to be full of young adult fiction that was total dystopia, like Z for Zachariah. It was unrelenting misery! I do think it feeds into the psyche a little bit. I think we’re just fascinated by what could go wrong.”
Writing in 1982, Jonathan Schell, a visiting fellow at Yale University, took it upon himself to discover exactly what could go wrong, exploring the consequences of nuclear war in The Fate of the Earth. It’s a bleak and heavily academic book that offers little hope for adherents of the traditional backyard shelter. Schell writes that in the case of a nuclear attack, such shelters would effectively work as an oven, cooking those inside. It’s understandable, then, that today’s bunker owners want something a little bit more guaranteed.
Writing in The Guardian, Rushkoff, the media theorist, recounts being whisked off to a mystery location in the desert by “ultra-wealthy stakeholders” who then peppered him with questions about the end of days.
“They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality?” Rushkoff writes. “Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? … Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: ‘How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?’ The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.”
Rushkoff goes on, recounting concerns that armed guards would be needed to protect compounds from raiders and angry mobs. One person already had a dozen Navy SEALs on the payroll. But how to pay them when crypto becomes worthless? In that instance, what would stop a guard revolt? Should they use combination locks on food cupboards, the sequence to which only they know? Maybe they could build robot guards instead?
Robot armies and Navy SEALs aside, billionaires are preparing in other, more mundane ways, too. In an interview with The New Yorker, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, admitted to having recently undergone laser eye surgery. “If the world ends — and not even if the world ends, but if we have trouble — getting contacts or glasses is going to be a huge pain in the ass…without them, I’m fucked,” he told writer Evan Osnos.
Yet there is one threat potentially even more deadly than ailing vision or revolting guards — a threat which even the most robust bunker would be powerless to protect against.
In a wide-ranging piece about doomsday prepping, Jacob Sweet asked Ron Hubbard of Atlas Survival Shelters whether rogue AI was a motivating factor among his clients. Hubbard thought not, but explained that whether a gas attack or a destabilization of the power grid is caused by Ultron or a rogue world leader, the impact is the same, and his bunkers are designed to protect against it either way.
Interviewed in the same article, Rob Bensinger, the head of research communications at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, had a different take. “There’s no ‘prepping’ that can be done to physically guard against that kind of threat,” he says of smarter-than-human AI intent on harvesting “every atom of material on every planet of the solar system.”
“If you’re facing a superintelligence, you’ve already lost,” Eliezer Yudkowsky, the senior research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute added. “Building an elaborate bunker would not help the tiniest bit in any superintelligence disaster I consider realistic, even if the bunker were on Mars.”
Even if your bunker is fit for purpose — even if the sound of a thousand nuclear explosions is as faint as that of wood popping on your hearth, even if the recycled air you breath tastes sweet and fresh even as the ozone layer is dissolved — there’s no still no guarantee you’ll survive.
As someone who has studied survival in all of its forms, Dr. Leach of the Extreme Environments Research Group is fascinated by the psychology of who makes it and who doesn’t.
“We don’t think about death,” he says. “We know that it will come one day, but that one day is far off into the future.” One of the only times we might think about death, Leach says, is if we’re diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Leach is interested in people who are given a terminal diagnosis but “die very quickly, long before the end date.” Instead of the projected two years, such a person might last two months — a phenomenon Leach is still exploring, and calls a “psychogenic death.” He is reticent to attribute this to anything as cliche as a “will to survive” but admits that “Every day of our life is a survival situation. We’ve adapted mentally, physically, physiologically to the environment we’re living in at this present moment.”
For the vast majority of us, living in a bunker is a very different psychological landscape to our current “present moment.” Just because we’ve made it inside, it doesn’t mean we’ve made it, period.
