There are tens of thousands of government and military bunkers around the world, and potentially even more built by private citizens. But in modern history, humans have really outdone ourselves. He says that people have always built underground survival shelters to stay safe from plagues or floods. Garrett’s new book is Bunker: Building for the End Times. Photo by VigilanteScout (CC BY SA 4.0) Swiss bunker, photo by Kecko (CC BY 2.0) “Once you start looking,” says Garrett, “you see bunkers everywhere.” View of a portion of the 575 Vivos xPoint bunkers spanning over 9 square miles. And then there is the curious architecture known as “the doomsday bunker.” According to author Bradley Garrett, for those of us who live in suburban and rural areas, it’s likely a neighbor has a bunker underneath their home that we’re totally unaware of. In Toronto, Canada, there’s a network of tunnels called The Path that connects the whole downtown, so people never have to go outside in the winter. In Singapore, there are skyscrapers being constructed under the earth because the country has run out of space on the surface. There are lots of reasons to build underground.
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