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Fallout Shelters Make a Comeback: Useless Revival or Tool for Survival?
SodaHead News
2011/08/22 13:00:00
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Following the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, caused by Japan's devastating earthquake earlier this year, the public has become increasingly concerned with nuclear disasters and how to better prepare for them.
According to The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese news source, Americans are looking back into a concept that hasn't been popular since the 1950s, when we were still telling our kids to hide under their desks if the bomb dropped.
Sales for fallout shelters, or "nuclear bunkers," have reportedly increased tenfold for some companies, and Robert Vicino, the CEO of Vivos, points to the Japanese earthquakes as the primary reason.
Vicino told Asahi, "We have about a 1,000 percent increase in immediate applications for memberships and accommodations in Vivos after the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan. People are afraid of Earth-changing events. The central concern of our inquiries and potential customers is that we are seeing more intense and frequent Earth changes that may lead to more of what occurred in Japan."
A similar influx occurred in 2006, when North Korea began conducting nuclear tests, but these are the first such increases since the end of the Cold War.
However, Kenneth Rose, a lecturer at California State University, explains, "No one knows how many shelters were built because people generally wanted to keep their shelters a secret."
A typical fallout shelter charges individuals about $50,000 for a spot in a bunker equipped to support "from about 80 to 2,000 people." (Children cost $25,000.)
According to The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese news source, Americans are looking back into a concept that hasn't been popular since the 1950s, when we were still telling our kids to hide under their desks if the bomb dropped.
Sales for fallout shelters, or "nuclear bunkers," have reportedly increased tenfold for some companies, and Robert Vicino, the CEO of Vivos, points to the Japanese earthquakes as the primary reason.
Vicino told Asahi, "We have about a 1,000 percent increase in immediate applications for memberships and accommodations in Vivos after the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan. People are afraid of Earth-changing events. The central concern of our inquiries and potential customers is that we are seeing more intense and frequent Earth changes that may lead to more of what occurred in Japan."
A similar influx occurred in 2006, when North Korea began conducting nuclear tests, but these are the first such increases since the end of the Cold War.
However, Kenneth Rose, a lecturer at California State University, explains, "No one knows how many shelters were built because people generally wanted to keep their shelters a secret."
A typical fallout shelter charges individuals about $50,000 for a spot in a bunker equipped to support "from about 80 to 2,000 people." (Children cost $25,000.)
Top Opinion
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Nikolas Ravena 2011/08/22 14:02:01Useless revival
+14What we really need are the Vaults.
if you dont get the reference you dont deserve to
Our guys over seas carry some big guns, but still get taken out by Rockets, RPGs and IEDs.
Smart, beautiful people ONLY - no fatties!
that way - when the end of the earth comes, the perfect people will come out and re-populate the world.
We can only hope that a huge disasster does not occur here. Mainly because ther general populace has no clue. They expect the Government will suddenly drop out of the Sky like an angel and save them. Or on the other side of the coin say"this is America and that can't happen here"
I have studied what an EMP from a huge solar burst, or Manmade source could do to this country. And mentioning it to people, am told that is cannot happen. That it is science Fiction. Maybe Science, but definately not fiction.
It's just been a bomb in NORWAY!! that's the last country I thought that would happend in, so now I think it can happen any where at any time.
I recall in the Rodney King riots that the people who survived and protected their business are the ones who patrolled their roof tops carrying shotguns. When the flash-mobs start coming down my street, I'm going up, not down.
(Um, ignore the dictatorship similarities.)
Changes your mind quickly, and instinct takes over. You won't control it, your subconcious will. How soldiers survive in battle. Adreneline and the Survival instinct, neither controllable.
My old school had a fall out shelter and my social studies teacher told the class how, decades ago, if there ever was need to use the shelter, the teachers would leave the classroom saying that they'd be back soon, lock the kids in, and hurry there. Isn't that so cheerful? ^-^