In a classic episode of The Simpsons called “Bart’s Comet,” Springfield is plunged into a frenzy of despair after it’s discovered that a comet will shortly wipe the town off the map. Almost the entire cast crams into Flanders’s survival bunker. Despite the bunker being stocked for four, Flanders is characteristically amiable enough to allow Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart and Lisa in, too. Soon the entire town joins them, and it isn’t long before in-fighting forces them all back out to brave the comet head-on. The Decline, a Canadian film about preppers spending a training weekend in the remote wilderness, also shows just how quickly mistakes and strong personality types within a group can lead to disaster.
With these two pop-culture references in mind, I go off on a bit of a Psychology 101 tangent, asking Leach if there’s anything inherent in the billionaire mindset that makes them more or less likely to survive — even in their bunkers.
Leach — who doesn’t own a TV — isn’t convinced by the line of questioning. But in a 2019 study, a team of German economists and psychologists looked into exactly that, interviewing 130 wealthy individuals in an attempt to compare the psychological profile of the rich to that of average adults.
Based off this sample size, the study found that the rich are more emotionally stable and less neurotic; especially extroverted and more open to new experiences; less agreeable and more likely to shy away from conflicts; and more conscientious. In other words, potentially the perfect bunker-mate.
However, the rich were also found to be more narcissistic, and to “exhibit a stronger internal locus of control” (i.e., they’re more likely to agree with statements such as “I determine how my life turns out,” which could be a problem).
You might have all the art, swimming pools and fancy decor you could want in your bunker, but to prevent psychological breakdown, Leach says routine is key. “They need a job to do,” he says. “They need to establish their goal. That goal could be survival, to get through their provisional existence, but they need to have some meaning in it.”
Instead of having a remote bunker “just in case,” Leach says a smart survival plan would be to familiarize oneself with the bunker beforehand, so that you can actually get used to the intricacies of spending the foreseeable future down there.
If they haven’t tried these bunkers out, Leach says, “I suspect that shortly after they go in for real, they’re gonna say, ‘Oh, I wish I’d thought of this before.’”
“Like in lockdown, they need to maintain personal standards of not only physical hygiene, but psychological hygiene,” he adds. “If they don’t, they’ll just go downhill.”
There’s a long history of people becoming unmoored from reality in isolation. Studies have found that solitary confinement in prisons can cause or worsen mental health issues including suicidal behavior and PTSD, and can even cause permanent changes to the brain and personality.
Scientists in remote research bases have been known to suffer from something similar, in a phenomenon known as “winter-over syndrome.” A fire in Antarctica’s McMurdo Station in 1978 was caused by a researcher who had lost touch with reality, and Leach points to another polar base where the inhabitants, discovered by a resupply ship in the 1950s, had completely deconstructed the social order.
“It was about 12 men and they found that the whole social structure had broken down,” Leach says. “They stopped talking to each other. The air was rancid. Nothing had been done, each of them had just gone off into their own little rooms and built what was described as ‘animal dens.’ They were all living locked away in their own rooms, and their personalities were just disintegrating.”
Without a sense of purpose and a strong understanding of what is required to live in a bunker for an undetermined amount of time, Leach says the same could very well happen to our billionaires, and that this might cause them to “die anyway.”
Then, of course, there’s the question of what happens when they come out. In Heinz Helle’s fantastic novel Euphoria, a small group of middle-aged, middle-class friends are on a remote skiing trip in Europe. When the trip’s over, they come down the mountain to discover the world has ended. What they find isn’t pretty, and their resulting trauma, combined with their lack of preparation — both mental and physical — doesn’t bode well for their long-term survival.
Leach was consulted on the U.K.’s Covid lockdowns and says he advised those in power that if lockdown continued for more than 18 months, they would have trouble getting people back into normal society.
“The degradation in behavior that we saw during lockdown followed exactly the same pattern of behavior that was reported during and after World War I by army psychiatrists who were dealing with prisoners of war,” he says. Having adapted to being captured, surviving POWs often struggled to reintegrate into society after the war’s end — particularly as society had moved on without them. If you’re hiding out in a billionaire’s bunker for an unknown length of time, who knows how the world and society may have changed while you’re down there? If indeed the world, or society as we know it, will still exist at all.
If only billionaires, with all of their spare cash for space tourism and luxury bunkers, had some more tangible way of ensuring the survival not just of them and their money, but of all of us.
Rushkoff, writing for The Guardian, says that for the people he met, at least, there didn’t seem to be much crossover between self-preservation and a desire to help others. But then, if you’re used to spending your life in such rarified air, what really does it matter if the air outside your bunker turns toxic? Either way, you’ll still be left alone.
The primary problem with air filtration in bunkers after a nuclear war is the potential for the filter itself to become contaminated with radioactive particles, making it difficult to safely change the filter and potentially releasing radioactive dust back into the bunker when attempting to replace it; this is especially concerning as the filter needs to be located outside the bunker to draw in clean air, but close enough to be accessible for maintenance.
Key issues with bunker air filtration after a nuclear blast:
Contamination risk:
When air is drawn through the filter, radioactive particles from the fallout can become trapped within the filter material, making it highly contaminated.
Filter change hazard:
Removing a contaminated filter to replace it requires specialized protective gear and a safe, isolated area to prevent further contamination spread within the bunker.
Airflow management:
Ensuring proper airflow to effectively filter the air while minimizing the risk of drawing in large amounts of radioactive particles can be challenging.
Filter design considerations:
Filters need to be designed to efficiently trap fine radioactive particles while also being easily replaceable without compromising safety.
Potential solutions to mitigate these issues:
Remote filter change mechanisms:
Designing systems where filters can be changed from a separate, isolated compartment within the bunker, minimizing exposure to radioactive material.
High-efficiency filtration systems:
Using HEPA filters with a very high particle capture rate to minimize the amount of radioactive dust reaching the filter itself.
Dedicated filter chamber:
Constructing a separate chamber outside the bunker to house the filtration system, allowing for filter changes with minimal exposure to the bunker occupants.
Air recirculation systems:
Incorporating systems to recirculate filtered air within the bunker to minimize the need for fresh air intake, which could be highly contaminated.
High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters are the most effective air filters for removing radioactive particles from the air in the event of a nuclear war. HEPA filters were originally developed in the 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project.
Experts use military-grade NBC air filtration systems from established European and Israeli manufacturers, such as ASR Safe Cell, ANDAIR, Lunor, Bethel, and Temet. These at the small end start at $6,000.
You can buy a bunker online. Whether at a location you can travel to which is already built or have them install one at your home. They all include financing. Or you can build one yourself.
The real major issues that one is needed for are:
- Fire
- Tornado
- Floods
- Pandemic
- Nuclear War
- EMP
- Cyber Attack
- Grid Failure
- Social Breakdown
Let’s break them down and see if these are legitimate reasons to build one.
Fire
My last report on smart meters was an eye opener. The lithium ion batteries and the plastic containers with electronics make them vulnerable to problems to the elements. But a bunker under your home isn’t really a good idea if there is a fire in your neighborhood. The best course of action is to escape and come back to assess the damage.
Tornado
This is a no brainer. If you live in a Tornado zone, everyone must have a storage cellar and bunker to protect from this.
Floods
Another questionable reason to have one. You are putting yourself at risk of being underwater. You would need to build your shelter water proof and this puts the cost way up.
Pandemic
Unless a zombie apocalypse, this seems overkill to me. Just remaining at home and not answering the door would suffice. This probably is reserved to the coronaphobia.
Nuclear War
Another no brainer. Obviously, you need to be sheltered from the elements for a few weeks after the dust settles. A nuclear war will send radiation around the world several times before the oceans swallow it up.
EMP
Questionable unless it leads to riots and looting. EMP’s fry the electrical motherboards and some transistors. They are replaceable and can be back up within a few weeks. That is if the EMP was done by the sun or a nuclear bomb released above ground in the atmosphere.
Cyber Attack
Cyber attacks happen all the time on our grid, banks and infrastructure. The likelihood of this happening and keeping us in the dark is low. Software can be replaced and the data center up and running within 12 hours.
Grid Failure
Again, questionable as you will waste resources while the grid goes down and run out by the time people start to loot and find you.
Social Breakdown
Perfect for the nighttime while you sleep locked up. And during the day, you can peek out and continue cleaning up the messes.
The worst thing that could happen in a bunker, depending on the situation, is likely a failure of its life support systems, leading to a depletion of oxygen, water, and food, ultimately causing the occupants to suffocate or starve to death if they are trapped inside for too long.
Structural failure:
A major structural collapse due to a powerful explosion, earthquake, or other extreme event that breaches the bunker’s integrity.
Contamination:
A breach in the bunker’s filtration system allowing harmful contaminants like radiation or toxic gases to enter.
Fire:
An uncontrolled fire within the bunker, consuming oxygen and potentially causing structural damage.
Psychological distress:
The extreme isolation and confinement of being trapped in a bunker for a prolonged period, leading to mental health issues.
Conflict within the group:
Interpersonal conflicts or power struggles among people forced to live together in a confined space.
Bunkers are supposed to be temporary, but can be permanent due to the circumstances. Permanent as you may need to keep shelter there at night while you scavenge during the day or even vice versa depending on safety. There are many good uses a bunker has and it’s not a terrible idea to install one. Many people are digging a hole and placing a used shipping container down there. This is by far the cheapest way to go. Shipping containers range from $2,000 to $10,000 depending on age and kinds. They also purchase used IBC Totes which are 250 gallon water containers used from $70 to $200. With the container and water storage next to it underground, build a hand pump system to retrieve the water into the shipping container. Two totes makes 500 gallons which should be plenty for being underground for a few months. The only issue you would have is the cost to crane the container in as they are hard to fit between fences and homes in a suburb. And of course the last most expensive part is the air filtration system which at minimum $6,000. Radiation has to be filtered out so this is a must. Add on a generator, toilet that decomposes waste into soil and you can get away with getting one installed for $10,000 by yourself.
The odds of nuclear war are difficult to quantify, but the risk has increased in recent years. Some say that the risk is low, but others say it has increased dramatically. 34.1 million people will die instantly, and another 57.4 million could be injured, within the first few hours of the start of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States. The likelihood of survival in a nuclear war depends on the scale of the war and the location of the blast. In general, the chances of survival are low, and millions or even billions of people could die from start to finish. The safest country to be in would be Argentina, Australia, Iceland, and Chile. These countries are considered safe because of their location, natural barriers and peaceful stance. In the United States, there are a few places that will avoid the fallout. Maine, Oregon, and Northern California areas are considered safe because they lack large urban centers and nuclear power plants. Also, Western Texas is considered safe because it lacks large urban centers and nuclear power plants as well. If you do not have a bunker or live in these areas, an Underground parking garage and/or subways provide good shelter.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in his 1961 address to the Philippines Congress: “You will say at once that, although the abolition of war has been the dream of man for centuries, every proposition to that end has been promptly discarded as impossible and fantastic. But that was before the science of the past decade made mass destruction a reality. The argument then was along spiritual and moral lines, and lost. But now the tremendous evolution of nuclear and other potentials of destruction has suddenly taken the problem away from its primary consideration as a moral and spiritual question and brought it abreast of scientific realism.”
The billionaire bunker phenomenon is a reflection of a world increasingly shaped by fear, uncertainty, and growing inequality. Whether these shelters are precautionary or indicative of knowledge the rest of us don’t have, they underscore a chilling truth: in times of crisis, the divide between the elite and everyone else becomes starkly apparent. As the wealthy retreat into their underground sanctuaries, the rest of humanity is left to wonder — what do they know that we don’t?
I am reminded of the verse in Revelation 6:16 which reads, “and they said to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!’
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